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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
GIFT BRUSH BLAMED
FOR ANTHRAX DEATH

NEENAH.-AnthraX, fatal cattle
and sheep disease communicable to
man, claimed its second victim in
Wisconsin in % years, according to
medical men here, when Ferdinand
Pluger, 68, died Saturday at his home.
While the source of the infection
has not been definitely established, a
shaving brush presented to MIR. Plug
er as Christmas gift is suspected.
The brush, said to have been purchas-
ed in a local store, has been sent to
Madison for examination in the state
chemical laboratory.
According to Dr. T. D. Smith, Mr..
Pluger's attending physician, Mr..
Pluger used the brush for the first
time New Years day. Five days
later, which is the incubation period
Of the anthrax disease germs, Pluger
developed a small sore on one cheek.
The infection spread until it affected
one entire side of his face and lower
jaw An early diagnosis of the case
was made and medical men eminent
throughout the middle west were con-
suited. Finally, serum was obtained
from Chicago and injected into Mr..
Pluger's blood in a vain effort to save
his life.
Local medical men are authority
for the statement that in the last %
years only one anthrax death has
been reported in Wisconsin. This
was in Milwaukee six years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
PLATTEVILLE

During the eleven months that the
Farmers Shipping Association has
been in operation, it has enlisted a
membership of about ESQ and in that
time shipped 100000 of stock. The
company holds it's annual meeting to-
morrow.
The remains of Dietrich Haarde,
aunt, Mrs. Frank Gahart has a mild
form of diphtheria. He visited at his
home in Dubuque during the holidays
where he was exposed to the disease.
Mrs. John English fell, while go
ing out in the yard at her home. and
broke her arm just above the wrist,
on Monday.
Harry Mundon has Deen having
hard luck with his arm. He broke it
about six weeks ago and was about
recovered from that, when a load of
wood on which he was riding tipped
over, one day the last Of the week,
and he broke the arm in the same
place.-Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23

Rubber pavement is being tried out
at I1aalne. The goodrich Co. OF Ak
ron, O., is making the test.
Eugene Slawson, 10, of GAINESVILLE,
lost his right arm while hunting in
the woods near his home when his
shotgun went Off accidentally. He
was taken to hospital and the mem
Der amputated.
Mrs. Louise Ccx, .16, Beloit, bride
of a year, took poison on the the an
niyersary Of her wedding. Her life
might have been saved but the am
bulance stuck in the snow and remed-
iaI agencies were delayed an hour.
Charging that several theatre own
ers have resold old tickets and have
failed to keep accurate record OF wal
tax, the federal authorities are bring
ing action in the federal court at SUI
perior. The offending showmen will
be brought in for quizzing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
HIGHLAND CO. FARM BOY
KILLS WOLF WITH CLUB

HIGHLAND CENTER-Charles So
bek, of the town of Redwood, was in
the city Monday and exhibited a large
wolf pelt that was trapped on his
farm one day last week. His young
son had set some traps and on the
rounds discovered mother wolf
caught. he was afraid to go to the
house for his father fearing that the
wolf would get away before they
could return so he armed himself
with a stout club and killed the huge
beast unaided His few minutes work
will net him over $50 as the bounty
on a female wolf is $42.50, $50 of
which is paid by the state and $3.50
by the county In addition to this the
pelt is easily worth $40. Not so bad for
a youngster-Rep Observer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
FUR ANIMALS LOOK OUT;
674,OOO TRAPS OUT FOR YOU

Wisconsin's fur bearing animals
must tread carefully these days tC
continue their existence because there
are $4,000 traps lying in wait for
them in the woods and marshes oil
the state The figure is the first total
for a year ever counted by the state
conservation commission and became
available because of the action of the
legislature in requiring that each
trap be affixed with metal tag to be
bought from the conservation COM
mission There are total of 10000
trappers licensed in the state. A
trapper must pay license fee of one
dollar and then pays five cents for
each trap tag. The trap tag provis-
ion has netted the state about $4,000
in additional fees, making the total
revenue from trappers $73,700. All
Wisconsin trappers have been equip
ped with licenses and tags for the
year, the conservation commission re-
ports, and there is no longer a de-
mand for trapping permits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
TUMBLES FIVE STORIES,
SAYS HE'S NOT HURT

After falling from the
top of the fifth floor of the Piper
hotel, which is under construction at
the north corner of the Capitol So,
William Schauss, %, sat up in bed at
the Methodist hospital and declared
he wasn't hurt. But attendants said
he would be confined to ward for
the day to have several abrasions on
his head dressed Schaus slipped off
scaffolding at the top of the fifth floor,
struck it again on the second floor and
dropped to the ground. He was con-
scious all of the time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23

Ernest Burnett, Rice Lake box fac
tory manager, lost two fingers in a
saw accident Continuing the work
under the handicap he broke an arm
Another wood saw victim is Gerald
wager of Cobb, who had his foot
caught in the circular saw. He was
v"der the doctors care for several
days.
A pure white muskrat was caught
by a trapper, Joe Holley, near Wood
man last week. This is the first one
ever known to exist in this part of
the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23
EX- SENATOR SPENSLEY
FALLS DEAD In OFFICE

MINERAL Calvert Spen-
sley, an ex-senator, who, in spite Of
his II years, has been actively en-
gagged in the practice OF law fell dead
in his office here Thursday noon after
struggling through the snow drifts
from his home to his Office on one o.
the coolest mornings this city has
seen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23

Death was due to heart disease. His
body was discovered by Attorney N.
S. Boardman.
Mr.. Spensley was born in England,
jan 2, 1916, and came with his par
ents to wisconsin in 1S49. He re-
ceived his law degree from Columbia
college in 1859 He was elected to
the state senate in 1892.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-01-23

One freight train is now doing the
work on the Kickapoo, and towns
there have freight service every other
day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
The Girl Who Took 4 Chance
By JEAN SEIVWRIGHT

deceive Yet I didn't mean to do any thing like that. We'll suppise I'm i'll for it.'
 AS Avril prepared her drawing table and selected the various materials she needed her thoughts continually revert ed to the hands she could not draw. She knew it was absolutely out of the question to confide in Joyce, for just at present her thoughts lay in another di- rection. Then she had lived with her long enough to realize that she was de- cidedly cratic. Silence, she decided, was the only policy to adopt regarding her dreadful mistake.
 She started the composition of her drawings, but try as she would she could not arrange the figures so that all hands were concealed. In despair she realized that they would have quite a prominent place. As she raised her eyes for a moment, and Encouragement showed in the pose of her figure, they suddenly espied a magazine. Rising from her chair she picked it up and looked closely at the cover. Noting the signature, she gave a cry of delight. Ivan, Ivan Ouranoff! l wonder where l can find him. Oh, how marvellous! !" she exclaimed as she gazed at the ex- quisitely drawn hands.
 Throwing the magazine aside she has tily snatched up the telephone book and called the magazine office. After the innumerable dealys that so often seem a necessary accompaniment of telephone communication she was eventually switched to the art editor.
 Miss Avril Delaney is speaking-I want to get in touch with MT. Ivan Ouranoff. Will you tell me where his studio is?"
 There was short silence, then Avril said, Thank you very much. Yes, I have it all right-the telephone num- Der, too."
 Hanging up the receiver, she slowly said, Perhaps Ivan will help me-"
 (To be continued)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Little Stories For Bedtime
DANNY AND NANNY LOOK ON A
 STRANGE SCENE
tBy THORNTON BURGEss)
FANNY MEADOW MOUSE was


 FANNY MEADOW MOUSE was quite right about Black Pussy the
 Cat In her hunting in the barn she was quite simpleminded, just as Danny had said. She didn't do much real hunting. She would go to place where she had seen Danny, or Nanny, or Nibbler and then she would squat down within good jumping distance of it and watch it for the longest time, hoping that Danny, Nanny or Nibbler would come that way again. When Danny found this out he showed the others that all that was necessary when Black Pussy was about was to let her see or hear them at some particular place and after that they could go where they pleased so long as they made no noise. It was a simple plan and 1t worked perfectly. Many a time Danny chuckled inside and made q face at Black Pussy's back as he scampered across right behind her while she watch ed the entrance to runway where she had seen or heard or smelled him lit tie while before.
 So Danny and Nanny soon felt quite q. hom ill Farmer Browns barn. Never in their lives had there been so little to worry about. At night there were no dangers at all, for Black Pussy never came to the barn at night. As long as they kept out of the way of Robber the Rat, whose home was down under the floor of the barn. there wasn't a single thing to fear. Very different 1t was from their old life on the Green Mead ows, where regularly every night looty the Owl hunted for them, not to men, tion Old Man Coyote, and Reddy Fox.
 At first it was fine. Every night they ran about where they pleased. They played, they danced, they hunted for dried strawberries in the hay, they sampled the different kinds of grain and all the time they felt and were per fectly safe. After a while, being so safe became tiresome to Danny. He missed the excitement of being hunted For that reason he began to look on Black Pussy with almost friendly feeling when she visited the barn in the daytime. She gave him some excite ment. Nibbler couldn't understand it at all.
 Danny and Nanny had been living in the barn some time and still nothing had happened to their old home ill the pile of cornstalks on the barn floor. Danny began to suspect that they had built new home up in the haymow needlessly. He said as much.
 Wait. Just you wait and you'll see," replied Nibbler. T guess I've lived in this old barn long enough to know what 1 know. One of these days you will be mighty glad you have got this new home. I've seen it happen be- fore and it'll happen again."
 Just what it was that would happen Danny didn't know. But one day he found out. Farmer Brown and Farmer Browns Boy were very busy in the barn that day. They swept the barn floor and they moved out of the way everything that could be moved. Then in the middle they piled a lot of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
BIRMINGHAM GUESTS TO ATTEND WEDDING

Among the Birmingham folk, who will attend the wedding this evening of Miss Cora Moss Etter and~AIr. Robert N. Bell of Birmingham, which will take place in Warrior at the Methodist church will be MT. and Mrs. M. l.. Ward, MT. and Mrs. J. T. Parker, MT. and Mrs. J. W. Grant, Mir. and Mrs. w. A. Jenkins, Mir. and Mrs. Palmer NJ Bell, MT. and Mrs. 0. L. Moss, Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Collins, MT. and Mrs. W. E. Murphy, MT. and Mrs. B. l.. An derson, Mir. and Mrs. Robert W. Whor- ton, Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Russell, Mrs. Mary Russell, Mir. and Mrs. P. c. Kidd, Mrs. J. c. Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. Porter Florence, Mir. Charles Phillips, MT. and Mrs. Ray c. Tanner, Miss Mary Etter Grant, Miss Elizabeth Moss, Miss Louise Davitt, Mrs. Itara Moss, Dr. and Mrs. Edmund N. Wood, MT. and Mrs. John N. Wood, all of Birmingham Mrs. Hugh Pearson Thornton of Morris, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
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A Al.A-.S hsSAsDo
 THE energetic wife who was the
 sort that gets right up when. the
 alarm goes off, talked rlght along just as though sne mad not seen her husbands instant immersion Tn the H. nancial page as he sank Into ms cnalr at the breakfast table.
 "Buzzwell," she cried cheerily, you never saw anything so marvellous as the sunrise effect this morning when got up! I just happened to LOOK toward the east and right through all those woods, across the county line there was
 -"
 q have no doubt!" the desperate hus- band broke in with the grimness or man who sees a great danger confront ing him and knows that the battle goes to him who hits first. Il know al about exactly what was there, and IL you don't look out I'll tell you instead of you telling me! If you are going to develop into one of these sunrise pests. Radio, right after l have entlre- ly broken you of being cold-bath men ace to the peace of our humble nttle home, something is likely to drop"
 "There is something especially ob- nOXIOuS aD0ut the colu-odth SnOAeAe " a person who goose-fleshes at any tenn perature under 70, more especlaly as it has been so thoroughly explained to us how beneficial they are. Human na- ture detests beneficial health measures just as it does good advice.
 "Why, have abandoned the z :50 train all because Alonzo Damper takes it, and he waits till we are all seated and then comes tramping down the aisle looking just as hale and hearty as he can look by means of holding hls breath and just as he gets abreast of the gang he rubs his hands together and cries out, My, how fit cold plunge these brisk mornings makes man feel y And the rest of us hate him like poison and spoil our bridge game! You can't play good bridge unless there is peace and love in your soul.
 Ut was all I could do to bear it when you first tried Bamwitt's exercises set to music, and found out how wonderful they made you feel. You declared that you were new woman and spry as 8 kitten, and if only would get up twenty minutes earlier and do Bamwitt 1 wouldn't go up and down stairs as though l were laboriously mountain. climbing across where the explosion had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

t"r what the diet is, he is 50 firmly convinced that it is the very best for what ails you! Sometimes it is starv- inc 'n death by inches and again it is taking two tablespoonsful of powdered whisk broom in glass of orange juice at four-hour intervals, guaranteed to make you 1.-the, supple, wealthy and fascinating. I don't want to be SUD- pie and fascinating at all. It doesn't sound right at my mature age. want my six slices of buttered toast, bacon and eggs, cream and sugar and my meringue pie-and I'll fight for lem, doggone it, if have to!
 k Fond as 1 am of you, Radio, when you gleefully wave a tape measure my way and cry out that you are three inches smaller around the waist and why don't I have some sense and join
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

cornstalks taken from the great pile in of Danny and Nanny.
 Wait until tonight" whispered Nib bier, mysteriously.
 Early in the evening came Farmer Browns Boy and lighted many lan- terms. And little later Danny and Nanny heard many voices and were frightened. For wonder Nibbler was not as frightened as they. He had seen such things before.
 Come on," said Nibbler. I've will creep out to where we can look down and see all that goes on."
 Danny didn't want to go, but he had looked down on Nibbler for being tim id and his pride wouldn't let him re- fuse to do what Nibbler dared do now. Pride is a queer thing, isn't it? So the three little mice, Danny, Nanny and Nibbler, crept to the edge of the haymow and peeped down. To Danny and Nanny it. was the strangest scene they ever looked on. Down below on the barn floor were great many peo- pie and they were all laughing and talk Danny of meeting of Blacky the Crow
  went so fast Then, after little, Dan- ny noticed that their hands were going quite as fast as their tongues. They were breaking the ears of corn from the stalks and then stripping off the husks. The yellow ears were tossed into big baskets and as the baskets were filled they were taken away and emptied by Farmer Browns Boy. It was husk- ing bee, as that kind of a party is called. It was one of those parties where people work and help their neigh bors and at the same time have the very best of good times. And it ras very, very wonderful and strange and a wee bit fearsome to Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse.
 Next story: Danny Sees the Last of His Old Home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

uOHe Ol lIl6H nave
 the good qualities women of former gen erations had; that, in short, the present, day girl wants only to be "petted, amused, and lavishly entertained, and that there is no health in her. Next we find letter from a girl, also irate, saying that the girl who wants to be quiet and respectable is left to be wall flower-no man wants to take her out and that the gay, irresponsible, flighty girl receives all the attention.
 I have read dozens of such letters and am quite sure that neither opinion Is correct. I can hear some of my young readers saying, What does she know about it?" l know this much-as every one, if they will stop and think, knows also; human nature doesn't change very materially from generation to genera tion. None of us is doing anything par ticularly now. Women wore short hair in the time of the French revolution and rouge and makeup have been used almost since the beginning of civiliza- tion. Girls are at heart neither worse nor better than in years gone by and men still like and admire the same qual- lties in them as heretofore.
 Undoubtedly, customs change, and it is the way of the world that when q thing becomes a custom it is accepted as such by the majority. In other words, certain habits and ideas of the Victorian era would seem to us today unnatural, almost indecently so, while many of our customs would shock our Victorian ancestors even more than they do the present older generation. This does not necessarily make either point of view wrong.
 The fact that girls of today rouge their lips and smoke cigarettes does not make them either good or bad. It seems to me to have nothing to do with the question. l say this because l have known so many cases of extremely mis- leading and contradictory appearances. Whether we are well behaved or not, cheap Gin the real sense of the word) or not, worthwhile or not, cannot all ways be judged by outward signs that many people seem to regard as certain proofs.
 All this reminds me of a story told me by a Scotchman who was born of strict Baptist percentage. On Sunday in Scotland, where he was born, all the shades were pulled down and no one was supposed to look out of the win dow. His grandfather, who was evi- dently ahead of his time, used to take him into the parlor and pull the shade aside and allow him to look out into the street for a few minutes. One day his grandmother caught them at it and, turning in horror to her husband, said If you do not care for the salvation of your own soul, do not condemn the soul of this poor child !"
 cannot believe that the young people of today are in as bad way as some would like us to believe, merely because they behave differently from their an- cestors. Of course, they make mistakes, some of which are different and some pretty muclr the same as have always been made by young people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Listening h Or Foe

.....n ,iuce and the debris not yet cleared up--and, possibly, could shov- ell few teaspoons of coal into the fur mace without having to put mustard plaster on my back and lie down for an hour afterward. You were particu- larly annoying when you found you could lie down, roll over and spring up to your feet standing without touch ing your hands to the floor, and begged me with tears to exercise until could do likewise.
 'I have eluded your efforts to tell me all about diets, too. The diet pest is next to the cold-bath Iunatic. No mat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Random Notes

MT. Groce Harrison will return from the University of Michigan about the twentieth of December to pass the holiday season with relatives.
 Miss Louise Harrison, who is a stu dent at Boucher college, will arrive home December 20 for the holiday va cation.
 Miss Sadie Christian has returned to her home in Greensboro after a short visit to Mrs, c. J. Sharp.
 Miss Annie Julia Burton is resting comfortably following an operation for appendicitis at the Norwood infirmary. Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Meyer have re- turned from a pleasant visit to New Orleans and Havana, Cuba.
 MT. and Mrs. R. M. Stallings have named their infant son, Robert, NJ. Junior.
 Mrs. H. II. K. Jefferson and Mrs. J. R. McWane have returned from Lynch burg, Va, where they were delightfully."- entertained as the guest of Mrs. w. l.. Walsh.
 Mrs. Alex T. London returned yester- day from a visit to New York.
 Mrs. Houston Davis returned the past week from Philadelphia, where she attended a meeting of the board of National Federation of Music Clubs.
 Mrs. E. W. Fucker, jr., has returned from visit to her parents in Montgom- cry.
 Mrs. George Corners has returned from New York City.
 MT. and Mrs Samuel Earle Greene, who are motoring through Florida, are expected home December 20
 Mrs. I. F. Young and Miss Amy Young. who have spent some time in New York City, have returned.
 Mir. Jack Bethea left Saturday eve ming for q stay of several weeks in New York.
 MT. and Mrs. F. l.. Anderson have returned from Washington, b. C., where they visited Captain and Mrs. Gordon II. Steele and later stopped at Louisville, Ky, en route home.
 Miss Lillabell Weaver of Anniston is visiting friends in Birmingham for a few days.
 Mrs. II. P. Martin of Grecnville is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ralph Reese.
 Mrs. Basil Patton has returned to her home in Anniston, after visit to friends.
 
 Mrs. C. B. Herbert of Greenville is the guest of relatives in Birmingham.
 Miss Mary Augusta Gailard of Mo bile is visiting her cousin, Miss Caro- line Garrett, in this city.
 Mrs NJ. l.. Payne has returned to her home in Anniston, after a visit to relatives.
 Mrs. Pearl Brown has returned from Q visit to her daughter. Mrs Nell Scl- lcrs, on Tyler Hill in Anniston.
 Mrs. William A. Davis, Jr.. and Mrs. William Orrison of Anniston are spending a few days in Birmingham. Mrs. John B. Weakley. Mrs. John
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
HUFFMAN NATIONS CLUB MEETS

Mesdames J. F. Rylant and Mrs Homer Bearden were hostess Wednes- day afternoon to the Huffman Matron' s club at the home of Mrs. Bearden.
 The business included the election of officers for the new year. The follow ing were elected; Mrs. Vivian Knigh- ton, president; Mrs. II. c. Dusenberry vice president; Mrs. Homer Bearden, secretary; Mrs. J. w. Loveless, treas urer, and Mrs. Ed V. Tucker, corre- spending secretary.
 Plans were made to have the annual club Christmas tree at the home of Mrs. J. E. Fuqua. December 30, 1924.
 There were interesting contests and refreshments were served to the follow ing: Mesdames J. w. Hornady, J. B. Fuqua, Earl Schwantes, Watkins Rid dle, J. w. Loveless, H. c. Dusenberry, M c. Self, w. T. Riddle, Ernest Ha- good, Ross Eubanks, Forney Ruse, J. J. York, o. B. McRae. Lacy, Ed V, Tucker and the hostesses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

A cat made of brown stockings is an amusing Christmas gift for youngster. Take piece of child's stocking about four inches long, gather one end with needle and strong thread. stuff with cotton, and braid three strips about a foot long of the stocking material. Sew in the other end and gather it tightly. Don't gather the top in round piece, but sew across about an inch in the center. Tie a corner on each side for the ears, sew two beads for eyes, make some long stitches for whiskers, tie a stout cord around the neck and add a narrow ribbon tied in a bow.