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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
ALMOST A
SERIOUS FIRE

Fire was discovered a few minutes
before seven o'clock Friday evening
IN the Huntington building on First
street north occupied by the Skinner
grocery. Although a large part of
the stock was removed from the
building, the damage to the stock will
reach close to $1,000. Mrs. Skinner
informed a Reporter representative
that there was no insurance on the
stock The building which is own
ed by Dwight Huntington is insur-
ed. Mr.. Huntington said he could
not tell the extent of the damage
until he had it appraised.
The fire was caused by some one
throwing cigarette or cigar butt
into the sidewalk grating outside
the store. This apparently set fire
to some papers that We're hanging
in the cellar (these papers were the
remnants of a paper partition that
had been in place in the basement
some time ago) the fire followed this
paper in diagonal course to the
north wall of the building, worked
up between the studdings to the cell
ing, across the ceiling to a window
on the second floor, from where it
broke out into the upstairs. The
greatest damage to the building was
done to the roof.
The fire was difficult one to fight
owing to its being in the partitions
and hard to locate and the fact that
the building is brick veneered made
it impossible to get at it from the
outside. It took the firemen almost
two hours to put out the fire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
Jury LIST FOR
MAY TERM

The following is the list of jurors
drawn for the May term of Circuit
Court.
Henry Roehrig, Arpin Town
Ben Darms, Auburndale Town.
George w. Randalls, Cary Town.
Nate Anderson, Grand Rapids City
Fred Bossert, Grand Rapids, City.
A. I. Chambers, Grand Rapids
City.
B. G. Eggert, Grand Rapids, City
VIM. Goldberg, Grand Rapids, City
F, H. Lamberton, Grand Rapids
City
Chas. Helke, Grand Rapids Town
Gustx Kronemeyer, Hansen Town.
Jos. Mcconnell, Hansen Town.
Chas. Treutle, Hansen Town.
Robert Ebbe, Lincoln Town.
Andrew Fisher, Lincoln Town.
George Adler, Marshfield City.
G. A. Brown, MarshfieId City.
A. G. Felker, Marshfield City.
John Johnson, (of H. Ebbe Coz
Marshfield City.
A. E. Sullivan, Marshfield Town.
Henry CRUDE, Milladore Town.
Jos. E. Linzmayer, Milladore Town
Frank Withers, Nekoosa Village.
A. B. Cotey, Pittsville City.
Ed. Langhoff, PittsviIle City.
Chas. Lowe, Remington Town.
j. NJ. Homiston, Richfield Town.
John A. Houser, Richfield Town
Fred Anderson, Rock Town.
Chris Peterson, Rock Town.
David 0. Weaver, Rock Town.
VIM. Hamm, Rudolph Town.
Erick Berg, Sigel Town.
Gust Dresser, SigeI Town
Fred Haas, Sigel Town
ThOS Nash Sige1 town
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

J. Bruce Ismay who was on the i'll
fated Titanic and one of the men
who was saved, refuses to give the
information which he possesses re
garding the accident We understand
the investigating committee of the
Senate have subpoenaed him to ap-
pear before that body and testify
LATER-He has decided to tell all
he knows of the accident.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
AT PORT EDWARDS

A musical and literary entertain
ment was given at the Pont Edwards
high school Friday evening. The pro
ceeds from the entertainment are to
go to secure works of art for the
schools. Several Grand Rapids peo-
pie took part in the entertainment.
Vocal solos were given by Miss Ruby
Natwlck and John Roberts. Selec-
tions We're given by the Ladies
Quartette of the NJ. E. church and
Miss Sitter gave two readings. The
entertainment was well attended
and a snug Little sum was raised for
the desired work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
CHANGE WATER.
POWER BILL
Municipalities May Acquire
Plants by Regular Condem-
nation Proceedings, is New
Plan.

MADISON, Wis, April 18.-Repre-
sentatives of the waterpower inter
ests, the joint committee on water
powers and conservation of the leg
islature, and the governor and the
states attorneys, have agreed upon
a compromise on the water power
bill The bill will now be re-drafted
ready for introduction at the special
session.
By the compromise, municipalities
desiring waterpowers, may acquire
them by the condemnation thru the
regular legal channels. The dam fran
chises may be repealed by the legis-
lature for cause only and upon advice
or recommendation of the rate com
mission after an investigation by
that body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
APPLETON EMBEZ-
ZLER SENTENCED

APPLETON, Wis, April 22.-Ches-
ter Alling, son-in-law of ex-Mayor
B. c. Wolter, was sentenced to sew
en- years in the reformatory at Green
Bay today for embezzIement. Alling
pleaded guilty week ago and was
to be paroled when two charges of
forgery We're lodged against him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
were picked up.

Margaret Hays, 384 West Eighty
third street, New York said: l first
came to my senses in one of the life
boats. My first realization was
that I was holding in my arms a 2
year-old girl. I don't know the name
or identity of the child. She was
almost naked I kept her with me
and viii closely guard my little ward
given 10 me by Providence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
TITANIC NOTES

Frank D. Millet, the famous ar
tist, was correspondent and soldier
who took passage on the Titanic S
maiden voyage, was one who lost
in this catastrophe. He was on his
way to Wisconsin to decorate the in
terror of the Madison State Capt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
POLICE COURT ITEMS

The case of the state of Wiscon.
sin versus Alex Gavre charged with
assault with intent to do great bod
lily harm was adjourned in Judge Ed
ward n. Pomainville's court until A.
pril 80. Hugh Goggins from the law
offices of Goggins & Brazeau appear.
ed for Gavre.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

FOR RENT:-A farm of 800 acres
known as the S. E. Worthing farm.
located on IA Mile Greek, about 40
acres of winter rye planted, good pas
ture, good house and barn. Enquire
of j. R. Ragan. Administrator. 2td-w
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

Extending sympathy to her fel-
low sufferers of the Titanic disaster,
Mrs. Eleanor Smith, wife of the cap
tain who went to the bottom with the
Inflated liner. today issued the fol
lowing statement:
ITO my poor fellow sufferers: My
heart oVerflows with grief for you.
am laden with sorrow that you should
be weighed down by this terrible bur
den that has been thrust upon us. /
pray that God will be with us and
comfort US ALL
Donald De Moe, 612 Sixth street
says he can raise the steamship
Titanic from it's watery grave, pro
viding he has 100000 to 81 900, 900
to do the job.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

WANTED:-Good single man for
farm work. Enquire of VIM. Haskins
Poor Farm, Grand Rapids, Wiscon-
sin. 2tw-4td.p.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

~WANTED:- or Five cabinet
makers at once. Kaudy Mfg. Co, If.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

OLDEST AND BEST ADVERTISING
MEDIUM IN GRAND RAPIDS AND
VICINITY. /. 4
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
SAVES BABE FROM DEATH
Match Had Been Applied to the
Funeral Pyre When the Infant
Is Transferred.

San Francisco.-Saved from sacri-
fee on an altar of fire during G
famine in the northern part OF the
Island of Luzon, in the Philippines, ten
years ago, little Felicidad, child of
a member of one of the almost extinct
aboriginal tribes, who was bought for
80 pesos by Mrs. Abreu, a Filipino
woman, just as the fire was cracking
under the pyre upon which the then
two-year-old little girl had been placed.
was the most popular passenger on
the liner China in from the Orient
recently.
Given possession of little Felicidad,
the aged Filipino woman, after days Of
YEARLY trudging through the thickets
and swamps, made her way to Manila.
For six years she kept the little girl
in her hut near the city until two
years ago. when the good old woman
was stricken with fever and died.
On her deathbed she bequeathed
her most valuable earthly possession
little Felicidad--to Mrs. ]. L. Dun
ham, supervising teacher in the
public schools of Manila, who has
come to San Francisco after an alb
sence of eleven years in the Philip
pines.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11

ornaments are served. This is as
elaborate as one would care to have
1t, for an outing hat.
The most elegant hat of all for out
ing wear is good Panama. The fine
ones stand great amount of bending
and wear and are successfully
cleaned. Also they hold their color
in the sun, and the color of the genu-
ing Panama is very beautiful These
hats are most appropriately trimmed
with scarfs of silk or bands and orna-
ments of ribbon.
Some novel hats made of silk or
other fabrics, shaped by rows of shir-
ring on coSds or fine wires, have
been lately introduced for travelling.
They are reversible and give one the
advantage of change, as the inside
and outside are in different colors.
An ornament may be pinned or sewed
to such hat upon occasion, and it
will serve for regular street wear,
especially If further decorated with
a lace veil. 1t may be flattened out
and carried in suitcase If necessary,
which is the great point of advantage
in these flexible hats For, sea
voyage they are IDEAL
JULIA BoTTOMLEY.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11

vene for It's seventeenth annual wei
fare conference. May S to 10, 1913.
The ever-increasing interest in the
children of the nation is evidenced by
the phenomenal growth of this So
ciety-four states having formed
branches since March 1. Missouri.
Wisconsin, Indiana and Vermont. At
the request of the president, Mrs.
Frederic Schoff, President Taft has
already authorized the state depart
ment to issue invitations for the third
international convention for child wei.
fare, to open in Washington, d. c.,
April %, 1914.
Whereas, formerly each of the 10
departments of the National Congress
of Mothers and Parent Teacher Orga-
nizations was headed by a woman,
there are now two men of note acting
In this capacity Judge Lindsay OF
Denver. chairman of the Juvenile
court committee, and recently DR.. nj.
v. O'Shea of the University of Wiscon.
sin, has accepted the position of chair
man of the education committee. DR..
O'Shea intends to appoint many lead.
ing educators-mostly men from every
section of the United States-to serve
on his committee.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
LANDLORD KNEW THE GAME
Spared His Tenant the Enumeration
of the Time-Honored and
Yearly "BIuff."

I have called to collect the rent"
said the landlord.
YES" replied the lady of the house.
fcome in. Now, before give you
the money this month, T."
"Just minute, madam" saiu the
landlord. Il can save time for you.
know the parlor isn't fit for a pig
to live in, the dining room wall paper
is shock to people of refinement, the
kitchen walls are disgrace, and the
back porch is a menace to life and
limb. I'm also aware that you won't
stay here another month unless the
barber-shop wallpaper in the back bed
room is changed to something in a
delicate pink, and I'm next to the fact
that you're ashamed to have people
look at such gas fixtures as have pro-
vided. I'm going to paint the front
and back porches and let it go at
that"
THANK you very much" said the
lady meekly. you have saved me a
lot of trouble. That is all we really
expected to have done, but was
afraid that should have to make the
same old bluff to get that much out
Of you."-Detroit Free Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Craters Are Active

blazing crater is visible seawards for
100 miles distant.
The efforts of the mountains to clear
the debris from their clogged craters
caused commissions, which were re-
corded in Washington, d. G., in Seat
tie and Cleveland, Ohio. After the
chimneys were opened the needles In
the observatories were no longer agi-
tated. The struggle of the volcanoes
to break their letters caused reports
like the firing Of cannon. In Sordova,
Alaska, the reports were so distinct
that 1t was thought vessel in dis
tress was firing signals, or that a
feet Of warships was engaged in tar
get practice at sea. Speculation as to
the cause of the detonations was set
at rest when shower of volcanic
ashes from the northwar6 began to
descend upon Cordova. The explo-
sions were heard even more clearly in
Seward. which is near the volcanoes
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Trademark Protective Company
Wages War.
Imported" Gowns and Hats That Are
Made in Amerlca-New York
Firm in Search for Makers
of limitations.

New York.-Do not Imagine because
you chance to have fat pocket book
and desire to establish reputation
for smoking the best that when you
treat your friend and yourself to 60
cent cigars you are demonstrating ex-
cellence in selecting cigars. 1t may
follow, but not necessarily. In fact,
you may be illustrating your inability
to tell one quality of cigar from an
a hundred class. Even the stamp of
a widely known New York hotel is not
a sufficient guaranty that the cigars
which come out of the so cent box be-
fore your very eyes are, what they
seem to be.
In this hotel they are not the Ha-
vana filed such as you are entitled to
suppose yourself to be buying when
you order that particular brand, but
Havana wrapper, packed with Porto
Rican tobacco, worth at wholesale
from five cents to ten cents apiece,
and intended to look and taste some
what like the cigar under whose colors
it is sold. AT least, this is what you
would have received until recently.
The Trademark Protective company
of this city has taken some interest
in the swindling operations practiced
in this form by the proprietor and by
this time he may have returned to the
genuine article for his 60 cent trade.
On the ninth floor of 141 Broadway
is a room whose contents comprise an
indictment against any reputation
which the users of liquors in this coun-
try may have as connoisseurs. Ranged
on shelves and scattered about the
floor of the dark and dusty room is a
collection of bottles, boxes, labels, lith-
ograph stones, branding plates-all
the, implements and product of the imi-
tator's art in reproducing famous i'm
ported liquors. 1t is veritable rogues'
gallery of fake" fancy drink. There
are obvious reasons why the key is
always turned and never left in the
door, The custodians arr Herman &
Moore, the lawyers who usually prose-
cute, the cases of the Trademark Pro
tective company.
Ino limitations Oh imported dIllCiSs
cover many different classes of mer-
chandise, such as liquors, cigars, per-
fumes, olive oil. gowns and hats. I'M
ported articles lend themselves par
ticularly we'll to imitation owing to the
fact that tariffs and the pure food and
drug. act serve to keep out the low
priced goods and tic raise the price TO
the customer above that which would
normally be obtained if it were based
on cost of production alone. The duty
on cognac, for instance, is about $3.50
a case
Partisan gowns made in America"
but not so labeled, lead the list in
profitable limitations, it is said. There
are reported to be number OF Fifth
avenue dressmaking establishments
which will show their customers what
they assert are Worth gowns or dress
es made by other celebrated French
dressmakers. You see, here are the
name hands, they say, displaying the
tapes with the signature of Worth, or
whatsoever, wove in. They do not ex-
plain that they can get such bands
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
CALIFORNIA; Flyer Performs Acrobat
ic Stunts" While In the
Air.

New York; E. Holt, young aeri-
al acrobat from California, gave the
most marvellous exhibition of aero
plane juggling at Mineola recently that
the field has ever seen. How he man
aged to do it and live. to tell the tale
IS the sole topic of conversation in the
colony. 49,.
Holt is one of the bright young men
turned out by Mr.. Curtiss at San
Diego. ~ IS ~; ~.
He had been flying well and making
an effort to prepare for his license
test when he came down to land ac-
curately. But for some reason he for
got to throttle his motor. The aero
plane threatened to bunt the fence. SO
he abruptly picked It op, bounced on
the fence yiciously, started over the
roof of the large hangar and seemed
to clear it neatly when the machine
bounced on the roof, caught on beam
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
LOOP TO REPLACE BUTTON
Far Better on Delicate Materials and
Not at All Hard to Put
Together.

In putting together a lingerie waist
1t is often impossible to find a place
In the delicate trimmings for button
holes AS substitute loops are used
and quick and easy method of max
ing them is given herewith. Use fine
thread and tat single wheels of plain
tatting the size you wish for the but
tons to be used. Break them off
with sufficient thread to sew them on
with. They are easily sewn in place
and are substantial.
An easy way to make the wide
tucks over the shoulder of shirt
waists: Crease the goods at the per-
forations in the pattern, measure your
tuck and put the goods under the
needle at the right distance from edge
to make the tuck the required width,
attach your cloth gauge to the bed
plate of the machine so that the edge
of the cloth touches the gauge, and
stitch the tuck-taking care to keep
the edge against the gauge the full
length of tuck.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Three Volcanoes Awake From
SIumber in Alaska.
Peakes In the Aleutian Range Are
Spouting Great Quantities Of Smoke
and Ashes--ConyuIsions Re-
sembIing Quake Recorded.

Seattle, Wash.-Three slumbering
volcanoes in the Aleutian mountain
range of Alaska suddenly have come
to life and are throwing out great
quantities of smoke and hot ashes.
The awakened peaks are Ilimna and
Redoubt, in the Cook inlet country,
and Katmai, which overlooks Spelikof
strait.
II is likely that Bogoslof, Shaldin
and Pavloff, which are active volca-
noes, and much farther west, are also
spouting flames. Dispatches from the
north say that the volcanoes are emit
ting lava and rocks, but the discharge
from the Alaska craters usually is
only ashes and smoke, and it is hoped
that there will be no loss of life. APP
parently Kodiak and its neighboring
islands have been covered by ashes.
Since the change of climate in Alas
ka. cattle, sheep and hogs have been
able to feed out doors on Kodiak
island throughout the year. The vol
canic ashes, if they fell on the island,
is inches deep, as they did on the
decks of the steamship Dora, must
have destroyed the grass, which, how
ever. will grow again on the ashes.
Mount Ilimna is more than $4,000
feet high and the red sky above its
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11

- FATS for outing wear are prop
erly simple in shape and trim
ming. They should be light
in weight. shade the eyes, and
small enough to be out of the way
of everybody One may find them,
answering these requirements, in
all sorts of materials and qualities.
There are grass hats (Which are pref
try with a light scarf draped about
them) that cost only quarter, and
there are good looking straw hats for
80 and rs cents. And at the other ex-
IRENE are fine South American Pana-
ma hats that cost as much as one
wants to pay. White felts and white
fabric hats are In the running also,
with the new native models develop
ing considerable strength.
The pictures given here will serve
to show about the simplest and also
the least simple methods of trimming
used on this character of millinery.
The hat Of pique bound with fold
of the same and finished with band
and fan, could hardly be simpler. A
hat in similar shape of Jap straw is
bound with velvet and trimmed with
velvet ears supported by wire.
Against these Irish crochet balls and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Top Coats of Corduroy.

window display of corduroy velvet top
coats which aroused considerable at
tention, says the Dry Goods Economist,
it being most unusual to use vetvet at
this season of the year. The coats were
in various colors, including white,
navy, golden brown and green, and
are lined with bright colored satin
Innings. They button over slightly at
the side and can be fastened high at
the neck, If desired. Advertised as
the new seven-eighths length, they ex-
tend to a few inches below the knee.
They are intended for seashore or
mountain wear, automobiling and sim
liar occasions.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
FLOWERS NOW IN PROPULSION
Delightful Table Decorations Are Eas-
lily Possible at This Favored
Time Of Year.

With the return of the flowers
comes the desire to have the table
decorated with some arrangement of
blossoms
It is rather an expensive PROPOSE
ton during the winter. but flowers at
this season are inexpensive; or we
may call upon the woods and fields to
provide bouquets for the table.
An effective decoration is to fill a
bowl with moss and arrange snow
drops and crocuses as If they were
growing in their native home.
The bowl should be shallow and
wide. Twenty snowdrops and few
violets are enough to fill the bowl.
They are more effective when not
clustered.
Small glass or china troughs may
be purchased for the purpose of deco
rating the table.
Each of these is an arc OF quar-
ter circle. and may be arranged to
form many designs. Short-stemmed
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Easv 70 Cut the price.

A man went into butchers shop
and asked how much sausages were
pound.
"Ah," said the butcher, der brice
vas gone ups l shall hat to sharge
you twenty-five cents"
'Nonsense," exclaimed the custom
err, that is outrageous. can get
them at Schmidt's for twent. cents" "
well, Wy didn't your"
Because he was out of them"
"Oh, vell," replied the butcher, IF
vas oudt of 'em, I'd sell EN- for tven-
ty cents, too"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Lost Souls Last Five.

Atlantic City, N. i'm pulling out
roll of money with which to pay for
a shave in barber shop on South
Tennessee avenue, B. G. Phillips of
Flatbush, L. l., discovered that he had
been carrying about farewell mes
sage from suicide for two days with
out knowing it. 1t was written in fine
feminine hand around three edges of
a SIS treasury note. and read as fol-
lows:
This is my last five dollars in the
world. and now / have no desire to
live Farewell. Whoever finds this
please say prayer for lost soul"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Natural Query.

Gen. F. d. Grant, when discussing
military neatness, used often to tell a
story about his father
my father was talking to General
Sherman in his tent one day." he
would begin, when a third general
entered, brigadier notorious for his
slovenliness. After the brigadier left
my father blew forth cloud Of smoke
and said: Sherman, ] wonder whom
that man gets to wear his shirts the'
first week?'"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-07-11
Trunk Innings.

Little bags of lavender in the COM
partments of trunks that must stand
for any length of time sweeten won
derfully the air that is so apt to grow
musty. If trunk Innings are slightly
scented in this way dresses and un-
derwear are more daintily fragrant at
the end of the journey than when one
folds sachet among the garments
themselves.