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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
FIND OUT
The Kind of Food that will Keep You
Well.

The true way is to fnd out what ig
best to eat and drink, and then cult
vate taste for those things instead
of poisoning ourselves with improper,
indigestible food, etc.
A conservative Mass. woman writes:
81 have used Grape-Nuts years for
the young and for the aged; in sick
ness and In health; at first following
directions carefully, later in variety
of ways as my taste and judgmen
suggested.
But its most special, personal Der
eft has been as a substitute for meat
and served dry with cream when rheu
matte troubles made it important 70
me to change diet.
Served in this way with the add
ton of cup Of hot Postum and httI
fruit it has been used at my mornin
meal for six months, during whic
time my health has much improve
nerves have grown steadier, and
gradual decrease in my excessiv
weight adds greatly to my comfort"
Name given by Postum Co.. Bait
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to we
Ville," in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter. ne
one appears from time to time. Th,
are genuine, true, and full of humi
interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
SCENES IN VIENNA

noticed the men taking off their hats
and some ladies waving their hand
kerchiefs to the occupant. 1t was
Archduke Eugene, perhaps the most
popular prince Of the imperial house.
coming from Schoenbrunn, the emper-
or's residence.
The best hotels here are filed with
rich Galician landowners and Jewish
manufacturers from Bukowina and
Galicia. The minor hotels are crowd
ed with middle-class refugees, but
these latter are being drafted into
smaller towns in the other crown
lands.
When I loked down from my win
dow on that beautiful Ringstrasse,
the Vienna grand boulevard, I could
hardly believe my eyes. Where in
usual times the smart corso of cen
trail Europe moves, one long and sad
procession of Polish, Jewish, and other
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
PLAN GEOLOGIC EXPEDITION
Harvard Men, Headed by Professor
Atwood, to Visit Ouray,
Colorado.

Cambridge, Mass.-A party of Har-
ward students who have been study
ing geology in Cambridge will trans
fer their studies to the mountains of
Colorado in August Having had the
theory expounded by classroom lee
ture and textbook, and by such speci-
mems as the geological laboratory af-
fords, they will spend several weeks
of the summer in field work.
Colorado seemed to offer the best
opportunity for such explorations. The
class has arranged to meet at Ouray.
Wallace W. Atwood will be in charge
of the exposition. Three weeks will
be spent in a systematic study of the
geological aspects of the San Juan re-
gion.
At the end of this time the young
biologists will go On a long trip
through the higher mountains of Colo
RADIO and will make some first-hand
Investigations into the structure and
layout of the backbone of the con.
tinent,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
He Took No Chances.

In public ward of a hospital two
fellows were recovering from opera
tions for appendicitis. A third patient
was brought in from the table and
placed on a cot between the nearly
well boys. Coming out Of the ether
and recognizing earth again, he turned
to the one on his left and said:
How are you getting on, pal?"
Fine till yesterday; but the doctor
left spool of cotton in me, and they
opened me up again"
The new patient sighed, then turned
to the sick one on the right. well
how are you, old mani"
Pretty good until yesterday; but
the doctor left his scissors in me, and
they opened me up again"
Just then the Or opened, and the
doctor came in, exclaiming, Anybody
around here seen my hat?"
The new patient jumped out Of the
window.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
A Proper Name.

In the Boston Herald appears the
following brief anecdote of the late
Mrs. Charles D. Romans, whose life
was made noteworthy by friendships
with such men as Dickens, Thackeray,
and Hawthorne, and whose keen wit
and broad culture won for her no lit
tie distinction.
Her son, well-known Boston physi-
clan, had bought new horse to use
in visiting his patients, and he asked
his mother what she would suggest
for a name.
Roland" she said promptly.
"Why?" he asked in surprise.
isn't he going to carry the good
news to Aix?" was Mrs Romans re-
tort
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Contrast Between Germany and
Austria Is Marked.
Little War Talk Is Heard-City Is
Flooded With Jewish Refugees
From BukoWina and GaIicia-
No Fear Of Famine.

Vienna-There is considerable Sc
crecy about the military preparations
all around Vienna. Excursions are en-
tirely suspended to the forests and to
the popular Kahlenberg and Leopolds
berg, two hills rising about 1900 feet
and sloping down precipitously to the
Danube. The guns mounted in and
around the old monastery on the sum-
nit of the Leopoldsberg could hurl
down death into the broad valley of
the Danube and the approaches of
Vienna. So far they merely frown.
The tone here is very unlike the
Berlin note. From optimistic Germany
the transition to an almost phlegmat-
ic Austria is most marked. In Ger
many some war conversation was al
ways going on loud enough to be heard
by everybody in the compartment, but
in Austria I travelled at least four
consecutive hours without hearing a
single serious reference to the war.
In Passau, at the frontier, we all
bought Austrian papers. The 'Neue
Freie Presse,'' Austrias leading jour-
nal, made itself the echo of little com
plants about excessive exports of
foodstuffs to Germany. My vis-a-vis,
a lady, assured me that flour was at
sc hellers, about Is cents, instead Of
As hellers in peace time.
The other day l was chatting with
a surgeon in the landsturm. He had
been stationed in Moravia in a little
town of $4,000 inhabitants. Many
hundreds of wounded and sick at
tended at his hospital, and most pitt
able being the cases of frozen limbs.
Most of our soldiers" said he,
enjoy hard frozen snow. Even our
Viennese boys speak well of it. Their
horror is the slush of the Galician
roads. Austrian prisoners sent to
Siberia were insuf1ciently equipped
to meet the cold. The mortality among
them is enormous"
With him l strolled down the Maria
hilferstrasse, which the Viennese claim
to be the finest shopping street in the
world. It was sunny, and everything
seemed smiling. There were hardly
any men about, but the Viennese
ladies came out in great numbers:
Many society people have dismissed
their servants, and the housewives
shop themselves.
A court equipage passed, and I
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
A Dispensation.

A sweet-faced, motherly looking
farmers wife was overheard not long
ago telling this story of her son:
"He had been out to choir rehearsal
with his sister" she said, "and they
had so far to drive that they never got
back till twelve o'clock. The next
morning my husband wanted to call
John at the usual time to milk the
cows. But I just set down my foot
he shouldn't. Johns a CROWN boy
l told him, and he needs sleep. He's
been up till midnight, and he shan't be
called now at half after three, cows
or no cows. And l had my way. He
wasn't called. let him sleep till four
o'clock"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Fruuaiity.

Be sure to live within compass; bor-
Ruin not yourself by kindness to 9TH
ers, for that exceeds the due bounds
of friendship, neither will true friend
expect it. Let your industry and your
parsimony go no further than for a
sufficiency for life, and to make pro-
vision for your children if the Lord
gives you any, and that in moderation
I charge you help the poor and needy.
Let the Lord have voluntary share
of your income, for the good of the
poor, both in our society and other;
for we are all his creatures; remem-
bering that he that gigeth to the poor
lendeth to the Lord-WiIliam Penn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
FOUND THE MISSING BROOCH
Loser of Jewel Went to Work In Her
Own Way, and II Turned Out
SpiendIdiy.

Detective work, following faint
clues, dark hints and the like, is not
tie only method by which robberies
may be solved. The wife OF promi-
nent officer in the marine corps, who
resides in Baltimore and has a coun-
try place in Virginia, is authority for
the statement and offers the follow
ing little story IN proof of her con-
tention.
1t seems that while she was at her
Virginia place, she one day missed
from her jewel box a valuable dia-
mond brooch. She had the servants
search high and low for the trinket,
but it could not be found. All of her
servants except one had been with
her for years, and were absolutely
trusted by her. The one exception,
a mulatto girl, persistently urged
upon her mistress the possibility of
the brooch being at her Baltimore
town house.
'Tain't Ground heah, Mis- Alice"
(not the real name of the mistress,
Of course). Il know dat it amt
Ground heah," persisted the girl.
Whatever suspicious the mistress
may have had she kept to herself.
After a while she returned to Balti-
more, bringing her servants with her.
Is you found it, Mis- Alice?" asked
the mulatto girl, after a search of
the house had been concluded.
Her mistress shook her head.
NO" said she, " have not found
it, Mary, but" lowering her voice and
speaking impressively, q have no
cause to worry"
''Aiu't your" inquired the girl.
No" continued her mistress. You
see, 1 went to a fortune teller today.
She told me that whoever had the dia-
mond would die shortly, and that the
brooch would be found among their
effects. only have to wait for their
death to know who took my brooch"
''Mah gracious!" breathed the mu-
latto girl. did dat voodoo woman
say dat?"
She did," replied her mistress, sol
EMMY.
The mulatto girl precipitantly de-
parted, and, strangely enough, her
mistress found the missing brooch
that very night pinned to one of her
gowns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
CANADIAN TO AVENGE KIN
Villa Aid, Whose Brothers Were
Killed in Europe, to Fight
Germans.

San Antonio, Tex.-Responding to a
message from his mother in England,
announcing the killing of his two
brothers in the British army, in the
taking of hill No so, and begging him
to come home and fight for England,
Maj Eduardo de Bequer wired his res
ignation to Villa, in whose army he
has fought for two years. De Bequer,
whose mother is English, was recently
made active head Of the aviation corps
in Villas army, and was sent to San
Antonio on a special mission. He
wired to New York to ship his aero
plane to Canada, where he will sail
to join the British coIors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
$1,000 A DAY HUNTING GOLD
Alaska Prospectors FiEd Deposit
Yielding $1,635 Worth of Metal
Pan.

Fairbanks, Alaska-A placer depos-
it yielding gold values as high as
$1,635 a pan has been struck on Ham
mond river, in the Klondike district,
65 miles north of the Arctic circle, &C
cording to an authentic report re-
ceived here. The camp is in an al
most inaccessible district 900 miles
from Fairbanks
The report, dated March 25, said
two miners obtained one pan worth
$1,635 and another worth 1882 the
same day. Average pickups of mug
gets made in the bottom of their shaft
in six days amounted to $1,000 a day,
it was reported.
Two other miners, working a claim
in the same district, were reported to
have picked up nuggets worth $4,000
in six days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
"C'etait lie Roll"

The mere exhibition of himself to
the men in the trenches is not enough
for King Albert of Belgium. He
fights as his men fight, and he moves
about among them without the bril-
liantly uniformed staff or bodyguard
that traditionally surrounds the king.
Here is a story, ringing with the
clear note of imperishable romance;
it is told by Belgian soldier in the
Nieuwe Rotterdammer Courant:
81 was in the trench, and my broth
er-in-law was some yards from me.
Between us there was tall officer
without arms, and silent Suddenly a
shell burst near us. My brother-in-
law was struck by a splinter and fell
in heap at my side. The tall officer
took up the rife and continued the
shooting. Then he slowly left the
trench. His extraordinary calm struck
me. l ceased to fire and turned to
him. He also turned to me. 6.
Mon Dieu! C'etait lie Roll" Ut was
the xii g)-Youths Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

refugees passed necessarily. Just I'M
der our window were the most ex-
pensive shops of Vienna, and it was
a strange sight to see Polish Jews
with their long coats and side curls
gazing into the most eZtravagant art
and florist shops Vienna possesses.
Famine? l do not believe there
will be such a thing. You have read
of riots in the foreign press! Well,
they were scrambles of housewives in
front of two or three bakers shops.
The pinch is undoubtedly felt in the
lower middle class, the professional
class. We Viennese are not a saving
people, and love our amusements and
our fine pastry. When the latter
came to be scarce terrible stories
were circulated by the Viennese con-
cierge and our housewives got a bit
nervous. They are calming down now
and recovering their humor."
AS to feeling in general, find there
is no great ill-will towards England,
and none towards France.
Our war is with Russia, not with
France or England" they say.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

A. building. His studio is the engine
room of that building. There he has
his easel and his paints, and at odd
times, when not busy attending to the
furnace fire or sweeping the halls, he
paints mountain sketches and scenes
of the plains that are so excellent that
they are hung beside the best in art
galleries
Young Tresize-he is but twenty
one-began oil painting only two years
ago. He never had a lesson. He had
a natural talent for sketching and
drawing, but had never developed it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Barrie Puzzles eaby peslys.

Miss Gaby Deslys' comments on Sir
in musical burIesque the Parisienne
is. about to appear, makes piquant
reading. The lady complains that Sir
James is strange author" Appar
emily, che not like me to know what
he means When he look glad then |
know 1 doing it all wrong, but if he
look triste, theG I know l doing it
right" Moreover, Mile. Deslys COM
plains, and this is really grave in
dictment, that she does not know
whether the author likes her dresses
or not, and that he is Of opinion that
she should do her hair with nice lit
tie round bump at back"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

her ride in a jitney bus when, attired
in mans clothes, she ran afoul the
law and landed in Jail, only to be
released at once when she explained
the lark.
They told me it was against the
law to put on mans clothes, but l
didn't know it then and I don't know
it now" she says.
DO you think clothes make the
woman, then?" she was asked
7 most certainly do. and can prove
it
Take. for instance. a crowded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

couple, and will make their home at
Cherry Grove, Ore.
In Iowa, half century ago, a coun-
try party was held at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. NJ. Taylor ". L.
Powers, a prominent young man, and
Miss Sarah Z. Taylor, his sweetheart,
were present and together so much
that the kind father of the girl prom
ised Mr. Powers he could marry his
daughter when she was sixteen.
Conditions changed a little. and
they drifted apart, Mr. Pow ars coming
West and marrying. She also was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
6sIeep Indeed.

From the French trenches in Alsace
comes tale of a soldier who awoke
one morning after sound sleep, com
planned Of a cramp in his thigh, and
said that he could not get up. At first
his superiors insisted that he do so,
but as he steadfastly refused, they
sent for a doctor. The latter found
that a bullet had come through the
roof of the soldiers shelter during the
night and had lodged in his thigh. 1t
had not even walked him up
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

with your door unlocked (and have no
dog you may see them sometimes
suddenly at the foot end Of your bed,
when you wake up. l am speaking
from personal experience.
"They catch many that way" the.
manager of the hotel told me, when l
complained about this almost noetur-
nal visit, as unwelcome as it was I'M
expected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
WED AFTER FIFTY YEARS
Sweethearts in Youth, Couple Are Re-
united After Having Strayed
Apart Half a Century Ago.

Vancouver, Wash.-Hearts that
throbbed with love for each other
half a century ago, but which strayed
apart, recently were reunited here
in marriage by Rev. r. H. Sawyer.
W. L. Powers, seventy-three, a wealthy
man of Tillamook. Ore, and Mrs. Sa-
rah Smith, sixty-three, are the happy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Are Not Going to Lose.
RIDES IN JITNEY AS MAN
Woman Runs AfouI of the Law and
in Excuse Says Some
Things.

Oakland, CaI.-'When I see so many
sorry looking men standing around
who ought to have on petticoats, and
so many fine looking business women
hampered by skirts, and who, figura-
lively. wear the pants, anyhow, I real
IL can't see the harm"
Thus did Miss Doris Ingram excuse
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
A Freak Ear of Corn.

Laurinburg, n. CA freak ear Of
corn, that is a genuine freak, was
brought to this town by ]. a. Muse
a few days ago. It is cluster Of
ears, nine in all. One is a full-grown
ear and this is surrounded by eight
smaller ears
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
JANITOR Is REAL ARTIST
Kansas Youth, Whose Speciality Is
Mountain Landscapes, Never
Had Lesson.

Hutchinson, Kan-Hanging on the
walls Of many Of the finest homes of
Hutchinson and elsewhere in the
state, are exquisite oil paintings, bear
ing in the corner the name of the ar
list, "Tresize."
The artist himself, Eldred Tresize,
IS janitor and fireman at the Y. IL c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
CAN RISE ON THE FARM TOO
Phillips Was Hand" Nine Years
Aao-Now He Is Boss of
Dairy Farm.

Obey. PA day laborer nine years
ago. James NJ Phillips can answer
ouisa satisfactorily the question Does
farming pay?" He had a public ven
due the other day, and the $500
proceeds represent his net profits in
the nine years.
Mr.. Phillips believes in specializing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Mot SvnonvmotIs

O'Tool-It wuz mesilf thot lived tn
simple loif durin' Lint, Ohm thinkin'.
McNutt-An' not a drop aV liquor
did yez touch, Oh suppose?
O'Tool-Faith, an don't yez think p
mon can be simple widout bein' fool
ish?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Emsralda Of the Aztecs.

Among the Aztec treasures Of Mex
leo we're found many fine emeralds.
They were exquisitely cut, and it is
from this source that the magnificent
emeralds now forming part Of the
royal collection Of Spain were SUP.
posed to have come.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

The British troops in the trenches
have recently been using a sort of
bomb that resembles an Indian club.
It consists of a stick about two feet
in length, with & black ball filed with
a deadly explosive at the end. If han
died correctly the bomb will explode
upon hitting the trenches and will
scatter small shot in every direction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
A Spartan Mother.

Paris.-When two French soldiers
returned to Paris and couldn't give a
good reason for it, the mother of one
locked them in a room and called the
police. They were arrested as de-
serters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

when it relates to the dairy herd, and
in talking of his success with Ayr
shire COWS says it does not cost any
more to raise pure-bred stock than
mixed breed
The secret of his success he puts
thus: TEND to your own business;
farm when it is time to farm. and rest
or enjoy leisure when the proper time
is at hand"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Bread Cheap in Berlin.

Berlin.-The Berlin authorities have
fixed the maximum price of bread at
approximately four and three-quarter
cents a pound, and bakeries in the
poorer quarters are selling at still
less. The New York price is about
six cents a pound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
A good son makes a good father.

Two years ago, while going along the
street in Hutchinson, he saw a Tight
ming oil painting artist" at work in a
store window.
Tresize spent his spare time each
day watching this "artist" mix his
paints and work at his easel. Then he
bought some himself and began doing
oil sketches. II the past year he has
sold rs paintings. He has orders now
for forty or more. But he still holds
his job as janitor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
a Gentle Hint

Sir, does your boy call his dog
Rome"
NO; why do you ask that?"
ooh, merely that I noticed he
seems to like to make it howl"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Drink Denison's Coffee.
Always pure and delicious.

One trouble with most of our bril-
liant thoughts is that they were ORR
ginal with the ancient thinkers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

Remember, girls, the onion should
be omitted from loves menu.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
AUGMENTED 1t.

did the doctor reduce the swell.
ing?"
mo; he put it In the bill"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13
Woman. III. Buns Race.

Slandish, Nich.-Mrs. Catherine
Tucholski, pioneer of north Michigan,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-13

today celebrated her one hundred ard
eleventh birthday anniversary by run
ming a f1fty-yard foot race with one of
her great-grandchildren. Mrs. Tuch-
olsh is strong and vigorous