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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
NJ. STHUS.
TEDT MISSING
By United Press Associations.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 5.-Fred N.
Sthustedt Of Madison, a freshman at
the University of Wisconsin, college
Of engineering, left his home Wednes
day morning to attend his classes,
and has not been heard from since.
The college faculty have started a
search for him The University
swimming tank has also been drag
ged but no trace of him has been
found
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
TIMELY SUGGESTION
(Contrfbuted)
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
Dear Sir: There is no doubt in
my mind, that old friends are the
best. But if you apply that sentence
to buildings, then 1 do not agree.
There are a few buildings northeast
of the bridge in the city of Grand
Rapids, (they look no me like shan
tvs erected in war time to be used
as privies by the soldiers) that are
not 50 good to look at, as a decent
out building. Everyrime I cross the
bridge, I size them up, even the
magnificent building on the west side
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
MRS. v. /. UP-
HAM DIES; END
Of A NOBLE LIFE

MARSHFJELD, Wis, Nov. 30
The entire community was shocked
and startled shortly after .. m.
Friday to learn of the sudden death
of Mrs. w. H. Upham which occurred
at the family residence in this city.
Mrs. Upham had contracted a cold or
her return from Chicago a week ago
which resulted in pneumonia Owing
to her frail condition much anxiety
was felt but on the morning of the
day Of her death the crisis seemed
to be passed and great hopes were
entertained for her recovery. Short
ly after noon, however, a sudden
change appeared and death resulted
from heart failure, at about 1:3O.
MarshfieId is bereayed indeed, as
there has not been a year in history
in which the beloved presence of
this great hearted woman has not
made itself felt.
In the early pioneer days of the
! city, she was a ministering angel in
every home, caring for the sick, help
| ing the needy and comforting the sor
rowing. From these early days until
this present time she has never ceas-
ed her Iabors of love, and even when
the brave body began to fail, the
spirit was, Undaunted and strong to
the end.
Words fail to tell the good that this
noble woman has done not only in
our own city but all over the state.
Ever prominent in the temperance
cause, the work of the church and
sabbath school; in fact there is not
a department in work that has for it
object the improvement of humani
/ tvs relation wifb God and the adj
vancement OF the best interests of
/ Christian civilization in which the
presence of this beloved woman has
not been felt Truly her aim in life
was to make the world better by her
presence, and inst grandly she has
succeeded, all who have loved and
know her can testify.
/ A short time ago Mrs. Upham wrote
a beautiful little poem entitled THE
Autumn Days" the concluding three
stanza's of which contain a message
To all those who mourn her loss,
and who will never forget the influ-
ence of her beautiful life
Grow old IN beauty like the Leaf,
1 No higher aim be thine,
/ For toward the sunset, life is brief,
Let heavenly virtues shine.
! Lies Autumn then NAV we'll attest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
EAGLESELECT
OFFICERS

At the last meeting of the Order
of Eagles, Wisconsin Aerie No. 373,
Monday evening, the following Off
GERS were elected:
Pres-Chas. Gurtler.
Vice Pres.-Alfred RENDER.
Chaplain-Georee MouIton-
Sea. c. Miller.
TFeas.-James Mason.
Inside Guard-Henry Van TasseI.
Outside Guard-Curtis J. Crotteau.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
SIX YOUNG WOMEN ADDED
BY United Press Associations.

MADISON, Wis, Dec, A. Six
young women were added to the State
University, to the college of Agricu[
ture, to take the short course last
week. Five of them are graduates
of fashionable New York finishing
school. They all declare they will
become professional farmers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

The Governor is not very popular here
now as the last election proves, and
this act VIII not help matters amy. If
their present charter fails 10 give
them the right 10 raise their dam, the
the coming legislature should grant
the right.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
CHEAP RATES ON GAS
BY United Press Associations.

RACINE, Wis, Dec. 5.-The Wis
consin Gas and Electrical Co., have
offered the city cheap rates on gas
provided the city council will allow
them to have an overhead tramway
in which TO transport coal from the
docks to the reports of the gas
h0ITce
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
A PRIZE OF S25 OFFERED
BY United Press Associations

~ OHTled Press ASSOCIATIONS.
MADISON, Wis, Dec. A prize
of twenty-five dollars given for the
bess Prom waltz to be composed by
Wisconsin students and submitted be
fore january Is, was offered to-day,
by the committee in charge of arrans
ments for the University of Wiscon-
sin promenade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
NO COALITION OF
INDEP'T. PR0GRESSIVES
BY United Press Associations

WASHINGTON, D. c. Dec. 5.-No
coalition of the Independent Progress
sives in the next Congress and that
Progressive victory over COMPRESSION
al Democrats of two and four years
hence, is predicted by A. w. Laf-
ferty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
MARRIAGE LICENSES
We reach perpetual youth.

Marriage licenses have been issued
to the following persons:
Chas. Pribbanow to Anna Scbunem
both of Grand Rapids.
F. w. Speich of DexterviIIe to
Pearl Ames Of PittsviIIe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ;

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO.
LUCAS COONTY %
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is
Co, doing business in the City OF Toledo,
County and state aforesaid, and that said
1Tm viii pay the sum OF ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case OF Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of Halls
Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day OF December, A. D.
1886
4. w. GLEASON,
(Seal) NOTARY PUBLIC.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Send for testimonials
free
T. j. CHENEY C Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75C.
AXE Hairs Family Pills for constipation -
Advertisement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
HEARING POSTPONED
BY United Press Associations.

WAUKESHA, Wis, Dec. 4.-On
account of the absence of District At
torney Evans, from the city, the ar
raignment of Fred z. Cowie, who was
arrested yesterday, charged with be
ing implicated in the Spring City Ho-
tel fire here on January "a, 1911, was
postponed until Thursday, when he
will have a hearing in municipal
court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
A Good Crop

or a good salary does not profit one
very much if no part of it is saved.
Men have tried all kinds Of schemes
for saving money and for making it
earn them handsome profits. Most OF
these schemes prove failures
About the only sure way is to de
post small amounts regularly and
then invest carefully when enough
lis accumulated.
Our Savings Department viii help
you to save and our officers are al
ways ready to advise regarding in
yestmcnts
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
UNIFORM D..
VORCE LAWS
BY United Press Associations.

BY United Press Associations.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec 5.-Four or
five of the Atlantic coast states IN
which divorce laws are antiquated an
correspondingly harsh are largely re-
sponSible for the existence OF the
Reno Divorce Colony, stated Governor
Oddie of Nevada who addressed the
Governors conference to-day. He
pleaded for uniform divorce and mar
riage laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
BLIZZARD SWEPT
THRU COLORADO

BY United Press Associations.
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 5.-The fight
Ing blizzard which swept Colorado
and Wyoming yesterday subsidized to,
day, leaving from one to three feet
Of snow in its wake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
CONFESSED
OF MURDER
BY United Press AssoeIatIon..

" OHINeu FTos3 ASSocI atoms.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. s.
John Deer, twenty years old, a naval
apprentice at the Goat Station to-day
confessed of numbering a man in
Richmond, Kansas. three years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
GREEKS INTEND
To CARRY ON
HOSTILITIES
BY United Press Associations.

VIENNA-NeW Greek gunboats to-
day report bombarding Valonia, a city
The action on the part of Greece is
taken that the Greeks intend to car
ry on war single handed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
First Nationa Bank
Grand Rapids. Wis.

Savings deposits made on or be
fore Dec. 18TH, win draw intereg
from Dec 1st
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
Don't Be Asleep
At the Switch

Don't wait until every present has
been handled and shopworn; don't
wait until all the good things have
been picked out; don't rush into the
shops at the very last minute. out of
breath and out of patience. and grab
the first thing you see: don't get the
idea that Christmas giving properly
done is a hurry up, haphazard enter
prise.
REMEMBER-the big crowd that
shops ar the last minute
REMEMBER Haw hard it IS to be
waited M
RECOMMENDATIONS utterly impossible
it is for even a we'll organized store
tc guarantee that your presents will
be delivered on time when you your
self delay your Christmas shopping
until Dec "a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
WOOD COUNTY REPORTER
"a. L. Fontaine, Publisher.
THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1912.

A heavy steady dOWnpour Of rain
on the first day of December 1912, is
quite out of the ordinary for this sec
ton Of Wisconsin. However, this is
what we experienced here on Sunday
When you look over your weekly
papers, just notice how much more
actual news you get i'm the Wood
County Reporter. A fair comparison
will show that you get more news,
more detail Of an the occurrences
and happenings in the county, and
that the news field is thoroughly
covered. The reason is clear. The
Reporter is the only newspaper plant
in the city that has am organized staff
We are compelled to get the news e
very day for our Daily edition and the
news lis used to make up our weekly
edition so those who cannot afford OF
don't care for daily paper actually
set the same news as the readers of
he Daily get. You don't get just a
little boiled down squib, but the full
details as given in the daily Which
do you prefer-a paper that gives
YOU all the news or just part of it
and then i'm part only? We leave it
to you to Judge. We feel confident
that a comparison made in am impair
tiaI manner will uphold our conten-
tiol that we give more actual news
than any other paper published in
this city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05
As age and beauty grow

As age and beauty grow,
That added years are always best,
Rejecting Autumn's glow.
Let years their fruitful harvest
show,
OF wisdom, grace and truth.
Beyond the sunsets beauteous
glow,
We reach perpetual youth.
Deceased was born January 2lst.
1913, in Cleveland, Ohio. On Decem-
Der 18th, 1857, at Racine, she was
united in marriage TO William H. Up
ham who, besides her two adopted
daughters-Mrs. Z. E. Finney OF. this
city, and Mrs. Phil Sawyer of Osh-
kOsh-surYive her. She has been a
constant resident Of Marshfield since
1878.
The funeral will take place Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 from the house
Marshfield Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

Grow old IN beauty like the Leaf,
No higher aim be thine,
For toward the sunset, life is brief
Let heavenly virtues shine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

Lies Autumn then may well attest
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-17

I could do it-and I did. That
was how I began.
tIn the last four days, have
cleared SO and only worked
about six hours a day at that"
The tallest stack she has paint
ed lowered sos feet above the
ground, and she went up and
down it several times as she paint
ed long strips from top to bottom.
Miss Pixley is %; she has two
big air castles; she wants to paint
the highest smokestack in Ameri-
lea, and she hopes a certain young
farmer in southeastern Colorado
will hurry up and get his home
stead claim in good working
shape.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-17
NEW YORK LETTER

New York, Dec. 17.-The
chronological capers cut by Mrs.
Fiske In her new play, "The High
Road" are startling to degree.
You know Mrs. Fiske is at
least-well, anyway, she hasn't
been an ingenue for quite several
years. In this drama she is, sup
posedly, II years old in the first.
act. By means of a dim stage and
a sunbonnet. she gets away with
it beautifully, She even man
ages in some marvellous manner,
to give her matronly figure an as
peet of girlish- slenderness. Good
ness knows how she does it.
Fine for Act /.
In Act ii she is supposed to be
20. Bright lights, Mrs. Fiske in
a loose, unbecoming shirtwaist,
black skirt, no hat. Instead of
looking three years older than in
Act I, she looks so years older.
Then Act III. Eighteen years
have elapsed since Act II. There
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-17

w ~ 4 AAANN ~ AAA4~s SA4N 81
swered, and made for a bucket of
cold water.
After a few liberal splashes, the
laughing eyes and healthy COM
plexion of the worlds only girl
smokestack painter faced me.
She is Miss Mayme Pixley.
Smokestack painting is her regu-
lar business, though when smoke
stacks are not to be had she will
paint steeples and fagpoles with
the best of men steeplejacks-and
paint EN- as fast and as we'll.
Miss Pixley had just finished
coating the last strip of smoke
stack with black paint when I
came up. Her gloves were black
with paint, so was her short skirt,
and most everything about her.
Hers is not job of fancy dresses
and dainty white lingerie, but
Mayme likes it justythe same, al
though she likes pretty clothes,
too.
81 was born and raised on
farm" said Miss Pixley, gather
ing up her ropes and chains and
things, "and as long back as I
can remember I'd rather be out in
the field with father than in the
house with mother and my six
sisters. When we moved to town
pa took up smokestack painting,
and naturally I took a great inter
est in it and used to help him with
the ropes. Then his foot was hurt
and he couldn't climb the high
stacks so well, and had to hire a
man at 81 a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18

larger resources is more adequately
nourished than the other-though
without doubt it is more daintily fed,
the extra money being used not to
supply actual body needs, but to graft
fly the tastes of the family, and to
adopt the diet to financial and social
opportunities. OF course, the gratifi-
cation of tastes in such ways is not
a matter of mere sensual indulgence;
but, on the other hand, rightly en-
ployed. may have a decided value in
raising the standard of comfort in
family life. Yet, whatever the in
come, it is better from every point
of view to live simply rather than
otherwise. For the man of large in
come simple living may mean the pur-
chase of out-of-season foods, and spe-
cially selected supplies which are high
in price, and great care in preparing
foods; but it should not mean the
superabundance and wastefulness of
too generous living. For the family
of moderate income right living
should mean simple foods economical
ly purchased, well cooked, and well
served; these things, after all, are of
more Importance than out-of-season
food and fancy quality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
Says UNCLE CAV

1t is only the big man who can
say, "I have had what I wanted in
this life; L have drunk deeply of its
| joys and have not complained of the
cost" And he that is big enough to
maintain this attitude truly lives and
finds little to lament.
Existence would be Sweeter to
most of us if we did not haggle about
the price. There seems to be no way
of getting out of paying for what
we get. Millions of men have tried it,
but all have failed. Hence if we
would drain the cup joyously with a
smack of the lips in anticipation of
the next, we puSt pay the score with
out wincing or regret. There are
times when the considerations of mig
gardly economy are a curse There is
nothing SO precious in life as joy and
no price is too great to pay for it.
He that pays without regret robs
disappointme of it's sting and draws
the fangs of loss. Hence, to him,
loss, but all things are good and to
be enjoyed. Too many of US are
stingy of our efforts and emotions.
We live like misers, counting out in
agony of spirit the base coins that
purchase a stale leaf Note you the
been great had he dared give him
self ungrudgingly and gladly to the
service of his fellows. There, too, is
that miserable old bachelor, embit-
tered at himself and the world, who
was too selfish to share his heart and
his earnings with wife and family.
Similarly, there is the old maid,
whose childless heart is a reproach
and mockery because in her youth
pleasure and the indulgence of petty
whims and idiosyncracies were set
against the self-sacrifices. ennobling
and sweet, that are woman's destiny.
These have starved themselves be-
cause they considered too long and
too heavy the cost. They
were not big enough to know that
only by giving does one gain. They
held themselves too dearly and in the
end were as whited sepulchers, full
of dead hopes.-(Copyright, 1912, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

Doing your best won't excuse your mis-
takes whether it should or not
Nearly everyone knows enough French
to mispronounce it occasionally
Question for the Lancaster Literary So
ciety: Is tobacco a LUXURY or neces-
sity?
A pawn broker knows of even lower
valuations than those the assessor hears
about.
At least this can be said to the credit OF
the New York 400: they do not give sur
prise parties.
Women who wear skirts SO tight they
can't walk. wouldn't walk much If they
wore loosen garments.
Neither can big man derive much sat
isfaction from whipping little one. viii III
helps the little ones.
There are lot of poor politicians, cor
sidering the amount of graft outsiders
imagine there is in the game.
It must be rather discouraging to a mar
when he begins to find more hair in the
comb than there is on his head.
A cool day, when the doors and will
dows must be kept closed, is q God-send
in a piano-stricken neighborhood.
TT may be different in your case, but
some of my worst mistakes were made
after taking time to think it over.'-Rufe
HoSlzins.
In pointing out the mistakes of others
as most of us do more or less, one is so
apt to overlook a few of his own. Old
stuff, of course, but worth recalling o..
caSionally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
THE AFROPLANE IN WAR.

That the aeroplane will figure in
warfare as a fighting machine as well
as a dispatch bearer and an aid to
scouting is Indicated by the payment
of $4,000 in prizes by the British
government recently to Aviator Cody.
The prizes were offered through the
war office as rewards of victory in
the military competitions at Salisbury
Plains.
Coincident with the Cody flights it
was announced that a fund of $780,
coo had been raised in Germany by
public subscription to purchase a fleet
of war aeroplanes for Emperor Will
liam.
1t is impossible at this time to fore
tell the future developments in avia-
ton. In the American civil war bal
looms were frequently used for the
purpose of observing the movements
of rival forces, but the modern aero
plane may become a terrible engine
of death If experiments now being
made are successful.
1t is easy to conceive how dar-
ing aviator, under proper conditions,
might circle high in the air over an
enemy's camp at night, for instance,
and drop bombs among the sleeping
soldiers No army would be secure in
such a situation and the danger of the
daring rider of the air would be
slight.
Mans ingenuity seems to have
about reached the limit in the devils
ing of engines of death for use on
land and sea, but the air presents an
entirely new field whose possibilities
can only be dreamed of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
THE FOOD PROBLEM.

Adapting food to the pecuniary re-
sources and living conditions of a fam
lily implies more than buying what
one can pay for and the same kind
of things ones neighbors use, writes
c. F. Langworthy of the federal de-
partment of agriculture in the Sep
TENDER Home Progress Magazine
Students of economics find that
while the proportion of the total in
come spent for rent, clothing, ETC., re-
mains about the same, regardless of
the total size of the income, the pro-
portion spent for food grows less as
the income increases. According to
available statistics, a family with an
annual income of $4,000 spends $3.50
Cor One-quarter of the total income)
for food, while a family with an in
come of $1,000 spends $3.50 Cor about
one-third) for food. This does not
necessarily imply that the family with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
QUAKER fluctuations.

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a good fellow has turned over -
new leaf and reformed.
Don't consult a sick doctor unless you
want to be ill-advised.
Some pessimists are born that way, ana
others live in boarding houses
It is always much easier to make ne"
quarrel than to patch up an old one.
No man can be successful without hear
ing a lot of references to the luck or fooiS.
Don't borrow more than you need. II IS
quite possible that you may have TO pas
it back.
Nell-"What makes you think she PLAYS
the harp?' Belle-"She even talks with a
twang.
Even the woman who can't remember
names and faces generally has s0NA
memory for hats.
Wigg-"Guzzler never seems to wear
light-colored clothes" Wagg-'No, MS
taste runs to dark brown"
No. Maude, dear: It doesn't necessarily
follow that young man comes Of sWeil
family just because he Is a sponge
Blobbs-"Does Longbow ever tell the
TRUTH" Slobbs-"Well. caught him IN
the truth once, but he tried to lie OFT
of it,
Cynicus-'He must be younger than ne
looks" Sillicus-"What makes you thlnk
so?'' Cynicus-"He thinks he understands
women