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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30

Club was most royalty entertained by
Mrs. ". c. Weisel at her pleasant
home on Third street south on Thurs
day afternoon. Sixettn ladies were
day afternoon. Sixteen ladies were
guests of the club: Mrs L. J. Reichel,
Mrs. P. F. Kohler, Mrs. Robt. Nash,
Mrs. Geo. W Davis, Mrs. B.. E. Jones,
Mrs. A. F. Jones and Mrs. Geo. ".
La Bour.
Auction Bridge furnished the all alb
sorbing diversion for the afternoon,
and after several very delightful
games, those successful in carrying
off the honors were: Mrs. Lima Cor
riveau and Mrs. F. Mengel. Mrs. La
Bour was presented with the guests
prize.
At the close OF the afternoons
games, a sumptuous several course
dinner was served. The tables were
beautifully appointed, the decorations
being yellow and white Chrysanthe-
NUNS and smilax. The candle shades
and place cards were also in yellow
and white, and the color scheme was
further carried out in the delicious
viands served.
The ladies were all enthusiastic in
their expressions of delight over the
charming hospitality rendered them
by the hostess.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
SALARY $500

We are pleased to note that the
board of Supervisors for Wood County
appreciate the services Of Louis Am
undson, County Highway Commission
er by raising his salary from $1,000 to
$500. This mark of appreciation is
substantial and well deserved and we
believe that we express the sentiment
of the people of Wood County who are
conversant with the work he is doing
that this is in Justice due to. him. J.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
JUST A
Moment

We would like to enquire, or know.
why it is that the pictures of 7. B..
Scott, the founder Of the T B. Scott:
Public Library and ]. D. Witter, one
of the contributors Of the same are
not hung in the library rooms as we
see they are stored away in the Office
of the Weighs and Measure Commits.
sioner. Why it IS?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
FUNERAL IF 4.
T. MORRISON
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The funeral services Of A. E. Nor
rison; former superintendent of the
Valley Division Of the Milwaukee road
and well known in this city was held
this .morning in Chicago.
Mr.. Morrison has been i'll for the
past two weeks following q stroke Of
paralysis. Mr.. Morrison is survived
by his wife and one son Don.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
CITY IF
GRANL)RAPIDS

The city of Grand Rapids, Wis, was
organized in March 1869. The first
u. S. Government Census was taken
in 1870 and then had population of
Lis, in 1880 there was a population
of 1867 and in 1890 there was a popu-
Tation Of 1902 people. =
The city of Centralia was organic
ed in March 1874 Her population in
1880, was 8O6 and in 1890 it was 1886.
Centralia was annexed to Grand
Rapids in March 1900 The Govern;
.ment Census for the Consolidated CT
ties in 1900 was 4,493 and 1910 it was
s, 521. In 1915 we believe we have a
population of over 1900.
The first plat of land for residential
purposes in what is now the city Of
Grand Rapids, Wis, to be placed on
record in the Office of Register of
Deeds for Portage county, Wood
county was set off from Portage coun-
ty in 1856}-was in November 1847,
The plat is marked "Plat of the town
of=Grand Rapids, Wis, by J. J. Cruik-
shank, proprietor, surveyed by B. G..
HurIbut, Nov. 27, 20 and 80, 1847. The
plat covers a part of fractional Govt.
lots 7 and 8 section 8, a part of the
present first ward, east and north of
the swimming pool.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30

A long and heated debate on the
question of appropriating a one mill
tax on the assessabIe property of
Wood County the money to be used
on the Trunk Line between Marsh
field and Grand Rapids by the way
of Pittsville, which would amount to
about $4,000, took place Wednesday
afternoon. Seven tenths of this a.
mount is to be equally divided COM
mencing at the western limits of Grand
Rapids, and the southern limits of
Marshfeld, to be used as far as it will
go the coming season. Tlree-tenths
of the remaining total is to be used
for the maintenance of the trunk line
Of 36 miles. After the discussions
the final vote was held anu it was car
ried p to %.
The report Of the committee on e.
EQUALIZATION of taxes, except reducing
the valuation of the towns of Hiles
and Saratoga was adopted by the
Board.
Attorney 4. J. Crowns from the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
BY ALEXANDER F. JONES.

Across Lake Mendoza the state
maintains beautiful Institution
for the care of its unfortunates. It
is a wonder place-rolling acres of
velvety lawn, shaded by hundreds of
broad-boughed trees, miles of shin
ing water.
And yet, with US all, there is feel
ing of dread as we think of it. An
insane asylum! A place where hun
dreds Of demented, guarded fools live.
We drive rapidly past it. We point
it out to friends as we skim by. We
shuder as we think.
But let me tell you the story of the
man who has forgotten the world. Let
me tell the story of Albert Gentle
and ask if, perhaps, our pity is not
largely misplaced. Let me ask if, in
tIlS lille O1 Care -CtIlU WILLY GllClC al Z
not some of US, at least, who would
not gladly let him step into our
worldly niche if we could but take his.
He is a poor demented husk of a
man, l. was told. An unbalanced I'M
fortunate who has spent thirty-six
years of his life applying what men
tally he has to simple duties about the
hospital and to devoting the golden
hours of the day to feeding the squir-
rels about the grounds. Thirty-siX
years within the relatively narrow
confines of the grounds Thirty-six
years without once evincing a desire to
cross the water and again get in touch
with the busy world. How could a
man with a shred Of normality exist
thus, l asked myself. Would it be
maudlin sentimentality or morbid Gu
riosity to inquire
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
4 GOOD
SUGGESTION

Manager D. J. Gerow, of the Hotel
Witter offers the following sugges-
ton in the changing Of the present
deer law: chat it be compulsory for
every man with a deer to place on the
tag, the price he pays for the same"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
PROMINENT
handles

Frederick G. Hall, proprietor of the
Beaumont Hotel at Green Bay, one of
the best known hotels in the state
died at Green Bay on Tuesday even
ing. He will be buried at his old
home at Baraboo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
THE STORY OF 4 NAN WHOHAS
And Found One We Cannot Appreciate.
Forgotten The OUTSIDE. WORLD

1t may be wrong to feel that it would
be a crime to effect any miracle that
would restore him to his right mind.
Maybe so.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30

Jacob Lutz, John Henry, Louis Ule,
Fred B. Miller returned last evening,
from their hunting trip in Tomahawk,
bringing with them three deer. Fred
Westfahl remained for few more
days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
Wood County.

The U. S. Census of Wood county
in 1860 was 2,425, in 1870 it was 1911
in 1880 it was 1891, in 1890 it was
1927, in 1900 it. was 25,865, in 1910
it was -30,583. Thus you will notice
that both the city of Grand Rapids
and the county. Of Wood have made
reasonably good progress in their pop
ulation and therefore, in its develop
ment Of its resources. The above da-
ia will probably be of value to many
and this information should be clip
ped out of the newspaper and preserv-
ed for future reference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
nature.

T. w. Brazeau and Hugh Goggins
of the law firm of Goggins, Brazeau
& Goggins returned this morning
from a business trip at Eagle River.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
RUDOLF III

Residents of Rudolph and vicinity
are requested to send or telephone
news items to
Mrs. \. G. Ratelle, Correspondent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
OLDER BOYS
CONVENTION

The older boys convention will be
held at Beloit on Dec. l, 2, 8, and 4.
It is expected there will be large de-
legation from this city that will at
tend.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
Is He to Be Pitied?

. In the same time many men. have
built fortunes and acquired fame And
their hair is grazing and their faces
drawn and care-worn- from the strug-
gle. Albert Gentle has the, face of a
boy. His hair is brown and wavy His
eyes sparkle. He is 60 years DID,
."East year I picked 27,5OO butter
nuts for my squirrels" he said to me.
81 need just that many to feed them
all. They get so hungry in the winter
time. make so many Of them happy
I must be here always to care for
them
He said it quietly, with dignity.
1maginatively, he somehow emerged
from the character of a silly old sim
pleton, clothed in an absurd and rusty
old frock coat, trousers of another
: day, and general appearance of Wash
ington Irving's school-master, and
: became the sanctifed keeper of a great
trust. What was more important than
caring for those little animals? Could
it be. the accommodating of. dollars?
''Most people do not know how i'm
portant it is that we should always
think of the tiny bits of life that God
has put on this EARTH" he said, slow
: ly. ."Often they do not even think OF
each other"
Albert Gentle;i is crazy: He com,
munes with an imaginary other sell
about the things that he should do fol
the happiness Of his furry and .be-fea
thered charges.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30

Mrs. Louie LeMay, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Peltier of your city autoed here
Sunday to see J. J. Rayome.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
$4,000 APPROPRIATED
FOR TRUNK LINE
Wood County Board Members Have Warm Dis
cussion on One Mill Tax

village of Nekoosa introduced a reso-
luton requesting the State Senator
and Assemblyman from Wood county,
to see what could be done to overcome
the unfair representation of the city
of Pittsville on the county board with
their population of $50 people, and
their equalized valuation of S227,000
with three representatives and many
of the other towns and villages with
only one representative with equaliz-
ed valuations of $85O,OOO, to million
and six hundred thousand dollars and
populations from 500 to 1900 people.
The Crowns resolution passed with
out debate by a vote of 10 to % with
one not voting.
The board passed a resolution ask
ing the Senator and Assemblyman to
get bill passed to open Wood Coun-
ty for deer hunting as the counties
Jackson, Juneau and Clark adjoining
the same are all open.
The board adopted resolutions ap-
propriating bounties as follows: crows
15c; hawks Csc; gophers Zoe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
Mind of a Child

[ did inquire. | went to see that
man. And / came away with feel
ing that no cynical reflection or So
phisticated soothing of my own inven-
ton could down-a feeling of having
been allowed glimpse of life as only
the Creator, would have wanted it. I
saw and talked with a man with the
purity and thought of a child; a man
whose simplicity makes him an in
competent in the eyes of the world
but the beauty of whose existence ex-
ats that condition.
In 1880 this was entered on the rolls
of the hospital. He was declared
harmlessly demented. He thought he
was the patron saint of all birds and
the little denizens of animaldom. He
wanted to care for and befriend them
all.
And so Albert Gentle was allowed
to do as he wished. He was allowed
to go into the woods and gather food
for the squirrels, for the rabbits, for
the winter birds against that time
when all Nature would combine against
their survival. He packed his room
with, bushels of butternuts and piles
of edible roots. When winter came he
fed his new found friends.
, For thirty-six years he has done this
He has learned where every squirrel
on the grounds has it's home; where
every bird, nests. = They=come to hin
and eat out of his hand and perch
upon his shoulder. He is their pa.
tron saint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-11-30
ENTERTAINSA At
AUCTION bridge

The Thursday Afternoon Bridge
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

mix LOT seven Otner families, and the
postman leaves the mail in eight little
boxes in the front hallway. There is no
room for refrigerator, so we chuck the
ice into a hole in the wall. use the fire
escape for exercise and 1 look at little
patch of grass in the side yard when l
want to rest my eyes. l do not know a
living soul in the apartment and not a
soul knows me, or wants to make my
acquaintance. The man next door to me
dies and is buried, and the third day
thereafter 1 hear, by chance, of his
death. When l am sick the doctor alone
calls to see me at the rate of three dol
lars per call. 1 ride six miles on a
street car, holding to strap, and people
tread upon my weary feet.
A friend from Topeka comes to see
me, and. with pomp that is pathetic,
1 swell up with pride when the elevator
boy calls me by name. l take this
friend to lunch and nudge him so that
he will get the full weight and effect
of the fact that 1 know the waiter.
1 walk the streets from Dan to Beer
sheba and then back again, and never a
friendly face or friendly greeting is
my portion. A barber, a barkeep and a
ing. 1 sit in my Office on the ninth
floor of a steel and concrete building.
that is not nearly so hard as the heart
of the man that l work for and look out
of the window and see the smoke from
many chimneys, and the fog from
many rivers and the murk from many
fields of lost endeavor, and 1 think of
the peace of the Solomon valley and the
fresh, sharp air of the plains and the
men 1 used to know in Kansas.
Sure! l draw my pay every month.
and 1t is more pay than l drew in Kan
sas. My apartment is decorated with
brindle fringe and there is thing in the
Railways and marble half way up the
walls and blue doves on the fretted cor
nices. I'm not sore or sad or down and
out Something doing in the city every
minute Big work to do in the world.
Get ahead! Beat your neighbor to it.
Speed, paving, theaters, society, the wild
cat walk, trains every minute, smoke.
clangor. servants, taxis, selfishness.
show, gliding, dross, fringe and hutter
Listen! The orchestra is playing the
fRagtime Picker Man. But 1 know that
the Swanee River still flows through the
sun-kissed meadows and green groves
of the south and that in Somewhere
Land they are still singing Annie
Laurie and Ben Bolt and men listen
with parted breath to the magic melody.
The lure of Kansas Hardest thing in
the world to withstand. The lure of
friendship, the enticement of kindli-
ness, the invitation of fairness, the at
traction of honest praise, the attach
ment of staunch men These lure me.
and 1 trust they always will
They have lakes in the northern
states, and cotton and romance in the
south, and a wonderful climate on the
Paoifc ooocf and u,onov in tho oaef
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
By CULLEN A. COIN

ne warmed 10 MS subject ana pictured
Kansas avenue as a finer street than
all the streets that he had seen. And
he declared it was the men on that
street that made it fine. He pictured
the Kaw valley flooded in sunlight and
carpeted with green and edged with the
purple of the alfalfa bloom and swept
by the health giving winds of heaven.
We both sat in happy contemplation
of the picture he had drawn, and then,
after awhile, we looked out of the win
dow at the smoke and fog that lay
across St. Louis like a shroud on the
face of a dead man in the morgue. I'm
consciously we both sighed.
Captain King has gone to brighter,
fairer home even than Kansas, and 1
am still a pilgrim in the valley of the
earth, far from Kansas still, and seeing
no place that looks as fair, and meeting
no men I like as we'll as 1 like Kansas
men.
The other day 1 met Chaplin, the ia
nous cartoonist of the ST. Louis Repub-
lie, and we talked about Kansas. Chaplin
used to work on the Kansas City Star
and he has made many trips through
the Sunf1ower state 81 have never seen
the sun shine so bright as it used to
shine in Kansas said Chaplin to me.
When 1 first went to Kansas some
twelve years ago 1 was carrying one of
those 9S-cent telescope valises and l
wore a ten dollar suit of clothes that
was as rough on the surface the
wool on the back of a sheep. 1 imposed
on Billy Weaverling to give me job
as foreman of his Coffeyville Journal
printshop. A month later he made me
editor of his paper 1t is only in Kan
sas that such miracles take place In
any other state in the union you have
to work for eight or ten years to win
recognition and then you must show
your pedigree and give guaranty bond
that you won't carry of the Duplex
press some dark night
1 worked for Weaverling all winter
and l figured to leave in the spring.
But when the June winds slipped across
the prairies to come and play with the
roses had lost my heart to Kansas
land and 1 determined to stay as long
as they would let me.
After awhile L. l. Kiene, that fat
prince of the province of golden hearts,
who was then editor of F. P. MacLen-
mans Topeka State Journal, called me
to the capital city and I worked there
as reporter and city editor for many
happy year.
The lure of Kansas. l wonder what
it is, anyway. The wind blows a gale
there in the daytime and a tempest at
night The weather changes quicker
there than it does at Medicine Hat
There is no lure of lands in Kansas
for me, or houses or money. The only
land I own in Kansas is lot in Coffey-
Vile cemetery where my New England
mother rests after lifes journey to await
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28

money OF power IL is the Kansas peO-
pie themselves. l do not rave, as a
general thing, over the Kansas land
scapes or climate or fields of growing
grain, although 1 have seen in that state
the fairest, richest farm land and the
most beautiful valleys and brightest
days and finest nights / have ever seen
between Topeka and the sea. But the
Kansas people, and their way of treat
ing the poor pilgrim who comes there
to live, that's what makes me love the
state, and that's what draws my heart
to it now.
Those Kansas people, You meet all
of 'em in Topeka. They come to town
once or twice or ten times a year, and
they are the best ever Sam Fitzpatrick
from Montgomery county, Ed Jewett and
Henry Allen of Wichita, Dick Hopkins
of Garden City, Billy Morgan of Hutch
inson, H. A. and ]. B. Dykes of Smith
county, Joe Mercer of Chase, Charlie
Scott of lola, "Ironjaw' Brown of King
man, Foley of Rice county, John Davis
of Kiowa, Charlie Browne of Horton
and Will Beck of Holton and Ewing
Herbert of Hiawatha- Name of a name!
what a long list And I cannot bear
to shorten it. There is A. M. Keene
of Bourbon and Ed Ziegler of Coffeyville
Shelf Ingalls, and Bailie Waggener of
Atchison, Senator Huffman of Cherokee
and Senator Price of Clark, Jess Ma
pier of Harvey, Senator Porter from
Pittsburg, Fred Quincy of Salina, Sig
Lehman from Labette, and about two
hundred others 1 would love to name
and whom 1 remember, and always will
remember well.
And there was the statehouse bunch.
Dear old Chief Justice Johnston and
Justice Silas Porter of the warm heart
and Justice Burch of the brilliant mind.
And John Dawson, the Scotchman who
was my friend and brother; and Jim
Nation and Joe Dolley and Hoch the
eloquent one, and Stubs the fighter,
and Frank Ryan and Henderson Mar
tin and last, but not least, Mark Tulley
and Gene Denton, who have both crossed
over to the Morning Land.
And those Topekansl by their works
shall We know them. There is the won
derful Captain Waters, and Major Har-
vey, the grandest Roman of them all;
and the four Charles of the House of
Staunchness- Mitchell and Gault and
Sessions and Gleed; and Dave Mulv,4ne
and Robert Blair and Charlie Curtis and
Frank FARRELL and ]. E House and Ed
McKeever, typical Kansans, all these,
and there could be no higher praise
Why did 1 leave Kansas? Only the
Lord, with His infinite understanding,
knows I don't A gent came along
one day with his siren song about high
salaries and the crowded market places
and the sounds of the strife of the cities
And I left the pleasant valley and free
fields and brave towns and true hearts
of Kansas and came to cast my lot with
the men of the cities
And now I live in six room aDart-
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in his chair and looked out of the win
dow of his office the seventh floor
of the Globe-Democrat building and
gazed thoughtfu1ly at the fog and mist
that shrouded the city in a blanket of
gray. 81 have heard many men speak
in many tongues on many subjects since
| left Kansas he said, but never have
| heard anything that sounded as fine
TO me as the Kansas language"
l had only been away from Kansas a
few months at that time but l knew
even then, away down in my heart, that
|, too, would never hear any man or set
of men speak in a tongue that 1 would
like well as the Kansas language.
The captain slid down in his chair and
placed the tips of his long slender fin
gers together and held them in this
V-shape just under his chin, and looked
at me in kindly fashion with those black
penetrating eyes that shown under his
white brows. His face was thin and
drawn from the illness that he was fight
ing with his indomitable courage, but
which in the end was to conquer him.
His white mustache did not conceal his
strong, straight mouth. In fact, he
looked like an eagle in its eyrie as he
sat that day in his bare Office in the top
OF that big newspaper building.
But the man who had the courage to
cross the threshold of his Office and
brave the eagles eye was sure of a
kindly welcome from this grand old
newspaper man. He had a brave heart,
a great mind and a gentle soul. AS a
rule he was not mach of a talker, but
dc dow hn cot OF Two for n y,
TO come and cure him of a fatal sick
ness, his thoughts turned to Kansas
where he had worked and loved in the
old days, and he talked on and on about
the days when he was editor of the To-
peka Capital and of the men he had
known and the events he had gone
through. His voice was soft and his
glance was retrospective as he sat there
and reviewed the past.
He had met many men, had Captain
King, big men, high in the councils of
the nation; little men, shysters seeking
newspaper notoriety; capitalists seek
ing to be let alone by the newspapers;
adventures, transfers, police captains,
artists, authors, promoters, preachers,
merchant princes, clubmen, and he ran
lightly and rapidly over the list, touch
ing upon their failings with charity and
upon their strong points with praise.
but it was only when he spoke of Kan
sas men that his eye burned bright and
his voice became earnest with enthu-
siam.
He talked of the many cities he had
seen of the spires and wharves and
crowded streets and stately avenues and
NJ Of RI
but his manner was Indifferent and his
voice was a monotone until he came to
speak of Topeka on the Kaw- All. then
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-28
I'm Sorry, Now, | Left Kansas
By
CAPTAIN
HENRY KING

BOUT a month before he died l
had a long visit with the late
Capt. Henry King, veteran ed
itor of the ST. Louis Globe-Dem-