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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

Another large sale of tobacco was
announced Friday by the Nortern Wis
consin Tobacco Pool. The sale OF
$750,000 worth of 1924 stemming to-
bacco was competed, large firm TAX
ing the lot, In two weeks a total of
100000 worth of the Wisconsin
product was sold.
George Paska, janitor of the central
high school, Lake Geneva, was per-
haps fatally injured as the result OF
being caught in large ventilating fan
in the building The fan caught the
top of Lis head and literally scalped
him. Paska was found lying uncon-
scious by a teacher who started an IN
vestigation when the second bell failed
to ring.
Sam Muckian, Green Bay native now
living at Johnston City, ILL.,, wrote a
Sturgeon Bay fish dealer that while
eating white fish that came from his
market, he bit on something hard that
looked like rock salt and was found
to be an uncut diamond Of good quail
ity. Now Muckian has packed his
fishing tackle and started for Green
Bay with the idea of locating the spot
where the fish came from.
Mrs. Robert Saunders, As, and Mrs
e. f. Hines, a.. are in a Green Bay
hospital as the result of an automobile
accident near Surfing last Tuesday.
The women were injured when a car
driven by one Ray Trevers crashed
into a stump after leaving the road.
Treyers had the women as passengers
Mrs. Saunders husband was murdered
about a year ago by Robert Cary, his
ward, in a dispute over the estate of
Cary's father Cary is serving life
sentence. Mrs. Hines is the wife OF
the Rev. z. F. Hines of Surfing.
Harry Swallow, "a, is in the custody
of the Allamakee county sheriff await
ing the arrival of an officer from Wis
consin Rapids Swallow, an Indian,
and a young married buck deserted
their young wives and fled with a pair
of Indian fiappers. The Wisconsin
officers suspected they would visit the
Winnebago reservation near Lansing
and a watch was kept for them. En-
route to the reservation to look them
up, a Wisconsin Rapids sheriff Spied
an Indian at Marquette. He proved to
be the missing Swallow His partner
and the Indian maidens were taken az
La Crosse. They will return to tina
reservation to the tune of Follow the
Swallow Back Home"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
WHEN AM DEAD

The things that i will miss when
am dead,
I count them over softly one by one
The feel of pavements warming in
the sun;
The flap of awnings,
The sound of awnings Tapping over
head;
The chink of china and the taste OF
bread;
The taxis clicking swiftly as they run.
The blare of whistles when the day is
done;
The welcoming wink of lights in gold
and red.
They say that heaven is full of pleas
ant places,
They say the gardens of heaven are
very sweet:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
AFTER STORM

MY heart was shrine, with the SOUND
of incessant bells
In murmurs low music, and grgeV
wreaths of incense haze.
Strange jewels linked the curtains ano
famed in scrolling spells
And all my thoughts were vestals
that tended the inches blaze.
The holocaust has swept the shrine
with fear and shame and sin.
Where once was holy quiet, denan'
feet have trod.
The temple roof is broken, and the
sun and the rain come in;
There is only my hearts low music
but the niche is filled with God
NANCY SHORE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

A mill is being installed at the mine
on the land on the Nelson Hillary
farm at Linden.
Harry Justices name has been sent
to the senate for confirmation as post
master of Livingston.
Charges brought against Mrs. Isa-
belle di Salvo Donatelle by her hus-
band, William, were not true and dam
aging to her character, Judge VIM. r.
Foley decided in circuit court at Rice
Lake. He granted Mrs. Donatella a
divorce and financial settlement OF
$3.50. The Donatelles were married
last July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Ba1som, farmers
of the town of Wrightstown, near the
city of Green Bay, were chloroformed
bv burglars who entered their nome
Sunday night The thieves took $l8 IN
cash. 1t was several hours before the
couple could be awakened by their
son. who detected the odor OF anes-
thetic and went downstairs, where his
parents were sleeping, to investigate
Jack Steinert, 26, confessed slayer of
Row Tolzman, S-year-old Milwaukee
child. was sentenced to life 1mprlson-
ment upon his plea of guilty Friday
Steinert pleaded guilty to charges OF
arson and attack upon the child. AS
he was led from the court room the
BOYS mother, Mrs. Nora Tolzman,
leaned at Steinert's throat in an eff
fort to attack him, moaning and crying
the while. She was pulled away by
detectives.
VIM. Kinney of the town of Marlet-
ia. paid $83 and costs before Justice
Speck in an action brought by W. G.
Keller of Pra. du Chen which was an
outcome of an accident in which KEEL
Ter ran into a threshing machine on
highway II just off of co. The thresh-
ing machine and team and tank
wagon were standing alongside the
road and a car on the other side with
binding lights did not give them the
required room for traffic. Keller ran
into the threshing machine with his
motorcycle and the award above stated
was given by a jury as damages to
his machine The law brought out the
fact that no vehicle can be parked
on public highway without lights in
front and rear without being liable for
damages if there be not 10 feet of
clearance on the highway next to it
Courier
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
The "SOrehead" Fringe.

Teddy Roosevelt aptly termed GER
tan class of people as belonging to
the lunatic fringe" Not just exactly
bugs but so close to it that it was
dangerous. There is another class just
as bad and they might be called "the
sorehead fringe" Every business man
has customers who are always half
way mad at him and although he does
all he can to overcome it and treat
them right they eventually fly off the
handle and run to somebody else. And
after a while they get sore at the
other man and come back. The bus
mess man heaves huge sigh of relief
when the sorehead quits him and feels
pretty sick when he sees him come
back
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
VERSE O. THE DAY
Discomfort

Discomfort
Want to get out o. here,
Don't like the town,
Cad, but I'm tired
Of hangin' aroun'.
Same old river,
And same old streets,
Same old people,
On same old seats.
They say that Florida's
The place to go.
Never no winter there,
Never no snow.
What say, old woman,
Let's sell out the shack,
Buy us Ford Sedan,
Start out to track!
Cad, but I'm tired
Of these damn palm trees,
I'd give the whole swamp
For one northern breeze.
Same old scenery,
Half of it sunk,
Same old land men
With same old bunk.
The shelters are hell here,
What wouldn't I give
To just see the river
Where we used to live.
Why did we ever
Sell out that shack?
Wish we had money
Enough to get back!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

They say the walls are made of
chrysophrases,
And diamonds and emeralds pave the
street.
But I shall miss the city's sooty
faces,
And ache to hear the passing of its
feet
Alice McKinstry in Chiacgo News
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS"

The majestic picture, "The Ten
Commandments" will be shown at
Bloomington, two nights, Dec. 1921,
Saturday and Sunday next This is one
of the greatest productions of the
movie world and everyone should see
it.-Adv.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
A GOOD WORD FOR TIE POOR OLD
APPFNDTX

The appendix is a useful organ,
Regardless of what some folks say;
Those who have it taken out
Generally live to regret the day.
1t lubricates the large intestines
And aids the process of digestion;
Those who lose it by operation
Most always suffer from constipation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

DR.. Kraut reports the birth &C son
at the Lyle Atkinson home in ee-
town Monday.
Miss Elsie Brennan, teaching at An
tigo, is spending the holidays at the
parental W. J. Brennan home here.
Ray Durnen of Mt. Ida was before
Justice Burrows yesterday on a
charge of drunk and disorderly. He
paid a fine and was released from GUS
tody.
An abandoned Buick found near the
DR.. Godfrey farm south Of town and
reported to the sheriff was found to
be the property of Ernest Brande-
muehl. The sheriff turned the ma
chine over to the owner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

that imposed on number two. Without
a doubt both betray poor judgment
and lack of knowledge or disdain of
the public mind. They each might
have better waited a while.
And we doubt exceedingly if either
man is sorry for what he did or sorry
for those who trusted him. We might
express a doubt also if either has re-
formed The history of penitent1arles
is that they do not reform but make
men harder and more devious.
Punishment for crime is Mosaic law
stuff "a life for a life; an eye for an
eye: a tooth for a tooth" And so on.
So the whole machinery of the law
is built. Mercy does not enter into 1t.
Sociology is a preventative for crime
does not enter into it. Society creates
conditions which make criminals and
then Furnishes them. And the system
has failed miserably. Prisons are full
Ter and crime more rampant than eV-
err
Opposed to the Mosaic law, direct
ly opposed, is the doctrine Of Chris
tianity. Jesus said: But | say unto
you, love your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, and pray for them which de-
spitefuIly misuse you and prosecute
Won" 3
whether a man is sorry or re-
formed seems to be beside the point
if we look at it as Christians. On the
eve of Christ's birthday the Herald
believes the Lancaster community
would do we'll to leave the whole mat
ter where it safely belongs-ln the
hands of the governor for disposal.
We feel certain he will see that no
miscarriage of justice occurs and no
one here will have a lurking feeling
that he has done something contrary
to the spirit of Christmas.
The Spirit of Christmas.
The Herald realizes that things said
in the foregoing will not prove pop
ular. A convict has no friends. Even
those who were most intimate with
him and might still feel friendly to
him hide it because they do not care
to share in his exposure and disgrace.
Do not care to be tarred with the
same stick.
Nor do we wish to affront those he
wronged so grievously. Mistaken or
not mistaken in holding bitterness
they had their money stolen and their
faith broken. One cannot blame them
for hatred nor wonder why they wish
him punished to the uttermost instead
of allowing their natural kindly ana
generous impulses to control.
Nor do we do this for the man hlm-
self. We not ask for nor want his
thanks. We never understood and do
not understand him now. He failed
to regard the feelings or the rights OF
others. of even his closest friends.
These things are said in remem-
brance of One for whom Christmas
is named. They are said because we
believe the day should stand truly for
His spirit instead of mere merry max
inc and present giving. Because we
like to believe that the soul OF the
community in which we live and serve
is finally actuated by nobler motive
than that of revenge. We mean the
spirit of Christmas which is the mass
altruism, the collective desire OF a
race to right it's self-imposed wrongs
and to progress to better things. In
this spirit we say it and close.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
MT. HOPE

Frank Fergusons were Sunday visi-
tors at the VIM. Plimpton home.
Jay Snider and wife were Bloom
ington visitors Saturday.
Emery Bunts and wife of Millville
were Sunday visitors at c. w. Vince's.
Frank Morrow is spending a few
days with his daughter, Mrs. Jay Will
kinSon.
A large crowd attended the school
play Saturday night which was very
good.
Elliott Hazens and perhaps several
others were Fennimore shoppers Sat
urday.
L. E. Wilkinsons dressed poultry
Saturday.
Gene Lowells are the proud parents
of baby boy born Saturday night.
Mrs. Lowell is staying at the home
of her nurse, Miss Leamy, at Bloom
ington.
A very Merry Christmas to all Her
aid readers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

FOR SALE-500 bushels of good corn.
Also one gray gander. Harry l.. Stark,
Phone 1882, Lancaster, Wis. 45p1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
NOTICE TO PROVE WILL AND NOTICE
To CREDITORS


State of Wisconsin, County Court, Grant
County-In Probate.
In Re Estate of William L. Gelbach, De-
ceased.
Notice Is Hereby Given, That at the
Special Term of said court to be held on
the fourth Tuesday of January. A. D. 1926,
at the Court House in the City of Lancas-
ter County of Grant, and State of Wiscon-
sin there will be heard and considered. the
application of Ella J. Gelbach to admit to
probate the last VIII and Testament of
William L. Gelbach late of the city of Lam
caster in said county, deceased, and for
the appointment of executor:
Notice Is Hereby Further Given, That at
the special term of said court to be held
at said Court House, on the fourth Tuesday
of April, A D. 1926 there will be heard,
considered and adjusted. all claims against
said William L. Gelbach, deceased:
And Notice is Hereby Further Given,
That all such claims for examination and
allowance must be presented to said county
court at the Court House in the City of
Lancaster, in said county and state, or
before the 23rd day of April, A. D. 1926,
or be barred.
Dated December %, 1925.
BY the Court, E. B. GOODSELL Judge.
S. H. Taylor, Attorney. 45c3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
A ChirOpractOr's
Travel Talks.

| A number of radio fans have Deen
listening to the weekly travel talks
broadcast by B. J. Palmer, Davenport
millionaire chiropractOr, from WOO.
| Those who might assume that Palmer
makes a garrulous, illiterate talk Will
find themselves badly mistaken. He is
capable, intelligent man else ne
would not have made the business
success he has made.
In his talk last Thursday night Mr..
Palmer told of the curse of creeds with
which India is afflicted. Thousands
of castles and grewsome beliefs keep
the people split into a mass of sectors
and incapable of any unified effort or
ideas. Some of the revolving things
related of by DR.. Palmer are practiced
by people there very sincerely as a
part of their effort toward salvation.
The prevailing belief is Brahminism
and efforts of Christianity to break its
hold on the Hindoos have been almost
futile. DR.. Palmer quotes high and
sincere church authorities who voice
the belief that India will never be
Christianized.
Christianity, while an oriental re-
ligion, seems to have all the best of it
as compared with other religions and
the biggest thing about it is its de-
mocracy There is no caste, no color,
no station in the eyes of God. All are
alike to him. So Christianity teaches.
With manifest and @as acknowledged
faults applied Christianity is a great
democratizing influence and such it
rises superior to older and newer
faiths.
-OOO-
Banks are beginning to develop an
intelligence that is almost human in
some of its aspects. In several towns
the banks have notified their custom
ers that they will cha ~ge soc a month
for taking care of accounts which av-
erage less than $50 in any one month.
If the depositor will take a moments
thought he will at once wonder how
accounts running from SOC to $50 can
pay bank for handling them, keep
ing the accounts, furnishing pass
books, check books, etc.-Knoxville
Iowa, Express.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
NOTICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

State of Wisconsin, County Court Grant
County-In Probate.
In Re Estate of Thomas F. Graham, De-
ceased
Administration of the estate of said de-
ceased having been granted to Eliza A.
Graham,
Notice Is Hereby Given, That at the spe-
cial Term of said court to be held at the
court house in the city of Lancaster, coun-
ty of Grant and State of Wisconsin, on the
fourth Tuesday of April, A. D. 1925, there
will be heard considered and adjusted, all
claims against said Thomas F. Graham,
deceased;
And Notice Is Hereby Further Given,
That all such claims for examination and
allowance must be presented to said county
court at the Court House in the City of
Lancaster in said county and state. on or
before the 23rd day of April, A. D. 1926,
or be barred.
Dated December %, 1925.
BY the Court, E. B. GOODSELL4, Judge.
s. H TAYLOR Attorney. 45c3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23

FOR SALE-Two pure bred Joland
China stock hogs. Thos. Carmody,
Lancaster, Wis. 45p1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
A. HAROLD TRUITT

WANTED-Woman with one child de-
sires position as housekeeper. Phone
Farmers No. 1. 45p1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
A Christmas Editorial.

Friday of this week is Christmas.
And Christmas all through the Chris
tian world is the biggest, brightest
dav of the year. Christmas is the OBJ
servance of the birthday of Jesus OF
Nazareth. The story Of that coming
is told beautifully and with great sim
D1icitv and charm in the Book OF
Books The worlds best seller ana,
considering the volume Of sales, the
least read of all popular books.
And the finest part of the Bible, the
kern,l Of the Golden Grain, the Heart
of the Sacred Fruit, the Living and
Glowing inner shrine of Christianity IS
r. he found in the 9Th, 9Th and Th
cIapters of the gospel according 10
Matthew
In this section is that wonderful ser
mon the like of which has never been
heard by Man. 1t tells us how TO De
hannv how to live and how to pass on.
4ara is the doctrine of Jesus summed
in a few hundred words. His creed
of purity, morality, unseltlshness, de-
mocracy, communism, meekness, char-
ity, His mercy are all there.
One need not analyze nor attempt TO
interpret this simple creed. 1t needs
no ANALYSIS, no Interpretation. IL Is
all there-plain for us to read. NO
confusion. No high sounding words.
No yagueness. Beauty OF dlctlon.
Poetry of thought. Jesus dealt IN SYM
bo1s and parallels because he must
have recognized the dramatic charm
of an analogy. But these parallels are
nIain and applicable. We see the
noints of them without effort. Inc
sermon on the Mount is to the writer
the most striking proof that Jesus
lived walked and worked among men.
No human mind, no matter how great
thn imagination, could have conceived
the glory of that sermon. 1t had TO
he uttered from the lips OF living
personality. j. ,;f;o,,1+,,
The easiest thing to do becomes tue
hardest thing to do. The human Ia rae
has never accepted this creed desplIe
orr nretensions. We read it but we
heed If not. We go through the form
of religion. repeat the rituals, listen
r. the sermons about st. Paul and oth-
or anostIes. hear of eternity and so on
but pass lightly by the essehtlals
which apply directly as 10 ITO" wy
shall live from day to day. ...-,t--
|
,,ro,,7d work if given chance. 1t has
never never been given this chance. We are
seemingly as far from II TO-DAY do
those who first received the llleSSa9 :,
Tn Tl10 onr hearts we say: ooh, that's all
very well but it's not practical Let
us be practical by all means! % WI
drudge along in our practlcal way anu
the world gets little better.
we may differ on non-essentlals,
on technical points and split over !
trivial things. So we have a thousand
conflicting creeds and interpretations,
But no one differs over the perIecC 41,n
Of the philosophy of the Sermon on tne
Mount mi There is perhaps not living
man ma Of understanding who will dis
agree s, with this. And perhaps APPS not, not a
living man who will accept the lesson
and live it in it's entirety We are not
great enough to do it.
4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
NOTICE

My office will be closed from Dec.
27, to Jan. 8, while 1 am attending a
course of special instruction on
Neurocalometer and X-ray work at
Davenport, Ia. 45cl
HARAI II TRIILII
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-23
Gist Of the Doctrines.

eESSt OF bue DUCllAhCSs
The doctrines of Jesus as enumerated
and practiced by him are summed up
nv one of the keenest minds IN CON
temporaneous literature IN the Iollo"-
ing manner:
The kingdom of heaven is Wlthm
Won. You are the son OF Co.. anu
Cod is the son of man. Goa IS Spili II
tn he worshipped in spirit and truth
and not an elderly gentleman 10 pe
bribed and begged from. we are IlelL-
beers of one another; so that you Cdh-
not iniure or help your neighbor WIN
ont iniuring or helping yourself. Gou
is vour father; you are here 10 90
Gods work; and you and your tather
are one
2. Get rid of property by throwing
If into the common stock. Disassoclate
vour work entirely from money pay
ments If YOU let child starve you
are letting God starve. Get rid OF all
vour anxiety about tomorrow dinner
and clothes. because you cannot serve
two masters: God and Mammon. :,
3. Get rid of judges, punishment ana
revenge. Love your neighbor as your
self. he being a a part OF yourselI,
And love your enemies; they are your
neighbors.
4 Get rid of your family entangle-
ments. Every mother you meet is as
much your mother as the woman VINO
bore you. Every man you meet is as
your brother as the man she bore AFTER
YOU. Don't waste your time at family
funerals grieving for your relatives
attend to life, not to death; there are
as good fish in the sea as ever came
out of it, and better. In the kingdom
of heaven, which as aforesaid, is with
in you. there is no marriage or giving
in marriage, because you cannot de-
vote your life to two divinities; God
and the person you are married to-
A Case at Point.
And now we come this Christmas
tide to the practical application of
all the foregoing Those who have read
this far may read little farther.
The writer is no more a Christian
than the reader or anyone else is.
Many make many professions and pre-
tensions. Few, as we said, actually
practice any of the points of the
creed. If we think when a test comes
it will be in some glorified manner
we are sadly mistaken. Tests come
constantly but they come in little ways
just like temptation to be dishonest
comes in small ways. Our tests are
unheroic and as we said, "the easiest
thing to do becomes the hardest thing
to do"
Two men betray a trust, swindle a
community and do a lot of other
wrong things. Number one pleads
guilty without much delay and re-
celves a prison sentence which with
good behavior figures out at 1T
months confinement The other man
delays his plea with specious excuse
and denial of guilt and eventually gets
on with sentence which with good
behavior figures out at rs months. The
dlfference between the two sentences
is AZ months-three years and six
months
Number two has recently applied
for pardon, apparently with
out success. From a public stand
point, perhaps justly without success
Number one now comes forward
asking for a communication of sentence
10 what we suppose will be similar t.