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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
WOMEN FIRST

Little chiValry around loose now.
Men will tip their hats to women
with as deep bows as ever. But that
calls for no effort, and it rather flat
ters a fellows sense of self esteem.
The heroic self7sacrifice of the men
on the Titanic, who mostly remain
ed behind to let women and children
be saved first, is a touch of old fash
Toned idealism that thrills the heart
1t sounds remote from these selfish
days. It seems almost to go back to
the time when armored knights rode
over the country to rescue distress
ed damsels from dungeons. How many
of us would have had the manliness
to do it, assuming always that no
compulsion was, enforced on us by
ships officers?
Few men today are willing to under
go suffering to the extent of stand
ing in a street car or railroad train,
to provide women with a seat. Such
social symptoms make one question
how far the rule of women first in
time of disaster to shipping is due
to innate chivalry, and how far to
the autocratic rule of marine custom.
Evidently as far as the small army
of male passengers on the Titanic
are concerned, they could have swept
their way into the boats against
every command of the ships crew,
had they chosen, so that they should
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
SENECA CORNERS.

Mrs. Herman Wichman and chill
dren left for Sweeny, Texas, to join
her husband where they will make
their future home.
Martin Heiser arrived lately from
Madison where he has been employed
the past winter
Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer are re
joicing over the arrival of a baby
boy at their home on April is.
H. Swardock. who has been resid-
ing on the Pomainville farm the past
year moved to Grand Rapids last
week
Miss Katherine Ruesch and Ed
win Marx both of the town of Han
sen We're married on Wednesday, A
pril oath, at the Catholic church at
Altdorf. Rev. Whittier of PittsviIle
officiating. Both of the young peo-
pie are well and favorably known here
having been born and raised in this
locality and have a number of
friends who wish them long and
happy welded life. They will make
their home at the farm of the groom
father, Julius Marx in the town of
Hansen.
VIM. Bates purchased a manure
spreader from the Nash Hardware
Co.
Richard Marx, who is employed in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
TOWN BOOSTING"

The town boosting movement has
become so general that one town
gains little more in this way from
its surroundings than it loses to
other competitors.
Of course this makes it doubly ne
cessary to keep hustling for new bu-
siness, if We would play the game
and keep up with our rivals.
But while We are soliciting new
industries to come here, while one
town is wearing booster buttons" anC
another is stamping it's mail matter
with booster tags, let us see to it
that We are not lacking in certain
fundamental substantials of communi
ty development
The most solid growth comes when
We can encourage our own young ant
ambitious men to start in business
and stay here instead of going away.
Every town has, and we have, such
ambitious and promising young men,
of good business capacity
The city that gets ahead is the
city where the men who have already
won out are willing to help younger
men get a foothold.
If Just as soon as our business me1
are successful, they should settle
down idly to enjoy their money, in
different to the advancement of the
town, we should progress but slowly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02

But if they Will interest themselves
in our younger men and newer enter
prises, serve on boards of directors,
invest what they can afford in home
undertakings, give the benefit of
their experience, no power on earth
can stop this place from growing very
fast.
The returns from planting shade
trees and developing parks and keep
ing home grounds in fine order may
seem remote, and not of much as
sistance commercially. But in a
place where these things are careful
ly looked after, the town acquires a
wide reputation as a residence town.
Every travelling man who comes
here, every visitor, scatters the re
port that this~is a mighty agreeable
place to live in.
The returns from this source may
be slow, but they are very sure. Any
business man hesitating between two
places for a location always chooses
the attractive residence place, And
there is a constant tendency of peo-
pie to move in from the country to
educate children and enjoy town life,
and they always pick attractive plac-
es to move to.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
SCATTERING
IMMIGRATION

In the state of New York alone
there are $4,000 men in the cities
who could find jobs on the farms if
they wanted them. This statement
was made few days ago at the New
York meeting which organized the
American immigration Distribution
League.
1t is pathetic to see the way ro-
bust and stFapping immigrants, from
country districts in the old world,
fitted to do farm work and do it sue
cessfully. will settle down in slum
life here They find their friends
located in the cities, they lack money
to get out into Gods country. They
grab the first low paid job their
friends find for them.
It is not long before their brown
faces turn into Iivid pallor under the
cFowding slum life. They become
enfesAled, their blood grows thin.
their heart grows fearful of the great
unknown of Americas land of agri
cultural promise. They cling to the
pittanoe that viii keep alive in the
sweat7shop while their children have
to sit UP to 1 o'clock ar night be
cause the gPownups occupy all the
space toiling over ready made cloth
ing
1t was shown at a Congestion of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02

Population exhibit in New York in
1909, that one society had sent ST.
600 foreigners out of the city in nine
years, and So per cent of them stuck.
While all this surplus of labor is
dropping in the town, the farmer is
clamoring for anything with flesh
and blood enough to hold a hoe, and
the Consumer is paying a bigger pro-
vision bill because our acres are not
titled.
About Is years ago there came to
canning factory in ChautauQua
county, N. Y, two Italians. They
were set to work, but there was so
much sentiment against foreigners
that they could not secure board
within two miles. Other compatriots
came later, the colony went into vine
growing and other farming. Today
1900 of them are growing fat on their
fine farms, and land advanced from
$50 and $75 an acre to $3.50, and the
native Americans have to hustle.
Scattering the immigrants would
substitute happiness and joy for
want, it would cure a fostering sore
in our city life, and it would give
cheaper food. May the new league
do the great job cut out for it!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
FOREST HILL
CEMETERY AS.
SOCIATION N
CORPORATES

For some years it has been the
earnest endeavor of the ladies thru
their clubs and organizations in the
city to create interest and concentrat
ed effort towards an accomplishment
Of some of the phases Of municipal
duties and obligations otherwise un-
provided for which are bound to pre-
sent themselves for solution in ev-
cry city Though the work towards
identifying and caring for the GENE
terry has been in a measure success
full and too much cannot be said of
the ladies in the city who have work
ed so unselfishly, as well as for the
members of citizens who have been
staunch financial hackers Of this pro-
ject since its inception, still the or
ganization in some of it's phases lack
efficiency With the idea of per-
fecting this, the Forest Hill cemetery
association was incorporated under
Section 1912 and following sections
R. D., 1898, and amendments thereto.
Under Chapter 10, Laws of 1911,
| cemetery associations are authorized
to collect an assessable amount on
each lot. For information to those
owning lots and to others interested
copy Of that law is below set out:
IAN ACT to create section 1443b
of the statutes, relating to cemetery
associations.
The people of the State of Wis
consin represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION l. There is added to
the statutes new section to read:
Section 1443b. The governing board
of any cemetery association and ev-
cry town, city or village, having a
| cemetery under its control is hereby
authorized and empowered to make a
reasonable annual assessment upon
the lots in said cemetery, not ex-
| ceeding one cent per square foot of
| lot, excluding streets and alleys, for
| the cleaning and care of said lots
| and general care and improvements
of the cemetery; and cause a notice
thereof, with copy of this act, to
| be forthwith mailed to each lot own
ar or person having charge of said
| lot, at his last known postoffice ad-
dress, and therein direct that such
| lot owner or person having the care
of such lot shall pay the said ass
essment to the treasurer of such as
ISOLATION, town, city, or village with
in thirty days from the date of such
notice, and such assessment shall
be, and is hereby declared a personal
liability against such lot owner or
person chargeable with the care of
such lot and the payment thereof
may be enforced by action against
such person or his estate.
SECTION 2. This act shall take
effect and be in force from and af-
ter its passage and publication.
Approved May 5, 1911"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
WOMAN AND THE
MARKET BASKET

A Housewives League has been
formed in New York, the members
of which propose to sally forth for
a fray with the marketman every
Wednesday.
A similar habit here and elsewhere
would do more to reduce the cost
of living than can be accomplished
by telegraphing your congressman
to twist the tail of the Money Oc-
topus.
In other forms of marketing women
are surprisingly efficient. The average
man is paralyzed to see how his wife
is able to discover defects and cheats
and anaIyze wearing qualities in tex
tile fabrics that are hidden to his
crude eyes.
The reason for this is that most
women have had to fight for their pc
cuniary lives on the clothes question.
In spite OF all our boosted American
Chivalry, the majority of men are
mean to women on the money ques-
ton. While the raw Pole from War
saw turns over his cash to his wife,
receiving from her such spending mon
ey as her Judgment allots him, the
majority of our men never give their
wives any definite sum on which they
can depend as a personal budget.
Living in this hand to mouth MAN.
ner, as far as their personal needs
go, driven to strategies and cajoIer-
les to replenish their flattened pock-
etbooks, women have become exceed
ingly acute on values of all fabrics
used in their own clothing 1t was a
case of struggle for life and survi-
val of the fittest.
AS respects household expenses,
the eVerage woman is not much more
than men, becausee in that field
the necessity has never been forced
on them for being so. We imagine
that not one woman in ten realizes
that fish is not fresh unless it is
firm in texture, with gills red, eyes
full, fins firm and erect, and scales
bright Under the pressure of pres
emit high prices, however, it is pro-
bable that the next generation of wo-
men will become just as keen on food
values as they are today on fabric
values.
There is really a whole lot of
pleasure in marketing, for the normal
ly healthy and hungry person Many
travellers find the famous markets of
Paris, with their carefully arranged
pyramids of fruits and vegetables,
much more fascinating than picture
galleries and monuments. Every
well kept market has the same ap-
petizing tang in it's sights and doors
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02

Steersman often seems to fear that
his dignity would suffer If he turns
out so far that the approaching ship
would not need to sWerYe from its
course. Nevertheless, a good rule in
navigation as in automobiHng or driY
ing a carriage, is to turn out enough
so that you would be all right even
if the other fellow did not move.
AS shipping increases, harbors
grow small, and the steersman who
can slip out ahead of a competitor
and only scrape off some paint is
viewed with admiration as jehu
Of the tiller.
Human hunger for money makes
many accidents. The lake freighteT
that can get in one more trip before
ice forms provides an extra dividend
for the owner. Too often this means
being engulfed in a snow storm that
blots out every beacon, with a final
and silent tragedy TO follow on the
cruel rocks of a traacherous coast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
TWlCE-ToLD TESTIMONY.
Grand Rapids People Are Doing All
They Can For Fellow Sufferers.

SFano hdPlQS FSople ARE LONG All
They Can For Fellow Sufferers.
Grand Rapids testimony has been
published to prove the merit of
Doan's Kidney Pills to others in
Grand Rapids who suffer from bad
backs and kidney ills. Lest any suf-
ferer doubt that the cures made by
Doan's Kidney Pills are thorough and
lasting, We produce confirmed proof
statements from Grand Rapids people
saying that the cures they told OF
years ago were permanent. Here
a Grand Rapids case:
Mrs. Samue Parker, 867 Eleventh
St., N, Grand Rapids, Wis, says:
"Doan's Kidney Pills have been used
in my family with excellent results.
In 1907 I publicly recommended this
remedy and now I take pleasure in
doing so again. The benefit it
brought has been permanent"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York. sole agents for the u
nited States.
Remember the name-Doan's- ant
take no other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
NEW BOOKS

The following books will be plac
ed in circulation at the Public Ii
brary, Tuesday afternoon, April Both.
Lambs-Essays of Ella.
Tayler-Refrigeration, Cold Stor,
age and Ice Making.
Daniels-Home Making in Norway,
Refrigeration
Mason-Tom Strong, Washington
Scout
Lambs-Complete Works.
Goldsmith Citizen of the World.
Holland-Man of Yesterday.
Wells-Patty's Friends.
Stanley-My Dark Companions.
Knapp-The Boy and the Baron.
Naturalization of Latitude.
Edwards-Panama, the Canal, the
Country and the People.
Rocheleau-G Great American Indus
tries, Transportation.
Dubois-Elinor Arden.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
SIGEL.

About ninety people met together
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
son Sunday afternoon and greatly SUI
Irised Miss Ida Jackson. The sur
prise was complete. The afternoon
was spent in social intercourse at
ter which refreshments were served
Miss Jackson was presented with q
sum of money in behalf of the peo-
pie present 1t was an afternoon not
soon to be forgotten
Miss Anna Quist of MilIadore was
Sunday guest at the Kronholm
home.
Mrs. Simon Kronholm is reported
to be seriously i'll.
Oscar Nelson is suffering from a
sore. eye, which he received while cut,
ting down brush in his woods on
Monday.
Mrs Frank SedaH is laid up with
a severe attack of inflammatory rheu
matism, being so bad that she is un-
able to leave her bed at all.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moberg came
down from the Rapids on Thursday
and are guests at the Peter Moberg
home.
There was a dance held at the MOI
zinski home on Wednesday night.
Mrs, Matt Kronstedt of Grand Rap
ids is visiting with her sons William
and Fred Kronstedt
Leo Mroz who underwent an o.
peration for appendicitis in a Green
Bay hospital some weeks ago, ar.
rived here the latter part of the
week and will visit his parents for
couple of weeks before resuming
his work at the Hirzy Store in Grand
Rapids.
Harry Hill has gone to Green Lake
where he viii be employed.
Miss Floy Berg spent Monday at
the Rapids
Misses Jennie Larson and Marion
Phillips of Veedum spent Saturday
and Sunday at the Jens Larson home
Miss Ida Nordstrum of Rudolph was
a Sunday visitor here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
ALL ABOUT THE PIG

A little boys first composition was
about pig. This is the way he wrote
it: pigs are very queer animals.
The pig has its uses. Our dog don t
like pigs. His name is Nero. Our
teacher read a piece one day about a
wicked king named Nero. I like good
men. My papa is an awful good man,
Men are very useful They have a
great many uses which I can't stop
to tell them all. This is all I can
think of about the pig"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02

receive for all time the glory of
their forbearance.
Women will stand the strain of ac-
tual pain quite as long as men. But
when it comes to q fight for life with
some elemental force like water or
cold, they have not the physical en-
durance for it, and they would give
way first from pure muscular weak
ness.
Human equity then sanctions this
grim rule for the great crises of life
But the history of calamity has re
corded many an occasion where it was
broken, and men like wolves fran
tically pushed and jostled for safe
ty. To take life on those terms
would be to accept a stain that to a
sensitive man would be living death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
GETS A LIFE
SENTENCE
Father Who Killed Small Child
Given Hopeless Term.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, April "a
Life Imprisonment at hard labor was
the sentence meted out by Judge
Wickham to John Anderson after he
had pleaded guilty to murder on Wed
nesday Of his child on Feb. 5, on
Mount Adm. Anderson's wife will
be released. Il would like to have
the mercy of the court and prove that
there Gs something good in me yet, 3"
SAID Anderson before being sentenc-
ed. He said this with even more cool
ness than when he confessed on
Tuesday Anderson on a previous
day said the child stood between him
self, wife and happiness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02

Plaintiffs Attorney.
P. o. Address: Grand RAPIDS, Wood County,
Oh
NOTICE OF SALE ON FoREcLos-
uRE.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, IN CIRCUIT COURT FoF
WOOD COUNTY.
F. J. Wood, plaintiff, vs.. John NJ. Beaver
and Kate Beaver, his wife, First National
Bank OF Grand Rapids, and New Richmond
Roller Mills Co defendants.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue OF
and pursuant to judgment of Foreclosure
ed action in the Circuit Court for said county
on the 9Th day Of December, 1910, in favor OF
the above named plaintiff and against the
above named defendants herein more than
one year having elapsed since said entry OF
the original Judgment and no part of said
Judgment having been paid /, John Schmidt,
as sheriff Of said county of Wood, will on
the 18th day of June, 1912, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon OF that day at the front door of the
Court House il the city of Grand Rapids in
said county, OFFER for sale and sell at auction
to the highest bidder for cash all the premis-
es described in said Judgment as follows,
toWit:
The west half wv n Of the east half (E1I)
of the southwest quarter IS W n of the
southeast quarter Is E ~ and the east half
(E ~ OF the west half wv ~ of the south
west quarter (SW " If the Southeast quart
er Is E n of section IT al township TWEEN
ty-fouF pa north of range five 81 east; also
the south half Is ~ Of the northwest quart
er IN W ~ aud the north half IN ~ of the
southwest quarter IS w n of section seven
teen (17) township twenty-four t24 north Of
range five 10 east, or so much thereof as
may be sufficient to discharge the amount
JOHN SCHMITT, Sheriff
Of Wood County, Wis.
GoGGINs e BRAZEAU,
PLAINTIFFS Attorneys.
First pub. April %, final pub. May 3d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
SAFETY IN
WATER TRAVEL

The Iroquois theatre fire in Chica-
so led to an examination of every
cross roads hall to see if it was a
fire trap So the Titanic disaster
ought to lead, and no doubt will, to {
universal effort to remove the dan
gers of water travel.
The government should see that
there are life boats enough to pro
tect every passenger by water. But
the need for better protection is felt
by many besides those who travel by
our transatlantic palaces.
The farmers boy that has quit
the corn field to become a deck hand
has a family of hungry mouths at
home, dependent on his safety, and
loving hearts whose good cheer de-
ponds upon his life He needs the
long arm of a firm government inspe
ton too
There were 5000 shipwrecks on
the great lakes in 20 years. Ev-
cry one of them meant a tragedy for
some human hearts. The bottom of
these lakes is strewn with human
bones. Many of these ships disap-
peared as suddenly and inexplicably
as if the Titanic had hit the iceberg
in the days before wireless.
An ancient tubs are permitted to
90 ,ry~ b,,,,,op froioyb+ ~, oD5 5ov-,,
our coasts and streams, which by all
laws of business depreciation and re-
newaIs must have much more than
paid for themselves, and should be
sent to the scrap heap.
Just as it takes two to make a qua
rel, so it it takes two ships to make
3 collision. And many of them do
not take place In fogs either. A
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
ROOSEVELT LETTERS
PROTECTED COMBINE
Correspondence Given United
State Senate Shows That
Colonel Ordered Prosecution
Stopped.

WASHINGTON, D. C. April "a
Correspondence relating to the pro-
posed dissolution of the Interna-
tional Harvester company, forwarded
to the senate on Wednesday by At
torney General Wickersham contains
a letter written on Aug. %, 1907,
by President Roosevelt, to Attorney
General Bonaparte directing the at
torney general not to begin a suit
for the dissolution of the corporation
under the Sherman law, until he had
been advised further by the president
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
BIDS FOR BONDS WANTED.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, WOOD CoUsTY-In
Circuit Court.
In the matter OF the Remington Drainage
District.
Notice is hereby given that the commits
sioners OF the Remington Drainage District
desire TO borrow money upon the bonds of
said drainage district authorized to enlarge
the drains in the Original Remington Drain
age District, which bonds are to be paid dur
ing a series OF years.
Said comm, ssioners invite proposals to
take said bonds at a premium.
Said bonds amount to SS0,568.O0 bear six
per cent annual interest, and are payable in
fifteen installments, the first of which il
payable June l, 1915 and one installment
each year thereafter until all are paid
Make your offer Of the best premium that
you viii pay therefor.
All proposals and other communications
concerning these bonds should De address,
ed to B. g. Eggert, Secy., Grand Rapids. Wis
eonsin.
All proposals must be received by May
18th, 1912, 1000 a. N.
(WiIliam II Bowden
Commissioners j. o. Daniels
Benz. G. Eggert
j. A Gaynor and B NJ. Vaughan,
Attys. for Remington Drainage District
Grand Rapids, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02

French-Lance of Kanana, Arabian
Boy of eth Century.
Allen-Dayid Crockett, Scout.
Baker-Queen's Page.
Stedman-Story of Hereward.
Bergson-Laughter
James-Wonders of the Colorado
Desert.
Oxenham-Coil of Carne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-02
STOCK HOLDERS MEETING
ELECT OFFICERS

A meeting Of the Stockholders of
the Johnson & Hill Co. was held re-
Gently. Immediately after the stock
holders meeting the directors held a
meeting The following We're elected
officers for the company:
Geo. NJ. HiIl-President.
Geo. w. Mead-Vice President.
M. N. ohnson,-Treasurer
Charles Kruger Secretary.
The directors are Geo. NJ. Hill, G.
W. Mead, NJ. N. Johnson, Charlse
Kruger, 1. P. Witter and Ray John
son.