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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
THE BATTLE WITH INSECTS.
The Fight Which Costs Our Country
S7OO, oOo, 900 Every Year.

Few realize it. but il is a fact never
theless. that the United States pays
heavier toll to mans insect enemies
than does any other land on the face
of the earth. For it has been discoT
ered-and the United States Depart
it public-that the losing battle we
wage every year against the chinch bug
and his various and vagarious allies OF
field and forest furnish an annual de
felt on farm products that are worth
5000, 100000. of S700.0O0,000
Not only do those defeats cost US
more than the army and the grand
navy we would hate to use, but they
exceed, besides. the expense of the
whole pension list and the price we pay
for maintaining the entire national gov
eminent.
Half a billion of that stupendous tax
levied by our insect enemies yearly is
taken away from us while we are grow
ing the crops that are to feed us from
year to year; the foe does not wait
until his loot is ripe.
Another S10O,000,000 is destroyed
while cereals and forage crops are in
storage, before their human owners can
consume them; and still another $780,
100000 is ruined in our forests and for
est products, a resource in which our
own improvidence has already left US
poor as church mice
The chinch bug takes from the ma
tons $1,000 100000 corn crop, a toll
no larger than the corn root worm and
the $20,OO0,O00 worth ruined by each of
them is equaled by the depredations of
half hundred other Unsuitable robbers
-wireworms, cutworms, army worms,
stalk-borers, plant lice, locusts and
grasshoppers.
The Hessian fly usually charges our
wheat crop about S40,0O0,000 for the
cost of his entertainment; but some
times, as in 1900, he costs S100,000,OO0
In the South the cotton boil weeyil,
chewing up S20,000,00O of one of the
lands great staples, is aided to the eX-
tent of S10,0O0,O0O by the bollworm and
the leafworm.
In the apple orchards, the ubiquitous
coddling moth enjoys a banquet that
costs US S2OOOO,0OO, while the insect
enemies of trees, pursuing their nefari-
Gus activities into the farmers woodlot
and the national forest reserves. eat up
no less than $70.C00,0O0 of growing tim
Der during any twelvemonth the forest
ers keep watch upon them.
Those bloody culprits, the OK MARBLE,
and the various biting flies and ticks
including buffalo gnats, gadfies, BOTTLES
and screw-worm fiies-amid an endless
animal anguish which man has thus far
failed to prevent, slaughter values in
live stock to the extent of S175,0OO,0O0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
BEATEN AND ROBBED.

Chippewa Falls Man Thrown Into
Puget Sound at Seattle.
Melvin WILDER, who returned from Sc
attic, Wash. the other day, tells Of an
adventure in that city of being sandbag-
ged and thrown into Puget sound. He
had advertised that he wanted to rent a
rooming house and three men called late
one night and informed him that they
had an establishment which they thought
would suit him. He accompanied them,
and when they got near the wharf they
attacked and sandbagged him and then
threw him into the sound. He was later
rescued by a conductor and motorman.
The robbers secured only so cents. Mr..
WILDER having left $500 with his wife be-
fore starting out with the strangers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
CITY TO CUT EXPENSES.
Fond du Lac Will Ask Legislature
to Hold Biennial.

An effort will be made to have the
State Legislature pass measure provid-
ing for the holding of biennial elections
in Fond du Lac. The city attorney is
now drafting the proposed bill, which,
if adopted, will save the city several thou
sand dollars annually. Some time ago
the size of the common council was re-
duced from thirty-two to sixteen members
and this does away with the necessity for
annual elections. providing the supervis-
ors can be elected for two years. The
new measure will contain a provision fix
ing the term of Office of supervisors at
two years. Another bill giving the city
the right to build its own streets may also
be sent to the Legislature. The public
improvement committee of the common
council is making an investigation and
will probably report in favor of drafting
the bill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
LITTLE THINGS.

A good-by kiss is a little thing,
With your hand on the door to go,
But it takes the venom out of the sting
OF thoughtless word of a cruel fling
That you made an hour ago.
A kiss of greeting is sweet and rare
After the toll of the day;
And it smooths the burrows plowed by
care,
The lines on the forehead you once called
fair
In the years that have flown away.
'Tis little thing to say, 'You are kind :;
love you, my dear" each night;
But it sends thrill through the heart,
| find
For Love is tender and Love is blind
As we climb life's rugged height
We starve each other for loves caress;
We take, but we do not give;
1t seems so easy some soul to bless,
But we dole the love grudglngly, less and
less,
Till It's bitter and hard to live.
Andrew Lang.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
STATE RAILROADS KILL 24o
Fatalities Reported TO Commission
for Fiscal Period Ending June 30.

Under a ruling of the railroad commits
sion requiring the railroads to report by
telegraph deaths from accidents a large
number of fatalities have been recorded
and Investigations of number of wrecks
have been made. The steam railroads and
electric street and interurban railways al
together reported 240 persons killed and
2.l34 injured by them in the State during
the year ending June 80, 1908. Of this
total number the steam roads were re-
sponsible fol POI killed and 1867 in
jured; the electric railways for 33 killed
and $40 injured. The steam roads killed
t passengers and injured 151 more; the
electric railways killed ) and injured 759.
The report shows that Is employees were
killed by the steam railroads and by
the electric railroads: while 1856 were
injured by steam roads and 40 by the cleo
tric companies. Crossings account for 81
of the deaths reported by the steam roads,
and 66 of the injuries; the electric lines
reported D injured in this manner. Sew
enty-three trespaSsers on rights of way
and one of each class by the electric roads
were killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Not on the Program.

Two stout old Germans were enjoy
ing their pipes and placidly listening
to the strains Of the summer garden
orchestra One of them in tipping his
chair back stepped on a parlor match,
which exploded with a bang.
DOT was not On the program" he
said, turning to his companion
"vat vas notT'
IVY, dot match"
"Vat match?
DE match I walked on"
well. l didn't see no match. Vat
aloud it?'
IVY, l walked on a match, and 1t
went bang, and I said it vas not on
the program"
The other picked up his program and
read it through very carefully, Il don't
see it on the program" he said
well. I said it vas not on the pro-
gram. didn't ~
"yel, vat has 1t got to do NIT the
program anyway? Egsplain yourself"
Ladies' Home Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
you've had lots of fiirtations."

There you know you're wrong"
Well" she hesitated. I'm not sure
whether they're firtations or only wor
ries, but, anyhow, there they are"
a filtration is a worry"
How do you known she asked.
Here's a thing that looks like a feath-
er buster. wonder what that means?'
"A clean sweep" he said. The world
Is mine"
"Well, maybe" she went on. "Jupi-
ter, Mercury and the sun are ali nice
and big"
Il seem to possess all the planets.
suppose you think want the earth?'
You can make speeches and you are
going to die a long way from your
birthplace"
and all alone? Is there no one who
will throw out the life line to me?"
Don't be foolish, for this is serious.
| wish | could remember whether or
not it is a good thing to have sticking
out lines ON the line of head"
"Give me the benefit of the doubt.
Now, tell me more about the heart"
Il never go back" she said definite
ly. 1--WE finished with your heart"
Really" he asked, drawing away
his hand. what are you going to do
with it-chuck it?'
please give me your hand again"
mo, I'd rather have yours" he said
Il know l could read you a first-ra te
| fortune. Let's see it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
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The girl broke he silence that had
fallen upon the two persons In the
rather formal room known as the par
Tor"
Il want so much to read your palm,
she said i've been studying palm
istry for nearly week and | know
lust lots. OF course I'm not like pro
fessional, but, anyhow, | think it's fun
You won't mind, will you?
The young man, who seemed rather
anxious than otherwise to submit his
fate to her Judgment, yielded his palm.
MY, what a nice big hand!" she
cried admiringly. Its better to have
big hands than little-or is it little than
big? Anyhow you have a splendid line
of life. 1t looks as though you might
live to be 90. Aren't you glad?"
THAT depends the young man said
Us yours a long one?"
You'll be very successful in the
law" she went on. And even make
money in it.
Look here!' broke in the young
man. You're reading from what you
know. I've been lawyer for a long
while"
Yes. but look at this line!" she
cried triumphantly. That means the
law"
THAT isn't line. That's where |
cut myself on the sardine can last
month at the picnic" he said. 81 near
" had blood poisoning and nobody paid
any attention TO it. Wasn't there q
lovely moon. though?"
Looks as IL you were going to have
lots OF trouble" she murmured. Here's
a line of influence that's awfully strong
but | don't see any divorce or any.
thing"
Il don't see any wife yet" he said
gloomily. "How's anybody TO get a
divorce II he hasn't even got a wife?'
"Oh. but you're going to get mar.
ried,n she assured him. But. of course
a palmist can't tell what she's like"
IF you can't nobody can"
please don't interrupt. You have q
hollow hand and that means disappoint
ment. but you have a perfectly lovely
fate line, and that means you're never
going to be disappointed. You'll neve!
be a social success"
Il am crushed to learn 1t" he said
dolefully. Cant | take course Of
correspondence school lessons On How
to Be LikedT Don't you have to holt
my hand to read it?'
1t isn't necessary
1T keeps slipping of the chair arm.
he said. Besides, when you take 1
the psychic circuit or something lik'
that seems more complete, more salts
factory"
You have lots OF humps In you
hand she went on. unheeding Il
looks as II those that ought to be larg,
are small and those that ought to b,
small are large, but I'm not sure Yol
are going abroad"
ASK fate to make 1t the weddin;
trip" he said. go on"
lone journey ends in a disappoint
ment and on one you are going to b
Ill"
"I'm always seasick. Go on"
you've always been strong, but you
nails seem TO indicate heart troubl
and nervousness.
That's right" he confessed. ION
causes the other. but neither is incur
able II given proper care"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
TO Erect school for Feeble Minded.

Members of the State board of control
and legislative visiting committee visited
the State home for feeble minded in Chip
pewa Falls the other day. One of the
four new dormitories has been opened
during the past few days and the other
three will probably be completed by next
spring and the home will then have a
capacity of from LOCO to LOO inmates.
A recommendation will probably be made
to the next Legislature that an appropria-
ton be made for the erection of school
building and a hospital building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL.
Peter Fisher. Telegraph Lineman,

Peter Fisher. Telegraph Lineman,
Believed to Have Died of Locl>jaw.
Peter Fisher, a lineman employed by
the Postal Telegraph Company and whose
place of residence is unknown. was found
dead in bed at the Lewis house in Fond
du Lac. Death is thought to have been
due to lockjaw. The man had tooth
pulled and suffered so much pain that he
summoned a physician. The next after
noon he began to froth at the mouth and
the physician found it impossible to open
his patients mouth in order to administer
medicine. Fisher was left alone for
short time and later when a hotel en-
ploye entered the room it was found that
Fisher was dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
RUBY WAS NOT IN BOX.
Woman Alleges Ellsworth Obtain ed
$1,000 Under False Pretenses.

Mrs. Kate Kennedy. residing in the
southern portion of Janesville, caused the
arrest of Elmer f. Ellsworth. nursery
man, on the charge of having obtained
money under false pretenses. Mrs Ken
nedy alleges that she loaned Ellsworth
$1,000 on the security of ruby which
was supposed to be of equal value. This
ruby was encased in a small box, secure
ly locked that she had had in her pos
session about a year. One day she open
ed the box and found in place of the sup
posed valuable ruby piece of red glass.
Ellsworth says that Mrs. Kennedy's
charges are groundleSs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
TRUSTED CLERK GUILTY.


Thomas w. Scott, Long in Service,
Convicted of Robbing Mails.
Thomas W. Scott. one of the oldest
railway mail clerks in that district, whose
run has taken him through New Rich
mond from st. Paul to Duluth over the
Omaha for years. has pleaded guilty to a
charge of embezzlement and has been SEN
fenced to serve fifteen years in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth. Complaints
of losses of money and valuables trans
mitted through the mails have been nu-
merous all along the line for years. Sus-
picion centered on Scott. and he was
caught through the medium of a decoy let
ter containing So in currency mailed at
Saltwater, Mimi, Scott admitted taking
the letter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
BoYNTON TAKES AN APPEAL.
ManitOwoc Man Charged with En-
kRZzlenenf. Gains

Win En-
bezzIement, Gains Respite.
Prescott Boynton, Civil War veteran
and former wealthy resident who was
brought back to Manitowoc from the
South on an embezzlement charge, will
probably gain respite in the postpone
ment of his trial in January as result of
an appeal that has been filed in the orig
inal case against him, a civil action in
which a $4,000 Judgment was given
against him. Boynton's attorneys have
appealed to the Supreme Court and will
ask that the embezzlement case, which is
the outgrowth of the civil action, be de-
layed pending the decision. Boynton was
ordered to pay $4,000 to Mrs. Hetten-
baush, his sister, the court finding that
he had accepted that sum from her twenty
years ago. Boynton claims the money
was returned in installments. Should
he win the appeal it may defeat the en-
bezzlement charge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

rely on their I'M
couthnesS-on the
absence of socks.
etc, for their
fame.
Il would point
out" said he,
chat neither Gaze
sar nor Alexan-
der wore socks,
and If | attacked
Naw Vnrl- cnointr
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Arrests Alleged Burglar,

After cold ride on a freight train in
the dead of night, lonely trudge through
deep snow and a freezing drive, Sheriff
Henry Kiefer captured Ignatz Nagle, the
alleged burglar who entered the Sheboy-
gan Light. Power and Railway Company S
office at Sheboygan Falls. Nagle had
been in bed but a few hours when the
sheriff stealthily stole to his room and ar
rested him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
REPORTS ON FARMERS NEEDS.
Commission Finds Wisconsin Wants
Good Roads and Parcel Posts


Good Roads and Parcel Posts.
The country life commission appointed
by President Roosevelt to receive views
of the people on needs and methods of i'm
proving life in the country will transmit
the following opinion to the President as
representing the situation in Wisconsin
What Wisconsin farmers want-Good
roads, parcel posts, postal savings banks,
postal telegraph. What the farmers
need-The promotion of the intellectual
understanding" The commission listened
in Madison to several speakers well &C
quainted with conditions in Wisconsin.
Former Gov. Hoard spoke of the need
of rural education and declared the farm
ers of the nation were woefully lacking
in education. mo other class of men,"
he said. ''has been so neglected as the
farmers of this country have been as to
their intellectual education
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
WRECK ON NORTHWESTERN.
Broken journal Causes Smasb-Uk
at ShebOygan,

\ broken journal on a freight train, be-
lieved TO have been caused by a hot box,
derailed ten freight cars on a main line
of the Northwestern road at Sheboygan,
and piled half of them in shapeless mass
which blocked the main track for hours.
Passenger trains and freights were not de-
ayed. however, being able to pass through
over the new belt line. The wrecked train
was bound for Chicago from Green Bay.
Two cars loaded with paper We're smashed.
The others were empties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
COUNTESS CIBO DEAD.
Former Racine Woman, Who Was
Mrs. Reuben DOud, PASSES Away.

f. NJ. Knapp of Racine received a
cablegram from Foligno, Italy, announc-
ing the death of Countess Katherine Fren-
sanella Cibo, formerly Mrs. Katherine
Doud, wife of the late Reuben Doud of
that city. Countess Cibo's maiden name
was Katherine Reynolds. Nearly half a
century ago she was united in marriage
to Reuben Doud, one of the leading and
wealthy lumbermen of Wisconsin. After
the death of her husband she travelled
abroad. educating her daughter. Mamie,
in music. She met the count in Italy and
was married TO him, going to the Cbo es-
tate to live They visited Racine ten
years AGO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

lawyer" he said. And your fate
line says there's no use your squirm-
ing, for I'm going to keep this hand,
no matter what you do. May II"
II don't seem able to help It." she
faltered. II can't get 1t away"
And don't want tor
"Not-not awfully much"
Come on, let's go out on the porch"
he said softly. Il can tell fortunes
better out there. Chicago News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
A Lesson of Defeat.

oh, the way won't be so gloomy when
you've learned to say good-by-
To take YOUR leave of buried hopes with
clear, undaunted eye;
To stand beside the grave of dreams
where sorrow laid your heart,
Determined, though the heavens fall, to
make another start
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

What are we
coming to? A friend
of mine, an arrant
foe to monarchles,
roared out in a
speech last week:
" d wn trodden
as they are abroad,
I still fail to under
stand how they can
endure to be taxed
to support idle, ex-
trayagant and dis
solute royal fam
lilies
Then my friend
wiped his heated
brow, and hurrying
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

as frankly as this person has attacked
public life, I might-but, after all, per-
feet frankness is invariably a bad
thing. You have heard, perhaps, Of the
young man who admitted perfect frank
ness? Calling on a pretty girl, he said:
IF there is one thing that I rever-
ence in this world, perfect frankness Is
that thing
eyes? said the girl. Then I'll at
once grasp the opportunity to urge you
to shave off your mustache before you
eat another soft-boiled egg"
Senator Tillman, discussing interna-
tional marriages the other day, said
Dertinently:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
4 meeting of officials of the Montana

4 meeting of officials of the Montana
Sheep Growtrs' Association was held at
Helena Wool men, as a rule, are not
enthusiastic over the returns of the mar
ket. and insist that they did not get a
square deal through alleged pool buyers
for the Boston commission houses. They
also complain that the loss Of free range
is making sheep raising more expensive,
and that profits do not increase proper
tionately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Hamilton Company Wins Suit.

Decision has been handed down by tho
federal court at Toledo, Ohio. in favor OF
the Hamilton Manufacturing Company
against the Tubbs Manufacturing Com
pany of Huntington in an action in which
the Hamilton company alleged infringe
ment upon patents in the manufacture OF
wood type and cabinets, and an injunction
will be issued by the court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Issues New Bank Charters.

State Banking Commissioner NJ. G..
Bergh has issued a charter to the STRAIT
ford State bank of Stratford, Marathon
county. The new institution has a capi-
tai stock of $4,000. Its president is r.
Conner and it's cashier Walter Oby. The
commissioner also issued charter to the
Fidelity savings bank of Amigo with 3
capital of $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
WILL NOT HANDLE DRUG.
Appleton Pharmacists Refuse TO Dis
tribute Free Anti-TOxin

Appleton druggists have combined in
the matter of distributing free antitoxin
to INDECENT persons. as provided by the
State health department. and each has
signed a statement refusing to handle the
diphtheria preventive. They claim that
the State is attempting to use them and
their stores without showing a willing
ness to pay for service rendered, and for
that reason they will refuse 10 handle
any of the free antitoxin. eve do not
care to enter into competition with our
selves" said one druggist after the decis-
ion not to handle the antitoxin had been
made
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Fire Damages Kenosha Home.

The Kenosha residence of Thomas 3.
Jeffery, the Kenosha automobile builder,
was badly damaged by fire. No estimate
of the loss has been made. The famous
collection of curios valued from $780,
900 to 100000. was not damaged in the
fire. The insurance was 50, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

John Barrett. director of the Inter
national Bureau of American Republics,
in his annual report says that the three
things necessary to establish satisfac-
tory trade relations with the South
American republics are tirst-class mail.
passenger and express steamers running
regularly between the chief ports Of the
United States and those of South Amer
lea on both the east and west coasts.
He points out that business letter can
be sent to Europe and an answer re-
ceived before one can be received in
New York. In addition to improved
shipping facilities. he suggests the es-
Enlistment of banks controlled by the
United States and native capital. or Of
direct and exclusive agencies of United
States banks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
In Crosse Company Pays Tax.

The La Crosse City Street Car Com
pany has paid its tax of S5.352.25 to the
State treasurer. The tax was due on
Dec. | and the company was compelled
to pay penalty for not paying on time
of ID per cent.