Grant County herald. [volume], December 16, 1908, Christmas Number, Image 12

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GM corn HERALD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Entered April 30. 1903. at Lancaster. Wis
as second class matter under act oi Cong
ress ot March 3, 1&79-
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
Bell Phone No. 12. Farmer’s Phone No 49.
B. J. LOWREY, Editor and Prop.
Subscription Price. 11 50 Per year.
24 PAGES
THE CHRISTMAS HERALD.
T t he Herald greets its readers today
with an extra large sized namber—24
pages, in token of the approach of
Christmas and in order to give space
to the merchants who have special
things to say to the people concerning
the Christmas trade and who recognize
this paper with its large and growing
circulation as the best medium
through which to reach them.
It takes a lot of work to prepare
and print a paper of this size in a
•‘country” office, at this season'ot t e
year, when there is a great crush of
orders for other printing of all kinds,
but The Herald is now very much
better equipped than it has ever been
before and the edition has been turned
out right on time. Every page was
printed in our own office and nearly
all of it done within the past week.
It is, we think the largest special edi
tion ever printed in the county and
we question whether a larger or better
looking collection of advertisements
was ever put out at one time in any
paper in the state in a town of this
size. Furthermore it will In observed
that the advertisements are all for
bome dealers, which demonstrates
that Lancaster merchants recognize
the value of printer’s ink, judiciously
used. A careful perusal of these
advertising announcements will pay
you well in dollars and cents, as they
will show you the attractive bargains
that are now being offered in Lancas
ter, the best trading point in Grant
county.
THE HUSTLING WEST.
Does advertising pay.
There are a number of enterprising
towns that would laugh at this query.
They are proving every day that it
does For instance:
The people of Eugene, Ore., re
cently raised sls 000 to advertise the
interests of the town and Laue
county. Eugene has bad one yoar s
■experience in promotion work, and
found it a dividend payer on an in
vestment of $lO 000 in 1907-8. The
1908-9 fund, raised on the eve of the
national election, represents a con
tribution of sls for evory voter in the
town, and as compared with what
other cities have done is probably
the largest promotion fund, per capita,
ever raised by any city in the United
States su?h a purpose The money
will be used in general advertising
Five thousand dollars has als3 been
raised by the people of Goldendale,
Wash., to exploit the resoures of
Klickitat county. Thirty-six hnnlred
dollars was raised rn the first 36
minutes of the campaign, made under
the direction of Tom Richardson,
secretary of the Portland Commercial
club, and U. C. Chapman, president
of the Portland Advertising league.
The editor of The Herald spent two
weeks in and about Eugene in the
summer of 1907, and can vouch that
it is one of the prettiest and most
progressive inland cities of Orgeon.
It is situated at the head of naviga
tion on the Willammette river, 150
miles south of Portland, and from
a business standpoint is the key to the
great and rich Willammette valley.
Ten years ago Eugene was a quiet
and sleepy town of about 3000 popula
tion. It was not awake to its op
portunties, but a few active men
aroused it to the possibilites which
were within its reach. The people
became enthused and started to do
things. The town took a mighty
stride forward. Manufacturing in
dustries were secured; the natural
advantages of the town and surround
ing country were advertised to the
world; property values increased,
population advanced by leaps and
bounds; Eugene last year had become
a busy and rapidly growing city us
8,000; had built an electric railway
to traverse the principal streets of the
city and reach <ut to surrounding
towns, and had raised the money for
constructing a steam railroad to the
coast 100 miles away, to tap the im
mense tracts of timber lying between.
Today Eugene has a population of
10,000 and is still on the move. Its
people are now’ alive; they advertise
Eugene every day of the year and it
would be hard to find a man within
its corporate limits who don’t think
that the kind of advertising they do
pays and pays well. Here’s an object
lesson for good towns everywhere to
study. Do you see the moral to
the story?
—Hunting and trapping is said to
be at its best in most parts of the
county. Several have exhibited nice
furs in ths city during the past week
TAFT AND CANNON.
It is reported that Judge Taft in
an interview with Congressman
Burton of Ohio, given the past week
expressed a determination to have the
republican promise of tai iff revision
carried oi t by the next congress in
good faith, even if it becomes neces
sary to anatgonize the re-election of
Mi. Cannon as speaker. We may
well believe that Mr. Taft is in
earnest in his demand for revision,
though whether the executive would
undertake to influence the organiza
tion of the legislative branch of the
government is another question In
a speech at Des Moines during the
recent campaign he said:
‘‘Undoubtedly there are excessive
tariff rates, and corporations have
taken advantage of these excessive
rates to advance the price of articles
they produce. ** * it is my judg
ment, as it is that of many repuli
cians that there are many schedules
of tariff in which the rates are exces
sive, and there are few in which the
rates are nor sufficient to fill the
measure of conservative protecttion.
It is my judgment that a revision of
the tariff in accordance with the
pledge ot the republican party will be
on the whole a substantial revision
downward, though there probably will
be a few exceptions in this regard
This is a fair statement of ths
theory upon which revision should be
undertaken, the-theory that every in
dustry adapted to the resources of thi
country shoud have adequate protecs
tion, but that excessive protection
may be used to shelter monopoly
and therefore should be avoided. The
cause of protection has suffered
through the maintenance of exces
sive duties on domestic products in
which home competition is not
sufficient to regulate the price.
These excesses should be removed in
justice to the consumer and to the
cause of protection and to redeem the
pledges of the party and satisfy the
country.—Dubuque Times-Herald.
‘•Fighting Bob Evans, rear admiral
of the navy now retired and at present
on the lecture platform, is gieatly
admired on tbe Pacific coast, and the
people of Los Angeles have offered to
piesent him with a fine residence
property if he will make that city his
home Bluff old Bjb has declined
the honor with thanks, as he should
have done. He had a striking object
lesson along this line in the case of
Admiral Dewey, who when at the
height of his glory as the hero of
Manila Bay, was presented with a
fine home which led later to quarrel
ing and bickering that resulted in dis
placing him from the pedestal upon
which he bad been stood by the hero
worshipers and again lowered him to
the common level of men. Admiral
Evans does nit need aid; he is amply
able to take care of nis own needs
and he better retains bis self re
spect and his place in the hearts of
the American people by his courteous
declination of the proffered honor.
No one will envy Mr. Taft and the
next congress in their efforts to revise
the tariff So many interests will be
affected by changes in the schedules,
ana so many will not wish to suffer
the inevitable losses and inconveni
ences that must follow a change, that
there will be a strong pressure backed
by both capital and labor against
mak'ng any changes worth mention
ing However, there is no question
but that the people will demand a
material revision in some of the
schedules where certain monopolies
are now able to so control prices as
to reap enoromous profits by thorough
ly stifling home competition. Presi
dent-elect Taft and the republican
party are on record in favor of an
earnest and sincere revision at the
special session of congress to be called
so after March 1, and we expect to
see it satisfac orily accomplished.
The advice being generally given
nowadays to shop early and avoid the
rush of the later holiday crowds is
a good one, and ought to be followed
by more people. By this time all the
merchants have their full line of
holiday stocks on exhibition and the
purchaser who buys new not only
avoids the rush, but gets the cream of
the stock, together with more court
eous attention from the clerks. Also
it may be that if the merchant has
not got the precise article in his stock
at this time he will be willing and
able to get it for you when you need
it. _____
President Castro, of Venzuela, who
recently left that country for Berlin,
upon the representation that he found
it necessary to undergo a dangerous
surgical operaton, is said to have
sixty million of dollars deposited to
his credit in one of the banks of
London where for the past four years
he has been depositing the savings
from his salary of $2,500 per yeai.
This partially explains why such
thrifty souls as Castro find it de
sirable to become revolutionists in
the South American countries.
—The “Race for a Widow Com
pany” went from here to Montfort
where they appeared Saturday night.
xiANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER; WIS., DECEMBER 16 190-
Girls, there is nothing that He will
appreciate as much for Xmas, as a
box of Charles Denby, El Cel ebro,
Grand Session or Marguerite cigars
Any dealer carries them. 94t2
VSTATE of Joseph W. Alcorn, deceased
I- 4 btate of Wisconsin: Countv Court of
tyrant county—ln Probate.
Notice is hereby given. that at the special
term of the County Court to be held in and
lor said county at the court house in the
city of Lancaster, in said county, on the
second Tuesday of January, A. D. 1909. be
ing the 12th dav of January. 1909, at the
hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon, the
following matter will be heard and consid
ered;
The petition of Mary Alcorn for the ap
po: nlment of an administrator of the
estate of Joseph W. Alcorn, late of the city
of Lancaster, in Grant county. Wisconsin,
deceased _ , . „
By order of the Court.
E. B. GOODSELL. County Judge,
Dated December 11th, 1908.
Brown & Brennan, Attys, for Petitioner,
-Christmas
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greens, holly,
plants and
flowers, moss
and boxwood
leaves for homes
and cemetery use
-leucothia sprays
galax leaves, misletoe
and Christmas bells,
-cut flowers in vari
ety. A fine lot of
ferns, palms, and
flowering plants for
Christmas Also jardin
iers, bulb and fern dishes
in variety. Something
new in hanging baskets.
Taylor’s
Greenhouse .
W. L. Taylor, Prop.
Bell Phone I 332
Sensible
Christmas
Gifts
pocket knives
razors, hockey
skates, lever skat
es, air rifles, single
shot and repeaters,
22 gauge single and
repeaters, 20 gauge
single and double barrel
shot guns, also 16 and
12 gauge guns. Stevens
pistols, hunting coats,
vests and shell belts.
Boys handled axes, hunters
axes, pipes and other articles
W. R. Walker
west side court house square
!;-IBb^4 ;
firm of Ivey & Webb have the distinction of being
in continuous partnership without change in the membership
longer than any other firm in Grant County.
nnthey carry lines of General Merchandise of well-known
reputable brands and makes, goods that give satisfaction to
the purchaser.
■_Jor the next two weeks we offer underwear, men’s shoes
and dress goods at greatly reduced prices in order to clean up
and reduce the stock before inventory. These goods were not
purchased for a sale day with qualities to correspond to prices
and make a good profit on same, but are good honest stock
which will do you good.
_we carry good lines of rubber footwear and are agents
for the Red Regent arctics and rubbers. We also carry a full
line of groceries and deliver goods on short notice. The cele
brated Ardee and Superlative brands of flour sold only by us.
Ivey & Webb, Lancaster
Call us up on £Fsell Telephone No. 1492 or on Farmers
Buy your Xmas Candy, Nuts and Fruits
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NATHAN’S
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“Nothing but the best" is our motto
All goods strictly fresh
No old stock to get nd of
Turkeys, Ducks, Geese and Chickens for Xmas Dinner
Free Delivery Bell Phone 1822
H. G. NATHAN, Lancaster