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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
HAD A Bic TIME
On THE Bic DAY
Two Girls Who Were not Lone
some in Marshfield Thurs
day

A story has been brought back
Rapids young bloods, who took in
the fair. To commence at the begin
ming or to begin at the commence
ment, or starting from the first, it
goes like this:
New velvet hats, skirts of the kind
a western mayor has endeavored to
keep on the shady side of the street,
and all dolled up in the latest trim
mings, they stepped off of a train
Thursday morning. Going down Cen
trail avenue they attracted the atten-
ton Of two young sports from Grand
Rapids. Just my style, pert, petite,
foxy" said the young men and
plans were laid for the catch. The
coupe laid with considerable strategy
was successful. The leaders of fash
ion fell for the wiles of the young
men as they met in restaurant, and
the order for four was paid in
Grand Rapids cash.
The plot begins to thicken. The
young sports were equal to the oc-
casion when an auto ride was pro-
posed. A high powered machine was
secured and they were whisked away
at the head of a cloud of dust, throw
ing all care to the winds.
A short drive about the city and
the party went to the fair grounds.
Here the time was spent in enjoying
the big exposition.
Time passed on; dinner was the
next thing in order. Did they dine
yea, on the best the city could af-
ford? Again the high powered car
was called into service for a ride
in the subsurbs. Away they rolled
for a few hours, when one of the
girls remembered they had to catch
train. But little time remained The
| entertainers were not prone to dis
continue the program, but after coax
irg, consented to return to Marsh
field. The car, urged on to get to
! the depot on time, struck a sand
hole: there was a sudden jolt a
velvet hat rolled in the dust, with
it went a crop of store hair, uncoy-
ering a bald head and a wrinkled
brow. The program ended right there
With lower lips dropping the young
salesman from another town
.Stung, wasn't music to the ears OF
the young men, which accounts foI
| the fact that the girls" were not
escorted to the train.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
ENTERTEINS IN HONOR
OF MRS. A. [. PRESTON

Mrs. Jennie Taylor entertained in
formally Saturday a few friends
in honor of Mrs. A. L. Preston nee
Miss Ril1a Smith, who is her guest.
1t has been % years since Mrs. Pres
ton left Grand Rapids and twenty
years since her last visit here She
finds many changes in the city of
her birth and only a few Of the old
residents whom she knows. She was
delighted to find the city so much
improved. The changes are many and
beautiful and she expressed great
pleasure and delight over it.
The following ladies were guests:
Mesdames D. J. Arpin, Georgiana
Buckley, w. D. HarYie, T. E. Phil
leo, D. B. Philleo, J. E. DAILY, G. w
Rulus, J. w. Cochran, George l..
Williams, Lima Corrivean and Miss
HELEN KRONER.
Light refreshments were, served and
the house and table decorations were
triple and white chrisanthemums.
A delightful afternoon is reported
by all present
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
DOES ADVERTISING PAY
Biggest Advertisers Generally Do
The Biggest Business Somebody
Looking For Bargains.

The other day d local merchant
elevated his chin, squared his shoul-
ders, assumed a belligerent attitude,
and defiantly told us that "adver-
Using doesn't pay
He is still alivea but let US con-
slider a minute:
A London baronet who manufac-
lures pills has sold a part of his
real estate for the tidy sum Of $780,
900 900. He made 1T out of the prof
it's of his business, and he built that
business up by advertising, often
spending as high as half million
dollars a year in printers ink.
John Wanamaker, the best known
and most successful merchant In
this country, made his millions by
advertising, and said So
The great department stores of
the country are kept alive by adVsr-
tising, and are coming money by
more advertising.
lou A6fSI ACHdo III q ldlt6S AAI0A
camille house in this country that
does not advertise, and advertise
heavily.
If a politician wants to make him
self known to the dear people he
uses the most effective means
newspaper publicity. That is adver-
tising.
II the editor called you a thief
in a two line item and stuck 1T away
paper, would you pass it by in the
belief that it would never be no
ticed?
Neyeri You would consider your
self DETAINED before the entire COM
munity, and would paw up the earth
in your bellowings. You would be
only too quick to concede that ey-
cry line in the paper Is read.
Yes, advertising certainly pays.
There is no ad so small or instg--
nificant but what someone is wait
ing for it.
There are plenty OF people who
want what you have to sell but they
are weary OF looking through hay
stack for needle. They prefer to
find it in an advertisement
And they will look in the local
paper for the ad.
They will find someone's but will
it be yours?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
GETS THIRTY
DAYS FOR STEAL
Inc COAT

Frank Martin was sentenced TO 80
days in Jail by Judge Edw. n. Pom
ainvilIe this morning. Martin was
charged with having stolen a coat
from the waiting room of the c. NJ.
& St. Paul station Tuesday morning.
Martin, said in his own defense
that he was drunk and that was the
reason he took the coat.
The coat was the property Of
Harry Carlson. Carlson took off the
coat preparatory to doing some work
around the station waiting rooms
and stepped out. Martin took the
opportunity to take the coat. He
went to the coal sheds, searched
the pockets of the coat, took off his
own and put on Carlson's coat and
rolling up his own in a bundle put
it under his arm and boarded a
freight train. He was put off by a
brakeman and after considerable
lodging around and in cars, was ar
rested by Chief of Police Gibson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
ELECTION RETURNS
SLOW IN COMING IN
There may be Some Changes
When Official Returns are
aIIin

The primary election brought out
a comparatively light vote in Wood
county.
The following on the Republican
cl1et are the prospective candidates
who will appear before the voters for
election in November:
For County Clerk Fred II. Eber-
hardt
For Clerk of Court-A. B. Bever.
For Register Of Dee5Is-EE Ames.
For County Treasurer Nate An
derson.
For Sheriff Cliff Bmett
For District Attorney John Rob
erts.
For Assemblyman- Geo. P. Ham
brecht.
The following figures show the
votes for the different candidates.
but are not final as there are twelve
precincts to be heard from at the
time Of compiling.
County Clerk ~ Eberhardt. 4O4;
Muir, 326
Sheriff Bluett, 631; Brown, 500.
Clerk of Court Bever, no con-
test.
Assembly Hambrecht, 4&S; Har--
ring, 9S; Williams, 179
Register of Deeds Ames, 424;
Ebbe, 800
Roberts leads with 291 votes for
District Attorney.
Democratic Nominees.
On the Democratic ticket, the fol
lowing will be the candidates with
the district attorney office still in
doubt
County Clerk William I. Mobiles,
Treasurer Godfrey Sowatzke.
Clerk OF Court-Frank erode.
Sheriff Michael Griffin.
District Attorney d. d. Conway.
Register of Deeds John A. Hoff-
man.
AsSemblyman-Joh Juno.
There were only two contests on
the Democratic ticNet-that for sher
if and for district attorney. The
figures compiled at the same time
the figures for the Republican tick
It were compiled and with twelve
precincts still to hear from, gave
the folIowing results:
sheriff Griffin, S26; Johnson, ,169;
Thomas. 25T.
District ATTORNEY Conway, 49S;
GO9ginS, 455.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
ARTISTIC NAT.
URAL SELECTIONS

VIM. n. Selig's selection fit the
types" for the Northern romance
so admirably, that they cannot be
surpassed. William Farnum was en-
gaged to fill the difficult and
doughty role of Roy Glenister, the
hero, who. from being a civilized
individual. reverts almost to the
man primeval. He lives out his
motto. What l want I take, but his
better past is eventually touched
through the sweet and refining in
fluence of a pure woman, to again
return the true man militant. Every
phase OF this difficult character was
finely and strongly drawn, never
hesitant and ever inspired by the
motive of the moment the book
hero becoming one in reality.
The Spoilers, tonight at DAILY 5.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
STRICKEN DOWN
WITH .APOPLEXY
DR. James Walsh, Well Known
Veterinary Surgeon and Black
smith Died Suddenly at
his Home tuesday Night

DIR. James Walsh whose death oc-
Cured suddenly Tuesday night at
10 o'clock at his home on Second
street s., was a great shock not on
inmate friends. He had been about
his work all day the same aus usual
and in the evening after supper had
gone to the Ideal Theatre, his usual
custom. He arrived at home at 8
O'Clock and shortly after retired. A
bout ten O'Clock he arose from his
bed and started to the sitting room
and Kitchen for a drink of water
His Wife noticed him staggering and
acting peculiar and she went to his
assistance. She asked him what was
the matter and he said he was diz-
She took his arm and attempted to
assist him to the kitchen and he
fell to the floor unconscious and re-
manned so until his death. He was
assisted to his bed and doctors Hou-
gen and Looze We're Immediately call
ed, but he was beyond help and di-
ed soon after.
DIR. James Walsh was born in
Quebec, Canada, Sept. 8, 1854 Had
he lived until the eighth of this
month, he would have been sixty
years of age. He came to Grand
Rapids from Canada when boy sew
enteen years of age. He was mar
ried to Miss Katherin Johnston in
Grand = Ids in 1878. From this un-
ion six children were born, three
boys, Frazier, James and George, and
three daughters, Mrs. Matthew W.
Vandenbrook; and the Misses Fern
and Margaret Walsh He was marri
ed to Mrs. Nettie Rean on January
/, 1904, in this city. Mr.. Walsh prac-
ticed his profession as vterinary and
when not busy in that line of work
did blacksmithing, in a shop OF
Birch street. not far from his resi-
dence.
DIR. James Walsh WAS a we'll
known character and Familiarity call
ed DOC" He Was of a humorous
turn of mind and always ready for a
good joke on himself or somebody
else. He spoke French quite fluent
ly and was we'll known among that
nationality. He will not only be miss
ed at the family fireside but in many
familiar haunts,, where he was a con
slant visitor.
The funeral service will take
place on Saturday, the particulars of
which are not wholly arranged for
at this writing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
HELP BUILD YOUR
CITY, BOOST THE BUSI-
NESS ASSOCIATION
Build Yourself HomeBoost Everything That's Good for
Yourself, Your Neighbor and Your Friends

It takes a crew to sail ship; il
takes cooperation to make a town.
A dollar is no carrier pigeon; send
it away and it won't come back.
The farther a man gets from his
home the nearer it gets to his heart.
If YOU are looking for an invest :
ment a home never misses a divi--
dend
If YOU are a merchant, don't send
away for your printing and then sail
under false colors as a booster, Pat
ronize your home printer.
The interets you earn ON home
depends ON the interest you take in
it.
Money talks, but if you send it
far away don't complain if you can't
hear it.
The author who said, Clothes
make the man." didn't mean mail
order clothes.
The great question after all is,
whether this is a community or a
freight station.
If this town had the livest citizens
the citizens would soon have the
livest town.
Don't be satisfied to praise pub
lie spirit where it is deserved; de-
serve a little yourself.
Shed your machinery so it can
shed the rain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
PLEASANT OUTING

Miss Florence Weeks and Miss
Carrie Miller returned Saturday ey-
ening from a two weeks visit with
relatives and friends in Milwaukee.
They report having a very pleasant
trip. One Of the most enjoyable fea-
lures of their visit was a trip on
Lake Michigan with Milwaukee
friends They embarked on the
large pleasure boat Christopher Co
lumbus," ard spent a day in Chica-
go. The tall buildings, elevated street
railways, theatres, beautiful parks,
and many other interesting things
not commonly seen in small cities;
also the free auto rides furnished
to the ladies' by the National Re
tail Granite and Marble Dealers
Convention, which was held in Mil
waukee Aug. II to p, makes one
think of the old saying, Gee, but
ain't l glad I'm living.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
THE CITY SENSE!
YOUR ATTITUDE!

ent; look to the making OF q high
er standard of moral and social eth
les in this community: help to spread
the good about yea.
What of this church you may have
so long neglected?
| What of this city of your actiyit-
les to whose best welfare you may
have long been blind?
Have you need OF establishing q
sense of your relationship to the
movement to make this city better
your city-our city?
Unite with men of clean hands to
clean up!
Let us have a love for our home
town like that which the graduate
has for his University the esprit
de corps of the crack regiment!
That is the City Sensel With it
We all work for the city; we will
think only of the success of the
whole!
We Shall love our town and shall
have our eyes opened to it's perils
and opportunities. The only real
peace is peace which a clean con-
science allows a sense Of sins for
given because repented of and for
saken.
The only real prosperity In our
homes is that founded ON purity
the same for father and son, for
mother and daughter. 1t is obtain
able by conscientious effort.
Your help is needed for this grand
work-Will you give it?
"Peace Be Within Thy Walls and
Prosperity Within Thy Palaces; for
My Brethren and Companions Sake
Peace Be within Thee"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03

vice is a monster of SO frightfu,
mlen, as to be hated needs but tc
be seen"
But men blind their eyes for many
reasons; first because they con.
slider vice necessary. They say "it
always has been" Second. because
they desire to profit by it; they are
party to it by renting their property
to its procGrers and purveyors: they
sell goods to its victims.
They help to stimulate excesses
that dull the already Tagging con-
science.
Third, they blind their eyes be-
cause of. a hypocritical modesty.
Fourth, they blind their eyes that
they @may not be disturbed by any
movement for reform.
A young man may SOW his wild
oats and reap his wild oats, but in
this Twentieth Century he cannot
market his wild oats
Employers decline his products;
they demand steady nerves, clear
brain, clean hands.
These are signs of the times that
point TO what a man must be to
hold place in commercial actiyit-
les.
"The evil that men do lives after
them; the good is oft inferred with
their bones" said Shakespeare; but,
no, both good and evil live after man
in the bones of his chill
dren; in their sightless or beaming
eyes.
o man, look to the cleansing OF
thy centuries soiled- garments.
Look to the washing of the sins OF
the past by the efforts of the pres
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
RUDLPH FRE|TAC
AND MISS AN.
ELLA SOWATKE
MARRIED

Rudolph Freitag of North Fond du
Lac, and Miss Amelia Sowatzke, OF
Pittsville; were married at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. August Frei-
tag on tenth avenue last evening by
the Rev. William f.omn4enseu of the
west side Lutheran church.
The young couple are we'll known
in this city as both of them made
it their home here for a number of
years.
After a wedding trip to Milwau-
kee and through the southern part
of the state, the young people will
go to housekeeping at North Fond
du Lac, where the groom has a posi-
tion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
NEW OFFICERS
HIGHLY PLEASED
Business men Visit Stevens Point
and Come Back Home Very
Enthusiastic

The officers of the Merchants ant
Manufacturers Association, Presi
dent G. A. Normington, Vice Presi
dent w. F Geue,. Treasurer War.
committee, f. D. Abel and A. Jacob,
son, who went to Stevens Point, Thu
rsday to investlgare the WORKINGS
of the association in that city and
to find out what the business men
of that city thought of it, returned
more enthusiastic than ever over
the project.
They found that the business men
of Stevens Point were very enthusi-
astic and that they were all united
in saying that it was the best thing
that ever happened in that city.
The Stevens Point business men
are glad to see Grand Rapids form
ing such an organization and feel
sure that as the workings of the
association become more general
and better understood that the busi-
ness men of this city will be as en-
thusiastic as they are at the Point.
The first person called upon by
the officers was J. w. Dunnigan.
cashier of the First National Bank,
who is treasurer of the Stevens
Point organization. From Mr.. Dunni-
gan. it was learned that the finances
of the organization were in excel
lent condition and that the organiza-
ton was working a great benefit to
the members and to the city as a
whole.
Mr.. Dunnigan said that they found
that it increased the banks business
especially with the smaller deposit
ors and that the people were becom-
ing more prompt in their payments
of accounts. In fact, the whole thing
is working out as a huge success.
Earl Osthman, cashier of the Citi-
zens National Bank, secretary of the
Association was the next person call
ed upon. Mr.. Ostman was one of
the original promoters of the Asso-
citation idea in Stevens Point, and
he is we'll satisfied with the way
it is working out. He stated to the
Grand Rapids officers that already
the business men figured that they
had. saved between 81 500 and ST.
600 in donations, fake collection
schemes and outlaw advertising.
The organization is flourishing. All
the original members are still in
with one exception and this man is
going to re-enter. Not only that, but
new applications are being received
constantly.
They have a very. complete system
at the Point and have already be
gun to feel the good effects of the
organization
The business men up there say
they wouldn't give it up under any
circumstances.
The Grand Rapids officers found
that everything was as represented
by Mr.. jacobson and they vouch fol
the fact that Grand Rapids is organ
| lied along the same lines as othel
cities and that this city will reaE
the same benefit that other cities
have reaped.
1t is more than probable that Mar
shield and Wausau will start an or
ganization of this nature in tn.
very near future.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
SUMMER
Home Scene of Pleasant Catherine
Of Merrill People SUNDAY.


Home Scene of Pleasant Gathering
Of Merrill People Sunday.
Mrs. S. Heineman, Mr.. Edgar and
Miss Mae were hosts Sunday to a
number of friends who gathered at
their summer camp on Long Lake.
The day was pleasantly spent and
in the evening nearly twenty-five
were seated for supper.
The guests were: Miss Beatrice
Ullman, of Appleton; Mrs Baruch, of
Grand Rapids; Miss Viola Schiff, of
Chicago; Misses Mildred Smith, Isa-
bel Livingston, Kathleen Van Heck,s
Mrs. ID. Livingston; Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Heineman and daughter, Ele-
amor; Messrs. Stanley Van Hecke,
Clifford Livingston, Alfred Duteau,
Wayne Tracy, Walt B. Ohilsen, Nate
Curtis, of Wausau, and w. Cochran,
of Lansing, Mich.-Merrill Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
REV. FRED STAFF
GOES ABROAD FOR
INDEFINITE STAY

From Santa Anna Daily Register.
Rev. Fred Staff, pastor of the
First Congregational church, will
leave Santa Ana this evening en-
route to Europe for an indefinite
stay.
Mr.. Staff's health has not been at
all coed for several months, his all
ment being of a nervous nature and
upon the advice of his physician, he
has decided to try the effect of an
ocean voyage and complete change of
climate and environment.
Mr.. Staff expects first to go to
England if he can, and after a stay
there he viii go to Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, travelling and visiting
among friends and dear ones of his
childhood days.
If he can do so Mr.. Staff expects
to travel in Germany also and pos
sibly in other war4strieken countries.
The time of his stay abroad will
be determined somewhat and prob
ably by the fortunes of war, and
primarily by the effect of his travels
upon the state of his health.
Mrs Staff and the children re-
main in Santa Ana for the present,
but may later go to Boise, Idaho
where Mrs. Staff has a brother.
Rev. Fred Staff has manly friends
in Grand Rapids who will be anxious
to hear of his improvement from his
contemplated trip. We join with his
friends in Grand Rapids in wishing
him a delightful trip and a full res
toratiOn to health and strength and
a safe return to his family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
WEDDING AN0UNCE-
MENTS RECEIVED

This office is in receipt of we'd
ding ard which reads: Mr.. and
Mrs. ~. Emerson Webster anDestnce
the marriage Of their daughter Nina,
Matilda, to Mr.. Leslie Denis Smith
on Tuesday, September I, 1914. Hud-
son. Wis, at home after October 1,
Rapids City, South Dakota.
The young man, one of the above
contracting parties, is we'll and fav-
orably known in this city, where he
was brought up and educated. This
young couple have the best wishes
of hosts of friends in this city, for
their future success and happiness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
Save for a home.

sp<tFt iOI q nome.
If you are going to live here.givt
here
Don't paint the town, paint your
house.
Only a blind man needs to buy
sight unseen.
This town would move faster, may
be. if you did.
The smaller the town the bigger
the possibilities.
Don't be a hairtrigger knocker
and a slow fuse booster
Don't be a fellow who never runs
to anything but fire.
Do not think you can prosper
whether the town does or not.
Any man who has feet can kick,
but it takes brains to boost.
Think well Of your town and your
town will think well Of you.
Buying at home is an investment;
buying away is a speculation.
Somebody started this town 1T is
up 10 you to keep it moving.
A penny's worth of paint will save
dollars worth of damage.
Keeping your house in repair
keeps it's value in the same condi--
tiOn
Let the carpenter be the only man
in your town to use a hammer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-03
BERLIN SAYS
ENGLISH AND
FRENCH YIELD
AND RETREAT
London Admits Left Wing has
Been Forced Back, but AS
SertS Rest of Line is
Holding

NEW YORK, Sept. L. There is
reason to believe that the removal
of the seat of the French govern.
ment from Paris to Bordeaux is only
a matter of hours.
A cablegram received this evening
from c.. F. Betelh manager of the
Paris bureau of the International
News Service, announced that he haG
divided his forces into two parts and
had sent half of his staff to Borde-
aux by taXicabs.
Mr.. Berteli advised that he him.
self would stay in Paris. The dis
patch stated that war news service
might be started from Bordeaux at
any minute.