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Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
Copyright. 1911, by II. <. Ely 90
SYNOPSIS.

Lieut.. Harry Mallory is ordered to the
philippines. He and Marjorie Newton
decide TO elope, but wreck OF taxicab pre-
vents their seeing minister on the way to
Ing on passengers. Porter has a lively
Time with an Englishman and Ira Lath-
rop, Yankee business man. The clippers
trae an efS'ns time gttpg 70 bo 5ns
Tor Keno to get divorce. boards train
In maudlin condition. Later Mrs. Jimmie
appears. She Is also bound for Reno with
same object Likewise Mrs. Sammy. Whit
comb. Latter blames Mrs. Jimmie for
her marital troubles Classmates of Nal
Iory decorate bridal berth. Rev. and Mrs.
to cut loose and Temple removes evidence
Of hts calling. Marjorie decides TO let
Mallory proceed alone. but train starts
gers Join Maliory's classmates in giving
couple wedding hazing. Marjorie is dis
tracted. Ira Lathrop. communicating
bachelor. discovers. an old sweetheart,
lory vainly hunts for a preacher among
the passengers. Mrs. Wellington hears
Little Jimmie's voice. Later she meets
5orie his failure TO find preacher. They
decide TO pretend quarrel and Mallory
finds a vacant berth. Mrs. Jimmie discov-
again makes an Unsuccessful hunt for a
preacher. DR.: Temple poses as physi-
clan: Mrs. Temple is induced by Mrs.
Melnhgton TO smoke cigar. sight OF
Mallory's hopes. but he takes another
train. Missing hand baggage compels the
couple to borrow from passengers. Jim
nile gets cinder in his eye and Mrs.
Jimmie gives first aid. Goodness is then
resumed. Still no clergyman. More bor-
rowing. DR.. Temple puzzled by behavior
of different couples. Marjorie's jealousy
aroused by Mallory's baseball jargon.
Marjorie suggests wrecking the train in
hopes that accident will produce a preach
al Al. H.
hold the train so she can shop Marjorie's
Dog Is missing. She pulls the cord. stop
ping the train. Conductor restores dog
and lovers quarrel Lathrop wires for a
preacher TO marry him and Miss Cattle.
Mallory tells Lathrop OF his predicament
and arranges to borrow the preacher.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
He Knew.

"'Where there's a will there's a
way" AYERS Taylor Holmes, appear
ing in The Million. THE way, how
ever, varies, as in the case of a GER
tain pickpocket, who was convicted
and promptly fined.
The lawyer of the pickpocket took
the fine imposed upon his client very
much to heart
twenty-five dollars!' he expostu-
lated. Your honor. where is this poor,
unfortunate man to get s25?'
His honor did not know. or If he
did he refrained from saying so, but
the prisoner was less discreet.
Just let me out Of here for ten or
fifteen minutes he said, and I'll
show your "-Young's Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
Vegetable Fiber for Shoes.

A Haverhill (Mass) shoeman has
obtained patents giving him the right
to make vamps and tops of vegetable
fiber which he has invented and per-
fected to be used in the manufacture
Of shoes. A few cases Of shoes have
been made of this material, which ap-
pears to be a good substitute for leath
er. The fiber is said to be particularly
adaptable for warm weather wear be-
cause, being of woven material, air
can penetrate the vamp and top. The
inventor also claims that a shoe made
of this material is waterproof.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
To Renovate Historic Castle.

Loeb Dochart Castle, which was
built in the thirteenth century on an
island in the loch Of the same name
and is associated with the famous Rob
Roy, has now been taken in hand by
the Scottish Historical Antiquarian as.
ISOLATION, and is being renovated so as
to insure its permanency.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
Money In Growing Willows.

A Chicago merchant advertised for
100000 willow clothes baskets which
indicates that the willow-growing in
dustry Is very much neglected. The
government is encouraging IL by
teaching farmers how to grow viii.
lows. They require q soil that will
grow wheat. ...---- go
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
Wrond Guess.

Nan-I've seen your new young man,
and / should call him diamond in
the rough.
Fan-Well, he's susceptible OF some
polish, I'll admit, but you haven't class
flied him correctly; he's Jasper.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
important TO Mothers
Always the Way.

do you think woman can keep
a secret?"
mo; she always tries to syndicate
it."-Judge.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09
Bane Guido Yells.

1t is stated by returning traveller
that the yells introduced by the
American athletes at Stockholm can
be heard all over Sweden"
Some yells those.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09

Between two evils, choose neither
between two goods, choose both
Tryon Edwards.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09

Be thrifty on little things like bluing.
Don't accept water for bluing. Ask for Red
Cross Ball Blue, the extra good value blue.
Adv.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09

1t is the things that are possible,
not probable that keep some people
from being happy.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09

Red Cros, Ball Blue gives double value
for your money, goes twice as far as any
other Ask your grocer. Adv
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09

CURES ITCHING SKIN DISEASES.
Coles Carbolisalye stops itching and makes
the skin smooth. All druggists. rs and Soc. Adv
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-11-09

Inspiration that comes in bottles is
often adulterated with regrets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04

danger Of reading on some ones
enlarged corn.
Perhaps one reason why patriot
ic oratory fell into disrepute was
because OF its vague generality. You
can't interest young people with
spread eagle flights and high strung
adjectives.
Let the July speaker get down
to terms Of common life. Let him
take an hour off for preparation, for
looking up the personal experiences
of Washington and other patriots
Let him picture Washington pouring
out his soul in prayer to God, fright
ening malcontents with his threats
driving Congress to provide him fund
by sheer force of personality. Let
him describe the marvel how raw and
laundering troops in their leather
stockings, and buckskins, defeated
the flower of European chfvalry.
Theirs a great human interest story
there for the man who Will study his
subject a little.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
CURTIS VARIETY
ST0TE HAS LEASED
new QUARTERS

The Curtis Variety store has. out
grown its present quarters. Mr.. Cur
tbs has leased the Taylor, Scott and
DAILY store now occupied by Link &
Werle. 1t is expected that the store
will be ready to occupy by August 1.
The store will be entirely remodeled
and arranged to suit the novelty store
business. Mr.. Curtis opened the pres
ent store on August 5, 1911, and has
been doing d steadily increasing bus
s'ness from that time on.g The bust
ness has increased to such an extent
that is necessitates moving into larg-
er quarters. Mr. Curtis said to a
Reporter representative, Grand Rap
ids is a good business city and my
success here has surpassed my expec-
tations'' The business methods employ
ed by this store are what have made
it the big success that it is. Know
ing the markets and how to buy, Civ
ing the people good value for thier
money, are some of the reasons for
success and others are that Mr. Cur
tbs is a believer in advertising and
always adVertises when he has some
special inducement to offer to the
public and his windows are always
attractiVely trimmed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
PUSSY AND THE BIRDS

At this season when fledgeling
birds are faltering about our lawns
and gardens on their untried wings,
Pussy lives high. The cold scraps
from the table are scorned. Even
milk sours in her saucer. No such
canned foods for her at the height
of the game season.
With claws extended and clutch
ing paws, she resists all attempts
to put her safely away in her nest
in the basement. Not merely does
the fascination of the darkness in
vite this companion of all witches
and COLLINS. But there is something
more tangible and toothsome hop
ping around the lawns in helpless
innocence.
All this is not mere sentimentaIi-
ty. The tremendous growth of in
sect pests would never have occur
red, had birds been protected. It is
a matter of the most common obser-
walton among the older country peo-
pie, that birds are not as numerous
as they were so years ago, while
insect pests have multiplied.
It means millions on millions of
loss to the farmer. Eventually the
Consumer pays for it all through
higher prices. If we want cheap food
We must save the birds that protect
the crops.
The cat, cruel charmer that he is,
has his function. His beauty, cloth
ing every motion and attitude in an
unconscious and fascinating grace.
his substantial services in driving
away vermin, give him his secure
place by our fireside.
But let every cat lover in the coun
try and suburbs take pains to see
that Pussy's destructiveness is reduc.
ed to the limit Every cat should
wear a bell during the season when
young and helpless birds are hopp
ing about our lawns.
In many country homes the i'm
moderate love for cats permits spraw
ling colonies of them by the dozen
reducing bird life for miles around.
You can get just as much pleasure
out of one cat as out of twenty.
Under the most favorable condi-
tons, the supply for cats far ex-
ceeds the demand Behind Kitty's
most frolicsome graces, there must
Turk the tragedy of the water but,
where dark scenes of execution must
take place while children mourn fro
licsome playmates. No family is
morally fit to keep a Mother Cat, I'M
less some one has the Spartan re
solve to control the kitten popula-
ton by this stern decree.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
RAT-DAY

When dispatches announced that
the farmers of South Indiana were
holding a rat-day, a general smile
went around. 1t was no doubt thot
that in the intervals between hold
ing political conventions, the Hoosier
farmers were getting up a little sport
to while away the time.
The fact that in Gibson county a.
lone 1900 rats were killed in a day,
however, is a sanitary and economic
item that the rest of the country
should read and ponder upon.
The annual bill for the board of
MIR. Rat in this country is estimated
at $100, 900 600, of which SIS 600. 600
is allowed for fires started by gnaw-
ing electric insulation and matches.
1t takes so cents worth of wheat
to feed a rat for a year He eats
The seed in the ground, the tender
shoot when it first appears above
soil, he bites off the golden ears,
he raids granaries, mills, and Ella
vators wholesale
Many a farmer loses as much grain
to rats and mice as he feeds to his
stock. If he would devote to rat
killing the time he gives to writing
papers for the Grange on Does farm
ing pay he would feel better about
the outlook for agriculture.
Rats and men are the only warm
bloOded animals that can survive all
attacks and all enemies. They eat
about the same things, and for two
centuries have fought each other,
with the result a drawn battle still.
Centuries of combat with man have
given the rat a preternatural cunning
Working in cooperation with his fell
lows he will carry fresh eggs down
a steep stairway, without cracking a
she'll.
Why ssould not the farmers by
transfer some of his sporting adven-
lures against the rat, rather than a.
gainst the comparatively harmless
woodchuck or grounding, who mere
eats a few of your vegetables, but
carries no diseases?
Field rats can be trapped without
great difficulty, spite of their cum
ming. A favorite way of handling
them is to put meal into their holes
for a few days, then stop putting it
there for a day, then put poisoned
meal in, and stop up the hole The
rat dies underground, and does no
harm, unless quite near a dwell
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04

many homes of ample fortune The
Girl Of the Period is becoming more
and more critical of the offerings in
the marital market. A house on the
avenue is not necessarily enough.
College life crammed her head with
the lore Of the ages, and made her as
sensitive to mental shortcomings as
to physical deformities. A prospec-
tive husband who cares more about
Ty Cobb's batting record than about
the significance of the Ibsen plays
may strike her as amusing as an es
cort. But she may fear that her in
terest in the Ty Cobbs would flag at
the 1O0Oth breakfast table.
Nor is the role of the Old fash
toned Girl, with her dainty embroid-
cry, her dreamy culture of the holly
hooks and the Iarkspurs with serene
neighborhood five o'clock teas, any
more alluring.
Until We close the women's col
Ieges, the college settlements, and
the phiIanthropies, the intensely alert
Girl Of the Period will long for life
much like mans life. But meanwhile
there is an echoing void in the heart
of many an aged couple and a long
ing for the sweet foot fall so rarely
heard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
BEST ROADS
IN The WORLD

In France, where they have the
best roads of any country in the
world, the highways are divided into
several classes, but all OF them are
supervised by the national govern
ment, which maintains a bureau of
roads and bridges, and support a
school for the education of the engi-
neers and inspectors who are en-
ployed in the bureau. This method
of. building and maintaining roads in
France was started by the first Ma
poleon, who appears to have been
the earliest European statesman who
clearly saw the economic advantage
Of proper highways, and who at the
same time had the power to carry
out what he wished. The effect of
these good roads in France has been
wonderful. They have brought all of
the various parts of the country near
er together; they have made country
life less lonesome, and they have re
duced the cost of transportation OF
country produce to a minimum. France
is the only country in Europe where
the agricultural classes are not dis
satisfied, and where they do not feel
that they have a harder time than
those who labor in other fields.
Civilized nations have good roads
savage and unenlightened countries
do not. The highways of travel are a
guage of the progress a people have
made from barbarism to civilization.
How are your roads?
The price at which farm will sell
for is regulated by it's nearness to
market, and the quality of it's neigh
borhood roads, To increase the sell
ing price of your farm, work for good
roads.
Good roads will benefit the farmer
more than he ever dreams of.
On an average, the farm products
Of this country must be hauled by
wagon, miles to market. There is
more room for saving in this wagon
haul than in a railroad haul of one
thousands miles. The railroads Of
the country charge only eight-tenths
of a cent for hauling a ton mile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
THE END OF THE
COAL STRIKE

The anthracite coal strike is over,
and a considerable slice of the Is
cents advance which the public is
asked to pay will go to the operat-
ing companies. This will not tend
to hush the voice Of political IN
rest.
While politicians and economists
are arguing over this last straw ad-
ded to the burdens Of the people
whose homes are heated from these
mines, something may we'll be said
In congratulation of the millions Oh
people who get along very comfort
ably without anthracite coal. Parti-
cuIarly of those who after the man
ner Of the fathers still keep warm by
honest and glowing old wood fire.
Save in those southern sections
of the country where only a light
fire is needed, the country Vilager
and back roads farmer living in a
cold climate, who has never put in a
coal-heater, is looked at much as the
man who takes a bath but once a
month.
| Actually, however, he has very
pleasant mode of heating. The nut
ty perfume Of his oak and maple logs
fills the home with its pleasant a.
roma. If the fire dies out on a mild
dav. il can be kindled again in five
minutes. The roar of the cracking
logs makes you feel warm if the
thermometer is but fifty-five.
Meanwhile his netghbor across the
way who let his coal fire out, is fill
ing his eyes with smoke and his face
with CRIME in the effort to kindle
those slow burning black diamonds
They glare and glitter from the NAV
of his black beast the furnace. Only
after much splitting Of kindling and
much crockfng Of his billed shirt
against the sooty furnace, can he
coax them into combustion.
American forests have been SC
ruthlessly wasted that in many 10
calities a wood fire costs more than
coal But for the farmer separated
by rough and billy roads from the
railroad station, and with a wood lot
at his back door, with leisure time in
the winter to prepare a years sup
ply ahead, the wood pile can save
him one Of the heaviest charges OF
city life in a cold climate.
Let him not think because Miss
with metropolitan ideas, that the old
wood stove necessarily spells social
disgrace Her mother will tell her
that the swell curtains she has brot
back from New York will retain their
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
HOW TO KILL
DANDELIONS

Suburban Life gives the following
method of Kidding the lawns Of this
crop:
There are two ways of opening
the campaign against dandelions this
spring. One is to cut them out by
hand, and the other and more mo-
dern method is to spray the weeds
with copperas, an iron sulphate.
eff you cut the plants out by hand,
i is necessary to cut well below the
crown with a long sharp knife. It is
claimed by weed experts that the
weeds no not propagate from the
rOost as much as from the crown.
''To use the iron sulphate, or cop
peras, dissolve one and one-fourth
pounds of salt to a gallon of water,
and apply to the lawn with a spray
pump. Cover the lawn thoroughly.
There will be no injury to the grass.
In q couple of weeks apply the spray
again, and repeat the operation in
fortnight after that.
"The grass appears black after
treatment, but after being sprayed
once assumes a really richer shade Of
green than formerly"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
JULY 4 ORATORY

Many fine patriotic programs are
being prepared nowadays for indie
pendence day. But though athletics
are exceedingly useful in cooling down
the fever Of the Small Boys energy,
though fireworks may display all the
coIors of GoIconda, there is a hole
in the thing if the real meaning Of
the day is not made clear to the
young folks.
It is interesting to dig into the file
of any old newspaper to see the part
independence day. oratory played year
ago. An old copy in the possession
of this office gives a report of ty-
picla gathering in which quaint toasts
were responded to on such subjects
as Heroes Of the Revolution, THE
day We celebrate, THE American
Eagle, Civil and religious liberty, .
Woman sThe American Com
mon school system" etc.
How our young people would laugh
at an assembly gotten up today On
these stilted lines, with sweating
men in their sticky black frock coats
saving the air with their flights
Of patriotic oratory.
Yet is there not room between ball
games for good rafting July 4
speech in. our programs for 1912.
Certainly the speech makers are
always ready. Any. Of our politi-
clans will always be pleased to do
the job. It is such relief to be a
bic to show your gifts as a spell bind
er on a subject where there is no
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
THE STAY At
HOME GIRL

There came into this office the
other day an exchange, which in Civ
ing story Of the graduating class
of its local High school, reported the
plans for the future Of the gradual
ing class Of the twenty-six girls,
a third were going to college, an
other third were to attend Normal
school, and a third were planning to
attend business schools or take up
office work. It was noticeable that
only one announced that she pro-
posed merely to Give at home"
For one thing, there isn't money
enough in home life to suit the Girl
Of the Period. These are times when
a hat that the girls feel can be worn
down town without undermining their
social status, cannot be had for less
than SO to SIS, or upwards accord
ing to scales Of taste. The Ieayings
in Dads purse, after meeting the
increased cost Of the household, are
utterly inadequate. The Girl Of the
Period is too business like to base
her budget on such an irregular and
indeterminate base Of supplies.
It looks to her as shiftless to de
pend for her summer suit on the Old
Mans good nature, as to take no
steps to provide dinner, trusting that
the neighbors viii bring something il
But feminine restlessness goes deep
er than money. It is felt in a great
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-04
WILL INVITE 500
TO THE VALLEY
Concerted Efforts to be Made to
Secure Better Railroad FaCiI-
tiles.

Jacob Werle, l. A LaCerte, Rob
ert Huffman and M. c. Ewing re-
turned home last night from Stevens
Point, where they attended a meeting
called by the Businessmen Associa-
ton of Stevens Point relative to a
project to get the 500 line to build
railroad thru the Wisconsin river
valley 1t was decided that the vari-
Gus commercial organizations in the
valley appoint committees which shall
meet in this city some time in the
near future to decide upon line of
procedure. 1t is probable that a re-
quest will be made that the 500 com
pany build line from Prentice, Price
county, to Stevens Point, via Merrill
and Wausau.-Wausau Record-Her-
aid.