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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
BIG FAIR is NOW ON.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC.
President Presses Gold Button, De-
Hvers Address and Reviews Mag
nificent Naval Pageant Amid
Thunderous SaIutes

The exposition opened Friday by
President Roosevelt on the shores of
Hampton Roads, amid the salutes of
cannon from nearly 100 war ships and
in the presence of numerous officials
and diplomats representing our own
and foreign governments, should have
an interest for Americans second TO
none attaching to any former national
exhibition in our history The James
town Tercentennial Exposition COM
memorateS the Booth anniversary of the
first permanent English-speaking col
ony in America, and. besides. interest
in it should be great because of the
many historic associations of the sur
rounding territory. The soil adjacent
has been the scene of more bloody bat
ties during the Revolutionary War. the
war of 1912 and the Civil War than
any other part of America. Yorktown
and AppomattoX are close by.
Guns from the war ships of five
great nations voiced a salute in unison
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
TXye WOncm.

A woman whose altogether unintelli-
gible and incoherent remarks branded
her Enthusiastically as a proud parent,
was wheeling an exceedingly small
child of perhaps years next Thurs
day down Prospect avenue yesterday
afternoon in one of those upright baby
carriages, says a Cleveland newspaper.
The remarks mentioned were addressed
to this child in a series of suppressed
shrieks and gurgles.
As the woman continued to push the
small conveyance down the street,
stopping ever and anon to ask the
child something, they approached an
other woman who was leading a French
poodle by n small chain. The dog wore
Il cute little ga blanket and was
clipped to look as if the barber had
started on it and then thought of
previous engagement
At the sight of the dog the woman
with the baby fairly dubbed over with
ecstacy. 1t had Immediately struck
her that the sight of the dog would at
tEetic sense and that the baby would
derive great deal of pleasure from
viewing the dog as it passed by. For
fear, however, that the baby would not
realize what was up the fond mother
sought to convey the information by
means of multiplicity of half inartic-
ulate gurgles and gesticulations that a
certain dog was about TO pass. "See
the pretty doggie," was the only thing
she said in English, but her remarks
were along that line. In the meantime
the woman with the dog had come up
to them and the mother heard someone
saying, See the coot little baby. Just
ook ut the little baby" The mother
turned from the baby to look at the
dog. and then her expression changed
to one of polite scorn.
The other woman had the dog in her
arms and was showing the baby to it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

At the time when ! was nursing my
baby and making flying trips TO town,
when necessary, with my watch in my
hand, | met another nursing mother
who said she had left her 2-months-
old infant for six hours. When l ask
ed how she did it, she said: "Oh. my
mother keeps her quiet with warm wa
ter and sugar" Think of it! A baby
of months missing two entire meals
and being kept quiet on warm water
and sugar. This was nothing, though
to a mother who took a cheap Scent
ice cream soda in n little fifth-clasS
drug store, and fed her 6-months-old
baby with the ice cream from it to
keep him quiet, runs helpful article
in Good Housekeeping. And yet peo-
ple wonder that so many of the little
things give up the struggle when the
second summer comes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

800 acres, which are beautifully laid out.
The exposition buildings proper consist
of % structures, among them being an
auditorium and convention hall, 160x236
feet. having wings 81 feet long, and an
auditorium 91x91 feet, with a seating
capacity of about 5000; a palace of
manufactures and liberal arts, 2SOx55O
feet; a palace of machinery and trans
portation. 2SOx550 feet a States exhibit
palace, 300x5OO feet; a mining and
metallurgy building. 1O0x250 feet a n.y.
gienic and medical building, 1OOx250
feet; a pure food building, 90x300 feet;
a palace of history and historic arts,
124x129 feet, and an education building,
124x129 feet.
Besides these are what is known as
are arts and crafts village, which con-
sists of seven cottages of colonial archi-
lecture. These are the textile buildings,
33xSS feet; copper, silver and woodwork
ers' shops. 44x137 feet: pottery shops,
4SX50 feet; iron shops. 4Sx50 feet; model
school, 35x45 feet, with a model school
room 25x52 feet mothers and chidren's
building, 60x100 feet, and Pocahontas
hospital, 50xSO feet.
Most of the States have made appro-
priations or otherwise provided for build
ings and exhibits. Some of them have
reproduced with fidelity some famous
building connected with their history.
Pennsylvania, for instance. has raised a
second Independence Hall. Massachusetts,
its old State House: Maryland has re-
produced the home of Charles Carroll of
Carrollton Georgia has erected second
Bullock Hail. the home of the mother of
President Roosevelt. In every instance
the State buildings are characteristic.
Four of the Western States. Washing
ton, Oregon. Idaho and Montana, have
jointly erected gigantic building in the
form of a maltese cross, each State to
occupy section. Even Oklahoma. the
last State to enter the sister )od, has
erected a suitable building.
Among the foreign countries which
take official part in the celebration are
Great Britain, Germany, Russia, France,
Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium,
Spain, Sweden and Greece of the eastern
hemisphere and Brazil, Argentina, Venez-
uela, Mexico, Chile, Santo Domingo,
Porto Rico, Salvador, Peru, Guatemala,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
Health and Beauty Hints


A bag of hot sand relieves neural
gia.
4 good laugh is the best medicine in
the world.
Salt should be eaten with nuts to
aid digestion.
One should not wear eyeglasses that
press upon the eyelids.
Dotted wells will have q bad effect
on even the strongest eyes.
Hardwood floors and rugs are better
than carpet on sleeping rooms.
Avoid reading in a dark room, in the
dusk of evening or by poor light.
Rinsins the hair after washing is
very important, and must be Gone thor
oughly.
Onions are Il tonic for the nerves,
but people will be forever prejudiced
because of their odor.
4 few grains of coffee burned on hot
Goals will purify the air in sickroom
and drive away any odor
Don't wear bracelets so tight that
they affect the circulation. or so loose
that they rub on the wrist joints
When cold cream is not soothing
and whitening to the skin it may be
concluded that the ingredients are
adulterated.
When finger has been severely
pinched plunge it into water as hot as
can be borne. as this will very quickly
lessen the pain and prevent throbbing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

tons and the Discovery of 20 TONS COM
manded respectively by Christopher New
port, Bartholomew Gosnold and John
Radcliffe. In this fleet were 1O5 men be-
sides the crews. They had already land
ed a few days before upon sandy point
which they named Cape Henry, after the
then Prince of Wales. Captain John
Smith, destined to play an important
role il our colonial history, was at this
time in irons on board the Constant as
a result of dissensions which had arisen
while the little feet delayed in the West
Indies. On entering the James they
hoped they had found a water way
which, in accordance with their inStruc-
lions, they were seeking-that would afs
ford them an entrance into the south sea!
Thirty miles upstream above Newport
News and on the northerly side of the
river the explorers came upon a peninf
sula some three miles long by one and q
quarter wide at its greatest width. II
extended in southeasterly direction anG
at its northeastern end it was joined tc
the mainland by narrow isthmus. Thu
river is here three miles in width.
What was then a peninsula is now an
island. the river having cnt a channel
through the narrow isthmus. which at
present is about a quarter of mile wide
and is spanned by a bridge. 1t is in
commemoration of the settlement of this
island and the marvellous progress made
in the intervening 800 years that the
present exposition is being held. The
exposition is not located on the site of
the original settlement, but on the south
ern shore of Hampton Roadside finest
land-locked body of water in the world.
Site of the Show.
The exposition site comnriSes about
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
Heinz IL SninsIRr.

One spinster has set forth with her
pen the following reasons why she
rather enjoys spinsterhood:
She does not have one man to love
and cherish her; but she may have
the friendship, the cordial esteem and
interest of half a dozen.
She does not have one to pay her
dressmaker, her halter, her shoeman
and the rest; but she may have half
Il score for less serviceable uses-half
a score who send her books, flowers,
tickets, who walk, play golf, drive,
skate. talk with her.
One man does not come to her for
deep understanding of his needs; many
may come with their quite serious in
tereSts.
Her sincere. enjoyable, stimulating,
friendly relations with men, as with
women, are limited only by her own
mower of intellectual sympathy-at
any rate, in those circles which admit
any basis Of companionship between
men and women beyond the emotional.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

TO the American flag and to the Presi-
dent of the United States at the open
ing of the jamestown exposition. The
boom of the cannon sounded over the
waters of Hampton Roads, where near
II half century ago the Monitor and
the Merrimac met in the memorable
conflict which brought into being the
armored craft of war.
From the little Yankee cheesebox
set upon raft" and the rectangular
mass of iron which carried the Confed-
crate flag in 1862 to the modern fighting
machines typified by the flower of the
American navy is a far cry. Yet many
of those who stood on the shore and
saw the naval pageant in the road
stead recalled the day when the waters
which form the rendezvous of great
war vessels were splashing with the
shot and shell of the first battle of
steel-clad ships.
From the bridge of the Mayfower.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
ADVICE THAT PAID.
Clergyman Who Found the AgricuI-
turai Department Reliable.

A few years ago a clergyman who had
injured Els health retired from the vine
yard of the Lord to 10 poor acres in
Pennsylvania. He knew absolutely moth
ing about farming. From the different
parts of his little field he sent samples of
soil to the Agricultural Department at
Washington and asked for guidance, and
he got it. The scientists were delighted
to encounter man who had no inherited
agricultural prejudices to uproot He
was ready to plow according to the rules
laid down in the pamphlets and to treat
his stoSl scientifically. The farm, be-
cause of its good house, cost the preacher
$1,000. His own faith in the ability of
the Agricultural Department to make it
pay. and the friendliness of a parishioner,
enabled him to get the place on credit.
He has conducted his crops with strict
fidelity to instructions from Washington.
The result is that within a few years he
paid os the $1,000 mortgage. with inter
est. has an accommodating balance in the
bank. and is deriving from his - acres
an annual income of $4,000. The Depart
ment of Agriculture has published an ac-
count of this preachers remarkably sue
cessful experiment. describing his 10 acres
as a model American farm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
Stead Would Avert War.

William 7. Stead the famous English
editor, has recently arrived in this coun-
try, where he expects to make a stay OF
several weeks, partly for the purpose of
attending the peace conference at New
York. In a newspaper interview Mr..
Stead expressed himself as strongly in
favor of the united action of Great Brit
ain and the United States in the coming
Hague conference toward disarmament,
and the promotion of international amity.
He particularly urged the carrying into
effect of article s, which was unanimously
recommended by the former conference.
This would treat a dispute between two
nations the same as a dispute between two
individuals, and recommends that before
proceeding to hostilities each party should
call in a special mediator, corresponding
to a second in a private duel, who should
be allowed a period of not exceeding thir-
ty days in which to settle the dispute. IL
such a procedure had been followed, he
said, neither the South African nor the
Russo-Japanese war would have broken
out when it did.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
Interesting News Items.

Andrew Carnegie mas given $4,000 for
the erection of a science hall at Deni-
son university, Newark, Ohio.
Five members of mob that took
negro from Jail at Bunkie, La, were ac-
cidentally wounded by their companions
when they shot at random after the ne
gro's escape.
On application of Russell 3. Harrison,
Federal Judge T. C. Munger at Omaha
appointed II. G. Leigh receiver for the
Citizens Gas Light Company of Nebras-
ka City, Neb.
The threatened strike of $4,000 New
York express companies employees has
been averted by the granting of an in
crease in wages and a reduction in work.
ing hours to the men.
To curtail expenses the new government
of Honduras has appointed all Nicara-
guam consuls, consul-generals, charge
daffaires and ministers to act for it as
we'll as for their own country.
Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, former
Comptroller Of the Currency, in an adj
dress at Shreveport, La, declared the
Sherman antitrust law dead letter, and
said it never had been and never can be
enforced
In an attempt to escape from the
State penitentiary at Raleigh, n. c., G.
L. Scruggs was killed by the guard. Jack
Williams and Dodd Wilson were recap
tured.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has dismissed the appeal of John
johnson, who is now awaiting electrocu-
ton in Sing Sing prison for killing his
wife in Yonkers.
The State Supreme Court Of Kansas
granted the order requested by Attorney
General jackson to restrain eleven for
eign breweries and whisky concerns which
have warehouses and agencies in Kansas
from removing their property from the
State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
pHTIC C%k
0I0LITIClAN lS

1t is announced from Cleveland that
William J. Bryan will make his running
for the presidency under the personal di-
rection Of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of that
city. who is said to embody those quail
ties that made the late Senator Hanna
such a power in the world of politics.
James W. WadswOrth, former Republi-
can Congressman from New York. who as
chairman of the House committee on ag-
riculture clashed with President Roose
welt on the meat inspection bill, came out
in a. interview bitterly assailing the
President, calling him a ''humbug and a
fakir."
Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont. who died
in 1895. held the record. still unbroken,
for length of continuous service in Con-
greSS, although Senator Allison is running
it very close. Mr.. Morrill, was twelve
years in the lower house. going directly
to the Senate. where he remained for
thirtytwo years. MIR. Allison has served
eight years i'll the House and Thirty-four
in the Senate, but there is a break of
two years in his record.
To the Washington correspondents the
President confided the definite statement
that he would favor Secretary Taft for
the next presidential nomination and that
he would so arrange affair that Taft
might take the stump in Ohio this sum-
mer.
BY a vote of % to ) the Florida SEN
ate adopted a resolution declaring the
14th and 10Th amendments to the ma
tiOnal constitution void. and to disfran-
chise the negro in that State. 1t was
certain that the House would follow suit
and that the whole matter would come
before the Supreme Court.
Senator Foraker went to a great deal
of trouble and at his own expense in
gathering evidence in connection with the
Brownsville raid. 1t transpired during
the debate that he had sent a detective
to the scene to make inquiries. and that
for this purpose he had selected col
ored man named Ferguson.
In announcing at the Jefferson day
dinner of the New York Independence
League that the organization of the
league was to be made national. W. K.
Hearst served notice that he would be
candidate for the presidential office next
year. He said that neither of the old
parties was true to its purposes.
During his soiourn in Porto Rico on
the return trip from the isthmus, Secre-
tary Taft made several addresses, and
took occasion to discountenance the hope
of the islanders for American citizen
ship. saying: 4 beg of you do not think
OF those things you do not have. You
have what is desired by the Philippines
and Cuba, the unsurpassed markets Of
the United States. What l am saying is
not intended to oppose citizenship, but
there are difficulties in securing the pas
sage of such a law through Congress"
Gov. Carter of Hawaii has intimated
to an interviewer that in his opinion Pres
ident Roosevelt has abandoned his for
ner policy of Americanizing Hawaii.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
Trust Conference at chicago,

The executive council of the National
Civic Federation has decided to hold the
national conference on combinations and
trusts at Chicago, May % to 81, in
elusive. Governors and presidents of the
important commercial, manufacturing,
agricultural, labor, economic, financial
and law associations will be asked to ap-
point delegates. The purpose of the con-
ference is to consider the trust and COM
bination problem, especially the question
of State and federal regulation of corpo-
rations, and the question of what amend
ment, if any, should be made to the Sher-
man antitrust act. The subjects more
particularly indicated for discussion are:
Governmental power over corporations
engaged in interstate commerce; the con-
struction, capitalization and control Of
corporations, and the just and practicable
restriction and regulation, federal and
State, of combinations in transportation,
production, distribution and labor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

Nicaragua, Ecuador, Costa RIGA and
Panama of the western hemisphere.
The naval features of the exhibition
will be the greatest and most impressive
ever witnessed. Crack battleships and
cruisers representing foreign nations from
Brazil and Chile to Japan will be present
during the entire period of the exposition
and the United States will have from
IS to 20 battleships. beside numerous
cruisers and torpedo boats. At no time
during the exposition will there be fewer
than 100 warships. either riding grace
fully at anchor or engaged in elaborate
maneuvers One feature OF the naval
display that will arouse deep interest
will be a realistic reproduction of the
battle between the Monitor and Merri-
mac. as it was fought in 1862 and for
which the government has appropriated
$1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

dresses that the greatest opportunities
offer, and here even half-yard lengths
of plaids and bright colors may be util-
lied for pipings and bands to brighten
dress of plain color.
Short lengths of lace and embroid-
cry are valuable for yokes and inserts,
the fashion of combining two or more
kinds of lace-in one gown making it
possible to employ odd bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

ing shortly before noon, and amid APP
plause from the thousands gathered to
extend their welcome he was received
by the exposition management Then
followed the program opening to the
public the enterprise concentrating
the three hundredth anniversary of the
first English settlement in America.
The exercises included an address By
Harry st. George Tucker, president Of
the exposition, and one by President
Roosevelt. singing by the exposition
chorus of 700 voices, the pressing Of a
gold button by Mr.. Roosevelt. which
marked the formal opening. and 4 re-
view of the assembled military forces
The First Settlement.
1t was in the year 1907 that three
small vessels which had sailed from Lon
don on the 10Th day of the preceding De
cenber entered the broad waters of the
James river. These were the Susan Con
slant of 100 tons, the Godspeed of 40
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02
A pInre for Rubbish.

Now that gas cooking stoves are so
much used, many housewives are
troubled as to how they shall get rid
of the rubbish that they would for
merly have burned in the kitchen fire.
ANY one who has Il garden can easily
have a homemade crematory. \ hole
two feet deep and two feet in diam
eter should be dug and the top edged
with bricks. When not in use it may
be covered with a piece of roofing tin.
The ashes which remain after the
burning of the rubbish are useful in
the garden as manure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

not to caress. Man is an rngrateful
being in love; bounty loses instead of
winning him. The secret of a wom-
ans power does not consist so much in
giving as in Withholding. 1t
is to a thousand little delicacies of
conduct that she must trust to keep
alive passion, and to protect herself
from that dangerous familiarity, that
thorough acquaintance with every
weakness and imperfection incident to
matrimony. By these means she may
still retain her power and
may continue the romance of love even
beyond the honeymoon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-02

1S55-Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice.
executed.
1662-Royal Society of England incor-
porated
1763-Georgia Gazette, at Savannah,
first issued.
17I5-Battle of Lexington. first engage
ment in the American Revolutionary
1S06-Admiral Villeneuve, Nelson's an
tagonist at Trafalgar, committed sui
eide while prisoner in England.
1S09-Austrians defeated by Napoleon
at Abensberg, Bavaria.
1S41-First handicap steeplechase race
run in, England
1S42-Gen. Pollock entered Jellalabad
with his troops.
1S61-Virginia seeded from the Union.
1S74SIad Lucas, the Hertfordshire her
nit. immortalized by Dickens, found
dead.
1SS0-Afshans defeated by the British
at Ahmed Khel.
1888 Parliament buildings at Quebec
burned.
1SS9-Oklahoma land opened to settle
ment by presidential proclamation.
1S90-First Pan-American conference
closed at Washington.
1S91-Czar proclaimed the expulsion of
the Jews from Moscow. $50. White
Star steamship Teutonic broke trans
Atlantic record.
1S93-Australian Joint Stock bank failed
for S65,000000.
1S94-Princess Victoria Melita Of
Edinburgh married to Ernest Louis,
Grand Duke of Hesse.
1S95-Perry, escaped train robber, cap
tured at Weehawken, n. J.
96-International Arbitration Congress
met at Washington.
1S97-Attempt made to assassinate King
Humbert of Italy at Rome. :. .Tur-
key declared war against Greece.
1S9S-Spurgeons Tabernacle in London
destroyed by fire. Gen. Joaquin
Crespo, ex-president of Venezuela,
killed in battle.
S99-Resoutions introduced in Massa-
chusetts Legislature revok.uG the or
der banishng Roger Williams in
1888.
1901-Severe floods at Pittsburg and
Cincinnati.
1903-Massacre of Jews at Kishineff,
Russia. =. Andrew Carnegie gave
$1,500,0OO to erect Temple of Peace
at The Hague.
19O4-Fire in Toronto destroyed S10,-
100000 worth of property.
1906-Prof. Curle, discoverer of radium,
killed by an accident in Paris...-
Large part of San Francisco de-
stroyed by earthquake and fire.