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PAGE TWO Buy An IH C Spreader From Your Local Dealer ”■*STS?; ? 'i- ■ i - J ‘-^• , BEY OND doubt a good man ure spreader is a necessity on every farm. Every live farmer has asked himself “Which spreader is best?” **Why is it best?” and, “Where can I buy that spreader?” The answer to these ques tions is—buy an IH C spreader from your local dealer. The fertility of your soil de pends as much on proper distri bution as on the manure itself. Settle the manure spreader question once for all. See the local dealer and buy an IH C Manure Spreader Kemp 20th Century Com King or Cloverleaf The I H C local dealer will -Show you good spreader con struction and explain why it is good. When you buy your spreader from him, he will set it up for you, show you how to adjust it, start you off right, and be right there all the time to take care of any future needs. Study fertility; learn why a good spreader is good. Buy an -I H C spreader from your local dealer—that is the beginning 1 of the most profitable farming. international Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) Chicago USA I H C Service Bureau The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free of charge to all, the best information obtainable on better farming If vou have ■ pay worthy questions concerningsdT.s, crops, cartel drainage, irrigation, fertilizer, etc., make your inquiries specific and send them to IH C Service Bureau, Harvester Building. “ Chicago, USA DON’T DELAY ‘Ordering from me on account of the distance you live from Cass ville, for I make yearly deliveries of nursery stock ot all kinds at Beetown, Bloomington and Lancaster and can very likely deliver your stock near to you. Your orders will receive prompt attention, no how small. • • a J. M. PRINGLE, Cassville : : Wisconsin BETH B. BOWERS Insurance, Loan, Real Estate and Notary Public. Agent for the following companies: Commercial Union Orient German American Phoenix National Pennsylvania Fidelity Underwriters Continental Springfield Westchester Also lagent for insurance, covering loss by fire, theft and collis sion. I have several pieces of city property for sale cheap. Call and see me. Office over Bennett’s drug store. Phone 16D1 Monuments OF HONEST WORTH Z invite your attention to the beauty and quality of the monuments I erect and should you need anything in this line I will be pleased |to confer with you and submit designs and prices. Alfred Warren The Reliable Monument Dealer LANCASTER, WIS. CHICHESTER S PILLS B THE DIAMOND BRAND. Lndiea! Ask your Druggist for ♦'hl-ches-ter’s Diamond Brnnd/XW Fills in Red and Gold inetallic\Vz boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. \/ Take no other. Buy of your * I’rugfflHt. AskforCHl-OIIES-TERS DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for 25 years known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable 010 BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE BLUNDER CAUSED LOSS OF MANY LIVES ON TITANIC Wireless Operator ignored Ship Nearest to Sink ing Liner and Did Not Act. SURVIVOR TELLS STORY Lookouts Thrice Warned Officers on Bridge in Last 15 Min utes Before Vessel Struck. FATED SHIP’S HOLD AF’RE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out in Coal Bunkers After Leav ing Southampton and Steamship Was Rusned Westward So That Blaze Might Be Ex tinguished in New York Port. New York, April 22.—First Officer Murdock, on the bridge of the Titanic, racing to New York for assistance in quenching a fire abot rd that had been raging since the day the liner left Southampton, passed unheeded three warnings from the lookouts of the ice berg ahead, the ship struck and then the wireless operators blundered. Such were the developments in the investigation of the appalling disaster of April 14. Three Warnings Given. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow’s nest of the Titanic to the offi cer on the doomed steamship’s bridge 15 minutes before she struck, accord ing to Thomas Whiteley, a first saloon steward, who now lies in St. Vincent’s hospital with frozen and lacerated feet. Whiteley reached the Carpathia aboard one of the boats that contained, he said, both the crow’s nest lookouts. He heard a conversation between them, he asserted, in which they dis cussed the warnings given of the presence of the iceberg. “No wonder that Mr. Murdock shot himself,” one of them said, according to Whiteley. Titanic Operator Blunders. The impatience of Phillips, the wire less operator on the Titanic, with the receiving ability of the operator on the North German Lloyd steamer Frankfurt, the nearest ship at the time of the disaster and the first to answer the stricken liner’s call for aid, caused Phillips to tell the Frank furt operator: “You are a fool; keep out,” and probably prevented the sav ing of many more lives from the wrecked liner. This was admitted by H. S. Bride, second wireless operator of the Ti tanic, pain-racked and sitting in an in valid chair, under the fixe of cross-ex amination before the senate commit tee investigating the disaster. J. Dilley, fireman on the Titanic, was authority for the statement that a fire had been raging in the coal bunk ers since the day the Titanic left Southampton, that 12 men had suc ceeded in making no headway against it and that the talk among the stokers was that the blaze would not be ex guished until the aid of fireboats in New York harbor was received. Told to Keep Out. According to Bride’s story, the Frankfurt waited 20 minutes before answering the “C. Q. D.” call of the Titanic, and then asked what was the trouble. Meantime the Titanic had raised the Carpathia. Phillips called the Frankfurt operator a fool and told him to keep out, but did not tell him the Titanic was sinking. Bride and Phillips both judged the Frankfurt was the nearest ship because of the strength of its spark. Bride also admitted refusing to an swer a call from the Californian to the Titanic in the afternoon before the wreck, but said he later intercepted a message from the Californian to the Baltic, telling of three huge icebergs. He said he handed this message to Captain Smith. William Marconi, inventor of the wireless, told the committee it was the duty of the wireless operator on the Frankfurt to tell his eaptain of the distress signal so that that ship might have rushed to the rescue. Whiteley, who was whipped over board by a rope while trying to lower a lifeboat, did not know either of the lookout men’s names, and believes they returned to England with the ma jority of the surviving members of the crew. “I heard one of them saj- that at 11:15 o’clock, 15 minutes before the Titanic struck, he had reported to First Officer Murdock that he fancied he saw an iceberg,” said Whiteley. “Twice after the lookout said he warned Mr. Murdock that a berg was ahead. I cannot remember their ex- GRaJNT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER WISCONSIN, APRIL 24, 1912 act words, but they were indignant that no attention was paid to their warnings. One of them said: ‘No won der that Mr. Murdock shot himself.’ ” Gets Dead Man’s Place. Whitley's own experience was a kard one. "I floated on my life preserver for several hours,” he said. “When the sun came up 1 saw the collapsible raft in the distance, just black with men. They were ail standing up. Mr. Lightoiler, the second officer, was one ot them. “It s 31 lives against yours,’ he said, “vqu can't come aboard. There’s no room.’ ”1 pleaded with him in vain, and then, 1 confess, I prayed that some body might die so I could take his place. 1 was only human. And then some one did die and let me aboard.” The senate investigators have gone to Washington where the inquiry will be continued. J. Bruce Ismay, P. A. S. Franklin, the chief officials of the White Star line and more than a score of officers and crew of the sunken vessel will appear before the commit tee in the capital. Ship’s Coal Was Afire. The story told by J. Dilley was as follows: “The Titanic sailed from Southamp ton on Wednesday, April 10, at noon. “I was assigned to the Titanic from the Oceanic, where I had served as a fireman. From the day we sailed the Titanic was on fire, anl my sole duty, together with eleven other men, had been to fight that fire. We had made no headway against it. “Of course the passengers knew nothing of the fire. Do you think, sir, we'd let them know about it? No, sir. “The fire started in bunker No. 6. There were hundreds of tons of coal stored there. The coal on top of the bunker was wet, as all of the coal should have been, but down at the bot tom of the bunker the coal was dry. The coal at the bottom of the bunker took fire, and smoldered for days. The wet coal on top kept the flames from coming through, but down in the bot tom of the bunker the flames were raging. Stokers Fight the Flames. “Two men from each watch of stokers was tolled off to fight that fire. The stokers, you know,, work four hours at a time, so 12 of us was fighting the flames from the day we put out of Southampton till we hit the iceberg. “No, sir, we didn’t get that fire out. And among the stokers there was talk that we would have to empty the coal bunkers after we had put our pas sengers off in New York and then call the fireboats there to help us put out the fire. “But we didn’t need such help. It was right under bunker No. 6 that the iceberg tore the biggest hole in the Titanic, and the flood that come through the Titanic put out the fire that our tons an 2 tons of water hadn’t been able to get rid of. Told to Shut Mouths. “The stokers were beginning to get alarmed over it, but tne officers told us to keep our mouths shut. They didn’t want to alarm the passengers.” Another fireman said that because of the fire the ship sank more rapidly than otherwise would have been the case. “It had been necessary to take the coal out of sections two and three on the starboard side forward,” he said, “and when the water came rushing in after the collision the bulkheads would not hold because they did not have the supporting weight of the coal. “Somebody reported to Chief En gineer Bell that the forward bulkhead had given way and he replied: ‘My, God, we are lost.’ ” Bodies and Debris Sighted. A wireless dispatch from the cable steamship Mackay Bennett says that the steamer Honls reported passing wreckage and bodies eight miles east of three icebergs. The Mackay Ben nett and the steamer Bremen are now in the vicinity and further advices are expected. THREE KILLED IN TORNADO Score Injured and Many Buildings Are Destroyed in Two Oklahoma Counties. Oklahoma City, Okla., April 22. Three persons are known to have been killed, at least a score injured and many farmhouses and village dwellings were wrecked when a tor nado, which formed in the vicinity of Yukon, swept in a northeasterly di rection through the counties of Okla homa and Logan. Hoisington, Kan., April 22. —Fifteen persons were injured, four probably fatally, at Bison, twenty-four miles west of here, when a tornado struck the place. Most of the houses in the south and east part of the town were blown down, a large elevator was de stroyed and a number of freight cars were carried a quarter of a mile. Anthony, Kan., April 22. —A tornado in the vicinity of Waldron, ten miles southwest of here, brought death to one person, injured eight others and did damage through loss of farm buildings and live stock estimated at $15,000. Wichita, Kan., April 22. —Two wom en are reported perhaps fatally in jured by a tornado which visited Kingman county, fifty miles west of here. Bacon Starts for Home. Paris, April 22.—Robert Bacon, who recently resigned the post of Ameri can ambassador to France, departed with Mrs. Bacon from Paris to Havre, where they will embark for the United Stales on board the new French line steamer France. NOTICE! THELANMSTERNUFiSERY I have a fine lot of strawberry plants of my own growing. Never bad Etronger. I will be ready to take up plants as soon as the ground is fit. Get in your orders early. Last year I had to return a great many orders that I could not fill. I don’t like to have to return money as I did last year. T don’t think there is another nursery in Wiscon sin that puts up as fine strawberry plants as I do or m as good shape. Ask those that have had my plants. You can get plants any day after the ground is ready. Don’t com pare my plants with cheap plants. When you get my plants they aie ready to plant. I nut all plants in baskets; the old runners and leaves are cut off with shears—not pulled off. Call and see me at any time and see what I have. The spring is late so if it is first-class plants you want you will have to hurry and get your orders booked. STRAWBERRIES Sen. Dunlop B Dark Red Warfield P Dark Red Glen Mary B Not so Red SI.OO PER HUNDRED CURRANTS . Fay’s Prolific, red $1.50 per doz. White Grape, white $1.50 per doz. GRAPES Moores Early, 2 yrs. old, $2 per doz. Campbell’s Early, 2 yrs. old, $2 doz. BLACK RASPBERRIES Strong Plants $3 per 100, 50c doz. Nursery located first house south of North School Farmers’ Phone No. 12 Send CASH with order. A. J. HOWELL, Lancaster, Wis. (TONY) 4w Eggs for Sale White Plymouth Rocks Barred Plymouth Rocks Butt Plymouth Rocks S. C. Orpingtons S. C. White Leghorns S. C. Brown Leghorns R. C. Rhode I. Reds Houdans Columbian Wyandottes White Wyandottes Gob en Wyandottes Silver Laced Wyandottes Black Langshans $1 A SETTING MRS. S. SHIMMIN Box 391 Lancaster, Wk. WHENEVER You need any work done in the line of Plumbing, Steam Fitting, Furnace Work Tinning or Repairing I shall be pleased to receive your orders. I have had years of exper ience and can promise you prompt and capable service. SHOP IN E. H. HYDE’S BLOCK where I show a stock of Bath Tubs, Lavator ies and "other articles of like character. Your patronage is respectful ly solicited. JOSEPHE. IVEY The Best O f Wines, Liquors and Cigars are the only kind I keep. Come and see me. John Schmidt. Pink’s Old Stand. Your Banking Business is Solicited by The Union State Bank OF LANCASTER, WIS. Capital $50,000 TRY OUR 5-Year Deposit PLAN and see what it means to you. Call and let us explain it in detail. C. H. Baxter, Pres. V. L. Showalter, Vice Pres. Richard Meyer, Jr., Cashier W. B. Carter, Ass’t Cashier. TO PURCHASERS OF Farm Machinery Now is the time to be securing your machin ery and farm implements for the spring season and we have the goods ready to show and deliver to you at reasonable prices. We have the Great Western Manure Spreaders Emerson and Rock Island Plows Emerson Foot Lift Gang Plows Dowagiac Seeders Com Planters Cultivators Hay Rakes Harrows Discs We have the well known Rock Island and Avery Wagons and a line of Buggies and Carriages. Call and see us before buying. Schiffman & Flesch POTOSI, WISCONSIN When Needing Lumber We would like a chance to figure with you. We carry a large stock of everything you may want in the way of Building Material and will make it to your advantage to deal with us. We have Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Roofings of various kinds, also Plaster, Plaster Board, Cement, Lime, etc. BRITTINGHAM-HIXON LUMBER COMPANY Stories of Success GEORGE PEABODY tSome men wait for favorable circumstances, but George Pea . body made cir p cumstances fav orable. He wag a saver and had invested hig money wisely, so in the pan icky days of 1837, when the business of the country was prostrated, and it’s credit at a low ebb, he was able to come to the rescue and abate the crisis by buy ing American bonds freely. His sim ilar deeds of philanthropy and pa triotism at home and in England en larged with the growth of his for tune. He gave over a million dol lars to the Peabody Institute at Baltimore, and erected an Indus .rial Home for the London poor costing two and a half millions. The habit of saving his money was the secret •of his success. Every man has a future, successful or otherwise, and the making is in his own hands. The important thing is the start; putting away for the future a part of the savings of today. A savings account is a great helper, and all you need is a dollar to make the be ginning.