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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
VAST HERDS OF TURTLES

Concerning the great turtles of the
southwest Indian ocean a traveller
says: The chelonian, or green turtle
(Chelone mydas), is an animal of con-
siderable economic Importance to the
atoll, for It still occurs in the vast
hcsdes which are so often described by
eafly Voyagers in the tropics. There
appear to be two distinct groups-one
resident and small in numbers, the 9th
er migratory and visiting the atoll to
breed in numbers impossible to es-
innate.
The latter arrives in December, and
from then to April the sea seems alive
with turtles. The females seek the
small sand beaches and then ascend
them with the rising tide, pushing
themselves laboriously above high tide
mark. Holes are then dug In the sand
by means of the fore fippers IN
til a satisfactory enc is obtained
and the eggs, 200 in number, are bur-
led, the turtle returns to sea imme-
diately.
After 40 days the eggs hatch. al
most simultaneously, and the young
turtles dig their way up out of the
sand and go down to the sea in a long
procession, in the course Of which
they offer an easy prey to their en-
emtes, the frigate birds and herons.
Once in the sea sharks and other large
fish eat them, and only ten per cent
reach maturity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
RURAL LIBRARIES is NOW AIM
University School and Regents Co.
operate in Plan for State Wide
Extension Work.

Madison.-The library school of the
University of Wisconsin is seeking to
enlarge the circle of it's influence by
putting free libraries in the smaller
rural communities wherever it is found
that books are needed or will be well
coined.
This extension of the library work
is made possible partly through a re-
cent action of the regents of the uni
yersity in setting aside $500 to be
used by the library school. The Iegis-
lature of 1909 authorized the regents
to cooperate the school in pioneer
work and the name of the school was
changed from Wisconsin library school
to the library school of the university.
1t is the plan of those in charge to
send into communities wherever it is
thought interest may be awakened
small libraries of from thirty-five to
fifty standard books, with an addition
of several books printed in a foreign
language, selected as the population of
the community may desire These
books may be left for six months at
some convenient center and exchanged
from time to time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
PROTECT WISCONSIN HERDS
Authorities to Quarantine All Cattle
Shipped Into State Without a
Certificate of Health.

Aiadison.-The state veterinary de
partment and live stock sanitary board
have taken action to deterine the con
dition Of cattle that are being shipped
into this state from the Dakotas, where
a prolonged drouth destroyed pastur-
age and feeding facilities and caused
the cattle raisers to sell their stock at
q low figure
During ten days it is estimated that
at least 1000 head of cattle have come
into the state from Dakota. bringing
with them, it is said, very probable
chances of contamination to the Bad
ger herds with maladies prevalent
among western cattle.
As a protection to the farmers in
the state who have been struggling for
the past decade to purify their herds,
the live stock sanitary board. through
Dr. \. II. Hartwig. veterinarian, has
Quarantined all cattle coming into the
state without a certificate of health
ana win compel them to undergo a
physical and tuberculin test.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
EATING Beyond Relish.

Have you ever kept on eating candy
after the pleasure in 1t has all gone
and the taste has actually become IN
pleasant? Herbert w. Fishes con-
fesses that he has done so, in an ar
ticle discussing food in Worlds Work.
And he gives a theory for this very
common morbid freak.
81 believe" ne says, that physioI-
ogy and psychology both have one ex-
PLANTATION to offer, and that is mem
DRY. Even as violent image will
persist on the retina of the eye, so
the memory of the initial acute pleas
ure of the first CONNECTION is stronger
than the dull sense Of present safety.
And in the name of that memory we
go on eating"
This is said in objection to using
sugar so freely IN foods that it is too
easy of access and does not have to
be obtained by dint of honest chewing
to get it out of the heart of foods.
He advises, in the interest of modera-
ton, that sliced banana or sweet ap-
pie sauce be occasionally used with
cereals instead of unmitigated sugar,
and, for that matter, the more gen,
eral use Of fruit for its own sake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
Aoe of SImnI;ci+v

This is a period of studied sim
plicity in dress which does not imply
that dress Is any the less costly mere
ly that we see no beauty in elabora-
ton or superfuity, and display of
pretty tendency to wear wreaths Of
wild flowers on our hats instead of
plumes and roses.
Incidentally, no more striking proof
can be furnished of an artificial age
than love OF simplicity. In Charles
IFS day, ne fair ladies posed as
shepherdesses, and tried to be the
heroines of the pastorals, though
never, taken as whole. was society
less near to nature. The Roman no.
bflity believed in a return to the prim-
tive life, while indulging in the great
est luxury. The people who are real
ly poor cherish no happy illusions
about plain attire and palmer fare.
To them they are merely accompani-
ments of poverty Of which they are
ashamed since they cannot help it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
GIRL KIDNAPPED AT MADISON
SeVen-Year-OId Daughter of Laborer
Disappears During Night-Stolen
While the Family Is Asleep.

MadisOn.-Irene Lemberger, aged Z,
daughter of Martin Lemberger, a la
borer, was kidnapped from her bed dur
ing the night, according to the police
Nearly the whole force Of the Madi-
son department is working ON the case.
The child went to bed with her sis
ter and when her parents arose the
next morning the youngest child was
missing. The window had been opened
and it is believed the child was spirit
ed away
The police are completely mystified
SO far, they have discovered no clue of
any kind and parents are fully as
much at sea over the affair nor can
they attribute any motive for the
theft
The bed in which the two girls slept
was near the window, which had no
screen, and the kidnapers removed a
pane and apparently distracted the
child with ease and without awakening
the younger sister of . years, who
slept beside her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
SUED FOR STEALING CORPSE

A strange case occurred at Johns
town, Pa, recently, as result of a
dispute between two undertakers con-
corning the burial of the body of John
Vorchik. One Of the undertakers,
John Gaydos, and half a dozen friends
entered the room in which Stephen
Brady, the rival funeral manager, had
laid out the body in a casket, and
knelt about it as If in prayer When
they arose they grabbed the casket
and carried out the corpse before the
dumfounded mourners could inter
feFe. The Gaydos brigade calmly car
rled the casket to the Gaydos estab-
llshment. transferred the body to an
other casket and sent the empty one
to the Brady place. Relatives of Vor-
ch1k then went before a magistrate
and sued Gaydos for larceny of the
dead man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
CATERPILLARs STOP TRAIN

Black catcrpillars so thoroughly
creased the track" for a short South
ern Pacific train near NcCloud, Cal,
the other day, that the engine came to
dead stop three times. The engine
was drawing only one coach up the
heavy grade which leads to Sfsson.
When about a mile south of McCloud
the first hold-up was made by the
caterpfllars. The engineer was
forced to turn on the sand to make the
wheels grip the track. Immediately
upon the sand being shut off there was
another stop. This was repeated, so
the man at the throttle had to keep
the sand running until he had passed
the caterpillar belt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
THREE DEAD IN WRECK
FAST 500 LINE TRAIN STRIKES
OPEN SWITCH AT FREMONT.
Locomotive IS Demolished and Four
Cars Engineer and Two
Tramps Lose Their Lives.

F'remont.-Three men were killed
and a score injured when the 500 line
Velvet Special running at sixty
miles an hour. struck misplaced
switch here and was wrecked. The
locomotive was demolished and four
cars derailed
The dead:
Kuester, August, aged 80, North
Fond du Lac, engineer.
Two unidentified men, both tramps.
The injured:
Earl Hineson, North Fond du Lac,
fireman.
S. Fortune, tramp, Detroit, Mich.
Probably viii die
Mrs. VI. Carney, Duluth, MINI.
Fireman Earl Hineson of North
Fond du Lac was also reported killed,
but later he was found back along the
track, having been badly hurt in jump
ing His injuries will not be fatal.
By some freak of fortune the regu-
lar engineer, J. F. Zimmerman of
North Fond du Lac, had obtained leave
of absence the day before to go on a
hunting trip, and his place was being
filled by Engineer Kuester.
The other two victims Of the fatality
We're hoboes who, had been riding on
the blind baggage.
Immediately after the wreck the 500
officials made up a train at Stevens
Point and rushed it to the scene. The
injured were removed to the hospital
at Neenah.
Detectives of the road are investi-
eating the cause Of the wreck. They
suspect the switch had been tempered
with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
BOY ARRESTED AS WRECKER
Farmers Son Said to Have Con-
fessed to Tampering With Switch
Which Oeraied 500 Train.

Fond du Lac.-Leonard FAKE, aged
10, son of a farmer near Fremont, has
been arrested on a charge of tamper-
ing with the lock on the railroad
switch, causing the wreck of the Vel
vet special on the 500 line. 1t is said
the boy was angered because a sec
ton man refused him ride on a
hand car and took that way to get
revenge. According to C. NJ. Winter.
superintendent Of the Fond du Lac
division of the road, the boy has adj
mitted that he tempered with the
switch but said that he did not throw
it OPEN
Accompanied by 500 detectives and
officials Fake is said to have gone to
the scene of the wreck and to have re
hearsed his part in the switch affair.
Supt. Winter estimates the loss to
the 500 equipment as between S15.-
600 and $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
FATAL EXPLOSION IN BAKERY
Madison EstabIshment-Sid of
Building Is Torn Out.

Madison. = Michael Lindauer, a
baker, was killed and several others
slightly injured by the explosion of
a boiler in the rear of the bakery
of George w. Spencer. Several bak-
ers who were working in the front
part of the building escaped unhurt.
Lindauer's leg was blown off and
carried a distance of about twenty
feet. 1t was found in an alley. as
were also other parts of his body.
He was about so years old and leaves
wife and six children.
The explosion tore out one side of
the rear part of the building and
timbers were carried for a distance
of several blocks It's force was felt
in all parts of the city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
styrian Peasant Superstition.

A law suit for libel brought by an
Apothecary in Pollau, in Syria, against
a young peasant reveals an extraordf-
nary superstition prevalent among
the country people. They believe that
apothecaries and doctors have the
right to kill at least one man and one
woman ever year in order to make
medicines out of their bodies.
An accidental movement Of the
apothecary at Pollau, Herr Kober-
mauser, when giving medicine to a
boy named Putt led the latter to be.
lieve he was going to be killed. He
ran away, but got such a fright that
he fell i'll. The inha bitants believed
his story and boycotted the apothe-
cary, who was at length compelled to
prosecute. Putt was sentenced to
fourteen days Imprisonment, but his
parents, who had spread the story,
were acquitted on the ground that they
had acted in good faith.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14

INDIVIDUAL TESTS OF NEW LAW
PLAN OF STATE ASSOCIATION
AND OTHER INTERESTS.
FOUR SUITS TO BE BROUGHT
Public Utility Companies Join With
Water Power interests at Milwau-
kee Meeting Immediate RuI-
ing by Supreme Court,

1Iilwaukee.-At a meeting here Of
the executive committee ana attorneys
Of the Wisconsin Waterpower associa-
ton it was decided to make immediate
application to the state supreme court
to take original jurisdiction in the
suit which the association viii bring
to test the constitutionality of the
water powers law passed by the last
legislature. The association has asked
Attorney General Bancroft to bring
suit ON behalf Of the state, which was
a preliminary move. and permission
was refused.
There will be two and probably
three suits brought by separate groups
Of attorneys. The original PROPOSE
ton was to have all questions involved
included in one general bill which
would include a number of suits in
volying different angles of the new
law.
The principal question is, of course,
as to who owns the water powers. the
state or the owners of water power
rights ON the rivers of the state. How
ever the owners of rights by which
power is furnished, thus bringing the
companies under the public utility law,
came TO feel that it would be better
for them to bring a separate suit
At the close of the session it was
decided that the public utility associa-
ton should separate their interests
from those of the water power associa-
ton 50 far as bringing a separate suit
was concerned. 1t was also under
stood that the Chippewa Valley Elec-
trio Light and Power company will
also come in with another action.
1t is understood these petitions will
be presented to the Supreme court at
the same time the petition of the water
powers association is presented The
court may then permit them to inter
yene or may hold that all questions
will be covered by the main suit.
Whatever the outcome, the two as
sociations will work together, a resO-
luton to that effect being adopted by
the public utility representatives just
before they adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
BIRDS ROB OHIO FARMERS

MaTgaretta township (Ohio) farm
ers were out with guns for a pair Of
thteving b1ackbirds the other day
Fred Blair saw one of the two leav-
ing his dwelling through a window
with his razor in its mouth. The
birds, it seems, inhabit a big elm
tree in field near the outskirts of
the village Of Teemes. A search re-
covered plumber in crotch several
feet above the ground. There were
numerous spools of thread, several
thimbles, pins, needles, hatpins, small
articles OF wearing apparel, collar
buttons, a pair of scissors and two
case knives. The blackbirds saw the
posse of farmers coming and by dodg-
ing buckshot, managed to make their
escape. They are now believed to
have established new fence"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
HON TO EAT ROASTING EARS
exuoeTant and PoeticaI Instructions
for the Proper Handling of Green
Corn at the Table.

Don't cut it down and eat it with a
spoon. Don't stick silver spikes in the
end and run it as a lathe. Don't
break it into nubbins and nibble it
from between the forefnger and the
thumb. This is no dinky business It
is as big as the morning sunshine. 1t
is not just eating; it is not keeping
soul and body together. It is letting
the soul out, letting it range over
broad acres Of waving corn, that rival
the heavens in glory and extent, the
finest token of earth's richness and
prodigality anywhere seen. Catch
onto that Flaunt your fancy about in
the hmitless ocean Of sunshine and
showers, of which the roasting ear is
only wisp of the creamy spray.
This thing of tackling a roasting
ear, like a stolid mute, for the corn
itself, lowers it to the level of picking
up chips or running an errand; he is
just satisfying an appetite and might
as well eat fried onions with a case
knife. That kills hunger. 1t silences
craving. But eating green corn has
a higher mission than that. 1t puts
one as close to nature as lying in a
bed OF lilies. One cannot taste the
sunshine anywhere as when he seizes
Juicy ear of corn in his eager fists
and goes at 1t with an open counte-
nance and a happy smile, ripping OF
the rows Of sweetened dews and
dawns till his mouth and soul reek
with delight
Eat it on the cob; the whole cob;
the longer the better. Take it as ma.
ture gives it to you-its naked beauty.
in its jeweled loneliness, in its juicy
richness. Don't peck it as black
bird does a sunfower, but -evel IN
it. luxuriate II it, bite all of the tints
Of morn, the soft gales of the after
noon, the glow of the starlight, the
hymn of the sparrow, the laughing
dewdrops and the smile of the rain
tow-they are all there for the alert
soul that has a fancy above food. He
who does not see them nor feel them
is not worthy of a roasting ear.
But the main thing is the reckless
ness in the eating it, the joyous aban-
don in cleaying off the pearly rich
ness, the getting right down into the
glory of the act, mindless of napkin,
finger bowls or who is looking. A
dilletante cannot any more eat corn
on the cob than he can skin a cat He
measures his acts by a sitting pro-
priety and not by the bread light of
the soul. Dear reader, Join the soul
and eat corn like a sparrow flies to
heaven-with song on your mouth.
Chambers Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
PREDICTS HIS OWN DEATH

Lennon Freeman, aged so, OF
Stahlstown, Pa, who died recently,
predicted almost to a minute the hour
OF his death. He was visited on a
Monday by his friend, James Thomp-
son. wealthy retired farmer. Free
man was suffering slightly from the
heat, and he astounded Thompson by
directing him to witness his brief
viii, which he made in the presence
Of Thompson. Then he said:
''Old friend, we have had good
times together. My end is coming.
At II o'clock Thursday night I shall
be dead. Tomorrow morning you go
to Elmer Miller, the undertaken. No
tify him l shall be dead that evening.
Tell him also to see me in the morn
ing for orders as to my casket and
interment I want only the best"
Thompson, skeptical as to the predic-
ton, did as he was ordered, and the
undertaken received his Instructions.
On the Thursday evening a few mih-
utes before II O'CLOCK Freeman died
from heart failure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
$3.50, 900 FIRE AT KEWASKUM
Flames Destroy Big Malt House and
Elevator and Threaten the Entire
Town-Orgin is Unknown.

Kewaskum.-F'ire of unknown orr
gin destroyed the elevator and malt
house of the L. Rosenheimer Malt and
Grain company here, entailing a loss
estimated at $350,OOO.
The flames spread rapidly, threaten
ing the entire town, and an appeal to
Fond du Lac resulted in the arrival
here of an engine and several firemen.
With the aid of this apparatus and
trained men, the boiler house, engine
room and electric light plant were
saved.
The elevator, built of wood with iron
sheathing, was one of the largest in
the northwest and contained 10000
bushels of barley. The mailing house
walls remain, but will have to be
RACED.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
WAGE Warfare on t1atpin.

A few months ago the Berlin police
president, Herr Won Jagow, issued a
courteous appeal to the fair inhabit-
ants of the city requesting them not to
wear dangerously long hatpins in their
headdress without covering the points
with protecting sheaths. Tie police
presidents appeal, however, does not
appear to have met with the desired
compliance, and several more or less
serious hatpin accidents have recent
ly happened. Herr Won Jagow has
now proceeded to stronger measures,
and a new police edict makes a woul-
an whose unprotected hatpin inficts a
wound on another person liable to a
fine Of $175 and to a term of imprison-
ment not exceeding two years, in ad-
dition to which the injured party may
claim damages up to $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
ENGLAND'S BIGGEST BOY

The parade of giants of the Festival
Of Empire, held at the Crystal Palace,
London, as one CT the events of the
coronation season, brought together
many of the tallest men in the British
empire. Among them were many
youths Of abnormal height. The tall
est one was only q little more than 20
years old, yet he stands 7 feet 81
inches high in his stocking feet His
name is Frederick Kempster, and he
was found employed as a basket max
er in the Garden City for Boys, Wood
ford, Essex. His strength is said to
be enormous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
Rev Bosworth to Retire.

Beloit.-Dr r. w. BoswOrth the
Methodist minister Mt Sun Prairie. for
fifty years prominent in his denom-
tnatiOn, will be superannuated at the
coming conference ut Amigo and will
come to Beloit to make his home. Mr.
Bosworth's first pastorate was at Ut
ter's Corners, near Whitewater, and
with the exception of eight years spent
in Colorado all his pastorates have
been in Wisconsin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
WHEN HIS LEG EXPLODED

With report that was heard for
some distance, the right leg of Henry
Nixon, a farmer, Of Blanchard, Ia,
went into scores of fiery pieces and
disappeared in cloud of smoke. Nix
on did not sustain any serious in
juries, but he was given scare that
threatened to bring on nervous pros
tration. The explosion occurred dur
ing the recent hot spell and was
caused. Nixon asserts, by the rays of
the sun shining down upon the mem
Der. Nixon is farmer and is the
possessor of one natural leg and one
artificial one, the latter being fasten-
ed to the stump just above the
knee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
DOG AvERTs A TRAGEDY

Owing to the sagacity of an Irish
terrier dog a tragedy was averted at
Southampton, Pa, recently. The dog
belongs to Mrs. BretTam, visitor at
one of the hotels. During the night
she was awakened by the dog, who
led her to room where a Miss Jones
was sleeping There was a strong
smell Of gas in the room, and Miss
Jones was lying unconscious. 1t was
found that there was leak in the
gas pipe But for the dogs warning
Miss Jones would in all probability
have been suffocated. AS it was, she
soon recovered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
VALUABLE "WASH" BASKET

Thousands Of sightseers in the Ten
derloin district Of San Francisco wit
messed an exciting chase one night
recently, when E. Fopg, Chinese
member of the local opium ring, drove
a laundry wagon containing $3.50
worth of contraband drugs through
crowded streets at breakneck speed in
an attempt to eIude United States Gus
toms officials, who gave chase, and
finally captured the fugitive In the
wagon 185 tins of opium were found
concealed under the wash" in the
bottoms of the baskets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-14
WEDDING OF TWO GIANTS

Mary Allen Powers, for years Bar
NUNS tallest woman, was married the
other day to Maurice T. Stapleton, of
Lockport, n. Y. Miss Powers is over
feet in height, while the bridegroom
stands over feet, and is a giant IN
girth and weight About three years
ago Miss Powers and Mr.. Stapleton
were to be married, but the event was
called off on the morning set for the
ceremony. No reason was given out