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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
A VISION OF WAR AND OF THE FUTURE
cRobt G. 1ngeors Memorial

unspeakable! Outrage infinite!
Four million bodies in chains-fOur
million souls in letters! All the
sacred relations of wife, mother,
father, and child trampled beneath the
brutal feet of might. And all this was
done under our own beautiful banner
Of the free.
The past rises before us. We hear
the roar and shrek of the bursting
shell. The broken letters fall. These
heroes died. We look. Instead of
slaves we see men and women and
children. The wand of progress
touches the auction block, the slave
pen, the whipping post, and we see
homes and firesides and school houses
and books, and where all was want
and crime and cruelty and fear, we
see the faces of the free.
3" These heroes are dead. They died
for hberty-they died for us. They
are at rest. They sleep in the, land
they made free, under the flag they
rendered stainless, under the solemn
pines, the sad hemlocks, the fearful
willows, and the embracing vines.
They sleep beneath the shadows of
the clouds, careless alike of sunshine
Palace of Rest. Earth may run red
with other wars-they are at peace.
In the midst of battle, in the roar of
conflict, they found the serenity OF
death. l have one sentiment for SOL
diers living and dead: Cheers for the
living; tears for the dead.
A vision of the future rises:
l see our country filled with happy
homes, with firesides of content-the
foremost land of all the earth.
| see a world where thrones have
crumbled and where kings are dust.
The aristocracy of idleness has per-
ished from the earth.
see a world without a slaves. Man
at last is free. Natures forces have
by science been enslaved. Lightning
and light, wind and wave, frost and
flame, and all the secret, subtle pow
ers of earth and air the tireless toll
ers for the human race.
| see a world at peace, adorned with
every form of art, with music's myri-
ad voices thrilled, while lips are rich
with words of love and truth world
in which no exile signs, no prisoner
mourns; world on which the glib
bets shadow does not fall; a world
where labor reaps its full reward;
where work and worth go hand in
hand; where the poor girl trying to
win bread with the needle-the needle
that has been called, ''the asp in the
breast of the poor"-is not driven to
the desperate choice of crime or
death, of suicide or shame.
I see a world without the beggar's
outstretched palm, the miser's heart
less, stony stare, the piteous wall of
want, the livid lips of lies, the cruel
eyes of scorn.
1 see a race without disease of flesh
or brain-shapely and fair, the mar
ried harmony of form and function
and, as l look, life lengthens, joy
deepens, love canopies the earth; and
over all, in the great dome, shines the
eternal star of human hope.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
LOCALS TRIM
ROCKFORD IN
OPENING GAME
Large Crowd Witnesses
Precise Base Ball.
Dodge Leads Locals to Victory In
Opening Game.

Manager Jimmy Dodge and his
Lancaster Dodgers" made their
initial bow to local fans Sunday and
came through on the long end of a 4
to / game with the Rockford Maroons.
Rockford presented well seasoned
team, but could do little with Dodge's
offerings. With Wednesdays game
with Gilkersons Union Giants in mind
Jimmy took it. easy but was never III
danger. Three hits were collected
by the visitors, but no two were
punched and the game would have
been a shut out but for Hixon's error
following a hit by Ros. Twelve Ma
rooms were retired on strikes.
The locals found Gustafson for ten
blows, including two doubles by Orig
gett, both of which drove in runs.
Van Roo and Dodge also connected
for two hits apiece. Gienke, Hixon,
Bell and Pickett sat in with the bal
ance of the hits.
In the field the local infield looked
mighty good to the fans. Driggett,
Van Roo and Schultz came through
with one nice double killing, and the
combination gives promise of a lot
of fast fielding before the season is
much older. Bell had only one
chance in the field, high foul back
of third, but handled it in nice style
With Otis and Schultz he cut in on d
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
LANCASTER MAN IN ON
OKLAHOMA OIL POOL

Twelve years ago number of Ian
caster and Fennimore people bought
lots in Hallett, Okla, as an invest
ment. The town failed to grow and
most of them quit paying taxes. A
few held on and kept their taxes up.
There are two men in Oklahoma,
Dr.. Turner and Elmer Wick, who have
always believed that an oil pool
existed under Hallett and could be
found if drilling went deep enough.
Recently DR.. Turner got a flowing
we'll at 2,140 feet and at 2,145 feet, a
spouter. Mr.. Wick started a well May
10 which he will complete the last OF
June He has leased ali the obtain
able lots in Hallett.
C. H. Williams is a lot owner and
has stock in the Wick syndicate. He
expects to go to Hallett the last OF
June and will gladly give any infor-
nation he has now or will have later
to any one desiring it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
(RObt. G. myers

~ HE past rises before me like a
Ill dream. Again we are in the
~ great struggle for national life.
We hear the sounds of preparation
the music of boisterous drumS-the
silver voices of heroic bugles. We
see thousands Of assemblages, and
hear the appeals of orators. We see
the pale cheeks of women, and the
flushed faces of men; and in those
assemblages we see all the dead
whose dust we have covered with
flowers. We lose sight of them no
more We are with them when they
enlist in the great army of freedom.
We see them part with those they
love- Some are walking for the last
time in quiet, woody places, with the
maidens they adore. We hear the
whisperings and the sweet vows OF
eternal love as they lingeringly part
forever. Others are bending over
cradles, kissing babes that are asleep.
Some are receiving the blessings OF
old men. Some are parting with
mothers who hold them and press
them to their hearts again and again,
and say nothing. Kisses and tears,
tears and kisses; divine mingling of
agony and love! And some are talk
ing with wives and endeavoring with
brave words, spoken in the old tones,
to drive from their hearts the awful
fear. We see them part. We see the
wife standing in the door with the
babe in her arms-standing in the
sunlight sobbing. At the turn of the
road a hand waves-she answers by
holding high in her loving arms the
child. He is gone, and forever.
We see them all as they march
proudly away under the Haunting
flags, keeping time to the grand, wild
music of war-marching down the
great cities-through the towns and
across the prairies-down to the
fields of glory, to do and to die for
the eternal right.
We go with them, one and all. We
are by their side on all the CORY
fields-in all the hospitals of pain
on all the weary marches. We stand
guard with them in the wild storm
and under the quiet stars. We are
with them in ravines running with
blood-in the burrows of old fields.
We are with them between contend
ing hosts, unable to move, wild with
thirst. We see them pierced by balls
and torn with shells,-in the trenches,
by forts, and in the whirlwind of the
charge, where men become iron, with
nerves of steel.
We are with them in the prisons of
hatred and famine; but human speech
can never tell what they endured
We are at home when the news
comes that they are dead. We see
the maiden in the shadows of her first
sorrow We see the silvered head OF
the old man bowed with the last grief.
The past rises before us, and we see
four millions of human beings gov
erned by the lash! We see them
bound hand and foot; we hear the
strokes of cruel whips; we see the
hounds tracking women through
tangled swamps; we see babes sold
from the breasts of mothers. Cruelty
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
200 EXAMINED AT THE
PLATTEVILLE CLINIC

PLATTEVILLE.-N 200 pa
tients ere examined at the free Red
Cross chest clinic at the Wisconsin
Mining school the first three days of
this week.
Many tubercular suspects were 10
Gated. Four active cases OF tubercu-
losis were discovered and the patients
directed to report at once to the state
sanitariums.
The three physicians and two nurs-
es left for Hazel Green Wednesday
afternoon from where they will go to
Boscobel, Milwaukee and the northern
counties of the state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24

The roster of Tom Cox Post, No.
1872, Dept. of Wis. G.. A. r., was or
ganized July II, 1884, with fifty char
ter members. Total membership liv-
ing and dead to present date, 173.
Members at present are:
John F. Taylor, Com.
Burton Summer, Sr. V.
David Porter, Jr. V.
John G. Harshburger, @. NJ.
C. H. Baxter, Chaplain.
Lewis Croft, o. D.
Louis Schneider. O. G..
Chas. Schneider. Surgeon.
Thos. lockwood, @. M. Sergt.
C. H. Cooley, Sergt.-Maj.
A. C. Morse, Adjt. and Patriotic In
structor.
Members in good standing:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
GRADUATION
EXERCISES AT
LIVINGSTON
Large Class Finish With
Ceremonies.

Especial correspondence to Herald)
The commencement exercises of the
eighth grade Of the Livingston graded
school will be held at the M. E. church
on Thursday evening, May 25. The
following program will be given:
Invocation-Rev. Pierstorff.
Salutatory-Mary Knutson.
Glass History-Neal Nicholson.
Song-An Apple Orchard-Sixth
and seventh grade.
Glass Poem-Charles Thompson.
Glass Gifts-Roscoe Livingston.
Song-(Boat Song)-Sixth and sew
enth grade.
Glass rophecy-Richard Allen.
Address-Miss Anthonette Durant.
Presentation of diplomas-Prof. G.
Kies.
Benediction-Rev. Pierstorff.
There are five members of the grad
uating class, Mary Knutson, Neal
Nicholson, Charles Thompson, Roscoe
Livingston, and Richard Allen. The
graded school will close on Friday,
May 26th with a picnic.
Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Pierstorff and
Lola, motored to Gotham and Rich
land Center last week. Mrs. Raglan
of Richland Center, returned with
them for visit with her daughter.
VIM. Nicholson of Dodgeville, visit
ed at the home of his sister, Mrs. Fred
Biddick and other relatives here on
Sunday.
Rev. Pierstorff attended the ALL
Committee meeting of Platteville dis
trict, at the district parsonage on
Friday.
Miss Edith Nelson has returned to
her home at Fennimore, having been
at the Dale Rundell home.
Rev. Weaver of Rewey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Alton, Rev and Mrs. c. H.
Pierstorff, motored to Milwaukee on
Monday to attend the State District
Law Enforcement Convention.
Mr.. Oliver Rundell of Madison,
spent Sunday at the home of his
brother, DR.. l.. F. Rundell and other
relatives.
Jay Marshall and lady friend of
Steuben, were here for the weekend
for visit at the parental T. J. Mar
shall home
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w. Stephens,
Mrs. Homer Rundell and Mrs. Harry
Allen were among Platteville visitors.
Mrs. A. j. White, district president
attended the Rebekah convention held
at Bloomington.
The annual commencement of the
Livingston high school will be held at
Livingston Friday, May Goth, at s
o'clock at the M. E. church. There
are seventeen in the graduating class
this year, ten girls and seven boys, as
follows: Elsa NJ Howdles, Emma
Mueller, Ruth M. Biddick, Leone Dow
ling, Frank T. Fisher, Glenn F. KEN
per, Edna G. Merritt, Aleta L. Skate,
Rhoda A. Watson, Harold E. Bellard,
Charles M. Fisher, Grin W. Living
ston, Grace E. Schneider, Gretta M.
Thompson, Homer c. Livingston, Law
renee M. frankie, and Allegro Drink
water.
Glass Motto-"Out of School Life,
into Lies School,"
Glass Colors-Green and White.
Glass Flower-White Rose.
The class day exercises will be held
at the high school on Wednesday
evening.
Principal-E. E. Skaliskey.
Mathematics-Bes Allen.
English-Lela Skate.
Domestic Science = Vera Towsk-
bury.
Joe Nicholson returned from visit
with relatives at Montfort and Dodge
vile.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
CLYDE R. SHOWkLTER
Born Feb. 10, 1862. Died May II, 1922

Clyde R. Showalter, native Of Bee
town, this county, and editor of the
Herald 1895-19O0, died at the home Of
his son, Rollo, in FIT. Collins, Colo,
Sunday, May 21st, after long illness
with cancer
Mr.. ShowaIter is survived by his
wife, two sons, Rollo and Roy, sis
tiers, Miss Portia Showalter and Mrs.
Chris. Grebe. Further notice will ap-
pear next week
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
LAST WEEKS WEATHER

May Thigh sc; low As. Rain
Nav 1S-High 70; low 81. Rain
Nav leigh 60; low so. Rain 2.2O.
Nav 20-High 6S; low "a.
NAV 21-High 76; low 81.
Nav 22-High rs; low Sc.
Forecast-Possible showers but not
much change in temperature.
Miscellany-The growing conditions
good with early stands doing we'll and
Early corn above ground. Pastures
are in fine shape and milk production
growing. General crop conditions
favorable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
B'GOSH, HERE'S
ANOTHER ONE
FOR SHERIFF

Peter Johns, Platteville, we'll known
deputy and candidate for sheriff, has
decided to enter the. race making
seven to start under the wire next
month. There is a prospect of W. A.
Stowell, also a Platteville deputy, be-
ing a candidate and Wilson Henry,
BoscObel, is said to be considering it..
This will make nine. Evidently these
men so on the time-honored principle
"The more the merrier."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
VETERAN TOBACCONIST
LAUNCHES NEW BRAND

John Kilburg is launching San Tex,
a new ten cent cigar of fine quality.
He is using the Hatch store window
to show how San Tex is made and the
quality of the tobacco Johns cigars
are strictly handmade, not machine
made They bear the quality of work
that goes with hand craft and with
the fine materials, Havana, Sumatra
and the best domestic tobaccos, the
smokers are in for real treat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
(Turn To Local Page
LANCASTER HIGH
BEATS LIVINGSTON
THREE TO TWO
(High School Correspondent

The Lancaster high school baseball
team played a real game of ball Sat
urday, trimming the Livingston high
schCoj team to 2. This is the first
defeat for Livingston this season.
They trimmed Lancaster here last
week II to and the scores in all the
games they have played have shown
about the same one-sidedness. When
they played Highland "Slim" Lewis
pronounced Livingston's team THE
best high school team he had ever
seem, Plans had been made by Liv-
ingston to challenge any team in the
state for the State championship, but
the defeat of Saturday took all that
foolishness out of their heads.
The games was fast and interesting.
Livingston scored one run in the third
inning and kept this lead until the
seventh when Lancaster piled up
three which proved enough to put the
game on ice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
TO REPAyE KELLER VILLAGE

That portion of the Dubuque
P1atteville road in Keller village, clay
road and very rough for half mile
or 60. NAV be resurfaced if the wishes
of a committee visiting Lancaster
Monday are given ear.
The town board of Jamestown with
several prominent Keller citizens,
were here Monday to see about the
work. They hope it will, be done
soon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
BASEBALL GAME TODAY

The game today is Lancaster VS..
Gilkerson's Union Giants of Chicago,
a fast colored team which played here
last fall. The colored boys won 81
and lost % games last year, winning
the last "a games played. This game
today will be fast one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
THESE NAY WED

Jos. Richter and Bessie Hawke,
Montfort.
VIM. H. Ostrander and Clara Bac-
him, Marion.
JOS. P. Kelly Woodman, and Frieda
Martin, Boscobel.
oliver Keene, Ellenboro, and Stella
Wagner, Clifton
Kenneth Taylor, So. Lancaster, and
Bertha Wieland, Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
"MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"
TO BE SHOWN HERE MAY 81

Edward Everett Hale'S famous
patriotic gem, "a Man Without A
Country" will be shown in motion
pictures at the Orpheum May 81,
under the auspices of the Richard
Burns Post of the American Legion.
The picture is said to be one Of the
most gripping dramas of early Ameri-
can history ever produced. There
will be matinee and two evening,
performances
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
VICTOR SAID A MOUTHFUL

Victor L. berger in The milwaukee,
(Socialist) Leader-The Stalwarts OF
wisconsin also know that even IN the
heyday of Bob's power IN Wisconsin
all he did was to saddle upon our
long suffering commonwealth ABOUT
lfty-seven varieties of commissions,
which soon became a fine pasture Ior
his nOlitical cattle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
LIVINGSTON BOYS IN AUTO
ACCIDENT; NONE HURT

LIvINGSTON.-An automobile driv-
en- by Wendell Watson struck Gull
vert near Fennimore Sunday after
noon and was badly damaged. Wat
son and theother occupants, Luther
Rundell and Max Gundlach, escaped
injury.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
BURR FOR CLERK OF COURT

again for the Office of clerk of the
court. Mr.. Burr has filled this Office
for two terms in an acceptable man
ner to the court, lawyers and the pub
Hcg So far there are no other candi
dates for the Office.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
JAMES t. WEBB A CANDIDATE

James T. Webb, county clerk, has
announced his candidacy for re-elec-
ton. Mr.. Webb's conduct of the office
has been efficient and courteous and
he is entitled to another term.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
ORPHEUM BUYS NEW MACHINE

ing picture machine of the Simplex
type for his Orpheum theatre. The
machine embodies the latest features
and is fre-proof.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24

DR.. Carl Walker is driving a new
Hupmobile.
Vernon c. Judd and wife of Los
Angeles, Calf, are visiting in Ian
caster and Bloomington. They are on
their way to Pittsburg, Pa.
JUDA, Wis.-Thirty-seven ut hogs
ready for the market fell victim to
the heat while in the stock yards
here. The hogs died due to the in
tense heat and lack of water at the
yards, and there is question being
raised to the railroads liability De-
cause of this.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24

Hits-Off Edwards, 3; Livingstone
Struck out-Edwards, IA; Living
ston, 16.
Runs-Lancaster 8; Livingston 2.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-24
ROSTER OF TOM COX POST
No. 1872, Grand Army of The Republic

Alex Ivey.
r. V. Huftil.
Dawald Garner.
John J. Oswald.
C. H. Angus.
Theo Calvin.
J. P. Williams.
Joe Book.
L. S. Bradley.
Jas. Kitelinger.
John Blackburn.
VIM. Croft.
Anton Knapp.
John H. Cook.
John W. Miles.
Hiram Pennock
Place of meeting G. A. r. head
quarters, court house, Lancaster, Wis.
A. C. MORSE, Adjt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-25
PLAYGRoU ND VALLEY


that the Twins did in Playground
Valley it would fill so much space
that there wouldn't be room for an
other thing on this page. But | can
tell you part of it.
To begin with, there were swings
rope swings with board sets, boat
swings on chains, nice bench swings
with roofs over the top, slat swings,
big swings, little swings, high
swings, low swings, swings that
squeaked and swings that were quiet,
double swings, single swings, red
swings, blue swings, and all sorts of
swings.
Then there were sliding boards.
Some were steep some were flat,
some were high, some were low, and
each one a barrel of fun.
And there were bars to swing on
(Niek liked them), and sandpiles to
dig in Nancy liked that, and see
saws, the best ever. There were
kites to fly and tops to spin, skates
to skate on and wheels to ride.
ooh, myr' said Nancy suddenly.
We've been an awful long time.
We'd better hurry on, Nick. l hear
the dove calling.
ITO be continued.)
Copyright, 1929
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-25
KEEPS YOU ALIVE.

WHEAT, of the variety that was
" cultivated $4,000 years ago, is
exhibited under glass cases at the
Field Museum, Chicago.
1t is the most important food ever
discovered by man-so important
that wheat bread is known in MANY
languages as the staff of life.
Wherever man has carried his civ
ilization on a large scale he has had
to carry cultivation of wheat with
him.
In 1920, the Spaniards brought
overseas the seed that started the
giant American wheat-growing indus
try.
City folks give little thought to
wheat, yet all eat it. Your BODY.
through which your spirit manifests
itself in this three-dimensional world.
is largely transformation of wheat.
To millions of farmers the wheat
seed is the key to livelihood. This
year they will raise about seven bush
els for every person in the United
States.
Economists tell you that wheat is
the chief regulator of our whole sys-
TEN Of economics-from prices to
health.
The crash in wheat prices since the
collapse of the war boom has illus
trated how tickle and unstable is our
economic system. It has been SO,
all through history.
In May, 1867, wheat hit a high
mark O. S2.11 bushel in the cash
market at Chicago.
In May, 1870, the highest reached
was go cents a bushel
From this crash farmers learn that
current price problems are nothine
new, but merely repetition of the
endless series of up-and-down cycles
You could devote a whole lifetime
to the STUDY of wheat, and still have
only faint conception of its i'm
portance in the worlds prosperity
health, happiness and progress.
1t is one of the things that ar,
taken for granted, without the curl
osity that prompts study, by jadet
civilization taat trance-like is inter
ested only in the startlingly new.
1t excites less interest today thai
J among the primitive people VIII,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-25
EDITORIAL
BUY A CONFEDERATE FLAG.

Z BUY A ONEEDEKAl L FLAO.
THE Americas chapter Of the u. D
C. is inaugurating tomorrow
what it is hoped will become an an
nual custom. 1t will sell miniature
Confederate Flags on Memorial day
as a means of raising funds to assist
the U. D. c. scholarship fund through
which the descendants of the Con-
federate veterans are being assisted
in gaining an education in the South.
The buying and wearing of the
Stars and Bars on Memorial day each
year will be pretty custom, with
its practical as well as its sentimen-
tai significance. AS Mrs. j. w. Har-
ris, Jr., remarked, 1--WE have worn
the Confederate Flag in our hearts
for so long, and we are now going
to wear it over our hearts as well
for day in the year at least"
This is wonderful work the U. D,
C. is doing, and one of which the
public knows little. In Georgia
alone it has scholarship fund OF
$4,000 which is lent to young peo-
pie to assist them through college 1t
is revolving fund, being constantly
paid by back by the young people as
they finish college and as they go
out into the world and become earn
crs. Through this plan the veterans
Of the '60s, as has been said, Though
dead, yet shall they live," for to their
descendants in a practical way is the
tribute of love paid tribute
which lies in every Southern heart
and which will remain as long as the
nation stands las
So have your dime ready tomor-
row when the lady hands you a little
Confederate Flag. 1t is great
cause. And probably there would be
little objection if you should hand
her quarter or any other larger
amount than dime. But the price
is only dime, and that is all that
is asked 1t is SO little. And means
so much.