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The daily tribune., 1908-12-30
JOINT INSTALLATION
SATURDAY NIGHT

On next Saturday night Fremont
Lodge No 90 and salome RebekAh
Lodge No. IS. l. o. o. F.. will hold
. joint installation Of their new ON
GERS in Union hall This will be an
en- njoyable affsir for the .msmb bn Of
the two lodges. The Odd Fellows
will INSTALL James jayne. N. g.;
George Van Wye, v g.; James
Evans. Secretary; John T. sandsrn.
financial secretary, and r. O. Thomp.
son, treasurer. o. p. Crawford il
tho Past Grand.
Tho RebekAhs will install Mrs.. A.
o. CLARK. N. g. Birdie Eserhart. Y.
G.; Minnie Espy, secretary; John T.
Sanders, F. g.. and kn- Daniel
Rogers. treasurer. MA Thomas CAV.
ansush 10 tho outgoing Noble Grand.
On January ~ No % Lodge will 90
to Canon Oity In response TO an in.
vitation by No. 10 put on tho nnt
degree. A largo number Of the Flor.
enoe lodge will Be present, and thoss
who have In tho past attended these
meetings Of No. know that . royal
good time 10 in store for every ons
who goes. In the CAaon lodge thsrs
are some Of the oldest Odd Fellows
In the state. snd several who have
reoeived from tho Order signal honoYs
among whom 10 Judge Waldo, who
has hold every position Of honor In
the State Grand lodge, and many in
the Sovereign Grand lodge. and who
10 recognised In all Odd Follows
gatherings ~ an authority on every
thing that pertains 10 the 3uris.
prudence or history Of the Order.
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THE wEATHER-Fair tonight
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A baby girl weighing eleven pounds
II born 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Schwars Of 10 West Main street.
Mother and child are getting along
nicely, and everybody 10 happy.
Tho little stranger 10 tho largest baby
that has boon born in Florence We be-.
lieve. The doctor vouches for the
weight Of tho little one
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the flks' BALL.

AoDonald's orchestra OF Pueblo,
arrived this afternoon for tho pur.
pose Of furnishing tho music for the
grand bali TO Be given tonight In
Morgan hall by the b. p. o. Elks.
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STORES Will CLOSE.

All the stores and business houses
will b closed on Friday to observe
Now Years day. accordance with
former custom no paper will be 10.
suad BY the Tribune company on tha I
day. .
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THE FLAMING ARROW.

Lovers Of tho soo1. clean and best
In drama will be delighted TO hear
Of the appearance Of this company At
the Houston opers house Jan. 2.
Prioes 26. So. 10. TO.
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NOTICE REBEKAHs.

Sslome Rcbekab Lodge No 6S will
hold . Joint installation with Fremont
Lodge No. 9s I o. o. r. Union hall
on tho evening Of January .. 1909.
All ofiiosrs and memben arc requested
to bs present. Visiting members will
reoeive . hearty welcome.
BY order OF Ross CAvansugh, N. q.
IL. MINNIE e8PY. 6soy.
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THE FLAMING ARROW,

Lovsfs Of the good. clean and best
In drama will be delighted TO heaf
Of the APPEARANCE of this company At
the Houston opera house Jan. 2.
Prices Is. 85. 10. 6Oc.
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Tho Hotel Lennon will serve .
splendid dinner New Years day.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
Attack on County Fairs.

President Hyde of Bowdoin college,
Brunswick, Me-, in notable address to
the student body severely arraigned the
laws of Maine for permitting the organ
ization of corporations which allow fraud
and stealing and denounced the shoddy
vices and swindles which flourish at many
of the county fairs. Said Hyde: ''The
worst vice of the American people is the
desire to get something for nothing.
Maine has the disease as badly as Okla
homa or Nevada. This State receives
thousands of dollars year from al over
the country for organizing corporations
under laws that were drafted in the inter
est of thieves to make wholesale stealing
easy" He then referred to the local coun-
ty fair, at which numerous low and
swindling side shows were run, and com
pared it with the country fairs in Switz-
erland. He asked: why do the Maine
farmers allow themselves and their fami-
lies to be insulted by the presence of these
low takers at their agricultural fairs?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
NUBBINS OF FARM NEWS.

Kansas had 100000 acres of wheat
this year. The crop was generally good.
Washington State had the biggest crop
of apples. peaches and pears that it has
ever produced.
There are about 100000 farms in the
United States. Every third farm is oc-
cupied by a renter.
Kalamazoo, Mich, the great celery sec
ton, had the largest crop of that vegeta-
BILE that has ever been raised there.
Leo Kelby of ST. Paul has an apple
tree that has bloomed a second time this
year after producing a crop of apples.
Last year the dairy products of the
country alone were worth nearly $500
100000, much more than any other crop
except corn.
1t is estimated that through lax and
improper methods in the handling of milk
and cream loss of over S5,OO0,OOO re-
suits annually
The short course for adults at the
Minnesota school of agriculture will open
Jan. 10. The Duluth Commercial Club
and the Duluth and Iron Range railroad
will each pay the expenses of repre-
sentative of the leading farmers clubs
in ST. Louis county to study improved
methods of agriculture.
In Brookings, s. D., an incendiary is
at large John Welsh was the first vic
tim. losing his house, barn and granary,
with all their contents. Next day the
fiend set fire to the buildings of Henry
Pottratz, who lost his all. A number of
isolated straw piles and hay stacks have
been mysteriously fired.
At recent meeting in Kansas City
$4,000 were appropriated by the Ameri-
can Hereford Cattle Breeders Associa-
ton TO advance the interests of that par
ticular breed of animals in the United
States. The meeting closed its session
with the election of the following named
officers: W. S. Cargill. La Crosse, Wis,
president: Overton Harris, Harris, Mo-,
vice president: Walter B. Waddell, Leg
ington, Mo-, treasurer.
Forest fires are again springing up and
doing damage throughout the timber re-
gions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Mich
igan. Bridges have been burned and con-
siderable damage is being done to farm
land and the growing timber.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26

presents itself that Of selfsupport There wives
who having lost all respect for and confidence their
husbands continue to live with them they pre-
fer to suffer the loss Of their ideals their weekly
Both varieties of wives would be highly
scandalized If they heard themselves classified as
ideal Yet they
The becomes mans wife without loving
him sells him gold brick. What a wants in a
wife is some receive send out his laundry
one feed him on his favorte dishes and
give him appendicitis He wants sympathy and disin-
terested affection And the that woman is willing
to marry him he takes indication that will
ing to give them to him. Half the monsters Of ncon-
stancy that tell each other much about are
made by lack of understanding and sympathy
The other half material for marriage.
Rightly interpreted and rightly lived by two people,
marriage is the nobest occupation in which a woman
participate But contracted or continued in merely
for living 1T is about the well the least
remunerative thing she can do
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
MaIad ustment and Depravity.

Edward L. Devine editor of Charities
in the current number of that magazine
again raises the question whether the
main cause for dependence and privation
in America is maladjustment rather than
personal depravity. He says he has no
disposition to idealize the poor or to per-
NIT sentimentality to usurp the place of
reason and common sense when he chal-
lenges the traditional attitude of those
who assume personal fault or shortcoming
as an explanation for need, and who sigh
over the improvidence, perversity and ig-
norance of the poor. According to this
conscientious expert and leader of Or
ganized charity, the truth is that indus
trial accidents, sickness, widowhood, or
phanage, insufficient food and unsanitary
dwellings are fundamental causes of de-
pendence. He finds it true that many
dependent families would be self-support-
ing in another locapty, and that others
would be except for irregularity of en-
ployment, for which they are not respon-
sible, and that others would be self-sup-
porting if in youth they had had different
education and environment. All of these
illustrations point to maladjustment rath-
er than to personal fault, and hence DIR.
Devine says: ut behooves charitable agen-
cies to weigh thoughtfully the probability
at least that herein lies the more impor-
tant part of their problem"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
PsycbOIopy Of womap,s Dress.

Prof W. |. Thomas of the University
OF Chicago, continuing his series of arti-
cles on woman in the November American
Magazine takes a somewhat radical stand
on the subject of dress. He asserts that
the advances which modern life has made
over savagery are represented at some
points by a very thin line. Man in the
pursuit of business has tended to give up
the idea of bodily adornment and carries
on the worlds industries largely to supply
women with those personal accessories
which they used to charm the men. Ney-
.rtheess, woman is only pawn in the
industrial game played by man. and the
cffrct of this on the character of worn
an is altogether bad" Prof. Thomas
says that ''the role of half angel and half
bird is a pretty one if you can look at
it that way, but sit denatures a woman,
Lahes her a thing instead of a person,
a fact of the environment and an object
Of mans manipulation instead of an agent
for transforming the world. 1t leaves so
aeiy shorthanded and the struggle for life
harder and uglier than it would be if
woman operated in it as the substantial
and superior creature which nature made
hos
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26

travagant, indomitable, she had wis
dom, sagacity and diplomacy which as
founded all crowned and uncrowned
leaders of mankind since her dominant
authority began.
Her political career began with the
wholesale beheadinS of princes in 1861,
by which she established her son on the
throne \ slaughter of reformers and
others took place thirty-seven years
later, in 1898. Two years after this
she deliberately, upon advice, set about
Strengthening all Christians and foreign
ers, giving 100000 taeIs from her pri-
vate funds toward carrying on the
work. Her authority was complete over
about $4,000 officials and over the well
fare and lives of the vast majority Of
the inhabitants of China, who number
close to 270,OO0,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
CHINA'S WOMAN RULER DIES.
Closing of Wonderful Political
Career of Aged Dowager Empress.

Isze HSi An, Dowager Empress of
Shina and the most powerful woman
III the world, is dead The end of this
remarkable woman. unrivaled in his
tory, the autocratic head of government
during more than half century of
nearly one-third of the worlds popua-
ton. came at > O'clock Sunda- after
noon. That is the official announcement
from the imperial palace which follow
ed the news less than twenty-four hours
before of the death of the Emperor,
Kuang-Hsu.
with the announcement of the end
Of the empress dowager's career of ex-
travagance, cruelty and unbridled pow
er came an official edict placing upon
the throne of China Prince Pu-Yi 8
year-old son of Prince Chun regent Of
the empire
The dowager empress was a years
of age and in every one of the years
since she was II were crowded start
ling events. thrills for the entire world
in the years since 1861, and constant
uneasinesS among the millions in China.
Though pronounced wicked, cruel, ex-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
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Fountain Blue won the alleged handi-
cap feature at Jamaica track.
Tommy Burns writes from Australia
that after his battle with Jack Johnson
he will retire from the ring.
Marvin Hart was awarded the decis-
ion over Jack (Twin) Sullivan on foul
in the fifth round of their bout, sched-
u,ed for twelve rounds, in Boston.
At the annual meeting of the Central
Baseball Association Oskaloosa was voted
out on account of poor patronage, and
Galesburg, Ill, and Hannibal, Mo, made
application for the place.
ICY" Young, the veteran pitcher of the
Boston American League team, has fur
nished a room in the Union hospital at
New Philadelphia, Ohio. This is in addi-
ton to the 1000 given the hospital as
a result of a ball game played on "Cy
Young day." short time ago.
Flushed with their 16 to victory over
Indiana, but indignant over what they
consider a deliberate attempt to knock
Quarterback Mol out of the game on ac-
count of his ability to kick field goals
and run the team well, the Wisconsin
university football team has returned
from Bloomington, Ind.
Minor Heir went a sensational first
half at Aurora. H., in his successful at
tempt to lower the State record OK
2 :06H, pacing the first quarter in :3O12
and the second quarter in the same notch.
From there on he tired and finished the
mile in :05.
Shattuck defeated her old rival, Garlic
ton. by the decisive score of 16 to 4.
These teams have met regularly for the
past twenty-five years.
Samuel III. Mellor, Jr., Of the Mercury
athletic Club Yonkers, finished first of
167 starters in the Marathon race at
Newark. Y. J. John J. DAILY, the giant
of Irish American Athletic Club, finished
second.
Polo teams representing British Column
bia. Honolulu, Burlingame. England and
Calgary are expected to compete with the
American teams for the all-American cup
in the tourney to be held on March 20,
1909. at Coronado, Cal.
New York race track managers and bet
tors are jubilant. According to the YER
dict handed down by magistrate Geismar
of Brooklyn seven well-known members
of tie local betting rings are not guilty
of bookmaking. The decision was based
upon the fact that the accused men had
not maintained bookmaking stands, DUE
had walked about the grounds making
bets with others, thus acting as Dotn lay
ers and hackers of odds. That IS held
not bookmaking.
Thomas Evans of the Utah Agricultural
college, right guard OF the college football
eleven. whose neck was dislocated during
game with the Colorado school OF ndhes.
died without regaining consciousness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
[k{nz,. Science
Ia aNS2z~ ANp
r SszE1lVentiOn

The railroads of the United States
used 1S,S55,69 barrels of oil for fuel
In 1907, an increase Of over 100000
barrels over the preceding year.
The United States produced 51,720,-
619 long tons of iron ore, valued at
$131 1866, lat at the mines, last year,
according to the geological survey.
The addition of three drops of mer-
curry to each ounce of common solder
will make a solder fusing at a low
temperature for united soft metals
For the benefit of outdoor workers
who must have their hands free, a
German Inventor has brought out a
tent-shaped umbrella that straps to the
shoulders.
A German chemist having found
way to utilize the common potato in
stead of wood for lead pencils, q fac
tory In that country is turning out 49,
900 pencils daily.
A group Of Pennsylvania capitalists
Is planning to operate q trackless troll
ley line from Chattanooga, Tenn. to
the top of Welden's ridge, Tenn, a dis
lance of fifteen miles.
Washington is the only one of the
Pacific coast States in which coking
coal Is known to occur. It's coke pro-
duction last year totaled 52.O9S tons,
an increase over 1906 of 6,3SS tons.
For a long time past scientific OBJ
servations in various parts Of the
world have shown tendency on the
part of glaciers to recede. This has
been particularly noted in the Alps.
But recent information indicates that
a change may be at hand. At least, 1t
has been found that since 1904 the
Norway glaciers have begun to adj
vance again. In 1907 this progression
became general IN Norway, the ad-
vance varying from to II meters.
A singular device for the protection
Of railway trains crossing viaduct
exposed to heavy winds has recently
been employed at INVERSION, England,
says Prof r. Dec. Ward in Science.
1t consists of wind-gage fixed at the
west end Of the Levens viaduct. When
the wind-pressure reaches 80 pounds
to the square foot. an electric contact
Is made automatically. and bells ring
in the signal cabins on each side of
the viaduct Upon this, all trains are
detained until the force of the wind
abates. The interruption is telegraph
ed along the line. In February, 1907,
wind velocity of Go miles n hour
was recorded. The danger of very
high winds to trains on an exposed
bridge or viaduct was tragically Illus
trated many years ago by the lament
able Tay Bridge disaster in Scotland.
Commandant Soulie de Cenac of the
French Legion of Honor has designed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26

hundred feet Is very moderate height some shoot
up above 800 The fall Of Of the monsters when
the woodsmen cut through its something ap-
paling AS the begins give the sawyers hustle
down their perch and seek a distance Then
they look upward along the giant column listen
shes working all the time" says one.
Yes" agrees the other. you hear her talkn' ;"
and he gives loud cry of Timber y, to warn any fell
low laborers who may be in the neighborhood.
The creakng and swapping increases and the tree
swings slowly first but with tremendous rapidty
and crashes down through the forest earth There
is flying of bark and broken branches and the air
is filled with scw-settling dust. The men climb on the
PROSTATE giant and walk along the broad pathway of
the trunk to how it lies What pigmies they seem
amid tho mighty trees around! The ancient and lofty
forest could well look down them and despise their
shorived significance; yet their persistence and in
genuty irresistible and the woodland is doomed
The Outing Magazine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26

a. hoaAN greatest blessing of life, the mother
consecrating herself children their infancy and
the father experimenting the mothers vigilance
their children of the nursery both uniting
their efforts keep their children pure and undefed by
being left to the of hired servants, tutors gov
and teachers. who rarely worthy of the
trusts that constantly confded to them.
The mother who has time for her social duties"
devotion and the frivolties Of society
give to the hoeer of caring for her children and
training them for usefulness in life can blame
but herself If they go asray. Furthermore, a mother
should make 1t her conscientious duty try far in
her lies avoid transmission evil propenstes
tdosyncracies that destined to act the offspring
probably through life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
ROB WITH CLERKS NEAR;
DRILL SAFE; GET $4,000.
Thieves Break Into Vault in South
Bend Postoffco with Guards
Few Feet Away.

The biggest robbery in the history of
South Bend was pulled of Saturday
night by robbers. who plundered the
South Bend postoffice of s1S.653 and
made such successful getaway that
postofiice Inspectors and police are with
out a clelv ON which TO conduct their
investigation. The plumber was all
stamps
The robbery was discovered at s 80
O'Clock Sunday morning by Il clerk in
building one door north of the room
temporarily occupied for postofice pur-
poses during the erection of the new
100000 building. The clerk having oc-
cation to enter the store found it I'M
possible to open either entrance TO
which he had keys, and suspecting that
something was wrong. called Patrolman
Parker. Throwing their weight against
the doors, they forced an entrance, and
examination showed that they had been
fastened by large screw hooks.
A hole 14x14 inches had been electri-
cally drilled through the fourteen-inch
fireproof wall. forming one side of the
postoffice vault, through which one of
the robbers had entered and passed the
plumber to his confederateS That the
robbery was committed by experts is
shown by precautions used to prevent
discovery, and that the men worked SO
skillfully that the night force of mail
ing clerks within 100 feet of the vault
had no knowledge of what was taking
place.
Before beginning operations on the
wall the robbers covered the floor and
stairway with scores of blankets and
quilts taken from the stock of the store.
and also hung thick quilt ON the north
wall of the vault under which the drill
ing was done. AS the bricks were
loosened they were pulled out of the
driller's way by means of small
tackle and pulley, which was left be-
hind Marking in the dust of the stair
way showed that lookout was sta
toned in a position which would give
him a full view of the street through
the big windows in front of the store
The roundabout method taken to get
within reach of the vault shows that
the plan of the building had been care
fully studied for weeks. At no time
during the night was the postoffice I'M
guarded, two clerks being in the mail
ing and sorting room.
The electric drill used by the robbers
was worked by power taken from light
ing wires less than twenty feet from
the wall, the wires being detached from
a desk lamp in the office of the House
hold company. The drills, picks and
other tools, all new, and a bottle of
nitroglycerin, which was probably to be
used in case steel lining to the vault
was found, were all left behind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
Gompers Defines the Boycott.

In the November McClure's President
Gompers of the American Federation of
Labor says that the boycott is a perfectly
natural and normal human activity, and
that as such 10 law can ever stop it.
He declares that every one conducts a
boycott who expresses an opinion against
patronizing any merchant. The boycott,
he says. is like the blockade, neither ex-
lists unless it is effective. The boycott is
weapon of labor unionism, and the
blacklist is the same weapon under q diff
ferent name, in the hands of employers.