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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
STRIKE AvERTED IN
SOFT COAL FIELDS
Wage Increase Granted Miners
by Owners and Operators.
ANTHRACITE MINERS GO OUT
Miners Union President Gives Order
for Suspension of All Work in
Hard Coal Region April Refer
endum Vote Viii Be Taken.

Cleveland, Ohio-Peace in the BIZ
luminous coal fields has been deeIar-
ed by an agreement between the min
ers and operators. The miners will
receive an increase of ) cents a ton
for screened coal, 3 cents for mine
run, SIS per cent for day labor and
dead work and will work five hours
on Saturday and receive five hours
pay. All other demands are waived.
The additional rates demanded by
the Illinois miners in their conven-
ton Will be dropped The operators
Of the states not represented will ac-
cept the settlement without question.
There will be a suspension in the BIZ
luminous fields in all states except
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas
and Oklahoma, where the miners
have an agreement to work pending
negotiations for a contract. About
$4,000 union men are benefited.
A complete suspension of mining
operations in all the anthracite coal
mines, beginning April l, pending
the taking of a referendum vote of
the miners, was ordered here by
President John P White. The sus-
pension order follows the failure of
the negotiations between the miners
and mine owners of the anthracite
fields.
The outcome of the anthracite
miners vote, many of the miners
conferees here predict, will favor a
strike. In the demands of both the
anthracite and bituminous miners,
wage increases are insisted upon in
view of the fact that no increase has
been conceded by the operators in
the last ten years.
A stoppage in coal production in
the United States as a result of wage
disputes is now assured. The sus-
pension was ordered because of the
operators refusal to grant the union
demands for increased pay. The
shutting down of the mines, the I'M
ion officials say, will cause a loss in
the coal production of the country
of 7,083,000 bushels of anthracite
a month and will entail loss in
pay to the miners Of not less than
$350,000 for every day they remain
ont
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
CHAPTER XI.
Now Riddle Me This.

The children were sitting in the
swing. Florence Hammer a little
girl whose mother was spending the
day at Miss Minerals, was with
them
Don't you-alI wish Santa Claus had
his birthday right now stead . wait
ing till Christmas to hang ~ our
stockings? ?" asked Frances.
Christmas isn't Santa Claus birth
day" corrected Lima God was born
on Christmas and that's the reason
We hang up our stockings"
Yes; it's old Santa's birthday,
too argued Jimmy. cause it's in
the Bible and Miss Cecilia 'splained
It to me and she bout the dandiest
splainer they is"
Which you'alI like the best: God or
Doctor Sanford or Santa Claus ?"
asked Florence.
II like God mother sight better'n
do anybody, declared Jimmy. cause
He so forgiyingsome He's bout the
forgivingest person they is. Santa
Claus can't let you go to Heaven nor
Doctor Sanford neither. nor our papas
and mamas nor Miss Minerva. Now
wouldn't we be in a pretty fix If we
had to pend on Doctor Sanford or
Santa Claus to forgive you every time
YOU run OF or fall down and bust your
breecbes. Nav; gimme God ev'y
time"
II like Santa Claus the best" de-
Clared Frances, cause he isn't f'r-
ever getting in your way, and hasn't
Rny castor oil like Doctor Sanford,
and YOU don't f'rever have to be tell
ing him you're sorry you did what you
did, and he hasn't all time got one
eve on you either, like God. and got
20 follow you round. And Santa Claus
don't all time say, 'Shet your eyes
and open your mouth like Doctor
Sanford, and poke out your tongue. g"
II like Doctor Sanford the best"
said Florence, cause he's my uncle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04

:" T want no chim1y TO II Give II
up? Give IT up?" the little girl
laughed gleefully. Well, he Just broke
out with measles"
at is Billy's time, said Lima, who
seemed TO be mistress Of ceremonies.
"Tabernicle learnt this here one at
school; see if y'alI can guess it: Tab
by had four kittens but SdIlshee did
ut have none t all
q don't see no sense a tall in that
argued Jimmy, 'thout some bad little
boys drowned en-"
"Tabby was a cat" explained the
other boy, "and she had four kittens;
and Stillshee was a little girl, and she
didn't have no kittens Z ALL"
What's this" asked Jimmy: "A
man rode cross a bridge and Fido
walked?' Had little dog name Fl
do"
You didn't ask that right. Jimmy .
said Lima, you always get things
wrong. The riddle is, "A man rode
across the bridge and Yet he walked, ,
and the answer is, He had a little dog
named Yet Who walked across the
bridge"
We'll, I'd mother sight ruther have
little dog name Fido," declared jim
my. q little dog name Yet and a
little girl name Stillshee amt got no
sense a tall to it."
Why should hangman wear sus-
penders?" asked Lima. IN bet no
body can answer that"
ITO keep his breeches from falling
off, triumphant1y answered Frances.
No, you goose, a hangman should
wear suspenders SO that he'd always
have a gaIlows handy"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
CHAPTER XIII.
Job and Polite Bumpus.


q never have told a downright
falsehood," said Lima. Mother taught
me how wicked it is to tell stories
Did you ever tell fib to your mother.
Frances?"
faint no use to try to 'ceive my
mama," was the reply. of the other
little girl; she's got such gimIet eyes
and ears she can tell with 'em shut
if you're fbbing. I gave up hope
long ago, so l just go long and tell
her the plain gospel truth when she
asks me, cause I know those gimIet
eyes and ears of hers re going to
worm it out O. me somehow"
Grown folks pin you down so close
sometimes" said Jimmy, you bound
to 'varicate little; and I always tell
God I'm sorry. 1 tell my mama the
truth most all time 'cepting when
she asks questions bout things amt
none of her business a tall, and she
all time want to know Who done it?'
and if | let on it's me, l know she'll
wear out all the slippers and hair
brushes they is padding my canoe,
sides switches, so 1 JUS say I do
know, 'm'-which all time amt per-
zactly the truth. You ever tell Miss
Minerva stories, Billy?"
Aunt Cindy always says, 'twant
no harm t all to beat bout the bush
an try TO th'ow folks offer the track
long as you can, but if 1t come to
the point where you got to tell a out
an-out fib, she say for me always to
tell the truth, an I Jest nachelly do
ike she say ever sence Is born" re-
piled Billy.
The children swung awhile in 81
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
CHAPTER XIV.
MIR. Alnnrnnn .InnnS

Again it was Monday, with the
Ladies Aid Society in session. Jimmy
was sitting on the grass in his own
front yard, in full view of Sarah Jane
who was ironing clothes in her cabin
with strict orders to keep him at
home. Billy was in the swing in Miss
Minerva's yard.
Come on over" he invited.
q can't" was the reply across the
fence, I'm so good now l bout got
Iigion; I reckon I'm going TO be
mish'nary or politician, one or
t'other when I'm a grown-up man
cause I'm so good; I amt got
but five whippings this week
been good ever since I let
you 'suade me to play Injun I'm
the coolest boy in this town, I spec.
Sometimes l get scared bout being
so good cause I hear a woman say
If you too good, you going to die or
you amt got no sense, once You
come on over here; you amt trying
to be good like what I'm trying, and
Miss Minerva don't never do nothing
tall to you 'cepting put you to
bed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04

was not occupied by its regular pas
tor, Brother Johnson. Instead, tray
cling minister, collecting funds for
church orphanage in Memphis, was
the speaker for the day. Miss Miner
va rarely missed a service in her own
church. She was always on hand at
the Love Feast and the Missionary
Rally and gave literally of her means
to every cause. She was sitting in
her own pew between Billy and jim
my, Mr.. and Mrs. Garner having re-
manned at home. Across the aisle from
her sat Frances Black, between her
father and mother; two pews in front
of her were Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton,
with Lima on the outside next the
aisle. The good Major was there,
too; it was the only place he could
depend upon for seeing Miss Minerva.
The preacher, after an earnest and
eloquent discourse from the text, He
will remember the fatheTless," closed
the big Bible with a bang calculated
to wake up any who might be sleep
ing. He came down from the pulpit
and stood close to his hearers as he
made his last pathetic appeal.
MY own heart" said he, goes out
to every orphan child, for in the vel
low fever epidemic of '78, when but
two years old, I lost both father and
mother. If there are any little orphan
children here today, l should be glad
if they would come up to the front
and shake hands with me-"
Now Miss Minerva always faithful
ly responded to every proposal made
by a preacher; 1t was part of her
religious conviction. At revivals she
was ever a shining, if solemn and aus
tere, light. When a minister called
for all those who wanted to go to
Heaven to rise, she was always the
first one on her feet. If he asked
to see the raised hands of those who
were members of the church at the
tender age of ten years, Miss Miner
vas thin, long arm gave a prompt re-
Spouse. Once when a celebrated
evangelist was holding a big pro-
tracted meeting under canvas in the
town and had asked those who had
read the book of Hezekiah in the
Bible to stand up, Miss Minerva on
one side of the big tent and her de-
voted lover on the other side were
among the few who had risen to their
feet She had read the good book
from cover to cover, from Genesis to
Revelation over and over so she
thought she had read Hezekiah a
score of times.
So now, when the preacher called
for little orphans to come forward.
she leaned down and whispered to
her nephew, Go up to the front, Will
liam, and shake hands with the nice
kind preacher"
VIVA fer?" he asked. q don't want
to go Up there; ev'ybody here'u look
right al me-"
Are there no little orphans here?"
the minister was saying. q want to
shake the hand of any little child
who has had the misfortune to lose its
parents"
60 on, William" commanded his
aunt Go shake hands with the
preacher"
The little boy again demurred but.
Miss Minerva insisting, he obedientIy
slipped by her and by his chum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04

Walking gracefully and jauntily up
the aisle to the spot where the lee
turer was standing by a broad table,
he held cut his slim, little hand.
Jimmy looked at these proceedings
of Billy's in establishment, not com
pretending at all. He was rather in
dignant that the older boy had not
confded in him and invited his par,
ticipation
But Jimmy was not the one to sit
calmly by and be ignored when there
was anything doing, so he slid awk-
wardly from the bench before Miss
Minerva knew what he was I'D to.
Signaling Frances to follow, he swag-
gered pompously behind Billy and he,
too, held out short, fat hand to the
minister
The speaker smiled benignIy down
upon them; lifting them up in his
arms he stood the little boys upon
the table. He thought the touching
sight Of these innocent and tender
little orphans would empty the peck
cts Of the audience. Billy turned red
with embarrassment at his conspicu-
Gus position, while Jimmy grinned
happily at the amused congregation.
Horrifed Miss Minerva half rose to
her feet, but decided to remain where
she was. She was a timid woman
and did not know what course she
ought to pursue. Besides, she had
just caught the Majors smile.
And how long have you been an
orphan?" the preacher was asking of
Billy.
Ever sence me an Wilkes Booth
Lincoln's born" sweetly responded
the child
81 bout the orphantest boy they
is" volunteered Jimmy.
Frances, responding to the latter's
invitation, had crawled over her faith
er's legs before he realized what was
happening. She, too, went smiling
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
PROBE KENGSHA EPIDEMIC
Complaints to State Board of Health
Causes Investigation OF Scar
let Fever Situation.

Madison.-Hundreds of complaints
have been received from Kenosha,
where an epidemic of scarlet fever is
raging, and DIR. G. A. Harper, sec
rotary of the state board of health
has sent one of his lieutenants to
investigate the complaints.
''The situation at Kenosha has
been bad for some time" said DR..
Harper 1.-THE board of health there
has been football in politics. An
other board will come into office
within a few days, and unless condi-
lions are changed at once l shall take
charge of the situation
The exact number of deaths from
the fever since it became prevalent
at Kenosha is rot obtainabIe, but
common report is hat forty children
have died of the disease and its COM
plications since Dec. Is.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04

1t is found only in small quantities.
except at two or three localities. West
ern Colombia and eastern Russia have
gravel beds which afford the priuci-
pal supply of this metal. Elsewhere
1t is found over considerable areas,
but not sufficiently concentrated to be
of Importance. 1t may be looked for
among the formations adjacent to re-
gions of old volcanic activity.
The distribution is principally in al
tered rocks, and segregation seems to
have been the principal cause con-
tributing to its collection in ore
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
Wisconsin News Briefs.

Neenah.-Louis HerZiger, Jr., has
eceived notice of his appointment of
collaboration in the government serv-
ice with the department of agricuI-
ture for eastern Wisconsin. He OPP
crates big truck and fruit farm
here which is irrigated, and the gov
eminent has made his farm an ex-
perimental station and will require
him to submit data on the operation
and success of his irrigated farm, the
only one in the state
Ashland-To protest against the
order from Washington to enforce
the old law requiring all persons not
fullbloods who trade on the Bad
River Indian reservation to give a
bond of $4,000, a meeting of In
dians is to be called soon at Odanah.
1t is said that its enforcement now
will put out of business all the places
now conducted by Indians.
La Crosse.-Taxpayers are puz-
zled as a result Of conflicting rul-
ings received from Tax Commission
ers Lyons and Haugen relative to
the right of holders of national bank
stock to Offset their income taxes for
1912 by the personal property tax
paid by the bank upon their stock
in 1911
Milwaukee.-David S. Rose, mayor
of Milwaukee for five terms, who
was reported dead, is enjoying the
best of health in San Francisco. ac-
cording to a telegram received here.
Wisconsin goods will
run the Daily Cardinal, the uniyer-
sity newspaper, for one day-ApriI
l. 1t win be an April Fools edi-
ton
Menasha.-On proceedings brought
by the Wisconsin Traction, Light,
Heat and Power company city Off
Gals of Menasha are summoned to
appear at the June term of the cir
cult court of Winnebago county to
show cause why they should net be
restrained from supplying CONNER
ciaI electric current from the NUM-
cipal plant to citizens of Menasha.
Neenah. - Northwestern crossing
where the hayrack party met sud
den death September "a, 1911, will
be guarded in the future by a flag
man during the day and automatic
bells at night.
nesville.-The ice on the Rock
river, above this city, has broken
up and it is reported that the river
is open from all the way to Lake
Koshkonong Below this city the ice
has not yet moved The water is
now eight or nine inches above the
government mark.
Milwaukee, the threaten
ed coal strike is averted, Milwaukee
will face a fuel famine soon At
present there is a scarcity of hard
coal and the supply of soft coal is di-
minishing. Egg size" coal is the
only kind local dealers are well sup
piled with.
Madison.-If Senator La Toilette
keeps his word he will take the
stump in wisconsin next fall in ia
vor Of woman suffrage. He says as
much in the April installment Of his
autobiography His complete sym
patty with equal suffrage and his ac-
count of his appointment Of women
to office while governor Of Wisconsin,
are treated freely in the magazine
article named.
Neenah.-The 500 line is prepar-
ing for the threatened soft coal min
ers' strike by storing up vast guam
titles of coal at the various coaling
stations along the line.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
REFUSES REIMBURSEMENT
Senator Stephenson Declares He Will
Pay Own Expenses Occasioned
by Senate Investigation.

washington, D. C.-Senator Steph-
enson has announced that under no
conditions will he permit the senate
to reimburse him for money expend-
ed by him on his election investiga-
ton. 1t is customary when senator
is exonerated in an election case of
this kind, to bring in a resolution ap-
prOpriating money out of the contin-
gent fund of the senate to pay the ex-
penses of the senator resulting from
the inquiry. Such a resolution was
brought in by Senator Gallinger at
the last Lorimer election, but was
not acted on at the latter's request.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
Observation-Disclosures.

That part of the Ladies' Aid Society
which lived in West Coyington was
bearing down upon them.
''Yonder's our mamas and Miss
Minerva" he whispered. Now look
what a mess Billy's done got US in;
he all time got to perpose someping
to get chiIIens in trouble and he all
time got to let grown folks ketch
EN-"
Aren't you ashamed to tell such a
story. Jimmy Garner?" cried Frances.
Billy didn't propose any such thing.
"'Tain't no use to run" advised
Jimmy. They're too close and done
already see US. We boun' to get what's
coming to us anyway. so you might
JUS as well make EN- think you ain t
'fTaid Of EN-. Grown folks got to all
time think little boys and girls r
skeered Of EN-, anyhow"
Aunt MineryaTI sho' put me to bed
this time" said Billy. Looks like
ev'y day l gotter go to bed"
Mother viii make me study the
catechism all day tomorrow" said
Lima dismally.
3Maman lock me up in the little
closet under the stairway" said Fran
ces.
My mamau gimme bout million
ticks and try to take all the hide off
O. me, said Jimmy; but we done had
a heap Of fun"
It was some hours later Billy's
aunt had ruthlessly clipped the turkey
feathers from his head, taking the
hair of in great patches. She had
then boiled his scalp, so the little boy
thought, In her efforts to remove the
mucilage. Now, shorn Of his locks
and of some Of his courage, the child
was sitting quietly by her side, listen
ing to a superior moral lecture and
INDUCING in a compulsory heart-to-
heart talk with his relative.
q don't see that it does you any
good, William, to put you to bed"
Z don see as it do neither" agreed
Billy.
Il can not whip you; I am constitu-
ment for children"
"Ps posed to it too" he assented.
Il believe / viii hire d servant, so
that ! may devote my entire time to
your training.
This prospect for the future did
not appeal to her nephew On the
contrary it filed him with alarm.
"A husband d be another sight
handler" he declared with energy;
he'd be a heap mo count to you'n a
cook, Aunt Minerva. There's that
Major
You viii never make preacher
Of yourself, William, unless you i'm
prove"
The child looked up at her with as.
constituent; this was the first he
knew Of his being destined for the
ministry.
"A preacher what 'zorts an calls
up mourners?" he satd,-"not on yo'
tin-ype Me an Wilkes Booth Lin
coin"
How many times have I expressed
the wish not to have you bring that
negroes name into the conversation? ?"
she impatiantly interrupted.
I don perzactly know, m" he an
sWered good humoredly, bout fifty
hunderd l reckon. Anyways, Aunt
Minerva, / amt goln' to be no preach
er. When l puts on long pants rs
goin to be a Confedrit Vet'run an
kill bout fifty hunderd Yankees an
Iniuns, like my Major man"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04

bodies. The deposits found up to the
present time have been of irregular
naturalization and not of great ex-
tent, consequently all platinum de-
posits must be considered with eau
ton
OF the rare metals associated with
platinum, iridium, osmium. palladium
and others. little need be said because
of their rarity. II found they will be
associated with platinum and will be
known by the greater hardness.
brighter surface and greater SPECIFIC
gravity.-Moody's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04

ten and one-half inches in diameter
and cup and cover nine and one
half inches high, both dating from the
first year Of George ". and it is
melancholy fact that the former was
made from a number Of gold snuff
boxes presented to the Duke Of York
by various cities and by the Univer-
sity of Oxford. All the rest OF the
gold" plate is really silver gilt, and
Mr.. Jones book brings out the curious
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-04
MSS MINERVA -
60 and SKA
~}VYWILuAn GREEN HILL
by FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN
Copyright, by Reilly & BrittOn Coz

and God and Santa Claus amt kin
to me"
And the Bible says, Love your
kin-foIks,' Miss Cecilia 'splained-"
81 use to Ike my Uncle Doc heap
better'n what I do now" went on the
little girl needless of Jimmy's inter
ruption, till I went with daddy to his
Office one day. And what you reckon
that mans got in his Office? He is
got a dead man 'thout no meat nor
clo'es on, nothing a tall but just his
bones"
WAS he a hant?" asked Billy. 81
like the Major best-he's got meat
on"
Nav; he didn't have no sheet on
just bones" was the reply.
mo sheet on; no meat on" CHR
ruped Billy, glad Of the rhyme
Was he a angel, FlOrence?" ques-
toned Frances.
Nav; he didn't have no harp and
no wings neither"
1T must have been a skeleton, "
explained Lima.
And Uncle Doc just keep that
poor man there and won't let him go
to Heaven where dead folks blongs. "
q spec he wasn't a good man fore
he died and got to go to the Bad
place" suggested Frances.
I'll betcher he never asked God
to forgive him when he 'ceived his
papa and sassed his mama, this
from Jimmy,-"and Doctor Sanford's
just a-keeping old Satan from getting
him to toast on pitchfork."
q hope they'll have a Christmas
tree at Sunday-School next Christ
mas" said Frances, barking back,
and l hope I'll get a heap O. things
like I did last Christmas. Poor little
Tommy Knott he's so skeered he
wasn't going to get nothing at all on
the tree so he got him a great, big,
red apple an he wrote on a piece O.
paper From Tommy Knott to Tommy
Knott and tied it to the apple and
put it on the tree for hi'self"
Let's ask riddles" suggested Lima.
"AlI right" shouted Frances. I'm
going to ask the first"
NAV; you amt neither" objected
Jimmy. You all time got to ask the
first riddle. I'm going to ask the first
one
Round as a biscuit busy as a bee,
Prettiest little thing you ever did
see p "A watch
'Humpty Dumpty set on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the kings horses and all the
kings men.
Can't put Humpty Dumpty back
again A egg.
Round as ring, deep as a cup,
All the kings horses can't pull it
up "A we'll
House full, yard full, can't ketch-'"
Hush, JIMMY" cried Lima, in dis
gust. You don't know how to ask
riddles. You must Mt give the an
swers. too. Ask one riddle at a time
and let some one else answer it:
AS was going through a field of
wheat
l picked up something good to eat,
Twas neither fish nor flesh nor
bone,
kept it till it ran alone?'"
"A snake! A snake!" guessed Flor.
ence. That's a easy riddle"
Snake, nothing!" scoffed Jimmy
you can't eat a snake. Sides Lima
wouldn't a picked up a snake. Is
it a little baby rabbit, Lina?"
1T was neither fish nor flesh nor
bone" she declared; "and rabbit is
flesh and bone"
Then it's boun' to be a apple, was