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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. _ Brown, Brennan & Carthew Attorncys-at-!aw. Office in Baxter Block. Lancaster - - - Y/isconsii GEO. B. CLEMENTSON Attorney at Law Office in Bennett Block. Lancaster ------ Wisconsli MEYER & BURGESS Attorneys at Law | Office in Weber building. Same lo cation as that formerly occupied b? the late E. M. Lowry. Both phones. Lancaster ------ Wisconsli R. A. WATKINS Attorney at Law. Practice in all State and Unite< States courts. Office over People’* State Bank. Lancaster ------ Wisconsli Doolittle Bros.’ Hospital S. TV. Doolittle, 31. D. Physician and Surgeon. Limited to general city practise; ol fice and hospital cases. J. C .DOOLITTLE, 3L D„ Physician and Surgeon. All calls promptly answered. Hospital over McDonald's store. Lancaster ------ Wisconsin JAMES H. FOWLER, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office over Hub clothing store. Hoa pital accommodations for surgical cases. Lancaster ------ "Wisconsli. J. D. GODFREY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Offioe over First National Bank, res dence two blocks northwest of North western hotel. lAn past er ------ Wisconsin FRANCIS J. BOCK, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Diseases of women and children. Ol flee at her home south of the Catholit church. Phone, Bell 129-R. Lancaster - Wisconsin DR. F. W. HALFERTY Dentist. Office over Lancaster State Bank. Lancaster ------ Wisconsin DR. A. B. COOK Dentist. Successor to Dr. Marlow. Office ove Bennett’s drug store. Both phones Bell, 45-J; Farmers’ 147. Lancaster ------ Wisconsli.. J. A. GAULT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Calls city and country promptly at tended. Special attention given tc Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat work. Glasses fitted and Guaranteed. Office over Ivey & Webb’s store Bell phone, 11-OW, Farmers’ phone 190-2. Lancaster ------ Wisconsin For the best in Livery see D. It. NEWMAN, Livery and Feed Stable. Lancaster and Potosi Stage Line Daily. Leaves Lancaster 10:00 a. m. Leaves Potosi 3:30 p. m Runs rain or shine. D. R. NEWMAN, Lancaster, Wisconsin. Phones, Bell 155-W. Farmers* 21 > WHENEVER You need any work done in the line of— PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING, FURNACE WORK Tinning or Repairing I shall be pleased to re ceive your orders. I have had years of ex perience and can prom ise you prompt and cap able service. SHOP IN E. H. HYDE BLOCK where I show a stock of Bath Tubs, Lavator ies and other articles of like character. Your patronage is respect fully solicited. JOSEPH E. IVETf GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1916. NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS I3IPOKTANT 31 ALTERS OF NEWS REDUCED TO PARAGRAPHS. Doings of she TVorld for the Past Week —Crimes, Accidents and Disasters. European War News The Pall Mall Gazette of London prints the following from its Petro grad correspondent: “Russian joint operations with Roumania are on the point of beginning. Roumania will fight with us, although not for us. Her siding with the entente is not the re sult of French or English sympathies, but an endeavor to realize the Rou manian dream of sovereignty over Bukowina and Transylvania. * * * It is reported at Geneva on good authority that Italian troops have oc- j cupied the Albanian seaport of j Durazzo. * * * French troops have occupied the Turkish island of Castelorizo (Kas- j teloryzo), in the Aegean sea, between J the island of Rhodes and the Gulf of Adalia, according to the papers in Paris. The possession of Castelorizo as a naval base is characterized as in dispensable. * * * An official report to Rome from Cetinje states that she Montenegrin army, re-enforced by a Serbian corps, has driven the Austrians from Mon tenegrin territory and now have also driven them from the Sanjak. The Austrian losses are estimated at 10,- 000 men. * * * Fragmentary information received at London from various sources indi cates that a great battle is in progress on the southern part of the Russian front, the most important action for many months. * * * Two Austrian destroyers have been sunk in the Adriatic sea off Durazzo, one by allied warships and the other by a mine, a dispatch from Paris. They were the Lika and the Triglav. * * * The Russians are making desperate efforts to break through the Austrian lines between the Pruth river and the wooded zone north of Toponitz. The Austrian war office announced at Vienna that five successive Russian at tacks were repulsed. • * * * A lively battle was fought off the coast of Asia Minor. 70 miles east of the Bosporus,* on the Black sea. by three Russian torpedo boats against two Turkish gunboats and one German submarine. Both the gunboats wore sunk, while the Russians had no losses, says a dispatch from Petrograd. « * * Reuter’s correspondent at war head quarters in the west telegraphs to Lon don that the British staff is confident the allies are now so strong in men and munitions that they can break through the German lines whenever the right time conies. * * * Cabinet changes are expected in i London after the details of the modi fied form of conscription are agreed upon. The forecast that Ireland prob ably would be exempt from conscrip tion also was confirmed.. * * * Official admission ‘that the French penetrated the German trenches at Hartmannsweiler Kopf in the Vosges was made by the German war office at Berlin. * * * A dispatch to the Geneva Tribune from Vienna says: “Chancellor von Bethman-Holweg is expected in Vien na shortly with the full conditions un der which the central powers will ac cept peace. The conditions will be officially communicated to the allies.” * * * The steamer United States, which arrived at New York from Scandi navian ports, reported that on Decem ber 13 she was stopped east of the Shetland isles by a British cruiser and taken to Greenock for examination. There the British removed 1,961 small parcels and 930 parcel-post packages. The steamer was released on the eighteenth. * • * Domestic In a decision containing caustic comment on the evidence which had been brought before him, Judge Hen ry Horner in the probate court at Chi cago handed down a decision that Mrs. Anna Dolly Ledgerwood Matters was not the mother of the “$200,000 baby” she claims. * * * Mathew A. Schmidt, charged with the murder of Charles Hagerty, one of twenty men killed when the Times building was blown up five years ago, was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Angeles, Cal. The jury recommended life imprisonment. * * * Warrants for the arrest of Congress man Frank Buchanan of Chicago, H. Robert Fowler, former Il inois con gressman; H. B. Martin and Herman Schulteis, four of the eight men indict ed in New York on charges of con spiracy to foment strikes. • • • Mayor Carl H. Keller of Toledo. 0., was indicted on a charge of accept ing a bribe. It is alleged Keller was given an' automobile to influence his vote, as member of the city board ©f control, to award a.. 535,000 contract for motor lire apparatus. Henry Muessel, millionaire and gen* eral manager of the Muessel Brewing company, and his chauffeur, Frank Clirobot, were instantly killed by two masked robbers who attempted to loot the safe in the brewery office in South Bend, Ind. William Muessel, aged fif teen, was shot in the abdomen by the robbers and it is feared mortally wounded. * * * Capt. Karl Boy-Ed. former naval at tache of the German embassy in Washington, before sailing from New York for Rotterdam defended his ac tion in sending supplies to German warships at sea, and blamed a Provi dence newspaper for starting what he termed “spy hysteria” throughout the country. * * * “Skate” Young of South Dakota was killed and John Luffy of Tulsa, Okla., probably was fatally wounded by Dick Wade when they attempted to bold up a gambling house at St Joseph, Mo. * * * Coal mine owmers in Illinois and in Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania re ceived an invitation from John P. White, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, to meet with the miners for a conference to discuss a new wage scale in Chi cago January 6. * * * The First National bank of Havener, Okla., was, robbed of about $15,000 by four bandits. * * * Fire destroyed the principal busi ness block in the village of Little York, Warren county, Illinois, caus ing a loss of $65,000. * * * Doctor Ruhland, city health com missioner of Milwaukee, who urged residents to stop kissing during the grippe epidemic, has fallen victim to the grippe himself. * * * Mexican Revolt The first Carranza troops. 800 men, to reach Juarez, arrived there from Chihuahua City. Eleven generals and 10,000 Villa soldiers in Chihuahua City surrendered to General Trevino. * * * News was received at El Paso, Tex., of an attempt to assassinate Gen. Francisco Villa near Bustillas, state of Chihuahua. Four of Villa’s follow ers tried to shoot him, but missed. Villa killed two of the would-be as sassins. * * * Victoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, who is he’d at El Paso, Tex., for alleged violation of the neu trality law's of the United States, is ill and w r as removed from the prison at Fort Elias to the residence of his wife. * • • Washington The Austrian reply to the second American note on the sinking of the Ancona states that the commander of the Austrian submarine has been punished and fully agrees with Wash ington that the sacred laws of human ity should be taken Into account also in war. Austrian also agrees to pay indemnify for every American killed or injured on the Ancona. * * * Ambassador Penfield at Vienna re routed to Washington that Americans in Vienna not having certificates of birth or naturalization were unable to >ave, because German consular offi ■ oers were refusing to vise their pass ports for travel through Germany, en route for Holland to embark for home. * * * The Swedish minister informed the state department at Washington that Norwegian mail from Christiania, de tained by Greet Britain, has been al lowed to proceed. The packages, mostly parcel post, were not opened. * * * Claiming that they are subjected to ! unfair competition, the Illinois Coal Operators’ association complained to | the Interstate commerce commission i at Washington against the rate adjust j ment over the Atchison, Topeka & i Santa Fe, and connecting lines from I Indiana and Illinois to Wisconsin, ! lowa and Minnesota. A readjustment is asked. * * * Mail from the German foreign office ; to Ambassador Bernstorff at Washing ton has been seized by the British, sav reports from German sources. It is said the mail contains instructions from Von Jagow r on t ie Lusitania case * * * The state department announced at Washington the receipt of a cable from Consul Bristow at Port Said, an nouncing that the Japanese liner Ya saka Maru was sunk without warning. * * * Personal Emperor William, who is suffering from a suppurating phlegm in the neck, has been given some relief, his doctors having resorted to lancing, says dispatch from Zurich, Switzer land. • * • George W. Glover, only son of the late Christian Science leader, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, died at Lead, S. D., of peritonitis, aged seventy-six, aft ter a short illness. * * * Gov. Winfield Scott Hammond of Minnesota died suddenly in a hotel at Clinton, La., from a stroke of apoplexy which physicians said appar ently had been superinduced by a re cent attack of ptomaine poisoning. He died before physicians could arrive. * * * Thomas L. Shevlin of Minneapolis, millionaire lumberman and Ya?a foot ball coach,, died at his home in Minne apolis. Minn., of pneumonia. Mr. Shev lin contracted a cold while training the Yale football squad this fail; (LZIVT'-Trr oil Special Correspondence to the Herald. Terrence Smith has been laid up .vith the grip the past week. Fred Whaler is a good fellow. He : s helping liis neighbors butcher. Our school started again last Mon day after tw r o weeks’ vacation. Ed Lind shipped eight cars of stock last week. Hiram Kitelmyer has gone into the full blooded dog and full blooded hog business. Everett Blackburne has his new house raised and shingled, and he is pushing it right along. The R. N. A. club will meet with Mrs. T. A. Smith next Thursday even ing. Last Thursday evening Miss Maggie Kirk gave a party at her home in hon or of Kenneth Smith and his school mates. Mrs. Thomas Adams from Baraboo, Wisconsin, was here to spend New Year’s with her mother, Mrs. Anthony Kirchener. It is leap year now, and the outlook is that wedding bells will ring here again, for there is a man here ho is buying his furniture one piece at a time. Miss Jennie Kelley, principal of ouf school, and Miss Elizabeth Kelley from Minnesota, LiFlan Kelley, Montfort, Mr. Charles Kelley w*ere guests of Miss Maggie Kirk and Mrs. Ed Roth the past week. Ed Lind reported to us that he had hay stolen from the stockyard, and James Reed reported to us that he had hay stolen out of a car he had shipped in. The police force w r as not on duty at that time evidently. With a chain tightening around your neck and like some one hitting you on the head with a hammer and ' \jjf ' when you firc-up some /f j 7@gf§^ Prince Albert in your >Ol old jimmy pipe or in a ::, makin’s cigarette. And , | in wrong with P. A. for it is made right; made to JgK spread - smoke - sunshine have throats ! The patented / °mjt ,\j .jjffl process fixes that—and It > 3 an easy j£ % Wmlm/7. 'ifwA cuts out bite and parch. All day long you’ll sing £l«£f« how glad you are you re I®fH^fSfesSSliSf pals with gwmtKMßwtKii • V -Sl' • ffte national joy smoke j \r^j/ You take this testimony straight from the shoulder, men. j | j You can smoke a barrel of P. A. without a kick! It hands fcggg»m«£B&* | out all the tobacco happiness any man ever dreamed -^asiacae; about, it’s so smooth and friendly. It’s a mighty cheer- Ev „ ywhe „ , ohac „ is , oU ful thing to be on talking-terms with your pipe and your Z“i"n""o .flwwSTa.* tongue at the same time— but that’s what’s coming ggf!jr,!%!7£ffc%'JZi to you sure as you pin your faith to Prince Alberti zAfAZf pound crystal-glass humidor R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. that keeps the tobacco so fit{ WE HAVE IT! ♦ 100 bushels Minnesota No. 13 Yellow, over 90 per cent Germination. 15 bushels Wisconsin No. 7 White, over 90 per cent Germination $3.25 This seed was grown in western Minnesota, due west of Minneapolis, and should mature first season anywhere south of St. Paul. TPS- LEAVE YOU!£ ORDERS TC" n O O Bolhphones .F . IvJPC 1i si WINi?V w* Lancaster, Wis. i \ v like some one sticking you in the back with a knife. When you feel like this you have the grip. The dance last Friday evening was a success, all through. Forty-four numbers constituted the program, and they danced the old year out and the New Year in, until 4 o’clock in the morning. Miss Rose Gerdhardt served an oyster supper for them at her res taurant. The play, “The Poor Married Man,” will be played at the grand opera house soon, under the management of Reuben Lind, known by his stage name as Rube Foster. Rube will put this play on in three acts. A laugh from beginning to the end. He will have a company of twelve people on the stage The new up-to-the-minute roller process of grinding feed saves you one half of what it now costs you to feed your stock. Will grind twice as fast with same power, as the best burr or stone mill ever made and does not heat the feed, has great capacity, very simple, grinds fine or coarse, requires little power, has no burrs or other parts to be constantly wearing out, also grinds corn-meal and graham. Will last a life-time. Made in all sizes from the smallest to the largest. Sold with or without engine. Big money in custom . -sr grinding. The Roller FOR 10 CEMTS.. jtNfi Mil > Way ia the only /WffX way. // j R. R. Howell&Oo. iJjfllSlla j,(j MANUFACTURERS jjßßflrl/ Minneapolis, minx. '?/ Carried in stock In - ' Established J 379 exclusively by Cl I AH. S. SLACK and CO., Agents Viroqua, Wisconsin with him that will take part-six girls and six boys. Rube guarantees this to be the Lest company and he prom ises that he will give one of the best shows that has ever been pulled off in the grand opera house. Tiled ates will be announced later. Don't miss the opening of the show and specialties he puts on between acts.. THE EXCUSE. I’m very fond of exercise I’m getting much too fat —- And I would take some exercise If it were not for that. —Canadian Courier. Oxford. The University of Oxford has the reputation of having been founded oyr King Alfred in BV2.