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GRANT COUNTY MAN BUYS AN ICE MINE Natural Phenomena Is Located Near Coudersport, Pa. Cavern In Earth That Freezes Water In the Summer Time. —May Be Big Thing. Did you ever hear of an ice mine? E. H. Smith, son-in-law of Clinton Cardy, living eight miles this side of Cassville, is part owner ofwhat is claimed to be the only ice mine in the world that actually manufactures ice. This interesting phenomena is located about four miles out of the city of Coudersport, Pa. Mr. Smith who has been until a year ago preceptor of Adelphia academy, Holly, Michigan, and his brother-in-law, are owners of the property. The mine itself is lo cated on a hillside in a rather rough country, and is six feet across the top and thirty feet deep. During the sum mer time mist rises from the cavity, icicles for around the sides, and the bottom contains pure ice for a num ber of feet deep. Mr. Smith relates that his brother in-law who is an instructor in an Ohio college, while travelling through Penn sylvania, ran onto the property which at that time was owned by an old man named Dodd. Mr. Dodd made no at tempt to commercialize his holding be yond charging a fee of 25 cents to the curious passerby. The new owners purchased the land containing twenty-six acres and the improvements, for $3,700, about a year ago. They expect to advertise the mine as a natural curiosity and also to market the ice which forms in un limited quantities. Being young men of push and enterprise they will no doubt make a success of it. But about the mine. According to Mr. Smith the mine was discovered about eighteen years ago when some people were prospecting. The pros pectors dug down about twenty-five fe j t’ when the bottom of the cavity seemed to be hollow, and they were afraid to go further. Since then the bottom caved in for about six feet and the ice commenced to form. An ex pert from the United States geological department has investigated the cav ern and after a careful examination was unable to give any conclusive rea son for the phenomena. He suggested however, that in his opinion cold air arose from hole during the summer months striking the warm air of the surface causing condensation of the moisture in the atmosphere and sub sequent freezing. He also stated that there might possibly be a vein of plat inum in the earth at the location of the mine. Mr. Smith says that during the win ter months the cavity is entirely dry and that the surface of the ground for a strip of about fifty feet in length is free from snow or ice. Do you believe it? Mr. Smith is a man who gives every evidence of sin cerity. If you do not, it is very easy to take the train and run down to Coudersport, or stop off on your next visit to New York or London. OPPORTUNITY. They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances past away; Weep not for golden ages on the wane Each night I burn the records of the day; At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped; To vanish joys be blind and deaf and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come. Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say “I can”. No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep But yet might rise and be again a man. Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution’s blow? The turn from blotted archives of the past And find the future’s pages white as snow. —Walter Malone. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. Resolutions of condolence and res pect by Evelyn Camp No. 1685, Royal Neighbors of America, of Beetown, Wisconsin, as a tribute to the memory of Kate Hayden, who died Sept. 30, 1915. Whereas, it has pleased our Heaven ly Father to remove from our midst our beloved neighbor and friend. Be it resolved, that the members of Evelyn Camp, No. 1685 extend their heart felt sympathy to husband and children and other relatives of the de ceased in the deep affliction and gloomy hour of their sorrow. And be it resolved, that the charter be draped in mourning for a period of sixty days, and a copy of these res olutions be sent to the husband and to two of the local papers for publica tion. and also be spread on the rec ords of the camp as a tribute to her memory. ADDIE STURMER, LUELLA HOUGHTON, BESSIE KARTMAN, REAL ESTATE DEALS Transfers Filed With Recorder of Grant County. An active Movement in Good Farm ing Lands and All Kinds of Town Property. Real estate transfers from October 2 to October 16, 1915. J. C. Betz, Carl Jones end Chas. Hayman, to Ever G. Olson and Charles Krato chvill, lot in Boscobel; consideration *- $ 350.00 Henry Chandler to Jozef Volnec, 80 acres in Wing- ville; consideration 6,400.00 Frank O. Chandler to Jozef Volnec, 40 acres, more or less, in Wingville; consid ation 3,200.00 Adam Scheider to N. M. Mar- cus, lots in Muscoda; con sideration 2,775.00 George H. Harris to Thos. J. Harris, 80 acres in Wy- alusing; consideration 2,400.00 Bethlehem Evangelical church of Lancaster to Henry Kleinpell to Sophia Kleinpell, his wife, three daughters, Felicia, Elsa and Malitha Kleinpell, lots in Cassville; consideration 10.00 John T. Ruka to Emma E. Smith, lot in Boscobel; consideration 325.00 Mrs. Sarah Jane Jeardeau to Miss Helen Neely Jear deau, lot in Platteville; consideration, maternal love and affection, and 5.00 Lucy A. Jeardeau to Helen Neely Wichushi, of San Diego, Cal., lot in Platte ville; consideration, sister ly love and affection, and—• 10.00 Benjamin Sirer to Henry Bausch, lots in Lancaster; consideration 1.00 Helen Neely Wichershi to H. Cordes, lots in Platte ville; consideration, other valuable consideration, and 1.00 George Funk to Ernest Funk, 120 acres in Mt. Ida; consideration 1.00 H. F. Mundon to Hosea E. Mundon, 40 acres in Li ma; consideration, love and affection and $ 1.00 Hosea Mundon to William F. Mundon, 20 acres in Lima; consideration, love and af fection and 1.00 Hosea Mundon to George Ed- ward Mundon, 20 acres in Lima; consideration, love and affection and 1.00 Sarah J. Atkinson to Mary E. Williams, lots in Platte ville; consideration, love and affection for the said second party, and 2.00 John W. Jones to John W. Miles, lots in Boscobel; consideration 200.00 Robert E. Homewood and N. G. Larimer and others, to Arthur Richason, lot in Blue River; consideration 125.00 Robert E. Homewood to F. M. Eaton, lot in Blue Riv-; er; consideration 1.00 George Bickford to William F. Mundon, 80 acres in Li- ma; consideration 200.00 Eugene Fry to Sanford Fry 23 acres, more or less, in Mount Ida; consideration- 1,250.00 William Marsden to Charles E. Marks, 175 acres more or less in Fennimore; consid eration 10,500.00 H. F. Mundon to Clara Belle Stead, 20 acres more or less in Lima; considera tion, love and affection and 1.00 Mary A. Bennett to T. F. Croft, lots in Lancaster; consideration 1,300.00 MY SON. I that yearned for youth, my own again, And mourned the wasted hours of younger days, I that had signed for spring, for summer, when The snow’s of winter covered all my ways— I that had prayed for years, for only one. Have found that prayer answered in my son. He is myself again, with hopes of old, With old temptations and with old desires; He is myself again—the clay to mold Into the man, and all the man as pires. Who says that youth returns to us no more? He is as I was in the days of yore. In my own days, in my own days of youth, Ah. how I wished a comrade and a friend! — To help me keep the quiet path of truth, And through temptation my own feet attend. So shall I journey onward by his side. His father —yet his comrade and his guide. I that have failed shall shape suc cess in him, I that have wandered point the prop er path, A signal when the lights are dim A signal when the signal lights were dim, A roof to fend him from the storms of wrath — So we shall journey upw’ard, I and he, And he shall be the man I meant to be. —Douglas Malloch in American Lum berman. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1915. SB ■ I w H o tIL COPYRIGHT 1913 THr -- - ---vmc-imeß At $lB, S2O and $25 there is a selection of handsome fabric patterns in these famous suits and overcoats that will make you say “that’s mine” before you have tried on very many of them. Every requisite for a gentleman’s wardrobe —all those little things that go so far toward the finished appearance of the well-dressed man will be found here in a wide range of both assort] ment and price. Be it a hat, some warm underwear, a shirt or two —whatever you need in depend able wearables for men and young men —they’re here in great variety. Among the large number of well known lines we carry, the following brands will be found here exclusively: Kassa r Underwear Weber’s Hand-Knit Sweaters Patrick Mackinaws A rrow Shirts Longley Hats Wikon’s Gloves Florsheim Shoes Oshkosh Overalls IKS?** H■ c ORTON CO l 7 and prices please. JL XV JL X • Lancaster, - Wis. STITZER. Special Correspondence to the Herald. Eight automobile loads autoed to British Hollow last Saturday evening. Hugh Pritchett was a Fennimore caller last Wednesday. Harvey Hurlburt from Lancaster, was here last Thursday. Charles Henry was a hub caller last Thursday. Buck Lind and Fred Pitter autoed to Cobb last Saturday evening. Bill Allen from Livingston was here last week shopping. Mirlo Boar sold Henry Schuppener a new gasoline engine last week. Guy Davis threshed 3,000 bushels of oats last week. Everett Mcßundel threshed with his outfit in 6 hours. Jack Kasper has a game hand which he has been taking care of the past week. Lester Clifton from Beetown, one of our old townsmen, was here last Thursday. Len Walker and Joe Griswold, liv ing on Rural Route 2, put up new silos last week. James Woolstenholme was in Liv ingston last week visiting his daugh ter, Mrs. O. Dixon. Our county superintendent of schools, E. C. Brick, visited our school last Friday. J. J. Dennin, living in the village of Annaton, died last Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock, and was buried last Sunday at the Fairview cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adams re turned to their home at Baraboo, Wis., last Thursday, after visiting rela tives here. Ed Lind shipped four car loads of cattle from here last week. J. W. Watson will be home next Sunday. Henry Jackerin says, wean your calves in the dry of the moon —some- thing that can’t be done this year, so the calves will be in good shape for veal if it keeps on raining. On October 2nd Will Hirsch lost a note book containing his accounts somewhere between Stitzer and Liv ingston fair grounds. If the finder will send or return it to him he will make it all O. K. Delbert Beetham says the Buick car is the car for speed. He drove a new Buick six and he can drive it over a bank or anywhere else. He demon strated it to High Kitelinger last Sat urday evening and High says it was the closest call he has ever had. FARMERS ATTENTION! Thomas Here’s Auction Sale. Tuesday, November 2. Read big ad in this issue. Be sure and come. The New Fall Styles Are Here All the models in suits and overcoats for Men and Young Men; all the pure wool fabrics in greys and browns; in stripes, checks and plaids; many absolutely new and original ideas leading the field of fashion; stamped with that originality which be longs alone to Hand Tailored Clothes From The House of Kuppenheimer And we’ve just said enough to convince you that our prices, your money and Kuppenheimer Clothes make a great combination. you a * Lr 1 j|gjf ' Er d^m./i* "* a They Are Working Night And Day To Build And Deliver Cars For You During the three months ending June 30, 1915, the Overland plant produced and sold 20,791 automobiles. During the same period the combined production and sales of the two nearest com petitors together was 21,534 cars. In other words, people bought about as many Overlands as they purchased of any other two kinds of automobiles of similar or larger size. Overland production for that quarter (70j£ working days) averaged 295 cars per day. Now it is averaging 630 cars per day. Production in such quantities requires an enormous plant. But with a plant adequate to such produc tion, the cost per car is less, and the workers attain higher skill because each man’s work is more highly specialized, and constant rep etition of his own special operation makes him more expert. And as lowered’cost makes possible lower Model 82, Overland Six Model 84, Willys-Knight Model 83, Overland $1145 $1095 $750 HORTON AUTOMOBILE COMPANY GRANT COUNTY DISTRIBUTORS LANCASTER and PATCH GROVE prices, so also the higher degree of specializ ation makes possible higher quality. For these reasons we are able to produce better automobiles and sell them for less money. That is the meaning there is for you in the continuous enlargement of the plant. The buildings of the Toledo factories last June contained 79 acres of floor space. Additional buildings now under construc tion bring the total floor space up to 103 acres, or 4,485,680 square feet. Other factories of The Willys-Overland Company contains 29.6 acres of floor space — a total for all plants 132.6 acres, or 5,752,760 square feet. The demand for Overlands is giving em ployment in the Toledo plant alone to 11,600 men —in all plants to 16,925 men. In Toledo they are working night and day to build and deliver Overland cars to meet this great demand.