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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
FARM NOTES

Mrs. Chas. Plondke, Bagley and
Mrs. 1. A. Vesperman, Lancaster are
Two poultry women that are proving
to have excellent flocks OF chickens.
Mrs. Plondke OF Bagley, has White
Rocks, and is woman very much in
terested in making her poultry pay.
For wears she has been studying and
planning how poultry can be made 10
produce at a profit and upon her
sending her reports in TO the Un1ver-
sity Poultry Department every month
she proves to have the fourth best
producing flock for August, out OF
100 or more that are sending IN re-
ports each month. Mrs. Plondke mas
all the available poultry literature
from the best authorities IN the
United States and it is her untlrlng
courage that has made her one OF the
leading poultry women in Grant
county and the state.
Mrs. l. A. Vesperman, OF Lancas-
ter, who has Single Comb Brown Leg
horns is also an up-to-date poultry
woman, she has the fifth best produc-
ing flock during August, according to
the records Of the University Poultry
Department, and is doing everything
within her power to Gull out the nom
producers, and that there is no
chance of lack of feed, she is running
an advertisement in some other place
of this issue and wishes to give others
a chance to obtain some OF her high
producing stock.
First place went to JEFFERSON
county farmer, whose flock produced
1857 eggs per hen and Mrs. Plondke
got fourth with 1888 eggs per hen,
while Mrs. Vesperman took fifth with
1896 eggs per hen. These figures
are very high for the month of Au-
gust as many people think their
chickens ought to be able to pick up
their feed during these months and
therefore, a very low production is
obtained. 1t pays to feed your flock
we'll all the year around.
The county agent believes that
there are a lot more flocks through
out the county that are high produc-
ers, but they have not started sending
reports into the University Poultry
Department and therefore, no one
knows what their production is.
The reason for this work of send
ing monthly report to the Universe
ty Poultry Department is that Ac-
credited Hatcheries wish to obtain
eggs from high producing flocks and
these flocks must first be accredited
before eggs will be purchased from
them They pay sc per dozen above
market prices for these eggs, which
is incentive enough to cause one to
send monthly reports in to the ex~
pertinent station.
If there are any other people in
Grant county that wish to get on this
list and want to report their produc-
ton each month to the Stale Depart
ment, notify the county agent and he
will get your name on the list.
P. F. GRAF, County Agt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
MAN CLUBBED IN BED
BY MYSTERY ASSAILANT

GAINESVILLE, Wis.-Awakened by
the sound of low means at 1 a. m. on
Tuesday, Mrs. Charles Beversdorf
found her husband lying in pool OF
blood, his scalp split open by club,
in the bedroom of their farm home
near Footville, 10 miles west Of here.
Physicians said Beversdorf, who is
81, would recover, but he was uncon-
scious and unable to talk late Tues
day.
Robbery is believed to be the mo-
tive for the attack, although only a
watch and a pair of spectacles were
found missing. The Beversdorfs have
no enemies, according to neighbors.
Officials are mystified because no
member of the family heard sounds
Of the attack. Mr. Beversdorf slept
with daughter, Violet, 4, and his wife
slept in another bed in the same room
with another daughter, Margaret, g..
The farmers assailant knocked him
senseless with one blow of heavy
club, according to the theory of I'm
dersheriff Fred Beley. The mans
father, Otto Beversdorf, slept in a
room above and said he heard no
sounds during the night.
L L
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
Farm Bureau Notes.

1t was suggested at one of the Farm
Bureau meetings recently that the
Farm Bureau investigate any selling
proposition that might be offered to
farmers within the county. This
would apply to all organization prop
ositlons, any stock selling schemes
and other matters of similar nature.
If farmers have any such PROPOSE
ton offered them will report same to
the county office with the names and
addressen of agents these matters
will be investigated and report will
be made on same. Investigate before
you sign.
Watch the papers for information
in regard to county area tuberculin
testing of cattle. We want our coun-
ty free from this disease.
Grant County Farm Bureau.
Hugh A. Harper, Secretary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
WARN FARMERS OF RISK
IN SHIPPING POTATOES

The Wisconsin department of mar
kets announces that Wisconsin farm
ers are having difficulty getting their
potatoes to market due to car short
age, and to the tieup of stock at mar
keting terminals. 1t advises farmers
that they are taking serious risks by
sending their potatoes to market at
this time. Growers are receiving from
80 to 40 cents bushels for their
stocks, a figure almost below the
growing and marketing costs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
MIX GASOLINE, ALCOHOL
TO MAKE MOTOR FUEL

PARIS, France-A mixture of alco-
hol and gasoline was announced as
the probable national fuel" for mo-
tor engines, by Daniel Berthelot of the
Institution of France, speaking for
the scientific committee investigating
fuel in an address Tuesday before the
congress on liquid combustibles. This
mixture of alcohol and gasoline. rang
ing from 10 TO so per cent or alcohol,
is now being tested on a large scale
by many industries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
WORK AND MORE WORK,
MOTTO OF BANKER, 100

LANCASTER, Pa.-Bar Spangler,
who is in his one hundredth year,
president of the First National Bank
at Marietta, and the Oldest bank presi-
dent in the United States, celebrated
with his wife their seventy-fourth
wedding anniversary. He is on duty
daily. He attributes his longevity to
work and more work" and following
simple rules of health.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
BOY SCOUTS BEAT BACK
MENACING FOREST FIRE

NIAGARA, Wis.-The Boy Scouts
were called out by Scoutmaster Sang
ster here to help fight forest fires,
which were raging in the vicinity.
They succeeded in extinguishing the
worst Tires by beating them and by
backburning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
4OS ILL IN DAY FROM
MALADY OF MOSQUITO

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-There were
408 cases of dengue, the germ which
IS carried by the mosquito, reported
and one death IN one Jay. DR.. j. D..
lowing, health officer, is leading a
campaign to find the breeding places
OF the carrier.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
CANADIAN SHOPMEN
VOTE ON WAGE CUTS

MONTREAL, Canada.-The shop
workers will take referendum on the
question of accepting wage cuts in
tIoduced by Canadian railways, it was
learned today when ballotn were dis
CriDuted, to be returned on November
/. About $4,000 men are affected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

LOST-Between Dubuque and Bagley
through Beetown new 31x4 Kelly
Springfield cord tire Oct 5. Finder
notify J. R. barrow, Bagley, Wis, or
Herald office. 35c1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
D. A. r. PURCHASE RUNS
OLD FORT CRAWFORD

PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Wis.-The
pL cnase Dy the Prairie du CHEN d.
A. r. Of the ruins of the only building
of famous Fort Crawford which still
stands, calls attention to a historic
fact.
The grounds of St. Mary's academy
adjoining the land bought by the D. A.
H. were the site of most Of the large
group of buildings which constituted
the fort in the days when it was the
home of several companies Of United
States regulars, and famous men were
IN command and famous folks So
journed there.
The fort was evacuated in 1856.
Some Is years later most of the site
was included in the campus when st.
Mary's academy was established. Sew
eral relics remain on the grounds to
suggest the life that went on on the
site in the days of the Indian wars.
Sentinel Post of Fort.
The ancient we'll which supplied
Fort Crawford is in use by the
academy The sentinel post of the
fort stands on the lawn. The big de-
preston at one part of the campus
shows where the powder magazine
used to be.
Most suggestive of the relics, how
ever, is the prison window standing
under a big shade tree on the lawn.
A rustic seat is under the tree, and is
a favored resting place of the girl
students as they stroll about the cam
pus. The window consists of two
white stone pillars with stone cross
piece across the top.
Heavy iron rods are cemented in
the stones forming the grating. The
window is about five feet square. On
top of it is a cannon ball picked up
on the campus, and inscribed across
the stone just underneath it, "Grate
from prison window of Old Fort Craw-
ford"
Black Hawk Confined There.
The stern old relic suggests many
pictures of the days when military
discipline was severe, contingencies
of life in frontier post making it
necessary that it should be.
1t was in the fort prison that the
famous Indian chief, Black Hawk
was kept in irons after his capture at
the close of the Black Hawk war, I'M
til taken east to Fortress Monroe I'M
der the escort of Jefferson Davis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
OPTOMfTRIST

Eyes tested and glasses correctly fit
ted. Come in and get your glasses
Strengthened. No charge. Room 10.
AT WRIGHT HOUSE, ROOM NO. 10,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun.
day, Oct. 26-27-2S and 20.
Ostermeier's Hotel Potosi, Monday,
October 80th all day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
LOST AND FOUND

ESTRAYED-To my farm one month
ago, three old sows. Owner can have
same by identifying property and pay
ing charges. Harvey Bass, Rt. 8,
Lancaster, Wis. 1894
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
FARMS FOR SALE.
DAIRY FARM FOR SALE

Located just outside of Lancaster
on Beetown road. SIS acres, As acres
plow land, 10 acres pasture. Running
springs on place. Buildings very
latest. Modern dairy barn and fine
residence. Place is good money
maker. Can handle rs COWS with i'm
mediate and good market for pro-
ducts. Known as Arthur Zenz farm.
Place will be sold on easy terms if
desired. For full particulars inquire
OF
ANDREW ZENZ,
zIctr Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

FOR SALE-Plymouth Rock Cocker
els, purebred, 81 each. Mrs. Will
Keehner, Cassville, Wis. 33p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

The spirit stone of the Potawatomi
was recently moved from Waubena
Wis, to the grounds Of the State His
torical society, Madison.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE

NOTICE
The full penalty of subsection 10a
OF section 1317m-9 of the Statutes will
be imposed upon any person found
dumping any refuse or rubbish on any
State Highway in Grant County, Wis
cOnSin.
HENRY MINK.
S4c2 County Highway Commissioner
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
POULTRY.

FOR SALE-Single comb brown Leg
horn Cockerels, 81 each. Irwin Yes
perman. Phone 1861. S4p3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
TEACHERS GROUP MEETING

Teachers Group Meeting will be
held in the British school No. 4, Po-
tosi. Saturday afternoon from / to
$3.50 o'clock, October 21st. 34c2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE

FOR SALE-House and two lots in
second ward. w. H. Garthwaite, Lam
caster, Wisconsin. 33p4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

In case in municipal court, at
Darlington, Leon Noble sued his
father-in-law, R. j. Lancaster, for
$4,000 for alienation of his wife's af-
fections. Two days were spent in the
hearing of the case, but when given
to the jury less than ten minutes
two ballots-decided in favor of the
father-in-law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
WANTED
HONEY, BEES, ETC.

FOR SALE-Choice extracted honey
for sale at Jos. B. Hesseling's. Poto-
81, Wis. 25ctf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
LIVESTOCK FOR SALE.

SWINE FOR SALE-Purebred Poland
Chinas and Durocs. Big growthy
spring pigs of either sex, plenty of
stretch, height and bone. Improve
your herds by buying here. Also
Orion Pathfinder 366973, proven sire
priced to sell. Yours to please, J. A.
Vincent & Son. Maple Hills Farm.
Lancaster. Wis. 29ctf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.

FOR SALE-Sewing machines priced
as low as SIS. If you need a sewing
machine call on Groenier Music Store,
Lancaster, Wis. 32ctf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

FOR SALE-One set bedroom furni-
ture, brown walnut, in good condition.
Call at residence. Mrs. Katharine Ma
than. 34c1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

Put a Blue Devil in your tub-he
will promptly steal the rings.-Adv. 1t
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

FOR SALE-Two pure--bred Guern-
sey bulls, Poland China boars and
gifts and barred Rock roosters. Albert
l.. Kaspers, RI 5, Lancaster, Wis. 31tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
Classified Advertisements
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

JAMES HI. FOWLER, M. d.
Physician and Surgeon
Office over Haley & Edwards Store,
Lancaster, Wis. Both phones.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

FOR SALE-24 head of purebred Ok
ford and grade Oxford ewes. yearl-
ing and one aged Oxford ram. Team
good draft geldings, 4-years-old. One
high class draft mare, 3-years-old.
Moore & Harper. 27tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

FOR SALE-Slightly used pianos.
Lance Music Store, Lancaster, Wis.,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

BOARS FOR SALE-Pure bred Po-
land Chinas. Clyde McKelvey, Potosi,
Wis. Phone 17-2. 34p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-10-18

Bears. $25 for choice. Carl Alt, Alt
helm Farm, Lancaster, Wis. 30tfc
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

turies when invading Saxons forced |
the native Britons to the western
limits of their island and compelled |
numberless refugees from the ruth |
less heather hordes to seek a dwell
ing place on the shores Of Gaul
Theirs is a musical speech. lending
itself admirably to the utterances Of
impassioned valor and to the pathos
Of the national sea songs. Aid no
one can listen to the singing Of these
Breton melodies, when accompanied
by the shrilI notes Of the Biniou.
without realizing how the love. and
the dread. Of the ocean Is forever
haunting these sons Of generations
Of sailors.
Westward still we 60 to the quaint
town OF Douarnanez, thence TO Au-
dierne and by coach over ten miles
Of moorfand to the great western
promontory Of the Pointe du Rzz
(the Bee ar Raz OF Breton songJ.
Wildly grand. indeed. Is this most
westerly point of France. towering
three hundred feet above the Allan
tic. while a fierce current sweeps
round its base, between the mainland.
and the solitary lighthouse OF Gorle-
bella. into the terrible Bale des Ire
passes. The scattered peasants Of
the district tell us that the spirits Of
| drowned mariners stil1 wall round
the cottages, at night, refusing TO be
silenced till their bodies are recov-
cred from the restless waves and
honored by Catholic burial. But the
time to see the Pointe du Raz is on
some summer evening when the sun
is setting golden and glorious in the
steep Atlantic stream" or when
from the little hotel we can watch
the gathered crowds of Bretons in
their annual August festival around
the great statue that crowns the
headland
The tourists win certainly pay a
visit to the great arsenal and dock
yard of Brest, and then explore the
northern coast line And here we
would strongly advise brief sojourn
at the quiet and beautiful coast re-
sort of Tregastel-far from the rail-
way and the crowd-where the one
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

Of two simple stage sets. an exterior
one, . cyclorama with a few trees
and an interior one Of segmented
sections which can be easily altered
and added to by the children them
selves.
Direction. which of course, is de-
sirable and compatible with free
play, will be under David Belasco,
who is but one of many who are en-
tranced by this unique children's
theater.
It's very beautiful. you'll agree.
But Mr.. Heckscher doesn't want IL
to be his private party for all the
happiness his gift Is bringing him.
The Children's Society will face a
deficit unless its contributions in
crease in amount 100000; this sum
is required TO run the building in
addition to the sums contributed by
the city. by the Heckscher Founda-
ton and by private gifts. 1t win help
reduce the problem Of the "unad-
justed child''-and II is wise to re
member that We are all unadjusted
children, as Franklin Chase Hoyt,
Chief Justice OF the Children's Court,
remarked to me: only some of US
are more elastic, have bette homes.
In lieu of this the Children's Build
ing must serve to ameliorate the
hurt of the "unadjusted child.- which
becomes a sociological problem
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
The Lure of Brittany

nesses to the beliefs Of long vanished
peoples still stand intact, and were
il not for the depredations of mod
ern builders the gaps would be filed
and fully fifteen thousand pillars
would be standing. For miles
around, too. we meet the great Dol
mems and single lofty pil-
lars of rock, sixty to seventy feet In
length, and rude rock huts. And as
we stand among these records Of
antiquity we weigh ip mind the
various explanations Of these stone
memorials. Do they represent the
burial places of fallen warriors, or
have we here the survivals Of that
prevalent Druidic worship which
| revered the heavenly bodies and sac
rificed human victims to the gods
and in its own distorted way testified
to the universal belief in a future
LIE? Certainly the builders of these
Lines and these Menhirs were no
mean race; and all the countryside
from Carnac to Locmariagver is rich
in their records.
| A few miles further west we reach
the fishing towns of Quimper and
| Quimperie. Quimper boasts a fine olt
cathedral, with rich tracery and
sculpture. The market place Is full
Of hustle and on all sides on,
hears the ancient Breton language
Strangely unfamiliar and seemingi,
harsh when first we hear it, the Bre
ton tongue soon reveals to US its kin
ship to the long dead Cornish speech
and to the modern language of Wales
Indeed, so great is the similarity tina
the Breton and the Welshman hav,
little trouble In deciphering eacl
others written languages. And her
we find a clew to the origin and tn,
name of the people of northern
France. They are not genuinel,
French, but British. And a hundre,
| features of their life and charsctel
bear witness to the fact that thei
ancestors migrated from across th'
English Channel in the distant cen
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

time convent affords excellent ac-
commodation 70 the traveller and
where the extraordinarily shaped
rocks massed along the level sands
awaken his wonder.
PaimpoLthe starting point Of the
great Iceland fisheries, immortalized
tn the charming romance u Pierre
Lofts not Tar er. Its hotels are
comfortable. II plain; IT'S harbor
thronged IN autumn BY fishing
macks returned frum the harvest
Of the Iceland seas. The little vii
hge Of Pioubaslanec. . couple of
miles away, contains q pathetic
memorial to the Breton's long battle
with the ocean The long wzn Of the
ancient chuurchyard known as the
Muir des Dispzrus, h crowded with
tablets 30 the memory Of seamer
who sailed into the deep. never to re.
turn But we can not fathom tn.
life and character Of the Breton iii
we read the romance Of Yam ans
Gaud In Pierre Lott.
There Is much TO interest the
traveller In the little city of Morlais;
The New York herald., 1922-09-03

but the last town to detain him wm
probably be the cathedral town Of
Treguier, birthplace of the famed
modernist Ernest Renan. anC then
he win hasten on to revel in the
massive rocks, the ancient castled
buildings, the treacherous quick
sands and the unrivaled omeIettes
Of the Mont St Michel, before he
speeds eastward to Paris and away
home with a great love for the Wild
Breton land In his heart
The New York herald., 1922-09-03
BY DR.. w. HARvEY-JELLIE.

IL
THE mention of the name of Brit
tiny never fails to conjure up
Ne Vision OF the wild and
rock-bomd coast Of northern France
and to reawaken the memory of it's
richly varied landscapes and its
sturdy. ancient people. It h no
wonder that Brittany should year by
year exert the spell of It's attractive
ness upon thousands Of Americans,
who love the beautiful in nature, the
unique in race and the mysterious
Should you decide to make a pill
grimage thither. you would, of
course. visit RenneS-the capital of
the province. where centers its
military. judicial, commercial and
ecclesiastical life. But you will not
hnger long at Rennes. The real Brit
tany-the Brittany that fires ones
fancy and awakens ones wonders
the Brittany of the rocky western
coast, where great promontories tut
out with their beetling crags into the
wild waves of the Atlantic, defying
the force of gigantic billows and
racing currents. and sheltering in
their Intervening bays the little
towns where for countless genera
tons have dwelt the hardy seamen
of this ancient land. On this bold
western coast there is not a mile
without its special interest, not a
village without its romance
The best approach lies by way of
Eantes-one Of Frances greatest
ports-and the coast line on the
south Of the province, and the first
stop should be at Carnac. Here we
find level coast of mingled sand
and bowlder; but we are in the CEN
ter of the finest remains OF the an
cient Druid cult which are to be found
anywhere in Europe The celebrated
Lines of Carnac stretch out in five
double rows of upright stone pillars
Nine thousand Of these silent wit