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AROUND WISCONSIN BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH A daughter, 14 months, of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Braun, Horicon, drowned in the river near home. -o-o-o- Edward Christian, farmer of Ther esa, hanged himself to a tree in a pas ture while his family was at church, -o-o-o- The Menominee city council has in vestigated wood fuel prices and will report to the state fuel administrator, -o-o-o- Nathaniel A. Kluck, 68, is near death as a result of being attacked by a bull on his farm near M’Connell. -o-o-o- John Julie, farmer of Jackson, near Hartford fell while chasing a calf, injured his abdomen and died after an operation. -o-o-o- S. Knudson, Marinette, and Charles Claflin, Little Sturgeon, were fined SIOO each for using nets in violation of fishing laws. -o-o-o- Six men have been arrested at Ke nosha by department of justice offi cials on charges of agitating strikes on government production. -0-0-0- Farm and garden produce will be sold at Racine at two municipal mar kets. Space will be rented at $lO for six months or 25 cents a day. -0-0-0- A boulevard in Wausau has been planted with beans. A number of parking strips between curgand side walks are planted to vegetables, -o-o-o- Oconto has no money in its treas ury and the question of borrowing for current expenses will be taken up at a special meeting of the city council, -o-o-o- The Co-operative Orchard company, Sturgeon Bay, seeks 200 women and girls to pick the cherry crop, 1% cents a quart being paid. Pickers must be 18 or over. -0-0-0- The Janesville branch of the Gen eral Motors Co., has acquired 125 ac res and will build a plant employing 6,000 hands for manufacture of the Sampson sieve grip farm tractor. -o-G-o- Because it was said he had not con tributed as requested to certain pat riotic funds, a mob surrounded the hardware store of Calvin Hull in Mil ton Junction, and painted it a vivid yellow. -o-o-o- Edward Gerke, prominent farmer, Tomah, found dead in a ditch, was killed by lightning according to the coronr’s jury. Gerke was found dead with a broken neck and his clothing burned from his body. -o-o-o- Thomas Peterson of Walsh, 15, is now confined to the hospital with a broken collar bone as the result of being stepped on by a bull, when he and his grandfather entered a field to put a halter on the animal. -o-o-o- Charged with making statements that Liberty bonds were no account, Joseph Chapp, Wausau farmer,, ap peared before Justice Riley and was bound over to the circuit court for trial, his bail being fixed at SSOO. -0-0-0- Jcseph Chesnik, 28 years old, died at a Milwaukee hospital Wednesday morning from blood poisoning which resulted, according to attending phys icians, from having opened a pimple on his face, June 2. He is survived by his widow. -o-o-o- Considerable difficulty has been ex perienced in recovering the body of Herman Dressier, a young man who was drowned at Waverly Beach near Neenah. Dressier had gone in a row boat to swim in deep water. He was probably seized with cramps. -o-o-o- Clarence Chopin, 7, Depere, sustain ed painful and possibly serious in jur ies to his left hand when a dynamite cap, with which he was playing, ex ploded, badly burning the hand and arm. The member may be saved but danger of lock jaw is still imminent, -o-o-o- Found guilty of highway robbery in the Racine Municipal court, Anthony Beblaise was sentenced to twelve years in Waupun. Theodore Dykier, Duffy Prussek and Walter Bonkow ski, charged with being implicated in holdups with Beblaise, drew lesser terms. -o-o-o- One of the largest single contracts ever awarded in the state for curbing and gutter was let by the Washington board of public works. It calls for the laying of curb and gutter on prac tically all the residence streets of the city, including about 100 blocks, at a cost of about $75,000. -o-o-o- As the culmination of a long search by Onieda county officers, David Smith who was wanted there on a criminal warrant, and charged with implica tion in the robbery and holdup of Ed ward Webber on May 28, was found near Roosevelt with a bullet through his head. The case is plainly one of murder. -o-o-o- Mrs. F. E. Jones of Des Moines, la., lies at the point of death at St. Mary’s hospital, Sparta, with a self-inflicted bullet wound. Mrs. Jones is said to have shot herself in the right temple following the burial of her aged mo ther, Mrs. George Walters. Mrs. Jones came from Des Moines to attend the funeral. -o-o-o- Because he violated the food laws, D. Naber of Mayville, will enhance the Red Cross treasury to the extent of SIOO. He was found guilty of fail ing to file with the food administra tion the price he has been charging for substitutes and from whom they were purchased. He was also found delinquent in taking necessary cer tificates for sugar sales. In addition to the fine, Food Administrator Swen son ordered Naber to close his store for one week, giving him four days to dispose of perishable stuff. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1918. Miss Agnes Zielinski of Neenah, is dead from spinal meningitis. -o-o-o- H. A. Lewis, for the past year edi tor and manager of the Rhinelander Daily News, has enlisted in the navy, -o-o-o- Geraldine, the 11-year-old daugh ter of H. L. Smith of Beloit, while walking in her sleep, fell through a second story window in her home, but escaped with slight injuries. -o-o-o At the last session of the Marathon county board of supervisors a bounty of 25 cents each was placed on wood chucks. The result has been aston ishing in all parts of the county, large numbers being killed. -o-o-o- Manufacturers of Winnebago, Cal umet and Waupaca counties at a meet ing in Menasha discussed methods of securing war contracts with the gov ernment without sending represent atives to Washington. -0-0-0- Harry Laabs of Wausau, had his right hand so badly shattered that it was amputated and Arthur Waller broke his right arm in two places as the result of an explosion of dyna mite in a stone quarry while blasting rock. -o-o-o- The extreme heat of Sunday a week ago caused the death of John Ander son of Rock county, a farm hand 38. Anderson left his place of employ ment in Rock township to walk to Be loit. He was found dead on the tracks next day. _ -o-o-o- Frank Ramsdale, aged 60, for sever al years in the employe of the state conservation commission in charge of the fish hatchery at Wild Rose and later in charge of the board’s special car “The Badger,” early on Wednes day of last week killed himself with a shotgun at his Madison home. -o-o-o- The cities of Neenah and Menasha will not fall behind in the state in paying their young men their salar ies while they are spending the week at the training camp at Camp Doug las in July. Every man will leave there with the full assurance that his full salary will go on during his ab sence. -o-o-o- An examination to draft registrants was set by a Milwaukee Chinese lad, Moy Wah, 29 years old, who register ed, waived all exemption claims, and asked to be inducted, according to records in the office of State Draft Administrator E. A. Fitzpatrick. He has a wife and three children in Can ton, China. -o-o-o- A very unusual record in attend ance which has few equals is that made by Elroy McFaul, a graduate of the Wausau high school this year, during his years of school life. He started in school when he was not yet five years old and from that day un til he graduated from high school last month he has not missed a day nor never been tardy. -o-o-o- Joseph Chap of Knowlton, was ar rested and brought to Wausau on the charge of advising citizens of the state not to aid the United States in the war with Germany. It is speci fically charged that Chap said in the presence of three persons: “The kaiser has all the gold and we have nothing but paper money and our bonds are only paper and they are no good.” -o-o-o- Julius Meyer of Clark county, was found guilty of arson and murder at Black River Falls. Meyer killed his wife by beating her over the head. He then put the body in the cellar and set fire to the house. Blood spots on some papers that failed to burn broke down his alibi of being in the barn when the house caught fire from a lantern. The state fire mar shall’s office ran down the evidence, -o-o-o- Police Chief Champion of Janesville, is compiling a list of all males in the city more than 11 years of age who are not working or have any visible means of support. The list will in clude all the young men who are liv ing off the money given them by their parents, who spend most of their time hanging around saloons and pool rooms. When the list is completed the men will be told to go to work or be arrested as vagrants. -o-o-o- Geo. C. Humphrey of the Univer sity of Wisconsin, has been placed on the official list of judges of Holsteins for American fairs and dairy cattle expositions of 19188. Three of the other nominees are W v L. Carlyle of Canada, formerly connected with the Wisconsin agricultural college; W. A. Mcerrow, St. Paul, Minn., formerly of Waukesha county; G. E. Morton of the Colorado agricultural college, former ly a resident of Rock county. -o-o-o- The industrial commission in a bul letin just issued reports 600 eye acci dents occurred in Wisconsin during 1917, each of which caused disability of more than seven days’ duration. In ninety-four cases there was perma nent loss or impairment of vision. Al most without exception these eye in juries occurred in lines of work in which there are flying particles or chips, such as stone cutting and chip ping in foundry and machine shops, -o-o-o- A blood-stained, bullet pierced Ger man helmet direct from the trenches, is in the possession of one of Mad ison’s citizens. H. L. Butler received the relic, which was sent from France by Sergeant Frank A. Daley, doing hospital work on the other side with the Major Lorenz unit, having been formerly with the Olin, Butler, Steb bins & Stroud law offices. The hel met was taken from a dead body as it is covered with dried blood and con tains two shell holes, one through the point at the left temple, another pierc ing about the ear. Serg. Daley sailed for France the first of January. By hanging himself to a barn raft er. Jacob Vanderlip, inmate of the Birchwood asylum committed suicide last week. -o-o-o- Charged with slighting remarks about the president and the conduct of the war, W. E. Mohrer, Joseph E. Stoll and Ralph Celmer, Odanah, w’ere arrested under the espionage act. Bail was fixed at SI,OOO each. -o-o-o- Joy at receiving two letters from his son Jack, aged 20, with Uncle Sam’s forces in France, was quickly turned to grief when W. K. Humphrey of Waterloo, read a telegram from Washington announcing that the boy had been killed in action on May 21. He enlisted with a North Dakota company, having gone west shortly before America’s participation in the war. In his last letter he expressed great enthusiasm about the American fighting forces and described at length the magnitude of the artillery action on both sides, in which he evidently had participated. -o-o-o- On last Wednesday night the vis ible means of German kultur in the Baraboo schools went up in smoke when the German text books which disappeared several weeks ago, were burned during the night at the post office corner with due ceremony. In the center of a painted square the books had been piled and fired. Be fore the blaze had been painted these words: “Here Lies the Remains of German in Baraboo H. S. ’IS.” This would indicate that seniors had par ticipated in the ceremony. Just where the books had been hidden all this time is a mystery which has not been solved. Wes Cooley after several months of anxious waiting received his call to report at Great Lakes for special radio training on Wednesday. The Herald Buy at Home Department. FARMERS & CITIZENS STATE BANK Does General Banking Business. We pay 4 per cent* Call in. WORK SHOES— We have a full line of both light and heavy work shoes ranging in price from $3 to $7. O. HEBERLEIN ABOUT THE WOOL Uncle Sam has fixed prices and grades. >Ve will have details soon. Call and see ns. We will be ready for your clip. THE ORTON WAREHOUSE ALWAYS A PLEASURE To fill your order at our store. Our meat and grocery departments will please you with their quality goods and low r prices. Try us. AUPPERLE GROCERY CO. AN AYERY TRACTOR Is on hand at our store. Come in and see it. STEEL FENCE POSTS We have them —at the old price, too. FISCHER & PAGENKOPF GET IN THE GAME Combine comfort, wear and class with style. In other words try on a pair of summer shoes or oxfords at our store. We have the latest and most correct models. S. & S. SHOE STORE HOFFMAN & SHOW ALTER WHY PAY S2O For a cotton suit when for $lO more you can get an all-wool Hart, Schaffner & Marx guaranteed suit. Snappy in style and wear that means something. Let us show you. HALEY & EDWARDS MAKING WAR BREADS Is a difficult matter. Our process complies with the government rules and gives you something that is tasteful and healthful. Try our bread and pastries. THE PURITY BAKERY DOBSON’S PURE FOODS Are certainly making a big hit in a number of homes. We are mak ing a splendid line of cured meats. Try any of them at luncheon. Pic nic orders a pleasure. ELZIE DOBSON THE JUNE RECORDS Are now with us. Come and hear the latest song, instrumental and dance music. Make your home brighter with music. GROENIER & STITZER BRING YOUR BASKET To our store. See what you can take home in the grocery line. See what you save. Onr goods will talk for ns. Or perhaps it is dry goods. We have them too. GOLDSTEIN BROS, MINING TEAMSTER STRUCK BY TRAIN. Chas. Olson, aged 22 of Chippewa Falls, teamster at the Coker mine, was killed instantly at the railroad spur south of Livingston at 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon, by being struck by the north-bound passenger train. The wagon was demolished, and the team injured, one horse having a leg broken. BOND SLACKERS ARE PROPERLY SPURNED. Two farmers in a neighboring coun ty refused to buy Liberty bonds. A few days later, when thej hauled their milk to a cheese factory, the factory refused to take it. They tried other factories and at each place were declined the privilege of selling. Nothing was said, nothing was done by the neighbors but to give the two farmers a severe letting alone. It was only a few days until those two farmers were “scratching gravel” in several directions at once, trying to purchase bonds and square themselves with their neighbors. They finally succeeded in getting matters adjusted so that they can again make use of the business facilities of the community, but it will probably be many years before they recover from the reputation as slackers which they made for themselves. This is a cold world for slackers, and it is getting colder right along. In Germany they imprison them or shoot them, which ever is more convenient. We are not in Germany, but the man who fails to do his duty in the world crisis, in which the happiness and prosperity of our people are at stake, will find that the face of public opinion has all the dangers of a firing squad and more.— Richland Republican. The *uany business firms have united 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.” FALSE ECONOMY HAS NO VALUE Buying Cheap Goods Just Be cause They Are Cheap Does Not Pay. QUALITY OFTEN OVERLOOKED Instance Seen in Case of Mai! Order Houses Which Make Their Ap peal Solely on Basis of Price. (Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) Economy is one of the greatest of virtues but false economy is no more a virtue than anything else that is false. To be able to economize wisely is one of the greatest blessings that one can have, for it is the prerequisite to thrift and well-being. Too many persons, however, who think they have found the secret of true economy are practicing a false economy which is worse than wilful waste. For instance, the man who buys a stove from a mail order house for $9 because he thinks he would have to pay $lO for one if he purchased it from his home merchant, is practicing a false economy, for the chances are that he would save more than $1 in the end if he purchased the $lO stove from the local hardware leader. There are several reasons why this ts false economy. The first one is that dollar for dollar, the greater part of the merchandise sold by the mail or der houses is of less value than that sold by the retail merchants of the smaller communities. The mail order business, as a whole is built upon cheapness. In order to attract cus tomers the catalogue houses must sell goods cheaply and in order to do that they must sell cheap goods. Their business is built up on price and not on quality. The retail hardware deal er, like retail dealers in other lines, probably can match the prices of the mail order houses. He probably has a $9 stove which he can sell to the man who wants to get a stove for $9. The trouble is that the man who buys from the mail order house does not distinguish between price and quality. Thinks He Is Economizing. The man who buys the $9 stove from the mail order house probably would not buy a $9 stove from his local merchant for in the latter case he would see just what he was buying and might realize that the $9 stove would not meet his needs. He orders a $9 stove from the mail order house, however, just because the price is $9 and not because he has any assurance Established 1882 Motor Equipment GEO. P. GOBLE & SON FURNITTRE l uncnil Directors and Embalmers LATEST GERMAN LIE TELLS OF VENGEANCE TO COME. Another German propaganda lie that is being circulated in Chicago and in the middle west is as follows: Every house that bears a service flag, displays any sort of patriotic picture, emblem or flag, is being se cretly marked and tabulated so that when the Germans reach America these designated houses and buildings will be destroyed. GRACE LUSK FOUND SANE; GETS 19 YEARS. Miss Grace Lusk was found sane by the board of alienists acting on her case and last Tuesday afternoon was sentenced by Judge Martin Lu eck to serve nineteen years in Wau pun for the murder of Mrs. Mary Rob erts. Miss Lusk broke down at the bar and called sheriff Morris “a li ar.” Morris had testified against her at the trial. She spoke bitterly of Roberts going free while she must pay the penalty. THE PATRIOTIC SHEEP. By Frances Morrison. I am a patriotic sheep. I did my bit, and (damme!) Although I grew my soft, warm wool Expressly for a Sammy, A lady bought it, I have beard (And may the foul fiend get her!) She took.my patriotic wool And made herself a sweater! —lndiana Bulletin. The Grand Rapids school board by a unanimous vote decided to abolish the teaching of German in the schools. Either French or Spanish or both will be added to the curriculum to take the place of German. mat tne stove win meet nis? needs, ne thinks he is saving a dollar or two by buying this stove instead of paying $lO or sll to the home merchant for one that he has seen and knows will give him satisfaction. The chances are that when the stove arrives and he has used it for a short time he will realize that he has practiced false economy—that it would have been more economical in the end for him to pay a dollar or two more to his home merchant and get an article that was guaranteed by the dealer. The patron of the mail order house, also, often fails to take the matter of transportation charges into considera tion when making his purchase. He sees only the price of the article as listed in the mail order catalogue and does not think of the express or freight charges, which with the cost of a money order and postage often make the total cost of the article greater than the price at which the same thing could have been purchased at the local store. Another case of false economy. Buying merchandise of poor quality because the price is low is often false economy when the purchase is made at the home stores but it is doubly so when the merchandise is bought from a mail order house. When buying at home one can be reasonably sure that the article purchased at a low price, while there is no such assurance when it is bought by mail on t*e “sight un seen” plan. Idea Is Exploded. The idea that the mail order houses sell the same quality of goods at lower prices than the home merchants is quickly exploded when one learns of the large profits that are made by the majority of the mail order houses and the large selling expense to which they are subjected. The large mail order houses spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for advertising and the selling expenses of the smaller concerns are proportionately as large. Their other expenses, such as rent, taxes and labor, are also higher than those of the local retail merchants, In proportion to the business which they do. In spite of these heavy expenses, the mail order houses distribute mil lions of dollars in dividends among their stockholders. In one large mail order concern the profits of the stock holders, in cash and stock dividends, have aggregated as much as 1,000 per cent on the capital invested in the short period of nine years. This does not indicate that the mail order houses are in business for their health and are giving away merchandise to their customers. The mail order houses have capi talized the desire to economize that is inherent in almost every one. By plac ing price above quality and making cheapness the fundamental element in their business they have inculcated in the minds of their patrons the idea that they are economizing when they buy cheap goods at cheap prices. DAVID CRICHTON & CO. SILK GLOVES White, gray black and ecru. Doub le finger tips. Excellent qualities at 75c, 95c and sl. RICHLAND COUNTY. (Ithaca Cor. in Democrat.) Whether from carelessness, disloy alty or lack of sense you will hear people say, “I have given to war char ities on every call and have given to the Liberty loans.” Given to the Lib erty loans! Just think of that. If those loans to the government were gifts (but they are not) then God pity them and pity us all. As sure as fate if the government’s promise is not worth a hundred cents on the dollar with interest, then prepare to submit to the rule of old Kaiser Bill, the beast who would wreck the whole world and laugh at its ruin. Stop your paper will you? Just because it is loyal, eh? You’re one of those fellows who won’t turn your clock ahead, are’nt you? Do you think that by refusing to turn your time piece ahead and stopping your paper because it tells the truth, that you’ll turn the whole creation back ward to that condition of ‘‘without form and void?” If such is your feel ing, then let us tell you that you are only a speck, an infinittesimal jot, in the universe, and furthermore the whole community have you sized up to a dot. Another thing— in spite of kickers and slackers, dodgers and grafters, traitors and spies, America will win the war. Those who belong to any of the above classes will wish, they were in Hades, if not before the war is over, they will when those mil lions of fighting boys return to their homes again. PLATTEYILLE 4TH OF JULY. A patriotic celebration of the 4th of July will be held at Platteville. The committee appointed to take charge of the celebration has prepared a program in harmony with the ex pressed wish of the Council of Na tional Defense, DO YOU NEED— A Cultivator, Mower, Hay Loader, Side Bake, Binder, Twine, or a Ford Car? If so better place your order NOW ! C. W. KNAPP & SON TOO BUSY SOMETIMES To tell of all the good things her© for yon. Drop in any time and see for yourself. Our mammoth stock insures a perfect fit in every model. L. WEBER, The Shoer SEASON OPEN FOR STRAW HATS. This being the best town in the world and having some of the best people in the world, it is only nat ural that we have the best straw hats in the world. Call and see! A. GULKE & SON CHI-NAMEL—Ready-to-use. Graining material can be success fully applied by any inexperienced person. Hides blemishes and gives a finish which has the color and grain effect of new hard wood. BENNETT’S DRUG STORE BURROWS & WINSKILL & CO. Dealers in High Grade Motor Cars such as NASH, OVEKLAND and DODGE BROTHEBS MOTOR CARS and Republic Trucks. BY THE WAY On your way home or to town don’t forget our lumber yard. We carry building supplies of all sorts and descriptions. Styles for all seas ons. Brittingham & Hixon Lbr. Co. FURNITURE YOU MEAN This space is too small to describe a big stock like ours. But we can show you; and more it will be a pleasure to do it. Both Phones H. S. RHODES Embalmer and Funeral Director SNAPPY SUMMER WEAR A wide range of things for men and boys. Our store and our clerks are at your entire service always. H. C. ORTON CO. HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? Most of our customers are drinking KASPER COFFEE Once you try tills coffee you’ll have no other. Meats and Groceries. C. D. EDWARDS HATCH’S DRUG STORE for all kinds of insect destroyer. We have something to kill each of the different bugs—Currant Worm, Cabbage Worm, Potato Bug, Bed Bug, Lice on Chickens, Lice on Calves; we’ll tell you how to use ’em JAMES BARN EQUIPMENT Is making a big hit. Before you go further let us show you why we like the James way. Then you may judge. LANCASTER LUMBER CO.