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Local News Mrs. Ed Lind and Mrs. M. Boase of Stitzer, were in Lancaster Thursday. New Dodge cars are being driven by John Brandemuhl and Clyde Walk er. Mrs. J. Eckert and Tony Wilhelm of Kieler, were business visitors in Lancaster last week. Sydney Weber of Fennimore, spent ? portion of last week in Lancaster it the L. Weber home. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Williams went to Baraboo, Thursday, for an indefi nite visit with relatives. Mrs. Wm. Liddle of Fennimore, re turned home Saturday after a short visit here with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Webb and Mrs. Walter Webb went to Platteville on Saturday for a isit with relatives. Mrs. Frank Horton returned to her home in Fennimore, Saturday, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. K. F. Or ton. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Williamson went to Madison, Saturday, for a visit with the former’s mother, Mrs. Eliza Wil liamson. Misses Genevieve Moran and Doc othey Vesperman went to Rockford to spend the week-end at Camp Grant with friends. Miss Jeannette Griswold left Wed nesday for Chicago where she will en ter the Presbyterian hospital for train ing as a nurse. Mrs. Vivian Williams and daughter, Elizabeth of Dodgeville, came Friday to spend the week-end at the Rev. Guy Campbell home. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roberts of Platteville, visited at the Geo. Bud worth home near Bloomington, and with other relatives. Henry Bendorf of the Hurricane, has a new Wisconsin 16-32 tractor bought of C. H. Vesperman. The ma chine is made in Sauk City. Mesdames R. Murray, K. Cubela, Leo Ruchti, Arthur Smith and M. E. Beetham and Miss Eunice Stevens of Fennimore, were Lancaster callers on Saturday. Martin Sedbrook of the Hurricane neighborhood was in town Wednes day and the Herald acknowledges a pleasant call. Mr. Sedbrook expects to be planting his small grain soon. G. A. Stevens and son Donald, Holl Stephens, G. L. Eversoll and Geo. E. Groom, all of Cassville, were in the city last Saturday on business. They motored up and said the roads were good, considering. Ellis Schmidt returned from Waco, Texas, on Wednesday evening with an honorable discharge from the army. Ellis was in the hospital four months with a form of facial paraly sis. He left the service with regret but physical conditions demanded it. Outbound travellers on the Friday noon train were: Henry T. Doll, plain farmer, to Dodgeville where he hopes to eat trout and maybe kill a few wolves while visiting his son, Otho. Dr. Carl Walker to Milwaukee for a brief business trip. Jos. Pink return ing to Highland after a few days’ vis it with his brother, John, of this city. Mrs. Nelson Baker to Fennimore for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Goss. Miss Levake and little Bobbie Bilkey to Dodgeville, following a vis it at the Emery Bray home here. Jno. J. Oswald to Milwaukee to visit his daughter, Mrs. Isaac Deller. David James returned to Montfort after a day’s business in the county seat. FARMERS SOW WHEAT. At least half a dozen farmers call ing at the office within the past week stated that this week would see them in the fields sowing wheat, oats and other small grains. Nearly all the farmers will raise some wheat as they wish to provide for their own wants and also help others. ROADS ARE EXCELLENT. It was surprising to note the good condition of the county roads as early as last Wednesday. The minute the roads thawed enough to permit work —out went the farmers and drag ging began. Result —Good Roads! The farmers are on the job for good roads, all right, all right. Especially since so manj* drive cars themselves. A MODERN METHOD. Modern farming methods were set forth plainly last Saturday afternoon when three 10-20 Titan tractors pulled out of Fischer & I agenkopf’s bound for So. Lancaster. The big machines burning kerosene, smoked and chugg ed but walked away in great shape. They belonged to Will Pink, Platt Bros, and Chas. Wieland. Henry Pagenkopf seemed in his element sit ting on top until things were started. Then Henry climbed down and the farmers took charge. The ladies of the Congregational church will hold an Easter White Sale and supper Wednesday afternoon, March 27th. Supper from 5:30 until all are served. Plates 25c. 4p2. GREATER POWER- GREATER PROFITS’ The greater your business power the greater your profits. Purchas ing or manufacturing strength is necessary plus ability to sell goods, but without financial power a business soon succumbs. Select for your profit power the Check Account Plan of this bank; it provides prestige, careful accounting, and the advice of interested officials. LANCASTER STATE BANK L. H. STEVENS, President. Capital $50,000 F. J. GLANVILLE Cashier. G. A. STEVENS Vice. Pres. L. 0. PENNOCK, A. Cash’i RABIES CAUSES DEATH OF PLATTEVILLE HORSE. L. A. Harms, on the Mitchell Hol low road, lost a horse on Sunday with every characteristic symptom of rab ies. The horse bit and snapped at every thing it came in contact with, com pletely splintering a pitchfork hand le, tearing to bits a coat, biting itself frightfully and showing every indi cation of hydrophobia. Dr. Heer had the horse killed and the head was sent to Madison for ex amination. The result is awaited with interest as the horse bit another horse, and one of the dogs there also. —Platte- ville Journal. MONTFORT CHILD IS AWARDED DAMAGES. Gertrude Houston, 14 years old, the daughter of Wm. Houston and wife of Montfort, was awarded SI,BOO by the Northwestern railroad for injur ies rceived on their tracks. The train started to move just as she climbed btween two freight cars and her left foot was crushed between the coup lings. The child was in the hospital for several weeks after the accident. LITTLE GRANT. (Too late for last week.) The fifth generation of the Jeide family is great-great-grandma Knapp and great-grandma Jeide of Lancas ter. Mrs. Knapp is Mrs. Jeide’s moth er and Mrs. Jeide is Mrs. Ball’s moth er who is grandma to the fifth genera tion and mother of Mrs. Emil Pagen kopf who is mother to the little lass who lives in South Lancaster. Mrs. i Ball lives in Little Grant. Sherm Hayden lost a valuable 2- year-old heifer. It got in the manger on its back. Three of Wm. Pagenkopf’s child ren, Orval Wright’s baby and Char ley Jeide’s youngest girl are all hav- , ing the mumps. Elcie Stark spent Sunday afternoon at Helen Cooley’s. Walter Frost has moved on the R. Reynolds farm. Mrs. John Beetham returned heme from Waukesha where she has been for the past few weeks receiving med ical treatment. Sherm Hayden attended his cousin’s funeral in Bloomington Monday—Mrs. Walter Clegg. PLATTEVILLE. The News says: The little daughter of Allie Shep ,herd and wife has been seriously ill. Prof. Lovell was in Milwaukee the latter part of the week, where he en listed as a machinist in the aviation department of the service in the reg ular army. .He does not expect to be called in to service until the close of school. Raymond Webster of Eau Claire, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Webster in this city, enroute to Chicago where he went to ascertain if he could obtain a suffi-■ cient supply of sugar for his candy J factory. Webster’s candy is becoming! famous in the state. A Duluth, Minn., firm has offered to take from 2,000 to 5,000 pounds of candy a week. The remains of Mrs. Hannah Best Wilkinson were brought to Platte ville Thursday afternoon for burial. Mrs. Wilkinson had lived in Janes ville for a number of years but died in Beloit, where she was visiting. She was 91 years of age and will be re membered by the old residents of Platteville as the twin sister of Wm. Best, engineer at the powder mills for twenty-five years. The first consignment of livestock by parcel post from the Platteville of fice was a pair of ducks sent by poul try fancier Curtis Gray, to Muscoda. A new ruling of the postoffice depart ment, which became a law the 15th of the present month, permits the sending of poultry by mail. THE CHIEF WRITES. Edutur Hurld, Deair Sur: You Pepers wich you was Sendin on my neme man he is from that contry he neme is mr. Erl Gerdner he is a Penter. you Rite today Chief Police at auburn wash. I was way in he Stey at my home till I no that you had a Bill agenst. no I Don’t no that 1 contry. state in if you went him to Settle that you Rite to auburn you metchen my neme also Chief Henry G. Nelson, auburn, wash., Box 49. A PLJTTEVILLE PHILOSOPHER. Many a man though born a Metho dist and raised a Presbyterian takes for his religion the “big out of doors.” Nature in spring garb is a wonder and gets a hold of most of us.—Platte ville News. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 1918 The Herald Buy at Home Department. FARMERS & CITIZENS STATE BANK Does General .Banking Business. We pay 4 per cent. Call in. EASTER FOOTGEAR Now is the time to look at it. The place is where they all go. O. HEBERLEIN SPRING PLANTING Do not neglect it. Our country needs food. For good seeds come to THE ORTON WAREHOUSE FOOD CONSERVATION Obey the food regulations and do your grocery buying at a store in strict line with the government. AUPPERLE GROCERY CO. FARM HELP SHORT The problem on the farms today is the labor problem. Modern machin ery is the solution. Call and see our spring line of implements—latest fashions. FISCHER & PAGENKOPF FARMERS, ATTENTION! How about your WORK SHOES? Our full line is now here. Special prices—do drop in. S. & S. SHOE STORE HOFFMAN & SHOWALTER ■ 1 ■ ■ 11 — 1 ■’ > QUALITY COMES FIRST Always have HART. SCHAFFNER & MARX clothes led on quality. In these days of wool scarcity you get full measure in our line. SEE OUR SPRING SUITS. HALEY & EDWARDS HOT CROSS BUNS FOR GOOD FRIDAY THE PURITY BAKERY DOBSON’S STORE We offer a special brand already mixed for baking. 25 and 50 pound sacks. It Is good—TßY IT! WAR FLOUR ELZIE DOBSON MAKE YOUR HOME HAPPY By having a KNIGHT BRINKERHOFF PLAYER in your parlor. It brings bright ness. GROENIER & STITZER WE NEVER DELIVER But we do sell groceries on the CASH AND CARRY PLAN. Our quality and price saving methods are bound to impress you. GOLDSTEIN BROS. Wm. H. Stark. William Henry Stark, a pioneer of Grant county, died at Grandview hos pital, La Crosse, on March 9th. Mr. Stark was born in Pennsylvania and came ’west with his parents when a little boy. The family settled on the farm near Bloomington where the Dodge church now stands. In 1876 he married Miss Mary Sutton of Brodtville. They moved to lowa but returned here in 1889 where the fam ily lived up to twelve years ago. He then moved to Prairie du Chien pass ing the winters there and at La Crosse and the summers in Florida. Death came to Mr. Stark when he was just past 71 years. The funeral was held at Bloomington. The surviving child- The many business firms have un;ted in a movement to give the public reliable information on Community Building and Co-oper ative Trading. Read the article each week and also the adver tising in this department. These merchants are entitled to every consideration of your patronage, because they believe in the mot to, “Honest Goods at Honest Prices.” THEY » DANCE MUSTPAYFIDDLER People Cannot Take More Out ot a Community Than They Put In. COLLAPSE IS INEVITABLE Town Will Not Survive Long If Its Commercial Structure Is Torn Down Faster Than it Can Be Built Up. (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) He who dances must pay the fiddler. That is an old saying which is full of truth. The primary idea in this say ing, of course, is that one cannot have any pleasure without paying for it in some way, but this is not the only sense in which it may be construed. It means that we cannot pursue any foolish policy indefinitely without pay ing for it in the end. No man can overtax his physical strength indefinitely without risk ing ultimate disaster. Dissipation or overwork may be continued for a time without any noticeable results, but if continued for a sufficiently long time the inevitable comes to pass. The laws of nature cannot be violated with impunity. If one takes out of life more than he puts in, if he tears down his physical strength faster than he builds it up, he must eventually pay the fid- . dler. What is true of the laws of nature is equally true of economic laws. The people i f a community may for a time tear down the commercial structure of a town faster than they build it up with meeting disaster, but it cannot be continued indefinitely. In the end they must pay the fiddler. Exhaust Resources of Community. The person who makes his living in a community, receiving the money of the community for his labor or the products of his labor, and then spends his income outside of his community is helping to exhaust the resources of the community just a-s the man who expends his energy through dissipa tion or overexertion faster than he builds it up is exhausting his physical resources. One man may do this, of course, without noticeably affecting the I economic strength of the® community, but when a dozen men or women do it the effect becomes noticeable and when a hundred do it the resources of the community become exhausted to the point where collapse is inevitable. Those who are responsible for this sit- • uation may think that they have Profit- Established 1882 Motor Equipment GEO. P. GOBLE & SON FURNITURE Funeral Directors and Embalmers Wm. D. of Potosi; Mrs. Eva Hamrum I of Woodenville, Washington; Mrs. , Minerva Ford of Ambrose, N. D; Jay of Boscobel. Mrs. Walter Clegg. The community was greatly shock ed Saturday upon receiving informa tion of the death of Mrs. Walter Clegg at the hospital in Dubuque last Fri day. She had been there only a few days taking treatment for a tumor on her brain, which developed into meningitis. Only a few of her rela tives and friends knew of her serious condition, and the news of her death was a great surprise to the public. ■ b>wl~ ilißr Being an officer needn't precent his getting hold of such a good thing as a chew of Real Gravely! cu xnaiviatiaiiy ny tneir actions, S’!* they nave not realized that in the end they must pay the fiddler. There are some persons who seem to be able to get through life without much effort. There are some who pro ceed on the theory that the world owes them a living and they proceed to col lect it. They take what they can get and give nothing in return. Such per sons, however, are not very numerous. Most of us must pay for everything that we get. Some may have to pay more than their share and these are carrying the burden of those who get more than they pay for. The fact re mains that, as a general rule, one can not have much worth while without paying for it. The merchants of any community are the backbone of that community, so far as its prosperity and progress are concerned. Individually there may be some of them who do not exert themselves to boost their community, but collectively they are the men upon whom the living of every person in the community depends. The success or failure of an individual merchant may not be of particular concern to the people of a community, but the success or failure of the merchants as a whole is a matter of the very great est concern. Provide Market for Farmers. The merchants of a town, in the first place, provide a market for a large part of the products of the farmers in the territory surrounding the town. They buy the produce of the farmers in small quantities, in accordance with their need, and some of them buy in larger quantities for shipment to for eign markets. If the merchants could not do this there would be no market at least for the small quantities except at ruinous prices. If the farmers could not realize a reasonable profit from their products, there would be no mon ey for them to spend and there could be no money to pay for your products or to pay for your labor. It is there fore, of the greatest importance to ev ery member of the community, wheth er a resident of the town or a farmer in the country surrounding the town, that the merchants be enabled to pro vide this market for at least a part of the farmer’s products. Every dollar sent away from a town to a mail order house helps to diminish the ability of the local merchants to provide a market for the farmer’s prod ucts or to do any of the many other things which the merchants of every town do for their community. Business in a community cannot be conducted on a one-sided basis. A man cannot take out of his community a good living for himself and family and give nothing in return. He may do so for a short time and get away with it, but in the end he must pay the fiddler. The Best Policy. It is better to be parsimonious than dishonest. DAVID CRICHTON & CO. For lowest prices and honest val ues look to Crichtons. This week special attention is directed to — MILLINERY Ready Trimmed Hats— We can give you the best of values at $1 to $3.75 With her at the time of her death ; was her sister, Mrs. A. E. Lewis of I Lancaster. Mrs. Clegg’s maiden name i was Lottie Critchlow, and she was 44 1 years of age. Besides her husband she i leaves two brothers, Frank Critchlow of this city and Dr. C. A. Critchlow of Mellen, Wis., now in the govern ment service during the war, and two sisters, Mrs. A. E. Lewis of Lancaster and Mrs. W. G. Hickok of this city. She was born on the Critchlow farm I south of town and passed all her life ■ in this vicinity. She was a pleasant, cheerful woman and friendly to everybody and popu lar with all. She will be greatly I He Gets Days ot Comfort out of a pouch of ReaS GRAVELY Chewing Plug Real Gravely Plug is such good tobacco \ (just enough sweetening to flavor) , that plug of Real Gravely lasts much longer than an ordinary plug, and gives the com fort and satisfaction of good tobacco. Give any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug, and he will tell you that’s the kind to send. Send the best! Ordinary plug is fake economy. It costs less per week to chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it lasts a long while. If you smoke a pipe, slice Gravely with your knl *e • and add a little to your smoking tobacco. It vi.l lh give flavor—improve your smoke. SEND YOUR FRIEND IN THE U. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GftAVIA'Z Dealers all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c. Stamp will put it into his hands in any Training Camp or Sea port of the U. S. A. Even “over there” a 3c. stamp will take it to him. Your dealer will supply envelope and give you offi cial directions how to address it. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO CO., Danville, Va. The Patent Poach keeps it Fresh and Clean and Good —lt is not Real Gravely without this Protection Seal Established IS3I BINDING TWINE We have a limited amount at 25c per lb. First com* 4 first served. C. W. KNAPP & SON RUBBERS! We offer the best in Rubbers— Storm Rubbers, Toe Rubbers, San dals, Footholds, Scholl Rubbers, etc. Keep the shoe bill and doctor bill down with good rubbers. L. WEBER, The Shoer TAILORED CLOTHES are a marked distinction. Let us show r you the n c w things in our line. Order soon—EASTER IS COM ING. A. GULKE & SON FLAT-TONE WALL PAINT is used for painting plastered walls and comes in a variety of colors. It has been used in many Lancaster homes. BENNETT’S DRUG STORE CARS WILL BE HIGHER Do not by any means delay placing your order. We handle the Dodge Bros, and the Overland. Many bar gains in used cars. BURROWS & WINSKILL STYLES IN LUMBER? Perhaps not but still there’s lum ber and more lumber. We sell coal and building materials of every de scription. Brittingham & Hixon Lbr. Co. FURNITURE If we tell you it is Solid—it is! If we tell you it lasts—it will! Let us have all our trouble now—■ there will be none later. Both Phones IL S. RHODES Embalmer and Funeral Director FARM FERTILIZERS We have a big carload of very fine Fertilizer. Just the thing for fer tilizing gardens and fields. GROW BIG CROPS. LANCASTER LUMBER CO. HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? Most of our customers are drinking KASPER COFFEE Once you try this coffee you’ll have no other. Meats and Groceries. C. D. EDWARDS 5 to 20 81. MORE GRAIN PER ACRE Grain smut shortens crops from 5t020 bu per acre! Treat tiie grain with FORMALDEHYDE be fore sowing—increase the yield. We will show jou HOW! HATCH’S DRUG STORE. SIGNS OF SPRING are here and our line of Spring Clothes is arriving. Avoid the rush by coming in early to purchase that New Outfit. H. C. ORTON CO. missed. Her funeral at the M. E. church on Monday afternoon was largely attend ed. She had been a devout and active member of the church and her de mise will be greatly felt by that so ciety. Rev. W. C. Snow preached an eloquent sermon, commending the useful life and good deeds of the de ceased. Interment occurred at the Providence cemetery. Bloomington Record. God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas.—Beecher.