Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-10-03
personal and Local

This is a time when most women are
working. The more attention they
give to being stylish the less they
are in style
Among the people who wonder why
groceries cost so much are those who
forget to order until reminded by the
grocery wagon passing their house.
The people who claim that adver-
tised goods aren't what they are
cracked up to be, are usually the same
ones who buy the cheapest thing the
merchant offers.
Among the people who complain a
bout being asked to save gasoline, are
those who let an automobile engine run
five or ten minutes while they do an
errand.
The politicians are very honest peo-
pie as they believe in paying their
political debts to people from whom
they expect future favors.
Organizations to pursue automo-
bile thieves are being formed, and like
the old thief detective societies, their
first duty will be to hold the annual
dinner.
The man who can get out with
gun these days and return with bag
of game, has talents that would be
appreciated by all our boys now in the
trenches
Merchants who are putting on girls
TO run their delivery wagons, report
that the fact that the young person
has a college education does not prove
that she can harness up the horse.
The fact that our fathers used to
work 10 to II hours a day and yet
have time to care for a little flock of
poultry, does not prove that we can
do it on our eight or nine hour day.
The charge for moving telephones
having been increased, it is now up
to the householders to make mis-
take, and put it in the right location
in the first place.
If you want to illustrate a mission
airy lecture on the Hottentots, all you
have to do is to bring in society girl
with her hair waved down below her
ears.
Only buy one pound of candy at a
time and not often at that, is the ad-
vice of the food conservers. Which is
considered highly patriotic by the
young men with a best girl to finance.
1t is possibly significant that the
outbreak of enfiuenza in so many army
and navy camps occurred at a time
when the spies and plotters seemed
to be very inactive.
The Boches arn't really alarmed a.
bout the influx of American troops,
as they have it straight from Kaiser
Bill that the Chinese laundrymen have
| risen in this country, and President
Wilson has had to flee the capitol in
disguise.
Prominent among the people who
&c complaining about all the robber-
les of war gardens that are going on,
are those whose boys for years have
sampled all the fruit trees of the
neighborhood
The folks who complain because the
American army doesn't go ahead fast
| er, are not usually the sac ones VINO
buy a good large Liberty Bond to pro
vide that army with an equipment that
will enable it to advance
Among the people who object to the
education Of drafted young men at
government expense, are those who
will later kick because the army does
not get results because of it's lack of
military and technical science.
The man who can't take much in
Liberty bonds on account of the cost
Of his family, has not usually been OBJ
served smoking any less expensive
cigars.
Mrs Mildred Stout of Rudolph has
succeeded to the position of clerk in
the Grand Rapids post office made va
cant recently by the resignation of
Arthur P Mulroy. She is now in the
| DISCHARGE of her official d11+ies