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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

STATE OF WISCONSIN. WOOD
County Colrt-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of John
GTaither, Deceased.
Whereas Anna Andree, on the 22d
day of July, 1913, presented to and
filed i'm this court her written verified
claim against said estate where:n anC
whereby she (among other Things
claims adj of the property of deceased
read, personal and MIXED, aus the
same is listed and inventoried i'm said
matter, and demands that sand pro
perty be stricken from the inyento-
ry, and that the administrator here
in be required and directed to trans
fer assign and convey said proper
ty and the whole thereof, except such
as claimant was then in possession
of, to said claimant,
And an answer and objection to
said claim and to the allowance there
of, among other Things taking issue
with the material allegations i'm said
claim set UP, and Directing to the al
loWance thereof, having been duly
Tiled by the administrator of said
estate Sept. 9th 1913, and by Fred
Zeller and John F. Graether, two al
legged heirs of said John Graither
deceased, Sept. %, 1913,
And the issues i'm and by said
claim and answers made not having
BEEN heretofore tried
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that
said claim and all of the issues ar;ls-
ing thereon, be heard before this
court ON the first Tuesday (being
the fifth day. of May 1914, at two o.
clock P NJ, at the Probate office i'm
the Court House in the City of GRAND
Rapids, Wood County, WISCONSIN, and
it is,
FURTHER ORDERED that notice
of the peTndency of said claim and
petition, and of the time and place of
said hearing thereon, be served on
all interested persons, by publishing
a copy of this order for three sue
cessiye weeks, before the day fixed
for such hearing, in the Wood County
Reporter, a newspaper publ at
the City of GRAND Rapids, in said
Wood County, at Least once i'm each
week, and that the last Of said pub
LEGATIONS be mot more than fifteen .(15)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
THE NIMBLE DOLLARS.

Large successes in business are not
dependent on large capital 1t is the
nimble dollar that pays. The average
business man Turns his capital a good
deal more quickly than his father did
The old time merchant bought half
a years supply at a time. He visit
ed the larger centers of trade for
these wholesale purchases, and he
bought right and Left untn he was
stocked up for six months or more.
All his own money and all me could
borrow was locked up in goods.
Under these conditions, if a mer-
chant turned his whole stock in a
year, he was considered to be do
ing fairly well. Today, it is the ambi-
tiOn of business mem to turn their
capital a number of times in a year
An enormous interest charge is
saved where a man sees his money
coming back to him promptly A
per cent profit ON the sales under
the old system was not a living re-
turn ON the capital. Under the mod
erm system of quick sales, it yields
q handsome retuTm.
The one means by which this mod
ern ideal of business can be realiZ-
ed lis by consistent advertising. Not
necessarily splwgy advertising. be-
yond a merchants ability, but an
amount of advertising reasonably pro
portioned as part Of his. regular
selling expenses.
The public should favor the mer--
chants who advertise regularly. Al
most invariably these men have the
freshest goods. They hold an ARTICLE
only while it is suited to the season
or the prevailing taste, and then
they get it cut of the way
Also, 1t is cheaper to buy in such
stores. The man who keeps his CAPT
tai ON the move adj. the time cam af.
fond to sell at a lower figure. The
smaller percentage of profit on the
selling price yields him am equaqly
good OF better RETURN
1t is AN axiom of trade, that il
costs money to hold goods in &
store. The longer it stays, the high
er proportion, of rent, clerk hire,and
taNes is charged up to it. Amy goods
viii stay, unless the public is TOLD
about them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
A. /. EontaIne, Publisher.
THE DECLINE OF TROUT FlsHIN

Perhaps no form of game has in
spiTed so much imaginative and tech
nicaI literature as the trout His hab-
it is about as widely extended i'm
this country as amy species of wild
life He stands for Machiavelian SUBJ
tilety in evading the assault of man.
His alusiNeness tempts the spouts-
man to a restless and never salts
fled desire for his capture.
There was a time when trout were
common enough, not merely in hill
and forest regions, but i'm a great
many farming districts. Metropo litan
Sportsmen made foTays into the rur
al districts with their complicated lib
rary of artificial flies. But the coun--
try boy with his tin box of worms
knew the ways OF Mr. Trout, and got
most of the fish fries.
Today the magazines advertise
trout fishing for every one, but for
most people it Dis at the cost of an
GAlNLGSlN9 Ad4lAlsh1 lANSASts NpNAL1
mems clubs and fish commissions are
restocking streams, but the area OF
possible trout ftshing is still restrict
ed.
Authorities on sport say that trout
fishing might easily become more
generally accessible. Within two
hours of amy large city, 1t is declar-
ed, are brooks that could be bought
up for few hundreds of dollars and
stocked with trout and made accesst
BILE at moderate cost to clubs of
men.
The trouble with such enterprises
is often that people are no longer
content to do things in simple
manner. A modest old country farm
house would not serve as the club
house. There must be the soft luxury
of city club Life, with metropolitan
chefs and abundance of liquid good
cheer.
Meanwhile many country people
are quietly buying UP fishing rights
in their own neigihboT,hood for lit
tie or no money that some day Will
be valuable. 1t lis a simple thingyunr
less a section is flat, to dam up a
stream so as to assume some depth
of water in droughS. and to protect
the brook from such bigger fish az
are natural enemies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

The State, county and city admin
istrations will be Obliged to curtail
expenses, as the people are getting
busy agitating the high tax question.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, Circuit
Court, Marathon County.
In the matter of the Dancy Drain
age District.
Notice is hereby given that the IN
dersigned commissioners have filed
with the clerk of said court at Wau-
sau, Wisconsin, a petition and re-
port asking the court to authorize a
third assessment of the amount and
to be used to the following proposed
work, to wit:
(a) An amount equal to Seventy
four (74) CENTS per acre of adj the
Wet lands in the district to enlarge
theoltlet by excavating a channel
! fifty-four feet wide at the bottom
through the dirt excavation, and
thirty feet wide at the bottom
through the rock excavation from
the c. NJ. &. ST. P. Ry. bridge east
erly about sixty-eight hundred feet
the highway bridge so aus to furnish
sufficient outlet fer the prompt
discharge of water from said district.
OBJ. An amount equal to Eight dol
lars (SS.00) per acre of the 627S. O5
acres of Wet land in that portion of
said district called the Howe Creek
Sub District, consisting of the fol-
lowing lands within said district. to-
wit: South half af south west omar
ter Is IL sw la of section one IN.
south quarter Is Ia and northwest
quarter of southwest quarter INV sw
OF section two % south half OF
sectlon three; south half of section
four (4; southeast quarter Use Ia
northeast quarter of southwest quar-
ter (ne sw) and south half of south
west quarter S IL sw), of section |
five 10, township twenty-five (25)
north of range six co east; and all of |
the lands in said district i'm sections
eight (S), nine 90, ten (1O), |
eleven CID, twelve (12), thirteen 13
fourteen Q4), fifteen (15), sixteen
16), seventeen 90, eighteen 18).
nineteen (1S), twenty COO. twenty
one 2D, twenty-five (22, twenty-three
(23), twenty-four ga, twenty-seven
cd, twenty-eight (2S), thirty-th
t33), of said township TWENTY-FIVE (25
range six (6), east; and in section
eight (8), and nine (9), of township
twenty ffVe (25) north of range seven
CD east; adj being In Portage Coaun-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

OF WISCONSIN, Circuit
Court for Wood County.
Louisa Young. Plaintiff, VS.. Ernest
Young, defendant.
The State OF Wisconsin TO the Said
Defendent -
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 i'm case OF your fal.
ure so to do, Judgment will be rem
dered against YOU according to the
demand of the complaint; of which
copy is herewith served upon you.
Chas, E. Briere,
Plaintiffs Attorney, P. o. address:
Grand Rapids. Wood County, Wis
consin etw
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
ORDER LIMITING TIME TO PRE-
SENT CLAIMS AND NOTICE
TO CREDITORS.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, Wood Coun
ty-in County Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Adolpl
Eberhardt, Deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate
of Adolph Eberhardt, late of the
Town of Grand Rapids, IN said Coun-
ty of Wood, deceased, having been
duly granted to Henrietta Eberhardt
by this court;
1T Is ORDERED, That the time
from the date hereof until and i'm
Guiding the 18th day of September,
A. D., 1914, be and the same lis here
by fixed as the time Within which all
creditors of the said Adolph Eber-
hardt deceased, shall present their
claims for examination and allowance
IT Is FURTHER ORDERED, That
all claims and demands of. all per
SONS against the said Adoiph Eber
hardt, deceased, be examined and ad-
jUsted before this Court, at its Court
Room in the Couurt House in the
City of Grand Rapids, in said County,
at the regular term thereof appoin-
ted to be held on the first Tuesday
of October, 1914 and all creditors are
hereby notified thereof
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That
notice of the time and place at which
said claims and demands will be ex-
amined and adjusted as aforesaid.
and of the time above limited for
said creditors to present their claims
and demands, be given by publishing
a copy of this order and notice, for
four consecutive weeks once i'm each
week, in the Wood County Reporter,
a newspaper published in the County
of Wood, the first publication to be
Within fifteen days of the date here
of.
Dated this oath day of March, 1914.
By the Court:
w. J. Conway,
County Judge.
Chas. E. Briere,
Attorney for the Estate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
VALUE OF LOCAL NEWSPAPER
Best Medium for Telling People about
Merchandise-Copy Must Be
Clear, Positive and Also
Truthful

1t is always interesting to know
what the really wide awake merchant
thinks about newspaper advertising.
Seldom, however, do We find a bust
ness man, who is able and willing to
present the views of the merchant
advertiser in such a, virile, thorough
way, as did Mr.. S. B. Nelson of Lu-
verne, Mimi, in his address before
the Second District Minnesota Edi-
torial association at Winnebago re-
Gently.
Mr.. Nelson lis a member of a firm
which believes SO implicitly in the eff.
ficacy of country newspaper public
ity that a full page advertisement is
carried in the local paper, the Rock
County Herald of Luyerme, every
week throughout the year Mr.. Mel
son spoke in part as follows:
Advertising is a short cut to the
wide spread distribution or sale of a
product. Advertising men put gird-
les of products never heard of pre-
Ylousdy'- across continents in a few
weeks In few months they set a
nation to eating or wearing or U.S.
ins something that short time be-
fore it did not know existed. Not
all advertising men, or concerns that
employ them, achieve these results.
however. Many concerns in attempt
ing TO attain them, have uselessly
squaTdered fortunes. Why is this?
There are many reasons This article
points out one reason If You We're
starting am advertising campaign to-
morrow would you resugrect an Egyp-
tlan mummy, if You could, and set
him to writing copy in his ancient
hieroglyphies DON'T laugh! Waitl
Hear me Quit To do this-to publish
copy written in old Egyptiam-a. lam
guage dead for 1000 yeans- would
be fdotic-Why? Simply because
Il would not be understood. Yet
thousands of advertisers do this ey-
cry day
Advertising copy which is written
to display facts or ideas about |
goods, should be so clearly and sinp- |
" written that the reader win for
get that words, phrases and senten-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

Easter day was beautiful as befit-
ted it's historical and religious mean--
ing. The SUN shcne brightly all day
and although cool wind blew most
of the day, there We're many who
took advantage of the bright suIl--
shine to take their first real walk
of the spring. Lyon park was the
mecca for MANY. Couples wandered
along the river bank and many cam
eras We're used. 1t was no uncommon
sight to see a fellow taking several
pictures of his best girl in different
poses. And, by the same token many
little child was snapped by its
parents. 1t was a day of outdoor
pleasure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
Check Your April Cough

ThaWing frost and April rains chill
you 10 the very marrow, you catch
cold-Head and lungs stuffed-You
are feVerish Cough continually and
feel miserable-You need DR.. King IS
New Discovery. 1t sooths inflamed
and initiated throat and lungs, stops
cough, your head clears up, fever
leaves and you feed fine Mrs. J. T.
Davis, of Stickney Corner, Me-, Was
cured of a dredful cough after doc
tors treatment and all other ,remed,
failed. Relief or your money back
Pleasant Children like it, Get a bo
tie to day. Soc and s1OO, at youl
Druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
STATE P0TATOE CAR
COMING ON goth
adison. Wis Atpril 10 1914

Madison, Wis, April 10, 1914.
Dear Editor The potato car,
equipped with a display of market po
tatoes and am exhibit showing potato
diseases and methods of control will
be in GRAND Rapids ON the morning
of April 30.
J. G. NIilward, representing the Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station and the
Wisconsin Potato Growers Assoeia-
ton, will accompany the car for the
purpose of doing what he cam to en-
courage the development and improve
ment of this growing industry.
Will you KINDLY call the attention
of your readers to this important
event? Your cooperation will be ap--
preciated.
Very truly yours,
A. w. HOPKINS,
Agricultural Bditor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
Five Saloon Men Fined

Portage, Wis, April To- Pardee-
willie and Arlington voted wet in
Tuesdays election. Towns i'm the
vicinity that voted dry We're Poy-
nette, Rio, Lodi, Leeds, Dekorra and
Fald River. John L. StaMdenmayel
was elected councilman to succeed
H. L. Bellingausen by 140 majority lii
the city. Five Portage saloon keep
ers We're arranged i'm circuit court
here this week and fined $50 and
costs for selling liquor to minors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

ty, Wisconsin; such assessment to
be used IN laying out additional
bitches, and enlarg1ng existing ones
in said Howe Creek Sub District as
shown by map and plans and speci
fcations on file with said petition.
Notice is further hereby given that
said court has made and filed an
order that said petition be heard at
the court house in the city OF Wau-
sau, Wisconsin, Marathon county, on
the 18th day of May, A D. 1914, at
ten O'Clock a. m and all persons in
terested in said matter are hereby
notified to be them and there pres
ent to make such objections and fur
nish to the court such other infor-
nation as they deem proper.
H NJ Jones'
G. G. Knoller.
T. H. Hanna
Commissioners.
Dated March II, 1914.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

F. J. Smith was elected mayor in
three cornered fight in Merrill on
Tuesday. The total vote for each can
didate was, Smith 66S; Bowel 425;
and O'Relly 421, The contest was
exciting.
John Ringle was elected mayor of
Wansau 2 to 1 over his opponent
| The contest was a hot one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
THE POPULAR ATTITUDE TO-.
WARD EASTER.

When a winter tries to sell the
magazine editors AN Easter ARTICLE ON
Immortality" he is apt to fare but
i'll. But if he can put mp a good
snappy story about Easter eggs, Uab-
bits, or gowns, he will find q ready
market. Such considerations, parti.
cuarly the Easter elotes display,
beadthe pessimSsts to say the world
Is losing spiritual eaHnesuneSs
Yet tbs people that went before
had their faults The Easter eggs ant
rabbits that you see in the stores am
the flotsam and jetsam of old pagan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

ces are before him he should look
straight through them to the mean
ing behind them. No reader of am
advertisement us obliged to read it He
is not paid TO read it. The act is
purely a voluntary one ON his part.
The minute you make him work to
get your meaning you are apt to lose
him as a reader.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
Clears Complexion Removes Skin
Rien1iShes

Why go thru Life embarrassed and dis
figured with pimpIes, eITaptions, black
heads, red rough skin, or suffering tn
fortunes of Eczema, itch, letter, salt
rheum. just ask YOUR Druggist for
DR.. Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Fol
low the simple suggestions and your
skin wor1ties are over. Mild, sooth-
ing, effective. Excellent for babies
and delicate, tender skim. Stops cha
ping. Always helps. Relief or money
back. SOC, at your Druggist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
Importance of Newspaper Advertising

Importance of Newspaper Advertising
The Importance of newspaper adj
Vertising for every class of business
needs no extended argument. 1t oc-
cupies relatively the same place in
business economy as a sales force the
purpose of both being to make a
sale. 1t is generally conceded legiti-
mate to spend 2 per cent of gross
sales for newspaper advertising and
newspaper inches to tell the people
how good ollr merchandise is. No sue
cessful merchant cam afford to neg
lect his advertising We can co OPP
crate with our newspaper in telling
the public that we have such and so
at this and that price and We cam in
your own way get the confidence of
the people if we just let them know
that we really want their business,
the newspaper is the most valuable
advertising medium we have for dor
ing this
Common sense advertising does
not mean merely so much space u.s.
ed in the telling about the business.
1t doesn't mean altogether a careful
ly arranged display of white space.
No, not for minute. A common
sense advertisement is telling the
people something of interest about
what you have to offer, things you
know about your merchandise THAT
they should know, Things you know
will interest them in order to make
advertising pay
Good advertising copy must be
clear and positive. The space is val
liable and the impression must bt
quickly made ON the readers mind
One-time advertising or ''spasmodit
advertising is a waste of money ynt
matter how large the space or how
compactly it lis filled. 1t is constant
repetition that gradually fixes trad.
mark or firm name in the human
mind and it is constant repetition
that associates certain qualities ana
uses with that trade mark of name.
Now if advertising is repetition o
selling arguments then the newspa-
per is am advertising medium pal
excellence, for it permits of daily o.
weekly repetition in a vehicle tina
sustafns intimate relation to thu
home. 1t comes into the family CIR
Gle every day or every week. L
knows your friends and your neigh
boris friends. Its columns pulsatt
with the social and industrial life
of the community in which your Gus
toners live. The newspaper has
chronicled the doimgs of his family
for generations The files of the pa
per contain his family history. the
weddings, the deaths, the anniversar
les. 1t lis his source of information
regarding his pastor, his church. his
lodge. 1t is because of this intimate
relation to the home that the news
paper occupies a field of it's own as
medium Indispensable to the ad-
| veItiser, who must have a wide dis
trdbution for his products in order to
secure the volume of business that
will yield a profit on his investment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
Strengthens Week and Tired Women

Strengthens Week and Tired Women
BUcl1lenis A1nica Salye for All Sores
Twas under great strain nuns
ing a relative through three months
sickness" writes Mrs. J. C. Van De
Sande, Of kirkland, H., and Electric
BitteTs kept me from breaking down.
viii never be without it, Do you
feel tired and worn out? No appetite
and food won't digest? 1t isn't the
spring weather. You need Electric
BitteTs. Start months treatment
to-day; nothing better for stomach,
liver and Kidneys. The great spring
tonic. Relief or money back. soc.
and S1.00, at your Druggist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

Navigation has opened ON the Wdn-
cousin river for the year 1914. Eas-
ter day there were several boats on
the river. Boat owners who have not
yet put their boats in commission,
stood around and jealously watched
while others enjoyed the beautiful
day ON the water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

Many remarks have been heard
about the beautiful decorations at
the Congregational church for the
COmmandery service. The decorations
although simple. We're in excellent
good taste and were the work of J.
B. Null, trimmer for the Johnson &
Hill Co. On either side of the Or
gan bench there were vases with
CalIa lilies. Asparagus ferns were en~
twined among the pipes of the organ.
In front of the pulpit was the lean
ing cross and crown of the Masonic
order. Passing through the crown
We're Calla lilies, palms and ferns At
the isle end of the pews reserved for
the Commandery were punches OF
Easter lilies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

0 o o o o o o
o MEN TO PATRONIZE.
o o o o o
DR.. D. A. |eifer, dentist. office
in old Wood County National bank
building. Phone No. CO. Residence
No 1870 If.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
days before said hearing.

days before said hearing.
Dated March 81, 1914.
BY the Court
W. E. Wheelan, w. J. Conway.
Atty. for Claimant. County Judge
j. A. Gaynor Attorney for admins
TRAITOR
B. NJ Vaughan Atty for heirs.
P. o. Grand Rapids, Wis. 4tw.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16

The Easter parade came off as
usual. This day, which custom has
made the day for the first showing
of spring millinery and new spring
coats and dresses, was no exception
to the Easter days of other years,
when the weather was fine. The
young people, especially, were out i'm
force showing off their new spring
plumage. And, the young men of the
city were not far behind the fair sex
in showing off their spring hats and
coats. One could scarcely turn round
Sunday afternoon without the eye
striking one of this seasons high
crowned soft hats perched on the
dome of the noble youth of this city
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-04-16
Do Not Solicit

We do not solicit" your business.
We trade you" our service for it.
Years of close study OF the fiRan-
cial needs OF the people enable us
to trade" You something worth
while for your business. Ask some Of
our customers how We treat them,
and then open an account and try
our service.
First National Bank
Grand Rapids. Wis.
"The Bank that does things for you. !"