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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
VERY CLOSELY MATCHED.
Stevens Point High School Eleven
Wins from the Howe High School
10 to 4 at Football.

Eleven young gentlemen Of the Howe
High School, in sweaters, canvas jackets,
upholstered trousers and red stockings,
struggled hard for the ''scarlet 1d
white" at the Fair Grounds of this ty
Saturday in their second experier III
real contest over a plgskin. cir
adversaries, eleven young men flom
the Stevens Point High School fought
equally well to maintain the standing of
their representative colors and sue
ceeded in earning victory by a very
close margin. Compared with their
first game, Grand Rapids boys showed
marked improvement in work of inter
ference and especially in handling of
the oval back of the rushers line. Use
Of their half-backs was far more
frequent and telling, and fumbling
reduced almost entirely. The Stevens
Pointers were little at disadvantage
in weight, but made up for this by
reason of longer training and splendid
coach advantages which they get in
constant practice against the Normal
team at home. They put up a snappy
quick game.
"American football, so fast becoming
the fall sport of American youth, is
pre-eminently game for the practice
and display of what is known as ''team
play" No other game can be compared
with it in this particular. When once
understood therein lies its holding
charm and interest. Not that the
individual elements in skill, in physical
capacities in strategy and headwork are
to be overlooked but these are made
subservient to the intent of the particu
lar play in hand, and so adjusted to that
play as sl.all best contribute to its
success. To get eleven men to use
their individual strength, agility and
speed, their wit. Judgment and courage,
first in individual capacity, then work
ing with one or two companion players,
then as eleven men working as one, is
magnificent feat in organization and
generalship." Spontaneous action in
duSN eI ~ lue llll1lu > BY StcIl VI tSIo-
graphy can be accurately developed in
no better way. To execute cleverly
and exactly, without hesitancy, upon
the instant of an opportunity presented
is one of the constant lessons of foot
ball. With rules adopted, as at present,
| reducing chances of injury to a mimi
mum we can see no serious objection to
to this sport as High School diversion.
In fact we have yet to read of the first
serious injury resultant to players IN
any High school contest.
In "team play as above mentioned
Grand Rapids is progressing rapidly for
the little schooling they have had.
Every new game will ripen their
knowledge in this respect. A more
thorough understanding of rules will
also prove TO their advantage. AS
individual players every one is good.
They are all sturdy, we'll built fellows,
and when the two teams lined up
Saturday, as follows, the remark was
made that Grand Rapids has as per-
fectly developed and as strong looking
line up as can be found, perhaps, among
the High School teams of the state:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21

score-Stevens Point 10; Grand Rapids f.,
Touch -downs-Stevens Point 2; G'rd r pds l.
Goals-Stevens Point 1.
Time-20 minute halves.
Referee-C. Edmonde LaFigne.
Umpire -Krembs, of Stevens Point.
Iinesman-TheO. w. Brazeau.
At the start Of game Captain Poda-
wiltz won toss and Stevens Point was
given the kickoff. The oval was kicked
a nice distance into Howe High terri
tory and was caught and carried back
for fifteen yards. Then began pretty
battle that for equality Of opposing
forces could not have made contest
more interesting anywhere. The ball
repeatedly changed hands on downs
and for twenty minutes every inch OF
gridiron from Grand Rapids 40 yard
line to Stevens Points 20 yard line was
fought upon. And at no time did either
side get over these lines, the scrlm-
images taking place mostly on the
visitors territory. Time was called for
first half with score to and the
young warriors took ten minute rest.
Grand Rapids kicked off in the second
half and in four minutes time Stevens
Point had the ball back to their % yard
line. In the next scrimmage the oval
was passed back to the visitors star
player, Pierce, who sprinted around TO
the post with the leather tucked safely
away under his fin. A rousing yell
announced the first touch down for
Stevens Point and it was followed by a
goal The pigskin was again put in play
and at the end of ten minutes time
Williams had made clever sprint of
forty yards to st. P IL yard line on a
criss-cross dodge. Tie next scrimmage
brought it around left end to 5 yard line
and then the ball was pushed through
center for Grand Raplds's first points.
Rablin failed in try at goal. Here it
was that the goal defenders-Stevens
Point-took the ball AS soon as it
touched earth from the try at goal and
running down to the center placed the
ball, kicked it off, followed it up and
carried it across opponents goal line
claiming touch down. All this time
Grand Rapids boys stood at the other
| end of the field with arms folded grave
| ly wondering what was up, The referee
allowed the count because of the
| vigorous claims by Stevens Poin,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
TOOK HIM FOR \ DEER.

A dispatch of Nov. s, dated at Med
ford, says: A messenger came in from
W. H. Lowry's camp, eight miles east
of here, tonight, after a physician,
saying one of the camp men was shot
through the shoulder by hunter, who
took him for deer. The man who did
the shooting was one of party which
came from Neillsville this morning and
went to camp us guest of Mr.. Lowry.
supplementary to the above it may
stated that Robert McAdams of Lewis
was the hunter referred to. 1t was a
dcplorable accident, without fault on
his part, and nobody regrets it more
than himself
The man shot was Frank Graves, a
grandson Of Robt. McCalvy, of west
Pine Valley. A late report is to the
effect that Mr.. Graves is improving.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
MURDERS ARE EXPENSIVE.

Wausau Record: District Attorney
Williams, Of Wood county, who came
over TO attend the first days session of
the Circuit Court did not return to
Marshfeld yesterday evening for the
very sufficient reason that he desired to
appear before the Marathon county
board Of supervisors with a little bill.
The bill in question amounts to 81 ,S4l.70,
and this money was paid by Wood
county as expenses in the Hoffman
murder trial.
AS Wood county was not prepared to
meet an expense of this kind, and had
other ways of using it's available funds
the payment came at a time when it
pinehed exceedingly, and Mr.. Williams
hopes by presenting the matter in the
proper light to so expedite matters that
the Golfers Of our sister county, Of
which he is legal adviser, may once
more be replenished, and the regular
affairs Of the local government of that
county may glide along on fabricated
wheels. AS murderers come high,
Wood county is excused for not want
ing to adopt and maintain luxury of
this character belonging by right to the
great county of Marathon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
FACTS ABOUT ONE WASHINGTON TREE.

1t is very difficult for people who have
not stood beside some of our gaint trees
to comprehend their immense bulk, and
it is not strange that stories giving only
facts, are followed by smile of incredu-
litv But those who have actually
inspected our forests, are prepared to
believe almost any statement about
them. There is a sample block on the
corner of Holly and Railroad avenues
in the City of New Whatcom, cut from
a tree 465 feet high, which measured
within one inch Of So feet in circum-
ference at the base. The tree would
make, sawed into lumber, $685. feet, or
enough lumber to build eight two story,
seven room cottages. or fill ten ordinary
cars. From the annual groWths, the
tree was $50 years old; it was 120 feet
from the ground to the first limb, and
it was nearly 80 feet in circumference at
that point If the lumber was sawed
into inch square strips, placed end to
end. allowing nothing for waste by the
saw, they would extend about 219 miles.
While such facts are entirely familiar
to our home readers, they are not SO to
non-residents, and this fir, though
larger by considerable than the average,
is one of many in different parts Of the
timber belt of Washington.-W hatcom
Revellle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
NEIGHBORING NOTES.
Taken From Our Exchanges and Com
densed for Local Readers.

Plainfeld Sun: Hugh McGowen, of
North Dakota. who resided here years
ago when the means of conveyance was
by stage and he was employed as driver
of one of those vehicles, has been
talking over old times with friends here
this week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
GROSS !

Our prices on -four have become
so popular that we have decided
to continue them. Fact, friends,
it's quality and price which tells
with us. We don't ask you to
buy our wares because we have
lived here ten or twenty years
and paid Our proportion of taxes,
etc, we claim your patronage
on different basis, viz, QUAIL
1TY and PRICE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
ALL THIS WEEK.
Ending Saturday Night,

progress. Big Discount in every
Department.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
N0I CA MI GOUGA

After taking doses of Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup. 1t is one Of the most
wonderful remedies ever put on the
market for Coughs and Colds. Sold and
warranted by our popular druggist John
T. DAILY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
FELL THIRTY-FIVE FEET.

Marshtield Times. 1t don't seem
could fall the distance that Frank
Smoda did last Friday noon and escape
with his life. On that day contractor
Thos Wright had engaged him to help
on the new Fourth ward school building
and he was to have begun work after
dinner. On arriving at the place he
did not see Mr.. Wright and thinking he
was at the top of the building he as
cended the ladder to the second story
in search of him. On reaching the top
he walked part way around the staging
where he was seen by another work
man to sit down, but on arising he
walked or rather stumbled head first
from bis lofty position to the ground
below, a distance Of nearly 40 feet. He
was picked up and taken to st. Joseph's
hospital where Drs. Lathrop and Doege
attended him. His injuries were found
to be mostly in the right leg, the thigh
bone being broken and the foot badly
crushed which would indicate that he
had turned complete somersault in
mid air striking the ground with his
right leg and side. 1t is the greatest
wonder he was not killed outright, and
no doubt would have been had he not
struck in the position be did and on
soft earth. The staging on which he
and it is believed that on looking down
he became dizzy and fell.-On Monday
morning, and since the above was put
in type Mr.. Smoda breathed his last
from Injuries received internally.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04
MOTOR CARRIAGE OF THE SULTAN OF MoRRoooo

on the other side, especially Paris. On the streets of the French capital, in deed, these vehicles cause no more com ment than did bicycles a few years ago, and the rapidity of their introduction appears to depend almost altogether upon the capacity of the factories to turn them out One of the greatest obstacles to their use here has been furnished by the poor highways, inf nitely worse than those of Europe, but the pavements of our cities are so rough and uneven, as rule, as to interfere very seriously with the use of self-pro- polling vehicles.
 Some months ago an American, de- sirous of introducing horseless car riages on this side of the water, brought over some twenty different vehicles of foreign make and expert mented with them in the vicinity of New York In every instance, although the carriages experimented with had
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04

this article. It will be seen that Cur ney proposed to build the locomotive separate from the carriage, though many of his competitors planned to combine locomotive and carriage, as do the inventors of to-day.
 Some of the old inventions were ex- trepely quaint, "a notion having been impressed upon their minds" says Lardner, that adhesion between the face of the wheel and the surface of the road must necessarily be of very small amount and that in every practi- cal case the wheels thus driven would afther slip altogether, and produce no advance of the carriage, or that con- siderable portion of the impelling pow CT would be lost by partial slipping. It is singular" adds Lardner, that it should never have occurred to the many ingenious persons engaged in such speculations to ascertain the truth by experiment." but it did not, hence such contrivances as "a pair of me- shanical legs and feet, which were made to walk and propel in a manner some what resembling the feet of an animal" were put in operation
 Lardner's sketch of this machine, which suggests nothing so much as great grasshopper, is reproduced here. It was not practical, of course, but it was almost as successful as any of the later steam road carriages has been.
 So much for the early history of the horseless carriage, which appears so far 10 have been entirely overlooked.
 Now, however, the problem of dis pensing with horses on ordinary roads appears to have been solved, though steam is not the motive power. Neither are the most successful horseless car riages of to-day operated by electricity, although scores of inventors have burned the midnight oil with great. persistence in the attempt to harness the mystic. current to successful car riage propulsion. Down to date-petro- num products appear to have been used with most success in operating road wagons. Steam carriages that will go have been made, to be sure, and so have electric ones, but both are lacking in the requisite hghtness and fexibility. Besides, the steam car- riages are hot.& they have to stop oc- easionally for fresh supplies of water, and the noise of the exhaust is dis agreeable. 8as4&k#E z#88
 Electrical carriages are more satis- factory than those propelled by steam, but they are much too heavy to be wieldy and are subject to all the draw backs that attend storage battery street. cars, being expensive, easily deranged. and entirely dependent upon proximity
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04

to charging stations for ability to do continuous work. The gravity of this drawback is apparent when it is under stood that the distance limit of the most successful storage battery carriage yet experimented with is from fifty to one hundred miles, according to grade and speed. At the end of such a run halt must be made and new batteries taken on or the ones in use recharged, at the loss of considerable time.
 All these things may ultimately be overcome, of course, and will be, the instant some one invents storage bat tery that combines hghtness with suf- feient capacity to make it safe to get more than twenty-five miles away from charging station. Till then, how ever, electric motor, in carriages, as in launches, will be at disadvantage as compared with the various forms eff petroleum motors. This seems to have been conclusively shown by the horse less carriage races in France, where the petroleum motors proved so much superior in speed to the electric ones,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04
HORSELESS CARRIAGES.
After Sixty Odd Years Of Inven-
 ton They Arc Now a Success.
Some Quaint oId-Timo Efsorts-Factories for the Construction of the New yehi- cle Now Springing Up All Over
 the United States.
COPYRIGHT. 1895,

Men have been trying to get rid of horses for centuries. They began to succeed just three hundred years ago, when an observant fellow named Savery took hint from the accidental condensation of steam in an empty wine bottle which he had thrown into the fire, Since that time steam en- zines and not horses have pumped wa ter. Nearly ninety years later, in 17S2, James Watt, another observer who knew how to put his observations to good use, found out how to make the double acting steam engine. Since then steam and not horse power has turned the wheels of the worlds fac tories. Nearly forty years later, in 1899, George Stephenson built the first successful automobile carriage, and straightway steam began hauling goods and passengers, and the horse, the freight wagon and the stage coach have year by year come to be less and less in evidence.
 But neither Stephenson's carriage, nor the highly developed steam locomo- tives which have followed it, would travel on ordinary highways, and all eff forts to so modify the steam locomotive as to really fit it for anything but rail way service have failed. As far back as 1895, more than two generations ago, and before the railroad locomotive was an assured success, an Englishman named Gurney thought he had solved the problem of the horseless carriage. In this he had the support of Dr. Lard ner, then the most reliable authority on steam engineering, who, in his book, issued early in the sos, carried the idea taiat Gurney's turnpike locomotives" would very shortly be hauling stage coaches up and down the post roads of England to the great detriment, if not the actual wiping out of many projected railroad enterprises. Nor was Gurney the only one who had a turnpike loco motive" on the market seven decades ago Lardner mentions dozen such, though he believed Gurney's the only practical one, and printed picture of it in his book, which is produced in one of the illustrations accompanying
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04

done excellent work in Europe and
 could be made to go over the rough
 cobbled pavements and sandy, muddy roads in this neighborhood, yet they
 are terribly raelxed and strained, and
 it was exceedingly unpleasant to ride
 in them. He therefore decided upon various notifications as to eonstruc- ton, which in his opinion will render the carriages lighter, stronger and more pliablc and so better suited to American use. At the same time he be- gan the erection of an extensive plant for the manufacture of
 the improved carriages, and it is believed that by the late autumn,
 American horseless carriages will be on the market. Vehicles of the new pattern will be offered for sale before that time, indeed, since this same man ufacturer has sent his designs and plans toa European factory in which he is Financially interested and there a score or more are now being made to .be shipped here as soon as completed. This manufacturer will use petroleum motors in Ahis carriages altogether, the form being similar, with notifications, to the ordinary gas engine. Naphtha,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04
FIG. l. LARDER's MECHANIC AL LEGS
 AND FEET" FIG. 9. GURNEY's MODEL.

the winner making the round trip of seven hundred and fifty miles at the remarkably high average speed of six teen miles an hour. But it should be said for the electric carriages that they are vastly superior to all others in cleanliness and coolness, and would be far and away in the lead if these were the only considerations.
 So far Europe leads America inn mensely with regard to the horseless carriages, which are rapidly coming into common use in- almost every city
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04
Change of rI,.

When woman approaches tho
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 says: 'sI had been suffering frot rlalns, No. He and 1t took the form of r drocaaa o doctors told my husband it wa. aSiopsy' Td prescribe for me any more "' useless t time we got pr. McElree's book on mooat .9a tds ment of female diseases and dac;a. 3a tne trest the Wine of Cardui Treatment uea a.. 10 h ing nine bottles, am we'll After U
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04
The Pastor Bade Ha.

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-04

TIE curious thing about my bo.;,.
 said the mosquito, alghting sofly p@slaess ,,a s nose of the sleeping victim, 's 'Ss fRoa tRo! h h more fun to go to work than it is ta 5Is. st. u hum.n U siaFt
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-18

1t is said that George Gould has an
ambition to become a United States
Senator, and has chosen New Jersey
as his constituent State. The wealth
and the versatility in politics which
Mr.. Gould inherited from his father
should make his entrance into the
Senate an easy matter. He will not
be bothered with political principles
which might prevent acceptance of a
nomination from the party happening
to be dominant when the time is ripe
for the realization of his hopes, and
he undoubtedly is eligible for a mil
l~ionaires' club. Worse men with less
claimst to statesmanshipthan Mr.. Gould
have been elected to the Senate. AS
long as we have a system of senatorial
election which makes wealth the prin-
ciple of selection Mr.. Gould must be
regarded asan exceptionally available
candidate for IA seat in the Senate.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-18

Secretary Morton has written a let
ter to a Denver man answering some
of the criticisms on his recent inter-
view. He says that as he understands
it, those who talk of 1.-THE crime of
1873" are mixed in their dates, as sill
yer was really ''demonetized' in 1853.
He is entirely correct in this state
ment. Any one who will urn to the
files of the Congressional Globe for
that year. and read the debates on the
coinage acts of February y and
March 3. 1853. will find that it was ad-
mitted and urged that those acts were
4 definite abandonment. in practical
effct. of the attempt to maintain the
double standard, and that they we're
passed with a full knowledge that they
meant the gold standard.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-18

Our town was filed with railroad
people this week and railroad talk has
been the order oftheday. The Chester,
Pennington and Western Railroad
Company presented a petition to the
county court praying for a right OF
way through this county. The court
granted the petition giving said com
pany the right of way under certain
conditions, which are published in the
court proceedings elsewhere in this
issue. In February, 1893, the county
gave Nh. Louis Houck the right
of way through the county for a period
of three years, and this order has not
been rescinded. Both companies claim
they are willing and anxious to build
the road and are ready to go to work
at once. What the outcome will be no
one can say, but there's no doubt there
Will be considerable litigation over the
matter.-St. Genevieve Fair Play.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-18

Some statistics have been published
showing the effect of anti-toxine in sub
DUNG ravages of diptheria in the city
of Yonkers. n. Y. In 1891 and 1892
the mortality from diphtheria there
was 30 per cent: in 1893 it was Il. 30 per
cent: in 1894. when the new remedy
began to be introduced. it was "a per
cent: while in January of this year,
anti-toXine being more generally used,
it fell to 1866 per cent. and in Febru-
airy and March to l. per cent. Out of
forty cases attended by the health Off
Ger of Yonkers. and in which the dis
cOvery was applied, only two proved
fatal. and in these there were special
reasons for the failure of the anti
toXine. This is one of the best pieces of
evidence yet published to show the
great value to humanity OF the new
remedy.