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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
A NEW TOWN EVERY WEEK.


And New school Every school
Day.
The above caption about represents
the growth of Central Canada. The
statement was made not long since
by a railroad man who claimed to have
made the remarkable discovery that
such was the case. There is not a
district of a fair amount of settlement
in any of the three Provinces of Mani
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, but
has its school, and the railways have
stations every seven or eight miles
apart, around which group the towns,
some large and some small, but each
important to its own district. Schools
are largely maintained by public
funds and the expense of tuition is
but nominal sum.
The final returns of the grain pro-
duction for Central Canada for 1909
are now in, and the figures show that
the value of the crops to the farmers
| of that country is about S195, 900,
as compared with S120,000,000 last
year. American farmers or those who
have gone from the United States, will
| participate largely in these splendid
returns, and these comprise those who
have gone from nearly every state in
the Union
One of the many proofs that might
| be put forward showing the immense
wealth that comes to the farmers Of
| n 10 5o L0
| that has been spent during the past
| two or three months by the farmers
who have for the time being ceased
| worrying over the reaper and the
| thresher, and are taking to enjoying
| themselves for two or three months.
1t is said that $4,000. people of these
| Western Provinces spent the holiday
| season visiting their old homes. Most
| Of these passengers paid forty and
| some forty-fve dollars for the round
| trip. Some went to Great Britain,
some to the Continent, others to their
| old homes in Eastern Canada, and
many thousands went to visit their
| friends in the States. The amount
| paid alone in transportation would be
| upwards of two million dollars. Some
make the trip every year. 1t need not
be asked, Can they afford it?" With
crops yielding them a profit of $40 to
| $25 per acre, and some having as
much as twelve hundred or more
acres, the question is answered. The
| Canadian government agents at differ
ent points in the States, report that
! they have interviewed a great many of
| those who are now visiting friends in
the different States and they all ex-
press themselves as well satisfied, and
promise to take some of their friends
back with them. There is still a lot
of free homestead land in splendid
districts, and other lands can be pur
chased at a reasonable price from rail
way and land companies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
FARMS SOAR IN VALUE
Census Puts Increase in the United
States Since 1900 at "A
Per Cent.
THE TOTAL AT s3o,oo0,OOo,ooo
Agricultural Lands Held Worth
More Than All Rest of Coun-
try Put Together.

The United States has $30,000,GOO,-
buildings, machinery and live stock,
according to a census the results OF
which have just been made public IN
the Orange Judd Farmer. From 1000
600 in 1850 the number Of farms has
increased to nearly 100000 in 1910,
and the report adds: mo such in
crease in agricultural land values was
ever known before in the history OF
the world in any country. The value
of farms in. the United States has in
creased A per cent more than in 1900,
the figures of that year showing an
increase of % per cent over the previ-
Gus decade"
The most remarkable figures pre-
scented show that the western states,
which includes New Mexico, Colorado,
Wyoming, Montana and other states,
has within the last ten years shown
an increase in the number of farms
of 100 per cent At the same time
the value has increased SO per cent
and the products I'll per cent.
Values of farms in the south cen
trail states have increased So per cent
and up in the north central states, 43
per cent In the north Atlantic states
there has been an increase in value of
10 per cent, and in the south Atlantic
states an increase of 81 per cent. Of
the north central states the report
says:
Observe, however, the stupendous
totals of farm values in the north
central states, including Ohio, India
ma, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska
and Kansas. This vast group has
gained almost an even $5,OOO,OOO, 900
in the fair worth of its farms COM
pared to ten years ago.
"Observe further the remarkable
fact that this gain represents fully
half the total gain in agricultural
values for the whole country during
the decade just closed Also the total
of value for these farm lands exceeds
the total of all the rest of the coun-
try put together"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE

A series of woman suffrage meetings
for negroes is the latest development
of the suffrage crusade in New York
City.
President Taft sent to the Senate the
nomination of William P. Warner as
United States marshal for the district
of Nebraska.
Andy H. Jones, cashier, charged with
wrecking the First National Bank at
Rugby, n. D., was found guilty in fed
eral court at Fargo, n. D.
Three men were killed when nitro
glycerin magazine at Brandon's Ferry,
Pa, exploded The dead are Jacob
Greene, Peter Jennings and John Jen-
nings.
The American museum of natural
history is in the market for about 10,-
600 insects It plans to make a collec-
ton representing every species of in
sect found within fifty miles of New
York City.
The grand jury at St Louis dropped
its investigation of the American Cred
it Indemnity Company suspected OF
having made false returns to the State
Insurance Commissioner.
Professor William Robertson, aged
so, head Of the Minnesota agricultural
branch school at Crookston, was found
dead in bed on a Great Northern train.
at st. Paul. He died of heart disease.
As q result of a confession of Hen
ry Smith, Governor Swanson of Vir-
GINA will issue a respite of sixty days
to the three other negroes condemned
with Smith to death for the killing of
Walter F. Schultz, Chicago artist, on
March last.
Max Pam of Chica go has offered
prize of 81 900 to the students of Notre
Dame University for the best thesis
dealing with the subject of religion in
education.
The New York Geological Society
win spend nearly 100000 in a world
wide study of pheasants An expedi-
ton headed by Prof Beebe will veoit
England, China, India, Borneo and 9TH
er countries.
D. NJ. Vining. recently suspended as
superintendent Of the Atlanta, Ga. city
stockade, and Pet Cornet, a guard
there, were found guilty on charges OF
assault and battery on Floyd Green,
negro convict. Sentence was deferred
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

Colombia has Cancelled its emerald
mining concession to a London and
New York syndicate. 1t is said French
and Spanish companies wish to COM
pete in the bidding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu-
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube When
this tube is infamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh
which is nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
BREAKS A COLD IN A DAY
And Cures Any Cough That Is Cura-
phrrinfnnsa

And Cures Any Cough That Is Cura-
bIe-Noted Physicians Formula.
This is said to be the most effective
remedy for coughs and colds known to
science. Two ounces Glycerine, half
ounce Concentrated Pine; put these
into half a pint of good whisky and
use in doses of teaspoonfuI to a table
spoonful every four hours. Shake bot
tie well each time" Any druggist has
these ingredients in stock or will
quickly get them from his wholesale
house. The Concentrated Pine is a
special pine product and comes only
in half ounce walls each enclosed in
an air-tight case. But be sure it is
labeled Concentrated" This formula
cured hundreds here last winter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
GOOD TIMES IN SWISS JAIL.
Life of Convicts in Some Penal In
stfturiOnS Seems EnviabIe

| Life of Convicts in Some Penal In
situations Seems EnviabIe.
Compared with the barbarous treat
ment melted out to convicts in Russian
| penal establishments, the prison life
in certain Swiss jails is one long
! drawn-out dream of happiness, a New
York Suns correspondent says. AL
| though the famous comic opera jail at
Thorburg had to be suppressed owing
to the ridicuIe leveled at it, a similar
| institution at Sarnen, in the canton
of Oswald. survives to extend a gener-
| Gus hospitality to those criminals who
are so fortunate as to gain admittance
within it's doors.
A correspondent was passing
| through Sarnen when he saw a num-
Der of men, dressed in dark clothes
with white stripes, walking about the
village. smoking and joking. Others
| were seated in a cafe and some were
working in a leisurely manner carry
ing bricks for the construction of a
| new building.
To his establishment the correspond
| ent found that the men were convicts
from the cantonal prison close by.
| These convicts are permitted to leave
! the prison early in the morning and
| find work around Sarnen or walk
about the country until nightfall,
when they return of their own accord
| to the prison.
They are unaccompanied by wardens
| and there is nothing to prevent their
| escaping. but they are far too COM
| Portable to think of relinquishing their
quarters, for they have as much lib
| erty as other men and are, moreover,
fed and lodged for nothing.
| The money earned by those conyicts
Who choose to work can be spent as
they like. One convict, who is en-
ployed as a gardener by local magis-
tratn, sends his monthly salary to his
wife and children.
Two or three convicts escaped some
weeks ago. but they eventually return
| ed to the prison in a half-f2mished
condition and, after being severely
reprimanded, they were allowed tC re.
| turn to their apartments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

Lady Anne Lindsay, the author of
the old poem, Aud Robin Gray" was
not only a delightful conversationalist
but she was great story. teller.
This gift made her not only well
come guest abroad, but a valuable
member of the home circle, for it is
related in "A Group of Scottish Wo-
men" that at dinner party which she
was giving to some friends an old
man servant caused some amusement
by saying in a perfectly audible under
tone:
MY lady, you must tell. another
story The second course won't be
ready for five minutes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

the bearing down l recommended it
to some friends and two of them have
been greatly benefited by it. Mrs.
MAE MCKNIeHT, Oronogo, Mo.
Another Grateful Woman.
ST. Louis, Mo. ~ was bothered
terribly with female weakness and
had backache, bearing down pains and
pains in lower parts. / began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound regularly and used the SanatiYe
Wash and now have no more troubles
that way" Mrs. AL. HERzoG, 6722
Prescott Ave, st. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
fiammation, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors. Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, indigestion, dizziness. and ner-
vous prOstration. 1t costs but trife
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
A Matter of Diction.

In all its phases of development, Ian
guage has its niceties, and the fine
shadings in the meaning of words cur
rent in different communities, between
which at first glance there might seem
to be little choice, are sometimes well
worth consideration.
No one gifted with even a modicum Of
sympathetic imagination could fail to
be touched by this plant from hard
working, motherly woman, born and
bred on a farm in one part of Mis-
souri,, and now summoned by destiny
to prepare the meals of a household of
miners in another section of the same
state.
Here 1 stand the whole day
through" she said, sadly, boiling and
sweating over the hot stove, trying to
fix up something tasty to fill up the
stomachs of a lot O. men-folks, and
then they up and call my good grub
chucHm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
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%@~OoNNO~

The Piano and Organ Workers I'm
ion is voting on a referendum proposal
to reduce the initiation fee from SIS to
81.
Last year the employees of the North
British Locomotive Company, Polma-
die, Scotland, gave over $3.50 to local
charities.
The Seamen's International Union
has increased it's membership from four
thousand to twenty thousand in ten
years.
Last year leather workers on horse
goods made a gain of ten new locals
and increased the general membership
by two thousand
The Frisco Molders' Union, with it's
membership of nearly nine hundred,
has voted to affiliate with the State
Federation of Labor.
Three hundred and seventy five
teachers in Spokane's grade schools are
ready to begin a campaign for twelve
months salary, instead of nine months,
| as at present. They will also ask for
an increase of 10 per cent.
The full result of the ballot of the
Lancashire cotton operatives on the
question of limiting the working hours
I'd forty eight a week has been made
public. All sections voted. The aggre-
gate figures are 107, 554 for the pro-
posal 1902 against, and 1888 neu-
trail
The San Francisco district council
of painters has authorized committee
to have a monument erected in the
painters plot in Mt. OIivet Cemetery.
The Boston (Mass.) building trades
crafts have been notified that the even
ing industrial school, under the aus
pices of the city of Boston, will start a
class on plan reading and estimating.
Special work is to be carried on in
the Pacific coast States by representa-
tives of the International Alliance of
Brick, Tile and Terra Gotta Workers
for the purpose of increasing the gen
eraI membership this year.
Minneapolis (Minn.) printers have
been devoting considerable attention
to the work of creating a greater de-
mand for printing bearing the union
label. Contests are held at intervals
during the year, and special label
COIuulIll0e Is COnS DGnQlng Its
energies in the interest of the label.
The Anti-Asiatic League has receiv-
ed a letter from Battersea, New Zea-
land, asking for information and all lit
erature as to the operations of the
league in combating the japanese, as it
is the intention to bring the matter
more fully to the attention of the peo-
pie of New Zealand.
Many of the Hebrews of the eastern
section OF Brooklyn, N Y, engaged
in the boot and shoe trade have recent
Iy become organized and are desirous
of utilization with other shoe workers
in the organized labor movement
The Scandinavian-Amer bank
has sold the Alaska building in Seattle,
the largest office building in the Pa
cif1c Northwest, to Mrs. John Evans
of Boston for s1,500,000.
Colombia has cancelled its emerald
mining concession to a London and
New York syndicate. 1t is said French
and Spanish companies wish to COM
pete in the bidding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

There are reasonable women in
New York, doubtless" said a police
captain, but not many of them do
business with our department.
"A woman from upper Fifth avenue
telephoned US recently. Had lost a
pair of false teeth between the Plaza
Hotel and the Opera House. Wanted
us to find them and send them to her
under seal. Yet when I asked for her
name and address she berated me like
pickpocket. Said I wanted to get
her name in the papers, or be paid to
keep it out. Then she rang off"
Surely you do not find many like
herr" was suggested.
NO." said the officer. THE most
of them are worse"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

Munyon's Paw Paw Pills coax the
liver into activity by gentle methods.
They do not scour, grippe or weaken. They
are tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves; invigorate instead of weaken.
They enrich the blood and enable the
stomach to get all the nourishment from
food that is put into 1t. These pills con-
tain no calomel; they are soothing, heal
ing and stimulating. For sale by all drug
gists in 10c and Csc sizes If you need
medical advice. write Munyon's Doctors.
They will advise to the best of their abil-
ity absolutely free of Charge. MUM
HON'S, sd and Jefferson SITS, Phil
ndelphia, Pa.
Munyon's Cold Remedy cures a cold in
one day. Price Csc. Munyon's Rheuma-
tism Remedy relieves in few hours and
cures in few days. Price Csc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
FATE OF A SCHOOL ORGAN.
School Teacher Tears It to Pieces
Pedals Used to Whip Boys.

Bullskin township, a mountain COM
munity near Mount Pleasant, Pa, is
torn up over the arrest of its school
master, James S. Wingrove, charged
with malicious destruction of school
property. Wingrove's pupils testified
that he wrenched the back from the
organ and tore out the 'innards,"
using the case for a book shelf. Bert
Willtrout, one of the pupils, when
asked what was done with the pedals,
said "he used them to lick us and I
was one of the boys who felt EN-"
Wingrove was held for trial under a
5000 bond.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
STRAIGHTFORWARD.

He-You mustn't believe every beg
gar who comes to your door. She
But this was no common beggar. He
was a sea captain who had lost every
thing in a shipwreck. He-How do
you know he was? She-He told a
straightforward story about how his
ship went to pieces on the coast of
Switzerland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
Distcmper

In all its forms, among all ages of
horses and dogs, cured and others in
the same stable prevented from having
the disease with Spohn's Distemper
Cure Every bottle guaranteed. Over
100000 bottles sold last year. $50 and
$1O0 Good druggists, or send to man
ufacturers. Agents wanted. Write for
free book Spohn Med. Co., Spec. Con-
tagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
TO CURE RHEUMATISM.
Prescription That Cured HundredT
Since Published Here.

"One ounce Syrup of Sarsaparilla
Compound; one ounce TOris Com
pound; add these to half pint OF
good whisky. Take tablespoonful
before each meal and at bed time;
shake the bottle well each time"
Any druggist has these ingredients
or will quickly get them from his
wholesale house. Good results are felt
from this treatment after the first few
doses, but it should be continued un
til cured. This also acts as a system
builder, eventually restoring strength
and vitality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

Write Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago.
for 48-page illustrated Eye Book Free.
Write all about Your Eye Trouble and
they will advise as 10 the Proper Appli-
cation Of the Murine Eye Remedies in
Your Special Case. Your Druggist will
tell you that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes,
Strengthens Weak Eyes, Doesn't Smart
Soothes Eye Pain, and sells for soc. Try
It in Your Eyes and in Baby's Eyes for
ScaIy Eyelids and GranuIation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
Fortunes of War.

But, Senator" asked the reporter,
who is to pay the cost of placing the
country on a complete war footing and
keeping it there?'
MY dear boy" said Senator Lots
mum, its a tossup between our pos
terity and the poster:+y of some Euro
pean or Asiatic power, and really
doesn't interest us. Try one of these
imported perfectos"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
Missing.

Our son doesn't get his brains from
you says Mr.. Jawback.
NO" answers Mrs. Jawback, with
meaning. 81 confess he must have got
his brains from you. At least some
body got yours if you ever had any
Cleveland Leader
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

A couple of men got into a warm ar
gument and finally came to blows.
After the fracas a spectator remarked:
"A soft answer turneth away wrath,
and vice versa. We should all keep
polite tongues in our heads. Only last
night I heard very fat man say with
a loud laugh to a bow-legged friend:
Jim, old man, you look as if you'd
been riding a barrett
And you snapped Jim sourly,
look as if you'd swallowed one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
Fall STYLES in Languages.

My little German maid said to me
one day: Susie Jones is going to
start to high school tomorrow, and
she asked me whether she should take
German or Latin" What did you tell
herr" 1 asked well, you know" re
piled Mary, Latin is going out; they
don't talk that much any more, so
told her I would take German. Sue
cess Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

What's all this talk about boycott
ting Dick Bannerman?"
Haven't you heard? He was seen
kissing the cook"
The cookI Why, good gracious,
man, Dicks wife does her own cook
ing
Does she? didn't know that. But
that doesn't let him out"
why not?"
In our set it is considered very
bad form for gentlemen to kiss their
wives. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
Catching On.

'Euphorbia," he groaned, after all
these years of devotion on my part are
you going to close the door of hope in
my face?"
Yes, Algy," she said; but I'll open
it when you-er-ring
Algy understood. He brought a soli-
taire the next time he came.-Chicago
Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
A Matter of Necessity.

Papa, why don't you close your store
on Christmas?'
why child. mines cigar store.
People have got to have their smokes
on Christmas. same as any other day"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27
At the Night School.

Teacher-You have heard, 1 presume,
of the fourth estate" Have you any
idea what it is?
Shaggy Haired PupiI-Yes, sir: it's
a quarter section of land
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

pains, lameness and
stiffness, dizziness.
headaches, tired feel
ing, urinary troubles.
Doan's Kidney Pills
cure the cause.
Nathan R. Hill
Stryker, Ohio, says:
Kidney troubles pull
ed me down until ]
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

Nn hAAAN 1IhH' was skin and bone. I
could not work and finally took to bed.
Doctors said l had gravel and advised
an operation. The secretions were
painful and sometimes almost stopped.
Doan's Kidney Pills brought relief
and finally a cure
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.