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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
NORMALS WIN
ANOTHER GAME
Local Teachers, in Hard FOUGHT
Game of Basket Ball, Defeat
Grand Rapids Highs

The Grand Rapids Highs and the
Stevens Point Normals staged their
annual basketball contest in the
Normal gym Friday night ana the
prediction that it would be the hard
est fought game of the season was
fully Justified. The Normals won, IA
to 4, but it was not until the second
half was well along that a safe lead
was piled up.
In many cases the tussle was pc
culiar. Grand Rapids, with a team
that evenly matched the teachers in
size, played a close guarding game.
remaining almost entirely on the de
fensive throughout the contest.
Whatever teamwork was started was
broken up on both sides and in the
| first period but few trys for baskets
were made and most of the attempts
| were long shots, some OF which mar
rowly missed their mark. Grand
Rapids registered first but not unit d
the half was about half over, on
free throw. Stevens Point soon
eVened up and shortly afterward
The half ended with the locals on tot
the count being to l. There was a
noticeable improvement in the play
| ing of the locals in the second half.
| Their passing and all-around hand
| ling of the ball was faster and more
accurate and they gradually pulled
away, although the visitors fought
hard to the last.
The tightness of the game made it
somewhat rougher than the average
and numerous fouls were called on
| both sides. However it was crafty
| ing to note that the "bad-blood' that
usually prevails in Stevens Point
Grand Rapids contests was lacking
and if there was any intentional
fouling it was not apparent to the
spectators.
The work of Brady, the Normal
guard, was one of the features of the
game. He was all over the floor,
time and again broke up teamW DIRK,
handled the ball we'll and boosted his
teams total with two field goals.
Beggs also played fine game and
Capt. Edes at center held his man
scoreless and helped wonderfully in
team work. He is also given credit
for six of his teams points.
The lineups Of the teams and the
points scored by each player follows:
Grand Rapids f,2; Stamm
f; Smith, C; Capt Hill, g; Babcock
G, 2. Stevens Point-Johnson, f,2;
Riley, f; Beggs, f, 2; Capt Edes, c.,
s; Conant, g; Cummings, g; Brady, g
4.-Stevens Point Daily Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
MEDICAL FREEDOM

There is no question in the minds
of our readers but what they believe
they now enjoy Medical Freedom.
How about it? Do you? After hear
ing Mrs. Jones Friday night at the
opera house we have come to the col
clusion our freedom is limited along
this line and becoming less all the
time, not only in the medical line
but all others. Our Congress and
State legislatures are becoming leg
islation crazy. We now have too
many laws for the good Of the peo-
pie Some laws are good and, ought
to be enforced and there are others
that should be repealed.
Mrs. Jones was greeted with a fair
sized audience and fittingly intro
duced by Geo. P. Hambrecht. What
she had to say upon her subject
was intelligently presented. She be-
longs to the Liberal school
of healing and supports that belief
in her argument She proved herself
we'll versed upon the methods and
practices of the National American
Medical association who were trying
to work legislation favorable to their
medical schools and belief She
brought out many facts that her
audience were ignorant of and would
never have thought of were they not
brought out in lecture of this kind
She was cordially received and prov
ed herself an excellent talker.
A synopsis of what she says fol-
lows:
Mrs. Minona S. Jones of Chicago,
gave an interesting and original lee
ture at DalyIs theatre on Friday eve,
ming, which was we'll received. Mrs.
Jones claims there is a Medical
Trust in this country, composed of
Allopath doctors and they are secur
ing monopoly of the medical prac
tice, and are using unfair means to
put down and discourage all o ther
schools or methods of practice, that
they have men and women paid, out
in the lecture field who are invading
public schools, Women's clubs, church
societies to impress the public with
the belief that compulsion is neces-
sary to health and morality and if it
were not for medical insp ection there
would be epidemics; doctors are de-
handing that children be taught
about diseases all for commercial
rea sons.
The American Medical association
has become commerce. allied, they hav
a seven story building in Chicago,
with nearly 200 clerks working for
the political and financial interest
of the Allopath physicians in this
country. All we ask of them is hands
off, play fair, give other experiment
ors, other discoveries the same
rights they claim for themselves,
for just who the real Quack is it
would be hard to define upon inves-
tigation Of methods and results.
Mrs. Jones declared what the peo-
pie need is a wholesome rest from
thinking about diseases, i'll health
and immortality, for it is other peo-
pies health and morals, which We
are thinking about and that is de-
moralizing.
More people are killed by light
ming than small pox and it would
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

forecast Of financial conditions that
goes with bank training. They are
asked to serve as directors in local
commercial enterprises. Their bank.
ing experience helps on such enter
prises, and the returns ars usually
small for the time and thought Civ
en-.
The new law soon to be passed
by Congress should be framed to
meet the ills Of big business, -
and should deal cautiously with the
more unseIfish and public spirited
exchange so often seen in the
smaller places. The two kinds Of
things may seem technically alike.
but in effects they are radically diff
ferent.
The so-caned interlcckng between
great corporations is easily capable
Of abuses, and is condemned by pub
lie sentiment. In the life of the
country town and small city there is
none too much exchange of these
services.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
LEGALS
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE IN
FORECLOSURE

vs..
James C. Trask and Julia Trask, his
wife, Theodore Thiesing and --
Thiesing, his wife, and James
Mach and Julia Mach, his wife, de-
PENDANTS
By virtue of the Judgment of Fore
closure and Sale made in the above
entitled action on the 9Th day Of
January, 1913, and entered and dock
eted in the office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of Wood County,
Wisconsin, on the 9Th day Of Janu-
airy. 1913, the undersigned sheriff
OF Wood County, State Of Wisconsin,
will sell at the Front AID North
door of the court House in the CITY
Of Grand Rapids, Wood County, Wis
consin, on the It'll day of March, 1914
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon on
that day, the Real Estate and mort
gagged premises directed by said
Judgment to be sold, and therein
described as follows:
The South East Quarter Of the
South East Quarter of Section No.
Thirty-five (35) in Township No.
TWenty-one CID north, of Range No.
Five 90 East of the Fourth Princi-
pal Meridian, being forty acres OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
a. L. Fontaine, Publisher.
Thursday, January 20, 1914.
ARE YOU A "HoLD-BAcK2"

Pessimists to the contrary nOtwith-
ter every day. But the men and
women who deny this fact are not
to be thanked for it's progress. Be
tween ourselves, it is highly inn
probable that even the pessimistic
ladies and gentlemen who bewau our
degeneracy-ou abandonment of old
standards in matters social, political
and economic-Would not prefer to
live today rather than yesterday.
Mind you, it is the individual who
refuses to accept new truths and
new conditions who is the least bene
fitted by them. One who rejects eV-
cry sort of reform is destined to
remain at a standstill even though
the entire world and all its affairs
move on apace in response to the
law of progress.
There have been "hOld-backs" in
every age since the worlds first day.
The person who denies the existence
of the processes of change that are
in evidence all about him is an ever
present obstacle in the path of hui
man progress.
Don't be a holdpback. Don't con-
denim without a hearing new ideas
and new statements simply because
they differ radically from your pres
ent conceptions. Sneering never
solved problem, and impenetrabiI-
ity is more fitting characteristic of
men-of-war than men of sense.
And don't be satisfied to live ac-
cording to the standards generally
accepted today simply because they
seem wise and intelligent to the
sheep-like ranks of humanity at
large. In every age there are men
who think and act and live in adj
vance of their contemporaries, and
it is no small matter to be able to
enjoy this handicap. You cannot live
in the next century, but you can take
advantage of many steps in the
worlds progress that the conserva-
tive rank and file of your fellowmen
will only awaken to them.
Even those whose recollection COW
ers only the past decade or two, have
witnessed many changes In our man
ners and customs and in our princi-
pies and beliefs. And that most OF
these are for the better goes with
out saying, for only the better things
permanently survive.
No matter how long deferred re-
forms may seem-no matter how SLOW
the progress of certain movements
and matters of bubble or personal
interest may be, We all know that
life is a process of growth, and short
sighted and foolish indeed is he who
cannot observe its volution.-Physi-
cal Culture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
NOT At
i. S. EXPENSE
Canada's Population not Increa-
sing at Our Expense

The reports of the q. S. Commits
sioner OF Immigration at Montreal,
and the Hon J. w Roche, Canadian
Minister of the Interior for the
years 1907 to 1913 inclusive show
that with all the talk OF the vast
number of Americans who have gone
TO Canada to live the actual fact is
that taking the Period of time ex-
pressed above, and comparing the
number who have gone from this
country to Canada and the number
who have come TO this country from
Canada, the balance in favor of Can
ada is only 21,193. And for the
year 1913 the balance is in favor
OF the U. S. by 1863. According to
these figures, the detail of which is
given below, Canada is not increas-
ing its population very fast at the
expense of the U. S. A balance of
21,193 covering a period of six years
is not anything to be alarmed over.
The report made by B. G. Packer,
Wisconsin immigration Commissioner
follows:
Startling disclosures are revealed
in the Canadian press concerning re-
cent reports credited to the U. S.
Commissioner of immigration, Mont
real, and the Hon. ]. w. Roche,
Canadian Minister of the Interior,
showing that during the year end
ing June 80, 1913, LAB SIS people left
the Dominion of Canada to take up
homes in the United States, while
during the year ending March 81,
1913, 139 ,O09 Americans emigrated to
Canada.
The following table shows the situ-
alton for the past six years:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
ONE KIND OF OVERLOOKING
DIRECTORS

A wide range of views is enter
tanned in the business communities
as to the extent to which the So
called ''interlocking directorates'
should be forbidden. There is one
species of business interlocking, how.
ever, in the smaller centers, to which
few people would object, and which
the new law should deal with very
carefully if at. all.
In the country town and small
city, something like this frequently
happens. The community needs a
new bank, or one already in exist
ence needs cooperation. A local
manufacturer or other business man
consents to take office in that bank,
not from expectation of salary, and
often with no hope Of making money
in bank stock. The time he takes
away from that business is either
given free or i'll paid. The bank
could hardly live without the knowl,
edge of local conditions and bushes:
Judgment possessed by directors OF
this type, whose service is given
almost entirely out OF community
spirit.
On the other side of the deal, the
home bank has one or more men
who devote their whole time to its
L yoaAoTIlio o.
knowledge of human nature and acut.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
COUSINS CANNOT MARRY

In addition to the eugenics mar
rage law which went into effe- It
January LIST there is another change
to the marriage law which has be-
come effective on that date. First
cousins are not allowed to marry in
Wisconsin since J5Guary list, law
to that effect having been passed
by the last legisla ure. Heretofore
the marriage of first cousins has al
ways been. allowed in this sta &c
Under the new law no relatives near
err than the fourth degree, second
cousins, will be granted licenses to
wed. The new Wisconsin law in
this respect, dis very similar to the
statute of other states on this sub
iect
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

founded on the law of chances, sure
to net the house a steady profit.
1t is like giving money away for the
public thus to take the wrong end
Of these hazards.
Whenever a big haul is made at a
gaming place. the management re
joices. It knows that in nine cases
out of 10, the money will be lost
back soon, and more too. Then too,
the railroads will be crowded for
days by the motley crew that is in
cIined to try its luck
The Willingness to take some
chances is a good trait No kind
of business could prosper without it
In productive enterprise, backed by
Intelligence and industry the chances
are very strongly in your favor. AT
the gaming tables they are strongly
against you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
ANSWER THE CALL.
Grand Rapids People Have Fonud
That This Isl Necessary.

A cold, strain, sudden wrench.
A little cause may hurt he kidneys.
Spells of backache often follow.
Or some irregularity of the urine.
A splendid remedy for such attacks
| A medicine that has satisfied thou
sands
LIS Doan's Kidney Pills, a special
kidney remedy.
Many Grand Rapids people rely on
| it
Here is Grand Rapids proof
Mrs. M. S. Moran, 938 First ST. N,
Grand Rapids, Wis, says: II was
troubled severely with my back about
three years ago. One box of Doans
Kidney Pills practically cured me.
only have to take a few doses occa-
sionally, and they keep me in good
shape. I couldn't get along without
Doan's Kidney Pills They have Ger
tainly proven a blessing, for before
l used them, | could hardly walk and
was often laid up with rheumatic pain
and lameness. l have often recon-
mended Doan's Kidey Pills and will
always give them my hearty endorse
ment."
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milbura Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name sand
take no other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

We often wonder if We fully appre
ciate our home county, settled as Il
is with an honest, thrifty people, and
our progressive little city teaminC
with enterprise and hospitality. We
can truly say with the psalmist ;'the
lines are fallen unto me in pleasan.
places; yea, 1 have goodly herit
age"
There are few towns where the
stores present a more pleasing APP
pearance of their respective places
Of business and such pride is Ger
tainIy commendable. That is not all.
They carry good, clean stocks, for
fair dealing draws a splendid pat
ronage from the surrounding terri
tory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

An exchange gives an Illustration
as follows: A doctor bet "a man a
dollar he could not get billiard
ball into his mouth. The man wo1
the bet, but the doctor got fifteen
dollars to get it out. Another form
of advertising with the results about
the same as usual, the advertiser
spends one dollar and gets fifteen
in return.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

That all men are created free and
equal is a beautiful theory. That We
are all at birth free Of clothing and
equal in our helplessness is a less
beautiful, but more truthful declara
tion. 1t is the object Of eugenics
to upIift the standard Of humanity at
birth so that men may really tend
to greater mental and physical equal
ity than possible by mere natural
Physical Culture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
ALFALFA BULLETINS

The agricultural college has sent
US for distribution supply of the
bulletins referred to by Prof.
Moore during his recent address at
the opera house.
These are free to anyone interest
ed who will call or send for one.
First National Pank.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

be more sensible for doctors to com
pen US all to have a lightning rod
riveted to our back bones, less dan
gerouS) to prevent our being killed
by lightning than to inject poisonous
puss into our system to poison for
life our blood to prevent our being
killed from small pox
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

High freight rates and interest
charges, increased cost of protected
implements, food, clothing, lumber
frequent low prices for grain appar-
emily convinced many that farming
pays best "back home"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

This country is in good shape The
farmers are becoming n-Jre scientif-
ic each year, are diversifying their
crops and have, discarded obsolete
methods of cultivation. The happy
go-Iucky method is fast becoming a
thing of the past and the. people are
learning to make two ears of corn
grow where one formerly grew.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

Our town has never enjoyed such
a trade as it has during the past
few weeks, and every day it is in
creasing. The fact of the matte.
is our business men have got right
down to business and are sellin2
goods cheaper than they can be
bought in any town of this size in
the state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

The only men of worth to a town
or community are those who forget
their own selfish end long enough
and are liberal enough in their ideas
to encourage every public and pri-
vate enterprise, who are ready with
brain and purse to push every pro
ject calculated to build up the town
and enhance it's Importance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
594,9L9

The number of Americans who
have returned to the States after
living for a period in Canada is re-
ported as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29
SUMMONS
CIRCUIT COURT, WOOD COUNTY.
Gustave A. Giese, Plaintiff,

CIRCUIT COURT, WOOD COUNTY.
Gustave A Giese, Plaintiff,
Auren Knapp, Jr, and Mrs. Auren
Knapp, Jr, his wife, Patrick and
John Garihee, ard Mrs. John Carl
hee. widow of said John Garihee.
F. W. Young, and Mrs. F. W.
Young, his wife, Otis ". Norton,
and Mrs. Otis ". Norton. his wife,
Samuel A. Shamrock, and Mrs.
Samuel A Stainbrook, his wife,
Andrew o. Butler, and Mrs.
Andrew o. Butler, his wife, Mary
Drager, and all persons whom it
may concern, Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin-To The
Said Defendants:
You are hers by summoned to
appear within twenty days alter SER
vice of this summons, exclusive of
the day of service, and defend the
above entitled action in the court
aforesaid; and in case of your failure
so to do judgment will be rendered
against you according to the demand
of the complaint.
John A Gaynor,
PLAINTIFFS Atty.
P. O.. Address, Grand Rapids, Wood
4 County, Wis.
Note:
To you, the defendants named in
the above and foregoing summons,
and to each of you
Take notice that the following is
the description of the real estate
and premises affected by the above
entitled action commenced by sum
mons, to-wit;-N
The S. x of the S. w 4 of the
N. E. a and the n. p of the S. w.
Il of Section 80, tp. %, N. of Range
6 East.
Further take notice, that the sum-
mons and complaint in said action
was duly filed in the office OF the
clerk of the Court at the city Of
Grand Rapids in said county of Wood
Wisconsin, on the twenty-fourth day
of December, 1913, and there has
continued and remained and now re
mains on file in that office.
Further Take Notice, that said ac-
ton is brought to quiet and estab-
Iish PLAINTIFF title to said lands and
each and seyery tract thereof aga INST
any claim and all claims of said
defendants or Of any or either of
them to said lands and each and
every parcel thereof, and to forever
bar and cut off said defendants
from having or claiming amy right
or title to or interest in said lands
adverse to the said plaintiff.
And Plaintiff Here Refers to said
complaint for the full facts on which
this. action is based and a more full
description OF the lands thereby al
fected.
Dated this oath day of December,
4. D. 1913.
John A. Gayuor,
6tw Atty. for Plaintiff.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

the hall or in the territory. on the
fatal Christmas eve
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

Possibly no town in our state with
population r. greater than is
claimed here, c. boast of as many
good horses as are owned by our 10
cal horsemen. Great as has been
the future predicted for the auto
mobile, man has manifested no grea
desire to forsake his old friend, the
horse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-29

CIV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
refusing their wishes because the teacher lives in the same town in which the school is located?
Great Powers at War

Despite the efforts of Great Britain
 and the banking interests of Europe and the United States to avert a gen eral war on the continent, Germany and Russia are determined to test their modern armaments in deadly conflict.
 The hope was that the war between Austria and Servia would be localized and soon end, but the war spirit in the Czar's dominions and in the German empire is at fever heat, and the counsels of peace have gone un- needed.
 All the leading financiers as well as disinterested statesmen of the world are opposed to wars in general and are strongly opposed to great Euro pean war in particular. There is cer- tainly no sound reason for the con flict that is now being staged.
 In this twentieth century of rare enlightenment and ethical ideals 1t IS almost unthinkabc that war between any of the great European powers could be possible: but as the situa5 tion stands now many battlefield will soon run with blood. It will be hard to keep France out of the conflict, and it may be that general war will follow.
 The moral support of individual lockers on will be divided. Many men, no doubt, find their sympathies going out to Servia because it is the smaller of the two powers already at war, but it must be generally admitted that victory of Russia over Germany would be nothing short of a calamity to civ ilization, for Germany leads all Eu- rope in the arts and sciences and in education generally; and Americans will be found, as rule, in sympathy with the Teutonic rather than the Russo-Slavic side. If, however, France and Great Britain become involved, then the aspect would change. Ameri- can sympathy would be very generally with those two nations, especially with England.
 But the prayer of all peace-loving people, no matter where their sympa- thies tend, will be for speedy termin- ation of bloody strife.