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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
LARGEST
CHENICALPLANT
ON EARTH
100000 Plant to be Built by the
Government at Collinwood, Tenn,
to Manufacture Wood Alcohol
and Associate of Lime to be
Used in the Manufacture of
War Munitions

The Thompson & Sterrett Co., Of
New York have the contract for the
erection and installing Of this plant.
When completed it will require 225
cords of wood per day to keep it run
ming.
This plant will cover 25 acres of
ground and will consist of large dis
tillation plant, which will take in all
grades and kinds of hard wood tim
Der, from which associate of lime and
wood alcohol will be extracted and u.s.
ed in the making of munitions of war.
The contract was made with the
Tennessee Valley Iron & Railroad
Company who donated the ground for
the plant and who will operate the
plant in connection with their char
coal iron furnace now under construc-
ton.
225 cords Of wood will be used in
the plant every day Of twenty-four
hours. These will produce $4,000 lbs.
Of acetate of lime, 2700 gallons of
wood alcohol and 1876 bushels of char
coal The government will require
all of the alcohol and acetate of lime,
and the charcoal will be used in the op-
GRAFTON of the furnace There will al
so be produced some Tar, Cresote,
wood preservative and wood oils, all
of which will be marketed by the
Tennessee Valley Company.
The contract for the erection of the
plant has been awarded to the Thomp-
son Sterrett Company of New York.
The cost of the plant will be close to
S1,5OO,000, and is to be completed by
September LIST, 1918.
1t is a pleasure for US to announce
that W. M. Martin, a former resident
of this city has a remunerative and
responsible position with this com
pany in the erection of this plant. He
is Grand Rapids boy and his many
friends and acquaintance in this city
are delighted to watch his progress
IN his chosen work. 1t will be remem-
bered that he held an important po-
sition in the construction work on the
Panama Canal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
CORN WILL Win
DEM0CRACYSW WAR
Americas Greatest Cereal Crop
Is Now Moving to
Market.
MAINSTAY IN NATIONS CRISIS.
Surplus Wheat Of the United States
Has Been Sent to Famine Threat
ened Europe.

Americas great corn crop, exceed
ing 1900, 100000 bushels, will save the
worlds food situation, officials of the
United States food administration be-
tieve
Corn Is the nations best food cereal,
housewives are beginning to realize
1t contains all the elements needed to
keep the body In a state of health and
when used according to the scores of
tried recipes. especially when COM
bined with an added portion of oil or
fat. will sustain life indefinitely. In
dian warriors in colonial days lived on
parched corn alone for many days at a
time, and at Valley Forge parched
corn was at times the sole ration of
the Continental soldiers.
Owing 20 transportation difficulties
caused by the rar the corn crop moved
more slowly TO market this year than
ever before. Now, however, the cereal
Is reaching the millers and consumers.
In the meantime the nations surplus
ido bCCh SStAt W AuI OpC.
To-day there are approximately 80
bushels of corn for every American.
This quantity is greater by five BUSH
els than in former years.
Corn has become the nations main
stay in the crisis of war.
Just as this cereal saved the first
American colonists from famine on
many occasions, just as it served as a
staple food during the War of the Rev
olution and during the Civil War, King
Corn has again come to the front in
the nations battle with autocracy.
Corn meal Is finding greatly increas-
ed use In the making of ordinary white
bread. Hundreds of housewives and
many Of the larger, bakers are mixing
20 per cent. corn meal with wheat
-four to make leavened bread. This
kind of a mixture is worked and baked
in the same recipes and with the same
methods that apply to straight wheat
bread.
Corn bread-using corn meal entire
Iy-is gaining a greater popularity
coming to realize that every pound of
wheat saved In America means a pound
Of wheat released for shipment to the
nations with which America is associ-
ated in the war.
There are score Of corn products
that today possess unusual Importance
for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet
ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes
and for use in the kitchen instead of
graduated sugar Is one of the leading
products made from corn.
Corn oil, excellent for frying and for
every other purpose filed by salad oils
is appearing on the market in large
quantities. 1t comes from the germ of
the corn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
TURN CASH INTO
GUN FIRE
By Frank A. Vanderlip

We fought and-won the Spanish
war with 100000 soldiers and a $780,
100000 bond issue. In men under
arms we now have ten times that
number. We issued ten times that
amount of bonds in the first liberty
loan. We are proposing to spend and
loan to the allies in the first fiscal
year of the war $40, 0O0,OOO,OOO. From
now until the end of this fiscal year
che treasury anticipates needing $780,
100000 week-that is, the treasury
mas got to fight financially a Spanish
war every four days. That indicates
d money measure of the size of this
work, but that is not the real measure
We have just seen that one might
have plenty of money, but an empty
coal bin. In just the same way the
government can have plenty of money
out an unequipped army. This army
cannot be equipped as modern war
fare demands if the man power of the
country is at the same time called
upon to produce all of our comforts
and luxuries. It is as plain as two
and two that all of US must make
personal sacrifices, must give up COM
forts and Injuries, even necessary ex-
penditures that can be postponed, if
70 oa FL,
it to fight while it will do some good
to have it fight.
In war the only effort that is Of
any value is that which is ultimately
translated into gun fire on the field
of battle The gun fire that will win
this war cannot be delivered until all
America recognizes individual respon
sibility, until the whole people join
in the effort by giving up things they
can do without, so that the labor that
would have been employed in making
those things can do work that will
ultimately result in gun fire. The
government has offered the opportuni-
ty to translate at once every ones
personal patriotism into the sort Of
help that will win the war. Forego
buying something that is unnecessary
loan the money you would have used
to the government by buying SIS war
savings certificates. You will thus
have released labor, you will have
given credit to the government, you
will have acquired the best security
In the world, United States govern
ment bond
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
owl SOCIETY
INITIATION

The girls of the Junior Glass of the
Lincoln High School were initiated
INTO the Owl Society on Friday after
noon last. This is an annual event
md looked forward to, with a great
}eal Of expectancy by the whole school
rs the girls have some stunt that they
must carry out all during the after
noon and at the close, the real initia-
ton takes place in the music room.
The ceremony was in charge of the
society with Miss Evelyn Hall as lead
er this year and the girls, with their
large kitchen aprons and their hair
done in pugs on top Of their heads,
presented a rather funny appearance.
F. The Junior girls are now real mem
bers of the Owl Society and are al
ready planning what they can do to
make it interesting for the ones who
will be Juniors next year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
i. 5. SENDS
1000 TRACTORS
TORRANCE

The United States Food admin
istration is shipping to France 1900
farm tractors in order to increase
Frances crops and to Tighten the bur
den Of toll on her old men, women,
and children. The first hundred are
already on the way, and the whole
number will be in France by March, in
time for the spring blowing They are
expected not only to be of immense
service to France, but to release add
ed tonnage for the allies and Ameri-
can troops by increasing the amount of
food produced there, thus decreasing
the amount that must be shipped from
America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
WHAT YOUCAN
Do To HELP
Win THIS War
General Suggestions.

Buy less; cook no more than neces-
sary; serve smaller portions.
Use local and seasonable supplies.
Patronize your local producers and
lessen the need of transportation.
Preach and practice the gospel of
the clean plate"
We do not ask the American people
to starve themselves. Eat plenty, but
wisely, and without waste.
Do not limit the plain food of grow
ing children.
Do not eat between meals.
Watch out for the waste in the COM
munity.
You can yourself devise other meth
DDS of saving to the ends to be accom-
pIshed. Under various circumstances
and with varying conditions you can
vary the methods of econonizing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
MADE-IN -GERKANY LIES
CIRCULATED in CANADA

Canada is also having trouble with
Made-in-Germany lies calculated to
hinder Canadian food conservation &C.
cording to an official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con-
troller by the United States food ad-
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
of the same general character as those
the United States food administra-
tor recently denounced in this coun-
try, such as the ridiculous salt and
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives stocks OF home canned
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti-
mates that when the people listen to
and pass on such stories, each one
has the power Of destruction that lies
In a battalion Of soldiers.
Stories without even a vestige of
foundation have been scattered broad
cast" said the Canadian statement.
"Nor have they come to life casually.
They have started simultaneously In
different parts of the country and in
each instance have been calculated to
arouse public Indignation.
"They are insidious, subtle, persist
ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the great essential In the work
of food control.
1T lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story, and thus the more effectively
to cooperate in work which is going
to mean more than the ma ority OF
people yet realize"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
new FIELDS Of
WORK OPENED
Blythe WAR
Subject Of Womens vocational Meet.

Madison, Wis.-What the war has
done in opening up new fields of work
for women, especially for college grad
yates, will be the general theme of the
sixth annual vocational conference
Of women students to be held at the
University of Wisconsin, Feb % to
March 2
During the three day meeting,
number of women who have been sue
cessful in various lines Of work will
talk to women students with a view
to opening up the possibility Of ca
reers in the various fields and of di-
recting women into fields to which
they are fitted. Special conferences
TO enable the women students to talk
to the speakers personally are an i'm
portant part of the conference.
Among the vocations that will be
considered are commerce, journalism,
secretarial work, social service work,
public health service, activity to aid
the food administration, pharmacy, in
dustrial work, opportunities in civil
service.
Commerce and the opportunities it
offers college women will be discuss
ed by Miss Catherine Huber of Chi
cage, who is credit manager for Hart,
Shaffner, and Marx.
Journalism as a vocation will be
presented by Miss Ruth NJ. Boyle, wo-
mans editor for Farm and Fireside"
graduate of the university. She
will also speak on secretarial posi-
tons
The place of women in social SER
vice work will be discussed by Mrs
Alice Van Wyke, head Of the Associat-
ed Charities of Milwaukee. The war
has offered especially great opportuni-
ties in this field in connection with
civilian relief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
"CLEAN Up FOR
HEALTH WEEK.
PLANNED

Strenuous emphasis upon the an
nual Wisconsin cleanup week will be
one of the leading activities of the
health and recreation committee of the
woman's committee Of the State
State Council of Defense, according
to the plans laid at the meeting of the
committee in Milwaukee January II.
The slogan for the week will be
"Clean up for Health" The health
and recreation, formerly knowns as
the social welfare, committee is under
the Craftsmanship of Mrs. E. F. Bickel,
of Oshkosh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
Notice of Sale on Foreclosure

Notice of Sale on Foreclosure.
State of Wisconsin in Circuit Court
For Wood County.
B. F. Mcmillan, plaintiff, VS.. John
Knipprath and Hattie Knipprath, his
wife, defendants.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
by virtue Of and pursuant to a judg-
ment of foreclosure and sale duly en-
tered in the above entitled action in
the Circuit Court for said county on
the 9Th day of January, 1917, in favor
of the above named plaintiff and "a
gainst the above named defendants
herein (more than one year having e.
lapsed since said entry of the original
judgment and no part of said judg-
ment having been paid, I, ]. E. Nor
mington, the sheriff of said county, will
on the 26th day of February, 1918, at
1000 o'clock in the forenoon of that
day, at the front door of the Court
House in the City of Grand Rapids,
in said county, offer for sale and sell
at auction to the highest bidder for
cash all the following premises des-
cribed in said judgment, towit:
The East Half of the Southeast quar-
ter (E1a SEA of Section Twelve (12)
Township Twenty-one (2D North of
Range Five 50 East, Wood County,
Wisconsin.
Dated Jan. 9, 1918.
J. E. bennington,
Sheriff in and for Wood County,
Wisconsin.
Goggins, Brazeau & Goggins, At
torneys for Plaintiff.
(1st publication Jan. 10, last Feb. IA.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07

H. G. Smith of Pierre, South Dako-
ia is reported to Us as being in rather
poor health and has been for the past
six months. He will be remembered
by old settlers of Grand Rapids, as
former agent of the Green Bay and
Western R. R. Co. He was married
here to Miss Fannie Howe, who will
be kindly remembered by many rela-
tives and friends in this city. Their
many friends will hope that he will
soon be restored to bis former good
health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
BANDELIN
-SOUCEK
MARRIAGE

Miss Aurelia Bandelin and Joseph
Soucek were united in marriage at the
Moravian parsonage on Monday even
ing, Jan. %, 1918, Rev. c. A. Meilicke
officiating. The young people were
attended by Miss Ella Martin and Mr..
Schumann. Miss Bandelin is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. A. F. Bandelin and has al
ways lived in this city, she and her
husband have purchased the we'll
known Bandelin Hotel property on the
west side, facing on Grand Avenue,
and will continue to operate the same
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
RAISE CHICKENS
SLAUGHTER
YOUR MEAT BILL

Every city man should have at least
a dozen chickens in his back yard.
Every farmer should raise between
100 and 200 birds.
These are the opinions of NJ. E. ST.
bolt who is in Wisconsin organizing
poultry drive. Mr.. Sibolt points out
that this is the easiest and cheapest
way to meet the shortage in meat. Ev-
en- in the city a number of chickens
IAN be raised on the refuse from the
able, and in the country the price of
eggs and meat should make poultry
raising a profitable industry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
A WORD TO MOTHERS.

Mrs. E. J. Bedard, Cowich, Wash,
says: ''Foley's Honey and Tar is the
best ever used. | always keep a bot
tie in the house for the children. A
quick cure for coughs and colds" 1t
heals raw, in1amed surfaces, loosens
phlegm, eases hoarseness and diff
cult breathing, checks racking coughs.
Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ApMiNisTRATIo SAYS:

There is no royal road to food
conservation. We can only ac-
compIish this by the voluntary
action OF our whole people, each
element In proportion to it's means.
1t is matter Of equality of bur-
den; matter Of minute saving
and substitution at every point in
the 10000, 900 kitchens, on the TO-
600, 900 dinner tables, and in the
100000 manufacturing, whole
sale and retail establishments Of
the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
CONSTANT SUFFERER FINDS RE-
LIEF

II have been constant sufferer
from kidney trouble and was down sick
IN bed" writes c. F. Reynolds, Alp
Herrick St, Elmira, n. Y. 81 COM
menced taking Foley Kidney Pills. In
a few days I was up out of bed" Re-
commended for rheumatic pains, back
ache, billiousness, sore muscles, stiff
joints, tired out" feeling. Sold Ev-
erywhere. .aH
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
DON'T STOP
ADVERTISING

When someone stops advertising,
Someone stops buying.
When someone stops buying,
Someone stops selling.
When someone stops selling,
Someone stops making.
When someone stops making,
Someone stops earning.
When someone stops earning,
Everybody stops buying.
Keep going-ADVERTISE.
Printers Ink.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07

Harry's drafted, so is Bill,
All our work is now uphill,
So your order, we're afraid,
May be still bit delayed.
Still you'll get it, don't be vexed,
Maybe this month, maybe next;
Keep on hoping, don't say die,
You will get it by and by.
Keep your temper, gentle sir,
Writes the manufacturer,
Though your goods are overdue,
For a month or maybe two,
We can't help it, please don't swear,
Labor's scarce and needless rare,
Can't get yarn, can't get dyes,
These are facts-we tell no lies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
ORSON p. COCHRAN
PIANO TUNER

Best work guaranteed Call tele-
phone 233, or at the house, Kruger &
Wheelan Flats, 1st Street North.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07
Grand Rapids, Wis, Reiland Packing
Company Yards.

For the shippers information the
Reiland Packing Company plant and
stock yards are now under new mar
agement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-07

Start the New Year Right and
get your advertising copy ready early
and help the printer get MS paper out
on time. .xa,s
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-12-05
LABOR SHORTAGE THREATENS
PRODUCTION
The Fertilizer Industry Hard Hit by
the war.

The supply of fertilizer for 1919
spring sown crops Is threatened by
shortage of labor In the fertilizer fac
tories. This fact is of particularly Sc
rious import to the potato farmers Of
the country, for the great potato sec
tons are coming more and more to de-
pend on fertilizer for the economical
production of this crop. Thus it hap
pens that the very factor which pre-
vents factories running TO full capac-
ity also has effect in preventing farm
ers from using their own depleted farm
labor supply to best advantage. Labor
cannot be used to advantage on those
fields which can give but half a crop.
The fertilizer industry is normally
a seasonal industry. About the first
of February the factories are normally
in full blast, producing fertilizer for
use on spring crops. Then they Idle
down" again for period of several
months in late spring and early sum-
mer. This requires large floating
supply of labor, a supply which has
largely been eaten up by demands of
the shipyards and munition factories.
Transferring the industry from
seasonal basis to a full u months op-
Grating basis will certainly be econom-
zeal of labor. The factories can then
work at somewhat diminished daily
capacity for more weeks in the year,
and in this way get out the necessary
tonnage. 1t can't be done at once,
however, because factories do not have
storage space enough to allow of this.
Goods must be shipped out almost as
fast as they are made--so that the
greatest possible output by the re-
stricted supply of labor may be as
sured.
II fertilizer users the country over
viii order early, through accustomed
channels. and agree to take the goods
from the car on arrival. much may be
done to help insure sufficient supply
for next springs business. Early Or
dering, however, means NOW.
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hogs and fat steers must later on be
marketed at the same time--to the
disadvantage of all concerned.
But-why grow soft corn, when a
crop of hard corn costs less per
bushel?
Corn is planted when the soil is still
cold, and just after the soil has been
leached by the winters rains. Avail
able plant food in the soil is lacking.
The reserves in the seed are soon ex-
hausted, and then the plant "hangs
fire"-makes no growth, remains small,
spindling, and sickly-until such time
as the weather warns up and soil
plant food begins to become available.
available plant food, especially avail
able phosphoric acid and ammonia,
when applied in fertilizer have Won
derful effect in saving time-in getting
growth started early in the season.
Later on in the summer poorly fer
tilted corn once again "hangs fire."
1t waits, and waits. and Is eternally
slow in ripening its seed. Too often
such crop is caught, still immature,
by the first killing frosts of the season.
A high available phosphoric acid fer
tilizer applied at time of planting is
a tremendous aid in ripening up the
corn quickly and surely.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-12-05
PUBLIC SALE
ar
PERSONAL PROPERTY

VALUABLE PERSONAL PROPERTY
The undersigned as exeeuirix and
executor OF the estate of Thomas Al
len Brown, deceased will offer for
sale at public auction on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1918,
at ten o'clock a. M, the following per.
sonal property at the place formerly
occupied by the said Thomas A.
Brown at the base of North Mountain,
on Tuscarora, Ave mi es west of Mar
tinsburg, to-wit:-
One horse, two harrows. two bar
share plows. double shovel p ow, ]
spring wagon, l buggy, corn chop.
per, two sets OF pillow gears, riding
saddle, one cultivator, lot of carpen-
ter tools. and other small articles too
numerous to mention.
On the same day at 2 o'clock In the
afternoon they viii offer for sale the
household goods OF the said Thomas
Allen Brown at his former residence
IN Martinsburg, West Virginia, con
sisting of parlnr suite, sewing ma
chine, cook stove. chairs, bureaus,
dishes, etc.
TERMS OF SALE.
All property will be sold for cash
on day of sale and none TO be remov-
ed until settled for
ELLA r. BROWN,
Executrix OF the Estate of
Thomas A Brown. deceased
CHARLES ORR,
Executor of the Estate of
Thomas A. Brown, deceased.
11-22, 20 1876, 10
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as administrator Of
the estate of Lewis A. Tabler, de-
ceased, all persons knowing them
selves indebted to this estate are
hereby notified to come forward
promptly, an dmake settlement, and
all persons having claims against said
estate are hereby notified to present
the same to me properly authenticat-
ed for settlement.
MRS. ELIZABETH J. TALLER,
Administrators Of Lewis A. Tabler, De
ceased IL 10 rs; IL 10 pd