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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
MISS KUNTZ ENTERTAINED

A Washington leap year party was
one of the pleasant features of Satur-
day evening at the home of Miss
Jennie kuntz Hearts and games
were the chief amusements, and Miss
Loretta Mccarthy received first favor.
Dainty refreshments were served and
the time for departure arrived only too
soon. Miss Kuntz is reported by all
who attended as royal entertainer.
Those present were as follows:
Misses Irene Brown, Lydia Stahl.
Gertie Mason, Jennie Kuntz, Carrie
Thomas, Anna Reeves, Mollie Stahl,
Zayda Brown, Fern ChandoiS, Loretta
Mccarthy and Messrs Robert Nash,
Kirk Muir, Bert Chose, George Scott,
George Fay, Fred Schnabel, James
Hamilton, Freeman Gilkey and John
Hildner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
The Thirsty Veteran

The pitiful poverty of the army vet.
Grams, on whose behalf Earl Roberts
makes an appeal, has developed in
some of them subtle keenness In Sc
curing for themselves those little lux.
uries which want of money prevents
them from obtaining in the ordinary
way. An aged hero of the Crimear
war and Indian mutiny, who resided in
remote village in Scotland, was one
day interviewed by party of gentle
men on an outing. They listened with
interest to the story of the old man.
share in the aforementioned cam
paigns, and, after thanking him pro.
fusely, were about to depart, when the
aged warrior suddenly remarked:
There's another thing, gentlemen,
that l can recall to mind" "Ah, in
deed! What is that?" eagerly asked
the tourists, expecting to hear a most
interesting "reminiscences.
Gentlemen" said the veteran in i'm.
pressive tones, Il weel remember that
l was just as thirsty during the whole
OF the battle of Herman as am now!"
The party took the hint-Dundee Ad.
vertiSer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
THIS CEMENT WALL A NOVELTY
Action of Nature Has Given II q Die
tinct Artistic Value.

There is wall of cement In Los
Angeles which shores up one side OF
a building lot that has an artistic
value never intended by the builder.
He had moved his bags of cement
on to the ground to be ready for work
and was then called away on some
other job for day or two. In the
meantime one of the very infrequent
rains came on and each sack turned
into stone under the action of the wa
ter and the fabric of the sacks them
selves were absorbed into the cement
so that 1t was impossible to remove it.
Consequently each sack was wrought
into the wall as if it had been boul-
der on the line of an old stone wall
They were then chinked and bound
together with worked cement and
after time the weather disposed Of
the gunny sacking, but left the blocks
marked with the impress of the weave.
The result is highly ornamental
cement wall, resembling at little dis
lance a wall Of some woven material.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
SMILED AT THE WRONG TIME.
Overabundant Sense of Humor at
Times Proves Costly.

When Laugh and the world laughs
with you" was written, the author took
no thought of the autocratic ones of
the earth who cannot see themselves
in anything approaching ridiculous
light
1t is related that the present car
o., Russia, returning once from a long
journey, was weary and in no mood
to be trifed with As he was pass
ing through his apartments he slipped
on a bearskin mat that lay on the
polished floor. Clutching at one OF
his attendants, he nearly brought him
self and his support to the floor
Baron Enidoff, at the time a conf
Dental adviser, could not check a
smile, which his monarch turned just
I'D time to observe. The next day
Enidoff was dismissed from his of
flee. and lost the 100000 attached to
the post
Another ruler who is not to be trifled
with is William of Germany. Cough
Milbanke, clever but bluff Scot, who
was an expert in colonial administra-
tlon, was once taken up by the kaiser,
who wished his advice on eastern af-
fairs, and had decided to give him
an important position to guard Ger
man interests in China. At one of
their conferences the kaiser made an
absurd suggestion as to eastern diplo-
macy. Milbanke laughed The en-
peror wished him frigid good night
and never received him again.
Another Scottish administrator, Dun
can McVea, was advising the late pleas
ant but touchy king of Portugal, who
had planned to put the shaky govern
ment of the Cape Verde islands in the
hands of this skillful manager. The
king became much excited, and made
ludicrous botch of his English, which
was usually excellent. McVea smiled
audibly, and was promptly ordered
away. He was never appointed to the
governorship, which carried a salary
of $25, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Thursday, February 81 1908.
WILL PEOPLE BE CONTENT?

The coming municipal election in
Grand Rapids is one of unusual i'm
portance and the ordinary taxpayer is
particularly interested in the outcome.
Since the consolidation of Grand Rapids
and Centralia into one city Greater
Grand Rapids-there has never been
spring election oyer which the citizens
have manifested so much concern.
The ideal city election is one in
which all citizens and taxpayers are
united. In the good old fashioned
style of pure democracy men who are
accorded the right to lead, meet and
decide on one of their leading citizens
for mayor. Everybody is satisfied be-
cause they realize that the city's bust
ness will be administered for the good
of all and not for the interest of the
ew.
The time comes, however, when the
house is divided. Those who have adj
miniStered the municipal affairs have
not done SO for the best interest of
the people as a whole. Special inter-
est have been the aim, and in copse-
quence the people suffer as result of
high taxes and loose morals. Laws
are ignored and city ordinances set
aside, and in consequence the city is
plunged into debt far beyond the
power of recovery in one, or even two
years; and instead of respect, there
has grown up disregard of law.
People are not satisfied and cry for re-
turn to regular business methods in the
city administration and better moral
tone. In response they are given an
opportunity to endorse the past by the
return to office of those responsible
for the acknowledgment and disre-
Spect for law.
The pure democracy of the old
fashioned day has indeed been good,
but the house once so peaceful has
been filled with diSSenters who have
contiscated the keyes to the larder. and
helped themselves They are now d.
recting the destinies of the once pros
porous city, while the peopIe-the
real hosts-Stand by and note the riot
The question is: WILL THE PEOPLE
CONTINUE AN ADMINISTRATION
WHICH HAS BANKRUPTED THE CITY
OF GRAND RAPIDS, OR Will THEY
CLEAN THEM OUT" AND ELECT MEN
WHOSE ELECTION WILL ASSURE
BETTER CONDITIONS?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
PoIiteness and the Clock.

When a very polite woman has com.
pany she never looks at the clock.
If by any means her eyes must wander
to that side of the room she very
carefully looks above the clock, or be-
low it, or to one side of it, but never
is she guilty of the rudeness of look
ing at the clock itself When a guest
looks at the clock and comments upon
the lateness Of the hour, then hos
tess may look at it, but she must i'm
mediately, in very polite and ladylike
terms, insist that the clock lies; that
it is at least four hours too fast. The
clock Is an important factor in true
politeness. Only by utterly ignoring it
when there is company can a woman
become perfect lady.-Atchison
Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
FEDERATION
ART MEETING
Mrs. H. J. Hall, of Chicago, Will
Lecture March 9th

Mrs. Herman j, Hall. of Chicago.
who lectures on Antique and Modern
Jewelry, March 6 at 7:45 p. NJ, in the
High school auditorium, has con-
sented to give an informal talk to the
ladies at the afternoon meeting held
at the home of Mrs. Ellis beginning at
2:30.
The public are invited to the even
ing lecture, but the afternoon program
is open only to the members of the
Federation, their house guests and
prospective members.
Mrs. Hall has studied art in various
lines for many years. She was the
honored PRESIDENT of the Outdoor Art
and Park Assertion, proceeding the
late lamented Mrs. Millspaugh, who is
so we'll and pleasantly remembered
here. She is the author of that pleas
ing book of travel 1.-TWO Women
Abroad" and is favorite member
and lecturer of the Chicago Womans
club. Her art talks are recon-
mended by the General Federation
Art Committee.
Mrs. Hall has visited Europe six
times and given careful attention to
its art treasures. Last season the
special object of her trip was the con-
tinuance of her study of design in
silversmiths and goldsmiths work and
the preparation of slides for her lee
ture Antique and Modern Jewelry."
She has been student of this sub
ject for many years and will impart
to US her knowledge of gems, their
values and sentiments, their SYM
bolic meaning and their uses and
abuses in decorating jewelry, She
will tell how to Judge real stones and
help detect false ones, what TO wear
and have the piece of jewelry appro-
ideas in fitness as compared with the
past.
The officers and art committee of
the Federation are confident they
have provided a treat for the member
ship and public.
One mission Of the Federation is to
bring to our city such speakers as will
broaden our vision, arouse our inter
ests and enable US to gain pleasure in
objects and projects to which we have
been Indifferent. This has a reflex
action and tends to result in a beauti-
fed city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
OBITUARY
. Contributed.

On February seventh at her home
in Vesper, Wisconsin occurred the
death of Mrs. Henrietta TTental aged
sixty-nine years, after an illness ex.
tending over four months during
which her beautiful character again
manifested itself by her patience and
trust in her creator. Hers was USE
full and active life, always ready to do
with willing hand all in her power
to help those who might need her aid.
Sunday afternoon services were
held at the family home by Rev. FL.
Mack of Grand Rapids pastor Of the
German Eyangelic Lutheran Church
of which she was member.
The remains we're taken to North
Prairie, Wisconsin where impressive
services were held at the Lutheran
church by Rev. Otto Hitzeroth in
German and Professor G. Ross, of Mil
waukee, in English.
A large number of sorrowing rela-
tives and friends gathered to pay their
last tribute Of respect To the beloved
dead and to follow the remains to
their last resting place where they
were laiu beside those Of her husband.
Four sons and three daughters
grown to man and womaDbood are
left TO mourn the death Of kind ard
loving mother.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
RUDOLPH

Wilbur Berard of your city city spent last
week sunday at the Bat Shaskey home.
Miss Louise Sharkey spent Thursday in
your city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving whtmore of Port Ed
wards spent few days last week visiting
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Clark.
Amiel Sharkey has gone to Glidden to
work.
Little Gladys Ratelle has been cry sick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
WORLDS TRIBUTE TO MOTHERS.
Proverbs of Many Nations Show Love
and Veneration.

At a mothers meeting young
woman recounted with some pride a
number Of proverbs about mothers.
1T is easier for poor mother to
keep seven children than for seven
children to keep mother That sad
and striking proverb," she said, "is
from the Swiss
"A mothers love is new every day
He who will not mind his mother will
some day have to mind the jailer.'
Better lose rich father than a poor
mother "A fathers love is only
knee-deep, but a mothers reaches to
the heart Those splendid proverbs
are all German.
1.-THE Hindoos say POLITICALLY, Moth
er mine, ever mine, whether 1 be rich
or poor
"The Venetians say, Mother! He
who has one calls her; he who has
none misses her.
'The Bohemians say, "A mothers
hand is soft even when it strikes
"The Lithuanians say, Mother means
martyr"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
FITz SHOWS KNOCKOUT PUNCH.
Ruby Robert Gives Demonstration
Much to His Sorrow.

Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons is al
ways ready and willing to illustrate
before sporting men just how he
knocked Jim Corbett out at Carson
City with his memorable solar plexus
punch. Not so many years ago his
former manager, Percy Williams, now
a Wan-known theatrical magnate,
asked Fitz to show a number of
friends just how Corbett was ami
fI,ated. Robert was in fine form
then, as he was training for a fight
at the time
He promptly complied with the re-
quest by calling upon Reggy Williams,
brother of his manager, to stand up
and be victim. Reggy, however,
had been there before and knew the
power Of the Cornishman's blows, so
he was not overeager to take part in
the exhibition. So he said to Robert
Wait minute, Bob, until l go and
get stiff bracer, for I need courage"
"All right" replied Fitzsimmo1s,
with grin, 'but hurry" Reggy
stepped over to the bar, took a nip,
and then picking up a thick board he
slipped it under his vest. Then he
came back with the remark:
go ahead, Bob, but not too hard"
Fftz jumped about, feinting and
sparring off like a real fighter Then
Robert shot out his terrible left and
hit the mark with crash 1t sounded
like a blow on board fence with
sledge hammer, and, though Williams
vas knocked down, he jumped up
quickly and laughed until his sides
Ehook. Fitz was dancing around on
one foot, with his left hand under his
arm and look of intense pain on his
iaee
What's the matter, Bob?" asked
Percy Williams, who was next to the
trick
What's the mattey?" roared the
angry Cornishman. why, me bloom
ing land is smashed! That funny
brother Of yours as a sheet of iron
under his VeSt!"
FitZ was mark then for a lot of
5uying, but the joke was a serious
one. for his left hand was in poultices
for six weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Praises English Jurisprudence.

Elbridge L. Adams of Rochester,
N. Y, lawyer, who has made a study
of British jurisprudence, surprised his
colleagues at the annual meeting of
the New York State Bar association
when he made comparison between
the American and English methods of
legal procedure. He asserted that %
judges of the supreme court of Eng
land, with a population of 100000,
disposed of as much business each
year as SO judges of the supreme court
in New York state, with population
of 100000. 'Tn addition to this" said
Mr.. Adams, these English judges do
just as much work as the federal
judges In New York state. The OBJ
ject of the English rules is to provide
the best, the quickest and the simplest
methods"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
KNOWLEDGE of Reality,

Nothing Is so valuable as knowl-
edge of reality. No other knowledge
is permanently valuable without it..
The extent. to which the human mind
is capable of deceiving itself with
knowledge of phenomena, the better
to avoid the temporary discomfort of
recognizing the vital truths of prog
ress, is only less remarkable than the
extent of the power it is capable of
exerting when once inspired by the
consciousness that it has become the
vehicle Of some truth necessary for
the worlds advancement-W
Vincent Byers, can American Com
moner."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
THIS PENAL COLONY A MODEL
Brazil Seems to Have Solved One of
Civilizations Problems.

The penal colony of the state OF
Pernambuco, Brazil, is on an island
500 miles off the coast. There are COG
convicts at present They arise at 6
a. m. and work till D. M for the state
cultivating cotton of a superfine quail
ty. After two o'clock they work for
themselves. The island is one of tbs
most orderly and productive bits OF
soil in Brazil. 1t is a model convict
colony and the cheapest run of any in
the world.
The group of islands to which the
penal one belongs is where the equa-
torial and south equatorial currents
divide, and it is surrounded by a tri-
angular sheet Of quiet sea, full of all
kinds of fish, valuable commercially
AS convict labor may be had at ten
cents a day there is opportunity for
fine fishing concessions there. 1t is
regarded as a first-class location for a
coaling station. The islands also have
valuable phosphate deposits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
GRAND RAPIDS
c. E. SOCIETIES
Organized to Entertain North
Central Wisconsin Convention

Upon the invitation of the
Congregational Y. P. S. c. E., a
union meeting of the Christian
Endeavor societies, of Grand
Rapids, was held in the First
Congregational church. There
were four denominations repre-
sented at this meeting: Congre-
gational society, Church OF
Christ society, First Moravian
society and the Scandinavian
Moravian society.
The purpose OF this meeting
was to unite the societies OF
Christian Endeavor in this CITY
so as to entertain the North
Central Wisconsin District con-
vention of the Y. P. S. c. E. to
be held in Grand Rapids, April 2
8, 1908.
Each of the four societies ex-
pressed themselves as entirely in
favor of the union and a com
mittee consisting of the pastors
of the four churches and two
members from each society to
take charge of the preparations
for the convention were appoint
ed. Rev. H. F Barstow, of the
Church of Christ disciples, was
elected chairman of the commit
tee and Carl J. Odegard, secre-
tary.
This committee met on Sunday
afternoon at the G. A. R. hall
and a spirit Of willingness to
help was evident among the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
A Tragedy.

A Mr.. Nosmo King was questioned
about the oddity Of his Christian
name.
ut is this way" he said; my moth
er made a point Of giving all Of her
children unusual names. / was three
months old before she found one for
me that she liked. One day. while
out shopping, she saw On onehak Of a
swinging door the word 'Nosmo,' while
the other half bore King her own
name.
"'Nosmo King she noted mentally,
not perceiving that the letters spelled
no smoking when the doors were
closed; hence my lifelong afisc1ion."-
Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Keep Girls Young.

"It is hard to take back seat and
see the younger generation occupying
the front ones" says millionaire's
widow, who is not through being
youthful, though she has two grown
up daughters. She admires the fine
restraint" which wealthy French moth
ers exercise over the dressing of their
young daughters, and she wishes more
IF this maternal mastery could be seen
in this country. Until she is mar
ried, if that event takes place when
she is young" says the widow, ia
jeune file is dressed almost as If she
were schoolroom child. Supposing
che remains unwed at 81, she is still
dressed after a uniform plan, so that
her mother may continue to dress
youthfully yet have toilets entirely
different in style from her daugh-
ter S.'-Exchange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Advertising for One Penny.

Jabez Alvord, an old and highly re-
spected resident of Winsted, Conn, 10
advertising as lost a pocketbook con-
tanning a penny, and offers to pay a
liberal reward for its return. The
penny bears the date of 1918, and to
Mr.. Alvord 1t is almost invaluable. 1t
was given to him by the family doc
tor when he was a child in dresses.
For safe keeping he put it in a
crack in the house, and it fell down
between the partitions. When the
old house was torn down two years
ago Mr.. Alvord found 1t, after it had
been lost more than IS years. Now it
is lost again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Doinq Chores.

To dig ones own potatoes, to
shock ones own corn, to pick ones
own apples, to pie ones own squashes
at ones own barn. 1t is like filing
ones system with an antitoxin before
going into a fever-plagued country.
One is immune to winter after this,
provided he stays to bake his apples
in his own wood fire. One works HIM
self into a glow with all his digging,
and picking and piling that lasts until
warm weather comes again; and along
with this harvest glow comes stealing
over him the after-harvest peace. It
is the serenity of Indian summer, the
mood of the after-harvest season,
upon him-upon him and his fields
and woods.-Dallas Lore Sharp, in
Atlantic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Women Growing Younger.

No women need now regard herself
as passee at so. Ripened charms
should be at their meridian. Society,
so far from RELOCATING her to the back
ground, ignores the flight of years in a
belle of past conquests. In the words
Of competent London observer,
there has been complete disappear
ance of the middle-aged woman. The
social world seems now to be made up
Of girls, young married woman and
Old ladies who are great-grandmoth-
ers. Every one has bright eyes, a
flower face and slender form, and
every one IL dressed to perfection, the
same style suiting equally well the
girl of IS and her mother"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Easy to Swallow Raw Euu,

Raw eggs are bloodmakers and may
be taken in any way one wishes. The
simplest method of getting them down
is to take a shallow wine glass, put
in a drop of clear lemon juice and
then break the egg in this, taking care
not to injure the yolk. Over this put
to make the egg go down easily with
one swallow. This is readily accom-
plished if the head is held back and
the contents of the glass tossed into
the back of the mouth. Eight eggs
day are none too much when one is
trying to recuperate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27
Sacriteue.

In a burst of penitence little john
ny was telling his mother what a
wicked boy he had been.
"The other day, mamma" he said,
Il found the church door unlocked.
and l went inside. There wasn't any
body there, and l."
''You didn't take anything away,
did you, SOM" she asked.
Worse than thati L"
did you mutilate the hymn books
Or play any tricks of that kind?"
80, lots worse than that, mamma"
sobbed Johnny. Il went and sat down
IN the amen corner and said: Darn
IT,"
Fortune to Child and Dog.
Romeo and Juliette are two of the
most interesting personages in Paris.
Julette is the only daughter and
Romeo the favorite dog of an eccen.
trio but very wealthy widow who died
q couple of years ago. By her will
Nine. Cleery left her fortune to be in
vested in government bonds, the In
come derived therefrom to be divided
equally between her little daughter
and her bull terrier Romeo. Romeo
and Juliette, fortunately, are the
greatest friends, the dog invariably
taking his meals at his little mistress
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-02-27

Lincoln high school were entertained
by Misses Brahany and Riggs last Sat
urday afternoon at a Literary party
Books. old and new, became living
things. in the persons of the junior
senior girls. Some of them were:
"An old Fashioned Girl, +" The Lady
of Decorations, a Bow of Orange
Ribbon, Little Red Riding Hood.
etc.
Ice cream and cakes were served after
several bookish games had been
played. Each cake contained some
little trinket to signify each ones
fortune
Dancing was INDUCED in till half
past seven, and everyone says they
had fine time.