davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
VOICE OF THE SCHOOLS

Schools were closed Thursday noon
and the entire faculty excepting Miss
Warren went to Madison to attend the
annual meeting of the Southern Wis
consin Teachers association. The con-
vention opened in the auditorium of
the Central high school at 8 a. M.
Friday. About 1900 teachers were
present. Speakers for the forenoon in
cluded e. G. Doudna, secretary of the
Wisconsin Teachers association;
Frank e. Baker, president of Milwau-
kee State Normal school; and DR.. JUL
JUS Boraas, of st. Olaf College, North
field, MINI. The afternoon was devoted
to sectional meetings, the sections be-
ing determined by subjects. Sections
were arranged in Modern Languages,
kindergarten, Latin, High School
Principals, History, Commercial, Sci
ence, Manual Arts, Home Economics,
Fine Arts, Music, English, Mathemat-
les, Agriculture, etc. Teachers attend
ed these meetings according to their
interests. On Saturday morning an
other general meeting was held in the
auditorium of the Central high school.
The speakers for this meeting were:
Frances G. Blaire, Illinois State Super
inten6ent of Schools; and DR.. Jesse H.
White, University of Pittsburg On Fri
day evening, John F. Sinclair of New
York City spoke to the teachers on
the subject, Can Europe Hold To-
gether?"
The general feeling among the
teachers is that the entire program
was of high order and the trip to Mad
ison, even though expensive, was
worth while.
Miss Edna E. Gillogly remained in
Madison to take medical treatment.
Miss Leila Goble is taking care of her
classes during her absence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
GOOD TIMES AT DORCAS

The Dorcas Society of the Baptist
church entertained at Valentine bas-
ket social Friday night, Feb. Is, at
the F. L. Durni home. A fine program
was arranged under the capable man
ageemnt of Mrs. Paul DeVries of Chi
cago, consisting of vocal solos; piano
duets, humorous reading and games.
Later all enjoyed the fun when the
Valentines were auctioned off, At the
close of the evenings entertainment
Mrs. DeVries was presented with a
beautiful tudor silver pickle fork.
This together with the cheering and
yells afterwards showed the esteem in
which Mrs. DeVries is held As were
present and the proceeds were $24.20.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
THESE MAY WE'D

Herman Newing, Frieda Nachtigall,
Platteville.
Walter A. Gibbs, Marion; Clara
Pankrace, Muscoda
Harry H. Kuhls, Belmont; Nora A.
Ramps, Platteville.
Ernest F. Johnson, Lima; Irma
Helms, Belmont.
Geo. E. Ginter, Dickeyville; Fran
ces B. Schardt, Smelser.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
COW TESTERS MEET

The Tennyson-Dickeyville cow test
association held an interesting meet
ing at Tennyson parochial hall Friday
night. Prof. r. S. Hulce gave a talk
entitled "Dairying, it's ups and downs
and conducted a question box for his
large audience. Mr.. Hulce emphasized
the Importance of good feeds as a
means of increasing milk production.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
MRS. HENRY GRIBBLE DEAD

PLATTEVILLE-Mr Henry Crib
BILE died Friday morning at 5 o'clock
after an illness of several weeks. She
was one of the pioneers of Platteville.
Mr. and Mrs. Gribble celebrated their
Goth wedding anniversary two years
ago. She is survived by her husband,
son, Clarence, and daughter, Gretta.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
Mrs. Regina CardeY

Mrs. Regina Cardey, widow of the
late George Cardey, died at her home
in Lancaster, Wednesday, Feb. IL, at
the age of 81 years, five months and
ten days. Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon at the Methodist
church, with burial at Hillside.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18

DIR. P. L. Seaman of Prairie du
CHEN, formerly of Lancaster, has been
promoted to the rank of colonel in
the officers reserve corps of the U. S.
Army. The doctor left active service
at the close of the war with the rank
of major.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
DEATHS OF WEEK
Mrs. HARRIET NJ. Hall

Mrs. Harriet M. Hall died at her
home in the town of Eleenboro, Tues
day, Feb. 10, at the age of "a years,
three months and % days. Funeral
services were held Friday afternoon,
the Rev. j. o. Dutton officiating. In
terment was t-Buckwheat Ridge GEM
etery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
Washington.

According to recent Investigations
of Washington's private life and ac-
tivities, the Father of His Country"
was shrewd business man who never
scorned to take a profit and accumu-
lated a million dallors through real
estate speculation. He became Ameri-
cas- first millionaire and under pres
ent values would have been worth
ten millions. Washington made his
money in Virginia real estate and was
interested in opening the new western
lands in Ohio and elsewhere. Washing
ton busted himself with business and
also cut big swathe in the social
life of Virginia of his time. With every
opportunity to do so, Washington de-
clined to profit by a chance to sell
the government land for the national
capital site but he later invested heav-
lily in lots in the city that bore his
name.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18

Circuit court met Monday, cases be-
ing set for trial. The first jury case
opens Monday afternoon next, state
against Nauert, liquor case. State VS..
Taylor and Post follow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18

Clarissa Austin of Fennimore was
granted divorce from Thomas Austin
in circuit court, Monday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
THE WEEKS WEATHER

u. D. Kinney was a Fennimore bus
mess caller Saturday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18

John Unger died at his home in Min
eral Point. Feb. 10.
John l. Edwards has been appoint
ed postma ster at Hazel Green.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18

Grant county saloons seem to be
strictly "soft drink parlors." If some
of that stuff is soft" diamonds are
putty.
There may be no teeth in the Huber
law but there sure are teeth in the
bucksaw being used at the county jail
these days.
Jack Dempsey marries Estelle Tay-
lor and tells newspapermen he is
through with fighting forever. Is
Jack innocent or kidding the report
ers?
Gov. Wick Donahey of Ohio, says not
more than so percent of the taxpay-
er's dollar is potent-the rest wasted
on lame ducks and politicians. Vic is
an optimist.
Describing a murder, Sheboygan
exchange says, "it was one of the
worst murders committed here ii
months" Must be quite a place Tor
murders.
Vermont Republicans supported Cal
all right, all right, contributing $25
to his campaign fund. The national
committee spent $13,5O0 in Vermont.
Vermonters are yankee, republican
anQ-JnIlIly.
With the Chicago gunner, the Col
Inns cave case and Harry Snodgrass
the public has lost sight of Alice
Roosevelt Longworth. Something was
to happen in February. 1t came Sat
urday in the form of a baby girl.
Remember the good old days when
people used to pay as high as fifty
cents for a beautifully ornamented
valentine in five or six gaudy colors,
paper lace and so on with a little
angel inside? We used to send them to
our best girls 80 years ago. And in
those days some people bought out
rageously insulting valentines, mis-
labeled comic" which they sent to
folks they didn't like or wanted to
ridicule. Spinsters. drunkards, police
men. etc, were the customary butt of
these outrageous caricatures on hu-
NOR. But the postal laws governing
the sending of anonymous matter
through the mails put a stop to it and
the comic valentine is a thing of the
past. Good thing too.
And don't you remember the good
old days when the boys gathered in
the saloon and sang such classics as
sweet Adeline,' and tits Always Fair
Weather When Good Fellows Get To-
gether," not to mention 1.-THE Old Oak
en- Bu-hucket, That Hu-ung in the
We-hell." Then they wound up by be-
coming lachrymose and throwing up
all over the place. Yes, the good, old
DAYS are gone and some of their fea
lures are well gone with them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-18
Holm Stone.

John Stone.
The Herald believes in commencing
where honor is due instead of waiting
until man passes on and then print
ing lengthy obituaries about him.
People here recognize generally that
John Stones honesty, common sense
and frugality were big assets to Lam
caster when he held office. We think
John tried to save the taxpayers mon
ey and was absolutely straight When
he saw foolish and visionary things
exploited he had the courage to de-
nounce them. Because he did so he re-
ceived an avalanche of knocks.
Lancaster ought to hold a public
reception to John Stone to let him
know we appreciate thrift and good
sense even though we neglected to
follow his counsel.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

place in what is now the District OF
Columbia, the people of nearby Vir-
ginia and Maryland and the residents
of Georgetown and of the forest ana
farm land which afterward became
the city took an active interest in
everything that was going on. They
sent volunteers to join the colonial
army; they raised money and other
wise aided the cause. Many names
OF Georgetown residents appeared OH
the muster rolls of the Continental
Army.
Besides. many Of the great events
Of that period occurred not far away
in Virginia.
From Mount Vernon, on the Poto-
mac River, only a few miles below
the present city. came the great com
mander-in-chief. A steamboat carry
ing Washington merchants boosting
for the trade of Eirginians stopped a
few days ago at Yorktown, Va, where
the final success of the Revolution
was attained. The independence
which was declared at Philadelphia
became a fact at Yorktown, soon TO
be recognized by the British gov
ernment and all the world. The pres
ent site of the Capital City was then
a part of Maryland, a State which
played a most honorable role in the
revolutionary drama.
1t was at nearby Annapolis, capital
of Maryland that Washington, al
noon on December 13, 1888, after the
ratification Of the treaty Of peace, en-
tered a hall where the Continental
Congress was then sitting and re.
signed his commission as comman.
der-in-chief of the army
Few tragedies ever drew so many
tears" wrote the editor of the Mary
land Gazette in the f1owery style of
the time, from so many beautiful
eyes as the moving manner in which
His EXcellency took his final leave of
Congress-"
The very next day-the day before
Christmas aShington, accompanied
by his wife and the two Custis chil-
dren, Travelled by carriage across the
southern Maryland peninsula, where
so many Washingtonians are disport-
ing themselves during the vacation
period this Summer. They took a
boat over the Potomac River few
miles south of the present site of
Washington, reaching home on Christ
mas eve. At Mount Vernon a party
of old friends and neighbors waited
to welcome them. A young lady from
fredericksburg, Va, who was one OF
the guests, left her written impress
stons Of that Christmas day
All Christmas afternoon she
wrote, people came to pay their re
spects and duty. Among them were
stately DANES and gay young women.
The general seemed very happy, and
Mistress Washington was from day
break making everything as agreeable
as possible for everybody"
That is the charming picture of the
end of the drama which began eight
years before, when Washington un-
sheathed his sword $50 years ago this
month, without knowing but not
fearing-the consequences, under the
elm tree at Cambridge, so far away
from his pleasant home on the Po-
tomac.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

wife was on Seventh street southeast
between G and E. Frederick Prospect
was a Mason, knight of Pythias, Odd
Fellow and Red Man. He was the
first secretary of the musical union.
He was in the orchestra of Fords
Tenth Street Theater on the night of
the assa SSination, and after the Gov
ernment took over the building he be-
came leader of the orchestra at Ford s
Opera House, which had been Wallis
Opera House.
Frederick Prosperi died January 2,
1881, and rests in Congressional Gene
terry. His children were: Edward
who lives in Washington: Frederick.
who was assistant United States dis
trict attorney and is following the law
in Washington, Genevieve. now Mrs.
Henry CollihoWer of Washington;
James A. Prospect, who lives in New
York, but who comes home often;
Laura, who lives in Washington, wild
ow Of Edward V. Rice; Agnes, married
to Dennis G. Hanson, and living in
New York; Eva. living in Washington,
widow of Charles +. Shelton: Maud,
who is Mrs. Charles Pennock of Roch-
ester, and Minnie, who lives in New
York.
Frederick Prosperi's Orchestra and
Band was an important music organ
ization of Washington, and you re-
member Prosperi's Orchestra as you
remember Donch's Orchestra, Schroe-
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Locates the Pain.

VAGRANT aches and pains which
often aff1ict the stomach and are
hard TO identify may now be accur-
ately located and classified by an in
strument resembling a miniature seis-
mograph, the devise with which earth
quake tremors are recorded, according
to Popular Mechanics. The pain find-
er, devised by DR.. w. c. Alverez of the
University Of California, is said to
register the course of such Ills in al
most any part of the abdomen and to
clearly reveal every step of the di-
gestive processes. BY the recorder,
the passage of food through the di-
gestive tract can be closely followed,
and the exact spot and instant Of the
setting up of any trouble definitely
learned in a few minutes. The instru-
ment, called the multiple eIectro-en.
terograph, is said to obtain it's data
by means of a pendulum swung in
vacuum tube and marks its records
with q needle.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

Prospect. born in Tuscany in 1897
He studied music in Italy and studied
for the priesthood. l have heard
that he was ordained, but | have no
way to verify this. But he fought
duel and in that duel he lost an
eye. What injury his fellow-duelist
met I have not heard Perhaps it
was on account of this duel that
Francis Prospect found it salutary to
leave Italy, and he was in the United
States in 1872, and maybe sooner. In
1872 he was a musician in the West
Point Military Academy Band.
Tomasco Prospect, a brother of
Francis, was killed while a soldier in
an army of Napoleon. Anna Pros
peri, sister of Francis and Tomasco,
was mother of the great priest who
became the great Pope Leo XIII.
had heard that as a family tradition,
but experience shows it desirable TO
go lightly on repeating family tradi-
tions unless you can pin the state
ment with quotation marks on some
member of the family. The Rambler
checked up on the Prosperi relation
ship to Pope Leo XIII. Turning to
the Encyclopedia Americana, he
found this: Leo XIII, Joachim Vim
cent Raphael Lodovico Pecci, Pope
1S7S-l903, born at Carpinto March,
lSlU, dleu at Rome ~ july, 1Su3.
His father was Count Domenico
Lodovico Pecci and his mother Anna
Prosperi Buzz. The palace in which
Joachim was born was the country
house of the family"
x x
WHILE with the West Point Band
w Francis Prospect married Chris
tine Mcleod of Newburgh, y. Y. They
and their children came to Washing
ton in 1899 or 1870. l fix that date
because Frederick Prospect, one of the
celebrated Prospect boys of Washing
ton, was born at West Point, n. Y, in
1884 and was in Washington when he
was about years old. Francis Pros
peri entered the Marine Band, and his
son Frederick was a fifer in the Ma
rine Corps when he was a little boy.
Frederick went to sea in 1916 in the
frigate Raritan and served through
the war with Mexico. Returning to
Washington, he went in the Independ-
ence to Europe, and that ship was as
sociated in some way with John How
ard Payne. Frederick came home in
1853, Joined the Marine Band, playing
the flute and piccolo, and married Miss
Mary Ellen Cook, whose family lived
near Marlboro, Prince Georges Coun-
ty. The home of Frederick and his
Evening star., 1925-07-05
PRINT OF wAsHNcToNs HEADQUARTERS AT CAMBRIDGE

present city of Washington, nomi
mated Washington for commander-in-
chief he was elected without any op-
position, on motion of John Adams
by the delegates to the Continental
Congress from all the colonies.
Thenceforth the colonists were no
longer simply Marylanders, Virgin
ians. Pennsylvanians, etc; they were
Americans.
Washington rapidly became the idol
of the rank and file and of officers Of
the troops of the Northern, Middle
and Southern States, who began to
pour into Massachusetts. We can
catch something of the spirit of those
times when we recall, as one among
hundreds of stirring occurrences, how
Michael Cresap, a frontiersman Of
western Maryland, raised a company
of 130 backwoodsmen from as far
west as the wilderness of the Ohio
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Air Turbine.

n New Jersey meadow tract there
is a windmill that rotates on a
vertical axis and is known as an air
turbine. The blades or sails, made
of heavy canvas and brought about
automatically, come up to the wind
edgewise to the sheet
The sheets are held to the outside
OF the frame by metal clips that
straighten out and release the sheets
in an excessive wind This allows the
sheets to rip or blow away entirely.
thus leaving the metal frame intact in
every part.
Each tier of blades is termed a
unit and is calculated to generate
hve or six horsepower per unit in a
25-mile wind. A system of automatic
brakes is Installed to regulate the
speed Of the machinery.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

River. Capt. Cresap's company left
Frederick. Md, July IS, 1775. and
marched $50 miles 10 join Washington
at Cambridge. arriving August s.
Some of his men had travelled more
than 500 miles on foot. through the
forests and over the mountains before
they even reached the rendezvous at
Frederick.
They must have been great curiosi-
ties to the New Englanders when they
marched into camp. painted like In
dians, as was the custom of many
hunters of those days, armed with
tomahawks and long rifles and clad in
deerskin hunting shirts and mecca
sins. An eyewitness of, their depar-
ture from Frederick says:
They need nothing except water
Evening star., 1925-07-05

der's Orchestra, Weber's Orchestra
and perhaps other old orchestras that
do not come to my mind.
Francis Prospect, the first of the
name in Washington, and perhaps in
the United States, had other sons than
Frederick. They were: Charles, John,
Augustus and James. Jim played in
the Marine Band and then the Naval
Academy Band. Augustus was the
apothecary at the Naval Academy.
Charles and John were known
throughout old Washington as good
musicians and good citizens.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

waited field and farmhouse. George
village. The war was fought on other
fields.
But who should take a deeper in
terest in this long series of stirring
celebrations elsewhere in our country
than the residents of the city which
owes its very existence TO the sue
cessful elimination of those events
which began $50 years ago-the city
whose exact location and whose name
are due likewise to the man who
guided the destiny of the Thirteen
Colonies which became the United
States Of America?
Still, If no battles and other famous
events of the Revolutionary War took
Evening star., 1925-07-05

from the spring, with a little parched
corn, with what they easily procure in
hunting"
Washington was 43 years Of age
when he became the commanding gen
eral Of the Continental Army and en-
tered upon a career which made his
name the symbol of all that is noble
in public service and the inspiration
of the oppressed peoples of every
clime-a name which grows brighter
and inspires more reverence as the
years since his death increase.
X
WE who live in the city of Wash
ington have no great ami
yersaries of that period which we can
celebrate as peculiarly our own.
There was no city here then. The
site was woodland and swamp, with
here and there an occasional culti-
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Stronger Than Steel.

A THIN jet of water may be harder
than steel. Several such jets
exist at the new turbine station at
Fully, Switzerland. ahe nozZles from
which they issue are about 11z inches
in diameter, and the water, the pres
sure of which is nearly two tons to
the square inch, is 50 rigid shat a
strong man armed with an iron
crowbar would be unable to drive it
through this jet Of water.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Why Birds Are Not Stune.

pIRDS that eat wasps, bees and other
~ stinging insects do not depend on
chance TO protect them from being
stabbed inside their throats by the
victims, according to recent observa-
tions by German ornithologists.
Shrikes, fiycatchers and titmice catch
bees and wasps, but always crush
them with their beaks before swal-
lowing
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Make Elastic Glass.

TWO Austrian chemists have sue
ceeded after years of patient ex.
perimenting in producing elastic glass
It is made of carbomide and formalde,
hyde, and has all the properties Of
glass except it's hardness. It's in.
ventors csIl their material "Pe!lopas.r y
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Washington Took Army Command
At Cambridge as British Citizen
rArmedC
C1eatBria andSe rahon Promo COUNT
BY DONALD ALEXANDER CRAIG

NE hundred and fifty years
ago - on July 3, 1775 =
George Washington of Vir-
ginia took command at Cam
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Henry Donch Among Washington's
Early Band and Orchestra Leaders
Furnishes About
in Marine Banda andA Also About the Prospei Faml

7 7 ENRY DONCH was a famous
man in Washington when
the town was small. He was
Il Il a musician. Leaving the Ma
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-20
S. S. Parents Night Tonight at Old
South

This evening at the Old South
church will be Sunday School Par
entS' Night. The parents of all the
children of the Sunday school are
particularly invited to attend, as is
anyone interested in the work of the
Old South Sunday school. The meet
ing will be held in the vestry of the
church and will begin at 7.45. Rev.
Stanley Manning Of Augusta will
speak. Mrs. Manning will also be
IN attendance and will bring with
her Mrs. Winona Stevens Abbott.
who is on her way to be pastor of
the Federated churc., at Mattawam-
keag. Mrs. Abbot is a magazine
writer and lecturer and an extremely
interesting woman. Her particular
interest is teacher training and it is
hoped that she will also speak dur
ing the evening. Following the ad-
dresses there will be a social hour
with the opportunity for the parents
and teachers of the Sunday school
pupils to become better acquainted.
refreshments will he served Mrs.
Frank Babhit and Mrs. Leigh Web
Der are in charge OF this part of the
program.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-20
Housewarming for Mrs. Cecil Clark

About 40 of the employees of the II.
p. Clearwater establishment gave a
delightful housewarming to Mrs.
Cecil Clark, formerly Miss Madeline
Dolloff. Mrs. Clark proved IAN ac-
complished hostess and the party
was a very enjoyable one. The at
fair lasted from till IL. There
We're games of various sorts and
music and to wind up with, a flash
light picture.
The decorations We're most attrac-
tive. The scheme was pink and
green and it was carried out even in
the ice cream. In the center of the
dining table there was a very large
cake, with pink and green icing.
Streamers of pink and green ran
from the table to the lights. The
gifts came in to the hostess in bis
clothes basket, gaily decked with
pink and green to resemble a May
basket. They We're of linen, cut
glass. china and other articles suit
able for the use of a young house
keeper.