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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
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Arranss msnts Of Trains in Effect Oct
| II, 1903. .
Pullman Car Service.
| PULLMAN Sleeping car on train leavin6
Bangor at 255 A. M; and Caribou at ~
TRAINS LEAVE. ~
| LEAVE Portland. 1045 P. NJ; Augusta,
II59 A. M; Waterville, lao A. M: Bangor,
355 A. NJ; Arrive MilIinocket at s.l3 A.. NJ.
NJ: Caribou, 11.05 P. NJ: Fort Fairfield,
loo A: NJ: Van Buren,. Us P. M
:, LEAVE ! Portland. lo.45 p: NJ; AuglstG,
EoT 7io M Hrrse Ra a M 99s Pen
Ashland, 2;so r NJ; Fort Kent is ?. II:
Moui Gar;h nSS x NJ; RresSus Isle: rs r
F. NJ: Limestone sS l1o p M; F Fsn fsi y
| field. 3.05 P. NJ; Dover and Foxcroft, S32
4. NJ: Guilford; SIS 4, N. Monson. ioy
LEAVE Portland. 1O25 A. M; AuEusta.
1925 P. NJ; Waterville. 40 P. NJ: bangor.
315 P. M: Arrive Millinocket. sos p. M:
Paeseae Isie NJ Moultsn sis NJ
M: Fort Fairfield. 10.15 P. M :
LEAVE Portland. 1910 P. NJ; Augusta.
so G 80 N nv Mf peTsr sos ss f. NJ d,l En-
- : - TRAINS TasnSIe ARRIVE RI + T. {
LEAVE Greenville: 635 A. M: Doyer
Leave Les Bangor IVA Wste Tan Aususta. -
LEAVE Fort Fairfield sos A. N: 6rE
bou, 500 A. M; Pressure Isle, 628 A. Nh
Houlton. $40 A. NJ: Ashland. &ls A M:
Patten Sic A. NJ: Millinocket. 1923 AM;
Bangor. 1;o5 P Nj Waterville. a0 P. M:
LEAVE Van Buren,. 955 A. NJ; Caribou,
II 40 A. NJ: Presque Isle, 1911 p, n: Port
Fairfield, Ills A. NJ: Houiton. is p. M;
Patten. 2.55 P. NJ: Millinocket. 40 p. NJ;
Greerville 1896 P. M: Monsoon. $40 p. NJ.
Cyflilf(rd az p M n0vap nd EOYrrnPk
SOS p. NJ; Arrive Bangor. as p. NJ; WI.
terville. 9.H p. M: Augusta, 1913 p NJ
LEAVE Caribou. AS P. M; Fort Fair,
field. $50 p. M: Pressure Isle. 443 p. NJ;
Houlton. go p. NJ: Millinocket, SIS r.
M: arrive Bangor. 1145 P. M: Watervflle.
l. 50 A. NJ: Augusta, go A. NJ:
c. c. BROWN,
GEO. M. HoUGHTON,
General Manager. 4
Bangor, Oct. z, 1903 F. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
GAINED 40 POUNDS.

BY taking Father Johns Medi-
cine, l gained 40 pounds. Fred
Eckherdt, 494 Main ST., Stamford,
Conn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
GAINED 20 POUNDS.

Camel 90 pounds taking Father
johns Mediclne.-M. Crosby. 21G1
Eighth Ave-, New York City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
Good Diet for Children.

A New England mother will talk to
New England mothers in the House.
keepers department Of the Boston
Globe next Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
GAINED IS POUNDS.

gained Is pounds taking Father
Johns Observation-Disclosures Kill
mer, Police Officer, JohnstOwn, N.
Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07
A Food
Medicine
GAINED 40 POUNDS.

Gained 40 pounds by using F'a-
Their Johns Medicine.-Mrs. L.
Carr, 546 West 127th ST., New
York City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-07

Warden Smith Of the State prison at
Thomaston. was in the city. yester-
day, to attend the funeral Of the Iase
Oren Williamson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
THAT ELECTRIC
RAILROAD AGAIN

The people of the Wisconsin Valley
are not only enterprising and intelli-
gent but they are persistent. They
believe In the valley and it's possibi-
lities; they have faith In the future
Of Northern Wisconsin; they are
getting farther out of the woods
each year and are endorsing modern
methods more and more each year.
The phenomenal extension of the
electric system of transportation is
one of the most significant character
istics Of the hour. 1t is but part Of
that larger and well-known movement
of modern civilization which has been
drawing the people of the state
continually closer together.
People have not yet become aroused
to the fact that the trolley is not at
all confined to the short haul and
merely local travel. This was the
Office of the system as it's birth. But
it rapidly outgrew that infantile
stage. Some of the papers farther
up the valley are advocating that the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12

States, and it is possible to ride con-
tinously over 500 miles without a
break.
The steam railroads are finally
becoming cognizant of this movement,
The Boston and Maine railroad, which
controls more than half the mileage
in New England, has absorbed, bodily,
a ready-made electric system into
their company and are rapidly extend
ing it. In one case at least parallel
ing its own locomotive track. The
New York Central has just decided
to use the electric system for all local
traffic within about twenty miles of
New York City. The New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad has
paralleled it's own tracks in many
cases with electric lines. The
Pennsylvania and Great Northern are
two other great roads which are
operating electric lines. The latter
is employing electricity over the
mountains for its freight trains. The
new system is rapidly developing in
our state.
Last year was one or the greatest
activity. Soon every considerable
village will have at least one line, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12

time is now ripe for the construction
of an electric line from Rhinelander
to NekoOsa and the suggestion is a
good one.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
prosperity of the country has advanced
by leaps and bounds, the number of
passengers on our steam railroads has
actually been falling off for several
years past. There are, perhaps twice
as many passengers carried at present
as we're carried ten years ago, but the
locomotive is not even holding its
own. In one state in which the
electric system has advanced with
unusual vigor there were more than
four times as many passengers carried
on the trolley last year as by the
locomotive. The electric roads, on
their $4,000 miles of track, are carry
ing more than half as many passengers
as the locomotive, with over 1000
miles Of track. 1t has been clearly
demonstrated in the east and in the
older settled parts of this state as we'll
at just what point in the development
of state it will support an electric
railroad.
With the tremendous resources of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
APLEASANT OUTING

One of the jolliest picnic parties of
the season left Grand Rapids about
10 O'Clock Sunday morning for days
outing on the banks of the Wisconsin
river. Their first hault was a few
miles beyond Biron where they struck
camp and proceeded to have a good
time. There was about forty in the
party and one of the pleasant, if not
exciting features of the day, was a
bath in the Wisconsin river. Learn
ing to swim is an interesting experi-
ence at any age, but it was doubly
interesting TO see men, women and
children doubtless making their first
effort to learn how to swim. The
day was perfect and the season of the
year is just right for an outing Of
this kind. A good dinner was served
and there was no lack of good appeti-
ties for the occasion. The party
consisted in part OF the following:
John Arpin and family, M. Slattery
and family, Tom Mullen and family,
also his sister, Mrs. Christy; Ed.
Philleo and family, Nick Reiland and
family and Mr.. Baruch and family.
They returned home about eight
O'Clock in the evening feeling that
they not only had good time but
added to their strength and energy
for the routine of another weeks
labor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
THE NEWS CHANGES HANDS

T. F. Lyons and J. III. White will
hereafter be the publishers of The
News, succeeding Adam Paulus. who
retires from the newspaper business.
In the transfer, the printing and ad-
vertiSing accounts up to July l, go to
Mr.. Paulus and the subscription list
as it stands to Lyons & White. The
new publishers need no introduction
to the Marshtield people The former
has been associate editor of The News
for the past six years and j. II. White
is the former publisher of the Marsh
field Times. The News will hereafter
be Republican in politics and in the
present campaign will support Theo-
dore Roosevelt for president and
RObt. NJ. LaFollette for governor
MarShfield News.
The above announcement is the
first official notice of the change OF
ownership and management of the
above paper. Marshfeld is certainly
fortunate in having two good Repub
lican newspapers published withir
her boundaries. The people viii
certainly be enlightened il they reat
! them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12

the state and its fertile soil, there is
no reason why it should not be as
thickly settled as the eastern states.
That it, some day, will be, there is
no doubt. When that time comes,
imagine what a centrally located
metropolis like Grand Rapids becomes.
To illustrate, il Wisconsin were as
denselY populated as Rhode Island is
today, she would have 10000, 900 of
people within her borders.
Where the inducements for location
here are so strong, to the person
seeking a new home, it is not sur
prising that the state should be
settled rapidly; and it is no wonder
that the hamlet of today soon be-
comes village, and next year is
Incorporated as city. In the lum-
Der regions of the state there are now
flourishing young cities where but a
brief time ago there stood dense
forest.
It has been little more than ten
years since the citizens of the Twin
cities were debating whether a trolley
line connecting the two cities would
pay. Today there are over $4,000
routes of trolley tracks in the United
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
70 DEVELOP WATERPOWER

]. G. jacobson left today for Gresham
in Shawano county to draw plans for
the development of waterpower to
be used for grist and saw mill COM
bined. 1t is In an excellent farming
country where a good water power
will prove valuable for all
time for grist mill purposes. Mr..
Jacobson has been called to many
parts of the state to draw plans for
different water power development
and look over different sites with a
view of developing the same. Mr..
Jacobson's work on the new plant
here in Grand Rapids for the Consoli-
dated Company has proven an
excellent advertisement for him, as
his work was satisfactory in every
respect,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
AIM Low

The young man is told to aim high.
That is all right. One must have
ideals. But when it comes to execu-
tions, do as the commander in battle
tells his soldiers to do-aim low.
Aim at Mems hearts.
II you aim at mems heads they may
dodge. Or, il you should hit the head,
it is surrounded by bony structure
that is hard to penetrate.
The heart is more vulnerable.
Mr.. Preacher:
Aim low. Aim at mems hearts.
II you attack their heads they will
argue with you until the cows come
home. Orthodoxy may be your doxy
and Hetrodoxy their doxy.
But il you preach the simple gospel to
them you must aim low. The gospel
Is heart message.
Mr.. Editor:
Aim low. If you want your editor
ials to be read by the people and not
simply BY the intellectual few. aim at
the heart. It doesn't matter so much
what the people believe about politics
Us that they be honest and true. II
they love justice and Righteousness
they will "wobble right" Your duty
is ethical.
Mr.. Artist:
Aim low. Tolstoi's definition Of
art is true. True art is the message
from the heart of the artist TO the
heart of the people. That is true
whether the art is music, or OratOry,
or poetry, or painting or literature.
The things that move and thrill and
sway-the heart-throbbing things
are the ones that live. II you aim at
the head the critic will get you. II
you aim at the heart, you can snap
your fingers at the critic.
Mr.. Man and Mrs. Woman:
Aim low. Keep husbands and wife's
hearts warm toward each other. That
is the only way to make the home
safe. Get a string around the hearts
OF your children. 1t is the only string
that will hold. In the home, aim low.
The head is all right when 1T Is all
right.
But out Of the heart are the issues
Of life.
Aim low.-St. Paul News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
Read the Reporter. That's all,


Eastern capitalists are coming from
Boston to look over the route of the
proposed electric railway from Rhine
lander to Merrill and Wausau. They
are ready to invest the necessary funds
If the route seems feasible and the
people Of the section are ready to
patronize the road when completed.
There can be no doubt that an electric
line for passengers and freight from
Grand Rapids north through Stevens
Point, Mosinee, Wausau, Merrill,
Tomahawk and Rhinelander would
pay very good rate Of interest on
the investment. A side line starting
at Wausau and connecting Marathon
City, Edgar, Poniatowski, Athens and
Medford would be as goOd-paying an
investment as the main line and
would soon follow it without doubt.
Another means OF communication
between these points is a necessity
that will be met some way in the
near future.-Edgar Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
VOLUME ~, NUMBER SIS
PASSING OF THE Gov
ERNMENT HOMESTEAD

1t is difficult to comprehend what
the homestead law has done for the
western half Of the Uuited States in
the.p thirty-five years, Most of the
land that was taken up from the
government around Grand Rapids
and the Wisconsin valley was taken
as homestead, and the large part of
Northern Wisconsin has been settled
in the same way. There are many
original homesteaders living in Wood
county that entered their land in an
early day and Lave carved out home
and farm where once the wilderness
reigned supreme. There is, however,
considerable homestead land left in
Northern Wisconsin, but in most
cases there is but forty acres of good
land that can be secured in any one
homestead. At Spirit Falls west of
Tomahawk, fifteen or twenty miles,
are several forties that are heavily
timbered with hard wood that can be
secured as q homestead, but where
ever an 80 or 160 can be found in one
body nearly every case it will be found
too poor to justify the expense of
homesteading, and fulfilling the
government law. The Government
Land Office at Wausau does quite an
extensive business not only in issuing
the final proof for homesteaders, but in
locating men on new homeSteads
mostly on the pine lands in that land
district. The settlement of our
Western states was accomplished
largely in thirty years and in this
time 10000 acres of land were opened
up for settlement each day.
The title to over sixty per cent. of
the area of seventeen Western states
still lives in the government, and is
subject to entry and settlement under
the land laws; and the great common
wealth of Texas owning its own lands,
also opens wide its doors to the home
seeker. This statement is true, but,
after ALL. misleading, for those who
occupy the remaining 40 per cent, Of
the area of those seventeen states are
so fortified their holdings by climate
by obsolete and unjust
laws. by lack of restrictions as to their
power, and by the apparent unwilling
ness Of congress to disturb illegimately
rights, that they now con-
troll thereof 60 per cent. of the area
almost as If they had title to the
same. BY owning the land about the
water supply, and by the few CON-
bining against the many, the use of
public domain is divided among those
who have purchased or appropriated
the most favorable situated acres.
Theoretically, all Of the 100000, 900
acres of land are open to settlement.
there are not 100000
acres today which settler Of limited
means could dle an original claim
under the present land laws, with the
intention Of permanently establishing
and his family, and not Starve
to death or be driven from his pre-
cariOus fOothOld by more powerful
interests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
LARGEST RUN YET MADE

The Consolidated Water Power 4
Paper Company are beginning to
reach their full capacity in the manu-
facture of No. one print paper. Last
week in one day they turned out
l2O, 500 pounds of paper and are now
averaging 60 tons per day, manufac-
tured from spruce timber shipped in
by many carloads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12

every City VIII Oe Ce0tof from WHICH
will extend the lines reaching into
the country like spider webs from the
center of the net.
The locomotive method of transpor-
tatiOn is no longer abreast with the
present advance in applied science
1t bears the same relation to the
electric system which the stage coach
bore to the steam propelled car little
more than two generations ago. The
steam car has to carry all its power
producing mechanism along with it.
This is just as much out of keeping
with the progress OF the times as it
would be for each man to carry a
light and stove with him to church.
Our fathers did this three or four
generations ago.
There Is another class of facts which
should be taken into account in pro-
jecting line between our cities. The
electric service is in almost every
point superior to that OF the steam
cars. The cars are lighter, and can be
started and stopped more readily.
They are safer. There are no ponder
GUS locomotives like two avalanches
to run together and make havoc with
human life and property. The
locomotive Is expensive, and requires
skill and labor to keep it in repair,
and to run it. It requires the power
of $50 horses to propel the locomotive.
Therefore its trips will be compare
lively infrequent and heavier trains
must be carried in order to pay
expenses. The trolley can 90 as often
and carry as light train as it wishes,
since it only draws the power which
it actually needs.
The electric Car is the poor mans
horse and automobile. The poor man
in the city cannot afford these
luxuries.
The trolley comes and puts the
green fields and fresh breeze in the
reach of all. What GOd-Send to
many sickly child this exhilarating
spin in the country air. What a
boon to the man who has had to
swelter ten or twelve hours in the
cloSeness of a city Office or in the
streets. Wherever the trolley goes
you may see loads of people riding in
the open car in summer evenings.
It is of incalculable value in pro-
noting general health to the city.
1t is specific for the blues. to take a
spin through the open air with the
wind striking you full in the face.
1t is even greater value ii possible
to the farmer and the country village.
Life in the country, especially in the
winter season, is often dull. There
is little to stir and feed the intellect
ual life. The trolley gives the city
to the farmer, and the country to
city dweller. By it life both In
country and city is immensely en-
riched.
The trolley will make splendid
schools accessible to the young people
in the country. 1t would be the
gateway to larger life for scores of
young people whose aspirations now
are being smothered. 1t would be the
wings by which they could enter the
world of their hopes and aspirations.
When the dream has been realized
and Grand Rapids and Stevens Point
connected by an electric railroad
following the east bank of the Wis
consin river, the club house and the
splendid forest joining bids fair 10
become popular summer resort.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12
SLASHING THE NEW DAN

The standards that are being put in
place across the 600 foot of overflow
on the new dam are for the purpose
Of supporting the slash boards that
will soon be put in. This will raise
the water two feet higher adding
about 1000 horsepower to the large
plant. In the construction Of this
dam provisions were made for raising
the water from two to three feet
higher than it is at the present time.
When these slash boards are put in
and completed an increase of three
feet more Of water can be secured. il
an extreme drought should make 1t
necessary to raise the water this
amount, as there is no property up
the river that would suffer any incOn-
venience by raising the water three
feet above its present stage. In fact
the river at the summer resort or
play ground would be greatly inn
proved by three foot rise, but at
present two feet will be added to the
present head Of water. It is not
generally known that water power
OF this kind is at it's best in compare
lively low stage of water. When the
entire river can be put through the
water wheels and there is no water
passing over the waste way then the
water power is at its best as all the
water that passes over the overflow is
a direct hindrance to the power OF
the wheel. This plant is capable OF
developing more power at a compare
lively low stage of water than during
the spring and fall freshet when
there is an immense volume of water
going over the waste way.
The slashing of the dam is not
permanent fixture Of the same as it is
to be put on each spring after the
spring freshet and taken out in the
fall before the fall freshet. Then the
slash boards will be replaced just
before freezing up in the winter. In
the spring when the ice goes out it
will take with it both slash boards
and standards supporting the same.
so it will have to be replaced each
spring after the spring freshet.
A construction train on the Wiscon-
sin Central has been bringing dirtIfrom
Marshfield for the purpose of raising
the dixie on the west side of the river.
This will bring the railroad up to q
level of the top of the dam SO that In
the winter cars of pulp wood can be
direct to the wood room as
this will elevate the railroad to a
level of the shop. When this work
has been completed this same con-
struction train crew will begin work
on the east side of the river and
eleyate the railroad that is now
partially under water to level OF the
street, running from the top OF the
new stone dam on the east side Of the
river north to the new brewery. This
road will be placed to level OF the
top of the dam. The Consolidated
are also putting in switch
Of their own for shipping purposes
that will connect the St. Panl, North
western and Wisconsin Central roads.
Whatever Improvements this COM
pany have done or are doing is done
just as good as money and modern
skill and invention can do it. Should
1t become necessary in extreme cases
to raise the slashing of the dam three
feet. More than 1000 extra horse
poWer can be secured BY so doing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12

FoR sALE-A large l2-room house
in the second ward on the hill. Large
barn, wagon shed, wood shed and
outbuildinGs. Two lots with fine
shade trees. Enquire at this Office.
IT
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-07-12

For RENr-A store building on the
west side formerly occupied by the
Yellow Front restaurant. For terms
and particulars inquire at this Office.
IT
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-04
HAD IMPROVED WITH TIME.

= EE P1ttsburg Post.
The Senat tori once sold my vote for $50.
The Minister-And as you look back upon your
past life, don't you feel ashamed Of the act?
The Senator-Yes, parson. I do. Why,
wouldn't look at less than $500 now