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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
A BEAUTIFUL FARM
Schuster Place Below MasSeyville Hill
Carved out of Virgin Timber.

Jacob Schuster is developing one of
the finest farms in the southern part
of the county on the bench alnd above
Grant river and below the Massey
vile hill in Potosi township. This
land originally was virgin timber of
the finest kind, several hundred acres
in area. Much of the timber has been
cut away, leaving fine, level plowland.
Jacob still has SO acres of fine oak
timber which he is 10th to put the
sawyers into. Part of the timber still
standing is fine hardwood with an I'M
dercarpet of grass and wild flowers.
Jake has put up some good buildings
on the place and with its setting OF
forest, hill and river the farm has a
very pleasing aspect.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
THESE MAY WE'D
Two Licenses.-COlOred Couple From
Sunny South Married Here.

Licenses to wed were granted last
week to:
Ed L. Kos. Muscoda. and Mildred L.
Wade, Lone Rock.
Robt. Dallas, TaIedega, Ala, and
Fanny Irvine, Proctor, Ark.
The last named parties are employed
on the road construction work be-
tween Lancaster and Fennimore. The
groom is engaged as laborer while
his bride serves Southern cooking to
the army of colored laborers employed
on the road improvement. They were
married by Justice Burrows Thursday,
Misses Kathleen Crichton and Ethel
UT acting as witnesses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Memorial Day
Observance.

Years ago Memorial day (mOre prop
erly Decoration day') was sacred
holiday. 1t was devoted to patriotic
devotions, to decoration Of t h e
graves of departed soldier dead, of
paying respect to their memories. In
no sense was it a boisterous or ma
terial sort of holiday.
In late years Memorial day has de-
generated into a sort of saturnalia.
Sports of all kinds, speed races, prize
fights, dances and other forms of friv-
olity seem to characterize the day. 1t
is a sad commentary on modern Am
erica when it degenerates to this.
A strong portion of the American
mind favors keeping Memorial day
surrounded with its hallowed prece
dents. 1T IS a day for patriotic de-
votion. 1T IS day for decorating the
graves of the dead. 1T is day for
a brief halt in the whirl of CONNER
cialism to consider and mediate upon
what Americanism really means.
Unless we can put the day to its
proper purpose we had best admit our
national degeneracy and abandon it
altogether.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
AN ENDOWMENT FUND.-
Meeting Held Here to Talk Plans for
Drive Which Opens June I.

The American Legion county council
met at Grantland club rooms Thurs
day evening to discuss the endowment
fund drive scheduled for the early part
of June. Those present were:
Ralph Hoskins and A. c. Bishop of
Bloomin gton; Geo. Frantz and V. A
Hetlund of Fennimore; Scott CAREY,
DR.. Nuby and DR.. Schultz of Platte
Vile; Evans Barnett, A. Austin and
B. Dickman of Boscobel; Paul Keit-
linger, F. c. Meyer and L. D. Eastman
of Lancaster.
The drive will take place June 1 to
June 6.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burbach of
Cuab City entertained at o'clock
dinner Sunday, for Chas. Schollmeyer,
who passed his 84th birthday.-News.
Mrs. Alex Hefferen, "a, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Pat Nc
Carten, Darlington, on Sunday, May H..
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
WOULD BE A CITIZEN
PIatteville Man Makes Declaration of
Intent to Be an American.

Carl F. lessen, aged 81, a resident of
Platteville, has filed his declaration of
intent to become an American citizen.
Mr.. lessen arrived in the United States
from Germany, on May Is, 1922, and
three years later to day, filed papers
of intent He must wait two years
longer before making application for
citizenship. Upon passing the proper
examination he will become full
f1edged American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
NEW Funeral COACH

Geo. P. Goble e Son have added to
their equipment new limousine fu-
neral coach of the latest design. The
car is fitted with the newest improve
ments of balloon tires and four wheel
brakes and by the elegance and re-
finement of its lines entirely elimin-
ates the sombreness and unnecessary
display of the old style hearse. This
type of car is rapidly being adopted
by the largest city firms.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
FLORIDA ON THE BOOM

Oscar Monson returned Saturday
fromh Petersburg, Fla, about half way
down on the east coast, where he went
to look up business location. Mr..
Monson says a big boom is on all over
Florida and a number Oh fine business
locations exist there. At no time while
he was there was it as warm as it was
in Lancaste- last Friday. He was gone
about six weeks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
TAKEN TO MENDOZA
Aged FennimOre Woman Insane, Elk.
aiming Physicians Report.

Upon report of Drs. E. C. Howell
and M. A. Bailey, Judge Goodsell on
Friday committed Mrs. Laney Spease
Tucker, aged rs, of Fennimore, to the
Mendoza State Hospital. Mrs. Tucker
has threatened suicide and showed a
tendency to wander away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
ROUGH ON THE CHICKS
Fire in Poultry House Heating Device
Causes Loss Of Building.

A heating device used in chicken
house on the John Beckett farm west
of town, set fire to the structure Mon
day week ago. Mrs. Beckett saw the
flames from the barn yard and man
aged to rescue few chicks. The loss
was adjusted by the Mutual Company
for $45.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Islam.

Islam.
The Herald must expression SYM
pathy for the down-trodden Moors of
Africa and hope that they will drive
their European oppressors out. And
the Moors seem to be capable of it.
The exploitation of augmented races
by the white is an old and sordid
story. AS rule the white is success
full. Once in a while a nation like
Spain Ca disgrace to the Christian
white nations) runs up against a
stubborn and crafty lot of Nationalist
like the Riffs, and the story takes a
different trend.
Kennel Pasha, Turkish republican,
drove the Greeks out of Asia Minor
and made Turkey the only defeated
power able to bring the victorious al
lies to terms favorable to her. The
allies gave in to Kennel because they
dared not do otherwise. Stricken but
virile Islam raised her head from the
dust.
Islam asks for a place in the Sun
and a chance to live. We believe she
is entitled to it. We hope she gets it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Mr.. Bryan and
The Rihln.

The Bible, Book of Books" needs
no defenders but Mr.. Bryan, an ex-
cellent man who hasn't an idea later
than 1860, is willing to break several
lances for it. Lately Mr.. Bryan has
donned gloves in favor of the Ten
nessee evolution law along with a con-
troversy at Brown University in New
England, where he was booed and
Kissed.
At Brown the Commoner put dis
tinctIy unfair question up to a callow
youth and received an answer which
was the only one the youth, consider
ing his surroundings, could make, but
which was not the truth. The Com
moner asked the boy if he believed in
the Bible and received a negative
answer. Then" said Mr.. Bryan, Il
am sorry for you and ashamed of
you" He then left the stage.
The fact is, that at his age, the
young man doesn't know what he be-
lieves. AS he gets older he will see
as others see that as a book there is
nothing like the Bible in the world.
Grotesque as it may be in places, bar
barous and savage as it may be in
others, groveling as it may seem to
modern eyes in others. it remains a
matchleSs book not to be compared to
any other piece of literature in the
world. The Bible as a record of the
spiritual progress of the race as de-
picted fragmentarily in the Old Tes-
lament, and as a code of life as set
forth in the New, has won place by
sheer power that is superior to any
other book in the world. How one be-
/, hAIf nv xxyhx %
believes do not change the factors.
No library is complete without a
Bible and no human life is complete
without study of it.
The Bible should be considered
from spiritual standpoint. 1t is I'M
fair to both Science and the Book of
Books to make comparison on ma
terial basis. Those who do so are like
Mr.. Bryan-splitting hairs and fitting
windmills There is nothing to be
gained by it and no wise Bibliophile
or canny Scientist will engage in such
fruitless controversy.
One of the pleasantest memories OF
childhood's happy days is that in that
remote time we had circus or two
every year.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who was slave to her
clothes? How can she, when she can
put them in a vanity box?
900
This is the time of year when we
get ready to honor the memory of the
heroic dead with baseball games, brass
bands, lemonade stands and general
uproar on May 80.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

Grant county paid to farmers ST.
1884 for damages done stock by
dogs, which included the cost of ap-
praising. Claims were for sheep
killed. Richard Rawson of Platteville
lost eight sheep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Flashes
Life is ShOrt-Tell the Truth"
Give Hindenburg
q Chance.

Max Harden, German democrat who
did as much as any power to help
break the Hohenzollern grip on Ger
many, asks the world to give linden
burg chance. Harden, lone fighter
broke the German morale because he
destroyed the idea of Germanic imper-
ialism. With his pen he won more
battles than Foch or Douglas Haig.
What he says must be listened to.
Hindenburg AN avowed royalist,
knows enough to know that Hohenzol-
lernism will not be tolerated. He
wants peaceful, prosperous, a hap
by Germany. Max Harden says so.
When Max asks the world must listen.
Give Hindenburg a chance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

James Garvey, u, died at his home
in Darlington, Sunday, May Is. He
leaves wife and seven grown chill
dren
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

Miss Alice Flanagan, R. N, who has
been at the Doolittle hospital for sew
eral months past, has returned to her
home in Dubuque.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
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SNOW FELL MAY "a
Gardens Nipped and Citizens Swing
From Straw Hats to HeaVieS.

To complete the phenomena of
weather freakishness snow fell in Lam
caster early Sunday morning, May "a.
This drop in temperature followed "a
in the shade last Friday. The drop
from "a above to 80 above occurred in
SO hours. A drop of 81 degrees.
The rush for straw hats started on
Friday and stopped with abruptness.
Furnaces were started going and
heavy underwear and overcoats put
on. One man went to church Sunday
with a fur overcoat tapping at his
heels He looked comfortable.
Quite heavy frost marked both Sun
day and Monday mornings. Garden
stuff was nipped and blackened. While
the cool weather was relief from the
sitting heat of Friday and Saturday
up to Saturday evening as usual the
weather man overdid it.
Last Weeks Weather
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

Mrs. Frank Smith is at Elkader, Ia,
visiting ner sister, Mrs. Herman Blum.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who was a slave to her
clothes? How can she, when she can
put them in a vanity box?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

This is the time of year when we
get ready to honor the memory of the
heroic dead with baseball games, brass
bands, lemonade stands and general
uproar on May 80.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

One of the pleasantest memories of
childhood's happy days is that in that
remote time we had circus or two
every year.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
PYTHIANS IN TORRINGTON
State and National Officers Speak at Litchhcld County Lodge-State Home Endorsed.

About 30 members of the New Britain lodges of Knights of Pythias accompanied by delegation from Hartford and Salem, motored to Torrington last night and conferred with members of Torrington and Winsted lodges in the interests of a state home for Knights of Pythias.
 Among the speakers were former Grand Chancellor William Cowli- shaw, Supreme Representative Man. lius H. Norton, Deputy L. S. Mar shal A. P. Marsh, William Hickey chairman of the committee: Walter w. Gould, secretary of the commit tee; Chancellor Commander Barney Cramer of St. Elmo lodge and oth' CTS. B. l. Knapp of this city, whc was chancellor commander Of tho Torrington lodge 25 years ago, also spoke.
 Ernest R. Dechant of New Britain and a member of the local commit tee, also a member of the Torring- ton lodge, was toastmaster.
 The state home project received the endorsement of the Litchfeldl county members.
 In an initiation ceremony which preceded the speaking members Of St. Elmo lodge were invited to con- duet the ceremony. They accepted the invitation.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
FORMER REVENUE
 MEN ARRESTED
Accused of Altering Records Railroad Man Accuses Them

New Haven, March 26.-John F. McCarren, of 1914 Eleventh street Washington, D. C., and James J. l Clifford of Washington. were arrest cd in Milford last night and are be- ing held here for the federal govern ment as fugitives from justice. It is alleged that the men are wanted in connection with a nationwide in come tax conspiracy in which the government has been defrauded of large sums of money. Their bonds were placed at s5,00o each.
 The men were arrested following information given to department of justice agents by Joseph D. Brady connected with the legal department of the New Haven railroad. It is said that the men approached NIT. Brady and offered to cut the federal income tax of the railroad company in half if the other half was given to them.
 After the information had been given to the federal agents, Wash- ington was notified, it was said, and the New Haven police were asked to apprehend the men, 1t being be- lived in Washington that they were . the men wanted in connection with ithe tax fraud,
 It was said here that McCarren and Clifford resigned from the In- ternal Revenue department in Wash ington and assuming the title of tax experts" approached many large manufacturers throughout the coun- 1 try offering to secure for them large cut in their income tax returns. It was said that the men worked In conjucnction with an auditor in the departmen in Washington.
 It was said that the plan worked successfully for the men over long period of time and that the books at Washington had been so altered that the indebtedness of the firms which accepted the proposal were elimina- ted from the records.
 The men were traced to an inn in Milford near nere. When arraigned at police headquarters they gave their occupations as accountants They said they would return to Washington, waving extridition,
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
MASTODON BONES
 FOUND IN N. YORK
EXcaVators Find Them 22 Feet
 Under Surface

New York. March 26,-Manhattan had q mastodon.
 This highly significant scientific fact was established yesterday when members of the staff of tho Amer lean Museum of Natural History hastcned 10 an excavation for an apartment house at Dyckman street and Seaman avenue and fell with cries of joy on an assortment of bones unearthcd by workmen Previously Newburg, N. r.. had been high-hatting gay Gotham something dreadful because all of the masto- dons were found up there.
 Apparently the creature was down on a visit here from Newburgh, 10,- GOO years ago, and caught in sub way jam. At any rate, the bones were found % feet under the sur face, embedded in soft clay. There may be other family skeletons of the mastodon scattered about Man haitian. but none has been found.
 Dr. C, C. Nook, assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology, who transferred the bone fragments from the excavation to the museum, said there was mo question" they were part of mastodon. Several pieces-foot bones, tooth or two, and other fragments-were carried ! off by curio collectors, but Dr. i Nook brought back some teeth, l pieces of leg bones and part of an under jaw. The largest bone ts not more than three feet long.
 Vouching for the great age of the mastodon, whose bones are being polished for exhibition in the mu- scum Columbus avenue and 77th streeD, Dr. Nook said the resistance of the jaw bones to the ravages of time was significant,
 The mastodon was about the size of the modern elephant, but built nearer the ground, like a police mans feet. It resembled closely the mammoth with its characteristic upturned tusks, but was smaller and probably nearly as hairless as the elephant, whereas the mammoth had long, shaggy coat.
 Complete skeletons of the masto- don have been found in Upper New York and other parts of the country. Yesterdays discovery is considered important chiefly because 1t estab- fishes the animals existed where i New York city now stands.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
Grange Approves Wheeler
 Bill on Dry Enforcement

Hartford, March 26.--states At torney Hugh NJ. Alcorn, who is chairman of the committee of states attorneys in charge of Senate bill number 4S3, known as the Wheeler enforcement bill, yesterday received from the master of the Connecticut State Grange, copy of the follow ing vote which was recently passed by the state Grange:
 "The executive committee of the state Grange of Connecticut places itself oh record in favor of law en- forcement and believes that Senate Bill number 43S, now pending in the General Assembly, or a similar bill which has for It's object the enforce ment of the eighteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, should be adopted.
 Signed Allen R. Cook, Master ol the State Grange"
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
HUMAN SACRIFICE
 TOLD BY SISTER
Relatives of CaliiOrnia'S Willing
 Victim Speaks

oroville, Cal, March 2dF-Her- man P. sharlow, victim of cult branding here offered himself as a sacrifice to the holy ghost" al- though he did not expect to pay with his life, according to a confession announced here late yesterday by District Atty Edgar Rothe, as hav- ng been obtained from Mrs. Anna Rhodes, as she lay on sick bed il her home, which she calls Ark 1f the Covenant"
 Rothc announced that he would six for an insanity warrant against Mrs. Rhodes, and convene the grand jury for a thorough inquiry into the practices of the religious hody to which the woman and her relatives are alleged to belong. This organization is said to be inown as the Assembly of God" and its members are represented as 'laiming 1t is an outgrowth of the Pcntecostal church.
 The branding, according to Rothe's statement of Mrs. Rhodes confession, occurred in the early hours of March 1. Her brother, Sharlow she is reported to have admitted, volunteered to have the Holy Ghost burned into him. In the presence of her husband, Ed ward, she, as the Roaring Lion of the Tribe" first passed the white hot Iron over her lips to purify 1t, and then applied it 10 the soles of $harloW's feet and his head, making the "sign of the cross" with 1t. Papers meantime were burning In Dhe corners of the room. In an adjoining room. 1t Is claimed, were Mfr. and Mrs. Frank Rhodes, brother and sister in law of Edward Rhodes.
 Two hours later the purported confession continues. the family staged Garden of Eden scene entirely nude. This was partici- pated in, it is alleged, by the two Rhodes couples, and the two chill lren of Mrs. Anna Rhodes It was said by Mrs. Rhodes to have been interrupted by Mrs. Olive Hum phreys of San Francisco, an evange- list of the Pentecostal church, who protested against such practices
 Sharlow died last Thursday.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
ELKs LADIES' NIGHT

Miss Mary Magnell, Hartford harpist, will play at the Elks club tonight, when New Britain lodge, B. P. 0. E. will observe Ladies Night" The Arion quartet also of Hartford which had been heard sev- eral times on the radio, hroadcasting from WTIC will sing. The Romatne Fountain orchestra of Middletown will play for dancing. Luncheon will be served
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
"The Lone Wolf" Wanted
 By Police in Richmond

Richmond, Va, March 26.-Rich- mond police announced today they would seek the return here of James E. Walters, arrested in Boston yes tefday charged with being the Lone Wolf" burglar who operated In the Back Bay district there.
 Police said they wanted Walters to answer felony charges They avowed that his description on file here was instrumental in effecting his capture. Walters was never sen fenced here but was held as a sus- pect in series of burglaries in 1922.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
CollirisvilIe Parish to Have New Catholic Church

Conllinsville. Conn. March 2s.--A new church to replace that burned last Saturday, Is planned by St. Pat rick's Roman Catholic parish here, as result of a meeting of parishon- CTS held last night. About $50 were present at the meeting which was held in the town hall. D. J. Riordan, who was chairman of the meeting was also named as chairman of the general committee together with Rev. James l.. Smith, the pastor. The new edifice will cost in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $s0,o0O 1t was estimated. It Is planned to raise s2O,0OO by weekly pledges Services are being held in the town hall, until the burned church can be replaced.
New Britain herald., 1925-03-26

York in 1907. Both avowed indif- ference on the part of their hus- bands.
 Mabel Alice Cromer Kilpack, who married William Bennett Kilpack, oi l32 East 18th street, New York city in Boston in 1909, was granted q .di' vorce, on grounds of abandonment and non-support.