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Wrlter,a cramp.

Biological tests by scientists at the
London hospital show that writers
cramp" and other similar states of
apparent muscular paralysis are actu-
ally due, not to the firing Of the mus
cles, but to brain flag. 1t appears that
the particular part of the brain which
controls special combinations Of mus
Gle action, such as the movements OF
writing or the working Of telegraph
key, tend to become more quickly ex-
hausted In some individuals than 9th
ers. Such exhaustion leads to state
in which the brain is actually unable
to send out It's necessary messages
to the hands and fingers to write, tap
key, hold a violin bow and so forth.
Furthermore, once the nerve cells.
the batteries" of the brain, get thor
oughly run down it is not easy to re-
store their energy. Heretofore it has
been supposed that all troubles of the
kind were due simply to overtiring
of the muscles concerned.
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Petition For Charter
Georgia. Ben Hill County.

Georgia, Ben Hill county.
To The Superior Court of said County
The petition of L. A. Gaines of Ben
Hill County, Ca and of c, U. Gaines of
Ben Hill County Ga. respectfully shows:
First: They desire for themselves,
their associates, and successors, to be in
corporated and made body polite un-
der the name and style of Gaines Broth
ers Company, for the period of q years.
Second: The principal office of said
company shall be in the City of Fitzgerald
state and county aforesaid, but petition
ers desire the right to establish branch
offices within this state, or elsewhere
whenever the holders of a majority of
the stock may SO determine.
Third: The object of said corporation
is peeuriary gain to itself and its share-
holders.
Fourth: The business to be carried on
by said corporation is that of general dry
goods merchants, the corporation propos-
ing to purchase and sell atretall dry goods,
notions, hats, shoes, and ladies and gents
furnishings, millinery, and all other arti-
Giles as are ordinarily carried in a retail
dry goods store.
Fifth: The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be seventy five hundred
TSZ5OO.OOl dollars, with the privilege of
increasing the same to the sum of ten
thousand $4,000. dollars by a ma
jority vote of the stockholders, said stock
to be- divided into shares of 500 90 each.
The whole of said capital to be employed
by petitioners has been actually paid in
in money. and in dry goods taken at a
fair value.
Sixth: Petitioners desire the right
to sue and be sued, to plead and be i'm
pleaded, to have and use common seal.
to make all necessary bylaws and regu-
latons and to do all other things that may
be necessary for the successful carrying
on of said business, including the right to
buy real estate and personal property
suitable TO the purposes of the corpora
ton, ard to execute notes and bonds as
evidence of indebtedness incurred or
which may be incurred in the conduct of
the affairs of the corporation and to secure
the same by mortgage. security-deed, or
other form Of hen, under existing laws.
Seventh: They desire for said incor-
poration the power and authority to apply |
for and accept amendments to its char !
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ter of either form or substance by a vote
of a majority of its stock outstanding at
the time. They also ask authority for
said corporation to wind up its affairs,
liquidate and discontinue its business at
any time it may determine to do SO by a
vote of two thirds of its stock outstand-
ing at the time.
Eighth: They desire for the said in
corporation the right of renewal when
and as provided by the laws of Georgia,
and that it have all such other rights.
powers, privileges, and immunities as are
incident to like interpretations or permits
sable under the laws of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be in
corporated under the name and style
aforesaid with the powers, privileges and
inmunities herein set forth, and as are
now, or may hereafter be allowed COR
poration of similar character under the
laws of Georgia
Elkins & Wall ane Alex Koplin
Petitioners Attorneys.
GEORGIA, BEN HILL COUNTY:
Id. w. M Whitley, Clerk of the Superb
or Court of said county, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true and correct
copy of thu application for charter of
Gaines Brothers Company as the same
appears of file in this Office.
Witness my official signature and the
seal of said court this the 25 day of
April 1918.
d. w. M. Whitley, Clerk,
S c. Ben Hill Co. Ga.
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ONE or NATURES MARvELs
Transformation of Reptiles from Wa
ter DweIIers TO the Amphlnian
Stage Is Striking One.

livery one is familiar with the an
nual transformation of tadpoles into
frogs. Little fishlike creatures, with
fringed gills protruding from the sides
If the neck and swimming tail, sud-
denly change into land animals, differ
ont in shape and color, and, breathing
air by means of their lungs.
Nevis and salamanders go through
a similar change, which, however, Is
little less striking because the tail,
although it loses it's swimming web,
nersists in the adult condition. The
Mexican axolotl, Of which there are
always a number Of examples in the
reptile house at the London Zoologi-
cal Gardens, Is a very large newt,
black in color, with pair of long
fringed gills at each side and swim
ming tail, the web of which runs
along the back toward the head. 1t
lives entirely in water, and breeds
freely in a condition which represents
the larval stage of common nevis.
This axolotl was for a long time
believed to represent type of am
phibian which had not yet acquired
the adult stage. More than SO years
ago. at the Jardin des Plantes, in
Paris, it was reported that some of
the axolotls had become transferred
into a wellknown Mexican salaman-
der known as Amblystoma, and which
was a typical land animal, without
gills, with a lizard-like tail and ter
restrial habit. The evidence was def
pita
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GOT o'lE ON CHARLIE MANN
WeII-Known Washington Official for
Once Was Not as Wideawake as
He Usually Is Found.

Charles H. Mann is noted for his
charity and geniality. But above these
Qualities is his pride in discharging
his duties according to the letter and
the spirit of the rules which govern
him. He is the superintendent of the
press gallery of the house of repre-
sentatives in the national capitol, has
a total of 81 silver hairs on his head
and is believed to have been the first
white baby born in the District of
Columbia.
Last summer charitable Charlie, on
account of his wide acquaintance with
the newspaper correspondents and ed
itors throughout the country, was
asked to guard the door leading to
the newspaper mems section at the
Baltimore convention, and to admit no
one unless he exhibited a certain
white card emitting the holder to a
seat in that section.
After one of the evening recesses
of the convention, when the CORE
spondents were rushing back to their
SeaCSs un6ly Dullt, SHdppy-loOhluS
young man brushed by Charlie and
left with him a white card. Later on
Charlie looked at it and read all there
was on it, which was as follows:
"Please make a small donation to
buy me wooden leg"
"And me-" said Charlie. In great
self-disgust, "a wooden head. Pop
ular Magazine.
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Precepts of a President.

The words which John Adams wrote
to his wife years before he knew he
would some day be the second presi-
dent of the United States and that the
son to which he referred would also
some day be president, are good
watchwords for any parent.
"The education of our children" he
wrote, sis never out of my mind. Train
them to virtue. Habituate them to in
dustry, activity and spirit Make them
consider every vice as shameful and
unmanly."
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St. Matthew's
Episcopal Church

Fifth Sunday after Easter.
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon II
o'clock. Subject of discourse,
'Discernment of t he Lords
Body"
Evening Prayer and sermon
7:45 o'clock. Subject of discourse.
1.-The Looking Glass. "
The sacrament of Holy Baptism
will be administered Immediately
after the morning service. Good
music; vested choir. Everybody
welcome. J. w. BLEKER, Vicar.
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In the DAYS of Prosperity,

Discussing the high cost of living,
Henry S. Oliphant, Des Moines bank
er, said frankly at banquet:
"The price of commodity is What
it will bring, and, when monopoly is
once secured, that price mounts pretty
high, Look at oil, look at meat.
But all this spells prosperity. I
said to be trust magnate the other
day:
1 suppose your wife goes to
church to see what other women are
wearing?'
She used to-, he replied, in the
foolish old days of competition, but
she now goes to let other women see
what she is wearing"
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Great familiarity.

w. Somerset Vaughan, the English
playwright, was praising in New York
an historical drama that had failed.
yet it was singularly accurate"
said Mr.. Vaughan, regretfully. "As
told the author on the first night, he
displayed as much familiarity with the
subject as the king who kissed the
parlor maid"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
MOST CHILDREN HAVE WORMS

Many mothers think their children
are suffering from indigestion, head
ache, nervousness, weakness, costiVe-
ness, when they are victims of that
most common of all children's aiment
worms. Peevish, ill-tempered, fret
full children, who toss and grind THEN
teeth, with bad breath and coGcky
pains, have all the symptoms OF hay
ing worms, and should be given Kick
apoo Worm Killer, pleasant candy
Iozenge, which expels worms, regu-
lates the bowels, tones up the sys-
tenn, and makes children well and hap
by. Kchapoo Worm Killer is guar
anteed. All druggists, or by mail.
Price 25c. Kickapoo Indian Medicine
Co. Philadelphia and ST. Louis. DAILY
Drug & Jewelry Co.-Advertisement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
WHAT IS IT?

Z Every body who saw it ASKED that
question. Even the people in the
store where it was exhibited did not
know what it was. Some thought
it was rat trap on a large scale.
others thought it was a squirrel trap.
Everybody had a. guess and all We're
wondering what it was. Pretty soon
Neil Nash came along and then it
Was learned that it was a Sparrow
trap. 1t looks like a big rat trap and
is about two fset long and about
foot wide and high 1t was made by
the Nash Hardware company for a
customer and is expected to rid a
certain locality of the Americanized
British pests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
MCG0VERN COMES
TO BREWERS AID
After Wisconsin Suffrage Bill
Had Passed Both Houses
Governor Uses Veto.

Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin last
week sprung a surprise by vetoing
the Glenn equal suffrage bill, which
had passed both branches of the
Legislature The bill provided for a
referendum in 1914
McGoyern was elected on the Re
publican ticket but has claimed to be
a Progressive. Both of these parties
in Wisconsin declared for equal suf-
frage. The Wisconsin State Journal
says:
tToday's veto lends color to the
growing impression that Gov McGov.
ern is playing to the brewing power
Of the State, which has shown such
great strength at this session of the
Legislature Many feel that he con
siders the saloon vote stronger than
the Bull Moose vote, or, perhaps, that
he cam play the political game from
the ends to the middle by being in
with the saloon vote and explaining
to the Bull Moosers that he kept
faith by recommending a referendum
in 1916"
The Governor gives as his reasons
that the suffrage amendment was de
feated by a large majority in 1912,
and that the nearer suffrage States
have not had time to show results.
If the referendum We're for 1916 he
would sign it, A favorable vote, he
continued, would be irrevocable.
In an editorial the State Journal
says:
POLITICALLY speaking, Governor Nc
Govern is neither fowl nor fish. He
has repudiated the platform ON which
he ran for Governor and the platform
of the national party with which he
cast his fortunes last Summer. Both
the State Republican platform and
the Bull Moose platform specifically
equal suffrage. This Gov
ernor McGovern vetoes. As a Wis
consin Republican he does this in
the face Of the fact that Senator
La Toilette, the leading spirit of Wis.
consin Republicanism for more than
a decade has at all times worked for
this fundamental principal Of demo
cracy. As a Bull MooGer the Gov
ernor vetoes this bill in the face of
the fact that the leading spirit Of the
Bull Moose party, Theodore tRoo5evelt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
SIRON.

Mrs. Clarence Sipe entertained a
number Of lady friends Saturday
might. A very good time is reported.
Card playing was the chief enjoy
ment, Mrs 0. RocheIeau taking first
prize and Mrs. F. Pearson got the
BOBBY.
u. J. Akey of Texas spent a couple
days here visiting his brother A. L.
and family.
School closed in this burg Wednes-
day with a picnic which was very SUI
cessful. Everybody enjoyed them
selves immensely.
Mrs. H. E. VIII Of Eau Claire, Wis
spent the past week here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Akey
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. J. GoIan Of Rudolph
Sundayed with Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis
CrOtteau.
Mrs C. Crotteau met with quite a
serious accident one day last week.
She was on her way home from the
city with Mrs e. Rayome when her
horse became frightened and ran ava,
Mrs. Rayome jumped out without get
ting hurt but Mrs. CrOtteau in jump
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12

ing broke her leg and will be laid up
for some time.
Miss Bertha Akey has resigned her
position as stenOgrapher for the
Grand Rapids Milling company and
the vacany has been filled by Miss
Gertrude Cola.
N. Richards of your city and Babe
Crotteau and sons of Rudolph were
Sunday guests at the c. Crotteau
home.
Frank Pearson has resigned his po
sition as superintendent here and
the place has been filled by Chester
Burroughs Of Nkoosea.
Allie Sterling who is employed in
the wood room got his fingers cut
quite badly one day last week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
SENECA CORNERS.

Esther Leu Left last Monday for
ST. Paul, Mimi, where she will be
employed during the summer.
Emma and Mary Richards of Toma
are visiting at the w. Ehlert home
this week.
E. MurgatrOyd and Henry Staven
commenced laying brick for the w
Ehlert house Monday.
Mrs. J. P. Nash of Nekoosa, Mrs
E. Matthews of Port Edwards visit
ed at the John Meyer home a few
days last week.
The Hansen base ball team were
defeated by the Altdorf team Sunday
by the score of 8 to 4.
Carl Getsinger of Cranmoor spent
Sunday at the Anton Getsinger home
E. Ellis has BEEN baleing hay at the
w. Peters place last week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
HAWKINS REPORTER
Rural Industrial Association
Meeting.

HAWKINS, Wis, May 31-The
meeting here last Saturday Of the
Rural Industrial Association was an
unqualified success.
The business meeting began about
seven o'clock. The matter of bet
ter stock and better seed received a
great deal of consideration The ives
tern end of the county is becoming a
Guernsey center as Hawkins is be
coming a Holstein center. Conrath
is becoming noted as a pure bred Sc
potato centeer. The Bruce Commercial
club has just imported a carload of
pure bred seed potatoes. Following
this tendency, or mayhaps directing
to see that local arrang ements are
| made to help the farmer desiring to
| get better seed and better stock. Sc
cretary Sweet of the association is
prepared to give good information a.
long these lines. Also list will be
put out each year with the list of To-
cal secretaries and of the pure bred
cattle and seed centers Along this
line the many speeches and toasts
along the line of more economic edu-
cation for the bringing up of the
younger generation so they can in
| telligently develop the resources of
land, We're interesting as showing the
attitude of the association on the
question of education.
A resolution protesting against the
| attitude of the state in preventing the
developing of our water powers was
unanimously adopted. This resolution
is given verbatim.
! Whereas, The legi stature of the
| State of Wisconsin in session at the
present time has under consideration
tie passage of legislation affecting
and regulating the construction
dams and the developing of water pow
er within the state, which legisIas
ton cannot apply to the charities or
franchises heretofore granted by the
state or the development had there
under and which legislation if passed
would work to the great disadvantag
of the water power development of all
other natural resources of the terri
tory necessarily associated there
WITH
Therefore, Be it resolved. that this
Association protest against the pass
age of any egislation-detriment or
injurious to the development Of wateI
powers, that it is our belief that Ie-
! gislation should be enacted encourag-
ing and promoting the development
of every natural resource in the STATE
that these powers are of untold va
Tue when developed to the locality
where situated absolutely useless I'M
til they are developed and no good
reason can be given why if the state
is to retard this development by pri-
vate persons, that locality in which
such power is located should not
have the option of making the state
itself develOpe the power. It is Our
belief that the north part of the sta
with it's many undeveloped powers is
being greatly handicapped in its de
velopment, great wealth is daily be-
ing wasted greatly to the damage of
| the state as a whole. Be it further
resolved that a copy of this resolution
be forwarded to State Senator Tom
kins, Assemblyman Richards and to
each member of the Special Com
mittee on Conservation -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PROOF OF WILL

STATE OF WISCONSIN, WOOD COUNT
COURT. IN PROBATE.
State of Wisconsin,
wood County s.
In the matter of the last will and testament
OF Henry Edwards, de- eased.
WHEREAS An instrument in writing, pur-
porting to be the last Will and testament of
Henry Edwards deceased, late of Grand
Rapids city, county of Wood, state of Wis
consin, has bee filed in this office;
AND WHEREAS, Application has been made
by Mrs. Alice Edwards, widow, and E1on A.
Rector and Hugh MCGOWAN, executors, pray
ing that the same be proven and admitted to
probate, according to the laws ofthis state,
and that letters testamentary be granted
thereon according to law:
IT is ORDERED, That said application be
heard before this court, at q regular special
term thereofto be held at the probate office,
in the city of Grand Rapids, in said county
on the 10Th day OF June, A. ID. 1913 at 10
O'Clock, a. m.
AND 1T is FURTHER ORDERED, That notice
OF the time and place appointed for hearing
said application be given to all persons in
terested, by publishing a copy of this order
for three weeks successfully in the WOOD
COUNTY REPORTER, a newspaper printed and
published in said county, previous to said
hearing.
Dated May 9th, 1913
BY the Court:
b. M VAUGHAN, w. j. CONWAY
AtIy for petitioners County Judge.
Grand Rapids, Wis.
(Flrst pub. May 20, final pub. June 12)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
TRY A WANT &C.


On the treatment of Horses, Cattle
Sheep, Dogs. Hogs, Poultry, Birds ana
Trained Animals, mailed free.
For Every Living Thing on the Farm
Humphreys Veterinary Specifies.
A. A. For FEyERs. Milk Fever. Lung Fever.
B. b. For sPRAINs. Lameness. Rheumatism.
G. c. For SORE Throat, Epizootic. Distemper.
D. D. For WORMS, Bots. Grubs.
6. f. For COUGHS. Colds. Influenza.
f. f. For COLIC. BeIlyache. Diarrhea.
6. G. Prevents MISCARRIAGE.
II. II. For KIDNEY and Bladder disorders.
!. 1. For SKIN DISEASES. Mango. Eruptions.
j. IA. For BAD CONDITION. Indigestion.
60 cts. each bottle.
Veterinary Oil for Hoofs &c. $1.00.
Stable Case, full outfit $500.
AT druggists or sent prepaid on receipt
Of price.
Humphreys Homeo Medicine Co.. Cor. William
and Ann Streets, New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
GUARANTEED ECZEMA REMEDY

The constant itching, burning, red
ness, rash and disagr eeaible effects
of eczema, letter, salt rheUm, itch,
piles and irritating skin eruptions
cam be readily cured and the skin
made clear and smooth with DR.. Hob
sons Eczema Ointment. Mr. j. G.
Hveland, of Bath, ILL., says: 81 had
eczema twenty-five years and had
tried everything. All failed. When
found Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oint-
ment | found a cure This ointment
is the formula of a physician and ha
been in use for years-not an expert
ment. That is why We can guaran-
tee it. All druggists, or by mail.
Price Soc Pfeiffer Chemical Co., Phi
ladeiphia and st. Louis. Dalys Drug
& Jewelry Co.-Advertisement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
CALIFORNIA;
NEW AUTO LAWS
Many Radical Changes Made
Licenses Now Issued by
State Engineer---First State
To Legally Define Adequate
Warning Signal

The session of the California Lee
gislature just ended created in addi-
ton to the widely discussed alien
land bill, a measure completely remOd
cling the automobile laws of the state
| AS the second state in the Union in
the number of automobiles owned,
this action assumes more than ordi-
nary Importance.
| Under the new law which has just
been signed by Gov. Johnson a new
license system is established, new
rules of the road created and radical
| departure made, at least so far as
western states are concerned, by
| transferring the issuing of licenses
from the Secretary of State to the
State Engineer.
Another notable feature of the new
law is it's provision regarding the
automobile warning signal By its ell
actment acknowledgements the first
state to legally define what c0nstitu-
ties an adequate signal, and also to
make unlawful the use of all signals
''for any purpose except as warnings
of danger
The law provides that every mo-
tor vehicle shall 'De equipped with a
signalling device capable of emitting
an abrupt sound, adequate in quality
and volume ito give warning of the APP.
proach of such vehicle"
This section of the law was franz
ed only after most careful consider
alton of the subject by representa-
tives of motor organizations and other
and a study of the regulations in
force in the larger cities throughout
the country.
The topography of the state and
its widely VaKying road conditions
made the question of the warming sig
nal an important one.
In Investigations which preceded
the passage of the law the inaG equacy
OF the horn blown by a rubber bulb
had been shown so clearly that ev-
en- non-motorists agreed that some
thing should be done in the interest
of public safety to require a signal
of greater effectiveness It lis inter
esting to note that only a small mi
norty of the state legislature are au-
tOmobile owners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-12
COAT EATS MAR
RACE LICENSE

BENNINGTON, Ind, June g. A
billy goat devoured a marriage IL
cense parchment which slipped from
the hands Of an aged bridegroom
and elaborate wedding festivities to
have been held near here this week
were delayed while an automobile
raced across country to obtain anothl
er license. Charles W. Gribbon, aged
70 and Mrs. Anna Chance King, 80,
had obtained their license at Law
renceburg. They motored to the
brides home to be married, where
many guests waited. The bridegroom
attempted to aid the bride in unity
ing the ribbon about the license, the
wind waiter it from his fingers and
the goat got it.