Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-24
wives are helping regularly at the

wives are helping regularly at the
| Red Cross
The fact that cat pelts are now
selling in the market for s1.42 each,
suggests that the scarcity Of mink
fur is being relieved.
Uncle Samuel is usually depicted
as wearing wiskers, but he Is not
rustic enough to bite at any gold
brick peace terms.
Mr.. Wilson must look out not to
waste the paper supply by writing
notes to Germany.
The real danger Of automobile ac-
cidents comes when the driver learns
to run his car so skillfully that it
doesn't require his close attention.
1t is easier to get million out of
Congress to fight the influenza now,
than it would have been to get $10,-
900 in the start to have kept it out.
Able bodied men who stick to their
non-essential jobs in these times
would be more appropriate if they
would rig up with pettieoats and cor
sets and frilled waists.
Also the draft boards are likely
to rule that the President is engaged
in non-essential industry when he
is composing communications to the
Hun government. @
Among those who complain because
business is hurt by influenza are the
restaurant and lunch room people who
spread the epidemic by lack of SAM
tary dish washing.
The people who are not satisfied
with Liberty bond interest are often
the same ones who have neither prin-
ciple or interest on the wild cat in
vestments they are il the habit Of
making.
statesmen AND OTHERS IN
NON ESSENTIAL BUSINESS
SELL GROCERIES-O Of Worlds
largest Grocers, (capital over $1,000.
000.00) wants ambitious men in every
locality to sell direct to consumer ma
tionally known brand of groceries,
teas, coffees, spices paints, oils, stock
foods, ETC.. Big line, easy sales. VAL
ues beat any competition. Earn big
money. No experience OF capital re-
CURED. Complete sample outfit. and
free selling instructions start you
Long established reliable house. Write
to-day. John Sexton & Co., 352 w. |
Illinois ST., Chicago, Ill.
The children are supposed to well
come any calamity like the influenza
which closes the schools, but with the |
apples all stolen and the back shed
windows all broken, they are begin
ming to break into the school house.
The people who won't work with
any energy because they get poor /
pay, are often the same ones who
when their pay is increased won't
work because they have celebrated
overmuch
The Germans are still not worried
about the advance of our troops. as
Kaiser Bill has informed them thS
the pro-Germans are sure to sweep
the country at the coming elections
and put stop to the war.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed King and her sis
ter, Mrs. Susan A. Scribner of Mer-
rill, will leave Friday night for st.
Petersburg, Florida, where they ex-
pect to spend the winter. They take
with them the best wishes of a host
of friends in this city where they ara
all well known and formerly resided.
Attorney-at-Law Frank w. Calkins
and candidate for District Attorney |
on the Republican County ticket was
called to La Crosse the past week to
testify before the Grand Jury in ses-
sion there. /
Some one asks what has be-
come of all the people that used to (
get smashed up by skittish horses?
Well, in these days of automobiles, q !
runaway horse does not go fast
enough to suit them. s
Mr.. and Mrs Will Bodette and fam
lily have rented the cottage formerly