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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
Twin City Band Concert.

\ large audience greeted the Twin
City Band Tuesday evening at their
first appearance in a strictly concert
entertainment. 1t has been gratifying
to watch the progress Of this band ever
since their organization. Since Mr.
Grant White was chosen leader and
his entire time given to their instruction
the Improvement has been marked.
The entertainment given Tuesday night
would have given credit to most any
band in the state, and IS certainly
commendable on the part of our local
band. The following is list of the
members of the Twin City Band and
the instrument they play:
GRANT WHITE, Solo B Flat Cornet.
WALLACE DEMERoE, 1st B Flat Cornet.
Carl BANDEL!N, Z Flat clarinet.
CHAs. PARKER. Ist B Flat Clarinet.
JOHN SCIISABLE, 2nd B Flat Clarinet.
FRANK CoMPToN, 1st Alto.
HENRY BUL1IYRE, End Alto
ED. MORRILL,, Sd Alto.
FRED STAMM 1st Tenor.
CHAs. PHILLEo, End Tenor.
JOHN PLANKE, 2nd Tenor.
D. B. PHILLEo, Euphonium.
4. W. WHITE, Tuba.
STEPHEN BRAzEAU, Bass drum.
WILL BURT, Snare drum.
No on the program "a Hunting
Scene" descriptive, was a special
feature in the evenings program and
faultlessly rendered. The Euphoniun7
solo by D. B. Philleo and Tuba solo by
Dell White were well received and
heartily encored. The home endorse.
ment of our local band cannot be toe
liberal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
The Knights Receive.

Friday evening Dec. 23th, was an
eventful one in society circles. The
knights of Pythias their ladies, and
invited guests enjoyed the evening in
the opera house with cards, music, and
dancing, for entertainment, The earlier
part of the evening beng devoted to
cards and conversation. An elegant
lunch was served in a faultless manner
after which dancing was INDUCED in,
old and young taking part with spirit
of enjoyment that was infectious.
Those fortunate enough to attend ale
enthusiastic in their praise Of the affair,
the gentlemen pronouncing it a com
plete success, and the ladies unanimous
in their decision that it was just lovely
party.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
Firemen'S Annual Ball.

The Fire Company have issued bills
their intentions of giving
an annual ball at the opera house Mon
day night Jan'y 2nd 1898. We have
every reason TO believe that their
former reputation will be retained in
the giving of this ball. This is known
as their annual benefit ball.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
PAY YOUR TAXES.

The tax rolls will be in the city treas
urer's hands on Monday, December
26th. The rate this year is some lower
than it was last year. The per cent. is
S4.7O on hundred. The city treasurer
will receive payments at his Office in
the city hall. Hours from 8 a. N. to
1 p. m. each day. Bear this in mind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
WORLDS FAIR SOUVENIR.

We have gone to considerable expense
so as to be able to present each reader
of the REPORTER with a souvenir con-
tanning excellent cuts Of the Worlds
Fair buildings. While each pamphlet
in itself is not very costly, one thousand
of them has cost us all we can afford
this year for our readers as a token Of
appreciation and remembrance. They
Will be distributed with our issue of
December 29th.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
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IT. 3. Scott Free Public Library.

The Library rooms open Wednesday from
2 to o'clock P. NJ; saturday from TO and 7
to o'clock p. NJ.
FhoY PHILLEO, Librarian.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22

Rs Don't forget that you can find
anything you may need in the line of
overcoats, at N. J. McRaith's. He has
also a fine assortment of winter suitlngs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
ClO@C-LS-

6ATHOLIC-Rev. Father Beyerle, Pastor.
u Mass every morning at o'clock. High
mass at 10 O'Clock, instruction at . o'clock,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21
A simnIe Connndrum.

The mathematical smart Alexis are al
ways proposing some new and puzzling
question with which to confound those
whose bump Of calculation is not well
developed, but the most exasperating ef-
fort in this direction was sprung on a
small company the other evening, when
one Of these human calculating machines
inquired: eff five cats catch five rats in
Eve days, how many cats will it take to
catch 100 rats in 100 days." Every an.
swer was given, from 100 cats to 100, 600
cats, until it happened to occur to some
one that if five cats caught rat day
there was nothing to prevent their con-
| tinuing 10 do so till the end of time il
/ their patience and the rats held out. But
( before this conclusion was reached over
ten dollars had changed hands in bets
on the subject, and three quarrels were
started which have not yet been settled
Unfortunately, however, none of them
involved the originator Of the problem,
who escaped before matters had gone SO
far.-Iuterview in st. Louis Globe-Demo-
GRAFT.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

Do you ever have the blues? OF course
you do, for there never yet lived man
or woman whose soul cast no shadow.
These times Of depression, from which
we all of US suffer more or less, arenoth-
ing more than the shadows cast by our
souls in the road along which we are
walking heayenward. Sunshine rays
produce shadows, and the fact that our
souls go into eclipse now and then
proves that there is sunshine Just behind
us. But what do you do when you get
the blues? Do you cry or scold or NOPE?
Is it hard to live in the same house with
you while the shadow falls athwart
your way? Do the children get out of
the road when they see you coming? |
have found one excellent cure for the
blues which mean to tell right here.
Go straight to work and do something
for some one more miserable than your
self Whatever your trouble may be,
there is always some one to be found
who has a harder lot to bear. The other
day young wife was deserted by her
husband and taken to the hospital to face
a terrible illness, without a friend to
stand by her in her hour Of need, and
with not a cent to defray expenses or I'M
lock the door of the future. Suppose you
go hunt her up and offer a helping hand.
Such betrayal and desertion discounts
your puffs Of vapor. A mother watched
the coffin lid close the other day forever
and forever, so far as mortal time
counts, between her yearning eyes anC
the face of her only boy. What is YOU
transient depression compared to thu
heart anguish of such a grief as hers
Don't you think it would help cure yoI
of the blues if you sat down and wrot
/ that mother a letter, or dropped IN TO
an hour or two to keep her company l
/ seems such a selfish thing to be so exclu
sive in bearing trouble. A load share
is a load lightened, and the deepes
gloom takes on a bright tint now an
then if overshone with the sunshin
of ove.-Chicago Herald.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21
A Trick of the Yonnr Men.

There are tricks and tricks, and il is
said that all is fair in love and war, but
here is something that has a discrimina-
ton worthy Of better cause. A young
man who sometimes calls at our house
confessed it in moment of confidence.
All the girls know to their cost how
easily a party fan is broken, and each
girl will easily recall the fact that she
herself did not break her fan. 1t was in
the hands of her escort, or a youth on
dancing duty, who was twirling it while
uttering soft nothings, and snap-went a
pearl stick! Now am told that this is
always done on purpose As soon as the
fan is broken the young man is overcome
with regret and insists on having it
mended or replacing it.
He may not do either, but he earliest
off and calls.wth it when it is repaired,
or to say that he lost it, or that it was
stolen from his pocket that same even
ing; but there it is, a door opening to the
future. 1t forms a fimsy society tie
but still a tie-between him and a girl
he adores, and whom he could not reach
without this little passport. 1t is worth
dozen letters Of introduction, because
it places the girl under an apparent
obligation at the start. But who would
have believed there was 50 much decep-
ton in-the other sex?-Detroit Free
Press.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

"People are pretty hard on us, said
waiter in an up town cafe the other
night, considering what we have to go
through with sometimes. have been
in this room, and on my feet, hurrying
most Of the time, for nearly fourteen
hours. It's hard to keep ones temper
for such a stretch as that, and to be as
lively and quick witted as when one be
gan his days work. At that table over
there where those three men are sitting
they kept me standing for ten minutes
before they gave me their orders. They
were Just talking, not discussing what
they wanted to eat, but finishing up
some argument. Now if | had gone
away and waited until they had got
through with their talk they would
have called me inefficient and negligent
so | stood there, and when | finally got
their orders and started away a man at
the next table was angry and stopped
me to tell me that was the worst waiter
he had ever seen. 50 you see how it is. u
New York Tribune.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21
The Rrntherless Girl.

The girl without a brother IS especially
to be pitied. She is the girl who Is never
certain of getting the pleasures Of life
unless she is very attractive. Of course
she has no brother who she is certain
will take her everywhere; she Is apt to
get a little bit vain, for she has no
brother to tell her, as only brother
will, of her faults and mistakes. 1t IS
only the somewhat doubtful tact OF a
brother that announces, Il wouldn't
walk up the street with you in that
frock," and the girl whose brother says
this to her may be certain that he IS only
expressing the opinion Of other girls
brothers. He may not do it in the most
gentle way, but he does tell the truth,
and if you ask him why paying a visit to
another girl is more desirable than to
one you know, he will sit down and look
at you, and then he will say:
"Wen you see, it is just this way.
From the time you get there she Is a nice
girl who gives you pleasant welcome
and yet doesn't gush over you. She Is
entertaining, and yet she has fashion
Of putting down nasty gossip or silly talk
among whoever is there. She is a rest.
full sort Of girl, she is not always want
ing to do something that tires you half
to death and where the game isn't worth
the candle, and when she say soodby &c
you you feel certain that she is pretty
glad you came and that she Will be GLAD
to see you another time, but that sht
doesn't look upon you as the one anC
only. man in the world That Is tn,
kind Of a description that the brotherles
girl can't get. Then she doesn't hear o
men that a fellow would rather not hav
, his sister go with. Probably the wises
course for her TO pursue is for her t
choose as her most intimate friend gil
! who has a wise brother; then she ca
! reap the benefit OF his counsel.-Rut
Ashmore in Ladies' Home Journal.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

II thought l was worn out with my
tramp among the shops today" said she
in Twenty-third street ferryboat, Gun
til | met a woman carrying a baby
wrapped in large shawl, with a second
child not more than two years old drag
ging at her skirts. She was shopping,
too, for in the bare hands clasped around
her heavy burden was clutched pocket
book, and on her arm hung a satchel,
evidently to hold small purchases. And
when l saw her tired eyes and noted the
tension of her frame with the double
drag upon her, decided my fatigue was
not to be considered" New York Times.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

A young literary man Of New York,
like most Of his craft very impecuniOus,
has discovered a means by which he
lives respectfully and yet cheaply. As
heis a hard worker, he values quiet
above all things except money. COnse-
quently he always seeks a secluded spot
for his abode. In winter he lives in the
country where board is cheap. At the
beginning of the warm weather, when
most people are leaving town, he takes
up his residence there in a retired street,
where he is permitted to occupy room
in a house deserted byits occupants for
the summer at nominal price He
finds the town in summer as quiet and
delightful as he does the country in
winter, and urges all his friends who are
no better off financially than he is &c
initiate his way of living. Yet some
people maintain that literary men dc
not know how to spend their money
judiciously.-NewY York Epoch.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

The highest priced postage stamp il
existence is the famous Dundee stamp,
worth $500, and not purchasable at
that price. James Chalmers, Of Dundee,
was the inventor Of the adhesive postage
stamp in 1884. The stamp is in the pos
session of Sigmund Fried, an extensive
postage stamp merchant of Inter Dol
berg Vienna. 1t was exhibited at the
Vienna Jubilee Stamp exhibition. The
postage stamp museum, held on May %,
1891, at Vienna, displayed this gem as
the greatest attraction among 3,OO0,Ooo
stamps and other objects exhibited there,
Yankee Blade.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

Coffee grows between the isothermal
lines of % dogs. north latitude and 30
dogs. south latitude, and comes to us
from all parts of the world within those
lines-from Brazil, Java, Ceylon, Suma-
ira, India. Arabia, Abyssinia, the West
Indies, Central America, Venezuela,
Guiana, Peru and some Of the Pacific
islands. We get the most of it from
Brazil, say an average Of over 2Oo,OOO,-
600 pounds year for the last ten years.
New York Sun.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

The corncob pipe is the sweetest in the
world; but the only way to have 1t in
perfection is to make it yourself.
Get a large corncob that has not been
used for any other purpose, Break 1t
into in the middle. Hollow it out with
your jackknife Bore a small hole at the
bottom of the hollow and then insert a
little reed stem which you can buy for a
penny.
There is your corncob pipe-the
sweetest that was ever smoked.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21
The Intense BriIlianoy of Lightning.

One consequence Of the short duration
Of lightning is an apparent diminution
Of its brilliancy. 1t has been proven
that light cannot produce its full effect
on the eye unless it remains at least as
long as one tenth of a second; but light
ming lasts on the ten-thousandth part
of a second, and it follows from this that
what we see is 100000 times less bright
than it really is.
When we recollect that even thus di-
minished its brilliancy is such as to
cause temporary blindness if too closely
watched, we may feel grateful that we
cannot see it in its true vividness, for
our human powers of vision would be
too weak to bear such a sudden and
overwhelming Observation-Disclosures.
ity.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

A young lady, en- route for the sea-
side, sent her box on by goods" and on
the consignment note she prepared
actually condescended to describe her
wearing apparel as zone box of rags,
the charge for which would, of course
be much less than if the goods were
correctly described London Tit Bits.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

He (ardently(-Sweet creature, why
will you not smile upon my suit
She (coldly)-My smile DON'T GO with
that suit. It's ready made one, and
couldn't have cost more than twelve dol
lars.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-21

''Rosahe has adopted a plan that
makes all the girls awfully jealous"
"What is thatE
"Why, she has taken all her engage
ment rings and had them made into a
chain for her pug."-Harper's Bazaar
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-08
anese women. It had a sailor hat, too.
with one big cream oolored magnolia tied
Just at the back with a bow Of russell rib

anese women. It had a sailor hat, too.
with one big cream colored magnolia tied
inst at the back with a bow Of russell rib
bon.
Wherever you 20 you cannot help max
ing studies Of streame.s. It is many and
bright banners have been flung to the
winds from our heads and our necks and
our waists and even from our slipper tics.
I do not know that such hat strings have
ever crossed my vision, unless it be IN Eng
lish country inns of rainy mornings, when
I have been reduced to the conversational
amusement of turning the leaves OF SOU
venlr volumes of tho (aome time) young
Victoria, and noting the huge posies, flow
ing wells, wide ribbons and vivid colors the
girl queen and the ladies who, generations
ago, waited on her pleasured themselves by
INDUCING in.
On Broadway this afternoon you might
have thought you were looking on at the
wreathinR of the May pole. just in advance
were two women with wide pink hat sashes
that dropped below their hips. Beyond
them was 4 thin blonde girl. whose floating
blue attachments whisked themselves round
under the right arm and we're fingered
furtively and perhaps not improved by the
nervous handling of the stalwart young
man who walked with her. Still III front
of this couple were narrow, snakellke
i watered black ribbons, and approaching
from he opposite direction were yellow
ribbons too many and too freAkish to count.
whipping and snappinR in the breeze and
threatening to twist and tangle themselves
with passing white ribbons. The panorama
was enlivening, but could not, to the fur
nishers OF the show, have been comfortable.
The summer fashions concern themselves
/ much more sedulously than has been usual
with backs. The dominance of the streamsr
is in rart a tribute to the rising Importance
of the back. The prevalence of Vatican
| folds is another testimonial to the newly felt
necessity of "pandering to the better ele-
ment,' that is of recognizing the claims of
the less assuming side OF the feminine
anatomy. Many Of the early summer wraps,
with their long, graceful. iet begemmed
plaits depending from the neck to the ground
and their great, bat-like wing sleeves of lace,
are much more gorgeous objects from the
rear than from the front view.
The new oapeB are curious and interest
ing objects, cut with an economy of brain
power which mo too highly commend
itself in this age of rush and fret and ner.
vous exhaustion; quite on the model of the
fashionable skirt or petticoat, very scant
about the throat and flaring below tht
waist on the approved pattern Of tho um-
brella OF the bell. They reach, when they
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-08

made a pleasant contrast enough with a Gin
der gray of the bioy cliat's attire with it's
narrow bourrette border in lighter gray, its
overlapping seams tailor-stitched and but
toned with fat tailor buttons all the way
from waist to ground, its open REFER long
and sloped away on tho sides, and is folded
vest of the paler cloth, embroidered with
stemless daisies with yellow centers. Prac-
ticed wheelmen will hardly approve of the
bunch of lace and yellow ribbons at the
throat, and yet if only an outing dress ia
dustproof IA to its essentials it cannot af-
ford to be induleent TO itself in details.
The hat of the cinder gray girl ia a small,
obviously tlnted gray chip, with stiff upright
bows of yellow ribbon aud yellow and white
daisies.
There was n grent opening up at Newport
for the Griswold wedding. and the smooth
shnyen awnsu under the dogwood and the
splendid white magnolia trees saw some
plquant. fiuttering tennis costumes. One
gown l remember was as effective as any
that has made it's appearance this season.
You would not think it when told that its
material was a pale, putty colored flannel,
made with that peculiar ''oorselet'' skirt
which is narrow about the hips and flares at
! the bottom; but its attractions began with its
Rirdle bodice of old rose ribbon laced over q
waist of pale yellow green silk, which WAS
smoked into a short round yoke, n had
yellow green sleeves smoked into deem
cuffs. Old rose plaitinRs and n gay rose
colored cravat finished the neck and were
themselves finished in effect by the little,
Aat, putty colored sailor hat, with it's yell
low-green ribbons and bunch of rose-husd
carnations.
Almost as original and quite as pretty waa
a brown tennis frock which disported itself
the better part of an entire day with blaz-
ing beds of red and yellow tulips in the
grass beyond, to draw the eyes TO it in theil
journey toward tho color splashes in tn.
background. The brown tennis dress hat
a short WASTED russell and cream ooloret
plaid bodice, with \ big, soft yellow sill,
sash tied in the style of those worn by Jap.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-08
The FASHIONS OF May.
Cycling and Tennis Gowns Seen on
the Green Lawns Of
Newport
Some Novel Capes and Coats,
and Summer Studies in
Streamers.
The Picturesqueness of the Warm Weather
Gown, and Some Fantastic Quite
One Tea Gown.

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT
"EW YORK, MAY 4.-THERE;S A
III great amount of bicycling in the
TX park, along the riverside drive and
on the Staten Island and Long Is
lane country roads this spring, and it be-
comes increasingly evident that the ques-
tion is settled in the affirmative whether
women will or will not take to the wheel.
Convenience and common sense have won
a decided victory over conservatism, and 30
it is not the decorous hut clumsy tricycle.
nor the sociable but heavy tandem which
has found feminine approval, but the easy
running safety bicycle.
There is a young girl, daughter Of a house
without mention of some member of some
one OF whose branches a well-conducted
and intelligent New York press would balk
and choke and absolutely refuse to run off
either morning and evening edition, who
rides in the northern by-ways of the park
before nine O'Clock nearly every morning in
a dark blue cloth frock that is strikingly
pretty with its three overlapping skirts
for here the latest freak Of the spring fash
ions comes into play handily to screen the
intricacies of q practical bicycling cos
tunes inner machinery. Each skitt is
edged with a roll cord of crimson silk, and
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-08

morning is still SO young, she wears a dark
blue cutaway jacket with faring COLLAR and
yoke out all in one piece. and revsrs faced
with crimson. Her hat is q dark blue
sailor of coarse braid, with broad fat brim
and low crown, and trimmed with crimson
and white striped satin ribbon tied in q
bow about a handful of crimson fax bios
SONS On one side.
You can always tell = woman's wheel, il
by NO other mark or token, by its huge
bunch of bright ribbons knotted some
where in front and making up in some
subtly mysterious manner for the hat
streamers the bioyolist is forced for the
hour to foreRo.
There ale yellow ribbons on the wheel OF
a dark, bright-eyed girl who has been for a
short time the guest Of Mrs. Cleveland. The
wife Of the ex-prosident does not herself
ride, but she has been seen walking beside
her friend in a dark green princess robe that