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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
LANCASTER MAN
HOLDS BELT FOR
OLDEST AUTO

BENZ. Petty of this city has the old
est car in Lancaster if not Grant coun-
ty or Wisconsin. lacked up in his barn
is an E. M. F., 1911 model, in good
condition. The tires only are worn.
Mr.. Petty bought the car new Is years
ago but never ran it much. Of recent
years he has not run it at all. The car
is of the old style lines with high top,
no front doors, etc. 1t is generally
conceded that makers of that day put
excellent material into their machines.
The E. NJ. F. was 4-cylinder vehicle,
preceding the Studebaker.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
PETTICOAT NEW
USE FOR MOON
SHINE HIDE-OUT

Officers at McGregor arrested a wo-
man operator of soft drink parlor
on suspicion that she sold intoxi-
cants and found she had a clever way
of transporting the booze. She carried
large syringe full of moon under
her dress. The tube was kept shut
off with an ordinary snap. When a
customer arrived the tube was produc-
ed, the snap released and a glass or
other container loaded. The customer
drank his shot, the snap went on, the
tube was fastened back and all was
serene and ladylike. The woman,
name not given, has been held for
trial.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
HELD FOR SUGAR THEFT

Chas. and Joe Wiederholt and Tony
Mitchell are in Jail at Galena charged
with stealing $500 pounds of sugar
from the Burlington road in the East
Dubuque yards. The loot was found
under water on a sandbar near Du-
buque. 1t is presumed that the sugar
was to be used in distilling liquor
Mrs. Sadie Mccarthy of Benton died
in Mercy hospital at Dubuque. Mrs.
Mccarthy, wife of Ambrose Mccarthy,
was 80 years old. She leaves a hus-
band and three small children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
CROP OUTLOOK
REMAINS BRIGHT
EXPERTS STATE

The report of the State Co-opera-
tive Crop Reporting Service indicates
bumper crop for Wisconsin this
year, if corn can but make good. That
the hay crop will be about 25 per cent
larger than last year and IL per cent
above the general average of hay
crops in Wisconsin is now indicated.
Alfalfa has made an average over the
state of 10 tons per acre on the first
cutting. Rye is above average and
barley and oats are reported 80 per
cent perfect, which is per cent above
the five year average. Corn is the
poorest since 1916, but in that year
we had late fall and mature crop.
The condition of the crop this year is
reported y per cent of normal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
DRUNK DRIVER FINED

Peter FOsberg Of Arthur was lined
$25 and costs by Justice Burrows on
Thursday upon his plea of guilty to
the charge of driving a car while in
toxicated. The complaint was made by
one VIM. R. Bulliam Mr.. Fosberg's
car collided with Mr.. Bulliam's doing
damage amounting to $25. He is liable
for a civil suit besides unless he set
ties promptly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
TEACHERS INSTITUTE

A teachers institute will be held at
the Lancaster high school Aug. Ills,
under auspices of County Supt. F. E.
Ralph. Frofs. J. G. Brockert and I. N
Warner of Platteville Normal will be
in charge of the sessions. All teachers
are invited to attend. Those desiring
room and board while in Lancaster
should notify the county superinten-
dents office at once 23c3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
Deaths Of Week
CHAS. DOLPHIN DEAD

Chas. Dolphin of Wyalusing died
Sunday afternoon at Pra. du Chen
hospital where he had been taken for
treatment. He was about 55 years of
age. Funeral services will be held
here. Mr.. Dolphin is survived by his
wife and five children, four daughters
and a son. His aged mother resides in
Lancaster. Mesdames Harry Orion,
Lou Starr and Will Henkel are sis
ters of deceased
Funeral services will be held at the
home this morning. The body will be
brought to Lancaster for burial at
Hillside, a short service being held at
the grave.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
IRA YELLING MEN
RUN DOWN FOX
AT MUSCALLUNGE

Ray Groenier and Virgil Scott, mo-
toring in Muscallunge on business
Friday night, had the experience of
running over and killing fox The
animal ran into the road and was APP
parently dazed by the lights as it was
unable to get out of the way. The boys
brought the fox home as trophy. 1t
was a beautiful gray color, standing
about 10 inches high. An effort will
be made to mount it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
BENTON 100 YEARS OLD

Benton celebrates the one hundredth
fits founding on July
81. A historical pageant parade with
decorated cars, ragamuffin parade,
ball game, water fight, balloon
and parachute drop, bowery
dance and speeches will make an in
teresting program.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
STEALS PLOW: HELD FOR TRIAL

john HavIlk, residing near Muscoda,
was arrested Wednesday for the theft
of Parlen G. Olendorff steel beam
pillow valued at 500 The pillow was the
property of the highway department.
Case was set for hearing on July 80
and defendant released under bonds
of $500.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
APPLIES FOR CITIZENSHIP

Izohok Lilowsky, BoscobeI junk
dealer, has made application for cit
izenship, H. E. G. Kemp and Jesse
Campbell being his witnesses. Mr..
Lilowsky entered the U. S. A. from
Russia on June %, 1910. He came via
Galveston.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
FARMER WATERS MILK

John Adametz, Montfort farmer, was
fined $25 and costs for watering milk
sold to cheese factory on May 20.
He appeared before Justice Burrows
last Tuesday and settled. 1t is said
that too much water was reaching the
cheese factory and the cheese maker
found it impossible to make cheese of
proper content.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
SEES WHITE BLACKBIRD

Albert Hunsaker reports seeing a
white blackbird in his field early on
Monday morning. The freak was feed
ing with a dozen of his kin, all as
black as night. Before Al could call
his wife and verify the sight the birds
flew to a tree and disappeared. White
blackbirds are by no means uncom-
mon. They are due to lack of pig
mentation which causes albino types
in many animals.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
MINERAL PIT. BOY ELECTROCUTED

EDWARD CHING, son Of Mrs. Ching
of Mineral Point, while working for
the Commonwealth Edison Company
of Chicago came in contact with a
1900 volt wire causing his death The
remains were brought to Mineral PIT
for burial
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
ELLENBORO-SO.
TOWN FARMERS
TO BUILD ROAD

Farmers residing east of the Lam
caster Potosi road in the Morehouse
neighborhood are raising funds to
one and one-eighth miles
of road. They have things figured
down to cost, and with nine foot sur
face etc, the work will be done for
around a thousand dollars. A sub
scription paper was passed among the
Lancaster merchants Saturday, meet
ing with liberal response.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
THESE MAY WE'D

Henry E. Averkamp, jamestown;
Agatha Kelly, Keller.
Orville Peer, Marion; Hazel Adella
Latham, Watterstown.
Orion Keyes, Frances Burg, Platte
VILE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
HEAVY TOU2IT TRAFFIC

Auto tourists we're so numerous at
Baraboo on the third and Fourth of
July that it was necessary to station
an officer at the outskirts of the town
to inform the people that the town
could not accommodate any more tour
lists over the holiday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
Canadian "Dry" Province
RntnrnS TO Wet Column.

Bv a decisive majority the eIector-
sta of Saskatchewan has voted for
government control of liquor. This
Follows a period of prohibition. The
vote comes from the average citizen
and not the professional wet who
seeks to make money out of the traf-
At nresent Ontario and the mari
time province along the Atlantic
coast are dry. The balance of Canada
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

Mrs Catherine Esch of Mineral PIT.
died Wednesday Of last week.
DR.. E. R. Logan of Galena has been
notified of his appointment to the post
of specialists in the Henry Ford hos
.pital at Detroit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
A Tip for the
Fair Association.

The American Legion with us
Fourth of July celebration packed the
fair grounds and took in $4,000 in one
dav. the largest sum ever taken in one
day in Lancaster.
Methods used by the celebration
nromoters might be used to adYan-
tage by the fair. The main thing IS
10 CAPTURE the public eye with some
thing big-and put it over.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
Lonis Rrandeis.

Louis Brandeis, Jew, is one OF the
two progressive members of the Unit
ed States Supreme court. He is
warm friend of Senator La Toilette.
He has been spoken of as a running
mate with La Toilette.
MIR. Brandeis is one of the country's
big men. We mention his race because
it is significant that America can draw
on all of her children for brains AND
because il is a paradox that one Of
onr big-visioned men should come
from a race with a reputation for be-
ing practical and commercial. II Is
also a paradox that the founder OF
Cbristianity was allied with this much
condemned and much discussed race.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
SOL. LEyITAN TO SPEAK HERE

Sol. Levitan, state treasurer, and
Sen. Huber of Stoughton, candidate
for lieut.. governor, will speak from
the courthouse bandstand this We'd
nesday afternoon at 1880.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bailie of South
Lancaster are the parents of daugh-
ter. born Tuesday, July Is.
Ned Winskill and family of Man
chester, Iowa, visited Lancaster rela-
tives and friends over Sunday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

Miss Della Gibson and Bert John
son, both of Rewey, were married at
Galena Wednesday. They will reside
at Rewey.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
LAST WEEKS WEATHER


July 20-High "a; low IS. Rain 0.98.
Forecast-Unsettled Fair end of
week.
Miscellany-Heavy rains prevail at
many points. Around an inch and a
half of water fell at Huron and Rap
id City S. D., Saturday. The gen.
eral precipitation is much above the
seasonal average.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

Tuesday lightning struck the vacant
house on the Sidney Sedgwick farm
near Leadmine and burned it to the
ground.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

Miss Lois Williams of Dodgeville
and NJ F. Miller were married in Mil
waukee Wednesday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23
FREE TICKET TO CHAUTAUOUA

One free admission to each family
living outside the city of Lancaster
for Friday evening, August l, to hear
the address on Farm Economics" by
Hon. L. j. Dickinson.
Application for free ticket must be
made to R. D. Walker, chairman ticket
committee, before Aug. 1.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-23

Frank Gundlach of Livingston while
working in the barn fell from the loft
and broke his arm.
Evening star., 1924-07-20
CATCHES CHINESE PIRATE
Wallace l Jatane Schooy Describes 7s
York Couldn't thatCa yandL Learns Something

To Editor The Star. who must not go
to Canton, ILL.,, G. umagine he are in
China.
Evening star., 1924-07-20

gainvillas, the color Of blood, and
with them strange variety of
foreign blossoms that would delight
any botanist.
1t was in a motor car in company
with Z. j. Halserha, the government
engineer who is mayor of Baguio,
that / drove for several hours
through the city. It seemed strange
that one could spend so much time
in covering a town of only six thou
sand people, but Baguio is spread
out over the hills and valleys.
The business part of the town and
some Of the chief buildings lie in
the beautiful amphitheater Of which
the walls are the mountains. In the
center of the arena is a lake upon
which people are padding canoes
High above the lake is the city hall,
a long. low, two-story building of
green with white ribs crossing each
other this way and that, and with
flower gardens dropping in terraces
to the road that runs near the lake.
On the opposite side of the lake on
hills cutting the sky are the fine
buildings Of the government center.
Evening star., 1924-07-20

the tropics one Of the finest health
resorts in the midst Of surroundings
that are as beautiful as any God has
ever created.
pUT before ] describe Baguio let
l me tell you how I came up the
mountains 1 am not a high Official
and 1 have no government vessel.
Moreover, cables are too costly for
me to telegraph the Secretary Of War
as to my health and that of my
ponies. The only way I could get
here was by an automobile across
country from Manila, or by taking
the railway to Damortis and wiring
for a motor car to come down from
Baguio to meet me. At Manila l
learned that the charge for the auto
mobile would be $50 for this trip OF
eight hours through tho valley and
up the mountains to Baxuio. The rail-
way and car from Damortis, cost less
than one-third of that sum and took
only about an hour longer. ! chose
Evening star., 1924-07-20

quer with back porches a. It high e
| bay windows inside of which you can
see Chinese noblemen in apple-green
nightshirts drinking tea out of yellow
cups while talking about Confucius &;
other news events. Imagine fatty
shaped ferryboats F'Iower Boats)
painted all over with dragons, for
| get-me-nots, fishes, peonies & other
vegetables while on the baby-blue
verandah with a gold fringe stands
! 80 sing-song girls, also painted ar
! tisticaIly.
From this slight photo you can OBJ
tain some resemblance to Canton
when we sail up to this Please add
noise. New York could move to Can
ton & learn something about noise
every minute. When one Canton man
| meets another Canton man on the
streets he sound exackly like the
Irish Repulick talking to a deaf Rus
sian on the West side of Il boiler
| factory.
! He stand away at distance of ono
yrds, unjoint his face & hoIla in voice
| of singing cats: "Hoola -poy-sunc-
yowryow-ch -cheefoo- tangyee- 500. ="
| (Worse, thank you.)
Please add to this 40 gongs play
ing music in ii funeral procession,
| howell of street merchants selling
suspender buttons. axplosion OF lrc-
crackers in the Temple of Eighty
| Eight Devils & a strike among RICK
sha Coolies for 20 extra pr month
! for overtime-and YOU get a ear fun
| of Canton like I heard it everywherc
From these symptoms you can see
Continued on Sixth Page.)
Evening star., 1924-07-20

make less stampede about it"
II suspect you of friendship with
this briggin." 1 VOW. '"What dis
he are loose?"
Your ticket" slouch Hon. Purser
dreamily. He are the Conductor"
This lesson teach US that persons
should not go to China without
knowing all about 1t. I have been
there five (5) days now and know
everything. Yestdy | met a mission
yrs G. have scarcely commenced to
unstand those Chinese. This go to
show that people should not stay in
China too long. 1t make them ignor-
ant.
Mr.. Editor, when Hongkong per-
sons talks about Canton, it remind
me of Los Angeles referring to San
Frisco Considerable English gentle
men in Hongkong tell me not go to
Canton because I would catch many
bad smells & a little smallpox. Yet
come away without very much of
either.
When l come into Canton harbor !
got both my eyes so fun of mixed-up
beauty that 7 think l shall never get
| it out. Umag gine a floting population
of $50, 600 persons living in boats
with hay on the roof while they sleep
there, catch fish. commit robbery.
manufacture shoes, sell groceries.
shoot frecrackers, spank baby Off he
are a boy) drown baby Gf he are a
girD & exercise all the fun1ions nee
| essary to happy home.
| Imagine enlarged junks of red lac
Evening star., 1924-07-20

But very soonIy after that, while
standing in far eastern corner of
that deck, what come along but one
face To look at him 1 could know
that he were filled with knives. He
scrouch his expression badly while
walking beside me. And when he
commence talk savagely / could dish
cover piracy oozing from its every
joint which he say following sinful
dialogue right into my open ear:
BONG,,
cheefo go goya
hoola wazamalia
weeja foo
"Soy wow. ~
so ha." I dictate hottily. Il
have already been in China 40 min
utes and have caught a pirate left
handed Monstrosity of devil!" I
snarrel, "come at onceIy to Purser
Onice promenade deck afD and
shall report you for piracy without
a license"
T SNATCH him by pad on his sleeve,
and to my tense emotion Hon.
Pirate come along very rapidly,
while saying several dirt remarks
in that sing-song profanity. Pretty
soonly we come to Purser Office,
where we find that gentleman keep
ing books, as usual.
What next?' report Hon. Purser,
looking up from his arithmatick.
II have got a large pirate for YOU"
I bereave hastily.
Anybody can get him." he say.
Kindly to give him what he ask &
Evening star., 1924-07-20

By the time this anecdote has rip
ened for winter use, the fish Will have
been drawn actually into the boat
thus settling all question of seeing
iD and will there have knocked Ed
ward SenSeless. and then leaped over
the gunwale
story OF the Extraordinary Bait.
THIS is more advanced form of
fishing story. 1t is told by
a fisherman for fishermen. 1t is the
sort of thing that they relate to one
another when fishing out of a motor
boat on lake, when there has been
a slight pause in their activity and
say for two hours-have stopped bit
ing. $50 the fishermen talk and dis
cuss the ways and means of their
craft. Somebody says that grass
hoppers make good bait. and some
body else asks whether any of them
ever tried Lake Erie soft shell crabs,
and then one, whoever is lucky
enough to get in first, tells the good
old bait story.
The queerest bait l ever saw used"
he says, shifting his pipe to the other
side of his mouth, was one day when
was fishing up in one of the lakes
back in Maine. We'd got to the spot
and got all ready when We suddenly
discovered that we'd forgotten the
bait-
AT this point any one of the listen
ers is entitled by custom TO put in
about not forgetting the whisky
We'll. there was no use going
ashore. We couldn't have got any
worms and it was too early for
frogs. and il was ten miles TO row
back home. We tried chunks Of
meat from our lunch, but not doing.
We'll, then. just for fun | cut a
white bone button off my pants and
put it on the hook. Say! you ought
to have seen those fish go for IT.. We
caught. oh, easily twenty. yes, thirty
iii about half an hour. We only
quit after we'd cut off all our buttons
and our pants were falling off us.
Say! hold on, boys, l believe I've got
A nibble, sit steadyr
Evening star., 1924-07-20

China.
EAREST SIR: Last Satdy a.
m. morning while me &
Nogi was on a badly swollen
junk, fioting up Pearl River,
| expecting to go to Canton (Which are
in. China) Nogi say to me nervely
with Shidehara expression.
Togo" he donate, because we are
Japanese care we not?) Hon. Toxic
| Govt will expect US to hate all Chin
| ese with very brown hatred. Pussi-
| bly, we will be permitted to pity
them occasionally for their depraved
relidgeon, plumbing and stenography.
But o Togo, what would occur to US
! If we arrive in Japan saying we love
China with " our hearts?"
Maybe our heads will be Clipped
off," notatc. "If so shall write to
Editor & complain about it,"
With such sorted emotions we start
| for Canton, which were the Capital OF
South China Republick the day we
got there, and may be still SO when
| this arcticle are printed. To get there
one uD, must steamboat from Hong
| kong, Chinese port which England
| have improved until you cannot tell
| 1t from Liverpool. until you have
| bursted your back climbing several
hills and bursted your knock coming
down.
From the instantaneous moment we
got on that monaghan steamboat, de-
| terminted to go up Pearl River, OBJ
tained the feeling that something
were wrong with China. We walk
past two CD nearly straight lines Of
Chinese persons wearing bed-quilt
pants & coats. At firstly I thought
| they were Salvation Army collecting
the peev expression of their guns
with slightly sharp bayonuts I rec
kognized they was soldiers. There
fore 7 hurry UP, feeling very febble
in the seat of my stumack.
MoreoverIy, also, on end floor of
that smalIish boat I dishcover 200
British Thomas Soldiers with large
quantities of bayonuts sticking out
of the front end of guns. / enjoy
WALKING up hot-water spiggits. When
Hon. Boat commence chug up Pearl
River ESQ call because of mud) I ap-
proach up to one % of those Thos
Soldiers who were tossing his HIS
back & 4th to show that he did not
belong to Chinese, American or other
lower races.
What have happened, il any
thing" I ask to know.
Nothing, as usual" he narrate (the
II is silent.
What could I obtain from that re-
port? Pretty soonly 1 see enlarged
Chinese sign of following intelli-
gence:
Beware of pirates.
II you are annoyed by one please
report it TO purser with Immediate
| quickness.
From this. you may be insured. Mr..
| Editor, 1 feel more better. There are
nothing like English boats to keep
passengers in comfortable candition.
Evening star., 1924-07-20

torrentiaI rains tear the mountains
to pieces so that they look like
gigantic winrows plowed by the
gods. Here their green peaks rise
and fall. Our way is through a mar
row winding canyon, which is walled
with great cliffs. In one place a
waterfall like a bridal veil dashes in
a sheet down a wall several hundred
feet high You can see the black
rock through the veil. Farther on
the canyon is filled with great hould-
ers reminding one of the Garden Of
the Gods or the gigantic stones that
guard the grave of Cecil Rhodes in
the Matopo hills of South Africa.
WE pass frequent villages. and in
nests of the hills see Igorot
barrios, little groups of thatched huts
from twelve to twenty feet square
with walls of wood looking out
under the straw. There are many
porters on the road. There are
1gorot men. bare legged. clad only in
shirts, and Igorot women with skirts
of striped calico that reach from
their waists to their calves. They
have jackets above. The women
carry loads in great baskets on their
heads or their backs, held on by a
also Americans and Fflipinos in
autos. At Hot Springs. about half
way up, pretty bare-armed Ameri-
can girl is watering the lawn. and
at the next gate we wait for a
Limousine containing four bare
headed Filipino ladies.
We have twenty miles of such rid
ing, during which we climb from 200
to 800 feet to the mile. We pass
Zigzag Gate. climb on up in second
gear, and then coast along on the
roof of the mountains to Baguio.
I find it hard to describe this
| mountain capital. The whole is a
great landscape garden designed by
Jehovah and improved on by man.
1t is a beautiful valley. or rather a
series of valleys, with gently rolling
hills surrounding them, making an
amphitheaetr the arena of which ia
Watered by many streams and bor-
dered by pines. tree ferns and other
plants of the semi-tropical zone.
Within a stones throw Of where !
| am writing I see trees that remind
me of the long1lead pines Of the
south or Of the ragged forests of
Japan. and amidst them a tree fern
| with q moss-gray trunk ten feet in
height, out Of which at the top ex-
tend nine great ribs like those of
an umbrella, with many green fronds
as long as my arm. We have here
| the beauties of both the tropic and
temperate zones. The palms are
absent. but there are wonderful
orchids. and there are great slopes
covered with grass as green and as
fsmooth as the century.old sod of
England.
The town Of Baguio covers twenty
square miles. After the plans were