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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
NElGHBORING NOTES.
Taken From Our Exchanges and Com
densed For Local Readers.

Wausau Central: A number of the
leading citizens Of Wausau have taken
the Initiative in a movement looking
towards the placing of the grounds of
the Marathon County Agricultural
association under the maintenance and
control of the City of Wausau. The
matter is yet in the first stages of
development, but the promoters of the
enterprise are thoroughly in earnest,
and there is good reason to believe that
success will ultimately crown their
efforts. The idea, briefly stated, is to
have the city take 99-yea1 lease of the
grounds from the Agricultural society,
and in consideration of said lease to
expend the sum Of 900 annually
upon the beautifying and general
Improvement the tract, which includes
both the fair grounds proper and the
shooting park adioining.-A fine plate
glass front was put in the building
occupied by r. Kalbskopff, proprietor
Of 1.-The Hub" shoe store, this week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
BEGGS' HAIR REVIEWER.

Is positively the best hair tonic on
the market 1t will stop hair falling
out or turning gray Give it trial.
Every bottle warranted to give salts
faction by your popular druggist John
L. DAILY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
WHY WILL YOU COUGH9

DAILY your druggist asks you why?
You can be so easily cured. Three
doses of Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup
will relieve you at once. We guarantee
every bottle, and no monkey work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
YOU CAN'T COUGH.

After taking doses of Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup. It is one of the most
wonderful remedies ever put on the
market for Coughs and Colds. Sold and
warranted by our popular druggist John
f.. DAILY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
GROSS

We about 70 celebrate the third anniversary of our
embarking III the Grocery and Flour Business
We have maintained our position as independent
dealers, keeping aoof from all combinations and
trusts for the purpose Of raising prices on our
friends and patrons. We have had many induce
ments to join the combination, but shall continue to
maintain independent position
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
MR.. King SURPRISED.

Merrill News: Monday evening
about twenty @. the friends of E. S.
King, in response to invitations by
Mrs. King, surprised that gentleman at
his home on Center Avenue by taking
tea with him. After tea an enjoyable
evening was spent. The occasion was
Mr.. Kings birthday and the 10th mile
stone was the one reached.
Plainfeld Sun. .-Geo. W. Goult, who
has been troubled with rheumatism in
one of his feet, drove over to Grand
Rapids last weeE and took two treat
ments Of DR.. Meilin, the rheumatic
doctor, and since then has not been
troubled with the disease. The doctor
is reported doing well in his new
location.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24

ggFO. 7. Hougen NJ. D., Office over
Daly's Drug store. Telephone at Office
81 residence Z.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
Positively Going Out Of Business!
Take advantage Of the Lowest Prices Ever offered you.

prices day only but for every day until
line of Merchandise closed We compelled to
make the sacrifice you reap the harvest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
THE MOST WONDERFUL PILL

They relieve where all others fail
They are called Beggs' Little Giants
and are rightly named. Remember the
name and call for them at the best store
in town. John E. Daily keeps them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
TRANSFERRED HIS PROPERTY

Sentinel: Emmons Burr, whose
reputation for unfulflled promises in
connection with the settlement of the
defunct Commercial bank case is
becoming notorious, added another
broken promise to his list Monday
afternoon. At ;.,meeting Of the stock
holders held last Saturday Mr.. Burr
promised to turn over all his private
property except his residence and
grounds for the benefit of the creditors
early this week to committee appoint
ed to receive it. They have been
grievously disappointed, however, since
Mr.. Burr yesterday transferred all his
interest in his raeehorse stock to @. W.
Cate, his attorney, at a nominal value of
So, ,05S.10. This stock includes fourteen
horses of moie or less speed, among
them the famous little trotter B. B. P.
with a record of 2:10f. At the same he
mortgaged his real estate to different
persons in this city and in Michigan.
His business property, including several
wooden store buildings, was made over
to Dodge j. Ship ipman of Albion, Mich,
on mortgage of $4,000, and several
fine residence lots were mortgaged to
Mrs. Burr's sister, Miss Anna E. Ferris,
who resides with the Burr family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
WILL BUILD A NEW PAPER MILL

Sentinel: John Strange, a Menasha
capitalist, was in Stevens Point looking
over the Clark water power with a view
of establishing new paper plant there
several other towns are competing for
the plant but it will probably be located
In Stevens Point if capitalists will
interest themselves to the sum of
S!25,000. The new plant will have Il
capital stock of $3.50, 900 and will manu-
facture daily output of thirty-fve tons
Of the finest grades of paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24

w. \. HENRY, Director,
Wis. Agricultural Experiment Station
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
Prices other Staples unchanged from last
Weeks Quotations.

We wish to say in conclusion that claim the honor
Of naming the lowest prices Flour and Feed that has
ever been put in printers ink. If you have not laid in
your stock of Flour for the winter do while the
price is right Mail orders accompanied by cash will
receive prompt attention. Goods delivered to any part
of either city or depos free of charge. Your friend,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24

Merrill News: Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Ticknor returned Monday from their
wedding trip. Late in the evening
they were greeted by a joyful serenade
of mandolins, vIolins and a variety of
other musical instruments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24

Marshfeld Times: jim SNOWFALL is
the name of an Indian who has been in
jail in Grand Rapids for some time
awaiting his trial for stealing another
Indians pony. When his case was
called last week it was found that he
had been imprisoned in the wrong
county and he was dismissed from
custody. Had bis name been Baseball
he would never have escaped out of
Grand Rapids so easily.
Brother White he certainly would
have been badly beaten anyway.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
JOHN s. DEGROFF DEAD.

John S. Degrof, aged IS, died of
chronic Bright's disease at his home in
Mishamokwa. Deceased was a we'll
known pioneer, who came to Dodge
county in 1915. Thence he went to
Buffalo county in 1858. The Hous. J.
W. and 4. H. Degroff are sons of the
Friday.
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OUT OF THE BEATEN TRACK.
Lederer Finds Himself tho Only Ame rican in lIagdeburg
Why Its Women Are Unloveiy- Forced to Bear Burdens Fit Only for Cancels Why Don't They strike-More About
 German Officials.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

Imagine, if you can, without the aid of a glass, being in civilized city of over two hundred thousand inhabitants, live ones, and not another Yankeeman in town. The nearest thing in the Yankee line is AIr. Muth, the United States consul, who is a naturalized citizen of the states and credit to his adopted country and to the government that sent him here to Magdeburg only the state department and MT. Muth know
 That the reasons are good and suffi- cient doubt not. MT. Muth explained 1t all to me, but the explanations were like the wonderful machinery for making great guns at Krupp's branch establishment at Bokau, su- burb of this city. The machinery is on very grand scale and probably an- swers the purpose to which it is applied quite well, but it is too intricated for my very limited mechanical under standing. Some of my friends still like to remind me of the time when I tried to flake" up realistic picture of an engine, and put the smoke stack in the center of an obtrusive boiler.
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We'll, MT. Muth's being here has some thing to do with our tariff. The consul might have made his explanation for his official existence more clear to me but I don't care to appear as one either ignorant or prying. He is the lone foreign representative in Magde- burg. Possibly other countries don't have our kind of tariff. Certain it is, other governments manage to mosey along without consulate in Magde- burg. There used to be Portuguese consul here, but something happened
 He didn't get his little stipend very regularly, I understand, and at last the ghost refused to promenade alto gether. Then the Portuguese took 8 third-class train out of town. It was something like that. At any rate MT. Muth is the only consul in town, and the welcome he gave me was conspic- uous by it's cordiality. He isn't actual ly overrun with visitors from the land of stars, stripes and trusts. My visit was the first he had received from an American since early in July. The July man wanted to introduce cash registers intostown, but he was emi- nently unsuccessful. The storekeep- CTS prefer a peculiar check system of their own. I am not clever at examin- ing things of this order, but as near as I could figure it out, the system con sisted of a box with two slots, one for the slips of paper showing the amounts of the purchases, the other for the coin presented in payment and a cracker bowl full of small change. When the change gives out business IS temporarily suspended, the store closed for few hours, and all hands except the proprietor go home for something to eat and drink while the boss goes to the bank for more change. This statement may reasonably be con- tradicted, but 1 simply tell how the automatic cashier system of Magde- burg appeared to me after casual in spection. As to the closing of the stores at intervals during the day, there can be, of course, no denial. It is almost a national custom, and very good one, everything considered.
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sulate or the Krupp machinery. I had inveigled two Sehlummer punches into my system the evening before. This punch is, next to beer and wine, the great national beverage. One is dose. had made palpable error in taking two.
 The antiquities are mostly old stat ues: the first is that of Emperor Otho, who formed Benedictine monastery here in the tenth century. The most in teresting relic is the Dom Cathedral. There some statues of kings, that are interesting mainly in showing what an awful time they must have had with their crowns. headpieces that were about as dainty as the tops of wrought iron fence posts.
 The German official faseinates me, and I fain must again and again re- turn to him, even at the risk of tiring the patient reader-this apology does not include the constant reader, who is always tired. Remember, as one ex- cuse, that the official Is the most nu- merous male person one can meet in all the German empire.
 There is most pompous official in the railway station here. He looks like burlesque general in opera bouffe. It is his mission in life to rush into the waiting room of the banhof (railway station) and announce the de- parting trains. In his exuberant in- coherency he has his counterpart in America. Only this one has big dim ner bell, as well as a large and uncul- tivated voice. When a train is nearly ready to depart he bursts into the waiting room, makes two or three half circular lunges with his bell, and cries harshly, hoarsely, as follows Cbut rec ollect, am no short hand reporter, es- pecially in the Teutonic language, and cannot vouch for absolute aecuracy):
 "Jeht sgeht sabnachbrederoetzm gusenwusterwitzbr sda- moderihrenderan dedarnplatzberlinun dzowe iterbrrrrr!"
 That's what it gzNfnds like to man up tree, or rather 10 man who wishes he was.
 It is barely possible that the man
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for the data relating to the subject, lis one of the most important features of Baptist work. The work of personal evangelization necessarily claims an immense amount of time and labor In the newer, more sparsely settled DOT tions of the country, where as yet Bap- tist churches are few. Next in impor- tance to preaching is the missionary's work of organizing churches. The new country is settled by immigrants from the older sections, who bring with them, to greater or less degree, their reli- gious convictions. In almost every set clement in the west there may be found a few Baptists, who, with proper en- couragementa and advice, may readily be organized into a Baptist church.''
 It is very likely that the congress will take some action with reference to the University of Chicago. A very general impression exists in the public mind that the university is in some manner or other an official exponen4 of Baptist ideas. This impression. of course, is due to the great financial ob. legations conferred upon it by John D Rockefeller, himself one of the most prominent Baptist laymen in the coun- try. This inference has been very dis. agreeable to Baptists everywhere and the church has been at pains to make ic known that it has nothing officially to do with that institution of learning
 Should the University of Chicago lean
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Even though it is the truth perhaps
 I have still no valid excuse
 But, my Teutonic friend, ere you
 arise in your wrath to champion the cause of the fair ones of this perforee-
 Prussian provincial city, and to crush me en passant, pray stop and think about it. Lift up the cover and take
 another sip first
 Whose fault is it that the lines of
 beauty are wanting in the good
 women of Magdeburg? Do you main-
 tain, with your right arm and right
 royal thirst that the carrying of hun dred weights by means of wooden
 yoke, or the singing of great baskets
 on the backs of women, is conducive
 to gracefulness? Does the almost con stant straining of muscles while en- gagged in labor such as should be mems,
 or rather that of draft horses, neces- l sarily produce the softly curved lines, the sweetness of expression that we
 call womanly beauty?
 My friend the German in America. you who are forever talking about the
 superiority of the Vaterland over every thing American, but who wouldn't stay here more than six month unless you
 were walled in-don't, I pray you, lose
 your temper. I didn't include all the Magdeburg women in my rash and in- excusable statement. There are, no doubt, scores of beautiful women with in the boundaries of this dear old town i;
 but evidently they are chary of too ire quently dazzling their townfollSs with their rcsplendent presence. Or per haps they secrete themselves from the
 mayhap this beautiful fall, unfortun-
 ately for me, is one of the close seasons, I'm sure don't t know.
 In Magdeburg the women do work
 that in America would provoke strikes among the commonest laborers, while
 the men are yoked as horses might be
 if there were no societies for the pre-
 vention of cruelty to animals in the United States.
 The well-to-do women of this city are ladylilse in their demeanor and taste fully, at times almost richly, dressed.
 If one can contemplate the harmonies of personal adornment with pleasura- ble emotions the industry incidental to their attainment should perhaps com
 mend itself to one's admiration. Ohl don't know what I'm talking about.
 eh? Well, I'm only giving an imitation
 of writer on economic and socio-polit- ical subjects; and he couldn't know what he was talking about and main tain even half interest in his salary. CHARLES LEDERER.
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BAPTIsTs' BIG GATHERING.
A Body in Which John D. Rock
 efeller Takes Part.
Great Growth of the Church The Present Year Seems Destined to Be Banner One for Vast Meetings of Rei-
 gious Organizations.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.

This has been emphatically a year of great religious gatherings. The Pres byterians at Pittsburgh, the Episco- palians at Minneapolis and the Catho- lies at Washington have made history in their respective denominational ways. It is now the turn of the Bap- lists.
 Their congress opens at Providence. R. L, on November Is next. It will be the most adequate representative body of the country's three and half million communicants that has yet as- sembled. It will be composed of del egates, both clerical and lay, from Bap- tist churches throughout the country. Much misunderstanding, even among Baptists, exists with reference to the work of the congress, because it does not assume any governing power. Its chief province is in the regulation of matters polemical and in arranging for systematic method of evangelistie work.
 This years gathering promises to be unusually important in point of rep resentation. Among the delegates is John D. Rockefeller. being very promi-
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nent in the church on account of his liberal endowment of it's educational and eleemosynary institutions. The clerical representation is also imposing. Rev. H. M. Sanders, D. D., and Walter Rauschenbuesh have been in core spondenee for weeks past, and now their labors are bearing fruit. Every prom inent Baptist interest in the United States is to be represented.
 Home missions have assumed great importance Dr. Thomas J. Morgan, who is secretary of the society in charge of this work, has prepared a report of unusual interest upon which the con- gress will take action. In the west and northwest, the Baptist church is mak- ing giant strides, but the lack of funds and men Is a source of embarrassment. tained, but good men are by no means common. Dr. Morgan is the leader of this mission work, and what he has to say on the subject will receive great at tention.
 The missionaries throughout the country have in not a few cases att tafned unusual eminence for denomina- tional workers. Among these are Rev. N. B. Rairden, who labors in Missouri; Rev. c. E. Conley, stationed in Mich igan; Rev. E. B. Meredith, of Kansas; Rev. A. W. Clark, of Nebraska, and other noted missionaries throughout the western states. From one point of view, indeed, the congress itself might almost be termed a missionary gather ing.
 ''The employment of home mission aries," said Dr. Morgan, when asked
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HUMOROUS.

TT see you have glas. an Yes, yer amer; but it's s' rat' sir SIT. l can't see nuthing out of ,sss ,sa -Madge-'If he bored won didn't you dismiss himq M.ss, se, Why II saw the edges of two matina l0rle-, cts sticking out of his vest pocket s'ss ss Life. poeAe1s~ The Popular Favorite. (behind the scenes)-"Hai what suase a 2 see? Only four wreaths tbram uo the stage, and I paid for ar.w on Deutsche Wespen. se''-- A Slight Error. r.-Student a., cated, lying in the gutter)-aR1 Rls0sl' I ter, if that landlady of mine bas.,. sapl' damp sheets on the bed againl, n pus liche Rundschau. E. -He-"Dearest, my whole ba.s. devoted to you" She-"But bou ssss sl U your poeketbook?" He-"Ero,.0us ao0us but I was thinking about vons. ,s .s n Boston Transcript.
 Broken Rest.-Jones-"I ate ,.. of mince pie for break fast last snps p,s's morning" Brown-"Well. what that?" "I had terrible dreams Q 0' church. ."-Town Topics. a' -Physician-"How did yop oat t,s, a cold?" Patient-"What has that tasa aal to do with your business of curin. se. ,.s It is a condition, not theory th., " confronts you. '-Boston Transerint 'a' Errors of Judgment.-
 In Judgment now daily err
 As cycles past me whirl;
 1gaily call 'Good morning, sir,s
 Then ind it was girl.
 -Pearson's Weekly -Father-''T see that Riehlev .l. millionaire, is dead" Bobby-@Tbsss I suppose he's just about irvine .s work his way through the eve ot 7 needle now, isn't he, paPn-Roxbur, Gazette.
 -"Papa, know what I'm goino to buy for your next birthday wal what?' "A nice painted shavn, mug" But have fine one nov "Oh, I've just broken that. ."-Fliegena. Blaetter.
 -"This predicting the weather 1, mighty easy," said the sceptic. "Could you do it2s Certainly. All you bavs to do is to predict hot wave when ifs cold, and cold wave when it's hot and stick to it. Washington Star,
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The Magdehurgers esgse -fery polite Co me; as polite az they are to each other. The German custom is for men 10 doff their hats to their acquaint- ances. Here the men take off their hats to about everyone they have ever seen before, and the result is that the male portion of the population might as well go about bareheaded for all the good their hats are to them. They've all met each other before.
 If some local notable happens to pass along the street every man in sight with one accord takes off his hat and bows with great tobsequiousness. was in front of the hotel talking to the man ager, German who, like so many one meets everywhere, speaks English fuently, when noticed great bow ing and scraping as an old gentleman of peculiar appearance approached. The soldiers and policemen, naturally, made merely the impressive military salute.
 The man did not look like great per sonage. He had cleft on top of his OdlQ ASetei, HIS nOoC was llhc TdulSu, and his clothes had a twisted effect. Yet everyone saluted him with the ut- most deference. 1t couldn't be on ac- count of his huge pipe, for that was certainly most disreputable affair, and not even unique. So asked the hotel manager to tell me who was who. That" said he, solemnly, lis Herr | -f-- T. f nAI mer punch"
 understood at last. It was more plain to me than the tariff and the con
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Prof. Barnard's Great Work.

Prof. B. E. Barnard, of Lick observa tory, California, has concluded an i'm portant bit of astronomical work whicl represents the most patient and won derful labors. This work consists il the measurements of the four larges asteroids. For many years Vesta wa. considered the largest, Ceres next an, then Pallas and Juno, but by the mean of the Lick telescope and micromete Prof. Barnard puts Ceres as leader witt diameter of 4s5 miles; Pallas next with BOA; then yesta, PAS, and Juno, 11s Vesta got the credit for its greater sig in the past, because it is four time brighter than Ceres.