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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
FALL CURES DISLOCATED LEG
Lawyer, HobbIing Around on Clutches,
Discards Them After Second
Accident.

Owosso, Mich.-If in need of a sur
gical operation, try falling down stairs,
is a prescription which is not being
recommended by w. J. Parker, a Co
runna lawyer, though it effected
cure in his case Parker slipped on
an icy walk, injuring his ankle, which
sveued to twice its normal size.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

commissioned by a Prague attorney
to find the two women.
Mrs. Wolf is the widow of Harris
Wolf, a wholesale dealer in notions.
William Pepper was the name of
the young man who knocked at the
kitchen door of the Wolf residence. He
was the son of a Prague art dealer,
and had run away from home
He used to often tell US that when
he died he would remember us in his
will" said Mrs. Wolf. 1--WE would
laugh"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
SHUNS BED AND SAVES MONEY
Peddlsr, With S6o5, Hadn't Slept In
One for Three
Years.

Los Angeles.-By not sleeping in q
bed for three years, George Rowland,
peddIer, saved S605. This is the story
he told the police after he had been
hauled from a sandpile under the mu-
nicipal pier at Venice.
why don't you sleep in a hotel?"
asked Chief of Police Watson, as he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

T Mrs. SHERMAN had Ehrhardt arrest
ed for discharging a 1rearm in the
city limits.
The dogs mistake in selection took
place in front of his owners grocery
at Sixth street and Piggot avenue.
The leg he bit was made of wood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Feed Counts WITH Cows

The best bred COW in the country,
If she is unsupplied with good food,
will prove a dismal failure, while the
meanest- scrub will do something to-
ward paying her board bill if given
plenty of suitable feed and care.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Gems in Oyster Cocktail.

Metuchen, \. J.-George Fountain
and his son Gideon went into Giles
Van Names oyster shop, in Plainfeld,
and ordered oyster cocktails.
Gideon swallowed his first oyster
whole but chewed the second one,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

New York families responded heart
lily to a Bundle day campaign organ
lied by the mayors committee for the
relief of the unemployed. From all
parts of the city came bundles of
clothing, hats, shoes and every other
possible item Of wear The illustra-
ton. shows Mrs. Vincent Aston at the
headquarters of the committee assist
ing in the distribution Of the bundles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

the church Members of the congre-
cation decided upon these innovations,
acting upon the theory that the
church should be the social center
of the community and that church is
most successful which offers a pleas
ant place in which its members and
strangers can meet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Newspaper Appeal Brings s25e,oc0.

Leipzig, Germany.-In response to
an appeal made by the Leipzig Tage-
blatt, 1917 persons have brought a
total of 100000 marks ($256,00 in
gold to that newspaper to be ex-
changed for bank notes. The gold has
been turned over to the Reichsbank.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Stimulate Eoo Production.

Condiments that stimulate egg pro-
duction are very much like anything
that stimulate a human being. After
the immediate results wear off the
bird is in worse shape than before be-
ing fed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
New War Oiplane.

Berlin.-Germany has a new war
biplane which can remain in the air
ten hours. carries a ton of explosives
and four passengers, and has 225-
horsepower engines.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
More Windows Needed.

More windows are necessary in the
dairy barns of this country. Prob
ably not half of the barns are fully
equipped in this way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Benefits of SiIaoe.

Silage increases the efficiency Of
the other feed because II keeps the
animals digestive apparatus in con
dition to get the most out Of every.
thing that is fed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

Treatment did not relieve it, and he
hobbled about on crutches while suf-
fering great pain, One evening, as
he Started down a basement stairs to
attend a furnace fire, he tripped and
fell TO the bottom. In the moments
of agitation which followed he scram-
bled to his feet, decided no bones
were broken, and put coal in the fur
mace, Then he went back up stairs
to discover that he had walked with
out crutches. Surgeons who exam
ined the ankle say the first fall
caused an obscure dislocation and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Grab All Stray Cats.

Constantinople.-Al stray cats in
Lebanon and Damascus have been
Communicated by the Turks to pro-
tect army stores from rats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

when, crunch went his jaw against
something hard. For a minute Gideon
thought he was in a jewelers. shop.
The cause of the crunches was IS
pearls, II white ones and black
ones.
Six of them are worth from $50 to
$500 each, according to appraisal by
a local jeweler.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Not Safe for EOrseS

Experience shows that silage is not
a safe horse feed. While it is used
to some extent yet the feeder must
be very careful in the examination of
silage that is fed to the horses
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Work of American Red Cross.

Berlin.-Of $40 patients treated by
the American Red Cross in the Kieff
hospital, only one died and 1872 have
completely recovered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Balanced Ration.

Alfalfa with corn silage makes a
these cheap and easily procured
feeds there is little need OF purchas.
ing expensive protein concentrates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

a New York ornithologist has in
vented collapsible galvanized bird
house that can be taken apart for
cleaning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

finished counting Rowland's roll of
money.
It haven't slept in a bed In three
years." he said. I'm trying to save
up money enough to go back to Scran-
ton, Pa, and retire"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Loses Three Sons

Paris.-Senator Emile Chautemps of
France lost three sons in battle since
the war started
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25
Take Chill Off Water.

chill on the drinking water, but do not
make it warm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

Sunlight is a tonic for poultry, pigs
and cattle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

| that the second one reduced it. Par
ker has discarded the crutches per
manently.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-25

c. W. DeLyon Nichols, governor
general of the Society Of Colonial
Cavaliers, has again chosen the two
most beautiful girls at the Southern
Relief ball in Washington Each year
he chooses two. This year they are
Miss Caroline Fairchild Stewart
(above) and Miss Anna Wright Ruske
(belCw). Both young ladies are
blondes and these are new pictures of
them made the day after the ball
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
WANTS A NATIONAL
BANK IN CANAL ZONE
Helm Of Kentucky Would Go
After South American Trade.

Washington. - Representative Helm
Of Kentucky has plan to establish a
national bank at Ancon, in the Pana.
ma canal zone, with branches else.
where in that country. He would
call it the Pan-American bank and
give it capital stock of $25,OOO,OOO
divided into shares Of par value of
$500 each.
Just before congress adjourned Mr..
Helm introduced a bill to incorporate
the Pan-American bank, and when
the Sixty-fourth congress convenes he
will press it for action.
1.-THE commercial tieup resulting
from the European war has convinced
every thinking man in this country
that foreign trade is vital element
in our domestic prosperity and that
the continents of North and South
America have greater identity of in
terests than was ever realized before
said Mr.. Helm. '"There never was a
time when opportunity was knocking
SO loud at our doors. The commerce
and business of continent are with.
in our grasp. The manufacturing en-.
terprises in Central and South Amer
lea are very limited, and it is to this
matter that I wish the attention of
the country could be directed. @
Few, If any. of the republics to the
south of us have the means Of trans.
porting or delivering their products to
any other country. Under existing con-
ditiins nearly all the trade Of Central
and South America flows across the
Atlantic. 1t ought to be lowing from
North America to Central and South
America. --..
About the only means Of creating
commercial and business relations are
banking facilities, transportation, press
bureau and mercantile agents. Under
the federal reserve act bank with
$1,OOO.O0O capital in the United States
can establish branch bank in any of
the countries in Central or South Amer
lea. This provision, in my opinion.
does not meet the conditions. What
we need is bank of sufficient proper
tons and magnitude and Importance
and prestige to handle the business of
the continent.
1.-THE government of the canal zone is
going to be just as stable and steady
as the government of the United
States. If we establish bank on the
canal zone it becomes identified with
the locality. Our government is be-
hind it That guarantees confidence
and makes it sure go. The govern
ments to the south of us would be in.
spired with confidence in the institu-
ton"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
ErIIAPH UN SLEEPING STONE
Found on Slab Just Turned Over After
Fifty Years.

Found on Slab Just Turned Over After
Fifty Years. E
Columbia, Conn-Needing fiat stone
for repairs that he was making. Ed
ward Phillips pried up one which for
over fifty years had been used as q
stepping stone near the farmhouse
back door. To his surprise he saw on
the reverse side. in fairly plain letters,
the inscription:
In memory Of Emily, daughter of Mr..
Joseph and Mrs Eunice Smith. who died
April 49, 1874 aged six months and fifteen
days.
Rest, thou. sweet slumberer, in the peace
full grave;
Short was thy life; forgotten soon
shall be.
Except the few who, drowned in sorrows
wave, " 49, ~ -
With painful pleasure still remember
thee.
Nobody knows where the stone had
been used or where it came from. Mr..
Phillips father bought the house over
fifty years ago and the stone was at
the back door then for stepping
stone. 1t is five feet long and nearly
two feet wide.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
TEACHERS ALL GET MARRIED
Superintendent Of Battle Creek (Mich.>
Schools IL Growing Desperate

Superintendent Of Battle Creek (Mich.>
Schools Is Growing Desperate.
Battle Creek, Mich.-William G. o.
burn, superintendent of schools, COM
plains of the inroads that Cupid makes
on his corps of teachers. An amazing
proportion of them leave each year to
marry. This year nineteen teachers
are wearing diamond solitaires.
Professor Coburn has made manv
visits to normal schools to gil vacan-
cies, and he says that next year he
Will have to do it all over again.
Last year he warned the county
clerk against issuing marriage licenses
to schoolteachers under contract. He
declared that "a woman who will
break her contract with the school
board would not hesitate very long
about breaking marriage contract. !"
The county clerk couldn't see his wav
clear to turn down an applicant for q
license. -
Mr.. Coburn has been Superintendent
OF schools here for twenty years. and
recently he was reelected for another
term.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
LAST SHOT OF CIVIL WAR.
Woman Asked Police to See if Old Gun
Was Loaded-lt Was.

Woman Asked Police to See if Old Gun
Was Loaded-lt Was.
New York.-The ''last shot of the
civil war; was fired recently In q
courtroom. 1t came from a gun which
had been hanging for years on a wall
in the home Of the late Willard 81.
HodgsOn. The musket had been car
ried in the war Of the rebellion by
Mr.. Hodgson's father.
Mr.. Hodgson's sister was preparing
to move to another house, but was
afraid to take down the old musket.
She called in Lieutenant Henry Brown
Of the Flatbush police station and
turned the gun over to him. He took
it around to the station house and
showed it to Attendant. Patrick
OLoughlin of the Flatbush court.
which is in the same building.
Standing in the corridor O'Loughlin
pointed the gun at the floor and pull
ed the trigger. The old war musket
was heavily loaded, and there was a
report which startled the police re.
serves and the people in the court
room.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
HUNGRY CHICKS PROVE CASE.
Come Home With Quantity of Neigh.
boris Corn and a Few Messaoes.

Come Home With Quantity of Neigh
boris Corn and Few Messages.
Stevens Point, Wis.-Frank NJ. Sack.
EFT, after great deal of difficulty, has
convinced II. X. West of this town
that his chickens are lot of bandits
at heart. He told him about it long
ago, and now Mr.. West, blushing, ad-
mits it.
Mr.. Sackett complained that his seeds
were being dug up faster than he could
plant them. Mr.. West spoke about
Missouri, and Mr. Sackett agreed to
"shoW him." He scattered corn in his
garden, but first ran thread through
each kernel, and on the far end he tied
little cards.
Hanging from each chickens beak
when they went home were the evil
dences Of guilt. No jury's verdict was
ever more damning. -..
Here are few of the inscriptions on
the cards:
III have just been scratching in Mr..
Sackett's yard"
Il am a naughty chicken"
Il have been trespassing."
II am feathered bandit"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
TERRIERS LONG VIGIL.
Guarded Basket For Twenty fou
Hours Before YieIdino.

auaroeo Basket for Twenty four
Hours Before Yielding.
St. Louis. = Ignoring all blandish.
ments. Skye terrier guarded an EN-.
pity basket for twenty four hours at
Taylor and Adams streets, Kirkwood,
until finally boy made friends with
the dog and coaxed 1t to his home. to
which he also took the basket.
Persons living in the neighborhood
first observed the dog at its vigil the
previous afternoon. 1t refused to let
anybody touch the basket and could
not be lured away by tempting offers
of food.
Mrs. j. J. Wilkins carried food and
water to the dog and gave it a sack
to lie upon. King Autsler, fourteen
year-old son Of Arthur Amber. made
oVertures to the terrier for a long time
before he won its confidence sufficient.
ly for it to permit him to take the has
ket.
Who owns the dog and the basket
could not be ascertained, and young
Amber said he hoped the owner would
not turn up.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
DOG A "PANHANDLER."
Bubbles Collected Pennies Enough to
Pay For License.

Bubbles Collected Pennies Enough to
Is Pay For License.
Warren. Mass.-For the license of
Bubbles, dog owned by Edward W.
Burns, former proprietor of the Hotel
Ramsdell, 200 cents were paid to Town
Clerk William F. Duncan. Bubbles
collected the cents himself from travel
ing statesmen and other guests in the
hotel He is a Boston bull terrier, six
years old and is known to every child
here.
Bubbles will not be satisfied unless
he is given cent. At all times he will
refuse silver. When cent is thrown
to him he grabs it in his teeth and runs
to corner Of a room and then returns
for more.
At the beginning Of the year Mr..
Burns son began to save the cents re-
ceived by Bubbles. The cents are on
exhibition in the window Of a Main
street store.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
FARMERS BIG PROFITS.

War Demands, 1t Is Said, Added $780,
100000 to Growers Gains.
Chicago.-Europe's war has enriched
middle west farmers approximately
$2OO.OOO,OOO, the money going chiefly
to growers Of grains. What spectators
have made by the war perhaps never
will be known.
A prominent grain merchant said the
$2OO,OOO,OOO extra" received by farm
ers for their bumper wheat, corn and
oats crops can be readily accounted for
by citing the one instance in regard
to prices for cash wheat. He pointed
out that wheat now is selling and has
been for months at from IS cents to so
cents more bushel than it would have
brought but for the war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
MONTHS IN PRISON
''HAPP|EST OF LIFE
Also Most Useful, Says Ex-Con-
vict, a California millionaire,

Atlanta, Ga. = When Frederick A.
Hyde, sixty-seven years old, million
aire land dealer and former president
OF the board Of education Of San Fran
cisco, left the federal penitentiary
here, after serving sixteen months, his
first statement was that those months
had been the most useful of his whole
life. He added that he would return
to his home in California, where his
wife, daughter and three sons are wait
ing for him, not afraid to look any man
in the face.
"Not only have these sixteen months
been the most useful in my career"
said Hyde when interviewed in his
apartments at the Piedmont hotel, "but
this period has been the happiest Of
my life, and have derived more good
from my work at the prison than at
any other time" .-.--
Hyde was imprisoned in December,
1913, after one Of the most sensational
court battles in the history Of the coun-
try. He was sentenced to serve two
years for alleged conspiracy in land
frauds, but the sentence was commu-
ted by President Wilson.
At the penitentiary Hyde was known
among his fellow prisoners as the IAN
gel convict" because Of his work to
better the conditions of the other pris-
oners, especially those who were poor.
He was assigned to the prison news
paper, Good Works, and in the per-
Torrance of his duties was allowed to
go to all parts Of the prison and min
gle with all the convicts.
From the first he took an interest in
their welfare. He found that baseball
and few wornout movie films were
the only amusements in the prison.
he laid out plans for complete ath-
letic field which, with money furnish
ed by himself, was constructed by
Hyde and his fellow prisoners.
Hyde's greatest work in the prison
was with the unfortunate men who
finished their terms but looked upon
freedom with no pleasure because they
were without friends or money 10
make new start in life. To hun
dreds Of these Hyde gave encourage
ment and money, in many cases fur
nished them with sufficient funds to
re-establish themselves in business.
One Of Hyde's philanthropies in the
prison was the establishment of H.
brary. He bought hundreds of valua-
bic books with his own money and do
mated them to the prison.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
Girl Made a Lieutenant.

Petrograd.-Army orders contain the
promotion Of a young woman. Alexan-
dra Lagerev, to lieutenant, with six,
teen other girls belonging to families
Of Don COssacks.
She has been fighting alongside male
relatives since the beginning of the
war. Eight Of these have been killed,
and Miss Lagerev was a prisoner, but
she killed her guard and escaped and
led accommodating party which cap
tured eighteen uhlans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
sToWAWAY ALMOST DEAD.
Seattle Man Hadn't Food or Water
For Eight Days.

Seward, Alaska.-Leland &. Farmer,
a young craftsman who slowed away
on the steamer Admiral Evans of the
Pacific Alaska Navigation company at
Seattle, was found in the lower hold.
He had been eight days without food
or water, but will recover. When dis
covered he was wedged head down
ward between two bales Of hay.
Farmer had heard that there are ex-
cellent opportunities for craftsmen at
Ship Creek, Cook Inlet, where the gov
eminent is assembling men and mate
rial for building the federal railroad in
Alaska.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
PATIENT TASTED TWO MONTHS
And 8uttermiIk "Did Taste. Good at
the End.n

Z : + = & =
Warsaw, Ind.-After establishing a
record for continuous fasting Jim Rob-
inson asked for glass Of buttermilk
and as he slowly swallowed it admit
ted that it tasted good. This was the
first nourishment taken by Robinson,
who is an inmate of the county infirm-
airy, for eight weeks.
His long fast was due to lack Of ap-
petite and the fact that the taste and
smell OF food nauseated him.
Physicians here declare his case has
no parallel In medical history. Fifty
five days was held to be the limit Of
mans endurance, yet Robinson passed
that mark by more than day and is
still alive,
During that period he lost nearly a
hundred pounds Except for being
weakened, his general physical condi-
ton was not affected.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-06-26
TOWN DRUNKARD DOOMED.

New York Governor Signs Bill Allow
ing Constable to Forbid Him Drink.
Albany, N. Y.-The town drunkard
must reform In spite Of himself. Gov
ernor Whitman and Senator Jones
have consptred to bring this about. A
bill signed by the governor provides
that peace officer or constable Of a
town shall have the power to forbid
the sale or giving away OF liquor to
certain persons By notice IN writing.