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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20
FOX RIVER AFLOOD
High Water all Over Valley Of
Fox, Wolf and Embarass

Rivers.
The recent rains has raised the
water in the Fox river system more
than nine feet above low water mark.
The Fox river itself is at flood height
and is Slowly raising. In many places
it is over its banks and reaches for
miles over the low lands adjoinin. it's
banks.
The Wolf, the upper part of the Fox
river system is the same condition
and rapidly raising. The river
ordinarily about eighteen rods wide
at Northport, small town below
New London, is now mile and half
wide. Roads all along the river are
submerged.
A drive of logs, containing thirty
million feet of lumber, belonging to
Hollister company Of Oshkosh, has
broken loose, and the logs have fioated
for miles away from the stream over
the low lands. The logs are those cut
on the Indian reservation and on
which the frauds charged by the
Indians last winter, were practiced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20

-DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
penetrates the pores of the skin, and
by its .antiseptic rubifocient and
healing influence 1t subdues inflam-
nation and cures boils, burns, cuts,
eczema, tetter, ring worm and all skin
diseases. A specific for blind, bleed
ing, itching and protruding piles.
The original and genuine Witch
Hazel Salve is made by f. C. Dewitt
s. Company and so,d by J. e. DAILY
Drug Company and F. L. Steib s.
Company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20
COMMENCEMENT
THURSDAY EVENING
A General invitation Extended
to Attend County Normal Clos.
ine Exercises.

The County Training school for
teachers closes this week with ap-
propriate commencement exercises
Thursday evening beginning at o:l5
O'Clock Three of the graduates will
deliver short ordtions, and Supt. 0. j..
Kern of WinnebagO county, Illinois,
Will speak to the people. w. d. Con-
nor, Treasurer of the Training School
Board will officially present the
diplomas.
Ample seating capacity will be
provided at the Lincoln school audi
torium and people from the country
and the city will join in doing honor
to this second class to graduate from
our county school.
People of Wood county are enthusi-
astic in their support of the school
and nothing but satisfaction is ex-
pressed on every Ehand at the good
showing it has made.
Those who receive diplomas this
year are:
Alice BaZal, Arthur G. Johnson,
Floveda Berg, Anna Elsie Johnson,
Alma Binnebose, Elizabeth Agnes
Mccarthy, Eva ]. Blakeslee, Anna
Muehlstein, Edith Marie Bruderli,
l.. Maud Mulock, Anna Belle Charm
ley, Mary Olson. Laura Patience
Deyo, Laura Mary Potter, Edna
EleanOre DeyO, Stella Belle Potter,
Ella Dougherty, Gertrude A. Potter,
Mae r. Drager, William II. Staven,
Carrie Evens, Minnie Mabelle Strick,
Virginia Fiegel, Lottie A. Withers,
Dora Josephine Thompson.
Following is the program for
Thursday evening:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20

Hard muscles and strong body do
not depend on the quantity of food
you eat, but on it's perfect digestion
and proper assimilation. When you
take Kodol Dyspepsia cure your
system gets all the nourishment out
of all the food you eat. 1t digests
what you eat regardless of the
condition of the stomach and conveys
the nutrient properties to the blood
and tissues. This builds up and
strengthens the entire system.
Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia,
belching, sour stomach, weak heart,
etc. Sold by ]. e. Daily Drug
Company and f. L. Steib & Company.
Subscribe for the REPORTER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20

theft of the delegates to the national
convention from this state that was
successfully carried through last year
except national committee that is
more honest than the old one was.
But it is expected that Wisconsin has
given the national Republican COM
mittee an unusually good lesson, and
that it will profit thereby. 1t is un-
likely that any national convention
will choose to deny the right of the
state OF Wisconsin to elect it's
delegates as it sees tit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20

bar ''endless chain" enterprises, So
called "gift concerns" or similar en-
terprises Offering prizes dependent on
lot or chance, including guessing"
or estimating" contests for prizes,
as we'll as drawings and raffles of
every kind, whether general or local,
for money or otherwise. for private
gain or in aid OF charitable, .educa-
tionai, or religious objects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20
ELECTION OF
NATIONAL DELEGATES

The Milwaukee Free Press in it's
Sunday issue had the following
editorial in reference to the new law
passed by the legislature proving for
the Election of National Delegates
at the spring elections.
There have been so many matters
of importance before the. Legislature
this session that one needs to have
kept file OF the daily calendars, and
have it indexed, to be able to get at
them all. One such, which had been
lost to mind, but which is of greatest
Importance, is the bill proving for the
election of delegates to the national
conventions by the primary election
system. The bill passed, and was
completed by the signature of Gov.
La Toilette on Thursday. So it is
the law, and the first OF the kind ever
passed by any state. The delegates
at large will be elected by the party
voters of the state at large, and OF
the congressional districts by the
voters OF the districts. The election
will be held at the time of the spring
elections, and there will be little il
any extra expense. The law gives to
every voter voice in the selection of
national delegates, something he has
never had until now. 1t cuts eut-the
last caucus or convention in the state,
although it does not forbid as many
caucuses and conventions as anybody
wishes to call and attend. The caucus
Is simply no longer a factor in the
selection Of candidates for Office.
There will be nothing in the way
OF a repetition of the diSgracefuI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20
CHURCH STATISTICS

Having been asked q number Of
times during my stay In Grand Rapids
concerning the present numerical
strength and the rate Of increase OF
different churches, I gladly publish
the following statement covering the
last fourteen years, from 1890-1904.
Members Members Per cent of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20
LAW MUST BE OBEYED
Postal Department Issues Special
Order on Lottery Law.

A thorough enforcement Of the
Anti-lOttery law is urged on post
masters and all other postal employees
in general order promulgated by
Postmaster General Cortelyou. The
order says that the terms of the law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-06-20

Vocal Solo-.............. ..-..-.The Mighty Deep
A. J Freund
Address, The Most Efficient Means for I'm
provement of the Rural School
Supt. o. J. Kern. Winnebago, Co.. ILL.,
Vocal Solo, For all Eternity
W.:O. Blanchar
Presentation of Diplomas. Nv D. COnnor
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
HOW TO ACQUIRE PoISE.
SimDle and Pertinent Directions Re-
garding Carriage Of the
Chest and Head.

Did you ever try the little mental SCI
epce trick of walking along with an
imaginary star upon your chest and an
imaginary basket Of eggs upon your
head? l know of no better way to &C.
quire perfect poise than this. Simply
fancy that the star upon the center Of
your chest is a real, scintillating thing,
and you will find yourself carrying your
shoulders like military man bent on
exhibiting his gold buttons. They say
that desire to display his gold buttons
after all has more to do with the West
Point cadets perfect carriage than any
other one thing. When you are about to
sit down remember that you still carry
that basket of eggs upon your head and
you will find yourself sinking gently and
gracefully into your chair, instead Of
Just launching into it. The same little
bit of mental science will work wonders
In the matter of climbing stairs. One
cannot twist, or bend over, or do any Of
the other hideous things women usu-
ally do upon a fight of stafrs-with
basket of eggs upon her head.
These rules are the best of new sys-
tenn of beauty culture which has become
popular of late.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
A BEAUTIFUL NECK.
Can Be Obtained by Persisting in
Certain Exercises and Bathing
with Use of Olive Oil Soap. q"

A beautiful neck is not a difficult
thing to obtain If one is willing to work
for it, says the American Queen, and as
beautiful neck makes its possessor
look fairer and younger than any other
identifying feature, it is something
worth working for. Develop the mus
cles of the neck by the following gym
nastic exercises, and developers and
skin foods of various kinds can all be
dispensed with: ~ Slowly but firmly
bend the neck forward until the chin
nearly touches the neck: then gradually
raise the head. (2) Slowly but firmly
bend the head backward as far as you
comfortably can. Repeat this move
ment 20 times. (3) Bend the head side
ways to right 20 times, and to the left
the same number of times. az Roll
the head slowly to the right, then to the
left, 20 times, and afterward battle the
neck in warm water and olive oil SOAP
and rub it firmly but gently with soft
towel. II the neck is very thin littls
cream rubbed in at this time will hasten
matters, and If the treatment be per-
sisted in for six or eight weeks the i'm
provement In the appearance of the neck
will be so apparent that the treatment
will not be discarded until . beautiful
white neck ia the reward. ......
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
Electric-Wave Clocks.

The distinguished maker of scientific
instruments in Paris, Bigourdan, has
Fundamentally demonstrated the prac-
ticability of operating a system Of
clocks by wireless telegraph signals.
The method, he claims, would be both
simpler and cheaper than the present
system, which requires the use of I'M
derground wires. The new plan uses
a central clock, operating every second
an electric contact which actuates an
oscillator. The signals are transmit
ted to the receiving clocks from an ele-
waited mast. With the aid Of chrono-
graph band, and recording pen the sig
nails can be read within two one-hun-
DIRE dths of a second. The experiments
were made over a distance of one mile
and q fifth, which might be increased.-
Youths Com panioa.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

and dad said: LET her went." aEe
after an hour or so we got to the top.
Gee! but l thought dad would fall
dead right there, when he looked OF
at Paris and the world beyond. The
flies we Lad seen at the top before
starting had changed to human beings.
all looking pale and scared, and the
human beings on the ground had
changed into flies and bugs, for all you
could see of man on the ground was
his feet with flattened plug hat some
way fastened on the ankles, and q
woman looked like spoonful of rasp-
berry jam dropped on the pavement.
or splash of current jelly moving on
the ground in mysterious way. I do
not know as the Eiffel tower was in
tended TO act as Kelley cure, but OF
the so people who went up with US,
half -of them were so full their back
teeth were floating, including dad and
the guide, but when we got to the top
and they got view of the awful height
to which we had come, it seemed as
though every man got sober at once,
and their tongues seemed to cleave to
the roof of their mouths. All they could
do was to look off at the city and. the
view in the distance, and choke up,
and look sorry about something.
couldn't help thinking Of what sort
of pulp a man would be if he fell Oft
the top of the tower and struck fat
woman on the pavement, cause 1t
seemed to me you couldn't tell which
was fat woman and which was man.
never saw such change in a
man as there was in dad, after he
got his second wind and got his
voice working. He looked like q
man who had made up his mind to
lead different life and begin right
there. There was a Salvation Army
man and woman in the crowd and dad
went up to them. He took out FIVE
dollar bill and put it in the tambourine
of the lassie, and said to the man and
woman: "Now,>look here, want to
join your church. and if you have got
the facilities for giving me the degrees.
you can sign me as Christian right
now. have been bad man, and new
er thought I needed the benefits of re-
ligious training, but since l got up
here, so near Heaven, in an elevator
which l will bet SO will break and
kill US all before We get down to Paris.
I want you to prepare me for the here
after quick"
Some of the other fellows laughed at
dad, and the Salvation Army people
looked as though dad was drunk, but
he continued: "You can laugh and be
damned, but I'll never leave this
place until am a pious man, and you
Salvation Army people have got to en-
list me in your army, for am scared
plum to death. Go ahead and convert
me, while we wait" The Salvation
Army captain put his hand on dads
head, the girl held out the tambourine
for another contribution, and dad felt
a sweet peace come over him, and we
went down in the elevator and took q
hack to the hotel, and dads lips
worked as though in pain. H.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
TUCKER AND HALF-sLEEvE9
Essential Parts Of Modish Dress Nay
/ Be Made Of equity Lace OF Of
Sheer Lawn.

The seasons craze for draped bodices
and three-quarter or elbow-sleeves has
brought the girl who would be up-to-
date race to face with serious problem.
1t might be known by the hyphenated
title of "Chemisettes fuckers Halt.
Sleeves" 49,.
Very aptly, the tucker may be de-
scribed as an exQuisitely wrought filing
for the Dutch neck, or the blouse cut
with a moderately high square yoke. 1t
is tiny, but elegant and effective. The
chemisette is much larger and is used
to create waistcoat effect in the blouse
of silk or supple cloth. Half-sleeves
may be worn alone or with an outer,
flowing cuff of the bodice cloth.
The most striking feature of this
years tucker Is the finish OF ruching
around the collar. The chemisette must
be done very fatty in the finest of hand
work or suggest jabot in fluffy lace or
embroidery. The smartest half-sleeve
is that which fits the arm most per-
fectly, though flowing effects are shown
for stout women who cannot don the
mGusquetaire sleeve.
Real lace fuckers with low collars,
and rounding yokes having deep caya.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
LUNCHEON FOR MAY DAYS.
Very Pretty Imitation Of Japanese
Effects May Adorn Social Az
fair in the Spring.

When the fruit trees bloom in the
spring we always think of Japan, where
cherry blossom time is prolonged ma
tional fete. Why not borrow q sug-
gestion from the land of artists for
May luncheon? Thus inquiries writer
in Harper's Bazaar.
Invitations may be sent out written on
rice paper decorated with little fans and
umbrellas or sketches of Japanese girls
in kimonos. The hostess may wear q
pretty kimono herself on the luncheon
day, If she chooses, with her hair ar
ranged in knot on top Of her head,
and fastened with long pins, or she may
orations of her house and lunch table.
In parlors and dining-room, in addition
to jars of fruit blossoms on top of
sideboards and glass cabinets, there
should also be long vines Of wistaria,
hanging down in graceful drapings,
for wistaria belongs especially to Japan.
Both the ordinary purple and the white
varieties are used, but the former is
the more effective.
The rounded table should be laid as
usual, with pretty doilies, but there is
opportunity also for using some hand
some piece of Japanese embroidery for
centerpiece. Get good sized Japan
ese umbrella decorated in pale grays
and puppies, and stand it open in the
middle of the table, supporting it with
crossed pieces of green painted wood
such as are used for Christmas trees,
and conceal these with vines. Cover
the umbrella top lightly with wistaria,
trailing blossoms, and leaves, and let
them hang rather over the edge, and
you will have a most beautiful and un-
usual table.
OF course Japanese china should be
used as far as possible for the meal,
and place plates are really essential to
give the table the real harmony OF
setting.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

CHARMING DRESS ACCESSORIES
lier cuffs to match are the choice Of the
very rich for wear with simply made
gowns of richest fabrics. But they are
initiated in the very cleverly conceived
factory laces of the hour, and are ex-
tremely effective II care Is taken In Sc
lecting the pattern.
Far better for the economical girl are
the lingerie sets evolved from finest
Of linen lawn or batiste, with dainty
patterns of Valenciennes for trimming.
A most effective little chemisette may
be evolved from triple hand-run tucks.
set in strips "V"-shaved, between mar
row rows of val insertion. The collar Is
finished in a narrow edging of tho
Valenciennes. The cuffs are also point
ed, in rows Of tucking, and insertion,
with lace edging running all the way
around.
Genuine linen wrought in broderis
Anglaise makes most effective chem
isette and the sleeve rufile to match
may have scalloped edges with eyelet
work above.
Both MULE and mousseline enter
into the manufacture of chemisettes and
half-sleeves to be worn with silk gowns.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
THE JUICE OF A LEMON.
The Appreciation of Its Good Qualities
Now Recognized in Various De-
partments of Household.

The juice of lemon in hot water on
awakening in the morning is an excel
lent liver corrective, and for stout wom-
en- is better than any anti-fat medicine
ever invented, says the American
Queen.
Glycerine and lemon Juice, half and
half, on a bit of absorbent cotton is the
best thing in the world wherewith to
moisten the lips and tongue of fever
parched patient.
A few drops of lemon Juice in plain
water Is an excellent tooth wash. It
not only removes the tartar, but sweet
ems the breath.
A teaspoonful Of the juice In small
cup of black coffee will almost certainly
relieve a bilious headache. IT,
The finest of manicure acids is made
by putting teaspoonful of lemon juice
In q cupful of warm water. This re-
moves most stains from the fingers and
nails and loosens the cuticle more sat-
isfactorily than can be done by the use
IF sharp instrument.
Lemon juice and salt will remove rust
stains from linen without injury to the
fabric. Wet the stains with the mixture
and put the article in the sun. Two or
three applications may be necessary If
the stain is of long standing, but the
remedy never fails.
Lemon juice (outward applications)
will allay the irritation caused by the
bites of gnats or flies.
Lemon peel land also orange) should
all be saved and dried. 1t is a capital
substitute for kindling wood. A hand
full will revive dying fire and at the
same time delicately perfume a room.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22

porter and / went to the Jail to get
him out, but we had to buy new suit
of clothes for him, as everything was
torn off him in the Mormon rush. Dad
was a sight when we found him in
Jail, and he thought his bones were
broken, and he wanted to know what
was the cause of his sudden popularity
with the fair sex. and l told him it all
came from his looking so COMPOUNDED
distinguished and his flirting with
women. He said he would swear he
never looked at one of those women in
tone of voice that would deceive a
Sunday school teacher, and he felt as
though he was being misunderstood in
France We told him the only way to
get out of Jail was to say he was a
crowned head from Oshkosh, travelling
incog, and when he began to stand on
his dignity and demand that mes
senger be sent for the president of
France, to apologize for the treatment
he had received, the jailer and police
begged his pardon and we dressed him
up in his new clothes and got him out,
and we went to the Eiffel tower to get
some fresh air.
suppose you have seen pictures of
the Eiffel tower, on the advertisements
of breakfast food in your grocery, but
you can form no idea of the height and
magnificence of the tower by studying
advertisements. You may think that
the pictures you see Of world events on
your cans of baked beans and maple
syrup and soap, give you the benefit of
foreign travel, but it does not. You
have got to see the real thing or you
are not fit to even talk about what you
think you have seen. Youremembert that
Ferris wheel at the Chicago worlds
fair, and how we thought it was the
greatest thing ever made of steel, so
high that it made us dizzy to look to
the top of it, and when we went up on
the wheel we thought we could see the
world, from Alaska to South Africa,
and we marveled at the work Of man
and prayed that we be permitted to get
down off that wheel alive, and not be
spilled down through the rarified Chi
cago atmosphere and flattened on the
pavement so thin we would have to be
scraped up off the pavement with a
case knife, like buckwheat cake that
sticks to the griddle.
You remember, old man, how you
cried when our sentence to ride in the
Ferris wheel expired, and the jailer of
tho wheel opened the cell and let us
out, and you said no one would ever
get you to ride again on anything that
you couldn't jump out of if it baked, or
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-06-22
BIGGEST YEAR OF EXPORTS
Over 81, 100000 Greater Than for
Any Similar Period in tho
Country's History.

The export record Of the United
States in the IL months ending with Oc-
tober, 1904, just presented by the de-
partment of commerce and labor
through its bureau of statistics, is espe-
cially noteworthy in view of the fact
that despite the unusually small exports
of breadstuffs the total value of exports
of all kinds is larger than in any pre-
ceding year ending with the date above
named, states the Washington Star.
The exports of breadstuffs in the ten
months ending with October are less
than half in value those Of the corre-
spending period of 1908 or 1902, and only
one-third as much as in the correspond
ing period of 1901 or 1899. Yet, despite
the fact that the value of breadstuffs ex-
ported falls $50, 1000, 900 below the record
for the corresponding period of last
year and $4,000, 900 below the record
for the corresponding period of 1901, the
total value of all merchandise exported
in the IL months ending October, 1904.
is 100000, 900 greater than in the cor
responding period of last year, and ex-
ceeds by nearly $10,00O,000 the largest
total ever known in IL months period
ending with October.
This remarkable fact, that despite
loss of from $50, 100000 to $158,000,O0
in exports of one group of articles, the
grand total of exports exceeds that OF
any preceding year, is accounted for
chiefly by corresponding growth In the
exportation of manufactures as group
and raw cotton.
Among the articles grouped by the bu-
reau of statistics under the general term
of manufactures, iron and steel manu.
factures show for the nine months for
which record is already at hand $2O,-
100000 increase over the corresponding
period of the preceding year; copper an
increase of $.3.000,OOO and mineral oil
an increase of about SO 600, 600, while In
most other manufactured articles the
figures for 1904 show little change 40
compared with those of the Immediately
preceding year.