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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

1t takes courage to adopt new meth
DDS of farming in an old fogy neighbor-
hood, but success will soon change pub
lie sentiment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
TRUE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
By President Hadfey of Yale.

Every day and every hour we have to be
making choices. Sometimes the matter to be
decided is one like the choice of a profess
sion, which will affect our whole future life,
and which demands months of careful thought.
Sometimes 1t is a mere trivial choice Of what
we shall eat or drink, what we shall say or do
for our amusement, which is settled upon the
instant and then forgotten This principle we
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

Dairying gives profitable employment
for the whole family every month in
the year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

Opportunity for dairying appears In
the increased demand for pure milk in
the large cities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

If pigs are given all the salt and
charcoal they want there will seldom
be any occasion for ringing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

Stop worrying over the troubles of
yesterday and get ready to overcome
those of tomorrow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

It is possible for the breeding sow
to be too fat, but more farmers make
the mistake of keeping them too poor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
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}&4 / IS IS!
40 owe

other State. Snow is mighty use
ful thing as a covering for winter
wheat, but decidedly Improbable as a
fattening food for farm stock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
ELoPEs WITH COLLEGE STUDENT
Appleton Bookkeeper Resigns Posi-
ton to Wed.

Miss Carrie Schmidt of Appleton, a
bookkeeper for the Pettibone-Peabody
Company, left note with her employer
saying that she had left town with a
young man with whom she had been keep
ing company for some time. Later Apple
ton friends of the young woman received
the announcement that she had been mar
ried at Menominee, Mich, to Virgil,
Buell., a Lawrence University student, re-
siding at Waupun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

The popular idea of a poor dinner,
in the summer, is where they have
flies and no ice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
Iron Mine shuts Down.

On account of the low price of ore the
iron mines at North Freedom closed
down. One hundred men were thrown
out of employment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

The growing of balanced ration of
food for the dairy affords the dairyman
an opportunity TO practice rotation Of
crops that will improve and build up
his fields for future crops instead of
eXhauSting his fields.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

No one would think for a minute
that he had a right to invade bit of
woodland upon a farm and carry of
hrewood, md why should it be thought
that the wild fruit growing in such
place is any the more public property?
Anything growing upon a mans land
Is his property, and should not be dis
turbed or taken without his express
permission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

call a mans philosophy of life child perhaps get
without such philosophy content to decide each
question under the controlling impulse controlling
force OF the moment cannot-at least not unless
he is content to remain Intellectually and morally
child.
He cannot act principle at one moment and
another principle at another moment and expect every
body to trust him. He will have stability OF charac
ter nay, II to define character the habit OF
doing the thing under different circumstances, he
will be destitute Of character itself If you know what
Of principles is governed by, you tell what
to rely upon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

The something you get for nothing
is seldom worth any more than that.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

The Vegetable Growers Association
of Lawrence, Tenn, and other associa-
lions in that part of the State have
contracted to dispose of the cante-
1oupes grown on $500 acres to one
firm. This method Of handling the
crop has proved very satisfactory,
both as to prices and in freight rates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

While William Braid and others were
engaged making excavations in gravel
pit one mile west of Berryville. they un-
earthed a skeleton Of what is supposed to
be an Indian
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

There is always the opportunity to
sell frst-class dairy butter for fancy
prices. Success in this line Of the
dairy business must be brought about
by studying and practicing the most
improved methods that are employed
by the best creameries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

The grape Is the only fruit that pro-
tests against late pruning BY bleeding
Raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries
and currants can be pruned after they
are In full leaf, or even in bloom, with
out apparent hurt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

Maryland farmers are demanding
law requiring that all cases containing
cold storage eggs be labeled such, and
that restaurants, hotels, dining rooms,
etc, be required to hang signs On the
walls, Iii order that the customer may
know what he is getting-whether cold
storage eggs, fresh eggs or just eggs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

Most people wouldn't believe a can
didate for Office under oath.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
HANGS SELF WITH CLOTHES LINE
Family Troubles Drive ShebOygan
Man to Suicide.

MHn 10 SU1C1ut.
Jacob Deboer, aged 80 years. commit
ted suicide in Sheboygan by hanging him
self with a clothes line. He went out to
a shed in the rear of the house, where he
committed the deed. He was found a
short time afterward by his 19-year-old
son. He is survived by a wife and nine
small children. Family troubles are said
to have been the cause of the act.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
MISTAKES WIFE FOR BURGLAR.
Kenosha Woman Is Dangerously
Wounded by Husband.

Mistaking his wife for a burglar, Fred
J. Long, a Kenosha carpenter, shot and
dangerously wounded her. The bullet
lodged in her head. Mrs. Long had risen
to close a window during a rainstorm.
Long had had a burglar scare earlier in
the night, and when he saw the figure
near the window he opened fire. Long
gave himself up to the police, but he was
not arrested. Mrs. Long will recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
ALONE IN WOODS TEN DAYS.
Aged Homesteader Found in Pftiable
Plight Near Bayfield,

PI1Eht Near bu!Hefu.
Chris Bergland, aged 80, homesteader,
near Bayfield,, was brought to Ashland in
a paralyzed condition. A stroke of paral-
ysis overcame him ten days before, and
he had subsisted alone in the woods since
that time on water and corn cakes. He
was taken to the hospital, where his con-
dition is said to be serious.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

Rotation of garden crops is the best
method of keeping vegetables in health
and freedom from parasites.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
SSSSSSS

There is never an oyerproduction of
choice fruit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

A straw-covered shed open to the
south makes an ideal shelter for cat
tie in winter More Of these sheds
are seen throughout Iowa than any
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
De rainy day don't ease my pain,

kaze de EFT boys out darn de rain,
An de Christmas come-but de white
folks see
Dat de liz boy don't come ter me!
Oh, de rainy day
He rain away!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
You reckon do Lawd I'D dar will know

bout ue IT DOy III dc cOI-cOI SHOW!
An how, wen de Christmas come ono
mo-
lie knock at my heart-so oil en- POI!
Oh, de rainy day,
1t rain away!
Atlanta Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27
The Rainy Day.

De rainy day-des rain away.
But he make de green grass come ter
hay;
AN dar amt no use ter growl," he say
Fer he make de green grass come tel
hay
So de rainy day,
He rain away"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
LIS, WISCONSIN, OCTOBER 20, 1908.
ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY.

Next Tuesday, November Sd, will
be election day, and before the next
issue of the Journal goes to OUT
readers the Presidential contest now
on will have been decided.
We wish to urge upon Republican
voters the Importance of Republican
success, believing that the CONNER
cial and industrial interests of the
country will be best served by the
ascendency of Republican princi-
pies. Republicans who think the
time has come for change in gov
ernmental policies will do we'll to
reflect upon the result of the change
voted in 1892, and calculate the
chance for probable repetition of
the industrial prostration that pre-
vailed during Cleveland's second
term, in case OF Democratic success
in 1908. The people cannot afford
to jeopardize our prosperity as a
Nation by discarding the Roosevelt
policies of government for the
fallacies of Bryan.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
SATURDAY FOOT BALL.

Next Saturday the locals go to
Hudson to meet the Galahad grid
iron warriors. 1t will be a game
worth seeing. Galahad has a great
team. They held Shattuck to 10 to 0,
and Shattuck beat Carleton Is to 4.
This would put Galahad in class
with Carleton and Hamline, etc.
Galahad beat Hastings 81 to 0 and
New Richmond IS to 0, and at that
New Richmond thought that they
had better team than they had
last year. Galahad is certainly
strong, and the locals will have to
go to their limit if they win. The
locals have something of a team.
They beat Hastings So to 0, were
beaten by ST. Paul 81 to 6, and held
Eau Claire to 10 to 0. The Eau
Claire game stamps them as one Of
the strong high school teams of the
state. But they will need to be
strong if they are to win from Gala
had Saturday. From tackle to tackle
the locals probably have the strong
est line that ever represented the
school, while Anderson takes care
of one end in almost Varsity style.
At Eau Claire Saturday he played
their crack Mcdonald, the best
end in the state, clear off his feet,
until even Eau Claire fans said that
Mcdonald was beaten. The other
end is almost as we'll taken care of
by Rudow, and the back field is fast
and strong. But the team will need
all its strength and speed if it is to
win. 1t will also need encourage
ment. 1t should be accompanied
by good bunch of rooters. Get
ready and go with the team. 1t will
be great game.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

Speaker Ekern is one of Senator
La Follette's trusted lieutenants,
and as such doubtless favored the
enactment of the primary election
law, and yet he declines to accept
the result of practical application
of the law in his own case. At the
recent primary election Mr.. Ekern
was a candidate for denomination to
the Office of Member of Assembly,
and was defeated. Instead of grace
fully accepting the situation he has
become an independent candidate
for the Assembly, and if the regular
Republican nominee is not defeated
at the general election to be held
next Tuesday it will be through no
lack of effort on the part of Mr..
Ekern whom the Republican party
has heretofore honored. In some
respects reformers of the Ekern type
greatly resemble other men who do
not pose as possessors of more than
an average quantity of political vir-
tue, and this fact is being exempli-
fed in the working out of the pri-
mary election law.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
AN IMPORTANT CONSTITU-
TIONAL AMENDMENT.
Why Every Voter Should Sup=
port It.

There will be submitted to the
voters of Wisconsin at the Novem
Der elections one of the most i'm.
portant constitutional amendments
that has ever been before the people
The movement for better roads has
resulted in much permanent benefit
in all progressive states, excepting
Wisconsin, because the other states
have taken the matter up and with
state funds helped the farmers to
build good roads. This State Aid
comes almost entirely from taxes on
corporations and cities, and is recog-
nized to be just because better roads
mean better business to these cities
and corporations.
Wisconsin is the only state having
left in it's constitution a provision
that forbids the state to give its
funds to help the farmers build
roads. Other states had such pro-
visions but have long since amended
them away. The amendment to be
voted on in Wisconsin changes this
provision in it's constitution so as
to permit the legislature to appro-
pirate money to aid in building
roads.
If this amendment passes there is
no doubt but that the next legisla-
ture will pass wise law providing
a fund for this purpose and outlln-
ing an equitable method for its dis
tribution. Governor Davidson in
his speech to the last State Good
Roads Convention said: THE law
must be so drawn that the poorest
town will be able to take advantage
of the bounty of the state, and it
must also be so arranged that the
rich towns cannot take all the money
the state has to offer ~** | thor
oughly believe that the state, the
county and the town should join in
paying for the roads. Xxx We must
develop a system in which there are
a few efficient state employees who
can work through local man in
each county"
The men who are interested in
this movement are guarantee that
it will be put into effect in the best
possible manner. Ex-Governor
Hoard and Senator Stout are two of
the most influential supporters of
the State Good Roads Association.
Every voter should resolve that
the first thing he does on entering
the voting booth is to put cross in
the square marked YES" after
this amendment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
PLENTY OF WORK ON THE
FARMS.
(By Secretary of Agriculture Wilson

(By Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.)
The productiveness of the United
States along agricultural lines is
not keeping pace with the growth of
our population. Meats are dear be-
cause meat bearing animals are fall
ing behind the population in relative
numbers. Labor is scarce on the
farm, and labor is dear on the farm
because the factory, the forest, the
mine and the railroad are taking
away the farmers workers through
wages fixed at rates which the farm
er can not afford to pay.
The population of the United
States is growing both by reason of
the natural increase of the families
domiciled in America and by accre-
tions through immigration from
abroad. But the immigrants do not
reach to the farm. The farmers
who do come to as from for eign
countries do not find their way to
the farms of this country; and the
immigration laws prevent Ameri can
farmers from going to fore ign
countries and selecting there the
prospective immigrants whose serv-
ices could aid them.
At no period of our history has
the American farmer needed help SO
much as he needs it this year. There
are said to be hundreds of thousa nds
of idle men in the United Sta les.
All of them could secure emp 10y
ment on the farms-employment af-
fording food, shelter and Liz ing
wages.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

Throughout the campaign we have
been surprised that anybody who
makes politics a profession should,
with any degree of seriousness,
class Wisconsin as doubtful state.
We have already pointed out rea-
sons for our belief that this state
will support the candidacy of Mr..
Taft, and this belief is sustained by
prominent Republicans who have
been in different localities through
out the state within the past few
days, and who estimate Taft's ma
jority in Wisconsin at eighty thous-
and. This estimate certainly can
not be very cheering to the doubtful
state idea. Many Democrats as
sumed that if Senator La Toilette
did not openly support Bryan he
would "sulk in his tent" Senator
La Toilette has done neither. On
the other hand, he is making public
speeches to large audiences in which
he urges his hearers to vote for Mr..
Taft and states why in his opinion,
they should do so. The action of
Mr.. La Toilette in this matter has
been unfortunate for the Democrats
who are even now claiming Wiscon-
sin for Bryan.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

William H. Taft is a jurist, a
diplomat, statesman, man of un-
questioned ability and integrity of
purpose, and one who represents
the best that there is in American
politics and our system of govern
ment. William ]. Bryan is a vagar-
list whose fallacies have twice been
turned down by the people of this
country. Can there be any question
concerning the relative fitness of
these men for the Presidency?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
Bids for County Funds Deposi.
tory.

In compliance with Section 6eS of Revised
Statutes as amended by Oh. $685. laws of 1908,
all banks, banking institutions and trust com.
panles are hereby notified that at the annual
meeting of the County 9oard of Pierce Coun-
ty to convene on the 10th day of November.
1908 there viii be placed before said board
any and all bids from such banks, banking in
situations or trust companies for the deposit
of the funds of said county for the year COM
mencing January |, 1909. Such proposals
must be filed with the County Clerk at least
one day before the meeting of said board and
must state the rate of interest the bidder will
pay on daily balances, such interest being
computed and credited to the county at the
end of each month and such deposits and ac-
crued interest being held subject to draft and
payment at all times on demand.
Dated at Ellsworth, Oct. 10, 1908.
o. j. HOHLE,
County Clerk, Pierce Co., Wis
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
Advertised Letters.

List of unclaimed letters in the
Postofice at River Falls for the
week ending October "a, 1908.
E. E. Plymton.
Miss Valley Christensen,
Mrs. Hamilton.
Tom Tomala.
Miss Wallace Foote.
Mikals Fonjetac.
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
RIVER FALLS HIGH SHOWS
CLASS.
Holds Eau Claire Foot Ball
Team to 10 to o Score.

Eau Cla1re is city OF nearly
10000 people. 1t has high school
of nearly 600 pupils. For years it
has had one of the very best foot
ball teams in the state, usually the
very best. Every other school in
the state counts that if it can beat
Eau Claire it can win the state cham
pionship. To hold that team to any
thing like an even score is to show
some foot ball ability, is to stamp
the team that does it as one of the
best in Wisconsin. Last Saturday
the local high went to Eau Claire to
learn the game, and incidentally to
show Eau Claire something. twas
not good day for a game. 1t
rained nearly all day, and about
one-third of the field was a sea of
mud. The rest was sod, and of
course was wet, but three-fourtbs
of the game was played on the sod.
Eau Claire had scheduled the game
for practice, and got it. 1t was
probably one of the shortest and
fastest games ever played between
high schools. The halves were 20
minutes long, and the first half was
played in exactly 20 minutes, no
time being taken out for anything.
The second half was played in 81
minutes, making the entire time of
the game with intermission 81 min
utes. Eau Claire got its first sur
prise when River Falls kicked off.
Eau Claire got the ball and made
three desperate attacks on the line,
only to be held for downs and see
River Falls get the ball. Before
they could recover from this sur
prise. they got another when River
Falls went Is yards in their first
three downs, and then they knew
that the battle was on. For twenty
minutes the battle was fought out
in Eau Claire territory, with River
Falls repeatedly threatening to
score, but Eau Claire gamely fight
ing them off. When the half was
over, not many in the crowd were
ready to bet that Eau Claire would
win. The second half started with
Eau Claire kicking off. River Falls
took the ball, but on the first signal
the back field got mixed and started
in two directions, the ball was FUN
bled, and Eau Claire fell on it. 1t
was their first chance to score, and
they took it. Two plays carried the
ball to the fifteen yard line, then a
forward pass took it over. The goal
was kicked, and the score was 6 to 0.
Again River Falls kicked off, and on
first down Eau Claire punted. River
Falls made good gains, but lost the
ball on a tumble, aud again Eau
Claire punted. River Falls got the
ball on their five yard line, and
punted. Eau Claire made a fair
catch of it on the Is yd. line and
made place kick, and the score
was 10 to 0. Once more River Falls
kicked off, and this was Eau Claire's
last chance to score, for the rest of
the gamewas fought in her territory,
River Falls constantly threatening
to score. In spite of the weather it
was a good game, we'll played and
fiercely fought, and even the win
ners had good words to say of the
playing abilities of the losers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

Whichever way next Tuesdays
election may go, there will be many
surprised politicians and laymen
when the result shall become known.
Twas ever thus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

The magnitude of the bluff"
that our Democratic friends are try
ing to work is illustrated by the
claim that Bryan will carry Wiscon-
GIN