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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-03
IDAHO.

Boise, Idaho. Nov. 3.-Bright sunny
weather prevails throughout the state.
Early voting in Boise was very heavy.
Boise, Idaho, Nov. 3-Dispatches
from a number of outside points indi-
cate that an exceptionally heavy vote
is being cast in Idaho. Campaign man
ayers of both leading parties express
confidence of victory.
NEVADA
Reno, New, Nov. 3.-Throughout Ne
vada the weather this morning was fair
and pleasant.
Reno, New, Nov. 3.-While the voting
in the early morning hours was light
1t is believed that Nevada will cast
vote of about rs, 900. Excellent weather
conditions prevail and indications are
that the state will go Democratic by
a good majority.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh. N. c.. Nov. 3.-Election day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-03

Portland. Ore Nov. 3.-Weather con-
ditions in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho this morning with the exception
of the Pugent Sound country, were
ideal 1t was storming around the
sound. Indications were for rain this
afternoon in northwestern Oregon and
western Washington and for clear
weather in eastern and southern Ore
gon, eastern Washington and Idaho
Portland, Ore, Nov. 3.-Weather con-
ditions in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho this morning with the exception
of the Puget sound county are ideal.
1t is raining and storming on Puget
sound. The indications are for rain this
afternoon in northwestern Oregon and
western Washington. Early voting in
Portland was of normal volume. An
order was issued extending the closing
hour of the polls to o'clock. Reports
from the interior are meagre. but indi-
cate a good early vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-03
MINNESOTA.
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Sioux Falls. S. D., Nov. SELECTION
day opened bright and clear, typical
Indian summer day. Everything indi-
Gated a heavy vote. The polls opened
at o'clock and will close at 5.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 3.-Reports
show heavy early vote being cast
and that party tickets are being badly
split outside the presidential can
didates. 1t is estimated that the total
vote cast will be eight or ten thou
sand greater than ever before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
TAX COLLECTING
BEGINS DEC. %
Office OF City Treasurer Will
Begin Collection on that Day.

The annual period of general tax
collection Will begin Monday morning
Dec. 2o, at 9 o'clock aud will extend
To March 10, next YEAR, at which time
the tax rolls Will be turned over to
tie county treasurer and the unpaid
taxes vi De Scid oy that Official.
The Total amount OF taxes levied
on personal and real property for the
city OF Grdhd Rapids is $50, O22 Is.
The rate or taxation this year is
.02l23. aud the State and County tax
levy IS, 1881 in excess of what il was
a year ago. Those falling TO pay
before January 81 Will be charged per
cent extra. Up TO that time only one
per ceuJ will be charged.
City treasurer, Sam Church, will
have his wife assist him during the
collection season. All taxes VIII be
received al The City Hall east side,
prior TO Jan. 81, after that date tax,
payers will be obliged 10 present Their
money al Churches Drug store, west
side.
The Office hours of the treasurer are
from to II O'Clock in the forenoon,
and from l 10 O'Clock in the after
nOUu.t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
"Navicatesv His Farm

A story which almost parallels that
told of Capt. Gray, the sailor-farmer
OF Teddy Pond, who is said to carry a
compass on his pillow to run the fur
rows straight, comes from Cranberry
isles. One sea captain, who enjoys
the proud distinction of owning one
Of the very few horses on the island,
got alarmed for fear that he would
lose his bearings in the recent smoke,
and on the veracious accounts of sober
citizens took the pinnacle from the
vessel and strapped it alongside the
seat of his wagon, fearing that the
weather might become so thick that
he would lose his bearings and have
to navigate in what was worse than
fog. 1t is currently reported that he
shouts at his team to turn to star
board or port, instead of the more
conventional landlubber terms usual
ly employed. - Kennebec (Me.)
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
ALASKAN BIRDS IN cAL,FoRNlA
Strange Visitors Brought 70 san ser-
nardino by Big Storm.

AT an early hour this morning sew
eral hocks of strange birds numbering
thousands came into the city on the
wings Of big rain and wind storm,
and this morning the bodies of many
OF the fowl were found lying inert in
the downtown streets and in the
parks, says a San Bernardino CORE
spondent OF the San Francisco Chron-
lcle The air was filed last night with
cries OF strange fowl which. attracted
oT the electric lights, roasted upon tbs
oulldlngs or fell exhausted in the
streets. Investigation today showed
lhat many of the birds were of Alas
Kan variety, and the only accounting
Ior their presence in this latitude is
mat they were. engaged in a long
night TO the southern zones from their
northern summer haunts and had been
deferred from their route by heavy
winds and rains. The most noticeable
Dlrds were the northern phaIorpe and
Ihe night herons. The former birds
are rarely seen outside of Alaska or
in the far south.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
To Relieve His FEELINGS.

Boldly displayed in black letters on
the white gable of an unpretentious
house on the road to Mount Stuart,
Butte, Scotland, is the following in
scription: THE Materials of This Out
rage Are for Sale According to the
local historians, the announcement, as
it stands, is the last word in duel be-
tween neighbors.
1t is said that the house was built to
obstruct the view of a gentleman who
had been successful in getting an in
terdict to prevent the owner from en-
closing the foreshore. But after the
death of the builder the house came
into the market and was purchased by
the other gentleman, who now seeks
to express his wounded feelings in
Daint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Notice OF Mortgage Foreclosure Sale.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF WooD-In
Circuit Court.
F. j. Wood, plaintiff, VS.. Stephen Cum
mingS, Annie Cummings, his wife, Mary A.
Stout, [alSo written Mrs. NJ. A. Stout and
George Rima, defendants.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue OF
and pursuant to Judgment of foreclosure
and sale duly rendered and entered IN the
above entitled action in the above named
court, on the 9th day of August, A. D., 1907,
in favor OF the above named plaintiff and
against the above named defendants herein,
more than one year having elapsed since
the data of entry OF said Judgment, and no
part thereof having been paid l, j. t. WEIGH,
as sheriff of said Wood County, Wisconsin,
will, on Saturday, the End day of January,
A. D., 1909, ar 1000 O'Clock in the forenoon of
that day, at the north front door of hte Court
County, Wisconsin, offer for sale and sell at
public auction and vendue, to the highest
bidder, for cash, all of the following deS-
cribed real estate and premises, situated in
the Comfy of Wood, State of Wisconsin,
and more particularly described in said
Judgment, to-Wit:
Lot number five 81 of block number
twelve 12l of the original plat of the viii
lage of Babcock. in the town of Remington
Wood County, Wisconsin, plat whereof is
duly recorded.
Dated at the city of Grand Rapids, Wood
County, Wisconsin, this 18th day of Novem-
Der, A. d. 1908.
]. T. WEIGH,
Sheriff of Wood County, Wis.
WIPPERMAN &c HAMBRECHT,
Attorneys for the Plaintiff.
First publication Nov. 10, expires Dec. 2ll
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

Moved by Mr.. Rowland that the re-
port of the committee on poor farm
and poor accounts be accepted and
spread upon the minutes Carried.
Moved by Mr.. Deming that the re-
port OF the committee on poor farm
be reconsidered. Carried.
Moved by Mr.. Deming that the re-
port Of the poor farm be referred
back to the committee. Carried.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors of Wood County:
Gentlemen:-I have the honor of
submitting to you for your considera-
ton and approval my sixth annual re-
port.
Following are few items of Stats
tics from the annual report to the
state department.:
No. of districts in the county. lO4
No. that maintained school last
No. of.teachers employed last year Us
Two schools paid tuition to other
districts, one of these has opened its
school again this year. The reason
for the closing of these schools was too
small attendance. In one of these
schools transportation was provided,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
SHOCKED IN HAUNTED CHAMBER
sieepers' Fright, However, Was Not
Caused by Ghosts.

John Leech and a member of the
Mlllais family once stayed a night at
CoWdray hall, in England, where,
many guests being present, the two
friends had no alternative but to &C.
cept beds in an isolated room sup
posed to be haunted.
In the middle of the night Millais
aWoke, believing that some giant was
shaking him violently by the shoulder.
This was supposed to be the favorite
device of the ghost He rushed into
a corridor and found Leech sitting
there trembling and declaring that he
would not for the world go back to
his room.
They spent the remainder of the
night in the corridor, but in the morn
ing said nothing of their experiences.
In the afternoon there arrived an
evening paper telling of a violent
earthquake in the locality. The earth
quake was what the two visitors be-
lieved to be their ghost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Small Boys Adaptation.

Things aren't always what they
sound" remarked that very clever
devil, Edwin Stevens, in Henry Saw
ages production, as he drew a patent
leather shoe over his cloven hoof. "a
teacher of my kid days put this puzzle
to US once:
Nov, boys, the word stan" at the
end of word means place Of" Thus
we have Afghanistan, the place of At
ghans; also Hindoostan, the place of
the Hindoos. Now, can any one give
me another instance?'
"'Yes, sir said the smallest boy,
proudly, I can-umbrellastan, the
place for umbrellas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Shiftinu the Blame.

According to all accounts the Cam
eron Highlanders militia are a fine
body of men physically. Not long ago
four of them occupied the least crowd
ed seat in a full compartment On a
Scotland railway. Just as the train
was moving off a diminutive little
clergyman jumped into the compart-
ment, and tried to edge himself be-
tween two of the Highlanders. Not
finding it very comfortable, he turned
to the one on his right, and said: "Sit
up, please. You know that according
to act of parliament this seat holds
FIVE" The Highlander looked at him
for moment, and then replied: That
may be a RIGHT enough for your kind,
sir, but shairly We Gamma blame me
for no bein' constructed according to
act of parliament"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
FIRST CHARGE TO CUSTOMERS.
Somewhat Novel System in Vogue in
Stores OF Salem.

Evidence of that thrift which con-
tTibuted its share in making Salem the
prosperous little city it is today smote
me unawares the first day l ventured
into one of the numerous antique
stores.
The shops exterior was tempting
and l entered, to find some Indifferent
mahogany Uttered about a severe
maiden lady who stood framed in an
extremely interesting interior. l
noted the disposition of things and
was preparing to leave, having just
replaced something on the shelf where
it belonged, when the lady said THAT
will be ten cents
Thank you; l really couldn't use
it." 1 replied. edging away for the
door.
But the charge is ten cents" she
added, coldly, moving nearer.
So l understand" said 1, skillfully
maneuvering for a hurried but digni
fed exit.
THE admission to the store is ten
cents" she put in here, with chilly
distinctness, outfianking me.
For anything savoring of novelty in
this fin de steele business world let US
be truly thankful! The shopkeeper
who charges you fee for the privil-
eye OF entering her store does not
lose in dignity by the proceeding.
She insists upon the disbursement
with such an air of divine right that
for the moment you feel strangely
like the recipient of a favor, and
wander down the street, a prey to
vague fears that possibly you may
owe her money.-Harper's Magazine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Bad Novels.

Novels have deteriorated lamenta-
bly,, the paying book now being either
the wildly sensational or the insidious-
ly wicked; incidents that formerly
were named with bated breath being
openly written of and blazoned
abroad, for gain of gold, and too often
by women. 1t is difficult to find
plain intellectual meal served by the
moderns, who furnish us with little
but cayenne pepper, poisonously
spiced oysters and Gorgonzola cheese
"a literary dinner the memory of
which, as has been well said, serves
no end but to leave a dark-brown
taste in the mouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Souabblinq the Cause of 1t.

A magistrate who has taken upon
himself the difficult task of adjusting
domestic troubles says that petty
squabbles break up more homes than
affinities ever could do. He has no
mercy for wife-beaters and is skepti-
cal concerning the influence of So
called soulmates on the average mid
die class household, which he stoutly
maintains is moral. In the strongest
terms he condemns nagging and
sQuabbling and sounds a warning
against the effects of overwork. He is
not the only person who believes that
in ora! nary cases of faithlessness the
cause can be found in a cloudy home
atmosphere. Bickering is shamefully
common and the causes too trivial to
give an excuse for wasting breath.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Canal That Russia Needs,

Russia's ministry of ways and COM
munications has appointed board of
engineers to make preliminary sur
veys for the long-projected canal to
connect the Baltic with the Black sea.
The canal, in the making of which sew
eral rivers will be turned to account,
will have its northern end at Riga on
the Gulf of Riga, 300 miles southwest
of ST. Petersburg, while the southern
end will be Kherson, on the right
bank of the Dnieper, and 80 miles
east-northeast of Odessa. When this
project is completed Russia may move
her own ships to and from the Black
sea without asking permission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Chinese Taxes.

The Chinese government, while it
collects part Of it's revenue from
customs, relies largely upon the prov
inces to supply revenue, and arbi-
trarily names each year the sum
which each province must supply,
leaving to the officers of that province
the methods by which this is OBJ
tanned. The consequence is that each
province is permitted to collect a tax
on goods entering it from adjacent
provinces and this custom has been
extended to the subdivision of the
provinces, so that goods in transit are
frequently compelled to pay taxes
every few miles. AS "A consequence,
the interior taxes, known as ''Hkin"
become not only the terror of i'm
porters, but sometimes almost pro-
hibitory
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Castle That Cost Little,

In the year 1886 Anastasia Goold
mined to astonish her husband when
he returned from the wars by build
ing him noble castle that should only
actually cost four pence. She there
fore engaged workmen, whom she sup
piled with provisions and other arti-
cles at retail prices, and when the cas-
tie of YOUNGSTOWN, near Cork, was
eventually finished, the thrifty wife
found that the retail profit had paid
all the building expenses except four
pence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
L-EGALS
Notice Of Final Settlement.

In the matter of the estate of T. C. Timm.
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of
Minnie Timm representing among other
things that she has fully administered the
said estate, and praying that a time and
place be fixed for examining and allowing
her account of his administration. and that
the residue OF the said estate be assigned to
such persons as are by law entitled to the
same;
IT Is ORDERED, That said application be
heard before me, at my otflce in the city of
Grand Rapids, on the End day of February
1909, at 10 O'Clock a. m.
AND 1T Is FURTHER ORDERED, That notice
of said application and hearing be given to
all persons interested, by publication of a
copy of this order for three successive
weeks in the WOOD COUNTY REPORTER, a
newspaper printed in said county, before
the day fixed for said hearing.
Dated this 18th day OF December, 1908.
By the Court,
B. Nj. VAUGHAN, w. j. CONWAY,
Atty. for Administrative. County Judge.
First publication Dec. II, expires Dec. 81 !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
If You Are Durable
We Can Cure You

We viii tell you why an5 how you can be
cured if you call at our offices, or, if you
will write all about your case, we will send
you letter written Just as we would talk to
you If you were here.
Our treatment will tell you its own plain
story, a story that has meant comfort, health
and happiness to thousands.
without asking a single question we will
diagnose your disease so well that you Will
be astonished. This is done with special
testing instruments used by no other
doctors. The durable cases OF today become
the incurables of tomorrow and all afflicted
people should heed the warning in time.
Extraordinary diseases require extraordi-
nary treatment. 1t is easy to cure simple
disorders. Most any ordinary doctor or
medicine will. Complicated cases that defy
ordinary treatments require extraordinary
remedies to vanquiSh them Our treatment
as compared with others differs as does the
sunlight from tallow candle. 1t does not
take FAITH, does not take CONFIDENCE,
does not take even HOPE to get cures. 1T
TAKES ONLY TRIAL-au we ask. Tt
cures whether the sufferers believe in it or
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Ito be continued)

MesSrS. B. L. Hadfeld of Wausau
aud Fred Nelson of this city, have
rented the Font tame building on the
west side in which they will open a
hrst-claSs moving picture show on
Wednesday evening December %.
They promise to give the people of
Grand Rapids the best there is in this
line. Watch THE REPORTER for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Amazing BloodIess Cures

AS great as were recent cures in
Europe they are greater in America TO-
day. The cure of Rupture. Cancer,
Piles. ETC., without the knife is now
an accomplished fact ds can be prOveG
by the Illinois State Specialists of 62S
W. State ST., Rockford, III.
The validity of their claims can be
tested by all who write for appoint
ment card. Their ad stating time TO
cure diseases appears elsewhere in
this paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

John Buckley, of Montrose, Colo :,
who has been making his home with
his grandmother, Mrs. Claressa Arpin,
during the past months while attend
ing the Lincoln high school in our
city, departed for his home Friday to
spend the Christmas holidays.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

From the foregoing table % persons
have been inmates Of Wood County
Poor Farm, three have died, and
three have been discharged, leaving
16 now on hand.
The expense has been as follows:
Provisions, dry goods, hardware. wood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
ASTONlSHEO BY THE GIRAFFE.
Frenchmen Were Slow to Admit Elk
istence of the Animal.

DR.. Johnson, as is we'll known, re-
fused for many months to believe in
the Lisbon earthquake, and Parisians
formerly were just as skeptical as to
the existence of the giraffe, a new
specimen of which had just been
added to the Jardin des Plantes. The
earliest specimen of these gentle crea-
lures was seen in Paris in the reign
of Louis XVI. We learn from French
contemporary that the giraffe was
first heard of in 1887, when it was de-
scribed by Frenchman named Levail-
liant, who had journeyed in the lands
of the Hottentots and Kaffirs. When
the explorer referred to the animals
with the long necks he was looked
upon as Munchausen and told that
he was such in not the politest Ian
guage. 1t was only when some living
specimens arrived in the French cap
ital that Levaillant's reputation for
veracity was re-established, and then
the animals for Ions time formed
the sensation of Paris, not only among
the multitude, but in all scientific cir
cles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
A Little learninC.

Earnest Female-Professor l hear
you are a great ornithologist.
Professor am an ornithologist.
madam.
Earnest Female-Then could you
kindly tell me the botanical name for
q whale?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Faith and Hone

Mayme-If you don't love him why
are you going to marry him?
Maybelle-Oh, L expect to love him
after we are married. He has prom
ised that on the morning of our we'd
ing day he will shave off his dinky
little French beard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
S375 10 S315.lO

% 10 IU % 70. 10
The improvements in equipments
this year are largely along the line of
the requirements of the law providing
for special state aid to rural schools
OF the first class. Fifty districts re-
port all equipment ordered before
June 80. 1908, and have applications T.
for state aid. Several more have
since ordered the equipment and will
be In line for the state aid next year,
In closing this report / wish to ex-
press my appreciation of the interest
shown by the members of the Board.
the local officers and the teachers in
the educational work of this County.
Yours truly
ROBERT NORRIS.
County Supt of Sch ,ols.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
One Advaptaoe

Benevolent Old Gent-Don't you
find sailors life a very dangerous
one?
Old Salt-Oh, yus, sir, but fortunate
ly it amt often we gifts into port.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24

G. NJ, Dougherty has the contract
of wiring the Fontaine building on
the west side to be used by Hadfield
and Nelson for electric theatre pur-
poSes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-24
Device for Drvino the Hair.

In a new electric device for drying
the hair with an air blast resistance
can be switched in for heating the air