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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
BEER AND WINE
LDLEGALN
BADGER HOMES
COntrivances for Making
Them Also Get o. X.

MADISON-PoSseS of beer and
wine in ones home is not an offense
under the state prohibition law, Meth
er is the mere possession of contriV-
ances for the making of beer and wine.
1t is crime, however, to sell or man
ufacture beer or wine"
In the most important home brew
case to come before the Supreme court
since the state prohibition law was
enacted, these points were decided re-
Gently. The decision was written by
Justice Crownhart in the Endish case,
from Iowa county.
Convicted on Four Counts
Endish was running a hotel at Min
eral Point and it was claimed that
beer and wine were found upon his
premises. The lower court found End
ish guilty on four counts, the manu-
facture of intoxicating liquors with
out a permit; unlawfully having in his
possession without permit privately
manufactured distilled liquor; having
in his possession compounds and in
gradients from which beer is custom
arily made, and the unlawful possess
sion of privately manufactured liquors
containing alcohol in excess of one
half of one per cent.
The Supreme court acquitted him
on all counts except manufacture. The
opinion discloses that an amendment
made by the legislature after the Sew
erson law was introduced, radically
changed the law concerning the pos
session of beer and wine in homes.
1t was the contention of Endish that
mere possession of wine and beer is
not an offense under the statute, ane
that the possession of mash for max
ing beer, or the possession of con-
trivances for making beer or wine, is
not prohibited by law. The court held
with him on both of his contentious.
Clarity Search Warrant Law
In the Mrs. E. P. Hansen case from
Brown county Chief Justice Vinje re-
defined the necessary procedure for
the issuance of search warrants, en-
phasizing the fact that search war
rants are legal only if based on sworn
testimony. The conviction of Mrs.
Hansen was sustained.
In the case of Tony Testolin from
Fond du Lac county, the court ordered
the defendant freed because his arrest
was illegal under the Severson law.
1t was found that the requirements
as to search and seizure had not been
complied with.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
S25,348,96O is THE
COST IN YEARTO
RUN WISCONSIN
S4,9OS,3S6 Surplus Told Of
In U. S. Report.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Wisconsin
according to a department of COM
merce statement issued recently, had
a treasury surplus of $4,908,386 on
June 30, 1924. Revenue receipts from
all sources for the fiscal year ending
on that day aggregated $37,601, O69
while the cost of maintenance and op-
Grafton of general departments, in
Guiding the expenditure of $8,444,925
for the construction of highways, to-
tailed only $32,692,6S3.
The net Indebtedness of the state
its funded debt, less sinking fund as
sets-was $1,963,700 or about II cents
per capita, five cents lower than the
per capita rate of the previous year.
The cost of government, exclusive of
expenditures for permanent improve
ments, was $25,348,960, or approx
mately 1920 per capita Of this amount
$4,955,697 was appropriated among
minor civil divisions of the state for
educational purposes.
Money for Highways
During the year, the statement con-
tinues, the state spent $5,714,575 for
construction of new highways and ST.
730,350 for the maintenance and re-
pair of roads already in service.
"The surplus of revenue receipts, ~
according to the statement, sis re-
fected in the payment of debt obliga-
tons, the purchase of investments and
the Increase of cash balances, not
shown in this summary.
Property and special taxes repre-
scented 53.1 per cent of the total rev.
enue for 1924. 544 per cent for 1928
and 62.5 per cent for 1918. The in
crease in the mount of property and
special taxes collected was 64.2 pei
cent from 1918 to 1928, and rs pei
cent from 1923 to 1924. The per capita
property and special taxes were $7.2E
in 1924, $6.82 in 1923, and $40 in
1913.
Earnings Of Departments
Earnings of general departments
or compensation for services rendered
by state officials, represented 98 pei
cent of the total revenue for 1924
1874 per cent for 1923, and AL fo1
1918.
Business and non-business license
constituted 22.3 per cent of the total
revenue for 1924, ia per cent for
1928, and 1874 per cent for 1918.
Receipts from business license
consist chiefly of taxes exacted from
insurance and other incorporated COM
panies while those from non-business
licenses comprise chiefly taxes on mo-
tor vehicles and amounts paid for
hunting and fishing privileges.
"For 1924, the assessed valuation OF
property in Wisconsin, subject to ad
valorem taxation, was $5,325,4 88,732;
the amount of state taxes levied was
$14,S94, 096; and the per capita levy
S541"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Grand Lecturer of X. P.
Buried at Fond du Lac

Charles F. Libbey, Grand Lecturer
OF the K. P. Lodge, died at his home
in Milwaukee Tuesday following an
illness of several months. The body
was taken to his old home in Fond
du Lac for burial under solemn lodge
auspices. Funeral services were held
Friday.
Mr.. Libbey leaves a wife, one daugh-
ter, Madge NJ, and three sons, Har-
old of Chicago and George and Carl
of Milwaukee He was about 60 years
of age and had been prominently
identified with lodge work for a quar-
ter of a century.
Mr. Libbey attended lodge at Ian
caster and left a strong impression of
uprightness, oratorical powers and in
telligence. His last visit to this coun-
ty was on the occasion of the opening
of the new Fennimore lodge couple
of years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Otto Austin Elected Head
of Madison Radio Club

OOto Austin, formerly of this city,
has been elected president of the
Amateur Radio Club of Madison. Otto
was one of the first of the Lancaster
boys to experiment with radio. He
had a crystal set in operation in 1919,
which is "away back when" in radio
circles-so rapid has been the devel-
opment.
In his talk accepting the honor Otto
said serious and worthy work of hand
ling commercial work was in store for
the Madison "hams" He also urged
all the members present to get down
to serious work and "shoW what Mad
ison can do in amateur radio"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Christmas Seal Sale in
Hands of Supt. McNelly

S. S. McNelly has been appointed
director of the 1895 Christmas seal
campaign conducted in Lancaster by
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION from Thanksgiving until
Christmas. The association claims
that since the fight against the dis
ease began in 1908, the mortality has
been cut Al percent. But last year
tuberculosis killed 1,764 people in
Wisconsin, large proportion being
young people in the prime of life. At
present there are 10000 cases of tu-
berculosis in the state. The free
chest clinics are recognized as an i'm
portant factor in the preventive and
educational work. 1850 of these elm
les have been conducted. They were
financed out of the sales of penny
seals.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Left Here 43 Years Ago;
Still Wants Old Home Paper
Grinnell, Kansas, Nov. IS, 10.

Grinnell, Kansas, Nov. IS, 1925.
Grant County Herald,
Lancaster, Wis,
Gentlemen: I hand you check for
$500. Kindly place me on your sub
scription list.
1t has been forty-three years next
month since l left Lancaster, and al
though 1 have never been back,
want to keep in touch with the Old
Home Town.
Very truly yours,
D. A. BORAH.
(Mr. Borah is vice president of the
Grinnell State Bank and a j. E. Borah
is cashier. The Borahs were among
the early settlers in this county, COM
ing here from Kentucky. A few of
the name still reside in the county.
The Herald hopes Mr. Borah will find
time to visit 1.-THE Old Home Town"
some day. Coming back to the place
you were raised in after a long alb
sence, is one of the finest privileges
of life.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Bailie Auto Co. Shows
A New HupmObile Six

w. ]. Bailie, head of the Bailie Auto
Co., is driving a new Hupmobile Six
Sedan, demonstrating the qualities of
the latest Hup product. While the car
is new driven less than 200 miles)
as Mr.. Bailie got it off the docks at
Milwaukee last week, it shows truly
remarkable climbing qualities. All
the hills around Lancaster, and some
of them are steep, were made with ut
most ease by the new car in demon
stration with the Herald man last Fri
day Instead of seeking the soft
places" Mr. Battle instructed the Her
aid man to purposely hit all the holes
and rough spots just to show how
easily the car negotiated bumps. There
was not the slightest jar or vibration
and seemingly exhaustless power on
the steepest hills. The car is hand
somely finished in grey upholstery and
is of trig design throughout. 1t looks
as though the Bailie company has
something that will captivate the
local market for good closed cars at
a very low price. Their big display !ad
appears elsewhere in this issue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
$4,000 Mail Robbery
Pulled Off at Superior

SUPERIOR-Five bandits robbed
the postoffice safe of $4,000 worth of
stamps and $125 in cash Friday night.
They went to the home of Assistant
Postmaster c. J. McGill, bound him
and three members of his family,
forced -McGill to give them the COM
bination of the postoffice safe, and
worked at leisure. They escaped.
About $3.50 Friday night, five
masked men drove to the McGill home
and when the door was opened forced
their way in with drawn guns. Nc
Gill, his wife, a son and daughter
were terrified.
After binding them, the bandits
threatened McGill and members of his
family until he told them the combi-
nation of the safe. They took his keys
as we'll.
One of the bandits remained to
guard the family while the other four
went to the postoffice. There they
bound and gagged the Waterman
wiring his hands to an upper hinge
of the safe, and his feet to a lower
hinge.
Sorting the contents of the safe, the
UdhuAIo ACIpS0 " SIdlll pS
and money estimated at $4,000, most
ly in postage.
The bandit on guard at the McGill
home left about'3 a. m, and members
of the McGill family notified the po-
lice. By that time, however, the BAN
dts had fed and police were unable
to trail them.
No one could furnish detailed de-
scriptions of the masked men, and SO
far as is known, no one saw their car.
Every detail Of the daring piece of
banditry had been worked out in ad-
vance and sheriff's deputies said they
thought it looked like an inside job.
Postmaster Thompson, however, is
confident it is not.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Stelpflug Sale Promises
to Be Biggest in Years

Elsewhere in the Herald is a large
display ad from Joseph Stelpfug, Ten
nyson farmer, who is moving to Lam
caster next month. Jeo's ad runs two
weeks as is customary. 1t contains
what is probably the biggest offering
of fine livestock, machinery, hay, grain
and so on that the Herald has adver-
tised in years.
Mr. Stelpfug will work with Col j.
C. Vesperman in crying the sale as he
is an old auctioneer himself He be-
lieves in the power of printers ink
and instead of clubbing over adver-
Using matter as a necessary evil, Joe
ordered the half page for two issues
and $50 full>sheet bills fright off the
bat" Joe has the right idea and de-
serves a big crowd at his sale and the
Herald is certain he will get it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Perform Hazardous Feat
In Removing Flagstaff

Leon Duke" Sweeney assisted by
John Drew and Claude Pattee per-
formed hazardous feat of skill and
sertngth last mid-week when he sue
cessfully carried out a contract to re-
move the tall Flagstaff from the top of
the Grant county court house and
sealed the opening with copper.
Leon figured on the work several
days before he actually began, the
real working time being about six
hours. For this he received a check
for sos with Couny Clerk Webb's con-
gratulations and best wishes.
The staff, so apparently slight as it
looked from the ground, was AZ feet
long, 13 inches thick at the butt and
s inches thick at the top. 1t had lit
orally to be "snaked down" through
the top of the cupola into the top of
the dome. There by a system of grad
ually releasing and saving, Leon was
able to dismember the big spire and
carry the pieces to the ground in
safety without single mishap.
The work was justified by the ap-
pearance of the wood. The staff had
been struck by lightning several
times and this split the wood allow
ing water to get in. For many feet
up it was water-soaked and badly
riddled.
Leon specializes in dangerous work
of this nature. At McGregor, Iowa, he
climbed $50 feet above the city to re-
pair a pole used in weather record
ing. The face of the cliff was around
$50 feet above the valley and the pole
consisting of three spars dashed to-
gether, was another hundred feet
higher Using hooks, Leon climbed
the pole and went to the far end
where he sawed off a riddled Is feet.
He made repairs, painted his work
and was back on terra firma in less
than half day. For this job he re-
ceived a handsome recompense.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING

The Grant County Medical Society
meets at Grantland Club Room at $50
Friday evening when a banquet will
be served to all present. At 1880 the
following program will be rendered:
1. tuberculosis of kidney-Dr. John
c. Hancock of Dubuque.
Discussion opened by DR.. J. H. Fow-
Ter.
2. Surgical treatment of pulmonary
tuberculosis-Dr. Carl A. Hedbloom,
Madison.
Discussion opened by DR.. A. H. Spie-
gelberg, Boscobel.
3. Scarlet fever-Dr. w. D. Stovall,
State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison
Discussion opened by DR.. G. C. Buck.
4. Some plans for the future-Dr.
G. A. Crownhart, sec'y State Society
5. Discussion relative to forming a
district society.
6. Election of officers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Cholera Kills Sixty
On Platteville Farm

County Agent keenan, reports an
other outbreak of hog cholera in this
and adjoining counties and says the
producer of pork should take every
precaution possible to do away with
possibel chances of spread. Mr.
keenan, in company with Dr. Purcell,
in charge of hog cholera control in
this state, visited farms in the vicinity
of Platteville the past week On one
of the farms, the Dennis Harms place,
sixty or more hogs have died as re-
suit of the disease. Mr.. Keenan, says
that 200 pound pigs representing
summers work an / feed are wiped out
in two or three days when cholera
gets a strangle hold on the herd.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
NORTH LANCASTER

A number of young people attended
the dance Friday evening at Fenni-
more.
Phyllis Walker spent a week with
her aunt, Mrs. Alma Diesel
The Beetham and Dyer threshing
rings have finished shredding and are
now hulling clover.
Eugene Croft is having a fine new
hen house built.
The Hickin family were Sunday
guests at the James Garthwaite home.
Winnifred Welsh is back in school
again after quite an absence follow
ing a broken arm accident.
The Rowdon children had various
experiences getting over and back to
the Badger Saturday where they are
practicing for a joint program.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Rough Roads Cause of
Bridgeport Mans Death

BRIDGEPORT-Wm. Daley, 49,
farmer living near here, was killed
Thursday when the light car he was
driving overturned in some loose ma
terial with which the Bloomington
Bridgeport road was being repaired.
The accident was not discovered i'm
mediately and when rescuers arrived
Daley was dead. Funeral services
were held Saturday at Bridegroom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Fined For DisorderIy Conduct

For disturbing the peace and raising
rumpus in a local business place,
Albert Turner, Kenneth Kaap, Harry
Phillips of Lancaster and Marie Jones
and Mildred Hanson of Dubuque were
fined SIS and costs each by Justice G.
w. Burrows Saturday morning. The
disturbance took place about a. M,
after a visit to a dance hall in the
southern part of the county. Under
Sheriff Bayley heard the noise from
his bed at the Jail and went over and
exercised his authority. He said the
proprietor was attempting to clear his
place but without success. The young
folks paid up and went free.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
T.. d. S. Church Meeting

A conference of the Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day
Saints of Southern Wis. Dist. will be
held on Saturday and Sunday, Nov
% and 90 at Hyde's hall, in the city of
Lancaster.
Saturday will be taken up largely
with the business of the conference,
but in the evening a religious play
will be put on which will be free to
the public.
On Sunday there will be three
preaching services as follows: 10:45
a. M, 2:30 p. m. and 1880 p. m. Spe-
ciaI speakers are Apostle J. F. Gar
yer of Lamont, Iowa, and Patriarch
w. A. Mcdowell. Plano. Ill.
The public is cordially invited to
all these services.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
TRUCK HITS
TRAIN, LOAD
OF HOGS DIE
Collision at WOOdman Yards
Monday AfternOOn-One
Man Injured.

WOODMAN-Ross Collins, Mt. Ida
farmer, overturned with a truck and
suffered a cut forehead here Monday
afternoon at 2:30 when truck driv-
en- by Ray Speaker, Mt. Ida, ran into
the Milwaukee road passenger train.
The truck was demolished Speaker
jumped to safety. The twelve hogs in
the load were killed outright or hurt
so badly they had to be shot. Some
damage was done to windows on the
train.
Speaker was driving the hogs to
the Woodman yards for Collins. The
men seemed to be watching the mar
row guage train which was standing
on the tracks and failed to see the
passenger. The truck side-swiped the
engine steps with the foregoing re-
suits
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Flashes
''Life is ShOrt-TelI the Truth"
A Prose Poem on
THANKSGIVING Day.

thanksgiving Day.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day
Some will have turkey and
some will have chicken and say
they like it better than turkey
and some will be honest about it
and say turkey is good but too
high and some will have roast
goose with trimming and others
will have roast beef, pork, veal
or mutton which aren't so bad
when served with plenty of oy-
sters all scalloped and lots of
juicy cranberries-they go a
long ways toward averting STAR
walton in this land of plenty.
And some will be thankful and
others wouldn't be thankful no
matter what their blessings are
and some will have stomach
ache after eating too big
dinner.
I think the best plan is to take
it easy always and not to eat too
much for the good of our health
and in memory of the Puritan
Fathers who gave Thanksgiving
it's start 300 years or more ago
when such fathers carried big
gun to church and worked on
the Indians if any were in sight
and those who didn't carry guns
or keep their powder dry but
depended on prayer and good
works sometimes failed to arrive
1,aoTyhn did
not get there at all.
Today it is not allowable to
shoot Indians so we are glad
when a holiday arrives and the
modern Indians who scalp our
pocketbooks with subscription
papers can't get into the office
and we can smoke the pipe Of
peace and be thankful all by
ourselves.
The Puritan Fathers always
went to church on Thanksgiving
day, Indians or no Indians, and
gave thanks to the Lord who
had led them across trackless
sea and into a land where they
could worship Him according to
the dictates of their own con-
sciences and in spite of their
hardships they believed in Him
as a just and merciful God who
held the waters in the hollow
of His hand and took reck of
every sparrow that fell from
on high.
And because they believed and
toiled they left us, their children,
a great heritage of prosperity,
freedom and light and we too shout
be thankful as they were and
believe as they believed because
in belief all things come true
and if we were noble, clean OF
mind and heart and always in
dustrious at good works we would
solve all our troubles in short
order but because we are none
of these things and because we
worship Mammon more than we
worship God our troubles never
cease.
So in observing Thanksgiving
let us approach it in its true
spirit and not as gluttons over
a festive board but as children
of the Lord who have been given
a wonderful country to live in
without a stroke of effort on our
part, so that we can live and
practice the Golden Rule in all
human relations and thus bring
about the Kingdom of God
on Earth, l thank you,
A T.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
BURTON r. N. A. CARD PARTY

The Burton r. N. A. gave card
party at their hall last Wednesday
evening, Nov. IS, about 20 guests and
members being present. Euchre and
500 were the games played. Mrs. Nels
Laugesen and Joe .Koehler won first
prizes at Euchre. Miss Pauline Kart
man and Lester Donaldson won first
prizes at 500. At the conclusion of the
games a delicious supper was served
to all present. The occasion was de-
clared to be most enjoyable one by
everyone attending.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Deer Hunt He Didn't Take
Led to Fine Of so SamOleOns

BARABOO-A deer hunt that didn't
take place caused the arrest and $50
fine of Irwin Korb, Leland, in court
here Thursday Korb pleaded guilty
to having muskrat hides in his pos
session, which were obtained out of
season. For a joke he had told friends
he was going on a deer hunt. Con-
servation authorities got wind of it
and an investigation revealed the
muskrat hides.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
Ora Long, railroad telegraph line

Ora Long, railroad telegraph line
man at Spooner, Wis, has been here
the past week visiting his mother,
Mrs. A. c. Long. Ora is the eldest of
the Long boys and has been located at
Spooner for dozen years past. He
says the North Western road recently
took over the operation of the Omaha
system.
Rev. F. Harris of Madison, district
supt., preached at the NJ E. church
here Friday evening.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
UNION THANKSGIVING SERVICE

The Union Thanksgiving service
will be held Thursday evening, Nov.
26, at the Grantland theatre at 7:30.
The order of services, Rev. A. M. Nc
Laughlin, president of Lancaster Min
listers association, presiding, will be
as follows:
Hymn .-...-..-..-..-....America the Beautiful
Prayer .-................Rev VIM. Grossheim
Scripture Reading ...............................
-..-.....-......-..-......-..-R G. A. Mckinley
Solo-Ave Maria...--..-.-.-F Franz Schubert
Margaret Dickie
Sermon -.--...-.-.-..-.--.Rev G. H. Willett
Benediction...-..-....R VIM. Grossheim
An offering will be taken to be CIV
en- to the Near East Relief.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
An Honest President.

A world view of Hindenburg, pres
idetn of Germany, is that the old man
is trying to be a president of all the
German people and honestly endeav-
oring to do things for the best inter-
est of all the people of his country.
The best proof of this is that he has
lost the support of the radical jingoes
in the German nationalist party and is
gaining support among the Socialist
working classes. Conditions were new
er more hopeful for a peaceful, pros
porous and busy Europe and this hap
by state of affairs will continue if the
sensible people there can hold the
fire-eaters and haters in check.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-25
MONDAY STOCK SHIPMENTS
BREAK PREVIOUS RECORDS
THESE MAY WE'D

Ted R. Tracy, Elizabeth Kreiser,
Platteville.
Albert E. Graham, Birdie Napp, Fen
nimore.
Geo. P. Hoffman, Helen C. Ball, Lit
tie Grant.
Hugh Conley, Woodman; Velva Car
mody, Mt. Hope.
Harry E. Wenzel, Ellenboro; Alva
White, Elk Grove.
Bernard Kahle, Dubuque; Mabel
Vogt, jamestown.
Henry o. Burns, Beetown; Rosina
Stohymeyer, Potosi.