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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-22

Thomas Kosielny, Medford, was
granted divorce from his wife, Eva,
who is serving a term in Waupun for
burning three children to death in a
barn last summer.
Clad only in a blanket, Oscar Smith,
an Indian, fed from Green Bay hos
pital a few hours after his appendix
had been removed. After walking a
mile in the snow, he sat down to rest,
and farmer took him home. He is
in a precarious condition.
C. c. Reuterskold, 81, Edgerton,
was fatally hurt when struck by an
auto driven by James Wieleman, as
the old man crossed a street. He was
picked up with a broken hip and a
fractured skull. Wileman was driv-
ing slowly when the accident took
place.
One of the heaviest prohibition fines
on record was melted out to John c.
Cruel, Watertown, on trial before
Judge A. C. Luse at Madison for vio-
lation of the prohibition law Cruel
soft drink proprietor at Wtertown,
pleaded guilty to selling hard liquor.
He was fined $1,000.
Five goods and five boys at the
University received penalties from
the faculty for dishonesty in class
room work Five extra credits was
the penalty for one coed who altered
date on an excuse card. Fabrica-
ting data in engineering brought a
ten credit penalty for two in that
college. An agricultural junior was
penalized a half years work for dis
honesty in a final examination.
The thawing weather of the last
half month, melting the snow cover
ing and exposing to alternate thaW-
ing and freezing winter grains and
grasses of the southern part of the
state, has endangered crop prospects
according to Jos. A. Becker, of the
isconsin crop reporting service. AL
falfa and clover are said to be in
particular danger Recent upward
trend of markets has caused the far
mers of the state to feel more Opti-
mistic.
Mrs. Edward Lange, wife of a Lam
artine farmer, and a son, Harry, are
dead and another son, Clifford, at
the point of death az "a result of a
kerosene explosion at the LANCE home
Wednesday. Mrs. LANCE attempted to
start fire in the kitchen range and
finally poured the contents of ker-
osene can into the embers. An eX-
plosion followed which enveloped the
woman in flames. Her son Harry,
was in the kitchen and the flames en-
veIoped him also. He ran outside and
threw himself into a mud puddle.
Clifford, who was in barn nearby,
ran into the house to rescue his
mother. In an effort to help her he
burned his arms and body and is in a
serious condition. John Schafer, a
neighbor, seeing the smike pour out
of the house, ran to the place and eX-
tinguished the fire. Mr.. LANCE was
at Lamartine on a shopping trip anc
was unaware of the tragedy that had
wrecked his home. The mother and
son died few hours after the eX-
plOsiOn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-22
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTATE OF WILLIAM NICHOLS,
State of Wisconsin, County Court

ESTATE OF WILLIAM NICHOLS,
State of Wisconsin, County Court
of Grant county--in Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at the
regular term of the county court, to
be held in and for said county, at the
court house.. in the city of Lancaster,
in said county, on the first Tuesday
of April, A. D.. 1922, being the 4th
day of April 1922, at the hour of ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, the follow
ing matter will be heard and cons1d-
cred:
The application of Josephine Mich
els. Executrix of the Estate of said
William Nichols, deceased, for the
adjustment and allowance of her adj
account, for the deter
mination of the Inheritance tax, If
any. and the assignment of the resi-
due of said estate to such other per-
sons as are by the last will of said
deceased entitled to the same.
By order of the Court, E. B. Goodsell,
Judge. Dated March 1892. 3c3
r. NJ Orchard, Attorney.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-22

Flu has been raging in the Kicka-
poo valley with 100 or more cases
reported. In one community, Sugar
Grove, Is families were down with
the disease. In no case has the dis
ease been as serious as the epidem-
les in previous years. The valley
was recently swept by flood and the
trains began running regularly again
only last week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-22

Anna, the 15-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Ruef of Darling
ton, died Wednesday after an illness
of five months.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
One Too Many.

A literary family in which seventh
child had just come was at country
house. and for a time good deal OF the
care Of the other six children devolved
upon the father, who had Spartan
ideas as to the upbringing of his sons.
One morning he carried his twO-year-
old to the creek near his home to give
him a cold plunge. The child object
ed Justify to this proceeding, but was
firmly held and ducked, nOtwithstand-
ing.
At the instant of the ducking, how
ever, a brawny i nd seized the Spar
tan father by the shoulder and flung
him back, while the angry voice Of
the farmer, who was his nearest neigh
Dor, roared in his ears:
Here None of that! I'll have the
law on you for this"
For some time the father endeav-
Ored to convince the farmer that he
was not trying to drown the child.
Even then he wasn't wholly convinced.
TO the very last minute he kept shak-
ing his head specifically and saying:
"Well, l dunno about that, l dunno.
You got six besides his."-Harper' S
Magazine.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
Census Reveals Odd Names.

What will be the strangest name on
the British census paper? asks the
London Morning Post. Last time the
palm went to YOrkshireman, who
had been saddled with the name of
Observation-Disclosures. The longest
name was that of a Derby child whose
parents had inflicted upon her Chris
tian names beginning with every let
ter of the alphabet. OF punning and
other curious names there will be no
end. Some of those revealed by pre-
vious enumerations have been Arch
Bishop, Arch Deacon, Rose Budd, Prim
Rose, Righteous Williams, Temper
ance Sober Lane, Sudden Death, Pine
Coffin, and Alfred Colt Barelegs. An
other factor is the astonishing fire.
quency with which such high-sounding
names as Lord George Smith. Lady
Mary Brown, Marcus Cicero are
found in the poorer quarters Of our
cities. Such names are usually select
ed from the cheap novels which form
the chief reading of the parents.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
"BLUFFERS' WHO MAKE GOOD
Not infrequentiy It ls Essential to
Gain the Nsighbors Confidence
by Any Msans.

There is an oil man out -West-and
would know it-who on one occasion
was 50 near The rocks that when hs
walked his back hair dragged On tie
ground. He lad about as much money
as a chipmunk has diamond neck
faces. and his debts would sound like
a statement Of Europe'S tinauc.ai re
ations with The United States. Uut
he had a good prospect. SO he got
together group or Investing posi-
bilipies and gave them thu best dinner
they had ever tasted, says a writer
in an exchange.
But how did you do it?' ! asked.
"l cure after telling Inc that you had
been living on rubber hees and old
clothes for weeks and yet you gave
them diuner?"
81 bluifed," said the oil man. 81
fooled EN- all, hotel man, walters. cab
men, florist, every one else. If l had
not put that proposition over would
have walked out of town that night
if l had been lucky enough to get
out of town.. But l fooled 'em. And
we all got rich out of it."
The theory on which he worked
might be stated differently. The con-
fdence of ones neighbors is essential
to success in life, and sometimes it
seems advisable to bluff in order to
get it. 1t never pays to lop the I'M
der lip down on the breastbone and
tell the world that you're gone gos-
ling. After all, only the man with
real courage is able to bluff success
fully, and such man is worth back
ing-so that one might unwisely argue
it is safe to back buffers. Best say
that some buffers are worth back
ing. Which recalls the story of George
Graham Vest, for years one of the
senators from Missouri. At the con-
vention which later nominated him
his rivals had promised what they
would do If elected. In his turn Vest
arose.
Il will only promise you," said he,
that if l am elected l will draw the
salary with clocklike regularity and
spend it like gentleman"
That bluff won. But the buffer who
can make bluff like that is no buffer
at all.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
WAR DECLARED ON MEAT PRICES
Government Officials Call Retailers
Profiteers

Washington-A campaign against
"meat profiteers" will be begun within
\ few days by the department OF agri-
culture, which is determined to bring
down retail meat prices, it was learned
Thursday from high officials Of the de-
partment.
The department has just completed
a survey which shows, officials said,
that retail meat prices the country
over are on an average lit per cent
higher than before the war. The sur
vey shows most of this 10 going into
the pockets of retail meat dealers as
profit.
Various means are being considered
BY the department TO force down meat
prices. One plan is to permit big
hackers to establish retail stores ana
sell directly to the public. Another
pain ia to induce "chain stores such
as are maintained in practically all
cities to sell meats. A$
Still another is to foster establish
ment of cooperative meat markets.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
RULED LONG IN WILDERNESS
Colin Rankin, Recently Deceased, was
Fifty Years With the Hudson's
Bay Company.

Colin Rankin, who died In Montreal
recently at the age of ninety-four, was
the first native Canadian to enter the
service of the Hudson's Bay company
After a half-century in the compShy's
employ, this patriarch Of the fur trade
retired as chief factor in 1893.
He was taken into the HudsOn's Bay
company's service in 184S by Sir
George Simpson, known as the "em-
peror governor" Sir George was one
Of the ablest of the long line of COVER
nors that began in 1910 with Prince
Rupert, famous champion of the house
of Stuart in Cromwellian wars. Under
him, the company was merged with
the North West company, which for
years had been it's deadly rival in the
fur trade. Under him, too, the COM
pany reached it's meridian of power
and dominion and ruled threefourths
of the North American continent.
Mr.. Rankin's service was almost ex-
cusively in eastern Canada. He was
in charge of posts at Mattawa, La
chine, ST. Maurice, Kickendatch, Ber
sims, Saguenay, Simcoe and Tennis
kaming. He was chief factor over the
Lake Superior district and the Ottawa
river district. He was known for his
vigor of mind and body, and his
career, which missed but six years of
rounding out a century, was an epic
of the Wilderness adventure.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
LII'EEeTGoiA MEN
Try t.5V' PLAN
ANERIc M FARM BUREAU co.,
FERE ICE ~ s lN CHICAGO
is LhF EY ATTENDED
VIII MARKET livestock en- Cooperative
Bass g AJreom-al Reached by
SIC <'1 u From All Sec
tons Of Inc Nation

Chicago-Farmers Thursday planned
to market their own livestock on CO.
operative basis.
Every livestock producing section
was Represented in a conference which
met here Thursday at the call of the
American Farm Bureau federation to
ratify cooperative marketing plan
drawn up by the federation's commit
tee Of fifteen.
According to J. r. Howard, presi
dent of the federation, the committee
report Includes
Provisions to give the farmer some
thing to say about the distribution OF
his stock.
Plans for a farmer owned and con-
trolled livestock commission at the
stockyards.
Methods for orderly marketing of
livestock so as to prevent gluts on the
market and consequent sharp declines
In prices.
'The farmers of the nation have de-
tormined to market their own livestock
IN a cooperative basis" said Howard.
"Our plan represents the natural out
growth of the cooperative livestock
shipping association movement in
America"
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
Fowls Peculiar Appetite.

In a village in Hants, England,
man had a pen Of fowls, enclosed In
a wire run Of 1-inch mesh. Sparrows
used to get in the run under the sides
and the rooster one day killed and ate
young one. After that woe betide
the sparrow that entered that pen, for
the old hens acquired a liking for
sparrow meat and they would chase
sparrow about until they caught
and killed 1t. In the fall the fowls
were moved to another farm and
shortly after wheat stack which
was infested with mice was threshed.
The rooster and hens were soon on
the Job and had a merry time catch
ing mice which they made short work
of swallowing, after giving them
few raps on the ground.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
UNFIT ARE SHOT BY COMRADES
Believes That Men Were Shot Down
BY Our Men in Ranks

n.-Reprcsentative john
son, Republican of South Dakota, a
former officer In the army. declared In
the house that while he had no SUBJ
sanitation of the charge, he chad rc-.-
son to believe that soldiers who were
traitors, towards or mentally unfit,
were shot down by their own comrades
while facing the enemy"
The statement was holly denied by
Representative Butwlnkle, Democrat
O. North Carolina, also a former Off
Ger, who declar u he would not Permit
the Johnson statement to go unchal-
lenged.
There were indications that the
house, like the senate, was on the
verge of row over charges by Sena-
tor Watson, Democrat Of Georgia, that
soldiers were hanged without trial.
mo American was shot in France
without trial,' said Mr.. Johnson, but
there may have been cases where they
were shot in the line of battle by their
own forces as traitors or as mentally
deranged.'
From the Democratic side members
attempted to break in on the speaker,
who could not make himself heard at
times because of the hubbub.
Commenting on the charge OF illeal
hanging; made by Senator Watson,
Mr.. Johnson said:
mo matter how we agree or dis
agree with the former secretary OF
war or General Pershing, l know the
charge that men we're taken out and
hanged without courtmartial convdc'
ton is not true. And l know that no
officer or private carried out any such
orders for illegal hangings.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
Vote Against Bobbing.

well" announced the fair young
thing at the dinner table. "Tm not
going to get my hair bobbed after all"
praise be-" said her father. 'But
why?"
"You see, it's like this" she dimpled
in reply. 81 didn't know whether the
hoys would be sure TO like it, so / sent
around a QUESTIONABLE. They all an
swered, and the result was that. six of
hem said not to hob II. while only two
rerp IN favor sr I can't do II. really"
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
BIackfoot Indians Do Battle

Blackfoot, Idaho.-Lester Roubidoux
and John Vernes, Indians, are in the
Bingham county Jail, following a fight
of this city, in which q shotgun and a
butcher knife were the weapons used.
Roubidoux was shot and Vernes was
cut in several places. Neither is
seriously injured. Following the fight.
~ men came 70 Dlackfoot together
tor surgical attention. They wers ar
t6otod by Chief Of Police AOldaa.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
Prominent Man is Charged

Des MOines, Ia.-Warrants were
sworn out Thursday by Sheriff w. E.
Robb for the arrest of W. ii. Hal
penny, well known Des Moines bust
ness man and proprietor of an auto
mobile supply company, on charges OF
manslaughter and failure to report an
accident in connection with the death
here last week Of Sisters Mary Viz
ginis and Mary Rosilta of st. Joseph
academy. Sheriff Robb will endeavoe
70 prove that Halpenny was the drives
Il the car that struck the ladies.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
Good Road Bill eIgned

Washington President Harding
Wednesday signed the Townsend good
roads bill, apprOpriatfng $75,OcOOOO
from the federal treasury to aid the
states in road building. This fund,
which will be matched by the states,
will be used to combat unemployment
through increased rOadbuding activity.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
Should Spank People

Fort Collins, COio-If the Lord did
His duty he would spank the people,
smash their automobiles and tell them
to walk. according to Bishop Irving
johnson, deploring the customs Of mod
ern times.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25

Warrington. Nov % Japanese are
not eligible le naturalization In
the UnIltd states, It WAS held tcday
~ the Supreme court
ia It's finding. the court disposed Of
two cases. one brought from Hawaii
BY rako 0zawa against the United
States and the other brought BY
Takpii Yamashila and Charles Hio
Koko against the secretary Of state
Of Washington. IN the latter case
both Japanese nod been uaturallzed
by court Of the state Of u shington,
hut were refused Incorporation as 6
real estate firm on the grounds that
their naturalization was Illegal,
The lower federal courts denied
naturalization IN 10th cases. but the
ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals, In
considering the Oaawa case, suepen-
ded It's decision and ask the Supreme
court for instructions as 10 whether
Japanese are eligible for citizenship
undcI the naturalization laws.
The question turned largely upon
whether section 2169 Of the revised
statutes. restricting naturalization to
"lree white persons and those Of
African descent. was still IN force.
Associate Justice Sutherland who
has recently been appointed to the
Supreme bench delivered the decision
and ruled that % the Japanese are
not OF the caucasion race they are
specifically barred by the statute
which has neverben repealed or modi-H
fled
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25

employed In steel mill. $4,000 in
railroad fares was required for the
movement.
Because of the resulting oppor-
tunity for securing work at more
attractive wages and gaining freedom
from his southern environment, the
ban on immigration has been a
boon to the Negro, Though great
sacrifices OF property are frequently
made and while the change from ru-
raj living irto the congested centers
to which the migrants go has prob
lens which must be worked out It
is the opinion Of trained social WORK.
ers that the migration is proving
decidedly helpful from the stand
poAlt Of advancing the economic in
terests OF the group. Better school
ing for their children, the right OF
franchise and the example Of pro-
gressive surroundings have made
great changes in the lives OF many
Of these families.
For this reason efforts which are
being made to lift the ban on I'M
migration arc being watched with
interest. The millions who emigrated
- hmerica before the war have
been cut down to a mere fraction
by the present law which admits
only three ner Mt Of the total OF
the nationals of any foreign coun-
try In America before the war. Col
ored men are doing the hard work
which these foreigners formerly
did end whita many Americans win
lnet do.
II Is admitted even by those wta
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25

are interested in breaking down the
ban that many immigrants are un-
desirable. prone to bolshevism and
that they cannot be Americanized
easily. If America could select
their immigrants and choose those
whom they prefer, discriminating
perhaps against catholic and jewish
newcomers, 1t is likely according
to Senator here the bars would
be let down. But as the case stands
now, China is the only country
whose people are excluded and If
she We're great power the Chin
ese exclusion act would never have
been passed. In the meantime the
center of Negro population is stead
lily shifting northward and the Col
ored brother is saying. TITS an
i'll wind which blows nobody good"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25
NEED FOR UNsKILLED LABOR
STARTS SECOND EXODUS.

washington, d. c., Nov, 2S.--Re-
ports from various southern states
show that another exodus Of Color
ed people to western and northern
states is getting under way. The
need for unskiIled labor in indus
trial centers rendered acute by z ?
limitation Of emigration and Inc
consequent recruiting Of Colored
workers to fill the Jobs into which
amending streams Of foreigners for
rnerly flowed is given as the chief
cause.
Labor agents representing large
northern corporations ace again re-
ported active throughout the south
and While they are not popular
with the planters. who see the ISss
Of valuable labor as result OF
their cffartc. the agents are said
to take every precaution. taking
out Licenses. registering and COM
plying wish ali the Laws OF the mu-
inequalities. where they operate thus
preve1dag attack. From Atlanta
cores the Information saat a train
loed Of Colored workmen left Ma
con, Ca. last week bound for Steub-
enville, Chic. where they were to be
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25
SAYS FLORENCE MILLS is REAL
!. OPERA STAR. !.
BY a. N. P.l

Birmingham. Ala. Nov ga
local daily carried the following item
from its New York correspondent in
yesterdays issue:
Little Florence Mills. the colored
girl who was former Shuttle Along"
star and who now is the feature at
traction at society's latest supper
club rendezvous, drives up to the
club at night in an imported car,
swathed in furs and cleaning With
diamonds. Social lights who group
about the fence of the plantation
setting where she preformes wave at
her with easy familiarity. In fact
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-11-25

the night ! was there one dowager,
who is prematurely young and has
hair in a permanent snarl, tossed
her the large corage of orchids she
was wearing. Alabamians are wond-
ering howsuch things can bel