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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Odds and Ends.

Pittsburg woman gave whooping cough
lawn fete to fellow sufferers
China and Japan together produce
$4,000 tons of silk annually.
Taken the world over, the annual ay-
erage rainfall is sixty inches.
Coffee plantations in bloom are snow
white and exhale a delicious odor, but
the blossoms die in day.
As near as can be ascertained, the un-
appropriated and unreserved public lands
of the United States amount to 792, 23S,-
TOT acres.
Archaeologists have discovered the mar
BILE quarries which supplied the material
for the famous Temple of Diana of the
Ephesians.
At the federal prison at Lesvenworth,
Kan, 965 prisoners are engaged in build
ing around and over them the very prison
in which they will be confined.
The most northerly railway in the
world will soon be opened for traffic on
the island of Spitzenbergen. The line is
about eighteen miles long.
In parts of northern Australia the ma
tives live chiefly on the rats which swaru,
everywhere, and on diminutive species
Of dog hardly larger than . rat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Reform in Housekeeping Methods

Reform in Housekeeping Mefhous'
With women who keep help the dish
washing after the evening meal pre-
sents no more inconvenience than any
other part of the days work; but WIN
n who are their own kitchen gen
many must perforce be in
TINS scarce domestic service
washiu. & evening dishes is the
greatest bdgbear of the day.
Then. especially in summer, the
housewife wants to be daintily dressed
and to be free to spend the evening
hours with the man of the house. Moth
ing prevents this, but the great stack
of dishes to be washed up.
Now, why cannot the dishwashing
be as Systematically and sensibly done
as the rest of the homework? Why
dabble over the dish pan three times
a day? There really need be but one
dishwashing done each day. II the
dishes are cleaned with the pliable
blade of a palette knife, they can be
piled up neatly overnight. The work
of doing the whole batch at once, in
the morning hours, is not half the trou-
BILE it is to do them at night, when
dressed for the evening.
Every housekeeper should have, too,
a dish rack in which the dishes, after
rinsing, are left to dry. 1t is simply
an ancient fetch that wiping with a
towel is required. In ideal kitchens in
modern palaces the dishes are never
dried. The finest china and glass are
finished by placing in the rack to dry,
and it may be added are kept brighter
by this means.
There is no reason why dishes should
be washed three times day, nor why
the dish towel should be adhered to
no reason except that women lack mi
tiative. The average feminine is a
creature of habit; she clings to unnec-
essary and foolish ways for no better
reason than because her mother and
grandmother did things so.
1t is the hardest thing in the world
for her to reyolutioniZe her housekeep-
ing; yet no profession, occupation or
job on earth stands in greater need of
revolutionizing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03


religion
Walter and Jennie nhau the daughter the Harold
Mitchell Harold Mitchell Smith All of
suffering rheumatism
a
ham and numbers about 200 The mb originally belonged Dowies
believe especially diabO
evidence
the body spirits.
The condition Gnhaugh
the with them that
bedside
Greenaugf rheumatism jerked
considered be those of evil spirit and with triumphant
making
according Greenhaulgh
rion scene In this made
Then the of her death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

plan of the waterway men ever be real
lied, would be:
From New York up the Hudson
through the improved Erie canal to Lake
Erie, down Lake Erie to the contemplated
Michigan and Erie canal, across Lake
Michigan to Chicago down the backward
flowing Chicago river and the sanitary
canal to Joliet, through the proposed ex-
tension of this canal to the Illinois river,
down the Illinois to the Mississippi to
New Orleans and around through the gulf
and the Atlantic to New York.
That is something of a dream, but the
canal enthusiasts say it will be accom-
plished.
Chicago delegates see great possibilities
in this canal, but they will let the pro-
ject rest temporarily and join with the
whole Mississippi valley in a demand that
Congress improve the great river and the
Illinois and complete the twenty-eight
miles of ditch over the divide from the
canal begun by the sanitary district of
Chicago to the Illinois river.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Love Defined.

Before the International School Con
gress in London, Or. Sir James Chch-
ton-Browne defined love at first sight
as being CD a species of cerebral com
motion, and (2) the stirring of some
hitherto dormant association centers
by an appropriate atiinitive impress
sion" The scientific value of this
transcendent discovery, in the opinion
of the independents is almost equal tc
the conclusions reached by an Ameri-
can university few years ago when
an investigation was made of a large
number of school children to discover
their preference for dogs and cats. The
astonished world learned that most
boys loved dogs best and most girls
eats
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
HeIp NONr Husband.

college girl who won a Phi. d. de-
gree tells how she succeeded in mar
ried life and says that if most wives
put as much energy into the work of
helping their husbands as into ''ca-
reer" it would pay much better. Begin
ming with a salary of $50 a week, they
lived in two rooms; the college girl
did the cooking and all the washing,
but her husbands shirts and col
lars. They lived on S13 week and
saved $40. The man is now making
$40 90 a year. but through every step
of the way his wife helped him up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
DnilieS for Flower Pots.

An ingenious woman who likes to
display her Towering plants on little
teakwood stands made doilies for the
flower holders of white oilcloth, pinked
ter with floral motifs. The latter were
cut from wall paper or magazines, ap
piled with gum arabic and then treated
to a coating of white varnish. These
mats stand washing with soap and
water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

this year in the appropriation by Con-
gress of funds sufficient to meet the pro-
ject.
The completed plan of the waterway
enthusiasts, which seems almost like a
dream, is a series of canals and dredged
channels that will make it possible for a
battleship to go from New York by way
of Chicago to New Orleans and back by
sea to New York again.
The map shows the proposed deep
waterway route, including $200,000000
canal across lower Michigan. This sys-
TEN, when completed, would accommodate
a warship for any part of a defensive
war scheme. The portrait is that of j.
II. Davidson of Oshkosh, Wis. who may
be the new leader of the river and har-
bors committee.
The convention is to consider the i'm
provement of all the water courses of the
United States, and especially those of
the middle West. One of the important
links in the lakes-to-gulf plan never be-
fore mentioned is canal to connect Lake
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Very graceful is the princess gown

Very graceful is the princess gown
depicted in the sketch. The princess
idea is accentuated by having the skirt
perfectly tight-ftting over the hips
below shows a graduation of the ma
terial. The bretelle effect is also COM
bined with the skirt; the side cores
extend over the shoulders and meet a
similar extension from the back. A
cap is added to the bretelles falling
over each shoulder. Suitable develop
ment can be had in taffeta, chiffon pam
anna, shantung, rajah, checked or
striped voile and linen. A fine lin
gerie waist worn with the skirt makes
Il pretty costume
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Not More Unhappy Now.

Ida Hustled Harper thinks it is very
foolish to think that marriages are
more unhappy today than they were
when it was thought 4 disgrace to get
a divorce. In those days women SUI
fered, now they sue for divorce
When married women are unhappy To-
day they let the world know it
and it will be always a question of in
dividual opinion as to whether it is
better to suffer in silence or to risk
chance of happiness by throwing of
Il CALLING yoke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
western Women Are Farmers

In only four of the forty-seven occu-
pations employing ut least 5000 adult
female breadwinnerS did women con-
stitute smaller proportion than per
cent of the total. These four were bar
hers and hair-dressers, laborers. mar-
chants and dealers There are BOZ. zoe
women farmers registered in the United
States, "a per cent of the entire mum
Der of farmers, yet this was sixth in
the number of women actually EN-.
ployed. White women farmers are
principally in the Central and Western
States, and most of them were in the
first place farmers wives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Dfsapproves of Colleges.

Mrs Luther Gulick, wife of the not
ed educator. says that she would not
send her girls to college. She says that
she thinks there is Il reaction against a
college or university training for girls,
as hardly more than 90 per cent Of
them marry after it. She thinks u
highschool education or its equivalent
is enough for girls. with some special
work afterwards in domestic science or
affiliated subject.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Wisconsin
State News
SUICIDE UNDER TRAIN.
Fond Du Lac Man EmuIafes Recent
Milwaukee Horrors.

Because he was troubled with insomnia.
William Wilson, aged 46, an inmate of
the county poor house, ended his life by
throwing himself under Northwestern
freight train at Fond du Lac. Wilson
has made several threats of late that he
would put himself out of the way, and
reading OF the two horrible suicides that
occurred in Milwaukee recently, he told
Supt. Kenyon that he thought that a good
method to end his life. The other morn
ing when he heard the whistle Of the D
o'clock train, he dashed out of the house
and ran toward the railroad track.
Stretching himself fiat across the rails,
so that his neck was on one rail and his
ankles on the other, he permitted the
train to pass over him, leaving a fright
fully mangled body. The head, which had
been severed from the body, had rolled
down the embankment, and was several
yards from the place of the suicide. Will
son formerly lived in Alto. He had no
relatives
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Nhaf MnnII Nnn Dn.

What would YOU do if you are a wom-
an and 40 and obliged to earn your own
living. and should lose your position or
suddenly be thrown upon the world,
with no preparation for business? This
is a question that has brought out a
great deal of discussion. and it is good
to see that many women of 10 and more
are ready with suggestions as TO what
they would do if such thing were TO
hammer to them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

times that girl can have is through
the married women she knows. 1t
may seem good fun to bat around with
men, and some girls seem to think it is
sign Of cleverness to say that they do
not like women, but in the end these
girls don't have as much fun as those
who know women as well as men.
To lose good old friendship of a man
a girl has known many years simply
because he is married is a pity, and
many times quite unnecessary. A lit
tie tact and thoughtfulness will make
the wife quite as good a friend, too,
and instead of losing one by the change
a girl will gain another.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
CONFESsES HIS CRIME.
Frank Wilson, Captured in Woods,
Admits killing.

Charles Worrell, alias Frank Wilson,
alias John Cahill, alias John Lobeck,
charged with the murder of Wallace Ho-
gan and for whose apprehension the au-
thorities of Marquette, Mich, have offered
a reward of 800, was captured by Sheriff
La Flambey at Ashland. The crime occur
red at Marquette ten days before. He de-
MED his identity until he burst out with
For Gods sake, is the man dead" He fol-
lowed with complete confession. Ten
days ago Worrell, who is a camp cook,
cut the throat of Hogan from ear to ear
with a long bladed butcher knife in a
Marquette saloon. He threw the bloody
knife on the bar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
suggestions for Mothers,

In all your Intercourse with children,
remember these things: Learn to gov
crn yourself before YOU try To govern
them. Have reason to respect yourscll
before expecting them to respect You
Don't say in their hearing what You
wouldn't like to hear them say. Never
correct them when you are angry your
self. Pay not the slightest attention to
tale bearing. They will learn politeness
and kindness and gentlenesS a thou,
sand times better from your daily ex,
ample than from years of precept.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Fluffy Boas.

Maline and chiffon boas will be q
part of every complete wardrobe. and
they are just as beautiful and perish.
able as ever. Some of the styles mere,
ly encircle the neck, fastening low on
the dress front with invisible hooks and
eyes. Another style is made with knife
plating and does not look unlike some
of the Elizabethian ruffs worn with \
tiny chiffon coat, likewise trimmed
with chenille of the finest variety. and
while white is the most fashionable
the colored ones are also seen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
IDENTIFIED AS EVANSTON MAN.
Body Found in Lake Recognized as
that of BENJAMIN TichIosen.

The body of man found July 80 in
Lake Waubesa, eight miles south of Mad
ison, was identified as that of Benjamin
Tichlosen, formerly employed as a coach
man in Evanston, III. The Identification
was made by his brother, Henry Tichlo-
sen of Burlington. Foul play is suspect
ed. The coachman drew 1920 from his
savings account in an Evanston bank on
July 26 and started for Seattle, Wash.
On July % the remainder of his account
in the bank, amounting to S75, was drawn
out. Tichlosen was AZ years of age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Oshkosh Grants Franchise

The Oshkosh common council has pass
ed an ordinance permitting the Winnie
bago Traction Company to place double
track on High street. There has been
considerable dispute over this matter
Efforts were made TO charge a compensa-
ton by the city. The ordinance was
passed without any compensation feature
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

Braid and fringe Of all descriptions
are much seen.
Hoods of exquisite lace and facing
frins of the same lace are details be-
ing introduced upon wraps.
Materials are so many and so var
led in color and texture that monotony
of effect is practically impossible.
The separate coats of the season
have a wide range and are divided in
to distinct classes suitable for widely
vg-ying purposes.
In Paris the short skirt Is receiving
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Big Boycott Called or.

After several months of vain fighting
against the United Railroads the strike
committee of the San Francisco labor
unions has called off the boycott forbid
ding union men to ride on street cars, al
though it declared the strike still in force.
During the last month hundreds Of work
men could be seen riding openly on the
cars and the pressure became 50 great as
to lead the strike leaders to take tbs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
STATE ORDERS HIGHER RATES.
Wisconsin Tells La Crosse Lighting
Company Charges Are Too Low.

Company Charges Are Too Low.
By a decision handed down by the
State railway commission, the electric
lighting rates charged by the La Crosse
Gas and Electric light Company are de-
clared to be too low and unremunerative
and the company is ordered to put high
er scale of rates into effect. This is the
first decision of this kind ever made in
the State. Under the new State law
public service corporations, as well as Gus
toners, may appeal to the commission for
relief, and this step was taken by the
corporation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
RIncix BOOKINGS Going.

Black stockings are banished TO the
farthest outposts of fashions realm,
and colored ones have arrived instead.
They demand for their completely pref
" setting colored footsear. That is why
we find black patent leather galoShes
with gray, fawn, green, ruby and even
purple "uppers"' worn with hosiery of
the tints mentioned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Retaining Men Eriendx

1t is not at all uncommon to hear n
girl say in speaking of man: u
used TO know him well before he was
married, but l don't see him now
More than half the time it is because
she has not gone about it the right way
to have the wife like her, and thus she
has made great mistake. The best
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
LAkES-To-GULF WATERWAY.
Plans for a Series of Canals Leading
from New York TO New Orleans

Plans for Series of Canals Leading
from New York TO New Orleans.
There will be things doing down in
Memphis and the noise will be heard
throughout the land when the big bunch
of boomers from all over the middle West
gathers there for the second Lakes-to- the
Gulf Waterway convention. Special
trains will carry President Roosevelt and
the Governors of twenty-five States to
the scene. and with the inspiration of
the Big Stick the hundreds of delegates
will get busy.
According to Edwin s. Conway, mead
of the Chicago delegation. it will be the
beginning of the triumphaI march of the
canal enthusiasts which he expects to end
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
American Scientist Honored.

Prof. L. S. Rowe of the University of
Pennsylvania has received the honorary
degree of doctor of laws from the Uni
versity of San Marcos, at Lima, Peru.
In comforting the degree, President Ro-
beyro urged a closer union between the
universities of North and South America.
Replying, Prof. Rowe said that so work
ing together they would foster a spirit
of Pan-Americanism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
New American Volcano.

News has been received at Seattle that
a volcano has burst forth on one Of the
Aleutian Islands, covering the United
States revenue cutter Rush with ashes
and cinders, shaking up many Esquimau
villages and frightening thousands of ma
tive Alaskans. The volcano is near
where the volcanic island of Perry recent
ly appeared, following the earthquake at
San Francisco.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
SKINNER HAS SECRET.
Wants Eighty Acres at Superior to
Build On.

Right Rev. G. +. Schinner, Catholic
bishop, has made an application to the
Superior City Council asking that they
offer him at a reasonable figure eighty
acres of city property of the tract of
what is known as the Stinson lands. 1t
is the intention of the bishop to erect an
institution which he says will be one of
the finest of its kind in the country. At
present he declines to state its nature.
One report is that it will be school,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
vepefar in Football.

Coach Stagg of the University Of Chi
cago football team has inaugurated veg
etarian regime by announcing that only
flesh abstainers will be permitted to take
places on the varsity eleven this fall. He
claims that the endurance and agility OF
athletes are greatly enhanced by the vege-
tartan diet, and hopes in this way to
win back the western championship lost
last year to Minnesota.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

The directors of the North Butte and
the Calumet and Arizona mining COM
panies has decided to cuFtail the produc-
ton Of their copper mines 30 per cent.
This will mean a reduction of 700 tons
a month at the Calumet and Arizona
mines and 500 tons month at the North
Butte.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
FAVOR High License.

A special election was held at Bancroft
Tuesday to vote on the license question, to
see if it shall remain at 800, the present
license. or to raise it to $3.50. The vote
stood 80 to 40 in favor of $3.50 license.
At a special election held in Westfeld
the question of. raising the license of the
saloons to $500 was defeated by eighteen
majority.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03

Gov. G. w. Carter of Hawaii says !:
"Japan would fight the United States at
the drop of the hat should the occasion
arise, and you can take it from me that
Uncle Sam would know it was more than
q slight tickling in the ribs before he
rot through with the trouble"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
Thirty-Four Balloons I'm a Race.

A great international balloon race start
ed from Brussels, Belgium, Sept. ID,
rnirty-four balloons participating. More
than 100000 persons assembled to wit
ness the start. The English Zephyr"
and the Swiss "Cognac" made the best
records for distance, so far as known,
alighting in France, $50 miles away.