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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-17
CUT Use OF SW[ETENFD
CONDENSED MILK IN HALF
Manufacturers to Mail Blanks STATING
Their Requirements TO Their
Condensed Milk Dealer

The consumption of Sweetened con-
densed milk by ice cream manufactu-
rers, manufacturers of confectionery.
and all others using sweetened con-
densed milk in making their products
is to be limited by the y. S. Food Ad.
ministratiOn to SO per cent of the
amount they used in a corresponding
period in 1917. If they wish to exceed
this amount they may surrender with
their order to the milk manufacturer
an 18-pOund sugar certificate for each
case of four dozen 14-ounce cans and
a 42-pOund sugar certificate for each
100 pounds of bulk sweetened con-
densed milk packed in containers
larger than 14-ounce cans.
Manufacturers are to fill and mail
to the firm from whom they purchase
sweetened condensed milk blanks,
stating the number of cases of four
dozen 14-ounce cans of sweetened con-
densed milk and the number of
pounds in bulk form packed in larger
quantities than 14-ounce cans on hand
or in transit Oct. l, 1918, the number
used during the period Jan l to July
1, 1917, from July 1 to Oct. 1, 1917, and
between Oct. l, 1917 and Jan. /, 1918.
All stocks of sweetened condensed
milk on hand Oct. 1, 1918, will operate
to reduce the amount to which the
manufacturer is entitled for the pc
riod Oct. 1, 1918, to Jan. 1, 1919. All
cases in which the amount on hand
shall exceed the amount to which he
is entitled should he reported to the
Food Administration at Madison.
These blanks must be received and
filed by the condensed milk manufac-
turer before he can fill out the future
orders of his customers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-17

If You are a suf-
ferer from Appen
dicitis, Rupture, Gal
Stone, Collie, GoitrC
or Chronic diseases
of a private nature
you should avail.
yourself of his Offer
to send you this val.
liable little book free
simply for the ask
ing. A postal will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-17
A Medical Book Free

M odern Methods of treating
Chronic Diseases without Opera
ion has just come from the Specialist
and is one of the most interesting as
veil as instructive little books the
doctor has ever written
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-17
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, 1918-10-17
PHYSICIANS
w. MELVIN RUCKLE, nj. D.

" WIFI nv H'O AGh1' M %
Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat. Glasses fitted correctly
Eye and Ear Surgeon in Riverviev
Hospital. Office in Wood County Ma
tional Bank Block.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30

race of people whose sense of truth
has been an unknown quantity for
more than fifty years. 1t is the Faith
erland first, God next, and the kaiser
third in unbroken rotation.
They entertain the opinion that a
German is always right and every
body else is wrong, if there happens
to be any difference in thought or
action. Maximillian amplifies this
sentiment in his address to the
Relchstag, last Monday, in which he
used this utterance: "This is a great
effort from a proud people, accus-
toned to victory" Now, wouldn't
that rattle your Stats?
We want no peace by negotiation.
We will make our own peace in Ber-
lin; we have not the time to listen
to the vaporings of an Infatuated fool,
recovering from his dreams of en-
pire that will cover the world. who
has been whipped to a standstill by
the mighty forces of a mighty coun-
try, whose people asked and refused.
and now by iinks, they will take what
they want and that is the hide of
Germany, it's tallow, bones and ALL
Weekly Waterman.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30

Be A Booster
BY C. A Gearhart,
Lyceum and Chautauqua Lecturer
1T ISN'T YOUR TOWN-IT's
YOU!
I If you want to live in the kind of /.
Like the kind Of a town you like
You needn't slip your clothes in /;
grip : = H~s III
And start on long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind
/ For there's nothing that's really
new,
It's a knock at yourself when you
knock your town,
1t isn't your town-it's YOU!
Real towns are not made by men
I afraid
| Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone works and nobody
shirks,
You can raise town from the
dead
And if, while you make your per-
sonal stake
Your neighbor can make one, too,
Your town will be what you want to
see,
It isn't your town-it's YOU!
Talk about it.
Write about it.
Elect good men to office.
Be friendly to everybody.
Keep your sidewalks in good con-
dition.
Keep your houses well painted.
If poor man starts project, help
him.
If rich man starts project, en-
courage him.
Buying in other towns that which
you can buy as well in your swn,
makes your town that much poorer.
Don't talk your town to strangers.
If you are rich, invest in some
thing; employ somebody.
If project to improve the town
comes up, don't hoot-investigate.
Don't let your personal antipathies
get away with your business judg-
ment.
Follow the men who have the vim.
and energy to go ahead-and "saw
wood"
Be courteous to strangers who
come among you so they will go
away with good impression of your
town.
If you don't like your town well
enough to speak well of it, get out
Of it and make room for better men.
Always cheer on the man who goes
.or improvements. Your portion of
he cost will be nothing but that
which is right.
Do not kick at any proposed i'm
because they are not at
,our door, or for fear that your tax
vii be raised fifty cents.
Don't be afraid to stick your hand
Town in your pocket for money to
lelp a public enterprise. You owe
cmething to the community for be-
ng so kind as to patronize you.
Don't! Don't!! Don't!!! For heav-
ms sake, don't think YOUR ideas
re the only correct ones as to what
are needed, and how
hey should be obtained.
A town whose citizens have no
ublic spirit or civic pride is on the
ray to the cemetery. The citizen
Tho will do nothing to boost his town
!, helping to dig its grave.
The citizen who growls about his
own being "the worst ever" is assist
lg in its burial.
The business man who will not ad-
ertiise is driving the hearse.
The citizen who is a chronic grum-
Ter and always pulling back in every
ublic enterprise is throwing bou-
lets on the grave.
The citizen who "knocks" and
owls "hard times" breaches the
ineral sermon.
The small town business or profess !.
onal man who gives his printing to
e ''high flier" representative of the !
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
city printing house does not deserve

city printing house does not deserve
the patronage of his town people.
Point to a town whose citizens
count every dollar gotten from their
neighbor as gain; and every dollar
given to school or college or church
or library or Chautauqua or lecture
course as loss, and you point to a
town on which there rests business
and social blight which will be
known throughout your state as a
good town to move FROM"
Do YOUR part, then, as citizens
Count for something in the affairs of
your town or city. Pledge your word
and honor that so long as you reside
in a community it shall be your con-
slant aim to "boost" it in every way
you can. That you will not knock"
but will do all you can for every pub
lie enterprise that las for its object
the best interests Of the community.
That you will submit to the rule of
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30

the majority, and not growl if things
are not always as YOU think they
should be. That you will keep in
mind that if town is good enough
for you to make your money in 1T
is the legitimate place for you to
spend it, and will buy everything you
can of your hometown merchants.
That you will always say something
good of your town and people, or
keep silent, except in case of pub
lie nuisance. That you will not en-
courage nor contribute to injurious
reports about your neighbors or bust
ness competitors, but will use the
scales of charity in weighing the
shortcomings Of your fellows.
Practice this teaching and your
town will be one into which the best
families will come as the children
gather round the fire on winters
night. Be cheerfully optimistic and
eel that the best is yet to come.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
when YAHK GOES
TO BUY FOR GIRL
He CRIES FOR HELP
BOY READY TO LICK kAiSEG
BEGS Y. w. C. A. SECRETARY
TO GET FLUFFY THINGS"
FOR THE "ONLY ONE"

Paris, France.-The Kaiser's nous
tache, the Clown ounces" spurs
/ and the German helmets American
boys have promised to send to the
only girl are yet to be gotten, but
While he is in Paris the average sol
der IS planning to send her some
thing pretty, something chic" from
the famous shops of the city. But
they have found buying feminine
hnery IN Paris job for which then
military training sadly failed 60 pre-
pare them.
Gosh exclaimed peyspiring and
perplexed boy as he emerged FROM
the embarrassing unfamiliariti4s OF
SlrIlsh adOrnment and fluent French.
Ihis IS no mans job! Me for a wo-
man.! and remembering his fellow
country women at Hotel Petrograd.
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
cations Hostess House in Paris. to
tell his troubles to a smiling secre-
tary.
The hostess laughed and promised
CT things a girl likes, you
know" When the boy received an
enthusiastic letter from home prais-
ing his wonderful taste. he knew he
had chosen wisely and congratulate,
led himself that in the exigency OF
writing he had failed to say how he
came to make the selection He did
not tell "her' about it, but he did
Net his chums in on the secret.
Numberless men now come to the
Sblue Triangle women and say "get |
the right thing for the girl" and
dismiss the matter from their minds |
When they get back home they have
planned to explain that their taste
was inspired by the absent one "ov-
ar here. but they will breathe n
sigh of relief when they remember
how the Blue Triangle never tells"
'he secrets it receives in confidence.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
French MUNITION
WORKERS ANXIOUS
TO LEARN ENGLISH

Washington, d. C.-Needs of WON
en- engaged in industrial work of the
nation, the work which must pro
,gress in order for the Army to play
ITS part, manufacture of munitions
and war supplies, are met by the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, just as the needs Of the men
In the army itself are met by the
L. NJ. c. A. and other like organiza
lions.
In munitions centers in France
foyers, clubs for women, are main
tanned for the women workers. at
the request of the French Minister
or War. In America, at the twenty
two government muHition plants. and
the hundred or so privately owned
plants, like provisions have been
made for keeping up the morale
the working efficiency of the women.
by caring for their recreation, eat
ing and housing.
One of the striking features Of the
work in French munition plants is
the large number of women who Wis.
1t the foyer at night for the purpose
of studying English. The demand
for teachers of this subject is always
in excess of the supply. The same
is true in but a lesser degree in
stenography; scores of French girls
are studying it with a view of be-
Ing available for clerical work with
the American Expeditionary forces
In France.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
Important Dredge Work.

According to the Weekly Watch
man three big dredges are at work
IN the waterway that will connect
Bsyou Courtableau with Bayou
reche. This will open navigation be-
tween the Teche and Atchafalaya
md supply fresh water to the rice
crops Of various parishes, including
st. Landry, Acadia, Vermillion, St.
Martin, Iberia and st. Mary. The
gstchman says the opening of this
waterway will create a current in the
Tshe which will make for better san
inry conditions throughout South
vest Louisiana.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
An Army Lesson.

An important reason why our sol
diers invariably enjoy better health
n camp than they did at home-not
taking into account such an ex-
resence as the Spanish influenza,
which is temporary blight-is found
p the excellent medical attention to
which they are subject.
Physicians have told US for years
nat we would be healthier if we con-
suited the doctor at regular intervals.
even when feeling WELL" and not
wait until we were sick abed.
It is like not going to a dentist
until the tooth aches-when it must
extracted or the nerve killed to
init
" course, We are not attempting
advertise the business of doctors
y laiourche; we are merely preach
hg bit Of common sense which too
lnquently is lacking on the part of
the public.
before our Lafourche boys were
accepted for service they were given a
nsOlcai examination; in camp thew
ssle gwen another; overseas thew
g another; in fact, nothing is as
'aaln as incessant medical SUPER
,0n N the army. Little physical
sselepancies that the men do not
NOV. 8 about are corrected; bad teeth
9 'nkered up; the bodily functions
!. ! Aa0e 70 work with the precision
!, me war machine about them.
!. me point is that what is conducive
80 e nealth of our soldiers, is con-
=, I've N. 70 the health of civilians: the
ny difference seems to be what SOL
s Rave to submit to medical at
u @ace while civilians worry along
u unknown ills until they become |
''aas--People's Gazette (Thibo- |
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
We Want the Goat.

oelnany has come forward Will
49, reply to President Wilson'S
r,-.,,.e % know whom Chancellor
81, l' \ represented, when he
'sd that the German peo me" were ne
!. = accept the terms laid down
sA ''ussion looking to the ending
N 4 !. sald at first that he represented
nss ae people and the constituted
/. ,ltes, which did not exactly suit
Co. s'oent, especially when the
sr.;. ~ soldiers and submarines were
IA. lung all sorts of atrocities
= ICY were asking to be received
a. 'sn the privilege of changing
~ 81" - q brutal savages to peace
III !, now another installment, sup
~ ~, : answer the proposition has
IA s.s slved, and it is just as vague
~ .ssn'ngless as the other docu.
nh. =, nave come out from that
4 labelled on the outside what
I e not contain under tho s s,ld'
4 k's OF German den;a, If bar
81 i. i brutal : to the people of Bel
lsp.t; y france ! and asks that tie
y N M ~ De Investigated. We know
~ : me outrages they have been
u 4 !, and, further, we have no
a'gue the proposition with }
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
FLAMING 1t On the Flu.

Hf Won don't like the looks of this
amor this week don't kick, we are
:, etuck on it ourselves" peevishly
,nsrks the Abbeville Meridional.
aRut after being shot to pieces with
i. Internal influenza we are lucky to
i living and can afford to put up
mi almost anything" The Merid-
anal really had no cause for alarm
d, At the time the issue in question
~,s published it is a safe bet that IS
!, rent Of their readers were also
tsot TO pieces and no one had any
sesire to be particular.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
Kidding the Newspaper.

r,o Avoyelles Enterprise says
newspaper representative on a
pa ;rglv dull day will ask hun
nersons for some news and
Nv ,v.nine Of them viii answer
s US nothing doing as far as they
y Wv And yet fifty of that num-
,now something that if not seen
!. y - next issue viii disappoint them
...tlv and perhaps make them mad
.hon hornets. Don't be afraid
Y 81 the newspaperman know it"
.svs the Enterprise.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
Mrs. Dean Opens Foyers

Mrs. Thyrza Barton-Dean, of Chi
.cago, who has been opening foyers
for French girls at "a French port .
has been Joined by Miss Ethel Serb
ner, of Cherokee, Ia, who will be in
charge of the Signal Corps group
Miss Mary H. Post. of San Jose, Cal.
has arrived at the same port to es-
tabiish Y. W. C. A. hostess house
for American women in France, in
Guiding those arriving and those a,
the port waiting to return to the
United States.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
French Movies are Cornino

Paris, France.-Movies of the WON
en- visiting Foyer des Aliiees at
Lyon and st. Etienne, have been
taken by the French government, and
will be sent to America They show
munition workers enjoying the hos
pitality of the American Young
Women's Christian Association,
which originated the Foyers, or
climbs, for the working women in
those cities.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
Munition Workers Have Foxers

Nine foyers, club rooms with rec
restion, rest and eating accommoda-
lions, have been provided for French
women working in munitions factor
les by the Young Women's Christian
Association. Three of the clubs are
at Lyon, two at st. Etienne and one
at Bruges. The others are at points
which the censor does not now per
nit to be named.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
Signal Corps Girls in N, Y.

American Signal Corps girls, what
ever be their embarkation point, are
concentrated in New York. They
are quartered on the top floor of the
Y. w. c. A. Training school, at 13s
East SIND Street until they receive
Eorders to embark.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-30
louisiana Notes
r.rtunate Morgan City.

!. hoe always been apparent that
.ra,tv folks comprised the rank
w. e. Of Morgan City's population,
Wv - until recently was it OBJ
~ that pretty near everyone was
.r,;al to some degree or other.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-07
ENTERTAINS FOR
YOUNG DRAFTEES

L. Hilton Green was host last night
at the Army and Navy Club to young
men leaving for Camp Shelby, near
Hattiesburg, Miss. Seated about the
table with its decorations of flowers
and patriotic colors, beside Mr. Green
and other members of the Escambia
County board and the Army and Navy
CUB were Ernest Hubbard, Frank L.
Parise, Leslie Knox Clemments, John
Cascone, George Marcus Harrison.
The hospitality that is extended
these young men who leave Pensacola
may Seem small thing, out it means
much, for 1t expresses interest in their
welfare and appreciation of their pa
triotism, which they will carry within
them across the sea, when they go to
offer their services for humanity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-07
BOY ADMITS THEFT
OF LIBERTY BONDS

L. j. Lynch, II years of age, whose
home is in Chicago, and who was here
with companion, was arrested last
night at the instance of J. F. Girls
singer. and taken to the station, where,
in the presence of several officers, Mr..
Grissinger and Chief of Police Ellis,
he admitted that the $10.1s he had in
his possession was the remainder of
S95 for which he had sold Liberty
Bonds of 500 valuation, said bonds
having been stolen. it was alleged
from Mr.. Grissinger's trunk. The boy
had two railroad tickets for Chicago,
which he also stated he had purcha sed
with money derived from the sale of
the stolen bonds. In plain, deliberate
manner. he told that the tickets had
been bought by money he receive
when he sold the stolen bonds. He was
held as dangerous and suspicious
character.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-07
LEGAL NOTICE.
MAYORS PROCLAMATION OF BOND
ELECTION

ELECTION
Rv virtue of the authority in me vested,
AMI Is directed by the Ordinance OF the
CITY of Pensacola, passed July sth, 1913
entitled: AN Ordinance to provlas for
the issuance of Bonds of the City OF
Pensa cola, Florida, entitled: AN Act to
Authorize the City Of Pensacola to issue
negotiable bonds for municipal purposes.
and provide for the payment thereof" ap-
proved May 18th. 1895, and tho ordinance
passed July 18th. 1913. anien6tng Section
one a. and ssetIn P Fran CD O. 'i sa assna
Mayor of the City of Pensacola, Fiorioa,
do hereby announce, publish ana pro-
claim that an election VIII De nelo In
Friday. the 18th day of August, A. ID.
1918, to determine whether or not the
issuance of bonds for the purposes and
amounts herein enumerated or any of
them, shall be approved by the majority
of the votes cast by the electors Qualif1ed
" For the purpose Of extending and inn
proving the City's sewerage and drainage
system, the sum of Sixty-fve Thousand
Dollars. (s65. 100000.
For the purpose of extending and i'm
proving the City's water system, the sum
Of Thirty Thousand Dollars. (S30, 100000
curbing or otherwise improving streets
between Barrancas avenue and 90
Street and between Garden and Govern
10 the Pensacola Shipbuilding Company's
Plant the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars (s25, 100000
otherwise improving streets including re-
paving and repairing of DeVillier and
Garden Streets, the sum of Fifty Thou
sand Dollars, $50. 900. 0o).
For the purpose of providing funds to
secure the surrender. REIMBURSEMENT, and
the reconveyance to and reinvestment in
the City of Pensacola, of all the rights
and title in and to the Water Front Prop
erty granted to John A. Merritt and j. s.
Reese, by ordinance passed January Tth
1918, according to the agreement of said
Merritt and Reese fled in the office of
the City Clerk, December 81, 1917, the
sum not exceeding Forty Thousand Dol
lars, (s40, o00.00).
Only qualified voters residing in said CITY
who shall have paid taxes on real estate
personal property to the City for the
year 1917, and whose names shall appear
upon the list Of voters for said election
as prepared by the City Registration
Officer and submitted to and approved
by the Board Of Commissioners Of the
City of Pensacola, as provided In the
aforesaid Ordinance passed July Sth.
shall be entitled to vote at said election.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the corporate
seal of the City of Pensacola to be affixed
hereunto this 9th day of August, A. D.,
1918.
F. d. SANDERS.
Mayor of the City of Pensacola,
Florida.
L. e. HEINBERG.
City Clerk. -.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-07

p. D. O'Brien, superintendent of po-
lice at the plant of the Pensacola
Shipbuildoing Company is in receipt Of
an interesting letter from his son.
Albert, who is serving with the Amer
lean forces in France. He says, in
part:
We'll, Dad, as usual we are still
plugging away over here. At present,
however, We are resting, following
quite time on our sector
have some pretty good news for
you. Our division has been made
shock Or combat troops; which is
quite an honor considering the fact
the French pick nothing but their best
troop for this work. 1t necessitates
Our jumping here and there, travelling
by night and firing by day in the open
and then dashing madly away We
are used exclusively in offensives.
Some more good news We were
the hrst American regiment to hold
a sector all our own; the other organi-
cations are affiliated with French or
English, or both.
You can rest assured we feel very
proud over our good fortune; Our
Colonel in addressing us the other
evening told us if we handn't earned
1t we wouldn't have been picked. From
ali L can gather he is very well pleas
ed with his regiments showing,