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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
CHEESE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Many of Immense Size Have Been
Sent as Presents to Chief
Executives.

Every president receives numberless
notwithstanding it is given out that
gifts are not acceptable. In the old
days some of the presents sent were
Of a very odd nature. President Jack
son once got cheese four feet in di-
ameter and two feet thick, weighing
1,400 pounds, from New York
cheesemaker, who wanted to show
what he could do. This cheese gift
was an elephant on the presidents
hands, and In order to dispose of it he
held a special reception, to which the
public was invited, and every guest
not only had all the cheese he wanted
to eat on the spot, but received a hunk
to carry home. In two hours there
was nothing but the rind left to tell
the story.
President Jefferson was also the re-
c1pient OF an historic cheese, brought
to him all the way from Massachusetts
by slx-horse team. On the wagon
was the legend: The Greatest Cheese
In America, for the Greatest Man in
America" Jefferson, however, was
noted for his simplicity" and he
thought it was opposed to good govern
ment for president to receive gifts
from anyone, so he insisted on pay
ing the cost of the cheese, which was
about 5000, and this cheese lasted all
winter
President Van Buren,, too. had
monster cheese given to him. He dis
tributed 1t at reception and the
guests in their excitement split lot
of crumbs on the carpet and then
trampled them in, causing so much
damage that unlimited cheese at the
White House functions was tabooed
from that time forth The rule now Is
that nothing in the eating line espe-
cially will be received by the presi-
dent from those unknown.-The Path
finder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Notice oil Sale on Foreclosure

STATE OF WISCONSIN, WOOD COUNTY-In
Circuit Court.
FL Wood, plaintiff; VS.. Christine Ander-
sen, Andrew Andersen and RaSmuS Ander-
sen, 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 said court on the
18th daY of October, 1908 (mOre than one ID
year having elapsed since the date of said
Judgment and no part thereof having been
paid. I, the undersigned, Michael Griffin
sheriff of the said Wood County, VIII on the
18th day of January, 1910, at one o'clock in
theafternOon on that day at the north or front
door of the court house in the city, Grand
Rapids in said County offer for sale and sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for
cash all OF the following described real
estate and premises situated, lying and be-
ing in said Wood County, and being the
property described in said Judgment of fore
closure, to-wit:-The southwest quarter of
the northeast quarter and the northwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of Section
No. twenty-Six (26) in Township No. twenty
four ga north of Range No. two 81 east,
together with all the privileges and appur-
tenances TO the same belonging.
Dated at Grand Rapids, Wood County,
Wisconsin, this 9th day of December, 1909.
Michael Griffin,
Sheriff, Wood County, Wisconsin.
Geo. L. Williams, Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication Dec. 8. last January 49,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
SIMPLY MEANS OF HAPPINESS
Dissertation on Wisdom Suggested by
Sentence from Works of
Thomas Carlyle.

Here is little sentence from Car
lyle: Being miserable he has been
unWlse." So it is something to be
wise, and what is wisdom? The Bible
says 1t is that which comes down from
ABOVE. 1t is spirit that gets into
ones life; it is temper, disposition,
an inclination that presides over ones
conduct, and directs it toward what is
pure and true 1t is more of discern
ment than knowledge; more Of emo
ton than of thought. It is a phase
OF faith which believes in the right of
things. It grows out of faith in the
final triumph of goodness and tries to
help it along.
But aside from the generality of ex-
preston it reaches into every little
corner and crevice of life and makes
people happy. Wisdom is simply par
alleling Gods law and when this Is
not done, then misery enters. This
IS an everyday fact. People who
growl, curse, hate, cheat, revile, and
loaf away their lives are not wise.
People who are always searching for
happiness are not wise, for the end
OF their searching will be misery.
Wisdom is force in the soul that
keeps doing something for oneself or
for others. 1t is not opinion, it is the
upward bent of the soul. It is the
condition Of happiness and all the
wealth, power, or knowledge in the
world cannot make it otherwise-Ohio
State Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
MEANT TO HAVE HIs LIFE
Vicious Attack by Australian Natives
on Trespassers in Their
Country.

Men who venture into the interior
or northern Australia are likely to
meet with adventures at the hands of
hostile natives. Here Is a matter-of-
fact yarn concerning one James Ru-
nine Mcpherson, engaged in pearl
Smelling operations: On July Is he
was fishing for trepang (sea cucum-
Der or sea slug) at the mouth Of the
Liverpool river. He landed in a din
gey on the east bank of the river,
where bush smokehouse for the cur
Ing OF trepang had been erected He
dispatched a Malay with canoes and
working natives to gather trepang
around distant point, while two ma
tfves who padded the dinged went off
to the .lugger,zwhich was anchored
more than mile out, with load of
fresh water. He remained at the
smokehouse with three old Junction
Bay natives. who assisted him In ma
nipulattng the trepang. At o'clock
In the afternoon, feeling tired, he was
reclining on the floor of the smoke
house, with a rife across his knees,
when he was startled by the loud
swish1ng sound Of several spears pass
ing through the bough-covered inclos-
ure.
Mcpherson Immediately rushed out
and saw seven or eight Liverpool river
natives at the back of the smokehouse
with spears shipped and with murder
In their faces. Another shower of
spears fell around him and he retired
toward the waters edge and as he
lodged one another long barbed spear
struck him In the hip. He felt ne
more, he says, than a burning twinge
from the wound at the moment and
instantly broke 1t OF with his hand.
leaving about eight inches Of the
barbed point buried In the neshy part
OF his hip. The natives at this time
were about forty yards away, having
never shifted from their first point Of
attack near some thick bushes.
The man who had wounded McPher-
son was In the act Of throwing another
spear when Mcpherson shot and hit
him. He then emptied his revolver at
his assailants, who Immediately disap-
peared In the adjacent scrub Hear
Ing shots, the two DAILY river natives
came hurrying ashore with the dingey.
and conveyed Mcpherson to his boat,
where he subsequently succeeded him
self in tearing the barbed spearhead
from the wound. Several barbs
shaped like fishhooks were broken off
In the process and remained in the
wound.
The following day Mcpherson shift
ed his trepang gear and crew to an
other part of the coast and started
for Palmerston to report the matter
and have the wound attended to.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
No Weddings, No BuriaIs, No Fees

No Weddings, No BuriaIs, No Fees.
Because there are mo funerals, no
more marriages and no more baby
boys born" in the bailiwick of Max
Friedman, sexton Of a little synagogue
In Madison street, he will escape pay
ing anything toward the support OF
his 12-year-old son, Max, who was re-
Gently committed to the Jewish Pro-
tectory's by Justice Hoyt in the chill
dren's court.
What is your business ?" asked the
judge.
Schammes of a synagogue" came
the answer, but an interpreter had to
explain that scammes means, In Eng
lish, sexton.
How much do you earn?"
Eight dollars and thirty three cents
month"
rs that all?" persisted the Justice.
observing that the father is an able
bodied, prosperous looking citizen.
Yes, that's ALL replied Friedman.
When l attend chasene (wedding)
| get 81, but our people don't marry
any more.
When l attend a lenaya (funeraD
l get from 81 to So, but our people
don't die any more"
That's enough" interrupted the
justice, you win l commit the boy
and you need not pay anything
toward his support New York
World
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
CoaIinq in Modern Navy.

You know what coaling in a modern
navy is: A game, fray, like football
or target practice, between ship and
ship, between nation and nation. Every
man-o-war gang that handles the
hoists and coal bags knows the best
loads of the channel feet, of the Pa.
cifc fleet, just as a baseball fan"
keeps batting averages on the tip of
his tongue. Making a sporting con-
test of coaling, with crew wagering
against crew, is the only mitigation of
the anniversary Of the landing of the
first collier, says Everybody's Maya
zine. All doors are locked, all air.
ports closed, so that even the ward
room country stiles, and still the
black dust pollutes your bunk. No
watch officer can get shore leave; all
don dungarees and pitch in to rig the
"whips'-to weigh and tally every
load; to run them to the matches with
their own hands thus boosting along
the bluejackets' ambition
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Notice Of AppIi cation for Final Settlement

WOOD COUNTY CoURT-In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Ann Parrish,
deceased.
On reading and filing the application of
Ethel S. Parrish Administrative o the estate
of Ann Parrish, deceased, representing
among other things that she has fully adj
minister ed the said estate, and praying that
a time and place be fixed for examining and
allowing her account of her administration,
and that the residue Of the said estate be as
signed 20 such persons as are by law entitled
to the same;
1T Is ORDERED, That said application be
heard before this court, at a regular term
thereof to be held at the probate office, in
the city OF Grand Rapids on the first Tuesday
of February 1910, at 10 O'Clock a. m.
AND IT Is FURTHER ORDERED, That notice
of the time and place of examining and
allowing said account and of assigning the
residue of said estate, be given to all persons
interested, by publication of copy of this
order, for three successive weeks, in the
WOOD COUNTY REPORTER, a newspaper pub
Iished in said county, before the day fixed
for said hearing
Dated this 2Sth day of December 1909.
BY the Court,
W. j. Conway,
County Judge.
First publication Dec. 80, last Jan. 13J
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
The Woman's Fault,

"You told me-" she sadly said,
when you persuaded me to elope
with you that you would never per
nit anything to come between US
that you would cherish my love all
your days and that I should never
have cause to regret for 8 moment
that I had placed my happiness in
your keeping"
e"Oh, well, confound it," he replied,
whats the use Of harping on that
now? If you hadn't kept a lot of your
faults hidden from ne I'd never have
fallen in love with you or wanted you
to elope, SO you have only yourself to
blame"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
WOULD NOT DENY IDENTITY
Admission Of Charges, However, Might
Have Been Made in More Diqni-
fled Manner

A characteristic figure In the poll
tics of the middle west once ran for
congress from the state of Ohio His
free and easy manners made him pop
ular with the boys, but his life had
not been irreproachable, and from
many quarters came evidence of oppo-
sition. This opposition crystallized
finally at meeting of the Ministers
league Of the district, and a delegation
was sent to ascertain beyond question
the truth Or falsity of the charges
against him.
Though the object of their visit was
known to the candidate, he received
the ministers with a hearty greeting,
and stood before them smiling, while
their chairman, man of serious mien,
unburdened himself Of the questions
previously agreed on.
"Mr. Blank" said the chairman, unc-
tiously, "are you the man who has
been seen frequenting race tracks?
Are you the man famous in this COM
munity for your devotion to games of
chance played for money? Mr. Blank,
are you the man whose notorious i'm
morality has for years been a blot
upon this town and shame, to all it's
honest citizens? Are you the man we
have described, Mr.. Blank?"
The statesman's eye twinkled as the
catechism was concluded.
Gentlemen" he said, returning to
courteous gravity. Il am that identi-
cal son of a sea cook"
Needless to say, in spite Of con-
tinued opposition, the popular favorite
was overwhelmingly returned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Champagne,

1t Is said that when Sir Andrew
Clark, Mr.. Gladstone's physician, rec
commended patient to drink wine. the
latter expressed some surprise. say
ing he thought Sir Andrew was a tenn
perance doctor, to which Sir Andrew
Clark replied: ooh, wine does some
times help you to get through work;
for instance, have often 20 letters to
answer after dinner, and a pint of
champagne is a great help" Indeed, .
said the patient, does a pint of cham
payne really help you to answer the
20 letters?" mol MOI" said Sir An.
drew, but when I've had pint of
champagne, don't care a rap whether
! answer them or mott"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Couldn't See It That Way.

The nine-year-old daughter of a
Richmond lady was endeavoring to
teach the dusky offspring of the cook
the letters of the alphabet. Teeny had
learned the first two, but couldn't re-
member the letter &C."
Don't you see with your eyes?" de-
manded the youthful tutor. Cant you
remember the word see?''
"Yassum,' said Teeny.
Five minutes later Teeny again be-
gun bravely. "a, B." and there she
stopped.
What do you dc with your eyes,
Teeny?" demanded her instructor.
/ sleeps wifi en- said Teeny.-
Sunday Magazine of the Milwaukee
Sentinel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Thirty-Second Passe nuer,

The thirty-second passenger boarded
the street car and paid his fare. When
the conductor rang up this fare, the
new passenger peered up at the fare
register a moment, then turned to the
man next to him:
did We see phwat he did,"
mo; what?"
I'D 80 cints!" Sunday Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
LEGALS.

-ooD County CoURT-In Probate

WOOD Country CoURT-In Probate.
STATE OF WISCONSIN. &c
WOOD COUNTY 90
In the matter Of the last Will and testament
of James r. Miller, deceased.
WHEREAS, An instrument in writing, pur-
porting to be the last will and testament of
James r. Miller, deceased late of the town
of Grand Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin,
has been filed in this office;
AND WHEREAS, Application has been made
by B. M. Vaughan praying that the same be
proven and admitted to probate, according
to the laws of this state, and that letters
testamentary be granted thereon according
to law;
IT Is ORDERED, That said application be
heard before me, at the probate office, in the
city of Grand Rapids in said Wood County,
Wisconsin, on the 18th day of January. A. D.
1910, at 10 o'clock A. M.
AND 1T Is FURTHER ORDERED, That notice
of the time and place appointed for hearing
said application be given to all persons in
terested, by publishing a copy of this order
for three weeks successfully, in the WOOD
COUNTY REPORTER, newspaper printed in
said county, previous to said hearing.
Dated, Dec. 18th 1909.
By the Court, ---.-.-s 49,
w. j. Conway,
County Judge.
B. M. Vaughan, Attorney for petitioner.
First publication Dec. is, last Dec 3d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Among the kitchen supplies keen

Among the kitchen supplies keep
on hand a pint bottle filed with
saturated solution Of exalic acid. Ten
cents worth of acid with enough wa
ter to nearly I'LL the bottle usually
makes a saturated solution It will
be found useful in this ready-for-use
form at all times, and particularly at
after preparing fruit and vegetables
will remove all stains. Be sure the
bottle Is well labeled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Sanctum Condolences.

Brooks" said Rivers, "can you give
me synonym for utility I've used
that word twice already"
81 suppose I can," growled Brooks,
-but what's the use?"
Use? Use? Thanks; that'lI do"
Thereupon the rattle Of the type
writer began again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Goodness & Chapman
Second St. North.

Miss Lizzie Meyer, who has been in
the city for the past two months, left
Sunday for Merrill to spend a few
days with her parents. From there
she will go to Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Mountain CLIMBING.

The king of France marched up the
hill with 10000 men.
Il wished plenty OF Witnesses" he
explained
His purpose accomplished, he forth
with marched down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Must Have Accessorie.

Must Have Accessories.
"I hear you picked up an abandoned
farm
yep"
Genuine farmer cow, are your
my smart friends won't believe II
until I have picked up some ahaa-
doned dialect"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Cloth Tops to Hoota.

The new boots for dress wear have
black patent leather vamps without
stitching and black cloth uppers. Few
colpred uppers will be worn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-12-30
Always on the Job

in our workshops. Our hands are
ever ready for work so if you should
happen to have a break down come
or send to us and we will right your
carriage wrongs in short order. We
do all kinds of repairs to all kinds
of carriages, using only the best ma
terials and employing only the most
skilled Workmen. You will find us
ready in all emergencies and our
charges are very moderate.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-26
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:. :FO|||R|..l|4!'. men
While Investigating a ii Mine ne E. Ex.
plosion Cuts Them Off
...All May Die :.

Pittsburg, JAM. 25.-While Superin-
tendent J. G. Logan and a party of
miners were investigating conditions
which had been unsatisfactory in the
coal mine of the Merchants Coal COM
pany at Boswell, Somerset county, to-
night, a gas explosion occurred which
has already cost tho life of one man
and may result in the death of dozen
more. Becaue of anticipated trouble,
the night shift was not permitted to. en-
ter the mine and, thus the lives of many
men were spared.
Supt. Logan, accompanied by. Nine
Boss George Merris, Pit Boss OHM
Cole and eleven foreigners, had begun
an investigation and were nearly a mile
back in the mine when the explosion
occurred. .~',.
Such was it's force that ten-ton
motor was turned upside down. The
mine caved in and the passage was
completely blocked with ten men back
Of the obstruction.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-26

of the Republic J who, true tofthe best
traditions of the sea, kept his ship be-
meath him as long as there was enough
of her to afford him "a foothold. And
practically all accounts agree that, aside
from the starting of an inciplent panic
among the steerage passengers on tn
Florida both ships passengers kept
their heads we'll in the face Of most try
ing circumstances. Survivors had
warm words of commentator for the
officers and men of the Florida who
worked like heroes, with their town sl1ir
in bad condition, to get the passengers
from the worse damaged Republic to
comparative safety aboard the Italia:
vessel. .'.$%>f
Eugene Lynch, one of the Republics
passenger, who was severely injured
was on the Florida when she came in.
When he was taken later to the Long
Island College hospital It was fo
that both his legs were : broken, his
right thigh fractured and that, he was
injured internally. 1t is feared he will
die. The last rites had been admins
tered to him at his request: while
was yet on board the Republic. by
Father Norris of the Trenton diocese,
another passenger. = 5.~%I.f,E+,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-26

The first of the Travel lecture series
on England, France, Switzerland, Ger
many and Greece, to be given by Chas.
w. Harris will take place this evening
at the Presbyterian church. In addition
to the stereopticon views and the lee
ture proper there will be vocal selec-
tions by Mrs. H. H. Steele and piona
selections by Karl Peterson. Lecture
begins as 80 sharp. Single admission
Is cents.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-26

CLOSING UP PRIVATE BUSINESS.
jamestown Alert: Judge Ellsworth
has been in the ndty for several
days closing up his private business
affairs, preparatory to going to Bis
marck to take up his new work on
the supreme bench. Attorney George
Thorpe will move into the office va
Gated by Judge Ellsworth, who ex-
poets to be able to leave for Bis
marck by the first of next week. r.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-26
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cause for the disaster was indicated by
a late development of the day. There
are two versions of what happened on
the bridge of the Florida when the
Republic doomed up in. front OF her
through the fog. Little could be learned
from Captain Roshini, when he was
seen on board his vessel on her ar
rival in the harbor. 49,.
According to Others who had been
on board the Florida and were brought
into port by the Baltic, however, somt--;
thing went wrong with the F1orida's
steering wheel when the collision was
imminent. One story had it that =
quartermaster h1d the wheel when tta
commander yelled for it to be jammed
to starboard !. He put it to port IN.
stead and the liners crashed into each
other. = sss,ss ;sI ss @s};@
Another version Of the story is that
the man dropped his wheel in q panic
when danger impended. Both versions
agree in saying that the commander
felled the quartermaster with an iron
spike following what be must have We.
considered the seandans recreanccy. An
injured quartermaster from the Flor
ida was brought TO port on the Baltic
today. He stoutly asserted that he was
not at the wheel when the accident hap-
pened. ..ss 4ssis
Probably not until both commanders
have made their formal statement will
the actual facts be known. Possibly the
verdict Of marine court will be needed
to determine them Fortunately there
are few cases Of questionable behavior
on the part Of anyone concerned ii the
tragedy to be probed. .5 4;
Standing out prominently on the other
hand is 1.-THE conduct Of Captain SCI.