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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
WOOD SETS At
REST RUMORS
SOCIAL DISTINC,
TONS At PLATTS-
BURGN. !.
(By United Press Association. }

Plattsburg, N Y, June s. Major
General Leonard Wood, commanding
the Department of the East, wants it
made clear that the training camp
which opened heretoday is for every
American citizen who wishes to be of
aid to his country in case of war
He called reporters to his headquar-
ters to set at rest rumors that there
was or would be, any social distinc-
ton whatever shown in recruiting men
for the camp.
Preparedness" said Major General
Wood, "has caught on. SO far more
than 1000 business men and others
have signed for the Plattsburg camp
this year. Among these there are l
great number of college students.
Princeton is leading with the largest
enrolment of the colleges. We expect
to have between 10000 and 25 900 men
here this year.
'The summer instruction camp idea
is favored by many persons who can
not join US. A woman wrote me re-
Gently offering to pay the expenses of
eight young men at Plattsburg.
Il have received many letters ask
ing for an opportunity to help in this
way. AS two weeks is not long enough
to acquaint man with the necessary
training for service, l wish to urge
employers to extend vacations of their
employees who are at the camp to a
month. This seems the least time in
which to instruct properly a man in
the duties and requirements of a SOL
der.
"The Governors of Virginia and
South Carolina appointed committees
in the cities and towns oftheir States
to organize groups for the camp, and
their representation is large.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
STOLEN
BICYCLE
RETURNED
(FrOm Fridays Daily.

The individual who purloined the
bicycle from in front of the Palace
theatre has surrendered the machine
to its rightful owner.
1t was fortunate that the youth was
seen with the wheel, or rather those
parts of it that he had not removed
to other wheels, yesterday because if
the lad had had the wheel a few days
longer, no one would ever have re-
cognized it. 1t seems that he Gowns"
several wheels all made up of parts Of
each other in order to disguise them
The lad seems to be incorrigible and
it may be necessary for the authori-
ties to take him in hand He already
has one reform school record behind
him. To give him every chance to
make good, he will not be prosecuted
this time and for the same reason his
name is not mentioned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
Pig HELPED /
DISCOVER GREAT
COPPER Mine
Calumet and Hecla Mine viii Observe
Semi Centennial This Summer.
By United Press Association J.

By United Press AssOclatiOn).
Calumet, Mich, June 3.-The Calu-
met and Hecla Mine will this summer
observe its semi-centennial, was first
brought to the attention of the mining
world by a pig.
The mine was discovered in Octo-
Der, 1865 by Captain Amos H. Scott
who explored the land where the mine
is now located and first found indica-
tions of the conglomerate formation.
In 1866 Capt. Scott made further ex-
ploration, discovering an ancient pit
in which the first Calumet shaft was
sunk.
Isaac Thomas was employed by
Scott to "keep his eye" on the pit.
He was ordered to keep some distance
away to keep from attracting atten-
ton One day William D. Aligny, a
gent for the st. Marie Mineral Land
company with his assistant was stop
ping at the home Of William Royal
near the present Calumet No. 4 shaft
D. Aligny shot a runaway hog and
Royal traced the animal by blood
stains to the ancient pit where it died
In it's death struggles the hog had dis
turbed the ground covering Of leaves
and dirt exposing to view rich, cop
per bearing rock.
Examination of the pit showed that
it had been worked many centuries
before, probably by Indians or some
forgotten race and that masses OF
copper had been removed. Somean.
cient mining tools-all Of copper
were found there.
When the Calumet company frs
began work, results were discourage
ing.
The Hecla company was formed il
1866. Assessments were called fo1
at various times on stock so that il
1868 the total amount assessed OF
Calumet stock was SIS a share ant
$25 on Hecla stock.
In 1869 Hecla paid its first dividend
and the Calumet a year later. TIL
two companies were consolidated il
1871.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08

and west side and a proposition that
would not cost the city more than $25.
This suggestion is that the pres
ent band stands on each side of the
river be abandoned and one of them
moved to the park along the west bank
of the river near Grand Avenue, where
it would be central to the residents
of both sides.
By doing this there would not be
the necessity of alternating the con-
certs from one side of the river to
the other. The location would be CEN
trail and the residents of the extreme
west side would not have to walk "a
way over to the court house" and the
residents of the fourth and first wards
would not have to walk away over
to the North Western Station"
To carry out this plan, all that
would have to be done, would be to
move one Of the band stands to the
river bank. The band stand in that
location would be equally central for
both sides Of the river.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
ADVICE ON !
THE BUILDING
Of BARNS
Bulletin From Agricultural Expert
mental Station Gives Valuable In
formation.
(By United Press Association

Madison, Wis, June 5.-After
thorough study of the various meth
DDS Of constructing barns, the Wis
consin agricultural experiment sta
ton today issued a bulletin outlin-
ing the best plans to follow in erect
ing buildings for Wisconsin dairy
farms.
The bulletin urges farmers to build
their barns with view to meet fu-
ture needs and to permit the handling
Of the maximum capacity ofthe farm.
Among some of the things recon-
mended are:
That rectangular barns be used in
stead of round ones and that the build
ing run north and south in order to
get the greatest amount of light.
That gambrel roofs give more 70 n
than gable roofs.
That concrete is the best product
that can be used for the foundation.
ground floor and wall ofthe ban.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
500 TRAIN
in DITCH
At ATWOOD
Engineer, Fireman and Division SUI
perintendent Hurt. Was Run
ming Slow. ID Cars Leave Rails.
(By United Press Association.)

Fond du Lac, Wis, June s. The
Chicago Minneapolis limited train,
No. 3, on the 500 Line was ditched at
Atwood, Clark county at an early hour
this morning.
Engineer Charles Mccoy, Fireman
P. Graham of North oFnd du Lac and
division superintendent c. E. Urban
were injured. Mccoy suffered a bro
ken leg, being pinned under the en-
CINE.
Ordinarily No. 8, travels at speed
of so miles an hour but when approach
ing Atwood, the train was creeping
along owing to warnings that the road
bed was soft
Thirteen coaches in all left the
track and settled in the soft earth.
The engine and one or two coaches
turned over on their sides.
Mccoy was brought to a hospital
in Marshfield.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08

Chicago
NOISIEST SPOT
IN THE WORLD
(By Omitted Press Association.


Chicago, June 5.-Chicago started
today to make good onthe prediction
that for the next week it will be the
noisiest spont in the world-unless
it be Verdun. Certainly it will be
the spot where more words are spill
ed than anywhere else.
All of which is by way of preface to
the fact that the convention crowds
began arriving today. They came
chaperoned by bands, megaphoned as
sistants, singers and just plain noise
makers.
By Wednesday, Chicago will be
swollen with people to nearly twice
its normal size.
There are 985 delegates to the Re-
| publican national convention, to ar
rive, 985 alternates to the same near
| ly 1000 delegates and alternates to the
Progressive National Convention;
| 10000 women workers for the ballot,
mostly out of town boosters; to say
nothing Of just plain spectators to the
various affairs.
Already the Hobbies of Chicago's
loop hotels seem as choked with hu-
mainly as they did at the height of
the Republican convention sessions
four years ago.
All the hotels, incidentally, began
today removing every bit of furniture
from their Hobbies.
No. flower pots, vases, or chairs will
clutter up space where enthusiasts
may gossip, nor be near at hand for
weapons in case arguments wax too
hot.
One we'll known hotel, which sports
a fountain in the middle of one of its
dining rooms, began today to inclose
this spot of water. It is a precaution
which proved successful four years
ago and saved lot of rescues of per-
sons and things which in previous con-
vention times seemed to have a nat
ural habit of gravitating thereto.
The Coliseum and the Auditorium.
where the Republicans and Progress
sive hosts will hold solemn conclave.
were ready for the crowds today.
Tickets for the Republican conven-
ton were at the biggest premium they
ever have been for such a gathering.
There were plenty of offers of $3.50
for single ticket admitting holder to
the expected four daily session; and
tickets scarce at that.
It was estimated that the attempt
to gain admittance will be made in
vain by about ten thousand people
Only 12,400 seats for the public have
been provided in the Coliseum.
Fakirs thronged Michigan Avenue
and reaped a rich harvest in the sale
of badges, banners, pictures and SOU
venirs.
Most of the big delegations were
expected today.
New York's go, with alternates, CO.
workers, hangers-on and admirers, ar
rived on a special train this morning.
Deputy chief of Police Schuettler
has sworn in several hundred extra
policemen and almost an equal MUM
Der of plain clothesmen borrowed |
from other cities, went on duty today |
to keep wary eye on the undesra-
bles.
The only formal routine observed |
today was the meeting ofthe Republi-
can National Committee, cleaning up
contests and transacing the Thousand
and one details incident to stage-man-
agering the big pow-wow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
WOOD COUNTY
common
SCHOOLS
Announcement and Program of the
Third Annual Rural School and Sec
ond Class Graded Schools Gradua-
ton Exercises of Wood County,
Wisconsin.

Circumstances have arisen which
make it necessary for US to change
all arrangements previously made and
announced for the Common School
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08

duroy, field-rock, sod in the middle
of the road, to the perfectly drained
and graded road running perhaps into
the extreme in width and crown such
rs the road known in Wood County as
the Trunk Line, extending from Gran
Rapids to Marshfeld via Pittsville, so
we feel that when it comes to gradin :
and using the pike, we have tried them
all and know how to build them.
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, June 3,
1916.
(To be Continued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
Why NOT HAVE
ONE BAND STAND?

A good suggestion was made by one
of the leading citizens this morning :
a suggestion that would be of decid-
ed benefit to residents of both the east
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
RAPIDS Wins
AT MOSINEE

The Grand Rapids base ball team
helped open the new park and grand
stand at Mosinee Sunday by shutting
out the home team by a to 0 score.
The game was witnessed by a good
sized throng of fans.
Devine struck out II of the up-river
men and Henry struck out of the
Rapids players. The Rapids players
garnered LIP hits off of Henry's slants
and Mosinee was able to hit the ball
safely five times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
WILL Spend
100000 TO
REBUILD PLANT
(By United Press Association. }

Kenosha, Wis, June g. The A
merican Brass company of this city
will spend 100000 in rebuilding and
extending their plant. The extension
will include rolling mills, casting
shops, and new office building. Work
will be started at once and it is ex-
pected that it will be completed with
in two years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08

Diploma graduation exercises to be
held in Wood County, Wisconsin, this
year. These exercises will be held in
Grand Rapids at the Wood County
Normal, on Wednesday, June 18th, for
the entire County. We sincerely hope
that every boy and girl that has been
awarded a diploma will be present at
these exercises together with their
parents and friends. Grand Rapids
will take care of you all that day and
get you safely back to your trains in
the evening.
The graduates will assemble at the
Wood County Normal at 1900 o'clock
to be registered, to receive their Wood
County buttons and badges. Thos !:
who live in the north end of the coun-
ley may come either on the 500 train
| that leaves MarshfeId at 1925 a. M,
or on the North Western train which
leaves Marshfield at 1900 m. Boys
and girls will be met at both trains
with automobiles and taken to tn.
| Wood County Normal building. The
| graduates who come on the noon train
will Immediately report to the County
Superintendent and receive their
Wood County buttons and badges be-
| fore the exercises begin.
The exercises proper will start at
L 80 p. m. and close in plenty of time
for the graduates to make the 1855
train on the 500 Line. Transporta-
ton will be furnished the young peo-
pie from the Training School to the
depot.
Let everybody come that can, and
remember that this will be made a
happy day for you. Of course, if any
| graduate cannot attend these exercises
his or her diploma will be forwarded
by mail together with the Wood
| County button, but we hope there will
be very few absent graduates, as par
ents should remember that this will
be one of the happiest days that the
children will ever see and that it vii
pay them to make a little sacrifice ir
| order to allow the children to attend
these exercises.
Our motto this year is "Value Re
ceived" and this means, boys and girls
that you are going to give back tt
the world just little more than yor
receive from it. A life of useful ser
vice is one great proof that you are
a worthy graduate of Wood County
schools.
The graduation exercises will take
place during the Institute, and every
teacher in Wood County will be pres
ent.
Program.
Ills p. m.-Picture taking.
Music-"America."
Music-by Wood County Norma
girls.
Address-by Supt. Geo. W. Davies
of Sank County.
Song-"Keep on the Sunny Side,
by graduates.
Presentation of Diplomas, by Supt
Geo. A. Varney.
wood County Song, by teacher
and graduates.
Announcement of the Winners O
different contests.
There will be an exhibit of all en-
tries in the different contests announc
ed in the April and May Bulletin AM
the prize winners in these differen
contests will be announced at the clos,
of the program. Teachers are reques
ed to bring the exhibits for the con
tests with them to Institute.
Once, more, urging all the gradu
ates and their parents and friends anC
all others interested in the schools O.
Wood County to attend these exercises
[ am
Yours truly,
GEO. A. VARNEY,
Vesper, May 81, 1916. County Supt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-06-08
Wind BLOWS
A TRAIN
FROM TRACK
Twenty People Injured When Wabash
Midnight Special" IS Wrecked
By Wind
(By United Press Association. }

Pontiac, H., June 2-Twenty per
sons were injured, one seriously when
the midnight special" the Wabash
Railroads fast mail train, Chicago to
st. Louis, was blown from the track
one mile south of Saunirim early to-
day in the most severe wind storm
that has swept central Illinois in years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-04-28
Gard of Thanks.

In appreciation of the many acts of
kindness expressed by the Orders Of
Eastern Star and Maccabess; also the
Progressive Farmers club and friends
and neiehbors in our bereavement 10 the
loss Of wife and mother we wish to ten.
der our most sincere and heartfelt
thanks. Words are inadeq
g. w. Reynolds and family, lone,
Lee and wife, Lynn and Max.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-04-28
NOTICE

The dentists of Paw Paw will close
on Wednesday afternoons of each
week for the afternoon during the sum-
mer months. Parties having dental
work done will govern themselves ac-
cordingly.-(adv) 13t4R.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09
'I date nv birth frou, the day I

81 date my birth frpn the day
spent the last dollar and woke up. l
worked. Nothing was too small or too
big for me to handle. got something
to risk and then l risked it. l risked
it again and again. After ten years
could draw my check for thirty thOus-
and plus interest and l did. l sent the
check to the little bank back home.
waited two months for the answer and
then it came; my check torn across
and a short letter saying that the loss
had already been met by bankers
surety association. l wrote the asso-
citation a dozen letters and some of
them took some writing. In the last
/ offered fourfold the theft. There had
been plenty of Bible in my bringing
up. They wrote, back that it was no
use-that | could keep on climbing in
peace but 1t was their business to Jail
me for fifteen years the first chance
they got and they'd do it the minute l
set foot where they could grab me.
"That letter frightened me. I be-
gan to realize that what I'd been work
| ing for wasn't money, or honor, or
rehabilitation but just the right to go
back-the right to go back home.
Nobody had been harder on me
than my old man. For years nobody
in the house was allowed to say my
name and If he saw letter from me
he threw it in the fire, opened or I'M
| opened. But somehow it got to him
that 1 had offered to pay fourfold ano
that I'd been refused and that turned
him. 1t was the fourfold that did it
the divine and sacred measure of jus
tice. He started to fight for me a:
hard as he'd ever fought against. Ant
then he died and my old mother died
Letters stopped. My brothers and sis
tiers were coming up in the world
They couldn't afford to own a THE
much less fight for him. SO the letters
stopped.
81 spent money then. built me {
house in Pernambuco that was a won
der palace and l started in to forget
But when you've been Remembering
with all your might, the color of tn
paper on the walls of home, the la.
of the wood-pile, of the sheds and tn
tumbling barn and stables, the hole
in the fence, the friendly limbs of ap
pie trees and the smell Of hay; whel
you've been coddling bare memorie
of simple things like those for fifteel
years, you can't turn around on you
inside self and forget.
There's a flag the sight of whic
makes my heart come up into m
throat and tears to my eyes. 70
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09

strong teeth tore off a generous por-
ton. Then he rose and walked off to
the corral.
Gerry sat on alone. Thoughts were
troubling him, too. What was he do
ing here? Who was this Margarita
that had twined herself into his life?
Was it his life? And her little boy
black-haired, black-eyed, olive-tinted-
he was his boy, too. He was Gerry
Lansing's son. No, not that-nOt Ger
ry Lansing's. Gerry Lansing belonged
to time that was far away, to a hill
where white houses with green blinds
peered out from the darkness of
domed naples, from the long shadows
of appointing frs and from the caves
of fiaring elms, the wine-cups of heav-
en-. A sigh came quivering through all
his body and escaped from his trem-
bling lips. II am Alone" he breathed
to himself.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09
JUST THE CHILDREN MOURNED
None Came to Claim the Body of Old
George, the Cornetist.

About us everywhere in the flotsam
of the human tide are drifting mystic
ries we accept without inquiry. There
are such people in Sacramento as "Old
George, the cornetist,' who recently
fell dead in New York city.
Day after day he appeared at the
same corner, offered his familiar tunes
to the admiring children and the some
times abjuring adults, and collected
the pennies wherewith to buy food,
clothing and shelter.
No one ever asked him his right
name, but the children loved him.
Then one morning, as Old George
raised his horn to his lips, it clat-
tered to the pavement, and the song
he was planning to give the crowd
ratified in his throat as he toppled over
dead.
The children mourned him for sew
eral days. No one came to claim his
body. -,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09

think l mean the Stars and Stripes,
but l don't. l mean the Blue Peter
that flies at the halyards of big ships
and says to everybody that takes the
trouble to look, we sail today Over
the tops of the houses I've seen that
flag blinking in the heavens like bit
of deep blue sea married to white
cloud and to me it always said, we
sail for home today I'd shut my eyes
or close the blinds but what was the
use Of that? Night and day | could
hear the below of the great horns-a
blast for good-by and another for a
challenge to the sea-as the big boats
headed out for home.
Il couldn't stand it. came up here
And now, last night, l dreamed that |
heard it in my sleep-up here Gen
tlemen, man without country is in
bad way but man without home,
even if it's hovel-well-we all know
the old song" He paused to master
his voice. Then in a whisper that they
just caught he added, Home Is the
anchor of a mans soul. want to go
Home"
Lieber stopped talking. The reveal
ing silence had done it's work. 1t had
brought them close-so close that he
had spoken lest they take his soul by
assault. He left them and went to his
own room. They saw he was an old
man. beyond the years he had dis
closed.
They did not speak. They were
nervous. Kemp made a cigarette
puffed at 1t once or twice and then
threw 1t away, to roll another a mo-
ment later. His thoughts were wing
ing away to the fork of Big and Little
Creek where a three-room shack stood
IN the shadow of the White mountains
of New Mexico. He had thought it
small miserable cramped. But out
here in the wilderness, thousands and
thousands of miles away. it came back
to his vision, glorifed. A swelling
came into his throat He tried to
cough it up. But as long rs he thought
of the mountain, the thickness stuck
in his throat. He took from his pocket
a treasured cake of tobacco and with
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09

recommend it to any woman suffering
from female weakness. You may pub
fish my letter if you wish. Mrs. JAMES
CoNLEY, sic St. Clair St. , Frankfort, KY.
No woman suffering from any form Of
female troubles should lose hope until
she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be a most valuable tonic
and invigorator of the female organism.
All women are invited to inspect
the laboratory of the Lydia E.
Pinkham Med. CO., Lynn, Mass.
1t is interesting and instructive.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09
help FOR .
WORKING WOMEN
Some Have to Keep on Until
They Almost Drop. How
Mrs. Conley Got Help.

Here is letter from woman who
had to work, but was too weak and suf-
fered too much to continue. How she
regained health -
Frankfort, KY" suffered so much
with female weakness that could not
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09
Taxicab Driver Senses DANCER.

A London taxicab driver, rejected
for the army IN account Of defective
eyesight, was re-examined recently.
the London Globe says.
How do you manage to drive your
cab at night" the officer asked.
It's like this" he replied. "If we
hear a smash we know we have hit
something, and if we don't we know
it's all right
He was remanded to Scotland Yard
for further examination.