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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
Mayor F. A. Walters Secures $4,000
Judgment

The many friends of Mayor F. A.
Walters of Stevens Point will be
pleased to know that he was success
full in securing a Judgment against
the Milwaukee Sentinel for the. publ
cation of ibelous articles, published
in their paper the past summer in re-
ference to the Mayor, while he was
trying to clean up some of the gamb
ling places and other resorts in that
city. In the trial Of the case, the jury
and others who listened to the testi-
mony came to the conclusion. there
was malace intended towards the may
or, whether it was political, or other
wise, we do not know. The judgment
of 81 100000 and costs besides the 9TH
er expenses that go with it, will pro-
badly have the effect on the Sentinel
Co, to be more careful as to what
they publish. Those who know Mayor
Walters believe an him, and in his eff
forts to clean the city Of Stevens
Point. His efforts to do his duty
should have been encouraged by the
Sentinel instead Of trying to belittle
and ridicule him in his efforts to do
his duty. Large influential newspa-
pers, like the Milwaukee Sentinel,
ought to have higher ideals in dissem-
mating the facts connected with such
work. Any person working for the
uplift of the community has trials e.
nough to bear. in the prosecution of
such people without being handicap
ped by metropolitan. journal like the
Milwaukee Sentinel.
We congratulate the mayor on the
successful outcome of his libel suit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

AS the Germans are pushed out of
France, the French are planting sugar
beets in much of the area they vacate,
and doing what they can to rehabii-
tate the sugar factories from which the
Germans have taken all the copper and
important parts of the engines and
other machinery. The French are en-
ergetic. It won't be long before they
will be making sugar again on a con-
siderable scale, and when that time
comes there will be not such great ur-
gency as there is now for the close
conservation of sugar here. Beet sug-
ar, it will be recalled by students of
history, was a child of wartime neces-
sity and French initiative. When
French ships had been driven from the
seas, and cane sugar was understandable
by the confectioners of Paris, the first
Napoleon directed scientists to dis
cover a substitute for cane sugar that
could be produced at home. Beet sug-
ar was the result In this age beet
sugar constitutes more than half the
sugar output of the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

be successful in carrying the election
in their favor in 1913, is question.
The breweries Of the state of Wis
oonsin are not to blame for this hght
being on. It is tbs saloon keeper, VINO
persists in violating the privileges
granted TO him in his license. While
the writer is not prohibitionist, be
believes in being temperate in all
things, and from the fact that the sa-
loon keeper continues to violate his
license privileges we shall vote with
the "drys" when the time comes. If
the Breweries Of the state would sell
their products By retail direct to the
consumer, and not through the sa-
loon agency we believe the people of
Wisconsin would not object to the
manufacture Of beer. Its the saloon
that does the harm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

The Chicago Fire, the Galveston
flood the San Francisco Earthquake
all these calamities in which citizens of
the United States were victims COM
manded the sympathy of mankind and
evoked particularly generous assist
ance from Canada, and Great Britain.
In the shadow of the present horror
and grief at Halifax the American
people have an opportunity to reci-
orocate the kindly feeling that when
occasion prompted was lavishly ex-
aibnted on their behalf. They will
not fail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

The mountains and the winter may
be enrolled against the Germans en-
gagged in the Italian campaign. AS the
New York World observes the situa-
ton, it is as follows: "The Germans
have seized an area nearly as great as
Connecticut, triumph of great polit-
zeal value. Unless they blast their
way further their transport lines will
be lost in the snow, while in the open
winter, sheltered by the giant noun
tains, the network of Italian railways
plies unhindered The allies protect
ing Italy are Italy, Great Britain,
France-and the Alps"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

do your Christmas mailing early"
is only part of the Postoffice Depart
ment's INDUCTION to the public, which
is urged to deposit letters in the mail
boxes as soon in the day as possible,
not only now, when Christmas is ap-
preaching, but all the year around
The clerks at the distributing tables
are busiest between the hours of four
and seven p. M, because of the huge
amount of commercial mail that piles
in upon them at that time. What is
posted early reaches the distributing
tables at the hours when the clerks
have least to do.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

Justice and judgment are the habi-
tation of His throne" In one of the
darkest days of the Civil War, when
Frederick Douglass, addressing great
audience Of colored people, gave sx-
preston to his hopelessness and de-
spair for the future of his race, old
Sojourner Truth rose from her seat.
and stretching out her long thin hand
cried, "Frederick, is God dead?" We
do not wonder that fnen and women
doubt His presence and His goodness
And He too probably does not wonder
that faith sometimes breaks under
LIES inscrutable mysteries. But He
is faitful still.
With courage we must await those
days that soon will come when we
search the papers for the tidings we
fear to see. To train our hearts to
face the worst-that is part of our
great task. To hide our own fears and
send across to those who are cover
there" only the word of cheer and hops
this too is ours to do.
Waterman, what Of the night -
The Waterman said: The morning
cometh." -.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
Is There a Santa Claus?

q
How many times has the question
been asked? There was once q little
girl whose name was Virginia who
sought high authority for an answer
to the question. She wrote letter to
Charles A Dana, editor Of the New
York Sun, saying: "Some of my friends
say there is no Santa Claus. Please
tell me the truth. Is there Santa
Claus ?" The famous editor was pleas
ed to tell her the truth. This was his
reply, printed in his paper:
Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of skeptical age They
do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is
not comprehensive to their little
minds. All minds, Virginia, whether
they be mems or children's, are little.
In this great universe of ours man is
mere insect, an ant, in his intellect,
as compared with the boundless world
about him, as measured by the intell-
gence capable Of grasping the whole
Of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virgin
ia, there is Santa Claus. He exists
as certainly as love and generosity and
devotion exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its high
est beautysand JOY. Alas! how dreary
would be the world if there were no
Santa Claus. It would be as dreary
as if there were no Virginias. There
would be no childlike faith then, no
poetry, no romance, to make tolerable
this existence. We should have no
enjoyment except in sense and sight.
The eternal light with which childhood
fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus? You
might as we'll not believe in FAIRIES!
You might get your papa to hire men
to watch in all the chimneys on Christ
mas eve to catch Santa Claus, but.
that is no sign that there is no Santa
Claus. The most real things in the
world are those that neither children
nor men can see. Did you ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of
course not; but that's no proof that
they are not there. Nobody can con-
ceive or imagine all the wonders there
are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rat
tie and see what makes the noise in
side, but there is a veil covering the
unseen world which not the strongest
man, nor even the united strength of
all the strongest men that ever lived,
could tear apart. Only faith. fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the
supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is
it all real? All, Virginia, in all this
world there is nothing else real and
abiding. No Santa Claus? Thank
God! he lives and he lives forever. A
thousand years from now, Virginia,
nay, ten times ten thousand years from
now, he will continue to make glad the
heart of childhood"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
The Christmas of 1917,

Was there ever day in the history
If the last nineteen hundred years
when so many homes looked forward
o Christmas with less of anticipation
md joy? In common with all the ma
lions in volved in this present war A
nerica will find it quite impossible to
repeat the customary greeting-"A
Merry Christmas. Out of thousands
If our homes have gone the noble sons
whose early years made for US the
Christmas days time of happiness
and cheer. We never dreamed in those
asst years that the little lads for whom
we bought the sleds and skates, and
Cor whom We jingled the sleighbells
the night before Christmas, half wax
ing them from their dreams, would
one day be marching over the fields of
France facing the cruelties and horrors
f the most inhuman war the world has
known. To many of US there have
come moments when it has almost
seemed, as someone has said, that the
Infinite Justice had been too long neu-
trail IN this war. But such moments
do not last. Faith born of the great
Christmas message, reasserts itself
and finds refuge III the confidence that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

We have and we do welcome to our
shores those who are willing to share
their lot with us and stand ready al
ways to protect American liberty ac-
lively and positively, never forgetting
that it has secured a higher degree Of
happiness, to a greater number of peo-
pie, for a longer period of time, than
any other scheme or device ever struck
off by the brain or the purpose of
man.
But we have no room for the trait
ors and we shall not tolerate their
presence here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
THE YOUTHS
COMP ANTON
CALENDAR
FOR 1918


The Youths Companion Practical
Home Calendar combines the beautiful
with the useful. 1t is especially sought
for by busy people, because it gives
at one glance not only the days of the
current month, but those of the month
preceding and the month following,
all on the one leaf. At the same time
the calendar is decorative in design
and suitable for a place in the best
room in the house 1t is given to all
readers of The Youths Companion
who have paid their subscription for
1918.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

General Pershing is a man of action
rather than talker, but when he has
something to say he expresses much
in few words. He feels no fear con-
2erning the issue of the war, and here
are his words: Germany can be beat
II; Germany must be beaten; Germany
will be beaten" Coming from Gener-
al Pershing, this concise opinion car
ries conviction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
Brewers Are Wise.

The readers Of the Wood County Re-
porter undoubtedly are reading the
advertisements in this paper headed,
BE Watchful" and signed by w. H.
Austin. These advertisements are
well written, argumentative, and not
1t all offensive in their character. The
dry wave is coming, in fact is all
ready here. 1t is simply awaiting an
expression. Whether the "drys" will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

At the Wall street branch postoffce
in New York, by a mistake of the
clerks the first war stamps were plac-
ed on sale at s5.12 instead of SAP. but
this did not prevent their sale in large
quantities-proof that the first thot
wen of thrifty Americans is to help
The government win the war. The ex-
sra dollar Inadvertently demanded in
New York of course is to be handed
back to those who paid it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

Many people have the wasteful hab-
it of putting two full spoons of sugar
into cup of coffee and never stirring
it up; so that more than half remains
at the bottom of the cup with the
grounds to be wasted into the sink.
If they stirred their coffee after ad-
ding so much sugar most of them
would find it too sweet. It is calcu-
lated that if everyone in America
saved an ounce of sugar daily the to-
tai would amount to more than a mil
lion tons in the course of year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

If you should raise forty-two bush
els Of potatoes on quarter of an acre,
or even on half an acre, you would
probably feel well satisfied A Kansas
City man has plot of ground samll-
er than the ordinary family sitting
room, but he says that on it he raised
forty-two bushels of potatoes this year
lie built a pen eight feet square and
eight feet high, which he filled with
alternate layers of loan and manure,
and planted potatoes in the layers of
loan. The sides of the pen were of
loose construction, and through the
openings the potato tops grew
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
WOOD COUNTY REPORTER
Established Nov. %, 1857.

Established Nov. %, 1857.
$3.50 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
A. L. FONTAINE, Owner and Pub
Usher
Prices for advertising and job work
made known on application at the Of
fee.
This Paper Is a Membec of the
Wisconsin Patriotic Press Association
and Pledges It's compromising 10y
atty to Our Government In This War.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

Won Hindenburg evidently does not
like American war plans. Nothing
wonderful about that, though. 1t is
the hope and expectation that he will
like them less as they are revealed
to him by time.
A man who is only a quarter dollar
ahead Of his expenses can get into the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13
Thursday, Dec. -, 1917.

"The American people-those of
German descent included-are held in
the greatest contempt by the ruling
class in Germany, polite treatment of
rich Americans in Germany to the
contrary notwithstanding
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13


The Red Cross has collected eighty
five million dollars Of its hundred mil
lion War Fund and expended forty
millions. By spring it will need more
help. An interesting fact in relation
Red Cross is that the overhead cost
for expanding the money entrusted to
it is only one per cent. Contrast this
with the overhead cost Of that New
York War Bazaar out of whose re-
:eipts ninety-one dollars went for ex-
penses to every dollar dispensed for
the ostensible object of the Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

It was expected that the Scandina-
Wan kings would decide upon neutral
ity. They would jump into the scrim-
mage if they felt strong enough to.
fight
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

when our country shifted its moral
support more and more to the side of
France and England, it did its pa
triotic duty. When Germany refused
to show by its deeds that it was not
out for conquest, it became increas-
ingly a danger to our own country's
safety. We had nothing to fear from
France and England We had much
to fear from the imperial government
and the military caste Of Germany.
Since the death of Kitchener the
allies have sustained no loss by the
demise Of an individual comparable to
that occasioned by the sudden passing
away Of General Maude, the captor of
Bagdad, the hero of Mesopotamia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

capitalist class by buying a Trift
Stamp. Many of the prosperous peo--
pie Of ten years from n>~ will date
the beginning Of their financial stabil-
ity TO this year of grase 1917.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

Government ship building is get
ting we'll under way at last, the total
of ships contracted for being
844, with 80 others under negotiation;
total tonnage, 1894, 300.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

schools here last Monday. - -
Mrs. Roy Potts was taken very sick
last week and DR.. Looze of Grand Rap
ids was called. She is some better.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Benner have a new
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

piano.
The Marsh school received several
new up to date text books and othsr
repairs were done to make it better
school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-12-13

ford.
Mrs. Ed. Kirchbaum has been on the
sick list for several weeks but is gain!
ing now.
Miss Pope Of Friedship visited
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-03
Slamming the Stable Door

Under the pressure of the present emergency,
the senate has passed the administrators espion-
age bill, imposing severe penalties on foreign
spies who violate our neutrality or undermine our
national defenses.
Senator Cummins asserts that there are no
less than 100000 Of these secret agents now oper-
ating in this country. The Department of JUS
tce long ago found itself unable to cope with such
offenses for lack OF laws with teeth in them. 1t
drew up fourteen different measures designed to
overcome its difficulties.
But congress paid little attention to the matter,
though news dispatches brought serious ufenses
to light daily 1t required the break with Ger
many to jolt the senate into action, and the house
has yet to consider the bill in which the fourteen
Department of Justice bills were consolidated.
Among the provisions Of the bill passed by
the senate is one that makes it an ofense pun
ishable with two years Imprisonment for any per-
son in charge of private foreign or domestic
ship to destroy or nure it, or to permit it to be
| used as place of resort by conspirators against
the United States or its treaties or obligations.
If congress had passed such a measure when
the need Of it first became apparent, the disabling
Of the machinery of ninety-one German merchant
men informed in our ports could have been pre-
vented. When the house has passed the present
bill, and the president has signed it, the slam of
the stable door after the horse has been stolen
will once more reverberate through the land.
We seem to be degenerating into an eleventh.
hour country. We are worse than the foolish
virgins of the parable We put off till tomorrow
the things we should do today The violations of
our neutrality since the war began have been per-
sistent and notorious. Dumba and Boy-ed and
| Papen were sent home. Recently Consul General
| Bopp and his accomplices have been convicted.
| But most of the offenders have been within the
law" and, though Washington knew pretty we'll
what they were up to, effective action was i'm
| possible.
Even now it is touch and go whether the
house gets around to take action before it is
| taken by March 4.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-03
Sage Tea Keeps
Your Hair Dark
It's Grandmother's recipe to bring
back color, youthfulness and lustre
Everybody is using it again.

GRAY hair, however handsome, de-
notes advancing age. We all know
the advantages of youthful appear
ance. Your hair is your charm. 1t
makes or mars the face. When it
fades, turns gray and looks streaked,
just a few applications of Sage Tea
and Sulphur enhances its appearance
a hundredfold.
Don't stay gray! Look young!
Either prepare the recipe at home or
get from any drug store 50-cent
bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" which is merely the old
time recipe improved by the addition
of other ingredients. Thousands OF
folks recommend this ready-to-use
preparation, because it darkens the
hair beautifully, besides, no one can
possibly tell as it darkens so natu-
rally and evenly. You moisten a
sponge or soft brush with it, drawing
this through the hair, taking one
small strand at time. By morning
the gray hair disappears; after an.
other application or two its natural
color is restored and it becomes thick,
glossy and lustrous and you appear
years younger.
Weyth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is delightful toilet requisite
1t is not intended for the cure, miti-
CATION or prevention of disease.-Adv.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-03
Future Relations with Germany.

The Chicago Tribune carefully analyses the
speech of Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg to
the Reichstag and finds it solemn warning to the
United States. No longer is there any question
of the unbrage Of Germany at the course pur-
sued by this country. We are now dealing with
facts and not sentiment. Fine words nor spe-
cious arguments no longer will avail to mollify
the German government, whose resentment is SOL
idly founded on the belief that we have aided
its foes. The conclusion is that we may be GER
tain that in years to come the United States will
have to reckon with Germany as an offended and
Incorporating rival. The possibilities con-
tanned in this should be fully realized by all
Americans 1t is more than ever an argument for
preparation for national self-defense. Having
chosen our path, it devolves on us to be ready
for what may be encountered on the way.