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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
GO TO MINOCQUA
ONSAD TRIP!
Amherst Man and Relatives ut Grand
Rapids Go to Funeral.
From Stevens Point Journal

From Stevens Point Journal
Amherst, Wis.-Seavor Williamson
left for Minocqua Monday evening by
the way of Grand Rapids where he
was Joined by his sisters, Mrs. Clark
Lyon and Mrs. J. Shellhammer. the
latter of Port Edwards. They were
called to Minocqua by the death of
their brother BILLY" Williamson which
occurred Monday morning, at his
home in Minocqua. "Billy" was a for
mer Amherst boy, who for several
years, when in his early manhood was
employed as brakeman on the old
Wisconsin Central. Later he married
and settled in Minocqua which was his
home till he passed away last Monday
He leaves besides his widow and five
children his aged mother, Mrs. Anna
Williamson of Grand Rapids, two
sisters and one brother, Mrs. Clark
Lyon of Grand Rapids, Mrs. James
Shellhammer of Port Edwards and
Seaver williamson of Amherst.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
WISCONSIN
F0RHERDEAF
CHILDREN

The Wisconsin State School for the
Deaf at Delevan, Wisconsin, opens its
next term on Wednesday,, Sept. 18th
The opportunities offered to deaf boys
and girls by this school are free to all
deaf boys and girls in Wisconsin. A
mong those advantages are:
1. A good academic education I'M
der the direction of a corps of special
lists similar to that given in common
schools for hearing children.
2. A High School education pre-
paratory for students life work as
well as for college.
3. Excellent domestic science and
manual training instruction, togeth-
er with industrial training and shop
practices in the various shops of the
school.
4. The best of training in speech
and lip reading by specialists trained
for this work
D. careful supervision OF morals
and habits. This school has always
been fortunate in having a member
ship of exceptionally clean-minded
students.
g.. The closest attention paid to the
health Of each student Medical at
tention is constantly at hand for those
who need it.
Z. Board, washing, light, heat and
medical service are furnished free to
deaf boys and girls in Wisconsin.
For detailed information or further
particulars concerning the school ap-
ply to H. c. Buell., Superintendent,
Delavan, Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
CANDY FOR
YOUNG Thieves
Infants Ran Off With Horse and
Buggy and Were Treated
When Arrested.

Richmond, Ind.-Mrs. E. R. Smith
reported to police headquarters that
her horse and buggy had been stolen
from North Seventh street, where she
had left the outfit when on shopping
tour. Two hours later the police re-
ceived call from the town marshall
at Boston, six miles south of Richmond
who informed the police that he had a
couple of "horse-thieves" in custody
and believed the stolen vehicle which
they had in their possession might
have been taken at Richmond. The 20
lice sent two armed men in an automo-
bile to Boston to get the thieves"
Chief Goodwin and other officers
were nearly all night awaiting the re-
turn of the men and the desperate
characters" When they arrived the
"horse-thieves" were found to be Jess
Sffimelser, age and Jack Smelser,
age 3. The tots had climbed into the
buggy after unhitching the horse and
without point of destination in view
Jesse, the older, had driven straight
south until Boston was reached, where
the marshal stopped them.
Chief Goodwin said the prisoners
were too small to be scolded, so instead
he bought them each a bag of candy
and turned them over to their parents
who were vainly searching for them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
ORANGE PEEL
OIL EXPLOSIVE

Everybody knows the flavor of or
ange peel, but not everybody knows
what causes that flavor. 1t is due to
the oil contained in little cells in
the rind. If the peel is bent so as
to strain these oil cells, the oil bursts
out often as visible spray and usual
ly perceptible to our sense of smell,
and often as greasy film on the fng-
ers. The peel may be so bent as to
rupture large number of these cells
at one time, and to fill the air with an
oily mist. If at the moment of bend
ing lighted match be applied by an
assistant decided explosion will fol-
low. This experiment is most sue
cessfully performed in a darkened
room or in a room wholly dark ex-
cept for the light from the match.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
ARMENIA

Over 100 cars passed thru here Sun
day on their way to Camp Douglas.
Walter Engwal of New York City
is visiting his sister, Mrs. D. Spice.
John Sweeney and F. Blessener of
Endeavor were callers in this vicinity
Sunday.
Fay Wells and family went to Ne
cedah Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Hevp were Nekoosa
shoppers Monday.
Frank McLellen, Mrs. Ed Arnold
and daughter, Helen, of Nekoosa and
Mrs. A. Wells motored to Camp Doug.
las Sunday. The boys all seemed tc
be healthy and happy.
H. Nelson returned home Sunday
after a short visit with his mother anc
brother near Westfeld He is in poor
health.
The V. Lind family spent Sunday al
Lake Van Kuren.
Charley Olive of Adams is spending
his vacation with his parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Ed Olive.
Mrs. 7. Ostrum spent a few days a
New Miner last week.
Mrs. E. Olive and Mrs. V. Lind wer,
callers at the L. Svedine home Monday
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
SlGE[

Mrs. Chas. Ecklund of Grand Rapids
is visiting relatives here.
Miss Ira Jacobson visited at the
George Coombs home at Sherry a
portion of last week.
Mrs. Extrom of Tomahawk is a
guest at the home of her brother O.
Hollstrum.
Mrs. H. TerMaat underwent a sur
gical operation at the Riverview Hos
pital at Grand Rapids on Wednesday.
Miss Signie Heden arrived home on
Tuesday from two weeks visit with
relatives at Negaunee, Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs A Marks of Grand
Rapids spent Sunday at the John He
den home
Mrs. o. Hollstrum and guest Mrs.
Extrom of Tomahawk visited rela-
tives at~Port Edwards last week.
Miss Iona Larson who is employed
at Minneapolis, Mimi, came home on
Sunday morning and will visit home
folks for an indefinite time.
John Tempas has gone to Harrison,
South Dakota, where he will spend
the remainder of the summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Amiel Mech, spent
Sunday with relatives near Marshfeld.
Mrs. M. Kronstadt of Grand Rapids
is spending the week with relatives
here.
Miss Sophia Mozenski is home from
Chicago, ILL.,, where she has been
spending the past five years.
Miss Esther Bautz is visiting with
friends at Friendship.
George Henke came home last week
from South Dakota where he has been
employed for a length of time.
THEODORE Lindquist and Miss Edith
Henry arrived here on Monday from
H., and are guests at the
Ernest Lindquist home
Frank and Will Henke left on Mon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
RECOGNIZE THE DEATH SONG.

Walruses and seals and all true
mammals that have lungs and live in
the water have bark that sounds
strange enough as it comes up from
the hiden depths. Every lookout from
the masthead notices that, when one
whale is struck, the whole school is
stampeded at the very impact of the
harpoon. They have heard the death
song.
The sound that the bowhead makes
is like the long drawn out "hoo hoo
hoo-oo-o" of the hoot-owl. A whaler
says that the cry begins on F and
may rise to A, B or even C before slip
ping back to again. He AYERS that
with the humpback the tone is much
like the note from the D string of a
violin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
NEKOOSA

S. L. Stevens pulled up some sweet
clover near the st. Paul depot which
measures over feet high not counting
the roots. There are several branches
on the main stem which gives the
plant the appearance of being more
than one.
Two new threshing outfits were re-
ceived by S. L. Stevens Wednesday
in order to help take care of the large
small grain crop in this vicinity. One
of the outfits was sold to Walt lesser
and the other to Bolto Namanick and
James Roach.
The Royal Neighbors and their fam
lilies will have a picnic and basket
supper at the pavilion Friday after
noon and evening, Aug. II. Supper
will be served at $50. All Neighbors
are requested to attend and to bring
their baskets with supper.
After the regular meeting Monday
the local colony of Beavers had a
social hour which those who make it a
practice of attending all meetings.
claim was the best ever held by the
members of the colony. Refreshments
were served at late hour.
The Misses Ida and Anna Hoyer and
brother, Rollond, of Ellsworth, Wis.
are visiting at the home of their sister
Mrs. A. Holdorf.
Word was received that Len Good
was in the first 800 names drawn in
the district he registered in. His
serial number is 734.
Manager Simmett will soon have
new chairs in his theater. They are
on the way now and as soon as they
arrive will be installed.
Mrs. F. H. Waters and daughter,
Katherine, returned Thursday evening
from Canada where they had been vi
sitting for several weeks.
Miss Bess Richmond has resigned
her position as kindergarten teacher
as soon as another teacher is secured.
Emil Freiberg has been accepted as
one of the thirty-six to be drafted from
Wood County.
Albert Weidewald, who conducted
tailoring establishment here for -
years and who left here about four
years ago has traded his Milwaukee
property for farm in the Town of
Rome about 10 miles south of Nekoosa
R. c. C. Vehrs is harvesting his
grain along the lines of the large
wheat farmers of the west. He has
two binders attached to his tractor
that cuts a swath of twenty feet. Each
binder cuts ten feet. Some time
saver in these times of high prices and
no help.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
SARATOGA

J. B. Weber and family spent Sun
day at Pittsville, making the trip by
auto.
Miss Fern Ross was Grand Rap
ids visitor on Friday.
The two good rains we have had
during the past week have been a
great help to everything
Misses Fern and Georgia Ross at
tended the Teachers Institute held at
Friendship Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. VIM. Foote of Port Edwards
was a visitor Tuesday at the R. B.
Roberts home.
A. Soergel is busy painting the build
ings on the old Charles Mills farm.
Miss Minnie Ross resumed her work
Monday at the Geo. Rowland store in
Grand Rapids after two months va
cation. Florence Ross, who was clerk
ing in her position is now home.
Walter Hermann left Monday for
Elgin and Woodstock, Illinois.
Walter Nominson of Chicago arriv-
ed Thursday for a few weeks stay
with friends
Miss Bertha Van Ruth returned
home Saturday after a few weeks
stay with her daughter at Plainfeld.
Miss Clara Waterman of Grand
Rapids was Sunday guest at the w.
D. Ross home.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. R. Hammond and
Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt Dawes spent Sun
day with relatives at Monroe Center.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
COURT HAS @' !
BUSY day
Judge Park Hears the Paper Suit
and Takes Care of Num-
Der of Other Matters.
From Stevens Point Journal

From Stevens Point Journal
The suit Of the Nekoosa- Edwards
Paper company against the Milwaukee
Daily News was up before Judge B.
B. Park in circuit court here today. b.
r. Goggins of Grand Rapids, Wis,
represented the paper company and
Arthur Barry of Gill and Barry Of
Milwaukee represented the Milwaukee
News.
The News is refusing to pay for a
print paper bill on the ground that
the Nekoosa-Edwards company is O.
member of a trust The plaintiff has
asked that the defendants answer be-
stricken out and arguments on this
point were made today.
No decision was made today, both
parties being given until Monday to
file briefs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
ADMIRAL
JELLICOE' VIEW

Admiral Jellicoe is quoted as saying
Germany will hold out so long as
there is the faintest hove of the sue
cess of the submarine warfare. Once
it's failure is demonstrated, the Ger
man people will recognize that defeat
stares them in the face" Of the val
idity of this opinion there can be no
reasonable doubt Therefore the de-
velopments in the submarine campaign
are watched with intense interest from
day to day and from week to week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
CATCHES Huge
PICKEREL
Lake kegonsa Yields Up Denizen Over
Twenty one Pounds.

Stoughton, Wis.-The days of big
plckerel at Lake Kegonsa evidently
are not past, for the past two days
have seen several "whoppers" caught.
Saturday evening Herman Hanson
caught a monster pickerel, weighing
a little over twenty-one pounds. Mon
day morning Mr.. and Mrs. Henry John
son landed three fine pickerel at the
lake the largest weighing thirteen
pounds, the next largest ten pounds,
and the smallest six pounds. On Sat-
urday Andrew and Eli Kvalheim also
caught two fine ones, the formers
weighing between nine and ten pounds
and the latter's trifle less.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
SSkAT

Over 800 players are expected to
compete in the annual summer skat
tourney which will be held at JefYer-
son, Wis, Sunday, Aug. 10. A special
train will take the Milwaukee players
to and from Jefferson. The sum of
81 900 has been appropriated by the
committee. The entrance Zee will be
81. The new rule Ramsch will be en-
forced in the tourney.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
MARINE CORPS
UP TO WAR
STRENGTH
Reaches Required Quota at Same Time
Army Fills Authorized Ranks.

Both the regular army and the ma
rine corps are now at full war strength
For the regular army 1888 men
were needed on April /. Since that
time 184,422 have been accepted, the
line having been crossed Thursday, &C
cording to reports from recruiting sta
lions received at the War Department
yesterday.
At the same time the marine corps
reached it's full authorized strength of
10000 men. It now has LOTS officers
and $4,000 men, including reserves, it's
strength having been trebled since
January l.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
BECOMES
CHEESECENTE

Amigo, Wis.-Productio of cheese
in Langlade county is increasing with
almost phenomenal rapidity and An
tigo is on the way to becoming cheese
shipping center of no mean impor-
lance. Last month approximately
thirteen carloads of cheese were re-
ceived at the warehouses of the G. A.
Straubel company in this city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16

The house-boat is one point of inter-
est these days and those who have
seen the workouts of Bob and Nelson
one of his training partners, realize
that the training camp is no easy snap
for the men training. Several hours
of each day are spent in wrestling,
shadow boxing, running, swimming
and what not.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
BUILDING
CHEESEFACTORY

Plainfeld, visa large building
is being erected at Bancroft, five miles
north of here, for a cheese factory. It
will be ready for business about Sept.
Is. It is reported that $3.50 per 100
will be paid for milk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
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III IL ~ Ia
Million CANS

Chippewa Falls, Wis.-The Chippe-
wa Canning company has finished it's
run on canning peas, reporting sue
cessful season with pack of 1900, 900
cans or over. The crop has been fine
though the hot weather last week rip
ened peas too fast, causing some to-
go to seed that otherwise would have
gone into the cans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16

England proposes to reduce the cost
OF living by encouraging boys to kill
the sparrows that destroy the corn.
And what's the matter with sparrow
pie besides?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16

The new Wood County Telephone
office building is about ready for the
roof. The brick work is completed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16
ONE EFFECT
OF THE WAR
~ II,

This war is bringing lot Of men to
the front who were never heard Of be-
fore, and it promises to send lot to
the rear who have been heard from too
observation-disclosures Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-08-16

Reporter WANT ADS Bring Results
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-28
CONSCIENCE HURT HIM so
STACKER GIVES SELF UP
Draft Evader Confesses to Borrowing
Wife and Two Children to
Secure His Exemption.

Billings. Declaring that his con-
science was bothering him to such an
extent that'.he found it difficult to
sleep peacefully, Thomas Gillespie, of
Tacoma, WASH, walked into the po-
lice station here and gave himself up
as Stacker from the draft army.
Gillespie told the officer that he had
secured exemption from the draft
through having false affidavit made;
and while the officers listened in
Gillespie told how he Dor
rowed a wife and two children for a
while, lived with them and represent
ed himself as husband and father
in order to secure exemption from the
draft as the only support of the fam
lily. He said that after he had secured
his exemption the arrangement with
his ready-made family was abandoned.
Gillespie was locked up pending dis
position of his case by federal author
ties.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-28
MANY SMALL COAL MINES
OPERATING IN MONTANA
Fuel Administrator SWindIehurst Be-
lieves These Will Relieve Coal
Shortage in This State.

Helena.-'It is the little, obscure
coal mines of Montana that will save
the state from a fuel famine this
winter" in the opinion of State Fuel
Administrator w. F. Swindlehurst,
Under the government regulations
these mines, employing from one to
five men, that heretofore sold their
output at $3.50 a ton. now receive 1885
a ton and as a result hundreds of them
have started operations. The quality
of the product in many instances is
poor, but the stuff burns, and COM
mands ready sale In the immediate
communities where it is mined. This
relieves the regular commercial mines
and the carriers to just that extent.
Not a day goes by but Mr.. Swindle-
hurst is advised of the operation of
from one to a dozen of these mines.
In some instances the operators are
whose crops were a fail
IRE and turned to coal mining to get
by. In other instances they are reg
llar coal mines, but never had suf-
ficient demand for the product before
70 operate at profit.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-28
HIGHWAYS ON PACIFIC COAST
Interesting Figures Secured by Cali
fornia Experts on Pull Required
to Move Wagon.

An energetic and influential organ.
lzation on the Pacific coast, the Cali
fornia State Automobile association,
has carried on some investigations af-
fording definite figures of the value of
good roads. 1t secured the help of Prof.
J. B. Davidson of the University of
California and Austin B. Fletcher,
state highway engineer, in carrying on
a large number of tests of the pull re-
CURED to move standard farm wagon
loaded to make the gross weight 5000
pounds. This wagon was hauled in
some cases by a two-ton truck and in
other cases by a team of good draft
horses, weighing about 1,600 pounds
each.
Tests have shown that a pull of 27
to 30 pounds per ton of gross load was
needed to haul the wagon on unsur-
faced concrete roads. When the con-
crete was surfaced with oil and screen
ings the pull was increased to about 80
pounds. About 65 pounds were needed
for hauling on water-bound macadam
and on bitumineus concrete laid on top
roads a pull of 65 to 80 pounds was
needed, while on loose gravel the pull
was 263 pounds, the highest record in
any of the tests. About 80 pounds
were required for hauling on bitumin-
Gus macadam. On earth roads 90
pounds were required for hauling over
a good surface covered with 1 u inches
of loose dust, 80 pounds over an ordi-
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-28
BEST FEEDING PLAN
TO FATTEN POULTRY
Not Profitable to Keep Old Hens
and BOOSTERS Over Winter
at Present Prices.

Old hens and roosters should be put
into clean, roomy coops and fattened
either for market or for family use.
1t will not pay to keep them over win
ter at the present price for grain.
Have good-sized coops with movable
floors, which can be taken out and
cleaned. The first thing is cleanliness.
Wash out your coop daily; it is the
best way to prevent disease. Corn
meal and milk is one of the best fat
tening foods. Give what they will eat
up clean. Bread crumbs, pieces of
meat and crust of bread soaked in Ell
ther sweet or sour SKINNED milk are
excellent. Beets, small potatoes, tur.
nip tops and cabbage leaves, boiled
and mixed with a little cornmeal.
should be fed at noon. In the eve
ming feed again with the grain. Give
a small quantity at each meal, as they
lose their appetite by giving more than
they can eat. Feed should never lie
by them, which soon turns sour and
is never good for them. Give once or
twice a week gravel, brick dust, char.
coal or burnt wood:
This method will fatten chickens In
two weeks time. Chickens cooped
and fed a ration of this kind will lay
on flesh very rapidly. The flesh will
be sweet, tender, and of fine flavor. |
The flesh of old hens and ROSTERS run !
ming at large is never tender and must |
- ho;lod Cor cor,,, hours 70 rnaka tho |
neat palatable. Poultry at present |
prices is cheaper than any other kind |
4 meat.
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PROMINENT LUMBER MAN
WILL ASSIST Y. M. C. A.
H. A. TempIeton of Rogers
Lumber Co. Will Leave Soon for
New York to Report.

Great Falls.-H. A. Templeton of
the RogersTempleton Lumber COM
pany will leave December % for New
York to report for duty at the head
quarters of the Y. II. c. A. war coun-
ell.
He will be assigned to the business
administration of the Y. NJ. G. A. war
council which has charge of spending
the millions recently raised in the
general campaign for funds for Y.
M. c. A. army camps, but as to the
exact class of work, Mr.. Templeton
does not yet know. He has merely
accepted the call to duty and pro-
poses to take whatever task and such
sacrifice as it may entail. The place
is one without compensation and Mr..
templeton will give both his time and
his personal expenses while away.
The period for which Mr.. Temple
ton has enlisted is not less than six
That it will be much longer
that that is the larger possibility and
there is very strong probability that
it will be for the terra of the war.
He goes with the understanding that
If his business or his family should
need him back here after he
has served for six months he will not
stand in the light of Sinking his task
f he returns.