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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
Why Russia, France and Great Britain
Entered the War
By G. c. SELLERY, Professor of History.
University of Wisconsin
Pubighed under direction of Defense

The friendship of Russia for Servia
has long been an B c of the Balkan
problem. Russia was bound by ties
of race and religion to protect Servia.
She was equally bound by self-interest.
For two centuries it had been Russia's
ambition to get access to the Mediter-
ranean, either by conquering Turkey
or by having the Turkish possessions
fall into the hands of friendly Balkan
states. 1t was therefore as certain
that Russia would try to protect the
independence of Servia in 1914 as that
the United States would try to pro-
tect South America against attack by
a European power.
The attack of Austria upon Servia
did bring Russia to the rescue, but
Russia showed every desire to avoid
war. First, she induced Servia to make
q most submissive answer to the Aus
trian ultimatum. Then, she accepted
all offers of mediation between herself
and Austria, and agreed TO accept any
form of conference which Germany
might suggest Finally, she proposed
that the Austro-Servian dispute
should be referred to the Hague TT
bunal. When Austria and Germany re
fused or evaded these proposals and
Austria pushed her attack on Servla,
Russia July 29) ordered a partial
mobilization of her troops, but later
July 800 offered to give up her mill
tary preparations if Austria would
agree ito eliminate from her ultima
tum points which violate the sovereign
rights of Servia." The answer was
fat refusal.
On July 81 Austria replied to Rus
sia's partial mobilization by calling out
all her troops, and Russia followed suit
Then, for the first time DULY 81
Austria began to negotiate. At once
the German emperor seized the relns
and ordered the Gar to stop all mill
tary preparations within twelve hours
To obey, in view of German and Aus
TRAN preparedness for war, Woulo
have been madness. The Car replied
by urging the emperor to join with
him in working for the preservation OF
peace, even though they were bott
calling out their forces. But Emperor
William was unyielding, and later II
the day (Aug. u declared war on Rus
STA.
Can anyone doubt that Germany
forced war upon Russia?
Under the terms of the Dual Alliance
(189D, France was bound to come tt
the HELM of Russia if she was attacked
bv Germany. and there was no doub
that she would be loyal to her obi
cations. But Germany did not desire
to wait until France should come in
her plan was to crush France and the1
turn upon slow-mobilizing Russia
Indeed. Germany was prepared, if nee
essarv. to goad France into war. Th
German ambassador in Paris was &C
cordingly instructed July 81 to de
mand that if France decided to remain
neutral. she must surrender her grea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
SPRING POETRY
ALA FRENCHMAN
Some Place in France,
April IA, 1918.

Dear Jacob:-Why don't you write to
a fellow once in a while? Why do
you get that way? How are things
going over there, and what are you
doing? How is trout fishing, and a
bunch of other questions?
Things are coming O. K. here. John
and | are flying now, and having a
good time learning how to strait the
Hun from upstairs. Haven't had
chance to see Ed. as yet, but we hear
from him occasionally.
This is sure some country over here.
You can't find a creek bigger than the
Four Mile, and you can't find anything
to hunt larger than a RABBIT, unless
you start out for Huns, and as I am
not quite that far advanced and have
not the time to hunt the rabbits, I'm
out of luck. However, often think
OF that trip we made down the Flam-
beau, and sometimes I dream that
am out after Green Heads and Honks,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
NORTH ARPIN

Ed. Lacrosse left Monday for Mad.
ison to join the army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Maxsen moved
to Arpin Saturday.
Peter Wander Bergan is having his
house papered and vanished. Mr.. and
Mrs. Maxsen are doing the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Weinberg
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Weinberg and family
Mr.. and Mrs. John Blatt and family
left Friday for their new home north
of Almena.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Strauss are en-
PERTAINING company this week from
Broadhead.
Miss 1nga Bodin and Joe Bodin
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
Kaufman.
Miss Mary Schultz came home
Tuesday after teaching at Richfeld
the past term.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
PATRIOTIC
SPRING POETRY

Miss Clara Kallish contributes the
following verses in commemoration of
the departure of the local boys who
entered the U. S. service the past week
as follows:
''Our soldier boys have left US,
Our SOLDIERS" so good and true,
But oh, to think and watch them,
AS they go marching by, so brave and
true.
They leave to US dear, sweet smiles,
Their good and tender ways.
IT'S hard, oh so hard
To forget their kind and loving ways.
Our soldier boys have left us
To serve their country true,
Although their hearts would love
to stay with folks,
And sweethearts too"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
NUMBER MEN
IN ARMY UNITS

Here is little item that is going the
rounds of the press that is of interest
just at this time. 1t is educational
and may help to settle many vexing
arguments.
An Army Corps is 1000 men.
An Infantry brigade is $4,000 men.
An Infantry division is 10000 men.
A regiment of Infantry is $500 men
A battalion is 1000 men.
A company is $50 men.
A platoon is 60 men.
A corporal's squad is II men.
A field artillery brigade comprises
1908 men.
A field battery has 1875 men.
A firing squad is 20 men.
A supply train is 283 men.
A machine gun battalion has 296
men.
An engineers regiment has 1908
men.
An ambulance company has sc men.
A field hospital has So men.
A medicine attachment has Is men
A major general heads the field
army and also each army corps.
A brigadier general heads each in
fantry brigade.
A colonel heads each regiment.
A major heads a battalion.
A captain heads company.
A lieutenant heads a platoon.
A sergeant is next below lieuten-
ant
A corporal is the lowest ranking
officer.
A lieutenant colonel is next in rank
below a colonel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

fortresses, Toul and Verdun, to Ger
many as a pledge of her neutrality
From the very start. France made
every effort to preserve the peace of
Europe. She encouraged all the peace
proposals put forward in any quarter.
Jaures, the great French Socialist,
told the simple truth when he said
July 29): I have never shrunk from
bringing on my head the hatred of our
chauvinists by my stubborn and in
cessant efforts to bring Germany and
France closer together, and l am
therefore now entitled to state that at
the present moment the French gov
eminent desire peace and are laboring
for its maintenance
Great Britain declared war on Ger
many, Aug. 4, after Germany had in
Vaded neutral Belgium. Britain had
given Germany three warnings July
80, 81, Aug. i that British opinion
would not stand for such an outrage
because her own national safety and
her honor as sworn defender of Bel
gian neutrality were at stake. The
British ultimatum turned upon this
point and nothing else; and GOschen's
conversation with Won Jagow indicates
that if Germany had agreed (Aug. ~ to
desist from attacking Belgium, Britain
would have refrained from her declara-
ton Of war.
The desire to crush Germany COM
mercially had nothing to do with Brit
aims entering the war. If this had
been her aim, she would have put up
tariff wall, which would have been
a cheaper method of self-protection
than war.
The Entente of Britain with France
$500 and Russia 0907) was not
formed to crowd Germany out of the
sun. 1t was formed to remove causes
of friction between Britain and the
other powers, so as to make it impos-
sible for Germany to induce either OF
| them to join her in al attack on Brit
| ain. It was Britain's answer to Ger
many's increase of her navy and
toasts to 1.-THE Day., but it did not
provide for an attack on Germany.
| The British foreign minister, Sir f.
| Grey. labored as Zealously as the
French and Russian diplomats to pre-
| vent the outbreak of the war. The
supreme proof of the innocence of the
purposes of the Triple Entente is
found in Grey's offer of July 81:
50. if Germany could get any reason
able proposal put forward which made
it clear that Germany and Austria
were striving to preserve European
peace, and that Russia and France
would be unreasonable if they reject.
ed it, if Russia and France would
not accept it His Majesty's govern
ment would have nothing more to dc
with the consequences.
| France and Russia entered the wal
because Germany was bound to have
it SO; Britain entered the war because
Germany treacherously invaded Bel
GUM.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

We tho't that they told of the wild
erness,
But then we never did know
Till we saw those three deer by the
river
At the head of the river below.
And say, but that was some rapids,
Old Top,
Twas a goat getter most of the way,
A-shootin' down hill round that
horseshoe bend
And getting soaked down by the spray.
And then there were other fine rap
ids we shot
And picked out our way as we went
And trusted to luck as we shot down
the hill
We'd get safely thru ere our nerves
were all spent.
Then too, you remember that Pine
Island shoot
Where Pauly and Art nearly spilled,
And old Lardy Art made a leap
from the bridge
AS he showed off the boat nearly filled.
The rest of the trip though smooth
most Of the way
Made up for what it would lack
In roughness and wetness, by giving
us time
To play Latch the Dowajiac." -
Now as I think it over that trip
that we made
It all comes back like a dream:
The sights that we saw, and the
times that we had
On that wonderful joyridden stream.
But that trips over now Old Top
and I expect that it will be some time?
before I'll be able to take another one.
But you can bet that if | get back to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

"A cough that "hangs on" wears down
the sufferer, leaving him unable to
ward off sickness. Jos. Gillard, 148
Fillmore ST., Nashville, Tenn, writes:
L was suffering with a dry hacking
cough and a pain in my chest, but
since taking Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound I have been relieved" It
soothes, heals and cures. Sold every
where.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
Wants To Help Other Men

M. W. Taylor, Calvert, Ala, writes
"To whom it may concern: I recon-
mend Foley Kidney Pills, the best I
ever used. [ tried different remedies
but none gave me relief like Foley's."
They restore regular action of kidneys
and bladder and relieve backache,
rheumatic pains, stiff joints, sore mus
cles. Sold everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
WOMEN READERS

CALL AT THE OFFICE OF THIS PA
PER NOW-OR SEND BY MAIL
YOU HAVE BUT A FEW DAYS TO
SECURE THE FLOWERS & LESSONS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

having .ussls with a big masky out
On the Chippewa. I. sure makes =
fellow va1s 70 &c back and try It over
RWR
For don't you ransnber that Belle
Isle canoe
That Belle Isle we brought from afar,
The one that we worked on from
morning till night
A-smearing with resin and tar?
Yes. all of worked the best we knew
how
Till we'd patched up the littlest rip,
So on the next day in the morn's
early light
We could start on that glorious trip.
And don't you remember the day
that we launched
That Belle Isle and showed off from
shore,
And how she was loaded right down
with supplies
Till she wouldn't hold anymore?
And wasn't it fine at our first camp
ing place,
Twas there I remember we saw
A beautiful place right along side
the bank
Where we captured our first "Jocky-
law"
Oh! how he would break and spin
out the line
And give us the shakes for awhile,
For as | remember he never was
safe
Till we had him inside the Belle Isle
And don't you remember the river
below
How we dragged the boat round the
rocks,
And how we tried savin' our shoes
from the wet
By wading the river in socks?
And don't you remember the lake
that we passed
| Where she took the waves in swell
style,
And made us think as the spray wei
us down
That nothing could sink that Belle
Isle?
And farther on down where the
white water starts
And you shoot thru the waves capped
with spray
At the mouth of the Turtle 'twa:
busy were we
A-dodging the rocks onthe way?
Twas there that we camped in the
rain that night
On that point where the Hemlocks
sing
And the rapids tell of their tales Of
Of joy
That the mornings sure to bring.
And the raindrops pattering on the
tent,
And the wind thru the boughs over
head,
Whispered music to US as we rested
On our sweet scented He1nlock bed.
And as we lay there listening
10 the trees and the water without,
We wondered, a-laying in blankets.
Just what they were talking about.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09
See These Flowers at Our Office

invite rradento an-menaw
A formation maeaku
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

Attractive Compact Readable Durable
American Standard Version

Emphasized with the words of Christ printed in bold face
type Strongly and neatly bound Khaki grained
acknowledgement limp embossed back bands
round corners, Khaki edges gold title beautifully embossed
American Flag in coors on the outside front
Printed on specially strong Bible paper Only 4 inches
and just 4 inch thick Type is plain and clear-se-
pronouncing The Four Great American Hymns printed
and bound with this Soldiers and Sailors Testament.
Sale at this Office for so ordered to
.ne sent by mail so cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

This year, the fourth celebration of
Humane Sunday and Be Kind to Ami
mails Week should excel all previous
efforts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

We old States, I'm sure going to hit
for the tall timber and rough water,
for I'm starving for that kind of coun-
try already, and when l think about
it this little ditty comes to me:
What would you give to spend a
year
In wilds of long ago,
And camp upon some waters edge
That once did beads and buckskins
show?
Where the deer come down at twi-
light
When the sun is getting low.
Where the ducks and geese are wait
ing
For the mornings sun to show.
Where the martin and the fisher
And the mink and beaver stay
Where the sly old fox with kittens
In nearby thicket lay.
Where the wary trout is lying
In cool spring inlet stream,
And clouds are floating by Ger head
AS only in a dream.
Where the muskelunge is waiting
To try his vicious knack
Upon a two pound sucker, or
Perchance a dowajiac.
But, if such a place as this were
found
By either you or I,
We'd build a cabin on this lake
And bid the world goodbye"
x +
Well, if keep this up want be able
to get it by the post. However, let
me impress upon your mind that fell
low over here wants to receive MAIL,
and LOTS of it, so WRITE, and tell
me about things.
Best regards from,
EBBITT. !
This year, the fourth celebration of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-05-09

Politeness is one of the best invest
ments known. 1t pays enormous divi-
dends.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25

Wanted School System Of
Germany Denounced

Los Angeles, CAL, Jan. 21.-
Germany's Wanted school sys-
ten was vigorously denounced in
IN address here by DR.. Smaller
Mathews. dean of the University
of Chicago, who declared that &C
to o5 per cent of the German
children never get better than
an eighth grade education and
many never get higher than the
fourth and fifth grades. The
ouly ones that are educated are
the higher classes, which consti
tute the ruling class. He de
clared the Germans were ruled
BY the class system and that Ger
man schools would not be toler
ated in the United States.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25
Cartridges Placed On Track.

Youngstown, Ohio. jan. 21.-
Accidental discovery of a box OF
high explosive cartridges placed
between two ties at point where
the rails interlocked probably
prevented the blowing up of an
Erie passenger train near Girard,
five miles west of this city yes
terday.
The box, which contained five
thousand cartridges, was found
by two boys, Eugene and Clar-
ence Critics. The boys took some
of the cartridges home and put
one in the stove. It exploded,
seriously injuring young Mabel
and Harvey Critics.
County and federal authorities
are making an investigation
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25

testified Wade came to the Boyer
house infrequently. Boyer and his
wife had trouble over Wade Miss
Dunn said her aunt was fully dress
ed when she came down stairs and
met her husband just before the
shooting.
Drs. Edward A. Wareham and
w. B. Morrison, who performed the
post-mortem, testified they found
two bullets in Wade's body and one
tooth knocked out.
Police Lieutenant Barber testified
he found two bullets in the closet
in Mrs. Boyer's bedroom. He heard
Miss Dunn say that Boyer once had
said to wife, You will cause me to
be murderer yet. l hope they
will take him" (meaning Wade) to
France and save me the trouble of
shooting him."
SAID HE WOULD BE MURDERER.
Deputy Sheriff Champion, exhib-
ltlng the blood-stained coat, sweater
and shirt taken off of Wade, testi-
fled he found several letters in the
pockets. One was headed Dear
Boy" 1t ended Your Dear Baby"
None bore a signature. Warning
was contained in one that he would
have to be careful, as he is watch
ing us both" When Boyer left
home to go to jail his wife kissed
him. He told his wife to stand by
him, as she was the cause of his
trouble.
MRS. BOYER NOT CALLED.
Sheriff Starliper testified Bower
took him up into his wife's bed |
room and showed him where he
found Wade secreted in the closet. !
Mrs. Boyer was at the police
headquarters, but was not called as
! witness. She heard none of the
testimony.
Taken before Judge Keedy on a
writ of habeas corpus, Boyer was
admitted to $1,000 bail, his father
David S. Boyer, going his surety
or the action of the February grand
ury.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25
California Town Claims
Patriotism Championship

San Francisco, CAL, Jan. TO-
Rio Vista, a little town in So
lano county. claims the worlds
championship for patriotism
With a population of only LOCO
to begin with, the town gave the
Red Cross 1855 MEMBERSHIPS.
After every resident, including
children, had been signed up,
campaign workers tackled trav-
cling men, farmers, tourists ami
everyone else who entered the
city limits.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25
List of C0nveyanCes.

Clarence B. Spengler and wife
to C. B. Guyer, Trustee, Deed oil
Trust ; $500.
Clinton Coffman and wife and
Claude Coffman and wife to Os'
ceola, Harry and Robert Clover,
a tract of land containing SO SO.
poles $40.
Florence R. EVERY and ]. O.
Everlv, her husband, to the
other heirs of Mary E. and 10
siah Stickley, a tract of land il
Davis district, containing DIX
acres; LOO.
Eva V. Kronk and w. M
kronk, E. D. Newman and wife
to Frances Payne and husband
a lot in the town of Mt. Jackson
$3.50.
Joseph Funkhouser and Rich
ard Funkhouser and wife, deed:
of division Of land purchased
jointly by them.
E. L. Humston to Earl Hum
ston, farm Of 400 acres near Ed
inburg; $4,000.
David r. Holler and wife t.
1T. o. and G. L. Holler. undivid
ed one-third interest in Is acre.
mountain land $35.
Edward Harmon and wife te
1T. O. and G. l.. Holler, small
strip of land in Shenandoah
county.
Edward Harmon and wife te
7. 0. Holler, strip of land neal
Toms Brook.
George S. Fetzer and wife to
Agnes S. Holler, 5 acres and 70
poles on Toms Brook $3.50.
A. P. Bowers and wife to Jos.
f. Ryman, house and lot in
Edinburg 4; $4,000 cash. Deed
dated April II, 1915.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25

cree. The death Of Jacob Ship
being suggested his estate Is |
committed to the sheriff of this
county and the suit is revived in
his name and ordered to proceed
in the name of W. D. Stoner,
Sheriff, Com. Administrator of
Jacob Shipp, decd, VS.. Frederick
Weaver and George w. Weaver.
Jacob Ships Admr. complt.,
VS.. Frederick N. Weaver and
Geo. W. Weaver, defendants.
Int. decree. 1t being suggested
that Jacob Shipp, the complain
ant, is dead, this cause is order
ed to be revived and to proceed
with w. D. Stoner, Sheriff, Com
mittee Administrator. On con-
sideration whereof it appearing
to the court that the complain
ants have paid or stand ready to
lpay the purchase money for the
land in the bill and proceedings
mentioned, and desire deeds for
1.-THE same when the purchase
money has been paid in full
and it appearing tina. the parties
have agreed among themselves
to partition of the land equally
between them, each to have a
separate deed for his half Of the
real estate it is ordered tina
VIM. T. Williams be and is here
by appointed special commits
sioner to make the sa me to then
when the purchase money shall
be duly paid. And this caus
is continued.
John M. Moomaw, complain
ant, VS.. Lille May Funkhousel
ct ais, defendants. The Cour
lorders that the report of L. E
Dellinger, D. E. Shutters an
P. S. Rhodes, commissioners, b
l. rejected. And the court furthe
/ orders that the aforesaid CON
> missionerS make another part
: ton of the real estate, said pal
u tition being made in accordanc
i with the interests set out in
} decree herein before entered i
l. this cause, setting off to eac
!. heir his share in kind.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25
Texas Feels Wrath
OF Terrible Storm

Ell Paso, Tex, Jan. 20.-The
worst storm in ten years is rag
ing in this vicinity today. Three
and a half inches OF snow fell
today and the mercury has drop
ped from 81 to 10 above zero in
eighteen hours.
Hundreds of Mexicans in north
ern Mexico are facing death from.
the cold weather.
Heavy snow drifts has caught
thousands of head of cattle on
ranches in the Panhandle and
New Mexico and it is feared it
will be impossible to save them.
All continental railroads are
snow bound in New Mexico and
street car traffic in Fl Paso Is
1aralysed. =
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-25
Prefers Killing Two
Germans To Exemption

Canton, O., Jan. 21.-Alexan-
Ter Biernowski was having hi,
draft questionable filled out and
was listed as an alien.
DO you claim exemption be
cause you are an alien r asked
an interpreter, who was assist
ing.
Sure not I" came back Alex
II want to. fight for the United
States, or Russia, or any body
just 50 1 get to kill two Ger
mans"
Alex. came to this countr.
from Warsaw, Poland, lively
years ago.