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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
ARRESTS MADE
IN SHULLSBURG
BANK ROBBERY
Three Suspects Jailed at
Bloomington, ILL.,; May
Be Men Wanted.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.-Three men
are being held in this city in connec-
ton with the $4,000 bank robbery al
Shullsburg, Wis, June 23d Another
possible suspect also is in Jail at Ale
do, Ill
The Shullsburg First National bank
was blown by gang of bandits who
escaped with the mine payrolls after
terrorizing the town. This is the first
arrest made in connection with the
robbery.
A telegram sent to Sheriff Bryson
of Lafayette county, located at Oar
lington, gave the names of the three
men as follows: Frank Foster, Jack
Thompson and Jackie Adams
Thompson, whose alias is "Slin
junk" was captured at Vandalia, Ill.
according to Sheriff Bryson. Adams
too, was taken at Vandalia, while Eos
ter was nabbed at Carlyle, Ill.
The possible suspect at Aledo gave
the name of James Daufie. Police say
he is known as Chicago Blackie." The
sheriff at Aledo says Daufie is wanted
in connection with bank stick-up al
New Boston, ILL.,, and thinks that
Shullsburg authorities will also seek
the man. He was in jail in Aledo, ac-
cording to the sheriff, but escaped.
The captures were brought about
Private Detectives at Work
through the efforts of a private detec-
tive of bankers association, accord
ing to reports. The detective is
thought to be E. P Cunningham OF
Madison.
Details of the capture could not be
learned. Both Sheriff Morrison OF
Bloomington and Sheriff Lutrell OF
Aledo are sick in bed and deputies
did not know the story of the chase
Sheriff Bryson, of Darlington, and
Deputies James Mosley, Morris
Thompson, Clarence Taylor and Bert
Todd, are on the way to Madison to
seek extradition facts from Gov. John
J. Blaine, according to word from
Darlin gtOn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
WOOD HAULER
LOSES $3.50
Held up by Unknown Pair
in Bridgeport Hollow.

Ernie Wehren, Bridgeport farmer,
was held up and relieved of his spart
cash by two unknown men travelling
in Dodge coupe, about 11:30 Friday
morning. Ernie was travelling light
and had only $3.50 in his possession.
The bandits obligingly relieved him of
the weight and blithely motored on.
Ernie gave the alarm at once and
the wires began to burn with mes
sages sent out to intercept the bold
robbers. The Bloomington marshal
phoned Sheriff Harry Livingston, Civ
ing him the car numbers and a de-
scription of a Maxwell coupe.
The sheriff passed the word and
towards evening the Potosi marshal
phnoed up saying he had held two
men in a coupe, names Mullaney and
Chapman, car Maxwell numbers
C40024.
Wehren was summoned to Lancaster.
He arrived shortly after the two sus-
poets got here. He said Immediately
that the two held men were not the
ones who robbed him. And anyhow it
was a Dodge coupe not a Maxwell.
So the strangers were turned loose.
To date the mystery of the Dodge
coupe is as thick as the mystery of
the burned motor car on the Lime
kiln road.
Quick, Watson, the Needle!"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
REMOVE
SIGNS FROM
co. HIGHWAYS
County Committee Issues
Sweeping Order.-Con
forms to Law.

County Highway Commissioner H. j.
Mink has received orders from the
county highway committee to order
the removal of all private and adver-
Using signs from the state and coun-
ty trunk lines. This applies to all
signs from fence to fence which area
is part of the highway.
The order conforms to law passed
by the last session of the state legis-
lature The solons deemed the signs
a menace in that many of them OBJ
scured the lew and were thus a
cause of accidents. It is also a fact
that many such signs affect the ma
tural beauty of the landscape.
Many of the sign owners have con-
tracted with farmers for space and
are already moving their advertising
boards into nearby fields. The county
has nothing to say about this.
In it's Tuesday meeting the commit
tee rejected three bids presented for
grading at the new Masseyville bridge
cutoff. "Too high" the committee
said. The work will be done by day
labor under supervision of John Cen
field, one of the local board.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
GOLDEN WEDDING
Relatives and Friends Have Pleasant
Surprise on Mr.. and Mrs. Cox.

On Sunday, Oct. II, was the 50th
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cox of South Lancaster. The
neighbors went to their home with
well-filled baskets, offered congratula-
lions and enjoyed bounteous dinner.
On Saturday, Oct. 10, surprise was
planned on Mr.. and Mrs. Cox at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Lowrey
of Lancaster. Forty-five relatives and
friends met and congratulated Mr.. and
Mrs. Cox. A dinner and social hour
followed. Each departed wishing the
old couple long years of health and
happiness.
Many beautiful presents were re-
ceived and much appreciated. The
roads were so bad after the heavy
rains that number who planned to
be present could not get through.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore, nephew and
niece of Mr.. Cox, came by train from
Freeport, returning Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cox feel grateful to
one and all who helped make their an
niversary day long to be remem-
bered Their many friends wish them
many more years of health, happiness
and the good things of life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21

this year as in Wisconsin? There
doesn't seem to be any answer to the
question, unless it is Iowa corn they
are after, for, if squirrels can't get
nuts, they will store corn instead for
the winter.
Always Migrate to West
What becomes of the squirrels af-
ter they get across the Mississippi,
nobody knows. Some, it would seem,
are staying close to the river, as riv-
er town hunters in Iowa are killing
a good many squirrels in the hills,
and say they seem to be unusually
plentiful. But, Judging from the great
numbers that are migrating, most of
the squirrels must keep right on trav-
cling after they finish their great
swim of the Mississippi.
Hunters say they have known of
such squirrel migrations across the
Mississippi before, but never knew so
many to be moving as this year. They
say these migrations are always west
ward.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
REMIT STATE
PROPERTY TAX
IN WISCONSIN
But Income Tax Payers
Must Bear the Burden
How 1t Works.

Wisconsin will levy no
state property taxes this year, Gov.
John j. Blaine announced, following
action by the emergency board in re-
hitting the entire state levy for 1925,
which would have been paid in 1926.
The remission was made possible
through the revenue raised by the in
come tax bill passed at the last ses-
sion of the legislature. 1t means that
the university, the normal schools,
common schools, and graded schools,
as we'll as the state administration,
will be supported entirely by the mon
ey raised through income and inheri-
lance taxes.
Only County and City Tax
The money that will be raised by
property taxes will be just enough to
fill the demands by counties and mu-
inequalities. The states revenue needs
for 1925, including the seven-tenths
mill tax for the common schools, are
estimated at $6,922,153. The states
share of the proceeds of the income
tax is estimated at $4,414,673.
This leaves a balance of the state
tax levy for the common schools of
2,507 ,479. The emergency board ap-
piled out of the surplus in the gener-
al fund the $2,507, 479. In this way all
the state tax levy on property for the
year 1925 was obviated.
Justifies Income Tax
"I have never felt it necessary to
explain or justify the income tax bill
passed last winter, as I was convinced
that tho benefits flowing from the tax
bill would amply justify its passage"
Gov. Blaine said in announcing the
remission.
"The tax bill and administration
economy will wipe out the entire state
taxes, including the seven-tenths mill
tax for the common schools, and save
the farmer, the home owner and the
business man an aggregate property
tax of nearly $7,000,000 within year
after the bill was passed"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
IN RAILROAD WRECK
Joe Wacek Now in Chicago Hospital,
Train Derailed; No One Killed.

JOS Wacek of Madison, formerly of
Lancaster and a Northwestern road
fireman, was injured in a train re-
railment while running on fast
freight between Madison and Chicago
Friday night. Mr.. Wacek was resting
easy in Chicago hospital when word
of the accident reached Lancaster Sat-
urday. He was injured about the head
and suffered other serious hurts. Joe
says he was getting ready to jump
when he saw an accident impending
but does not know whether he did or
not. WTN2 he woke up he was in the
hospital. An engineer and brakeman
were also hurt but not seriously and
no one was killed. Joe's father-in-law,
A. v. Ward, went to Madison Satur-
day evening to stay with the children
while Mrs. Wacek went to the bed
side of her husband in Chicago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
POPPY DAY" FUNDS
RETURNED TO SICK,
DISABLED SOLDIERS

Mrs. E. j. Austin is home from the
Legion and Auxiliary convention en-
thusiastic over the work being done
with the money raised through poppy
sales. Mrs. Alkaline Macauley of Me-
nominee, Wis, National Poppy Chair
man, read a report covering the MAX
ing of the poppies' and the use of the
money so raised. Thousands of pop
pies were made, and $6,400 was paid
the needy soldiers of Wisconsin, Col
orado and Minnesota for the work.
81, 400 went to service work. The sum
paid the men is often the first money
they have made in years and serves
to give them self-respect. The annual
Poppy day is conducted in connection
with the observance of Armistice day,
Nov. IL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
TRUCK---HORSES
IN COLLISION
Driver Says He Couldn't
See PatrOlman.

Claiming he couldn't see ahead on
account of the setting sun, Perry Hol-
pin, Beetown farmer, is arranging re-
pairs OF motor truck smashed in
the head by collision with patrol
team driven by John Klarman at Five
Points on the Beetown road, last Fri
day afternoon about o'clock.
Mr.. Narman was driving west
when Mr.. Holpin, coming from Lam
caster, crashed into him. The machine
struck the horses, inflicting cash on
one and breaking the harness but not
hurting the other animal. A story that
one horse landed astride the truck
radiator could not be verified. The
truck was damaged about $50 worth.
After thinking it over Mr.. Klarman
decided to let it go at that and Mr..
Holpin will handle his own expense
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
DANCERS FIND
FARMER VICTIM
or AUTO SPILL
Archie Moore Unconscious
By Side of Platteville
ROad-Brain Injured.

PLATTEVILLE-A party of young
people coming from Dubuque to
Platteville for dance Thursday night
found Archie Moore, 40, farmer liv-
ing near this city, lying unconscious
in the road near the Cordt bridge, one
mile south of here.
Near Moore was a light truck, de-
molished by the crash. Moore had
evidently hit the guard rail of the
bridge with terrific force, as he had
been thrown clear of the car and onto
the pavement.
The young people rushed Moore to
the Cunningham hospital, Platteville,
where he was taken to the operating
room. Doctors found him suffering
from conclusion of the brain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
IN CIRCUIT COURT
Disposed Liquor Cases

Frank Ludvik, plea of guilty, $500
fine and costs, total $12400. Paid.
Peter Kasparek, plea of guilty, S100
and costs on each of two counts, or
two months in House of Correction
$500 bond to keep peace for year re-
quired.
John Lenstra pleaded guilty. Sen
tence withheld to Oct. 26.
Earl Morris, plea of guilty. Sen
tence suspended for one year and de-
PENDANT paroled to A. r. Millin.
Raymond Tobin, plea of guilty, $500
and costs or two months in House of
Correction.
Alfonso Pluemer, plea of guilty on
two counts, $50 0and costs or five
bond required.
Chris. Lenstra, plea of guilty two
counts, $500 and costs of five months
in House of Correction. $1,000 bond
required.
Otto Schnee, plea of guilty, $500
ani costs or three months in II. of G..
81 900 bond required.
Newton Edwards, plea of guilty,
$500 and costs or four months H. of
C. Bond required.
Leo BuhSer, plea or guilty on Inree
counts, $500 and costs or two months
H. of c. $1,000 bond.
Everett Cummens, plea of guilty,
$500 and costs or four months 81. of G..
81 900 bond.
George Willis, plea of guilty to vi
olation of liquor law. Four months in
county jail. Defendant bound out
under Huber law.
Two Divorces
Myrtle Verman was granted a d.
vorce from John Verman.
Ella B. Sterling was granted di-
vorce from Roy Sterling.
Liquor Cases to be Tried
State VS. Wesley Thompson, Earl
Hubbel, Henry Schiller. Chas. Ger
hart, Peter Weigand. Jos. Richter,
Oliver Jones. Everett Groom, Asa
Watson, Thos. Lacey, Mike Kurt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Flashes
S'Life is ShOrt-Tell the TRUTH
October Heavens.

UctOD6r heavens
Going forth under starry skies on
an October night we welcome the
queen of winter suns-Capella, the
splendid, rising out of the east, spec
tacular and sparkling. Queen Capella
adorns the crown of the Glorious
Galaxy-that great assemblage of
blazing consultations which embraces
Rigel, Sirius, Orion and other solar
systems evident during the early win
ter season. Capella comes out of the
east and about the same time we be-
gin to see the hazy Pleiades and rudy
Aldebaran in Taurus. Blue Vega as
cends to the Observation-Disclosures the
throne or night with Capella. Ard as
the weeks advance, Vega will disap-
pear leaving the field to Capella to
reign supreme.
Around the Pole star swing the jew
eled bears, Ursus Major and Minor,
the guiding points of direction for
centuries. Truly they mark the pas
sing of seasons. Venus, low on the
southern sky, is an evening star in
Scorpio, setting at 7. Saturn is an
evening star, setting at 8. Those who
rise at a. M, may see Mars as
morning star, visible in the dawn.
Across the heavens march the glory
of the consultations. The ancients
studied them and their movements,
named them and created lore about
them. An age of motor cars, picture
shows and jazz melodies knows moth
ing of them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
FROM GOV. BLAINE

Madison, Wis, Oct. 16, 1925.
Mrs. Robt. Bailie, Sr.,
South Lancaster, Wis.
Dear Madam:
The Governor has directed me to
acknowledge your letters of October
Is, relative to Leslie Clark.
No application for pardon of Leslie
Clark has been received up to this
time, but should such application
come in, your letters will be attached
to the file and will have the careful
consideration of the Governor when
the case comes up for decision.
Yours very truly,
MABEL E. GRISWOLD,
Executive Clerk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
HOLD TWO ON
HOOTCH CHARGE
George Willis and Guy Stead
Await Arrangement.

George Willis, residing north of
Patch Grove, is held on a charge
of vending intoxicants, colloquially
"hootch" Under Sheriff Bayley says
George was arrested in a cemetery af-
ter he had sold a bottle to a young
man of the neighborhood. Presumably
the burial ground was used as safe
place to ply the trade in.
Guy Stead, in trouble last spring
on larceny charge and acquitted,
was picked up at Platteville Thurs
day night, drunk and with two gall
Ions and pint of moon in his pos
session.
Both George and Guy are in limbo.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Bishop Brown.

Bishop Brown.
Just how does the casting out of
the Episcopal church of Bishop Brown
strike you? AS a relic of medievalism?
So it does us.
In the olden days heresy trials
were common. And in these days there
was no more withdrawing of COM
munion. The rack and screw, the gar
rets, the wheel, even burning were
common punishment for Independent
thinkers. 1t was dangerous to disa-
gree with established authority then.
1t is less dangerous today. But this
liberalism has not been brought about
by ecclesiastics you may rest as
sured. Other movements have forced
it.
In ancient times many creeds ex
listed. Finally there became so many
forms of confessions of faith that
something had to be done. So at Nice,
about 800 A. D., church fathers met
and promulgated creed and confess
sion of faith which would serve for
ALL
This was man-made but it had high
merit The kernel of Christianity is
truth itself. Therefore means and
ways are not of great Importance,
perhaps, we would say, of secondary
Importance The important things
are: "Do we understand the import
of the life and sayings of Jesus? Do
we model our lives after His?" If we
do these things we are Christians If
we observe all the forms and do not
do these things we are not Christians
no matter how the world looks at it
or how SNUG the cloak of deceit we
wear.
The merit of the Nicean creed was
that it bound men together in a COM
mon frame of mind for a single pur-
pose. So it was and it is though man
made, a great document. 1t visualized
Christ to the world and made him
leader of men.
But in these times, perhaps regret
tably, old symbols do not prevail. Men
question openly or secretly things
that once were considered sacrosant.
They rush hither and thither, follow
ing their bent and confusion remains.
And in the world are other men who
endeavor to apply the sacred kernel
of the golden fruit to the skein of life.
They seek honestly whether wisely or
not, to make men see that the spirit
is what counts and that without it all
things availeth not. They seek for
new symbols to apply to a hopelessly
materialistic and machine-bound CIV
ilization.
And because of this other minds,
bound by tradition, STEPPED in it, en-
act heresy trials. So goes Bishop
Brown.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
FLORIDA STILL BOOMING

j. A. Hosegood writes the Herald
from st. Petersburg, Fla, saying
things are busy there with the city
becoming more crowded from the
boom. Daily temperatures are 70
above. Mr.. Hosegood says the pros
perity is an "honest-to- goodness" af-
fair with no wildcat schemes, but
real development.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Give Levi
His Chance.

The writer we'll remembers how
leonine old Judge Clementson called"
an anti-saloon Lacquer who came to
Lancaster a few years ago and in a
public address assaulted the character
of man who was not present. 1t
seems that this man. an attorney, was
counsel for the brewing industry, a
perfectly legitimate post. But because
of this the organizer saw fit to black
en- the lawyers character before a
group of men.
Then Judge Clementson, a life
long advocate of temperance and a
man of the highest standing rose to
his feet and administered one of the
neatest dressing-downs ever heard in
Lancaster. He defended his absent
friend and said there was no reason
or justification for the slanderous at
tack made upon him. The organizer,
Justly ashamed, got up and apologized'
Acknowledged that he didn't know
whereof he spoke.
Deep silence -reigned. A number of
the local citizens left at once. The
league didn't get many contributions
out of Lancaster that day.
Now we note that Fl. c. Logan,
president of the Wisconsin anti-Sa-
loon league, is attacking the charac-
ters of Senator Lenroot and Judge
Levi Bancroft. The latter was the
senator's appointee as U. S. assistant
district attorney for the western dis
trict of the state Mr.. Logan asserts
that L4enroot's organization is in the
hands of the wet element. The Ban
croft appointment was opposed by the
state dry organization.
Judge Bancroft has little to say.
"Let them wait until they see my work
before they judge me-" he says. The
nudge is wise. He makes no bitter re-
plies. ;.
The drys have always said that it
was legitimate to work by lawful
means for the repeal of prohibition
hut to uphold the law while it was on
the books. The vets agreed. Many OF
them have done more for the cause
of temperance and for law enforce
ment than all the paid reformers and
leagues in the United States put to-
gether.
But the radical drys are not sin
cere in this. The fact that a man may
be a good citizen though wet" car
ries no weight with them. The word
"wet" is anathema in itself. And be-
cause they fight for vanishing cause
and because they hold for a rigid, inn
possible situation, they are doing the
cause of temperance and sobriety and
the greater causes of law enforcement
and obedience more harm than the
most malevolent of liquor rings.
The man who denounced Judge
CIementson's friend, is one OF those
now denouncing Sen. Lenroot and
Levi Bancroft.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
THESE MAY WE'D

Arthur J. Brandt, Keller; Eileen M.
Wiederhold, Cuba City.
Jos. Mallat, Margaret Yonash, Wat
terstown.
Frank Koppen, Genevieve Jones
Cassville.
Geo. A. Hosegood, Helen Garner,
Lancaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Two Pinned Under Auto
Drown i'm Foot of Water

RICHLAND CENTER-Pinned be-
meath their overturned automobile.
which had left the road at sharp
turn, Wenzel Jendrick and his wife
drowned in foot of water in Buck
creek before passing motorists could
release them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
George MOelIA

George Moelle, an old Lancaster
resident, died at his home in this city,
Tuesday, Oct. 10, at the age Of IS
years, one month and Is days. De-
ceased was a native of Germany and
fine old man in every respect. Funer-
al services were held Thursday af-
ternoon, the Rev. E. Crusius officiat-
ing. Interment at Aupperle cemetery.
Mrs. Chas. Unger, daughter, sur
wives.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
DEATHS OF WEEK
RAYMOND Pittenger

Raymond Pittenger, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sherman Pittenger, died at the
home of his parents in No. Lancaster,
Friday, Oct. Is, at the age of Is years,
five months and 81 days. Funeral ser
vices were held Sunday at two o'clock
p. M, the Rev. Doehring of Platteville
officiating. Interment at Hillside.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21

FUNERAL TO
BE HELD HERE ON
SATURDAY MORNING

Mrs. Louisa Hurlburt received tel
egram Saturday from California, stat
ing that the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theo. Calvin will arrive here Friday
night. Carl Calvin will accompany the
remains which will be taken to the
Goble Mortuary chapel. Funeral SER
vices will be held Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock, with burial at Hillside.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
Rasfardy Case On

A trial to establish parentage of the
child of Miss Burla Burris, aged 20,
of Platteville, was in progress yester-
day. Miss Burris accuses Albert Swal-
low, aged %, of Liberty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
RESIGNS CITY POST

Victor Holzmiller on Monday went
into the Lou Starr barber shop as
middle chair operator. Victor is an ex-
perienced barber. He lately acted as
street commissioner with satisfaction
and prior to that farmed east of town.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21

Mrs. Nicholas Valentine died at her
home near Cassville. She was born in
Germany and came to this country in
1881.