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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
TRAINING SHEEP DOG
Collie Should be Taught Wholly
by One Person.
Lessons Of Half an Hour Daily are
Sufficient and First One Should be
Learned ThoroughIy-Pup
Should be Watched.
By a J. EWEN.l


A good collie viii be ready to begin
to learn to drive sheep at about
three months of age. He shorId be
taught wholly by one person.
First teach him TO lead, plGcing a
string about his neck. He will soon
learn not to try to get away and to
come on hearing the word Here" OF
whatever word is chosen, pulling on
tae string until he learns to come
promptly.
Lessons of half an hour a day are
enough and this first lesson should be
learned very thoroughly, so that the
dog will come from any part Of the
yard instantly on hearing the word.
Next he learns the meaning of the
word Go" by using the word when
sending him through an enclosure,
continually repeating the lesson until
he acts promptly
As a part of this lesson he should
be taught to stop anywhere on the
word Halt" emphasized at first by
pulling on the string, which should be
attached to his neck.
The word Whoa" is also used by
some trainers to indicate that the
teacher is through with him for the
time being and the dog soon learns to
understand it.
While driving sheep it is convenient
to have the dog understand the word
Speak which means that he is to
begin barking, and he can be taught
the word very easily by holding up
something which he wants to eat and
using the word.
The meaning of "Out" is easily
taught when the dog is in the house
by opening the door and pronouncing
the word
After this preliminary education he
may go out with an old trained sheep
dog. BIZ running with him the pup
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

where she had been earning a comfort
able living for some years, to prose
cute her claim.
The estate is said to have been left
by Washington Ware, formerly Of
Athens, who died some months ago in
Knoxville, Tenn. According to infor-
nation which Mrs. White, who is
widow, has received, it was turned
over to an administrator In the abb
sence at the time Of knowledge Of any
living relatives of the deceased.
Mrs. White was informed that she
and her sister, who were married to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

a normal stage, he can be seen placing
the government signal lamps on the
ends of the various dikes in the vicin-
ity of Silver Grove.
The master is employed by the gov
eminent I place the danger signals,
and he stands on the bank while Shep
picks up a lantern in his mouth and
runs to the end Of the dixie, where the
lantern is placed in position.
The dog will return TO his master
and the two will walk up the river
to the next dixie, where the same per
Torrance is repeated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Pollution of Sub-Surface Water in
Limestone.

manure, trash and garbage into such
sinks or basins, and rain water falling
into these plunges directly into the
underground channels, carrying with
1t the impurities from the basin to
those points where wells are sunk. In
this manner garbage or refuse
dumped anywhere in the neighbor-
hood of or even at a considerable
distance from a well in limestone may
pollute the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

but I never before saw a tooth like
this"
Doctor Taylor recalls that at one
time he filed with silver the tooth in
the same relative position in Mrs. Da-
Wis mouth as the filed tooth in the
baby's mouth, and afterward put
crown on it, And since Mrs. Davis is
very nervous while in a dentists chair
both she and the dentist agree that
these facts may account for the ap
pearance of the filing in little Mar
joris's tooth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
No Saving 10 Dye Shoes.

Muskogee. Ckla.-C. ]. Kahle, a
Muskogee real estate man, tried to
cut the high cost of living by coloring
his tan shoes black.
An hour after Kahle put on his new.
ly blackened shoes he became serious.
ly Ill Analysis of the dye showed
that 1t contained prussic acid. The
acid penetrated the leather and was
absorbed by the pores of the skin,
and the consequence was that KaGle
nearly lost his life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Fertilizer for Trees.

When putting out young trees do
not use manure around the roots. Set
each tree in its place and fill in with
the top soil, using plenty of water, and
first cutting back as much Of the top
of the tree as may be necessary to
remove, to prevent oyertaxing the
roots to supply too many branches.
A handful of bone meal is the best
fertilizer to use with the soil that is
returned to the roots.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
DOG PLACES SIGNAL LIGHTS
Helping His Master, He Carries Lam
terms to River bikes Near Silver
Grove, KY.

Cincinnati-Few persons who trav-
Ell up and down the Ohio river know
that their safety is looked after by
a dog. The dog is known to a great
many river men as Old Shep.
He is the property Of Louis Gander
Of Silver Grove. KY. Each night, win
ter and summer, when the river is at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
ing to her fond parents and the family

ing to her fond parents and the family
dentist.
\ few days ago Mrs. Davis noticed
a dark spot on one of the little girls
lower teeth, and since the child had
never been taken to a dentist the
mother knew that the tooth had not
been filed. But it resembled silver
filling SO closely that Doctor Taylor
was asked to look at the spot.
It's as perfect a silver filling as any
one could put in said Doctor til 'lor
Il have heard of such things before,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Fruit-GroWfnu Possibilities

The fruit-growing possibilities of
this country are SO great and as yet
so slightly tested, and the successes
that have been achieved even on the
largest scale have been so largely
matters of accident or surprise, that
the limits of the fruit-growing dis
tricts, and even of the principal fields
of production, cannot yet be regarded
as finally determined.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

brothers, are the only heirs that could
be located. They are said to be nieces
of the millionaire.
Mrs. Whites son, Samuel White,
who lives in Oklahoma, came to sa.
vannah to assist her in establishing
her claim. From here he went to
Athens and retained an attorney. In
letter 20 his mother he says he be-
heves that she and his aunt will soon
come into possession Of the estate.
Wouldn't it be good" said Mrs.
White; I'D set EN- up to all my
friends"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
MAN CARRYING DEER KILLED
Another Hunter Saw Only the AMI
NAL on His Back and
Shot.

Woodleaf, Cal-David Wilson, a
rancher of Townsend Mill, was in
stantly killed by w. H. Joy. Gridley
merchant, who was hunting deer.
Wilson had killed q deer and was
carrying 1t on his shoulders. Joy. on
q hill above Wilson, saw the deer's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
MANY Decorated With Iron Cross
by the Kaiser.
Garry Food to the Trenches While
Enemy Rains Bullets on Them, but
They Never Fail in
Their Duties.
BY HERBERT COREY.

London.-There isn't anything he
roic about a cook. One simply can
not imagine a cook in a soiled apron
and a mussed white cap doing deed
Of valor But the German army is
full of cooks upon whose breasts dan
giles the iron cross. And the iron cross
is conferred for one thing only-for
loo per cent courage.
They've earned it," said the man
who had seen them. "They are the
bravest men in the kaiser's 100000.
I've seen generals salute greasy,
paunchy, sour-looking army cooks"
The cooks job is to feed the men
of his company Each German COM
pany is followed or preceded by a field
kitchen on wheels. Sometimes the
fires are kept going while the de-
vice trundles along. The cook stands
on the footboard and thumps his
bread. He is always the first man up
In the morning, and the last to sleep
at night. He is held to the strictest
accountability. The Teuton believes
in plenty of food. A well-fed soldier
will fight A hungry one may not.
when the company gets into camp
at night" said the man who knows,
"the cook is there before it, swearing
at his fires and the second cook and
turning out quantities Of veal stew,
which is very good to eat"
When the company goes into the
trenches the COOK stays behind. There
is no place for a field kitchen in a
four-foot trench. But those men in
the trench must be fed. The Teuton
insists that all soldiers must be fed
but especially the men il the trench.
The others may go hungry, but these
must have tight belts. Upon their
staying power many depend the safety
Of an army.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
RICHES FOR WORKING WOMAN
Prospective Heiress Promises to "Set
'Em Up" If She Gets
s1,5oO, goo.

Savannah, Ga--Mrs. Mary White, q
repair woman employed in dry goods
store here, may be co-heir with her
sister in Atlanta, Ga, to an estate said
to amount to 100000 This became
known when the woman resigned her
position in the department store
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
WATCH IS OF BIBLICAL AGE
Has Marked the Passing Of 613,67a
Hours and Is Three-Score-
and-Ten,

Sheridan, Wyo-Arnold Tschirgi,
the county surveyor, has watch that
has marked the passing of 613,678
hours. 1t has been ticking away for
70 years and is still good ttmekeeper.
The watch is key-wind 1t is an open
face gold case. The dial is beautifully
ornamented in figured gold. The crys-
tai is made Of heavy convex glass. The
watch formerly belonged to Mr.. Tschir.
gi's father.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
BORN WITH A SILVER TOOTH
Baby Had Filling in One of Her Teeth
Identical With Nervous
Mothers.

Detroit, Mich.-In the class with
babies who are born with gold and sill
yer spoons" in their mouths is little
Marjorie Airline Davis, the seventeen
months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs
c. c. Davis. But in her case it's a sill
yer filing ID one of her teeth. accord
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Swordfish Was Menace.

San Observation-Disclosures towed
into port a formidable submarine
which they captured 50 miles out of
the Golden Gate. 1t was lowering in
the offing, a menace to navigation and
flying no national colors The sub
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Man Who I,noroves Dairv-

If the man who causes two blades
of grass to grow where one grew be-
fore is to be called blessed the same
thing should be said of the man who
improves his dairy until it produces
twice as much butter as it did before
he began with It
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Eradinatinn ThistIes

Special methods for eradicatfng
thistles are the growing of alfalfa, the
seeding down of fields of perennial
grasses, sailing the plants, or apply
ing gasoline or earbolic acid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Treatment of Trees

In any treatment of trees one should
always have before him some definite
object. He should leave strictly alone
stantlv being advanced, and apply to
them first the measuring stick of COM
mon sense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Humus Absorbs Water.

Humus absorbs water TO a greater
degree than any other soil ingredient
and acts as a mulch in preventing
evaporation, thus in two ways pro
noting moisture in the soil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
ncIIbators and .Broo5ers

There are many kinds Of good incu-
bators and breeders, and some poor
ones Rightly used. most OF them are
worth the money charged for them,
but the best ones will prove absolute
failures in the hands Of some people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Makes Chickens Crow.

By treating young chickens with
high frequency high voltage currents
Of electricity a London experimental
has made them grow more rapidly
than those of the same age reared
without the treatment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

moving body anG fired his rifle The
shot passed through Wilson's heart,
killing him instantly. After firing the
fatal shot Joy rushed to the spot where
he believed the deer was lying. He
was Mortified TO discover his mistake
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

marine is a swordfsh. probably the
largest Of the few that have ever been
captured in these waters. It measures.
including its four-foot sword, a. dozen
feet. 1t weighs over four hundred anc
fifty pounds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Appreciate Alfalfa.

Now comes the time when We, and
our hens, too, viii appreciate the al
falfa hay: and a time of regret for
many others that they had not thought
of making and storing some alfalfa
for such purposes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Shovel Corn Into Steers.

It does seem that when a farmer
makes up his mind to shovel two or
three thousand bushels of corn into
q lot of steers he would take the pre-
caution to select the kind of animals
that would make the best use of it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
SchooIhovs Hid in 4 Cave

Harrison, n. -Four boys of Har.
rison failed TO show up the week
school opened, and after a search they
were found hiding in g. cave under a
sidewalk in a remote part of the
town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
SORTING TABLE ON WHEELS
Single Horses Can Move Device to ANY
Desired Point as Work in the
Orchard Proceeds.

In commercial orcharding it is gen.
orally most economical to have pick
ing and packing work going on con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
For BIanchino CELERY.

Common drain tile, set over celery,
blanches it nicely. Cylinders Of heavy
paper are also used to advantage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

of them are able to sit up in their
hunks and take a mild interest in us.
Once, by a queer coincidence, we ST.
simultaneously pass the wounded going
one way and cheering fresh troons 60
ing the other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

This is a specially posed photograph
Of the wife and daughter Of Gov.-elect
Charles S. Whitman Of New York.
Mrs. Whitman was formerly Miss Oh
i've Hitchcock She was married to
Mr. Whitman in 1908. Little Olive
is their only child.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Small Farm Is Best

The very small farm equals the
large one in profits and surpasses it
in home joys and comforts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
Need of Censorship.

The talk turned to the censorship
and its merits and defects.
IF one side or the other ever gets
the jump-gets it decidedly and indis-
putably," remarked Mr.. Cobb, 81 be-
lieve you will see that side let up on
the censorship. They will issue a gen.
eral invitation to the press to come
on over and watch US eat up this fell
low OF course, may be wrong, but
I shouldn't be surprised if this hap
pened. AS for the censorship itself. I
am ready to concede the need for a
rigid supervision of the news in these
days of rapid transmission of informa-
ton. But I can't see why the CON-
batants should be unwilling to allow
newspaper men at the front to send
back the descriptive stuff which is
what the public cares for most, after
all I believe that if more Of this stuff
could be written, it would tend to in
crease patriotism and recruiting.
It's a nackneyed subject, to be
sure, but am glad to say that the war
correspondent as he has been known.
the professional war correspondent,
you understand has been knocked
out. There is a lot Of talk about the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
HOPELESS FOR ANY MAN To ATTEMPT
TO DESCRIBE THE WAR, SAYS COBB.
Is Too Big to Be Reported Words and the Writer Simply
Overwhelmed by the immensely of -Most Appalling Scenes
Not Those of the BattIefedS, But of the Base Hospitals
Mo PiCtmesqueness in the Struggle.

be incalculable. l should not care to
try to estimate the time it will take
the winner to recover from it; so years
is a moderate guess and means COM
paratiyely little except in a suggestive
sense. The loser, am convinced, will
scarcely ever recover from it. Bel
GUM, it is true, is simply the wreck
Of land today, but l am inclined to
believe the Belgians will rehabilitate
themselves a great deal faster than
people think. Theirs is a fecund little
country; their houses are all of stone,
and even those burned as a general
rule have walls and gable-ends still
standing"
Mr.. Cobb dismissed the question of
atrocities.
Investigated Atroclty Stories.
THE party of newspaper correspond
ents I was with made a careful inves-
tigation of every atrocity story that
reached us" he said. They were al
most invariably false, and in the few
cases that were true, exaggeration was
the rule. This applies to the stories
told by the BeIgians of the Germans
and by the Germans of the Belgians
and French. Of course, when you take
any large body of men, whether in war
or in peace, you will find among them
a certain percentage of detectives and
degenerates. We have atrocities in
New York city, so far as that is con-
cerned. l am convinced that there
has been nothing unusually brutal
about the conduct of this war-at
least, in the way of atrocities. War,
itself, is absolutely brutal There is
no picturesqueness about it.
Il have relegated the atrocity story
to the limbo that contains the bayonet-
charge story. 1 saw several hundred
thousand German soldiers, many Of
them wounded, and thousands of Bel
gian, French and English prisoners.
many of them also wounded; and be-
sides this | talked to doctors, who,
themselves, had attended to thousands
of wounded. l did not see a single
bayonet-wound, and l did not hear Of
any men who had been wounded by
bayonets. While l was in England
early in the campaign, one soldier was
sent back from France with a bayonet-
wound, but 1t came out that he had
been hurt accidentally by falling on a
comrades bayonet. Neither did hear
Of any lance-wounds. Aside from the
early days of the war, there has been
very little cavalry-charging, I thirk
Most of the wounded we saw had been
hit by shrapnel."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03

Princess Won Hatzfeldt-Trachenb
is one of the new arrivals in the for
eign diplomatic set in Washington.
Her husband is the new counselor of
the German embassy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-08
BOARDS
NOT INDEPENDENT.
Attorney-GeneraI Holds Their
Members Are Under Civil
Service.

TRENTON, July 8.-Attorney-G Gen
eral John W. Wescott in a formal
opinion to Gardner Colby, secretary
of the Civil Service Commission, holds
that election officers are still under
civil service, Notwithstanding the
passage of chapter 81 of the laws of
1914.
This chapter amends section II of
the civil service act of 1908 and re-
peals that portion of section IL Of
the original law that placed election
officers In the unclassified list, that
is to say, outside OF the civil service
law. This provision of the original
civil service law was amended by
the Geran election law passed in 1911
which specifically placed election Of
ficers under civil service
In support OF this view. Attorney
General Weseott quotes the follow
ing IRON the decision of Chief Justice
Beasley in the case of knight VS.. the
Freeholders of Ocean county, listed
as 20 Vroom, 495. 1.-THE incorporation
of the existing laws into the body of
the revised laws in an unmodified
form does not give to such re-enact-
ed laws the force of original laws
passed at the date of the revised
laws. Such laws were re-enacted
with no purpose of giving them any
new efficacy, but simply to the end
of bestowing upon their rearrange-
ment a legislative sanction. The
laws so adjusted are not to be deemed
to have acquired any different eff
cacy from that possessed by them in
their original condition"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-08
EIks Must Pay Taxes on
Property, Board Declares


Special 10 the Evening star.
TRENTON. July S.-Dismissing an
appeal of Mount Holly Lodge. No. S4s.
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, for 1918, on its property in
Northampton Township, the Board Of
Equalization of Taxes today decreed
that the assessment should be af-
firmed The affirmanee is made on
the ground that the order is not or
ganized exclusively for the mental
and moral Improvement of men and
women and that the facts do not
show that the order is of a religious
or benevolent purpose
The State board, however. remarks
that the order undoubtedly is benev-
client as to some of its purposes, but
not exclusively so as to come within
the meaning of the Legislature in
exempting property devoted exclu-
sively to charitable purposes.
The appeal to the State board in
volved an assessment against the
Elks' home. a two and one-half story
brick building; an office building and
lot. The order was willing to pay
taxes on the latter two properties,
but raised the objection to the as
sessment on the building.