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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31
STATE OF WISCONSIN,

STATE OF WISCONSIN,
Grant County-In Circuit Court.
In the matter of the Liquidation OF
the Montfort State Bank, Banking
Corporation
In re Petition of Marshall Cousins,
as Commissioner of Banking, for con-
firmation of sale of certain real estate.
Notice is hereby given that at the
regular February term OF the Circuit
Court, to be held in and for Grant
county, wisconsin, at the Court House
in the City of Lancaster, in said coun-
ty, on the third Monday of February,
being the 10Th day of said month, A.
D.. 1923, the petition of Marshall
Cousins as commissioner of banking
of the State of Wisconsin, in relation
to the liquidation of the Montfort
State Bank, a Banking Corporation,
foran order approving, confirming
and directing the sale Of certain real
estate of said Montfort State Bank, in
liquidation, pursuant to certain offers
to purchase said real estate, submitted
in said petition, will be heard and de-
termined.
Dated the 9th day of January, A. D.
1923.
By the Court:
3 S. E. SMALLEY, Circuit Judge.
Fielder, Fielder, Jackson & Board
man, Attorneys for Petitioner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31

Tuesday OF June, A. D., 1928, there
will be heard, considered and adj
justed, all claims against said John B.
Clough, deceased:
And notice is hereby further given,
that all such claims for examination
and allowance must be presented to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31

said county court at the court house
in the city of Lancaster, in said coun-
ty and state, on or before the 9th day
May, A. D., 1923, or be barred
Dated January 27tn, 1923. 5OcS
BY the Court. E. B. Goodsell, Judge.
Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31

/ FOR SALE-Crown piano in good
condition. Fine instrument. Priced
reasonable. Mrs. Anna Eddy, Lam
caster, Wis. 50p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31

WANTED-10 Buff S. G. Leghorn
Cockerels. Write Rt 5, box So, Lam
caster, Wis. 50p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31

FOR SALE-Cord wood and block
wood. All dry wood. Albert Blum,
Bloomington, Wis. 50p1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-01-31

FOR SALE-The Alex Ivey residence
property Inquire at residence. 50stt
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
BIG BILLS COLONY"

Big Bill Haywood had a following in this country. When
the soviet government a gOOdly number of those to whom human
freedom" of the Haywood oratorical type appeals followed him
to Russia. The colony, so called, was to bring true the milk and
honey of red socialists dream. So they went with Bill.
An American engineer who followed" Bill across has man.
aged to get back to America where he now dares to tell of expert
ences, relation of which as a member of the colony would have
cost him his life. He relates that the condition of the "colonists"
was that of virtual slavery. They tried to resign" but were
not permitted. They went hungry. Finally they quit work. Then
they were confronted with the choice of work or starve. GAS it
was 80 below zero" naively explains Engineer Gunner, 1--WE went
to work"
Big Bill had gone to Moscow when the mercury dropped. It
was warmer in Moscow and there was food there, the engineer
goes on to explain, which is an explanation entirely sufficient
When it gets cold and food grows scarce the Haywoods in Rus
STA and America do not suffer. When a strike is drawn out to
starvation in this country the leaders and directors do not suffer
There is always warmth and food at high-class hotels for the
leaders. Engineer Gunner adds that "Bil, like other leaders
took care to see that they had plenty regardless of whether the
common members got anything or not. But" he philosophers
shat was the way with the communist leaders-communism fol
themselves and nothing for the rest"
In time Gunner, with a few others, got away from human
freedom and the highest liberty of the Individual" Finally Gun
ner got back to America. 1t is easy to imagine the state of minc
with which he saw the statue at the harbor mouth going and
coming. 4
Gunner's story is simply REPETITION of other relations brought
back by those who can get back. 1t is something much more
however, it is the whole history of communism and soveitism anC
socialism when they are put into actual practice.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
AS A POLICY.

Honesty is the best policy, but he who is honest through
policy is not an honest man" So runs the conclusion of the
sages. Another adage suggests that while laws may not make
morals they induce to cautiousness. The old adage that Pride
goeth before a fall" might be rewritten to read that mistaken
impressions of ones own elevated position above the commo
herd affords license to indecency and confers rights of contempts
for public opinion goeth before an awful smash and a fierce wanop.
There was our recent banker, Mr.. Stilman, of New York City.
He had attained a high position. 1t sweled his head. And, having
convinced himself of his kngship, he took example of ancient
kings who maintained harems. We have had scandals of our own,
right here in Bozeman, where men, having attained high place
and plenty of money through industry and decency, have cut
loose and started in to be a law unto themselves. Not so long ago
our leading custard-pie comedian of the screen. He has troubles
of his own. And the woman in the case attains a national notoriety
by the simple process of dying as a result of a debauch. In the
scandal the public learns much of her peccadilOes of drunkenness
and nudity. And so on down from King David and Bathsheba,
indecency and its companionship with murder figures out like
two times two. Even Noah, who had pulled off the greatest
marine stunt on record, got drunk. 1t came out on him and is
part of the standing record. 1t scars a great accomplishment,
hurts Noah's previous good reputation.
But if we analyze the situation of all these horrible examples
we find that they had arrived to prominence and public approval
via the highways of decency and public service. No man works
up to the highest position in a bank through indecency. No one
wins a real place in public estimation by defiance of the common
laws of decency and morality. On the contrary, that's the way
they lose what they had gained. Taken by and large, the public
is mOrer interested in a man making good than in being good, but
after he has made good he must be a fairly decent or an extremely
cautious person to retain public confidence and hold the place he
has attained. Making good financially or materially in any way
doesn't convey a kingship that can nulify the common laws of
common decency.
Look them over from David on down to the latest assump-
ton of immunity from common decency of life. Notice what
happens to them when the scandal breaks. The Arbuckle case
had its chambermaid, there's always some one willing to sit UP
late to see what they can see, and most of these appear to get
an eyeful for their vigis. Aside from any morals, getting back
to the somewhat unprincipled principle that decency is the best
policy, the person who said that said a mouthful.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
OUT AT THE EDGE OF TOWN.

AS you drive along, coming into a town, take note of the
homes "out at the edge of town."
Most of us want to live down town or "close in" That is,
we think we do until we have tried "the edge of town"
Out at the edge of town the homes are shaded and sheltered
by trees, the lawns" have become yards" The houses stand
well apart. There's a sense of separation along with the other
comforting sense of community.
Out at the edge of town the vagrant breezes set the tree
waving. Always those wandering breezes comes and go and
shake the boughs as they pass, out at the edge of town.
Out at the edge of town the birds gather and sing O. morn
ings and run and hop across the grass, ears and eyes cooked and
alert for movement at the grass roots or the sound of a worm
working below.
Out at the edge of town one can have chickens, a clucking
hen and a wonderful brood of downy balls, keen, alert, interesting
There can be fresh eggs for breakfast, your own eggs.
Out at the edge of town it is quiet. Evening falls gently out
at the edge of town. The twilight creeps, the dark folds the
front porch, a cool breath draws between the. trees, overhead a
bird chrps petulantly. The scent of the grass and the flowers
steals in on the dewy air. 1t grows late.
To bed. Through the south window comes a grateful breeze
Away off on the long hill seen through the open window the lights
of automobiles flash and fade. The sound of singing voices
comes family. 1t has been a long day. And sleep falls like the
night so gently tha@t
Six o'clock in the morning, out at the edge of town. Bright
morning, the sun lighting the faces of innumerable dew drops
The rumble of an early wagon on the road. Cool, bright, pleasant
a resurrection of life, purpose and plans. How bright the early
flowers shine, how clear comes the faroff tinkle of a cow bell
and the symphony the robin and the meadowlark are singing
out behind the house-its good to be alive in the new day out al
the edge of town.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23

eign goods, to the ruin Of home in
dustries. Instead of q job for every
body, as at present, we would have a
long list of unemployed, if we were
still operating under the Democratic
tariff law. .
Another fact set forth by the Times
is that although Crest Britain in 1922
bought merchandise to the amount
of $787, 600 900 in excess of her sales,
yet her invisible EXPORTS" in the
form of foreign investments ship
ping service, commissions and other
services, amounted to $1,404, 000, 900,
leaving Great Britain a balance of
$617 900, 700 in her favor in her for
eign trade relations. In shipping.
Great Britain is 20 per cent better of
than in 1913, and the United States
is still paying foreign ships large
sums for carrying American goods.
These facts, set forth in the col
umns of a Democratic newspaper
that opposed both the Republican
tariff law and the Republican mer.
chant marine bill, ought to be suffi
cient evidence of the need of both
Republicans could scarcely present
a stronger argument in support o.
Republican policies.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23

jugfull. He still remains the old standby when it comes to the
little aches and pains and illnesses that do not require surgery.
If he is a good family doctor he will recognize the need of surgery
when it is needed.
In the days when there were no tonsis, or at least when
every time they became inflamed they weren't shipped out, your
doctor gave you some powders, done up in a pink paper, or maybe
taken from his case and wrapped on the kitchen table, and had
you gargle with salt and vinegar. Your throat got well and the
quinine and Doveris powders cured your cold. To be true some
time later on these same tonsils may have caused you rheumatism,
but a little rheumatism was to be expected with advancing age.
Then there was another >"old doc" who flourished in those
days-the medicine doctor-he of the medicine show, tall and
stately, with long dove-colored coat and broad-brimmed light hat,
with flowing mustache and trim goatee, who travelled from town
to town and sold Golden Oil" or some such connection, that was
sure death to rheumatism, lame back, sprained muscles and any
thing else that could be reached from the outside. So what was
there to be feared from rheumatism?
This "old doc" always travelled with a colored quartette which
sang plantation melodies and got the crowd in good humor before
the sales began. 1t was a wonderful show, too, and the sold doc'
himself was no SLOUGH when it came to saying witty things. He
was just full of his jokes, and said 'em right off quick without
thinking. Wonderful man. And his Golden Oi"-it was just
about the best liniment ever seen. 1t didn't cost must, only a
dollar a bottle, and was worth it, every cent of it.
There was no fake about this medicine, for the people them
selves could see just how it worked. Old Aunt Ellen Reyes was
in the audience, and had a powerful headache. She was invited
to the platform and "od doc" rubbed some of the magic oil on
her head. In an instant the headache was no more. jim Nc
Gonigal, who worked in the mines, had a lame back, and it was
given a few swipes and-no more ache. With these living exam
pies before the audience it was no wonder that people flocked to
buy and tumbled over one another trying to reach out their dol
lars for fear that the supply would be exhausted.
Then the Negro quartet would sing a selection about:
Methodist, Methodist, is my belief,
Methodist till / die;
Use been baptized in a Methodist church,
An I'll eat all the Methodist pie"
And then you would laugh and applaud, and wonder how il
happened that your folks, who were Baptsts, had told you that
the Methodists ~sprnkled, and the song said baptized. Some mis-
take somewhere, but it was of no consequence, especially when
there were a few more bottles left that might be secured if the
people wanted them.
The old medicine doc" has gone, and it is said the family
doctor is going. Let us hope not, for, after all, there is no one
quite so close to the family, and not actually a member, thar
the old family doctor.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
NOT so POOR AFTER ALL.

Estimates of the total valuation
of property owned by the American
Indians made by the department of
the interior fix the amount at 81, 0OO.-
600, 900.
These figures include forest lands,
mineral and oil rights, lands allotted
and reserved, livestock, and other
property of the Indians under the
guardianship of the government.
Further statistics show that there
is $25,O00,00 in the United States
treasury at the present time repre-
senting funds belonging to various
tribes of Indians, and that individual
Indian funds to the extent of $685.
100000 r deposited in private banks
in western cities. Both of these
funds bear interest ranging from 4 to
6 per cent.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23

Nations should intervene. in the Ruhr.
At the same time, he frankly conced-
ed that Franceswas acting within her
rights under the treaty of Versailles,
and was doing nothing mor than to
execute the provisions of that instru-
ment.
1t was, of course, the treaty Of YER
sailles that brought the League of
Nations into existence. The constitu-
ton or covenant Of that league is an,
integral part of that treaty. There
fore Lord Cecil would have the league
intervene to restrain one of its own
members from acting according TO.
its own constitution.
The more we hear about the League
of Nations from this foremost of It's
spokesman, the less we like the evil
thing with. a holy name."-BOston
Transcript.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
SUGAR SPECULATION.

The defense of the sugar gouging
is that a real shortage of sugar ex-.
lists, the price rising as the inevitable.
working of the law of supply and de-.
mand.
The weakness Of this claim is that
no one actually knows whether there
is a shortage or not. The figures Of
the Cuban producers who have a per-
bonal interest in a booming sugar
market are 100000 tons under the
figures put out by the department Of
commerce.
The spectators insist that the Gu
bans are right and the government
wrong; but they are, of course, no
less likely to be biased than the pro-
ducers.
Just as they seized upon a mis-
Interpretation Of department of COM
merce reports as an excuse for boost
ing prices, they have made use OF
the Cuban estimates to carry the ball
along.
The government charges that in
February and March only one ccn-
tract out of a hundred thousand con-
tracts cleared through the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchange was act
ually contaminated by deliveries. In
other words, whenever a real sale in
sugar was made, $1,000 paper sales
were made.
If all the government has to do in
order to clinch its case is to prove
that speculation is responsible for
increased sugar prices to consumers,
its way seems easy. Such a mass of
fictitious transactions could have no
other effect than to send prices soar
ing.
There is a wide gulf between this
kind of gambling and the legitimate
speculation which is a part of all
commerce. We imagine that there is
very little bluffing in the attorney;
general statement that criminal pro.
ceedings may be brought against TIE
sugar gougers.-Newark, N. J., Star
Eagle.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23

low rates of that law, our imports Of
foreign goods steadily increased, and
as a consequence American work
men were thrown out of employment,
resulting in decreased production
here and decreased exports. We were
buying more abroad and selling less.
That adverse trend of trade continued
during the five months prior to Sep
TENDER. 1914, when we were actually
buying more abroad than we were
selling. The outbreak of the war in
Europe in: July, 1914, made August
the last month Of excess imports.
The war shut off imports and gave us
a new market for exports.
The point to be kept in mind in this
connection is this: The Democratic
contention has been that the Repub-
lican tariff law of 1922 would be a
sort Of Chinese wall shutting out
imports. The fact, as stated by the
Times, is that imports have been IN
creasing despite the higher rates Of
the Republican law, thus demonstraf-
ing that on the whole the rates are
not 100 high and that if there had
not been an increase in the rates we
wozld nov be overwhelmed with for.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
GOOD ARGUMENT
FOR REPRESENTA-

If there are any Americans who
are still in DOUBT as to the present
need of a protective tariff or in doubt
as to the reasonableness of the rates
Of the present law, they should give a
moments thought to some facts set
forth in the commercial columns Of
the New York Times, a Democratic
newspaper and opponent of the Ford
ney-McC umber law. According to
the Times, our export surplus for
February is actually the smallest ex-
port surplus since the five months
previous to September, 1914, in each
of which months imports exceeded ex-
ports 1t totaled $11,000,0 600.
Now, as everybody knows, the viii
son-u Underwood Low Tariff law be-
came effective in Octobsr, 1913, and
was m fall force during tAe five
months Hasntiored. Because Of she
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
WHEN DOCS" WERE DOCS"

A leading medical man, in addressing students the other day
referred to the fact that this is an age of specialists, He is
right. 1t is an age of specialists, when one doctor takes out your
tonsns, another your appendix or gall bladder, and a third your
teeth, but there was a time when the old family doctor had his
inning, and when people got along pretty well at that.
And the old family doctor has not yet passed on, not by 4
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23
NEW RECORD ESTABLISHED
FOR MONEY ORDER BUSINESS

A new record has been broken in
the p~ostoffice department which indi-
Gates the tremendous increase in vol
ume of business throughout the coun-
try. During the ten months, July 1,
1921, to March 81 1922, the depart
ment issued 12O,OOO,OOO money order
blanks. For the ten months period
ending March 81 this year it had is
sued 1S0,OOO,OOO, an increase of Co.
OOO,OOO, the largest money order
business ever done by the department
in ten months time.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-23

THE LEAGUE AND THE RUHR.
One of Lord Robert Cecir's last i'm
partments to the American public was
that OF a desire that the League of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-22
GREENWICH STUDIO
SHOWN IN PICTURE

Greenwich Village, New York,
studio life as it is and as some
writer's are wont to depict it, is a
scene of many interesting sequences
in the Paramount picture, THE
Purple Highway" to be shown at
the Rylander next Wednesday,
The cast includes Madge Kennedy,
Monte Blue, Pedro de Cordoba,
Dore Davidson and William H.
Tooker.
The story tells of a young play
wright and musician, both of them
failures as far as their professions
go, who, spured on to further eff
forts by April Blair, little slave
in the Home for Artistic Failures,
of which they are inmates, come to
live in New York City in the vicin-
ity of Washington Square. Here
Edgar Craig starts work on his new
play, and Joe Renard takes April
in hand-for she has hopes of some
day becoming a great stage star.
April's dream becomes a reality
when their little attic studio is visit
cd by an eminent theatrical mana
ger, whom April recognizes as
Nanny Beanie, too, was at one
time member of the old Home,
but is now successful producer.
Edgar's play is accepted, and Joe is
score, and April is chosen as the
star. The identity of the author of
engaged to arrange the musical
the play is, by order of Craig, care
fully concealed from her.
So it is great revelation when
after a trial run in Bridgeport and
the play having scored heavily III
New York, April learns that Ed
gar Craig Isl really Edgar Prentice,
author of the production, and that
he is anything but a failure. Many
dramatic scenes transpire before
April and Edgar plight their troth.
The comedy is TO be shown with
'The Purple Highway" is pup
Ply Love-" a Sunshine production.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-22
REX INGRAM FILMS =
SOUTH SEAS STORY
Alice Terry and Ramon Navarro
Star in ''Where the Pave
ment Ends"

Rex Ingram's latest production,
Where the Pavement Ends" is a
coming attraction at the Rylander.
1t is tale of the ways of ro-
nance in that last outpost of ro-
mance-the South Seas. In this
thrilling and realistic photoplay is
pictured how love came to the
lonely daughter of a missionary.
Here is all the exotic beauty of the
Southern isles-here is the essence
of strange and heart-fillling ro-
nance translated to the screen by a
master director.
The story was adapted by.Rex In
gram from story in John Russell's
book, where the Pavement Ends"
which has had an enormous sale. Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle called the vol
ume 'the best book of short tales
by any debutante since Kipling's
Plain Tales" Mr.. Russell acted in
an advisory capacity during the
filming of the story in Florida and
declared himself highly pleased
with the realism which Mr.. Ingram
obtained in the settings.
The fact that the picture was
made by the director of ''The Four
Horsemenj' "The Prisoner of
Zenda" and thrilling Women" is
enough to assure fine artistry and
high distinction. And here again
Mr.. Ingram has captured the true
spirit of his story. And it is the
living, intense spirit of a strange
tale of strange place, peopled by
men and women who feel fully all
human emotions.
The exceptional merit of the pro-
duetion is also attested by the par
ticularlE notable cast. Alice Terry
and Ramon Novarro play the lead
ing roles. Miss Terry will be re-
membered for the rare ability which
she displayed in "The Four Horse
men" and "The Conquering Pow
err" Mr.. Novarro, Rex Migrants
latest screen find. won the highest
praise of movie-goers I'M "The Pris-
oner of Zenda" and thrilling We
men" Edward Connolly, and Harry
T. Morey add new laurels to their
distinguished regulations.