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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-08-19
ALI Of the New Things.

Our Spring stock is complete in every de
partment. 1t matters not what the ladies want we
have it. Come in to see ali the new Spring fabrics
that we are showing in the beautiful coIors OF the
season. Goods for dresses. goods for skirts gooas
for wlists---tor misses and ladies. We also nave
very large stock of trimmings. lace embroidery, ETC.
We can please the most exactng buyer III these
goods.
We are showing a beautiful assortment or un-
derwear for ladies' misses. men and boys Come III
before you buy your supply of light underwear.
Our Shoe Department is we'll supplied with the
most stylish oxfords and slippers we nave them IN
the popular lasts and in patents gun metal tans ana
vici kid.
Weinvite the men and boys to see our stock OF
clothing and hats. Our prices are reasonable.
J. w. PEAK
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-08-19
Care Of Brood SoMs.

Hogs require attention, regardless
I condition, age or sex, but the man
nAent of the brood SOW is the surest
bf the breeders skill. II sows
re.essly fed during pregnancy,
af some kind is sure to ensue
6%ing.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-23

What is said to be the largest stone
ever cut by human hands lies in an
abandoned quarry in Syria, near the
ruins of Baalbek The stone is seven
ty-five feet long, eighteen feet high
and fifteenfeet wide. Its weight is es-
timated to be 1900 tons.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-23

A story sent out from Cambridge
relates that a large number of Egyp-
tians think that DR.. Reisner, the Har-
ward Psychologist, is a reincarnation
of the Pharaohs, and have invited him
to govern them in place of the present
khedive.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
LENTEN FARE.

Few persons observe the rigors OF
the old time LENT, ''black fasts," as
they were called by some History
records that in ancient days armies
and cities, were reduced to starvation
during Lent, while having plenty of
flesh food, which they were ddsci-
pinned as to refuse.
Historians also observe that some
of the old. Lenten laws were aimed
quite as much to promote the pros
perity of the fish trade aus to assist
in true religious culture. So the de-
cline of asoeticism does not InTaTd-
ably mean. a lack of religious feel
ing
Edward VI Of England, desiring to
reconcile his subjects to a somewhat
stricter observance of Lent, Very SEN
Silly remarked that abstinence from
meat saves much flesh, and ,encoura-
ges the use of fish. In these times
of high cost meat, the family that
observes Lent according to the Oh
der ideas will gain, not merely the
benefits that come from self disci-
pline, but may learn that one can
do very we'll ON substitutes for meat.
The constant improvement of re-
frigerating and transportation faciE-
ties make fish, oysters. and other
sea foods more generally available
than formerly. But comparatively few
families cook fish nicely. Too often
it is merely dried in the frying pan,
a loathy object. At seashore hotels
where these arts are studied, appetiz-
inc sauces are used, and the constant
succession of fish food is usually
popular.
No doubt there are still left a
good many people who modify their
diet q good deal during this period
of fasting. Let no one deride their
abstinence if they find it helpful.
Any form OF self control makes one
more truly the master of his own
life, and it reduces the sway of the
fIeshy instincts which so often are
a foe to human usefulness and am
bition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
4 DETERRENT SEQUEL

There was once a woman who llVeC
in a oneroom tenement with five
children and drunken husband. A
London paper thus tells what follow
ed:
The police reported her.
The church noted her.
Summing parties held UP their
hands at her.
Experts compiled statistics about
her.
SocioIogists wrote about her
Governments ignored her.
Her neighbours wanted to help her.
A small part of the world worried
about her.
The Landlord bullied her
One day the agent of a charitable
agency called on her and looking at
him proudly with her back against
the wall, she said:
Il don't want ylouT help"
But a week later she was written
up by newspaper reporter who
knew his business, and readers OF
that paper sent her $4,000.
That is a tribute to the power OF
publicity and is an altogether pleas
ant sequel to the story.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
CLOTHES AND THE TAX

A clerk in the Chicago internal
revenue office remarked, on the day
that the last income tax returns were
brought in, that as a general thing
the shabbier clothes people wore the
bigger a return they handed in Per
haps he exaggerated. Yet men came
in who did not look as if they could
sign a check for three figures, yet
they showed up property worth mil
lions.
This converse relation of clothes
and prosperity is noticed in all sta
ges OF society. Savings banks off
Gals, particularly those dealing with
Immigrants bear similar testimony.
A Pole or Hungarian creeps humbly
into the bank, as if he doubted his
right to stand on its marble slabs
in the presence Of free born and lord
ly Americans. An inexperienced
clerk might feel like setting a dog
on him as a tramp.
Lo and behold, he pulls out a
greasy but protruding wallet, and
begins to count out the fives ana
tens, adj soiled and redolent OF long
repose in his perspiring pocket. Whe
the "wad' is complete, it is sever
al times as much as the fashion
plate five O'Clock tea clerk behind
the counter could produce.
In business life good clothes are
the badge of hope and ambition. A
well creased pair of trousers gives
man a sense of confidence that
religion cam scarce bestow. Well
fitting and cared for clothes sug-
gest both past success and habits
of attention to detail that cannot
fail to impress a stranger favoraDly.
Once the big golden goal OF wealth
is reached, the character often
tends to soften. A man rises later
in the morning and abates his habits
of industry Also the minor ameni-
ties of life may begin to look formid-
able. Brushing off dust and polish
ing boots and scrupulous cleanli-
ness may seem like an effort. Man
is at his best in many ways in his
days of struggle and toll.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
FOR POSTOFFlCE
EMPLOYEES

A Washington dispatch contains
the information that all letter car
riers, city and rural, postoffice
clerks and special delivery messen-
gers will be extended the right to
ask compensation for injuries suf-
fered in service, under provision
now in the postoffice appropriation
which will be reported the holiday
recess.
At the present time railway mail
clerks, seaport clerks and postoffice
are entitled, to compensa-
ton for injuries suffered in the per
formance of duty, the government tax
ing the position that those duties in
volve hazard The plan is to extend
this privilege to the other classes
named The compensation is $4,000
death benefit or for injuries, full
pay for one and half pay for a lsecon
year should the disa Utility continue
that long.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

A countryman living just outside
Of London drove In one day TO buy
and other necessaries. He
went first to a cobbler and purchased
pair Of boots. Not shoddy foot
wear, carelessly made, Or even ma
chine made, but hand sewed and OF
strong leather. For this pair of
boots he paid just seven cents.
He next went to a butcher and
bought a sheep, for which he paid 10
cents. and a dozen chickens, for
which he paid 18c or 17zc apiece.
Ten pounds of beef cost him "a total
of 5 cents for the beef was half a
cent a pound. A visit to a grain
merchant resulted in the purchase
of a bushel of rye for Is cents and
at the fish market he bought twenty
five large fish for IL cents. At the
draper he purchased a suit OF
clothes for 40 cents, for stout
homespun cloth was selling at Il
cents an ell, or 9 3-5 cents a yard.
The ceuntryulan had no trouble in
carrying his purchases home in his
wagon. The wagon was large. He
had driven to London with load OF
firewood, and he had sold the wood
for IL CENTS, which was a good price
for those days.
It was early in the sixteenth CEN
tury-about 400 years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

needs other foods to supply heat and
energy. A child should froIic and
romp and play because there is
a natural relation between such mus
cular activity and the proper per
fornance of such food material in
carrying on their functions. The
mother must also realize that rest
is as important for the child as play,
and that sufficient quiet, restful sleep
does its equal part in storing energy
and bringing about perfect develop
ment
Children need sunshine and fresh
air, and at night should sleep in a
well ventilated room with the win
doWs down from the top. They
should be bathed regularly and pro
perly clothed. But no matter how
we'll fed and clothed, how clean and
well nourished previous to its admis-
sion to school, the parents interest
must follow the child to the school
room and see that such environment
does not undermine its health. Here
in lies the responsibility of the fa-
Their, as a citizen and a taxpayer.
It is his money that maintains the
school and it is his duty to see that
his child is not forced into an over
crowded, poorly ventilated, oUerhea-
ted classroom, compelled to breathe
for five hours a day the expirations
from forty or fifty pairs of lungs,
and it's condition so weakened as to
render it vulnerable to the attacks
Of infectious disease. Anyone, on re
Election, Will be impressed with the
futility of exp eoting a maximum pro
gression, physical and mental, where
children are housed in oVercrOWded
classrOOms with little or no moisture
in the air, compelled to breathe dry,
Initiated air and to attempt mental
tasks with suffocated BRAIN cells de-
pTived of nature's generous supply
of oxygen. This is the condition in
a large number of school rooms thru
out the land today.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
A. /. FontaIne, Publisher.
REcLAimINe PRISONERS.

A few years ago in a certain coun-
ty Jail there was confined a defaul-
ting baa@ official. This prison was
small, kept in a kindly, common sense
way. The TRUSTEES worked on a
farm. They We're allowed to run er-
rands about the town.
On a few occasions this man was
allowed to drive a wagon delivering
chairs. Some of the metropolitan
papers featured the story. 1t struck
them as a primitive method of jail
keeping, that a man shut up for a
serious offense should be permitted
to drive a wagon in the open air per
forming useful service.
No doubt many people feel that
such an offender should sit in his cell
rejecting in a repentant manner on
his misdeeds This mood, however,
had been reached before. What was
called for then was a different
kind of experience.
People who follow magazine litera-
ture must be impressed by the a.
mount of space given Within the past
few months to studies of prison life.
One thoughtful man recently in Jail
says so per cent of the crimi-
nails could be reclaimed. Actually the
great majority return to crime.
Many prisons are classifying pris-
oners, and those giving promise of
reformation are allowed more free
dom. They work ON farms or at
trades that will some day give them
a good living They are FINALLY let
out ON parole, and the probationary
experience tends to fix in them
sense of resp onsibility.
The jails that put men at work
ON farms never get into trouble with
labor unions. There is always a de-
mand for food. The plough and the
hoe point to occupations in which
the former convict's services will al
ways be called for. No social stigma
of a jail record affects the sale of
cabbages and potatoes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
Yours truly,
Notice of Final Account
County Highway COMMISSIONS

COUNTY COURT, WOOD COUNTY,
Wisconsin probate.
I'm the matter of the viii OF W. G.
Trathern, deceased.
Notice us hereby given that at a
Special term of the county court to
be held i'm and for said county at
the court house in the city of Grand
Rapids i'm said county On the 4th
Tuesday (being the 28th day. OF
April, A D 1914, at the opening Of
court on that day the, following mat
ter will be heard and considered.
The application of F ] Wood, ex-
ecutor of the will of w G. Tra.hern,
deceased, late of the City of GRAND
Rapids, in said county, for the exam
ination and allowance Of his final &C
count, and for the assignment of the
residue Of the estate of said de
ceased to such persons as are by
law entitled thereto; and for the de-
termination and adjudication of the
inheritance tax, if amy, payable in sad
estate.
Dated 18th day of March, A. D.
1914
By the Court:
W J. Conway
County Judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
THE LAWS DELAYS

Representatives of the American Bar
Association, including eX-President
Taft, Judge Alton B. Parker, Senator
Root, and others, have been asking
Congress for simplification OF court
procedure. Conscientious lawyers
everywhere will assent.
The lawyers have their big share
of responsibility for existing condi-
tions. But often the trouble lies in
laws made by the legislatures. c..
A Smart, a district court judge OF
Kansas, told in the Outlook some
time ago the story of a murder case
in that state. Defendant was SEN
fenced six months after arrest. But
the law gave him two years for APP
peal, and final action was not taken
until a year after that, so the case
kept hanging three years.
Judge Smart made the point that
criminal lawyers, SO many Of whom
are elected to state legislatures, are
often unfriendly to greater legal ex-
petition They quietly secure the
passage of statutes that tend toward
delay
1t would seem that the courts are
too liberal to lawyers in giving time
to prepare cases. The bulk of legal
work drifts into the offices Of pop
ular lawyers. They take more work
than they can do.
When cases are called, they find
themselves nl-prepared. They secure
continuances for more time for pre-
paration. This often results in great
injustice to poor clients or others
who are suffering by delay. Lawyers
ought not to be allowed to keep
cases hung up so long, while they
complete work they should have
turned over to other offices.
In the year 1911, there were 148 muir
ders in New York city, and but l3
convictions were ever secured. In
London during the same year, a big
ger city, there were 20 murders and
Is convictions. The probability OF es
cape revealed by these eloquent fl
CURES leads the trade of gunner to
flourish, as recent tragedies have
demonstrated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
WISCONSIN WOMAN FINDS SWIFT
RELIEF FROM STOMACH TROUBLES

United States have written just
such letters. The first dose of this
remedy convinces and shows results.
Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy
clears the digestive tract OF mucoid
accretons and removes poisonous
matter. 1t brings swift relief to
sufferers from ailments OF the
stomach, liver and digestive tract.
Many declare it has saved them
from dangerous operations; many are
sure it has saved their lives.
Because Of the remarkable sue
cess Of this remedy there are many
imitators, so be cautious. Be sure
its MAYR'S. Go to Otto's Phar-
macy and ask about the wonderful
results it has been accomplishing
or send to Geo. ii. Mayr, Mfg. Chem
fst. 154-15e Whiting St, Chicago,
H., for free book on stomach all
ments and many grateful letters from
people who have been restored. Any
druggist can tell you its wonderful
Effects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

The stores will soon begin to an
swH the questions that so many wo-
men want answered. As you read your
newspaper you will notice the new
spring note creeping into the adEer-
Using. The stores are already be
ginning to show the beautiful cottons
from which women will make their
summer frocks. The woman who ex-
poets to keep posted to the minute
must be am advertising reader She
must avail herself of the service her
favorite newspaper provides for her.
1t is the best fashion news in the
world because it is based on actual
merchandise and not on theories. It
is up to the minute. 1t is writ en- in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

In the Matter of the Estate of Eliza
beth Case, Deceased.
On reading and filing the petition
of Charles H. MargesOn, admins
traitor of the Estate of Elizabeth
Case, deceased, representing among
other things, that said deceased,
died seized of certain real estate
therein described, and that it il nec-
essary to sell, mortgage or lease the
same, or so much thereof as may be
Necessary to pay said debts. charges
and costs of administration of said
estate, and praying for license to
mortgage, lease or sell the same, as
I seems most expedient to the Court;
and it appearing to the Court that
it is necessary to either sell, lease
or mortgage said real estate for that
purpose,
1t Is Ordered, That said petition be
heard at regular term OF said Coun-
ty Court to be held in and for said
COuHLJ OI w OBhy GIL TIC tOui L ilObSO5
in the City of Grand Rapids, on the
first Tuesday of April, being the 7th
day Of April, A d. 1914, at 1000
o'clock a. m.
1t is Further Ordered, That this
order be published at Least three
successive weeks, before said date,
affixed for the hearing of said petit
ton, in the Wood County Reporter,
a weekly newspaper published at the
City of Grand Rapids, in said County
and State aforesaid, and that a copy
thereof be served personally on Dan
tel Margeson, Floy Margeson, and
Bessie Margeson, and on Attorney
Chas. E. Briere, guardian ad Item OF
said Bessie Margeson, and Chas. E.
Boles, special guardian OF said Bessie
Margeson, and special guardian for
all unknown heirs of said Elizabeth
Case, deceased, and on Attorneys Cog
gins & Brazeau, who appear for Jos
ephine D. Strain, nee Wilcox, and on
all persons interested in said estate,
residing in Wood County, aforesaid,
at least twenty days before such date
set for hearing.
Dated at the City OF Grand Rapids,
Wood County, Wisconsin, this Bro
day of March, A. D. 1914
w. J. Conway,
Geo. p. Hambrecht, County Judge
Atty for Administrator Mch5-l9
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
PUBLISHERS WILL GET TO-
GETHER

This office is in receipt of AN in
yitation to attend a conference of
newspaper publishers at Marshfield,
March 20, from the counties of Clark,
Marathon, Langlade, Lincoln, Taylor.
and Wood. We have accepted the
invitation and shall be there if pos
sible. This meeting can be of great
value to those interested if the get
together" spirit predominates to the
betterment of the craft. Our interest
are mutual and our relations to the
public and business world are the
same. If we cam unite on a plan of
work for the up lift of Central Wis
eonsin the meeting will not be in
vain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

Do dot kick on every proposed i'm
provement simply because it is not
at your own door Do all you can to
beautify the town and your property
also. Be friendly to everybody and
courteous to strangers, and never for
get that you are a part of the town
and that your own department does
its share i'm giving the town dts share
acter Sell and buy all you can at
home. Stand by all other enterpris-
ing citizens and be ready to do some
of the work yourself; and don't grum
BILE or spend your time in prophesy-
ing failures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
By the Count:
W J. Conway
County Judge

STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT
Court for Wood County.
louisa Young. Plaintiff, VS. Ernest
Young, defendant.
The State of WISCONSIN TO the Said
Defendent 49,
You Are Hereby Summoned to ap-
pear Within twenty days after ser
vice of this summons. exclusive of
the day of service and defend the
above entitled action i'm the court
aforesaid; and iGl case of your fail
ure so to do. Judgment viii be rem
dered against you according to the
demand CT the complaint; Of which
a copy is herewith served upon you.
Chas f. Briere,
Plaintiffs Attorney, P o. ad.dreas;
Grand Rapids, Wood County Wis
coLsin. 6t"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19
THE CHILD'S HEALTH IN HOME
AND SCHOOL.

Two problems concerning the health
physical and mental development of
a child confront thoughtful parents
today, consideration of the child out
side. of school and attention to its
environment in the school.
Whether in country or in city, the
home Influence on it's health ds most
important. A constant and controll-
able factor is it's food. Herein lies
the home RESPONSE biI:ty of the mother
She must learn that the food of the
growing child is next only in import
ance to its feeding as an infant;
and that the greatest food comes to
it from plain, nutritious, weD-cooked
and easily digested food; that it
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

necessary fruits and holes being fill
ed) We balieve that the life of a
macadam read is almost indefinite be
fore resurfacing.
These surface treatments have only
been used for four or five years,
and the only drawback TO such a
form of maintenance seems to be that
in time such a thick protective coat
is built upon the road that it does
not hold to the stone and it viii
probably have to be removed and a
new layer of protective coats for a
series Of years be applied.
II the state commission did not be-
lieye it advisable to build macadam
roads it would not allow them TO be
built. We believe that for a large
majority Of even the main travelled
roads. the waterbound macadanl,
considering the first cost and MAIN
tenance, is the most economical type
of surfacing. I am
louis very sincerely,
Wisconsin Highway Commission
By A. R. Hirst, State Highway En-
| gineer.
l believe the above letter is so
plain that it requires little If any
comments. But even if the macadam
surfacing is all right and the best
you can get for that amount of
money, there are other sufac'ns
material that Will be used, such as
flint gravel, disintegrated granite,
where such can be found. But after
all the foundation is the main item
in Wood county, and I hope that no
town will ask me to put crushed
stone or any other surfacing mater
ial on newly graded road in clay
soils, when the different towns vote
money for state aid work this spring
but that they will raise money for
grading first.
Yours truly,
| L. Amundson,
| County Highway Commissioner
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

Five days at hard labor was the
sentence melted cut to am Oregon mil
lionaire clubman who pleaded guilty
to the charge of speeding, in the eX-
pectation of getting off with a fine
And the judge who imposed said sen
tence probably did more to abolish
reckless driving and thus save life
than a whole drove of lecturers. A
court sentence is supposedly a pun
ishment sufficient to prevent repeti-
ton of the crime, and it has many
times been demonstrated that to fine
a man of wealth hardly comes up to
those Specifications.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-19

storage and refrigeration shall be
provided, the same TO be sold as
far as possible in the country
roundabout. Certainly the people Of
the neighboTho0d should get lower
prices. The farmer should get more
money than a commission agent
would give him. On products that
have tito be sent away the agent
in charge ought to be able to get
more money than the farmer can
when selling a small lot.