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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-26

q About thirty dollars was the
amount netted by the members OF
the Standard Bearer Society from the
entertainment given by them last Fri
day evening in the Methodist church
Each participant took their part in q
pleasing manner. The funds will be
used toward the support Of mis-.
sionary.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-26

WANTED-Dishw washer and lsundress
Apply Miss Albertson, Wright Hall.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-26

ROOMS FOR RENg-With or without
board, steam heav. Apply corner
State and Ely streets.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-26

Harry Markham of Ithaca was in
the city on business last Monday
Mr. and Mrs +. +. Pettijohn of
Ann Arbor visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Pettijohn last Sunday and
Monday
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-26
The CHORAL ] Mo \

The Choral q lub held its second
meeting Tuesday evening in the col
lege chapel Work on the first chorus
of the Rose Maiden. Green hills and
vine clad mountains, occupied the
greater part of the hour. Prof.
Veatch later acting as temporary
chairman. opened the business meet
ing by appointing Professor J. T.
Ewing. clerk, and asking for nomina-
tons for the office OF president.
After he had duly stated the neces-
sary requisites for the office, the
unanimous choice of the club was
given to II. {. Moore, who immedi-
ately took the chair. thanked them
for the honor and assured them of
his most earnest efforts to promote
the welfare OF the club. Wade l..
Frost was elected vice-president, Miss
Helen Cook, secretary, and John
Knoertzer, treasurer The constitu-
ton and bylaws as presented by
Prof Neatch last week were adopted
and plans for work discussed. 1t rs
the intention of the club to secure
associate as we'll as active members
the associate members to be people
who are lovers of good music but
unable to become active members and
who will be admitted free to all con-
certs given by the club.
Prof. Veatch has aroused by his
own enthusiasm a feeling of intense
interest and loyalty and is proving
to be the right man in the right place.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-17
Business Opportunities


&10 Iron Beds, So, %. ROBIsON's. 81 Z.
PIO Hunter street e-14-24
FOR SALE sta blished wood coal and
builders supply business in growing
suburb, Of Atlanta. Good reason for sell
ing and splendid opportunity for right
party Address \. B. care Georgian
73-l5-s
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unfurnished Apartments For Rent


| FOR RENT-Seven- room apartment in
the Nicholas, 3S4 Forrest avenue. Call
Ivy 1888 6-l42l
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Help Wanted-FemaIe

Inexperienced waitress at once:
experienced pantry lady who can make
salads. Acme Business Agency. l01S At
lanta National Bank building 6-17441
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ACME LETTER co.

NOTHING but hrst-class work and
prompt service. When you are ready
for this kind OF work. phone Ivy 1896
ACME LETTER CO, AZ Wesley Memo
rial Bag 5-6.33
STILL another org shipment Of new wall
papers. Prices right. Al work guar
anteed Better be safe than sorry. Bar
nett & Gordon. % f Mitchell ST. 30 sec
onds from Whitehall l-1S-45
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Furnished Houses Wanted

REFINED COUPLE want up-to-date
small bungalow, convenient to car line
i suburban. state lowest price and par
tioulars Address Years Lease, Box 500
care Georgian 615-4 IS
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Fire Proof Storage.



NJ C FURNITURE transfer: we pack
and snip. NJ. $3.50 l., A 1873 30 West
Hunter. 3-t2-f
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MOTORCYCLES.

ALL MAKES. $50 AND UP-Largest mo-
torcyce dealers In the South; exclusive
Southern distributors for Indian F,lyea
Austell Company, 80 North Pryor street
1-21-a
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Situations Wanted-Female.

WANfED-P Position as stenogra pher and
graduate; have had experience Address
K. c., Box $50, care Georgian. 3S-14-6
NATURALIZATION by tirst-c class. expert
enced stenosrapher legal work desired
Stenographer. Box so, care Georgian.
2S-l5-6
CAPABLE lady stenographer desires good
position: Al references Experience,
Boy l53 care Georgian. 4s-14-6
WANTED-Position as saleslady in cigar
stand or cashier in or out of city; ex-
perlence in both lines. Phone Main 1888
j; Atlanta 1915. 6-12-26
WANTED Maternity cases by expert
enced nurse hospital trained. best ref
erences. reasonable charges: no objections
10 out Of town cases. Bell phone 1854
West ~ Sells ave. 29-12-6
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Situations Wanted-Male.

LAWN MOWERS sharpened and repaired
your home. satisfaction guaranteed
Call Atlanta phone sos Man sent. imme-
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Palnistry.
GYPSY CAMP.
Medical.

DR.. EDMONDSON'S Tansy, Pennyroyal
and Cotton Root Pills. a safe and re-
liable treatment for painful and sup
pressed menstruation, Irregularities and
similar distractions. Trial box by mail.
SOC. Frank Edmor1son & Bro, manufac-
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Atlanta, ia. 2-17-14
LADIES 81 900 reward. positively
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IN three to five DAYS: no harm, pain or
bic strength. 81 Dr f. G Southington
Remedy Company Kansas City, Mo,
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For Miscellaneous.


FOR SALE-One grand square Chickering
piano and all kinds of household goods
1t $50 CORTLAND. 55-1z-6
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Automobiles.
AUTOS REPAIRED.

MAGNETS AND STORAGE BATTER
les RECHARGED MAGNETIC AND
CARBURETOR work a specially We
give careful attention TO Electric Auto
and Battery work, Hartranpf & Var
bray Co. Phone Main 1910. Sc Edge
wood Ave just below Equitable Bldg
4-22-5
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Agents Wanted.
Situations Wanted-Female.

POSITION wanted by young lady a. office
assistant or cashier .. X, Bon H.
care Georgian ~ ~
BY first class laundress, waists, DRESSES
childrens clothes. reasonable Jones,
t19 Haynes street -
FTRST-CLASS music teacher wishes f.
exchange piano instruction for board in
Atlanta or north Georgia Address Miss
Alice Lichtv. Bowling Green, Fla
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Oropsy.

DROPSY CURED-Relieves shortness of
breath in 36 to IS hours Reduces swell
ing n 15 to 20 days. Write for partcu
lars COLON Dropsy Remedy Company
5l2 Austell, Building, Atlanta 5-25-11
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

head-gear for this raj will include the
imported scratch hats, all the new
cheViot finished hats, velours, beay-
ers, felts and the standard blac.- stiff
and soft hats
AS summer seems to have just got
a strange hold on the weather, we
may expect that custom will not be
lived up to and many men will cover
their brain case with the old straws
for little longer time. Most all of
us will be glad to shed the straws
for they are beginning to look like a
colored "gemmen" who has been hit
in the face with fried egg.
Many a man will have to dig into
the little pile he has been accummu-
lating since the coal barons decided
that we would have to pay cash for
coal, buy a new sky piece to keep
the thin spots on his head from feel
ing the cool breezes that will soon be
gin to blow. For the cold, frfgfd,
wintry, unfeehng, cruel, barbarous,
brutal, inhuman winter is not far off.
The faces of the plumbers GOAL and
wood men are already beginning to
brighten at the thoughts Of what they
are going to do with us this winter
but don't think Of that-get the hat
early and be Up-to4date
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
0UR BRIGHT uTTIE BoYs.

We certainly are blessed with an
unusual number Of bright little boys
in this community. Little tots just
starting on EGe's journey. They stand
upon The threshold OF life with foot
upliGted and hand outstretched ready
to begin the journey, and happy in
anticipation of the beautiful and Won
derful things they expect to see. To
them AN is bright and promising, no
thought OF evil crosses their minds;
their imagination clothes everything
with rainbow hues. They little tn >.
that every rose has its thorn, every
pleasure its corresponding. grief.
They are eager to be of. The path
is marrow and on either side are yaw
ing precipices which threaten to en-
gulf them at every step; numerous
and enticng by-paths seek to lure
them from the narrow way that leads
to safety and honor, Here it is that
the counseIs Of christian mothers
take root in their hearts, and their
ssint-like faces viii so before them
on their journey. guiding stars whose
gIeam cannot be extnguished no
matter how hard the storms of temp
tation may beat upon them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
SUMMER VISITING

One Of the most marked social
changes of the present day is the
decline Of hospitality.
Your mother will tell you, that
when she and Dad got a week off,
they would journey over into the next
state and camp down on their cous-
ms, frequently without sending them
any notice.
And the cousins were glad to see
them, too. The spare room" was
all ready. It did not cost much to
live in those days. The provision for
the table was lavish anyway. No
more food was cooked, and about the
only change was that there were
more dishes to wash. Probably Moth
er took hold and helped wipe them,
so it was even up.
At the present time, the housewife
is fIustered if a new friend descends
on her for over night. For the stan
dards of life have advanced. The
, N~SI ACOAL 444uok DC swept ,LuE UCU-
ding freshened ice cream must be or
dered, more substantial provender
must be provided, and the servant,
if one is kept, must be cajoled and
coaxed.
In many families it is customary tc
write friends that they could be at
liberty for a weekend visit on such
a date, and to suggest with elaborate
and tactfuI diplomacy, that an in
could be accepted at that
time
But the housewife feels so keenIy /
5he burdens Of our high standards
Of home upkeep, that she often hest |
-ates to do this. Visits are reduc-
I'd to carefully arranged swaps of
give and take. If your cousins have
not been to see you for a year, you
10 not feel that you can invite your
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
THE PASSING OF A WORLD LEAD

American Life is so rich and tense
that it takes a pretty big event a.
cross the water to get newspaper head
lines here. The death Of even a
famous European may get but brief
paragraph in our newspapers.
The front page position and big
captions given to the passing away
Of William Booth showed how power
fully he influenced American life.
Gen. Booths Salvation Army has
sometimes been called body of PEG
pie dressed in @mitation military
uniforms, with women in ugly poke
bonnets, who go about the streets
making bad noises and frightening
horses with their brass bands.
The writer Of this article was once
invited by a young newspaper repor-
ter in a large city to go with him to
When the reporter had acquired e
nough material for his story, he dis
missed the whole thing from his mind
with the words, 'the very cinders an
ashes OF humanity
When you consider that over 200,-
900 people thus denominated "cinderf
received help last year from the Sal
walton Army in the United States,
that nearly $50, 900 of them got Chris.
tmas dinners, the work that Gen.
his evening assignment, which was
covering d Salvation Army gathering.
In search for newspaper color,
the reporter scanned the crowd, in
which every grade of rag clad mis-
cry was represented. 1t was such
grey level Of despair that he remark
ed that it was not even picturesque.
Booth started in our cities seems a
shaft Of sunshine in the darkness and
defeat Of sIum life
Gen. Booth quit a comfortable and
Wei fed post as an evangelist and
minister to make his home in that
nearest approach to he'll, the East
Side Of London, bringing a bright
vista Of morning sky into the hori-
ION Of hopeIessness.
1t is incongruous to hear Praise /
God from whom all blessings flow
sung to the tune Of sally in our
alley" Stately choraIs and dim re /
igious lights may appeal to persons J
If culture and refinement, but they I
Ire lost on tramps and fallen women.
The Salvation Army simply speaks a
that such people can under
stand, and others are not compelled f
o listen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
Tie LEE De A TOWN.

Tt takes live men to make a live
town. Dead men are only fit to in
habit cemeteries. If they are really
decenUy dead, dead all over, we ten
derby lay them away in the sleep of
the tomb, hut if they are only dead in
au enterprise and spirit, outside of
the narrow limits OF their own sell
fishness, and yet persist in walking
around, moving their caIoused heart
and consciences where reaI-business
is wont to pulse and throb with Wig
or they are really like the drone
bees, in the way until they are stung
TO death and dragged outside OF the
hive Of legitimate industry. Twelve
really live men are worth more to
q town generally than a round full
thousand of such useless material that
lays around like rubbish in a rush
ing stream that is aching and foam
ing TO turn mills and factories. Yes,
live men bless and dead men curse
town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
Another reason is that the great

Another reason is that the great
newspapers give so little space to
reporting Congressional debates. The
discussions of the British parliament
are fully reported by competent short
hand men. The average Washington
correspondent devotes most of his
attention to reporting the political
strife of cloak room battles and STRAIT
egy boards. If he wants to knows
what happened on the floor, he gets
some Congressional friend to give it
fragmentarily over the telephone
One reason for this is that most
of the newspapers of the country
are located at a distance from Wash
ington, and telegraph charges are
heavy. The Washington papers give
twice or three times as much space
to Congress as other newspapers of
equal circulation elsewhere.
OF course it must be said from the
newspaper viewpoint, that the pub
lie never shows any great interest
in Congressional debates, unless they
become personal or acrimonious. Yet
business prosperity and social aid
vance depend on good legislation. It
does seem strange that every man
who pretends to read newspapers at
all should not like a column day of
it, but he probably wouldn't.
The principal reason for popular
disgust with Congress may be its
do nothing habit. This is not Iazi-
ness. Congressman are active, sue
cessful business men, who can hus-
tie when they want anything The
do nothing habit is merely the ira
ditional method of heading off Iegis-
lation that can't be beaten on direct
vote. 1t is poor business and poor
politics, and some day the Congress
men will find it out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
Goop-RY TO CONGRESS-

No matter how much unfinished
work Congress may have left in its
oyerEowing pigeon-holes the adjourn
ment Of the national Legislature is
regretted by few.
What is the basis for the feel
ing almost of contempt with which
SO many good citizens regard this
historic body, one of the foremost
legislative assemblies of the world?
Probably one reason that Congress
does not regard its own dignity
highly. When Congressman are
seen sitting with their feet on a
desk, Iolling in attitudes of disgust
and contempt, when scarcely dozen
members can be found willing TO lis
ten to able speakers, are the CALLER
les likely to venerate the statesman
who take themselves thus as a joke?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

As the fail season Is coming on,
the mai Iorder man begins TO get busy
and tries to coax the dollars away
from the home town. He wants Soul
money but he doesn't contribute one
lutte red cent TO pay for the run
ning expenses of your schools and
your churches. He is not a taxpayer
He doesn't care whether you have
paved streets, waterworks, electric
light, sewers, etc, in your city-au
he wants is your money. Your home
merchant pays taxes, he contributes
Is some church or other He is
interested in making your city a bet
ter city and you ought to be loyal
to him and buy everything you pos
sibIy can from him. Considering the
cost of RENTING money, the freight
charges aid the drayage and the fact
that you have to pay in advance and
buy without seeing the goods, you
are taking q long chance when you
buy from the catalogue houses. Are
you in business in this city? If you
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

provision for newspapers and hotels
really needing Sunday mail, and per
haps some few other classes of the
public need such accommodation.
The average business man, however
would do better to break off the hab
it he has formed of getting his bust
ness mail Sundays in all places wher
the office is open on that day.
If unfavoraibIe news comes Sunday
he rarely can take any steps on that
day to save himself from disaster.
If good news comes. it will be just
as good Monday morning.
1t will do the business man good t,
dodge his ledgers and letters. Let
him listen to the songs of the choir
instead of reading the bowls of his
customers because goods are not de-
livered. Or if he is not a church go
er the voice of birds in the woods will
be much better than the grumbIings
of patrons.
The wear and tear of business
grinds particularly hard on the man
who insists on opening his mail Sun
days. With all his assistants gone,
he feels helpless in the lonely silence
Of his store or factory. Difficulties
seem mountains, and the rest day
God and the law have given us is
fretted away needlessly. If his mail
lies until Monday, with his helpers
around him difficulties will not seem
half so big.
OF course the time the postal clerk
works Sunday has been compensated
for by time given some other day
But irregular rest hours don't count.
Even a postal clerk, likes to keep
sttep with his fellowmen to work whe1
they work, and play when they play.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
HOW TO GROW BETTER AND
LARGER

The fame Of Grand Rapids as a city
where ordinances are not enforced
is too well known to be commented
on. We have an ordinance which
prohibits the riding of bicycles on
sidewalks. Arrests have been made
and convictions have not been secur-
ed by the police. The police are will
ing to enforce the ordinance but do
not think it worth while as they can
not get convictions.
Second Avenue South is one of the
best streets in the city in so far
as being a first class road is concern
ed. It is the street that is most a,
bused by the bicycle riders. Chill
dren are told to get out of the way
by the riders and there are instanc-
es where women wheeling baby car
riages have had to get off the walk
to let the bicycles go by. That is
bad enough but the worst is not vet.
A new wrinkle is being sprung on
Second avenue. and it is no less
than the use Of the sidewalks by
motorcycles. That's about the linn
it. People living on the street are
becoming desperate and unless he
city authorities do something to stop
this practice, the residents will have
TO take the law into their own hands
1t has always been Supposed that
the sidewalks were for the use of
pedestrians and the road for vehi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

cles-that is the case in most all ci-
ties but this city doesn't seem to
wake up to the fact this is city ant
not little one colt power tank town
If women and chillren can not use
the sidewalks without having their
lives endangered by bicycles and
motorcycles, and if city authorities,
| (wheeYer they are, who should see
thasL these practices, are stopped,)
will not stop the riding on the side
walks, we might as well abolish our
policemen and justice courts and get
right back to the stone age when e.
very man was a law unto himself.
No one will object to the bicycle
riders using the sidewalk when the
roads are muddy so long as they use
care )and right here let us say that
there. are riders who get off of their
wheels when approaching pedestrians
and act like real men and gentlemen
but in fine weather with streets as
smooth and fine as Second avenue
south there is no excuse for the use
Of the sidewalks by the bicycle rid
ers and surely, under no conditions
should motorcycles be allowed on
them. The attention of the Mayor,
thee ity Attorney and the city coun-
Gil is respectfully called to this mat
ter and it is hoped that an ordinance
will be passed prohibiting the use
of the sidewalks by bicycle riders
and that the ordinance will be enforc
ed.
We have a city here that ought to
have a population of $4,000 or more
we ave the transportation faciIi-
ties-we have cheap power-we have
a position from a geographical stand
point that ought make his the.
trading and distributing center of the
state We have a beautiful city which
if its natural advantages were utiIiz-
ed as they should be, would put US up
among the leading cities of the north
west-we have good drainage-We
have good drinking water and as
good a climate as any Wisconsin cit.
and still we are a small city What's
the reason? Just one thing, and
that is the lack Of CIVIC PRIDE.
The ladies have helped beautify !
the city and the men have helped the |
ladies some-but there is something |
the business men can do to make this /
I ,wn grow ard prosper What is it? |
Simply forget your little personal +
differences and jeaIousies and get
together organize a merchants as
ciatfon-puH together, don't go a.
round hating everyone else in the
same line Of trade-Iook beyond that
be broader-get out of the rut-be
men, not children.
Can't you see that if you do any
thing to help the town you are help
ing not only yourself but everyone in
the town? Remember when you read
Alexander Dumas The Three Guard
men,? Do you remember their mot
to? Zone for all and all for one"
and they did some stunts. So it would
be with our city. Let's do a little
something along that Iine-an for one
and one for all Stop knocking the
other fellow. Start today to build
up Grand Rapids, WISCONSIN; Look
at the successful growing cities a.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
SUNDAY WORK,

Notwithstanding all the incon-
Venience caused by closing first and
second class post offices Sunday
there will be much sympathy with
the desire of postal clerks for a
voorhees, day of rest
It hardly seems necessary that a
post office employee should be kept
from his family on the worlds weekly
holiday, while he's distributing pic
ture post cards and advertising cir
culars into private boxes.
The post master general has made
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05

One would think people would get
tired Of beng killed in automobiles
crossing railroad tracks. 1t seems
such an aYoidabIe manner of death. 1t
may be true that the same person is
never killed twice that way, but that
is no help. The experience Of the
dead ought to teach the living. Ap-
parentIy it doesn't Every motorist
must know from repeated and re-re-
peated demonstration that when a
motor car and a train Of steam cars
dispute alta crossing as to which shall
pass first the motor car invariably
gets the y rst Of it. And yet, week
after week and month after month,
the argument goes on and contestant
ON the motor car side proceed to the
hospital or the cemetery.