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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Notice of Physicians.

Sealed bids for medicine medical and surgical
services including treatment for oil contagious
diseases, surgical appliances and all professional
assistance for treating the inmates now at the
poor farm and also ali that may become inmates
Of said poor fern, within one year commencing
december 6. 1908, will be received by the under
signed up to noon, December s, 1908. In case
bid is accepted bond in the sum of $500
executed with sufficient surety and to be
approved by the undersigned, also a contract in
writing approved by the Physician whose bid j.
accepted. The right to reject any and all BIZ
is reserved. Bids to be left with the count,
clerk JOHN RAUSCH,
2Onov2w Chairman of Poor Committee
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
DATES TO REMEMBER
Sunday, Nav. p.

Sunday, Nav. -.
Union meeting at M. e. church.
Monday. Nov. 70.
Special meeting of Woodmen OF
America.
Meeting Of literary societies.
Tuesday, Nov. -.
w. c. T. q. will meet with Mrs
S. Fl Smart.
The east side ladies' aid society
OF the Congregational church will
meet with Mrs. A. L.. F0niaine,
large attendance is requested.
Wednesday, Nov. Is.
Ladies aid society of the Congre-
gatlonal church, west side, will
meet with Mrs. o. Dennis.
Thursday, Nov, 26.
City baud dance at the opera
house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20

Judge William C. Toole, who lives at
800 North Fourth street. st. Joseph, Mo-,
has several claims to distinction. He is
the oldest living citizen fist. Joseph.
having moved there in 1888. He is the
Oldest lawyer in Buchanan county, and,
perhaps, in Missouri. having been .ad-
mitted to practice in 1S48 He is the
only man living who witnessed the first
judicial proceeding in Buchanan county.
and also the Oldest living man who has
sat as Judge In that jurisdiction, having
been elected to the court Of common
pleas in 1853. He used to be a local
preacher and has preached in st. Jo-
seph more years than any other man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Measles at the Point.

Stevens Point is in the midst of an
epidemic of measles. The public
as result of the falling off in the
attendance. 1t is estimated that
there are about 800 cases of measles in
that CITY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
THANKSGIVING Offerings.

The ladies aid society, west side, of
the Congregational church will meet
with Mrs. O. Dennis Wednesday
afternoon. The members are re-
quested to bring Thanksgiving sen
timepts or anything pertaining to
Thanksgiving. Those who have
pledged 81 to the society will please
bring their contributions to this meet
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
CONGREGATIONAL Church Service.

Rev. B. J. Fl. Shaw, pastor of the
Congregational church, extends a
cordial invitation to strangers and
others to attend services at his church
Sabbath morning and evening. La
the morning he will speak on GA
Noble leadership" and in the even
ing union temperance services will be
held in the M. E.. church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Performed Two Operations.

DR.. ]. J. Looze performed two
operations on Nick White Tuesday.
One operation was for NECROSIS Of the
tibian bone on the right leg and the
other for psoas absceSs. Mr.. White is
doing as well as can be expected I'M
der the circumstances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20

The ,Pittsburg district has more in
dustrial superlatives than any other
similar area on earth. 1t has the great
est iron and steel works, the greatest
electric plants, the largest glass houses,
friedrich yards, potteries, and at the
same time Is the center Of the worlds
greatest coal and coking flelds.-De-
troit Free Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Judge Webb Called.

Judge Webb has been called TO
Judge Hastings circuit and opened
court at OcontO this week. Judge
Hastings is at present presiding in
place of Judge Webb at the Harroun
trial
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
A Pleasant Reception.

A. G.. Otto gave a reception at his
store to his friends and patrons Thurs
day and Friday. Miss Olive Akey
played a number of fine piano selec-
tions. Coffee and cake were served.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Will Have Free Delivery.

Congressman Web Brown has re-
commended to the department that
Rhinelander be granted free delivery.
The system will be put in operation
the first of next year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20

Jacob Lutz has decided to offer two
prizes to bowlers. The contest will
begin Monday and last until the New
Years. The first prize for the high
est score will be tive dollars in gold,
the second prize will be box of
fifty Tom Moore cigars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Hotels Were Crowded.

There was no need of running the
bus lines to the depots Tuesday. All
the hotels were crowded that day. In
some Of the hotels a number of the
guest were compelled to sleep upon
cots and chairs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Marsh Sold.

Dan Rein has sold his cranberry
A. Gaynor, Geo. N. Hill and Geo. W.
PauluS. The consideration was
about $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
MANAGER Of LARGE Hotel.

Lemuel Kroner received letter
from his son, AL, stating that he was
now located in Niles, Mich, where he
has accepted the management of the
leading hotel, 1.-THE Michigan Inn"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Work on Barn Postponed.

P. III. Davis has decided to abandon
the work Of building his livery barn
until next March on account of the
cold weather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Eastern Star Party Postponed.

There will be no Eastern Star party
this evening. The committee has
decided to give the next party Friday
evening, Dec A.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20

New and nobby line Of iron beds
just received, all colors and the latest
styles made, prices from $3.50 up.
j. r. Ragan, successor to Geo. W..
Baker g. Son.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Peanut Parties.

The latest feminine amusement In
Kansas is the progressive peanut
party. A dishful of peanuts is placed
On table, and four women, armed
with hatpins, take seats around it, and
at a signal begin to dig into the pea
nuts with the hatpfns. 1t is foul to
touch q peanut with the hands, and the
two sticking the most peanuts on the
hatpfn win.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
AT First Moravian Church.

Preaching at the First Moravian
church, morning and evening, by Rev.
Karl A. Muller, district secretary, of
WATERFOWL, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20

WANTED-At Mrs. ID. j. Arpin'S a
girl who is an experienced cook.
Good wages. No washing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
TolIed by Electricity.

At the Church of the Sacred Heart
in Paris a 22-ton bell is tolled by cleo
tricity.. A choir boy does THE work
which formerly required the services
of five men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20

TT Knowing what 1t was to suffer I
I ~ II u. will give FREE OF CHARGE, to
any afflicted, a positive cure for Eczema, Salt
Rheum, Erysipelas, lies and skin diseases
Instant relief. Don't suffer longer. write F
WILLIAMS. 400 Manhattan Ave, New
ORR 9-4'O4
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Not FORGOTTEN.

Briggs-The old man cut OF PAGER
without a cent
Griggs-I see. He remembered him
even in his will.--Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Germana Away from Hnm.

In Great Britain and the colonies live
100000 Germans, as againstf 40, coo. in
Austria, liz 900 in Switzerland. 100 600
IN Russia and 90. 900 in France. .5ss5.t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
CITY In BRIEF
WOOD COUNTY WEATHER.
Snow today and tomorrow.

SHOW Today and tOmOrFOW,
Following are the temperatures tor the
past three days:
Today smaximum .....................28 degrees
Today's minimum. ..................10 degrees
Thursdays maximum ..19 degrees
Thursdays minimum ..................-0 degrees
Wednesdays maximum ................l0 degrees
Wednesdays minimum. ............. 20 degrees
The prevailing winds were Today,
northwest; Thursday, northwest; Wednes-
day,'northwest.
ED. MAhoNEY, Observer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
came from Many scouutr.e 81.

Came from Many Countries. ID
= Nineteen million immigrants reached
the United States in the eighty days
ending with 1900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
OUR VAST CORRESPONDENCE.
United States Takes the Lead I'm the
Number of Letters Mailed
Every Year.

Postal and Geographic statistics for
1900 which have just been printed in the
Statistical Yearbook for the German
Simon w. Hanauer, deputy consul gen.
eral at Frankfort, in report to the
state department.
Germany had in that year 44,775 post
offices, following next to the United
States, which had 1881 Great Britain
had 22,184, France Gncluding Algeria),
about II 900; Italy, nearly 8. 900; Austria
Hungary and HHssia about 5000 each.
In the number Of persons employed in
European postal departments, Germany
stands first with 222 300; Great Britain,
173,1S4; France, 77,245; Italy, 1859;
Russia, 56,217, and Austria Hungary,
1854
Letters and postal cards forwarded by.
the public mails in 1900 were taken, in
round numbers, as follows:
United States $50 COO 0CO
Great Britain and Germany each
about ..............-........... 500, 0n 900
France OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES z 80,OnU0
Austria Hungary ...............1,O 600 O00U 600
Italy ....-.-.......-..'........ loONNNU
Japan .-......'........... ISHUHNU
Russia 56, 900
Nearly one-third of the total for Ger
many consisted of postal cards, while
only 1-12th Of the total figures for the
United States were postal cards. This
difference is attributed to the saving
spirit Of the Germans.
The number Of telegraphic dispatches
transmitted in 1900 was:
Great Britain .....................9 81, 600 900
United States .......................6S,M 1 600
France so 900 600
Germany ............................ &c, 600 600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-20
Not Good for the Lawyers.

3 An open confession may be good for
the soul. but 1t is a bad thing for the
lawyers for the defense.-Buck
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11

have never known a plant kiIlod
the burning, though with an y
sively heavy mulch and q verv at:n
day it might be possible to do how.
but it is most unlikely.
Cultivation should of course bao;u
as soon as the burning is done, Il
spraying is to be done it would nrob
ably be best to begin with the o+nb
Immediately after the burning,
Burning cannot of course erod;
cate the aphis or root louise. Promo,
and timely care can destroy them nv
digging up and burning the infested
plants (Which are apt to be onlv .
few at frst), and by a long rotation
of that field in other crops, Of
course every care must be used to
prevent bringing in disease or pests
on plants obtained elsewhere.
Lack of time has prevented nv
dwelling on modes of culture and
manuring in this paper. I thought
it best to devote the time 1 had to
what [ considered more vital ques-
tions. I will add that no field should
be kept in berries for more than two
years in succession and that it should
then be rotated for not less than
three years in cowpeas or some
trucking crop. Of course, cowpeas
would be best, and by saving both the
peas and the vines for forage, the
land can be made to yield a profit
on peas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11
Bitter Rot in Apples.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

Editor Of The Progressive Farmer:
To save the larger part of $780,
100000 a year to the apple growers
is one of the problems that. the De-
partment of Agriculture is seeking
to solve. The disease which causes
this great loss is bitter rot, which
appears on the ripening fruit late in
the summer, affecting the whole or
chard at once and destroying vast
quantities Of fruit, when it is al
most ready for market. At such a
time the bitter rot blasts the apples
like the breath of ruin, and the prom
Use of the spring ends in disappoint-
ment and decay. This disease IS due
to a fungus, is most virUlent during
moist, hot summers. 1t is most ac-
tive on apples in the belt OF States
along the Ohio River from Virginia
to Oklahoma and southwark, as well
as in western New York. Upon IN
vestigation it is found cankers ap-
pear on the limbs of the apple trees
and from these the disease seems to
spread to the fruit at the critical
time. One of the best methods Oh
combating this plague is carefully
to cut out all cankers during the
winter. These should be burned at
once. All diseased apples on the
ground or on the trees should be COL
lected and destroyed. As a further
precaution trees should be sprayed
with standard Bordeaux mixture al
least once before the buds open anu
again frequently from mldSumIiEI
until the fruits are almost ripe III
addition to spraying with the regu,
lar Bordeaux mixture 1t IS well W
spray with Bordeaux mixture
which Paris green or some arSeli tbn
poison has been added, just before tne
petals have fallen and again ten uaoi
OF two weeks later. This IS dlrectID
against apple scab, codllng IIo' as
and leaf-eating insects, as well
bitter rot and leaf blight. noDnU
Washington, D. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11
GROWING.
The Present and Future of the Industry
in North Carolina.

tion at Raleigh, N. c., July 2, 1903, by O. w.
BIacknan, of Vance Co., N. C.l
The possibilities of strawberry
growing in Eastern North Carolina
far surpass those of any other part
of the United States, if not of the
world. These possibilities are the
result of natural conditions and are
eternal. When Natures hand dug
the Atlantic's bed and piled up par
aIlel thereto the great Appalachian
chain the work was begun. When by
wave action and attrition she Dor
dered this belt with a liberal fringe
of fat alluvial soil, and threw for
ward on it's northward swing the
manufacturing current of the Gulf
Stream, her part of the work was
complete. She had not only made the
ideal soil for the strawberry, which
revels in humus, but she had by plac-
ing the sea one on hand and at just
the right interval the mountains,
made severe drought, especially at
the season when this fruit (Which is
95 per cent water), ripens, practically
impossible.
When a little later, geologically
speaking, civilized man-which after
all means eating man-came and hud-
died in cities to the northward, and
wrought himself up into such a rush
and stew that his feverish blood must
necessarily be acid-cooled, opportu-
nifty was ripe for such parts of this
region as had facilities of transport
tation.
NORTH CAROLINA Is THE IDEAL BER-
RY REGION.
Although this favored strawberry
and general trucking belt extends
in varying width from Norfolk down
through North Carolina and far to
the southwark, undoubtedly the most
suitable part of it for growing the
strawberry on a vast commercial
scale lies in this State. The reason
for this that this fruit ripens here
just at the time when the weather at
the North grows spring-like enough
to create an immense demand for it,
but still too early to meet with Sc
rious competition from other sources
of supply. Either an earlier or later
ripening season would not be near so
good. Florida ripens berries a great
deal earlier, but the demand is then
limited, and if the millions of quarts
of berries which we raise were thrown
on the market at that season they
simply could not be sold at all, and
we should have to cut down our sup
ply to fit the moderate demand.
As it is we may safely grow all the
good berries that we can pick and
ship in proper condition. The COM
~paratively arrowne of the truck
ing belt will forever prevent the
great glut of strawberries even now
so often occurring in the West. And
the mountains will doubtless always
remain barrier sufficient to prevent
an influx of enough Western berries
to CLINT orr ever growing Eastern
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11

acre. He blames the weather, the
railroads, the commission men. the
trusts, the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
but the right thing.
RATATIoN NEEDED
The truth is that his land has, to
use a slangy but expressive term,
simply 'berried out" or become
'berry SICK" and its owner, unless
he can change his methods radically,
is on the high road to bankruptcy.
One evil begets another evil. His
unrelated fields and feeble plants be-
come an inviting harbor for all pests
and diseases. Thus the two evils
have practically the same source
And it is hard to exaggerate in words
the insiduous power for harm of
either of these evils.
The glib paradox that half is nor
than the whole, becomes a fact when
dDp1lCu W SUI dWOC44J oOAOoSN" DNO
ter in the long run one acre properly
rotated than two, three, nay, than
five kept to dwindle on soil that pro-
tests in so many ways against such
unwisdom. And with proper rota-
ton would come naturally many bet
ter things-smaller acreage, better
cultivation, better manuring, better
picking, better packing, and better
profits. The diseases and insect pests
that attack the strawberry plants
have not yet proven quite as harm
full as those the general fruit grower
has to contend with. Though In the
aphis and the weevil we see evils
which will be great or small in pro-
portion to the intelligence and per-
severance with which they are met
and combated.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11

during fruiting time. But through
most of the strawberry regions of
the West drought is a foe ever to be
reckoned with.
Even under the most favorable
weather conditions the Western
growers are far less favorably situa-
ted than ours of North Carolina. The
region in which berries can be grown
there is so broad, ripening and throw
ing on the market so many berries at
the same time, that prices are and
must forever, as a rule, remain lower
than with us. 1t might be argued
that the increase and growth of large
cities in the West would gradually
equalize supply and demand there
as has been the case here. But here
the sea is a great factor. AS long as
transatlantic commerce lasts, not to
speak of the manner of gadding the
earth, just so long will the seaport
cities outgrow and outbuy those in
land. The result of these condi-
tons, I repeat, must ever be to make
strawberry growing and trucking
generally more profitable in the East
than in the West.
But enough as to possibilities. 1t
is good to know their extent so that
we may not fail in enterprise and
energy to avail ourselves of them. 1t
is none the less essential that we
know the dangers and drawbacks in
order that we may, if possible, avoid
them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11
FIGHTING WITH FIRE

In a few days a clean growth of
vivid green foliage will appear and in
a week or two it will be hard to tell
that fire ever swept over the field. I
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11
FIGHTING INSECT PESTS.

Owing to the nature of the straw
berry plant it is hard to successfully
combat either disease or pests on it.
1t grows so low, amid clods and
trash, that spraying can not be as
thorough and effective as with fruit
trees, whose every leaf and limb can
be covered bottom and top. Mr..
Sherman, our jealous and efficient
State Entomologist, can be safely re-
lied on to lend all possible aid to
the growers in their battle with pests.
He will at the same time inform them
of the difficulties to which I have
alluded.
Twenty-eight years experience in
strawberry growing has convinced
me that these pests and diseases, like
the devil, can best be fought with
fire. Burn them up. But how burn
pests and diseases and spare plants ?
1t can be done, and we find the ma
terial right at hand, and at Just the
proper time to do it. AS soon as the
crop is gathered NOV the plants as
closely as possible. Let the moved
plants dry for a day or two. Then
on a dry, breezy day loosen up the
straw mulch and set fire to the field
along it's windward side. It will
burn quickly over, leaving the field
as clean as a floor. Not a vestige of
trash or plant will be left. Diseases,
pests and weed seed must then be at
least largely destroyed.
FIGHTING WITH IRE
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-11
A DANGER.

This danger, while twofold, seems
to arise largely from the same source
There is a deterioration of quality
through carelessness in cu~ltivating
the plants and in picking and hand
ling the crop; and a serious curtail-
ment of the crop through disease and
the ravages of weevil and insect
pests. As above stated, these trou-
bles arise largely from the same
source-from o~vercropping and the
lack of rotation.
Overcropping, the growing of a
larger acreage than is justified by
the quantity of land at ones dispo-
sal, necessarily prevents rotation,
which is more essential with the
strawberry than perhaps any crop
hat grows. A man begins by put
ting, say one-tenth of his land suita-
bic for strawberries in that crop. He
clears 800, 5000, or perhaps a great
deal more, an acre. He rapidly in
creases his acreage with more or less
success till either all of his available
land is in strawberries, or so near all
of it that rotation is impossible. Con-
s%equently the same lots OF fields are
kept in Strawberries year after year,
or perhaps plowed up and given one
grudging crop of cowpeas or some
kind of soiling or summer crop and
then hurried back into strawberries
again.
In a few years there comes a
change. The plants lose their old
time color and vigor. The berries,
despite better cultivation and ma
nuring than ever, won't "size up"
1t is harder to get them picked be-
cause picking is more tedious.
Not all his big plans and air s
ties can refute the stern logic of
facts, or of checks, which are the
same thing. For every year his
checks, his returns, grow smaller per