Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-15
FRIDAY

Mrs. NJ. Freudeuberger has return
Cd TO this city after spending seye.
rad months visiting relatives in Chi
cago
All Of the rulers claim they we're
forced into the war No one has yet
offered a reward for the fellow who
did the forcing.
Patronize and help your paper as
you wCul any other enterprise be
cause it helps you and not as an
act of charity.
Never forget you are a part OF the
town, and that your department
helps make up the strangers es-
innate OF the place.
If our paper is meeting with your
approval as a newspaper tel your
neighbor who is not receiving it. If
it is not meeting your approval, tell
us
Mr. and Mrs Samuel Parker left
this noon for GAINESVILLE where they
win visit their daughters and while
| there viii take treatments for their
health.
Louis Peyruse and family have re
turned from Wausau where they. have
been living for some months, and
have moved into their home on 8th
street.
The water in the Wisconsin river
is rising rapidly. The gauge at the
wagon bridge shows seven feet OF
water The spring rains may cause it
to raise much higher
Los Angeles ministers are going 10
discuss the question Where are the
dead?' and the Times answers that
they can be found in the business
places that do mot advertise.
The latest thing in an alarm. clock
is a continuance that emits hOnk
making the sleeper think he is in
froat of an automobile And he gets
out OF bed with single jump.
Messrs DR.. A. L. Ridgman and Ed
ward Alahoney went to Milwaukee on
Friday ON business and pleasure bent
Mr. Mahoney has a brother til e
with whom bhey Will spend the day
Mrs. Mike Ha2a, who resides on
High Street, entertained the Will
ing Workers club on Thursday after
moon Light refreshments were sery-
ed and a social good time WAS en-
ioyed by the 16 ladies present.
Mrs. NJ. Kommers Of Fond du Lac
and son Rev M Kommers of Hor
! tomiIIe are guests at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. KaltenacheI Mrs.
| kommens is mother and Mr.. Kom-
mers brother OF Mrs Kalenecher.
! Every citizen in town should be
j interested in its prosperity One of
the best ways 10 help a town is %
speak wlel of it. It is true patriot
ism to stand by your town, and in
terests that effect the town should
effect every citizen
If you want to ruin your boy just
take his side on every question and
dispute he has witt his teacher or
your neighbro's children. Just let
him know you are with him, right
or wrong, in all his disputes This
win give him a good start in the
downward path
Every property holder and ten
ant should take the greatest pride
in cleaning up and keeping theil
holdings and home in an admitted
sanitary condition, health and hap
piness. We have the reputation o
having the healthfest climate ant
the best water in the state. Let u
keep that reputation by all means.
Strawberry boxes and all othe
fruit containers which are.shipped il
interstate commerce must be p'ainl.
marked under the regulations pre-
scribed by the federal government
These marks must show the con q
either by weight. measure or numeri
cal count. These regulations are e8
plicit and it viii be wnn for ship
pers to observe them to avoid posi-
bic hindgance and loss.
We have among us a few fast
young men who are always spoken
as good fellows" and is some re
spects they are; but it is well to re
member that they are not good Re
lows who indulge in pleasure al tn
expense of what their duty demand
of them. There is no lack of timefo
y pleasure and there are ways for eI
j. jCyment for everyone; but in tn
. long run the young man VIII find ]
neither pleasure nor profitable I
win admiration for companionab
! qualities from the idle, the dissomt
; and the vicious. There is nothin
s new in all this-it is an old, OF
story-yet every day young lien az
seen going to the bad through tn
allurements of so-called good-fenoY
ship, and the pubic teacher cann<
too often or too strongly admonis