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The Washington times., 1923-07-11
PRINCE 81 n DS
LIVE STOCK
To CANADA
Wales Has Big Ranch There
and Enters Purebreds in.
Annual Shows.

CALGARY. Alta, July 11.--Pro-
w. l.. Carlyle, manager of the
prince of Wales ranch, at High
River, has just returned from Eng
land bringing with him shipment
of purebred race horses, cattle
sheep and ponies with which to
stock the princes ranch.
Included in the shipment is VIII
Sonmers, one Of the best known
race horses, from the stables OF
King George, and consistent
Derby winner on the British turf.
This horse, it is believed, may
carry the princes colors on race
tracks Of Canada and the Unite
States and, in addition, will be uset'
in the stud. Shorthorn cattle
Shropshire sheep and Dartmoo1
ponies complete the shipment.
Prince Edward established his
ranch four years ago on his visit to
Western Canada. His purpose i
becoming a Canadian rancher was
to improve the native strains, an!C
his establishment is run on bus.
ness basis. He is good sports
man, as we'll as good farmer, and
has exhibited at all the great live
stock shows of Western Canad1
Only recently he captured first
prize in the Shorthorn class. with
"Princeton Cadet,1 at the fifteenth
annual beef show in Calgary.
The Washington times., 1923-07-11
By FAY KING.

When Maize goes in for any
thing she goes in for it strong.
When she got cracked about
making cushions with patches
sewed on she cut up d cOupla
new dresses to make patches out
of 'em, and during the first wave
beetle wasn't safe if he looked
like a scarab to her.
Now she's all sopped up over
paImistry.
1 thought first il was a scien-
tific term for the tipping system.
but according to all accounts from
her it does for your future what
finger prints do for your past. ]
mean that if you are verSed in
reading the lines of the hand she
says il can give you inside infOr-
nation on the party whose up
turned mitt is like an open book.
HANDS NOT MATES.
She grabbed my sOuthpaw and
looked it over. She says your
left hand is what you are born
with and your right hand is what
you go out ana get.
always thought my hands
were mates till 1 lamped the i'm
side OF 'em and even without q
magnifying glass / can see now
that they amt.
According to Mazie's way Of
figuring out the dope, what /
always thought were callOuses
from hard work are really mounts
and the more mounts you got the
more you amount to. But IL they
are on the wrong part of your
palm you don't amount to much!
According to Maize it's down
in the digits that I'll be married
three times!
WILL WE'D HIM 8 TIMES.
That's tough luck, if you be.
heve it, because you would be on
the lookout for the next guy before
you Land the one you are trying
to get.
i got my eye on one guy now
and II / get him I'll marry him
three times to make il a cinch.
She said 1 got q heart line but
my head line amt so good. It's
a bit dippy, il seems.
Then she started looking for
stars and crosses and islands and
squares.
Seems like I'm in a bad way
there. The stars I've got all
seem to be the kind that come
from bumps, and the islands are
the shipwrecking brand, and the
crosses amt kisses like 1 thought
and the squares are safety sta
tiOns, and I seem to be right out
in the traffic going both ways.
SEES PROTOTYPE.
But she says 1 got a lifeline
that would pull the Leviathan i'm,
SO l guess that outsmarts all the
other stuff and I'll live to rock
myself to ripe old age. That
helps some!
"YOur hands indicate being on
the water a great deal" she
says. But she neglected to men.
ton soap.
The Washington times., 1923-07-11
THE HILL CREST.
Chsbeasue Island, Maine.

In beautiful Casco Bay modern house: table
and service the best; hot and cold running
water; rooms singly or suite. with baths
electric lights throughout; large commodious
music and dancing room adjoining house; ten
mis- courts; golf course: sailing, boating, bath.
ing, fishing, and unexcelled Washington refer
ences. Booklet. Pure artesian water. C. w:
HAMILTON
The Washington times., 1923-07-11
SHOOTS HOLESIN STACK
KEEP FIRES BURNING

Recently, when the smokestack
of the Kentucky Utilities Company
power house crumpled in the
middle, hanging like an inverted V
and stopping the draft in the steam
boilers, Manager George Fawkes
knew that he had to do something
quick to keep the plant running.
He ran home. got his gun and a
dozen rounds of buckshot and shot
the upright part of the stack full
of holes, so that it would draw
sufficiently to keep the fires burn
ing. This prompt action prevented
the town of Richmond from being
without electric light and power.
The Washington times., 1923-07-11

According to palmistly, it's
great life even if you don't live
it!
After she finished with my mitt
looked through the book sIfe is
getting all this dope outta, and it's
full Of pictures Of hands and right
off found one that looked to
me just like mine. Maize had
paper over the reading matter, so
she could figure 'em out for her.
self. l wanted TO know right off
who this bird was that had hand
Just like mine. 1t was an awful
blow to me. He's an outlaw!
The Washington times., 1923-07-11
COUNTESS SEIZED WITH
80 CASES OF LIQUOR

DENVER, July 11.--Mrs. w. A.
Wood. also known as Countess
Stoeffel, was arrested by Denver
police who, 1t is alleged, found
thirty eases Of liquor in her resi-
dence.
The police received a tip and after
following Mrs. Wood on a shopping
tour and back, to the house entered
and searched the property. She
she is being held for arrangement
of bond,
The Washington times., 1923-07-11
BOYS MIND UNBALANCED
BY SIGHT OF SNAKES

CHICAGO, July 11.--Arthur Ora
ham, seventeen, was sent to the
psychopathic hospital for observa-
ton on order of Judge Joseph
Burke in the Boys Court when
parents of the boy testified that his
mind had become affected probably
due to the constant sight Of snakes
he saw in a circus for which he
worked a wear
The Washington times., 1923-07-11
81 REPORTED KILLED IN
RUMANIAN TRAIN WRECK

LONDON, July 11.-Sixty-four
persons were killed in train
wreck near Klausenburg, Rumania,
according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch today from Carls-
bad.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05

ticles of use, fine textiles, ETC., were
still unknown. Compared with today
our fathers and mothers of 1873 were
not many jumps ahead of their post
revolutionary parents.
Today we have electricity in our
homes for lighting and power. We
have city water and sewer systems.
Furnaces heat the homes. The tele-
phone is a household necessity. Hard
roads prevail everywhere, but IN
| Grant county and travel is made
swiftly by motor car Mail us carried
overland by airplane and a letter is
sent from New York to San Francisco
| in 48 hours. Invention has improved
human utilities wonderfully. Crude
as we are in many ways we are far
ahead, mechanically speaking, OF
| 1878.
In 1878 our grandchildren will
| laugh at us. They will heat their
homes by turning a switch. Elec-
tmcity derived from the flow of
streams, tides and solar energy will
be cheap and abundant. 1t will revo-
! lutionize economic life. More peo-
pie will be living in the country and
fewer in the cities. Manufacture will
be built around idealized factory
groups in small towns. The forests
we have denuded and cut away will
be on the way to replacement. The
landscape will be studied and beauti-
fed instead of scarified as at pres
ent. Transportation will be by swift
airplane and air motor buss just as
we use the auto now. The motion pic
ture will produce with absolute fidel-
ity including all sounds, the work of
the actors The star with the fine
voice and the wonderful locution will
find his own again. The dumb-bell
good locker holding forth now will
work for $50 a week and be good
In 1878 the smoke nuisance will be
abolished Air will be pure, water
will be pure, food will be pure. Steps
will have been made toward the
abolition of disease and poverty. Edu-
cation will be regarded higher than
we regard it. Birth control will be
advocated and practiced. Race sui
eide as practiced now will be social
crime
In 1878 people VIII be fifty years
ahead of us. The strides made since
1873 will be duplicated in the last
half of the 100-year period. Mechan-
les will take care of itself. Invention
is safely left with the gifted of each
generation who evolve new things
constantly. The problem of the next
fifty years is social and moral. This
will concern all persons who are on
the highway of life now or will mount
it during the next fifty years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
We Lose Freedom When
We Surrender Government.


A writer analyses the growth OF
federal power and says the gradual
suDservience of state powers to fed
araI powers has been brought about
ov the laxness of the states in pro-
yiding proper and uniform laws and
enforcing them. 1t has grown to be
a truism that a criminal has little
tear of violating q state law He still
has some respect for the federal law
and fear of the long arm OF Uncle
Sam.
The fact seems to be that the peo-
pie. disguised with commonwealth eff
forts at government, have turned to
Washington for legislation along
moder.. lines. All this adds to the
power of the federal arm, the number
of federal employees and the cost OF
national government Admittedly an
evil from a democratic and self-goV-
erning standpoint, it seems to be the
only remedy.
The rule applies in local affalrs
also. in the beginning the local unit
was largely self-governing. The state
had powers along certain lines Dut
they were extended only where tne
well-being of the people as a whole
was concerned Gradually state pow
err has extended itself into the little
local unit until today virtually all 10
cal authority is vested in the state
capitol True we have local govern
ing bodies but they are largely orna-
mental. The real authority along the
lines of taxation, health, police pow
ers, ETC., in fact nearly all govern
ment functions except, perhaps, dog
catching, emanates from Madison.
This costs money also. The state is
flooded with inspectors Of every de-
scriptiOn.
We, the people, are to blame. 10
blame because we fail to exercise the
vigiIant functions of citizenship. 10
blame because the best of us refuse
public office or trying it once refuse
to serve again. To blame because we
often elect incapable men to repre-
sent us in the legislature. Men We
would not for one minute, trust to
handle our private affairs.
There will be no winning back to-
ward self government, inexpensive
and efficient. The municipalities,
commonwealth and the national gov
eminent itself are given over to pater-
nalism.
The individual, more and more, be-
comes a spineless mOlecule taking or
ders from above without say so or
initiative and incapable of anything
but occasionI feeble bowls over his
unhappy plight.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
COUNTY MOTHER AND
BABY HEALTH CENTER

The Grant County Mother and Baby
Health Center will be held Friday,
December 18th, from 10 a. m. to 5 ..
M, at the rest room in Fennimore.
At the afternoon mothers meeting,
which is held at 2:30, Miss Crandali
will talk on Mental Hygiene of Prag-
nancy, and Mrs. Fletcher will speak
on Quarantine, with Special Refer
ence to Scarlet Fever. DR.. Allen will
conduct a question box on the expect
ant mother, infants, and children I'M
der six. Those who prefer may bring
their written questions with them.
More and more mothers and chill
dren are availing themselves of the
privilege of the Health Center each
month, and it is most gratifying to
note the number of corrections made
in those cases where defects have
been detected Even though you
think your child is perfectly we'll,
bring him in to be weighed, measur-
ed, and examined, and thus be sure
you are giving him every opportunity
for health can ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05

This Is Thanksgiving time and ac-
cordfng to ancient custom we should
render thanks to the Creator Of all
fhIugs. Being thankful about living
in reace and plenty while other less
favored people are starving always
struck the writer as being something
7iEc the self adulation Of the Pharisee
ano received such d bitter scoring
from Jesus We could never see this
bypocmtical stroking Of the Deity's
ham and telling him how much bet
Ter he loved us than he did the people
ST some other country or race
Bun we can be thankful. The trend
of human events and our geographi-
cal condition have caused America to
remain stable and tranquil while the
rest of the world is on fire, And be-
ing thankful that we are not hunger
ed or oppressed we can help those
who are both and so truly honor Him
in whose honor this day is set aside.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
Economic Trend.
FROM City to Town.

The remodeling of Bowen's flour
mill at Richland Center indicates q
hopeful trend away from bly, city con-
gestion and the placing back of basic
industries in the country, where they
belong.
The mill is being enlarged and re-
equipped. Mr.. Bowen hopes to ship
in the choicest winter wheat and con-
vert it into flour products that will
command top prices everywhere.
Years ago local industries dotted
the countryside. There were flour
mills, wooden mills, wagon and car
riage shops, marble works, machine
shops and so on scattered all over
southwestern Wisconsin. The result
was cheaper products and the devel-
opment of local wealth through hav-
ing such valuable home industries. A
farmer hauled his wheat to amy OF
the mills along Grant or Platte and
had it ground into flour. He bought
his cloth from the Lancaster wooden
mills. Bought his wagons and other
vehicles from local men and his
money remained in the community
and gave local men employment.
Gradually came the change. Flour
mills. The same thing happened to
the textile industry. A wagon shop
remained, but it employed two or
three when where formerly dozen
or more worked Various local in
dustries lost out and production be
came confined to few big centers.
The city became top-heavy and the
country manufacturing town OWN
died
Now comes another cycle. Freight
rates are ruin0usly high. Big CITY
production is hampered by labor
unions. Costs are too heavy. Econ
omists agree that it is better from a
practical standpoint and also from
social standpoint to move manufac-
turing back to the local unit.
In Bowen's mill we see the trend
back to The country. The Herald
wishes Mr.. Bowen success.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
Governor walton Loses;
ku kluX March Onward.

Gov Walton, dethroned, says he
does not fear eight charges in an in
dictment returned against him pro
yiding he is tried by fair and open
minded" jury. The chances are that
the Walton case viii be dropped now
that the end desired, his retirement, is
accomplished
Little sympathy is felt for Walton
among those conyersant with the Ok
l8homa situation Regardless of his
provocation (and he had provocationl
he acted in an ind9med and autocra-
tic manner in proceeding against MS
enemies lie made one wonder which
was worse after al-the ku KluX CT
Walton
William II. Anderson. head Of the
New York anti-sal00n league, says
the llu l[luX viii carry that state at
the next election He gives his rea-
sons. They are noted in news dis
patch elsewhere.
The ballot box, if administered fair
Nv. settles it. Ii the people OF this
country indicate by their vote they
favor control by the Ku KluX or any
other group there is little TO be said
opposing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
Many Rural Routes a
GsOOd Thing for a Town.

If the business men of this city
wish to agitate for something OF I'M
measurable benefit to themselves ana
the CITY in general they should back
7lD the local pOstoffice in an effort TO
create the number Of rural patrons
out of the office.
The larger the rural territory SER
ed by the country market town the
more important the town is.
Ten years ago Lancaster had nine
rural routes out of the city. Today 1t
has eight. The ninth was stuO
route working south from the Hurrl-
cane When this route was aban-
doned the remaining routes were con-
densed and the patrons distributed.
The local postoffice lost quite num-
Der of patrons through the re-
arrangement. These patrons went to
other pOstoffices.
From a business standpoint the ad-
vantage of rural patrons can be read
lily be seen. Delivery on articles sold
can be made the same day. Rural
patrons are very likely to call their
DOstoffice town their market town.
They go there to sell and to buy.
The psychology is this: People
getting rural mail from Lancaster
drift toward Lancaster to transact
business or to locate. Patrons OF
Bloomington do likewise. Fennimore
likewise. Platteville likewise. And
so on. With good reason the rural
patron places his loyalty toward the
city or village bearing his postofticc
address.
We consider this a practical objec-
tive for local commercial body 1t
would bring results if worked out.
Increase the rural patrons and make
this better town.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
EARLY OIL DRILLING
DAYS IN THIS COUNTY

A report that an Animation man
plans to drill for oil in his neighbor-
hood brings forth the following in
teresting Renaissance from the zen
| of NJ P. Rindlaub, dean of the Grant
county newspaper fraternity, assocl-
ate editor on the Herald in the sixties
and for years editor of the Platteville
| Witness. Mr.. Rindlaub says
in the year 1854 rumOr was cir
culated in the northern part of Grant
county, particularly in the vicinity OF
Animation, that crude petroleum was
being found floating on the water OF
small streams, tributary to the Big
! Platte river. man named Van Or
man secured prospecting leases on all
| the land in the vicinity of Animation
and then succeeding in organizing
company j. c. Cover, editor of the
Lancaster Herald, and Pen Coates, Oh
Boscobel, were leading spirits in or
ganizing the company. A meeting o.
the stockholders was held in the
vicinity of where the floating oil was
| found, and some OF the party gather
ed samples to take home with them.
The stock was rapidly taken and two
thousand dollars were paid into the
treasury This amount was paid to
Van Orman for the leases he had pro-
cured, and this was all that was done
in the matter, and the project died a
natural death, Van Orman being the
only person that profited by the eX-
element
"It was afterward claimed that d
barrel Of crude petroleum was receiv-
ed at the Muscoda station and carried
to the vicinity Of Animation, and plant
ed in the boys near the streams
where the crude petroleum was found
floating on the water, it having oozed
out in sufficient quantities to cause
the excitement.
about the same time that the An
nation oil excitement was at its height
there was rlso something of the same
kind being enacted in Crawford coun-
ty, in the vicinity of what is now
known as Seneca. A man, whose
name we have forgotten, appeared IN
that vicinity and succeeded in organ
ling a company and began drilling
for oil. A derrick was erected and
drilling begun. Shortly afterward eX-
travagant reports of oil prospects
were sent out and the stock sold
rapidly. One day it was reported
that there was an explosion and the
drill blown from the well. The wreck
was repaired and the work went on.
But the stockholders began to get
dissatisfied and the work was stoppe1.
The only one that profitted by the
project was the man who organized
the company, and he soon disappear
ed for parts unknown"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
Too Many Foolish
Organizations.

Next to the ultimate in fo0lishness
as exemplifed in the medieval balder-
dash OF the Ku KluX Khan is an or
ganization opposing it. Worse and
| Worse! The country is oyer-organ-
lied now. There are too many dupli-
Gated cogwheels all involved in saw
ing the country from utter damnation
and spending funds. There are 100
many useless "organizers" stumbling
over each other in an effort to grab
the initiation fees. If the Khan is a
good thing, the new organization is d
misconception; if the Khan is as bad
as painted, it will die out without the
public lining" anything to fight it.
! Pretty soon the people are going to
commence saying mol" to a lot Of
panhandlers and cease contributing.
| We propose an organization on COM
nonsense without pay to the organ
izers and no admission or member
ship dues 1t will be popular.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
Looking Back
1923 and 1878.

In 1923 we look back fifty years
with amused interest at the homely
living of the times In 1873 people
had no baths or toilets in their
houses. Heating was done by means
Of stoves or firepIaces. People de-
pended on wells and cisterns for
drinking water. Electricity was IN
known and houses were lit by candles
or kerosene which was just coming
into general use. There were no tele-
phones and communication was by
letter or word of mouth.
There were no rural mail deliver
les and farmers made a weekly or
semi-monthly journey to town after
mail 1t was an event Steam travel
was in use, but not extensively. The
stage coach still prevailed in many
places. There were no hard roads
and travel was by team. horseback or
afoot thousand and one luxuries
in the way Of food, machinery, ar
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-12-05
The Greatest
Force

The greatest force in the world is the will to
When it is born of enthusiasm it is dynamic in
its intensity.
When ernanates from of duty it endures.
1t is the will to serve that puts imagination into
business
tits the will to serve persisted in over long period
of years. that has made the Standard Oil Company
Indiana one Of Americas outstanding successes.
It is this will to that has encouraged
this Company to foster industrial husbandry
alone in it's own business but elsewhere.
If the management of the Standard Oil Company
Indiana) had been take from crude
petroleum. gasoline, kerosene and lubricating oils
only, this Company would nave been large
manufacturing concern, but it never could have
achieved its present position as an institution in
the industrial world
Without disturbing those three essential major
products this Company set about utilizing waste.
It retrieved products Of great benefit to the nled-
cal profession products that tighten the burden
of the housewife - products that make night
travel safe-products that make good roads-and
products that mankind in score of ways.
All these products were developed by the will
to serve.
The personnel Of the Standard Oil Company
Indiana) is obsessed with the will to serve ana
led by with imagination imagination
reduced 20 terms Of practical business
It is the will serve that inspired e2e Manufac-
turing Department OF the Standard Oh Company
(Indiana) TO develop methods for increasing the
yield OF gasoline from a given quantity of crude
petroleum.
L is the will to serve that caused the Standard
Oil Company (Tndiana) to lease to competitive
concerns the right TO use such important manu-
featuring processes.
It is the will TO serve that caused the Standard
Oil Company (Indiana) to create ard maintain
facilities comprehensive as to serve FIVE
gallon customer as carefully, IS accurately, and
as promptly as il serves thousand gallon buyer
1t is the will to serve expressed in terms OF action
that has earned Tor the Standard Oil Company
Qndiana) the confidence respect and esteem Of
the thirty million people of the gG;d4Ie West.
Standard Oil Company
(IHd5G1a)
o1O S. Michigan Ave, Chicago