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professional cards. _ Brown, Brennan & Carthew AU or in ys-al-law. Office id Baxter Block. Laucasrer - - - - Wisconsin GEO. B. CLEMENTSON .tltomej at Law Office in Bennett Block Lancaster ------ Wisconsin MEYER & BURGESS Attorneys at Law office in Weber building. Same lo cation as that formerly occupied by the late E. M. Lowry. Both phones. Lancaster - - - - Wisconsin R. A. WATKINS Attorney at Law. Practice in all State and Unitec States courts. Office over People’s State Bank. Lancaster ------ Wisconsin Doolittle Bros.’ Hospital S. W. Doolittle, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Limited to general city practise; of flee and hospital cases. J. C .DOOLITTLE, M. 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. Hos pital accommodations for surgical CAB6S« Lancaster ------ Wisconsin J. D. GODFREY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office over First National Bank, res dence two blocks northwest of North western hotel. Lancaster ------ Wisconsin FRANCIS J. BOCK, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Diseases of women and children. Of fice at her home south of the Catholic 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 ovei Bennetts drug store. Both phones: Bell, 45-J; Farmers’ 147. I 4vt> caster ------ Wisconsin 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 19U-2. Lancaster ------ Wisconsin LEGAL NOTICES. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. State of Wisconsin, Grant County Court —In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Jacob J. Wenzel, deceased. Letters of administration on the es tate of Jacob J. Wenzel, deceased, hav ing been issued to Fred A. Wenzel. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the creditors of said Jacob J. Wenzel, dec used, are allowed and limited by order of this Court until and including the 4th Tuesday of May, 1916, being the 23rd day of said month, to present their claims and demands against said Jacob J. Wenzel, deceased, to the County Court for examination and al lo'.;. nee. NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN That the claims and demands so pre sented will be examined and adjusted bv this Court, at the office of the Coun ty Judge, at the Court House, in the city of Lancaster, in said County, on the sth Tuesday of May, 1916. I r.ted this 21st day of January, 1916. BY THE COURT: E. B. GOODSELL, County Judge. Brown. Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys for the estate. 48w3 County Court. Grant County, Wiscon sin—ln Probate. In the matter of the will of Nathan Gillilan, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at a special term of the county court to be held in and for said county at the court house in the city of Lancaster in said county on the 4th Tuesday (be ing the 22d day) of February, A. D., 1916, at the opening of court on that day, the following matter will be heard and considered: The application of Minnie May Barr, executrix of the will of Nathan Gilli lan, deceased, late of township of Har rison in said county, for the examina tion and allowance of her final ac count, and for the assignment of the residue of the estate of said deceased to such persons as are by law entitled thereto; and for the determination and adjudication of the inheritance tax, if any, payable in said estate. Dated January 12th, A. D., 191 G. BY THE COURT: E. B. GOODSELL. 47w3 County Judge. State of Wisconsin, County Court, of Grant County—ln Probate. Estate of Jacob Salis, deceased, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the special term of the County Court, to be held in and for said coun ty. at the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, in said County, on the 4th Tuesday of February, A. D., 1916, be ing the* 22nd day of February. 1916, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the fore noon, the following matter will be heard and considered: The application of Albert Salis, as executor of the estate of Jacob Salis, late of Beetown in Grant county, Wis consin, deceased, for the examination and allowance of his final account as such executor and for an order or judgment of the Court assigning the residue of said estate to such persons as are by law and the last will of said deceased entitled thereto. BY ORDER OF THE COURT: E. B. GOODSELL, County Judge. Brown, Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys for executor. 48w3 Dated January 25th, 1916. ’Notice to Prove Will and Notice to Creditors. State of Wisconsin, County Court, Grant County—ln Probate. In re estate of George P. Walker, deceased i NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the special term of saief court to be held on the 4th Tuesday of February, I A. D., 1916, at the court house in the i city of Lancaster, County of Grant, 'and state of Wisconsin, there will be heard and considered, the application • of Sarah Walker of Lancaster, Wiscon ; sin, to admit to probate the last Will • and Testament of George P. Walker, I late of the city of Lancaster in said | county, deceased, and for the appoint !ment of an executor; NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER I GIVEN, That at the special term of ' said court to be held at said Court I House, on the sth Tuesday of May, A. ■ D., 1916, there will be heard, consid ! ered and adjusted, all claims against said George P. Walker, deceased; AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTH ER GIVEN, That all such claims for examination and allowance must be presented to said county court at the ; Court House in the city of Lancaster, in said county and state, on or before the 25th day of May, A. D., 1916 or be barred. Dated January 25th, 1916. BY THE COURT r E. B. GOODSELL, Judge. Brown, Brennan & Carthew, Attorneys. 48w3 MAMMOTH SALE OF HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE Schuster & Pierce, residing four miles west of Lancaster, on the Bloom ington road, announce the sale of 35 high grade cows, 4 horses, 29 hogs, 200 chickens and 100 pieces of machinery. Sale Feb. 17. The owners call particu lar attention to the cows. Read their ad in this issue. GUARANTEED SEED CORN! To the Corn Growers of Grant County iVe have for sale the following heavy yield ing varieties of 1914 crop NORTHERN lOWA GROWN SEED CORN Price $4.00 Per Bushel. We also have a quantity of seed grown in this latitude. This northern seed is not quite as early as our Minnesota grown varieties, but give tremendous yields. The two largest yielding varieties which we have been selling for years with the greatest success are GODDARD’S SILVER KING (White 95 Day) . _ WIMPLES YELLOW DENT (Yellow 95 Day) (called “Yellow Silver King ) These two wonderful varieties, in the opinion of most corn growers, out-yield all other va rieties, often running from 85 to 100 bushels per acre. Also limited quantities of the following all grown in this latitude: MINNESOTA No. 13 (Yellow 90 Day) REID’S YELLOW DENT (Yellow 95 Day) EARLY WHITE DENT (White 90 Day) GOLD MINE (Yellow 90 Day) all splendid yielding standard varieties. CENTRAL MINNESOTA GROWN SEED CORN Price $5.00 Per Bushel. MINNESOTA No. 13 (Yellow 80 Dav) MINNESOTA MODEL DENT or NORTH DA SILVER KING or WISCONSIN No. 7 KOTA SPECIAL (Red 75 Day) (White 85 Dav) MINNESOTA IDEAL or RUSTLER (Yel- EARLY YELLOW DENT (Yellow 90 Day) low 85 Day) EARLY WHITE DENT (White 80 Day) . . 1+ _ These are very early, heavy yielding varieties that ripen and produce big yields m Central Minnesota every year. It is not necessary to say that they would prove extremely early, heavy yielding varieties in Grant county. Our agent bought this seed directly from the growers after inspecting the corn on the farms where it was grown. . . We have bought only the lots that were urmixed and which showdd a high germination and made heavy yields. Each lot has been hand ed separately so that the type would be true to name. We are prepared to make affidavit before a notary as to the locality where grown and name of the grower. Plant Central Minnesota Seed Corn and cut out all worry about your crop ripening. (NOTE—Put in a few acres of MINNESOTA MODEL DENT or NORTH DAKOTA SPECIAL for early hog feed. This wonderful variety is the earliest corn grown in North Dakota and Northern Minnesota. It ripens as early as Flint Corn, but yields more and makes a better quality of feed. This will give you a line crop for early feeding. We have also some fancy 1915 SEED CORN IN EARS now drying in our seed house. This corn was grown in Northern lowa, southwest of Spencer, is all from the same farm —grown by a seed corn expert of wide reputation. This ear-seed shows the quality, type and splendid YIELDING QUALITIES of these varieties. GODDARD’S SILVER KING (White 95 Day) WIMPLES YELLOW DENT (Yellow 95 Day) NORTH DAKOTA SPECIAL (Red 85 Day) MINNESOTA No. 13 (Yellow 90 Day) OUR GUARANTEE We guarantee all of our seeds to be exactly as represented. We give you all the time you need to test and inspect it, and if not found satisfactory IN EVERY WAY, return it and we will instantly refund your money without argument or quibble. TEST We have made nearly 100 tests of these lots and they have averaged 95 to 98 per cent of which 90 to 95 per cent grows STRONG. SPECIAL DISCOUNT OFFER—FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY We cannot guarantee these prices, but for orders received at once we will allow the follow ing DISCOUNT PRICES: NOR. lOWA GROWN MINNESOTA GROWN SHELLED CORN SHELLED SEED 1 bushel $3.50 per bushel. 1 bushel $4.50 per bushel. 5 bushels $3.35 per bushel. 5 bushes $4.35 per bushel 10 bushels $3.25 per bushel. 10 bushels $4.25 per bushel. New “American A” bags weighed in free. SEND YOUR ORDER BY MAIL, OR VISIT US and inspect our big Seed Corn Plant and see for yourself how we do drying, testing, grading, and see what care we exercise to produce real seed corn that will yield a big money making crop. Northern grown seed corn that is true to type and of high germination, is bound to be high before spring. You can save money and get the very best lots by buying now. If you don’t care to take the seed now PAY ONE-THIRD OF THE PRICE DOWN and we will give you free insurance and storage (in our new heated warehouse) until you are ready for it. Don’t wait until you are forced to buy Illinois seed or seed from Central or Southern lowa. Don’t plant seed grown south of you unless you want to repeat last year's failure. It will make nothing but stalks. There is verv little high test, northern grown seed corn to be had this year. V e are al ready sold out of one variety. Prices are bound to be high. Don’t wait longer. Take advantage of our special offer. Act at once. Samples on request. The Adams Seed Company Box 906. Decorah, lowa GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 2. 1916 DRY HOLLOW. Special Correspondence to the Herald. Albert Swallow is on the sick list. Mrs. Matt Flesch is at her son Louis’ helping care for the new baby girl. Lydia Spease spent a few days with . her cousin, Matilda Born. i Martha Keller is visiting relatives and friends in this vicinity. Ed Martin and daughter Elva, were ' Lancaster callers, Monoday. j Ralph Martin started working for ' John Fuller in Little Grant. I Elsie Swallow has been ill with la ' grippe. I Wm. Davis has purchased the Hale farmwest of Platteville. ' Jerry Emler’s little son has the whooping cough. ! George Burton has sold his farm to David Spease, and will have a sale Feb. 8. We are sorry to lose them. Sunday visitors: Frank Brande muehl and wife, Wm. Born, Jr. and wife, and Albert Born, at Ed Martins’; Fred and Emma Weisheit at Casper Henkel’s. I About thirty friends and relatives gathered and pleasantly surprised Mrs. Martha Lenz, Saturday, January 22, it being her 82nd birthday. She received many nice presents, and she enjoyed herself very much. I : Overworking your friends or your credit is not way to keep them. Few people tell truth after having heard advice from counsel. Industry, coupled with common sense, often masquerades as luck. CASSVILLE. Special Correspondence to the Herald. Miss Hazel Bossert returned to Col lege View, last week. Julius Kleinpell spent a few days visiting relatives at Elkader, recently. Mrs. Albert Nearing of Guttenberg, visited in town a few days, recently. Otto Geiger and O. H. Fahling were in Janesville a few days last week, on business. Miss Alma Rogers of Glen Haven, visited at the Heenon farm a few days last week. Miss Mary Gunther of Minneapolis, is making an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Alphonse Deitrich. Miss Sophia Young of Dubuque, spent the past week at the Vern Ben nett home here. Miss Eva Kirschhaum visited in Glen Haven and Beetown the past week. Nick Casper of Pukawana, S. D., visited the home folks here from Thursday until Sunday. Mrs. Frank Neimer visited her pa rents, the McNamara’s at Bloomington last week. Mrs. E. M. Spiller entertained the M. E. church Ladies’ Aid society at their monthly meeting, Wednesday. Guy C. Chamberlain of Tulsa, Okla homa, arrived Friday for a visit at the George Chase home. Mrs. Wm. Reed, an old and highly respected lady died at her home in the village, Friday noon, after suffering for years. Funeral services at the res idence Monday, 10 a. m., conducted by Rev. A. C. Jett. MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Mo ment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All the People Everywhere, European War News Austro-Hungarian troops have cap tured the Albanian town of Alessio and are nearing Durazzo, according to word received by the Italian gov ernment at Rome. With the occupa tion of Durazzo the Teuton forces will be in control of all of northern Alba nia. * ♦ ♦ According to a statement made by M. Longust, a French Socialist deputy, at the British trade union conference at Bristol, England, the French losses in the war have been 800,000 killed, 1,- 400,000 wounded and 300,000 captured. • • • An official communication made pub lic at Petrograd says: “It has been learned that the Turkish Goeben (Sul tan Selim) suffered severe damage in an engagement January 8. Its casual ties included 33 men killed and 80 wounded. • * * The Cologne Volks Zeitung says the British in southern Arabia are in a dangerous position as a result of fierce attacks by Turks. British casualties up to December 30 amounted to 15,000 killed and 20,000 wounded. * * * Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, com mander of the first British battle cruiser squadron, "whose ships defeat ed the Germans in the North sea, made a stirring appeal at Liverpool for a great religious revival in England as a necessary step to victory in the war. * * * Representatives of the Montenegrin government signed articles in which the Montenegrin army agrees to lay down its arms, according to official announcement to Vienna from field headquarters. * * * In the attack of Nancy by two Ger man air squadrons, Lieutenant Boehme of the aviation corps was killed, it was announced at Berlin. Lieutenant Boehme had been decorated by order of the kaiser. ♦ * * Thirty-nine persons were killed, one transport was sunk and several rail road cars loaded with provisions were destroyed when German airmen raid ed Dover, according to the Hamburg Fremdenblatt. * * * Hereafter French warships will as sist British vessels in blockade duties in both the English channel and the North sea, participating in examina tion of mails and cargoes, the an nouncement was made at London. ♦ ♦ ♦ According to a Turkish official re port, the British left 3,000 dead on the field in a battle near Kut, in which they lost ground. ♦ ♦ • Domestic The five men who held up and robbed the Washington Park National bank at Chicago of $15,616 are under arrest. The money was recovered. The robbery, bold as it was, becomes a minor part of a gigantic plot of po lice graft and criminal political prac tices, according to the confession of one of the bandit gang. ♦ ♦ ♦ Seven workmen were burned, three seriously, in four fires that occurred at the Carneys Point, N. J., plant of the DuPont .Powder company. ♦ * ♦ Five persons were killed and a wide stretch of country devastated when two dams on the San Diego water sys tem broke in the Otay valley south of San Diego, Cal. The dams were weak ened by a storm. * * « The United Mine Workers of Amer ica adopted at Indianapolis the report of the scale committee, which asked for a raise of ten per cent for the bituminous miners and workers about the mines and 20 per cent for the an thracite workers. The demands will be brought before the bituminous op erators at Mobile February 8 and be fore the anthracite operators at New York February 21. * ♦ ♦ National officers of the United Hat ters of North America estimated at New York that the contributions made for the relief of the defendants in the Danbury hatters’ case would be at least $350,000. The contributions are sufficient to save the hatters’ homes. * * ♦ Six persons were killed in a fire that gutted the Talbot Walker building at Seattle, Wash. • * * Seven persons perished in Montana in the cold wave, the worst ever ex perience! in the state. * * • Albert H. Scherzer, president of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge company, consulting engineer and member of many clubs, committed suicide bv jumping 16 floors in the Monadr block at Chicago. The constitutionality of the Minne sota presidential primary law was up held by the state supreme court at St. Paul, Minn. * » ♦ “Plans for the readjustment of the United States army must be formu lated and carried out without delay, for we do not know what the circum stances of another month or another day may bring forth.” This was the warning sounded by President Wilson before the members of the Railroad Business association in New York. It was the president’s first speech in the campaign for preparedness. * * * Eugene Van Schaick, millionaire president of the Knickerbocker Oil and Gas company, and a cousin of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, committed sui cide by shooting at his office in New York. He had been ill. * ♦ ♦ One man was killed and part of a fast New York-St. Louis Pennsylvania limited train flopped over into a 15- foot gully, shaking up 47 passengers, when the train struck an automobile near Newark, O. • * • The Republican state convention at Madison, Wis., selected 26 candidates for delegates to the national Republic an convention in Chicago next June, adopted a platform dealing entirely with national questions except for a paragraph indorsing the administra tion of Gov. Philipp, and postponed the indorsement of a candidate for United States senator to oppose Sen ator La Follette until a later confer ence. • ♦ ♦ A car loaded with black powder ex ploded in the yards of the Norfolk and Western railroad at Bluefield, W. Va., injuring more than forty persons, sev eral probably fatally, and causing heavy damage. * * * A bill which would submit a consti tutional amendment providing for state-wide prohibition was defeated, 20 to 14, in the upper house of the gen eral assembly at Frankfort, Ky., where it originated. * « • Sheriff Matt Olson of Barron, Wis., was shot and killed by John Baralek on the latter’s farm when the sheriff attempted to arrest Baralek on a minor charge. Baralek was arrested. ♦ * * Washington President Wilson selected Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to be associate justice of the Supreme court to suc ceed the late Justice Lamar. Mr. .Brandeis’ nomination went to the sen ate at Washington. Mr. Brandeis is a lawyer, who has been much in public life during the last three years. He is a Kentuckian by birth and is sixty years old. Mr. Brandeis will be the first Jew to sit on the bench of the Supreme court. ♦ ♦ ♦ President Wilson left on his one w’eek expedition to preach the admin istration’s preparedness program to the people. He is scheduled to make 19 speeches before his return to Wash ington. ♦ * * The text of the American protest to Great Britain against interference with neutral mails, made public at Washington, reveals that diplomatic and consular pouches have been treat ed in a manner the United States con siders “vexatiously inquisitorial.” The United States declares that parcel post articles are entitled to the ex emptions of neutral trade. « • • Internal revenue receipts for the six months from July to December, inclu sive, on spirituous liquor taxes aggre gated $80,400,000, a gain of $741,000 over the corresponding six months of 1914, it was announced at Washington. ♦ ♦ * To pay for the preparedness pro gram of the administration at Wash ington a revision of the income tax law is to be made by congress which will net easily an extra $100,000,000 of revenue. This plan, which has been approved by the president and Demo cratic leaders, means the repeal of the existing stamp taxes imposed under the emergency act of October 22, 1914. ♦ ♦ ♦ The munitions embargo clouds which have been hovering over the senate at Washington for several days broke into a deluge when a mammoth petition for an embargo on arms, bear ing over a million signatures, was pre sented. The petition was worked up by the organization of Women for Strict Neutrality. * • * The administration at Washington definitely committed itself to complete independence of the Philippines within four years, abandoning its partial self government plan for the islands. * • * Mexican Revolt The bodies of Benjamin Snell and Frank Woods, American cowboys, have been found west of Cusihuiriachic, ac cording to an unconfirmed report from western Chihuahua reaching El Paso. • ♦ • George C. Carothers, special agent of the state department, formerly with Villa, will depart from El Paso, Tex., for Washington, having been recalled by the state department from the Mexican border. ♦ ♦ • Privates William C. Wheeler and Blggo Peterson of the Fourth United States Field artillery, who were cap tured by Mexicans, were rescued by Carranza soldiers and turned over to the American military authorities at Brownsville, Tex.