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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-31

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suits from the local newspaper than
any other way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-31
INFIEL[)

II want book for high school
boy"
How about Fielding?"
II dunno. Got anything on base
running? Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-31
MADE OVER

''He is self-made man, is he not ?"
Eyes, except for the alterations
made by his wife and her mother
St. James Gazette
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-31

Resolve to advertise and use the
columns of the WOOD COUNTY RE-
PORTER freely.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
IN POLICE COURT

Preston Brown, colored, an old
offender, was arrested by Constable
Gene Turner Saturday while making
an effort to deliver some booze to q
customer. He was taken before JUS
tice John Jones and on pleading
guilty, was fined 500 and given six
months in the county Jail.
Lulu Mitchell, Sadie Young and
Perry Young, all colored, were arrest
cd for disorderly conduct where the
Mitchell woman used knife on the
other two Saturday. Before Justice
Jones all were found guilty and the
Mitchell woman was sentenced to
serve one year in the county bastile.
Sadie Young was fined $1,000 for her
part in the fracas and Perry Young
drew q fine of $500. Having no
money to pay with, all four offenders
were taken to Columbus Saturday
night by Marshal Horton and Con-
stable Turner.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
SEWER SYSTEM AMPLE
FOR MANY YEARS
Main Lines Now Being Laid Are
Large Enough for City
of $4,000 POpu-
latiOn

The sewer system of the city Of
Baxter Springs is one of the most
complete of its kind according to r.
X. BOarman, superintendent Of the
construction work of the system. "The
main sewers, as placed in nov, will
take care of Baxter Springs needs.
for many years." declared Mr.. Boar
man. Baxter has two main outlets,
either one of which is large enough
for sewers in the average cities of the
size Of Baxter Springs. The sewer
grades are well arranged and estab-
lished and the way it is divided it can
not be too small.
"The mains are we'll arranged and
the laterals are also we'll arranged.
The laterals are of the standard size,
with the automatic flush tanks at ev-
cry juncture of the laterals, we cannot
have any trouble from lack of flush
ing.
81 have been helping to put in sew
ers for the last seventeen years and
| know that the Baxter Springs sew
er system is one Of the best in the
whole country. The pipes which we
are using here, are larger than those
used when the sewer system was
placed in the city of Tucson, Ariz.,
which has q population Of from $4,000
to 10000.
"Some people have the idea that the
pipes we are putting in are not large
enough to take care of the waste ma
terial that is bound to pass through
them, but that is u mistake. The pres
ent size of the pipes will never cause
trouble for the very reasons / have
mentioned" declared Mr.. Boarman.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
BAXTER SPRINGS HAS
EFFICIENT FIRE DEPT
Increasing Membership and Ere.
quent and Regular Practice
Has Worked Noticeable
Change

The Baxter Springs Volunteer Fire
Department, inspired by the evi.
dences Of progress that have develop.
ed in this community Of late, has be.
come IN institution worthy of espec.
ial commendation. Under the leader
ship of w. W. Wyatt, the boys have
been attending regular drills now fol
several months, and the prompt and
efficient work with the chemical truck
at the recent fires have proven that
they are pretty well prepared to fight
fires that are not too far along. OF
course, without water, they would
have little chance with big fire. The
work the boys are doing now, how
ever, will prepare them for getting
better results after the water works
have been enlarged and hydrants fol-
fire use are provided.
Fourteen of the firemen met last
night and after going through regu-
lar drill with the chemical truck q
business meeting was held, when the
following officers for the ensuing
year were elected:
Chief-W. W. Wyatt.
1st Asst. Chief-Pat Embry.
End Asst. Chief. M. Hunter.
3rd Asst. Chief-Dell Brown.
Treasurer-A. r. Kane.
Secretary-J. w. Cook.
Trustees-Fred Bartlett, B. W. Pat
ton, A. R. Kane, ALI Dowty and Bob
Mason.
Ora Hall, Bob Mason and P. M.
Clark, Jr., We're admitted to member
ship.
Ora Hale was appointed machinist
to look after the chemical truck.
Dell Brown and Alf Dowty were
each allowed SIS to reimburse them
for clothing destroyed in recent fires.
The report Of the treasurer showed
that the department is in possession
of a fund Of S1,4s9.47 derived from
regular allowances made by the in
surance companies doing business in
the city. This fund is for reimburs-
ing firemen in case of loss or accident
WIN on duty. So far very little has
been required for either purpose.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
OZARK TRAIL
JUNE MEETING
Miami Chosen for 1918 COnven-
......tiOn, Is Making An Early
Start to Get Ready
for II

The annual Ozark Trails convention
in Miami June s, 6 and 2, will be q
vital factor in the future development
of the city and district, Col. w. H.
Harvey told directors of the Business
Mems League and others at q meet
ing ut the courthouse In Miami Tues
day night. He cautioned his hearers
not to overlook the Importance Of the
coming meeting.
"The cooperation Of every busi-
ness man in the city is essential to
make the convention q success and
plans for entertaining the delegates
should be made without further de-
lay" he said. "0f course, the war
will be felt, but there is every indi-
cation now that the meeting will at
tract thousands of visitors and road
boosters.
The president of the highway asso-
citation said 1000 letters would be
sent to 1000 mayors, asking them to
name delegates to the convention
here. The meeting will also be thor
oughly advertised in the newspapers
and by other means.
He told his hearers that Miami had
been proposed as the hub of the roads
in this district and asserted that the
city had been offered two great high
ways, one from the lakes to the gulf,
and the other from st. Louis to Las
Vegas, N. M. He also said that the
government was getting ready to put
its shoulder to the wheel and would
likely be spending money direct for
improvement work soon.
The different committees to work
our various features of the conven-
ton will be named by the business
league directors in the next few
weeks. The date of the convention
was changed from June a, s and 6
to June 5, 6 and miami Daily Re-
cord Herald.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
MEATLESS DAYS
IN BAXTER SPRINGS
Hotels and Restaurants Receive
Requests from State Food
Administrator - Also
Wheatless Days

Beginning with this week the ho-
tells and the restaurants Of the city Of
Baxter Springs will observe every
Tuesday as meatless day and every
Wednesday as wheatless day in ac-
cordance to a request received by the
proprietors of hotels and restaurants
in the city, from Walter P. 1nnes'
Federal food administrator for Kan
sas. "Your help is needed" says the
message. In response to it the pro-
prietors of the Minute cafe stated this
morning that regardless of what 9th
ers may do tive are going to start OBJ
serving meatless and wheatless days
beginning with next week."
"The hotels and restaurants OF
Kansas can do more than any other
class of business to educate the people
to the food conservation program"
states the message.
"Food conservation is serious me-
cessity, as we must feed our men at
the front. You are asked to sign the
enclosed pledge to observe to the best
of your ability, the directions and reg
ulations of the u. s. Food Admins
tration.
"This means that you are going 70
do your share in helping conserve
those foods that are SO needed by OuI
own soldiers.
"You are doubtless already Observ'
ing Meatless Tuesday Wheatlesi
Wednesday-This is patriotic duty
DO YOUR BIT"
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01

Sometimes it is like making bricks
without straw to get items in a small
community where lack of putting
them in a reporters way is often no
ticeable. The power of the printed
word is unlimited and the advantages
of publicity often given freely by the
local paper to village news, is worth
many dollars to its readers. 1t is al
so not the local items that sometimes
are already familiar to the home
reader before publication that is to be
left unrecorded, for the absent ones
living away from the native home
town thus get the village news and
form a large number of subscribers
scattered all over the country who
take the home paper for this purpose
especially.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
NATIONS PRODUCTS
SHOW BIG INCREASE

Washington, Jan. 24-FaIm pro-
ducts of the United States reached the
unprecedented value Of $19,A4S,S4S'-
Ss1 over last year, an increase OF
more than $4,000, 100000 over 1916
and almost $9,OOOyOOO,OOO more than
1915.
Crops Worth Is Billions
A preliminary estimate just an
nounced by the department Of agri-
culture shows crops were valued q
sls.61O, O,462, 1872 and represented "
per cent of the value Of all farm pro
ducts. Animals and animal products
were valued at IS, ,sSs ,Ss6, ,59s, in 1917
an increase of almost $500, COCOON
over 1916.
Kansas, the valns Of whose crops
last year is estimated at SSssJ JslA IOo'
ranks fourteenth in the list Of states.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
BAXTER REFINERY
BEGINS BUSINESS
Affairs Of Company Placed In
Receivership Temporarily
by Mutual Agree
ment

The Goodeagle refinery will be
started Monday under the receiver.
ship of Garland Biffle, of the firm Of
McNeill & Biffle, Of this city. The
receivership came as the direct results
of undercapitalization Of the firm Of
Goodeagle Refining Co., and it was
agreed upon by both parties, plain
tiffs and defendants, in the district
court sitting at Columbus.
A business is generally placed in
the hands Of receiver because Of
three or more reasons, generally. One
reason may be Of mismanagement Of
the funds Of the company, another Of
insolvency and a third Of money due
to failure. The circumstances which
lead to the GOodeagle Refinery re-
ceivership IS said to be unique. Its as
sets are worth twice more than its liza
bilities, but it lacked cash to start the
operation of the plant when it was
ready.
There are three car loads Of crude
petroleum on the ground. The fire,
for the first time, was started in the
building yesterday and had tomorrow
not been Sunday the plant would have
been placed in operation. After the
plant is started Mr.. Biffle expects to
use one car Of crude old day for the
manufacture of gasoline.
Mr.. Biffle has had considerable ex-
perience in the oil and in the refinery
business. No definite plans have been
mapped out by Mr.. Biffle yet, but he
hoped to do all he could to operate
the plant profitably. Mr.. Watson Of
Kansas City will act as superinten-
dent of the plant.
Mr.. Biffle expects to move the Kan
sas City office of the Goodeagle Re-
finery company to Baxter Springs.
He will, however, let the Oklahoma
City office remain where it is.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-02-01
CHANTS STORY

A merchant relates the following:
"For years could not sleep with
out turning every hour. Whatever
| ate caused gas and sourness. Also
had stomach catarrh. ONE SPOON
Full buckthorn bark, glycerin, ETC.,
as mixed in Adler-i-ka relieved me
INSTANTLY" Because Adler-i-ka
flushes the ENTIRE alimentary
tract It relieves ANY CASE consti.
patton, sour stomach or gas and
prevents appendicitis. 1t has
QUICKEST action of anything we
ever sold. Jas. C. Page, druggist.
No. 2
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
AMERICANS BLAZE
 :; WAY FORWARD IN ] 'iVfRDUN SECTORS
American Aviators Fly Over
 Enemy Lines and Report ! Many Towns, Ablaze.

With the American Army North west of ,Verdun, oct. 10. (7:4O p. m. ) v-ByeThe Associated Press.-It's way blGzed, over a wide area by aerial bombers, the American army again moved slightly forward today in the territory held by the Germans.
 The avbators who participated in the brilliant offensive that began late yesterday flew over the enemy dimes this afternoon and reported doz- ems of towns still smo1dering and a significant quiet in extended areas of enemy activity.
 The aerial operations for the past s24 hours have been far the greatest yseyer attempted.
 VI The included a bombing expedi- tion of over $50 planes.
 Tho towns bombed included those from the point farthest east in the Franco Aferican positions beyond tAe, Mouse to Metz.
 This expedition was carried out with the loss of one man, " Observers told the officers at head cuartets tonight that they had been Stlnable to see any movement on the roads where ordinarily German trans ports are moving, and in towns .;whtre Atheirs presence had not even been Reported otherwise, American troops had been seen bivouacing. \ Here and there an enemy battery was observed but all reports agreed that in the greater part of what had been the Germans advanced area the guns had been moved back.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
Cambrai is
 Burned by
 the BOches
Is a Smoking Ruin Left By
 Ruthless Huns in Their Retreat Tuesday.

/. With the Canadian Forces in France, Wednesday, Oct 9.-(By the Associated ss.)-Cambrai tonight is & smoking ruin.
 The Germans have probably never perpetrated a more ruthless nor more premeditated vandalism than their destruction of Cambrai.
 France can never forget nor for give. this," remarked French of ficer.
 Torch in hand, the enemy comes offering us peace" M
 When the Canadians entered Cam brai the great public square of the Palace DArmes was virtually intact.
 Now it is mass of ruins.
 The explosions began at 9 o'clock and have continued ever since. All day, in every part of the town there were explosions of incendiary bombs with time fuses attached and these were followed immediately by out bursts of fire.
 In one short street dozen houses simultaneously burst into flames. The
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
Glass of Hot Water
 Before Breakfast
 a Splendid Habit .
Open slulees of the system each morning and wash away the
 polsonous, stagnant matter.

Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy (from a cold, foul tongue. nasty breath, acid stomach. lame back. can, instead. both look and feel as fresh as daisy always by washing the poisons and toxins from the body with phosphat- cd hot water each morning.
 We should drink, before breakfast glass of.real hot water with tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in 1t to flush from the stomach, liver kidreys and ten yards of bowels the previous days indegistibe waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus clean sing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary tnact before put tine more food into the stomach.
 The action of limestone phosphate and hot water on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour lamentations. gas es. waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast and 1t is said to be but a little while until the roses beginsto. appear in the cheeks. A quarter pound3 of. Rhinestone phosphate will cost verys slittIe~ at the drug store, but is sufficient to make anyone who is bothered with bilous- ness. constipation. stombch trouble or rheumatism real enthusiast on the subject of internal sanitation. Try it and you are assured that you will look better and feel better in every Mny shortly. advt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
FRAME HUN PLANS
Appoint German Committee to Plan a League of Nations Is Now
 Proposed.

Paris, Oct. 10 (Havas. )-The Ger man minister of foreign affairs will shortly appoint committee of off cials, parliamentarions and jurists to rame German plan or a league of nations, the semi-official North Ger man Gazette announces, according to a dispatch from Basel today. :'
 The foregoing may be a develop ment of the plan of Matthias Erzber- ger, the Clerical leader in reichstag, who late in September announced that he. had worked out in detail a draft of a constitution for a league of na- ~tions.' The plan was embodied in a book by Herr Erzberger entitled "The League of Nations; The Way to Peace" The constitution provides that any sovereign at the might enter the league, which should be consider ed to have been formed when Ger many, Great Britain, France, the Uni ted States and Russia were among those that had announced their adher- ence to the plan. The Hague was to be the seat of the league and each state, with the approval of it's parlia% ment, would appoint one delegate there to the international body.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11

Associated Press. .)-The attacK east of the Mouse begun Tuesaay py ,ol; sre French and supported by, the Alnern- ll,,,, cans had one main result III 'iGw. 1,c That was to restore the battle Ilne west west of the Mouse west of the place if was when the Germans began tnell attack against Verdun in 1916.
 The operation was very suceesslul M The enemy seemingly was taken by surprise He had massed his troops ID and d 70 o1ns further east in strongly 1of7 tified positions. leaving the Au5.su, t1:hara Hungarians to hold the polnt where i the main attack was delivered.
 There was no artillery prepafatlon' despite the fact that normally sus- ta;ned artillery fire had been neces- sarv to reduce the mass of wire when tha fh' enemy m had built in front af and hefween fmt his lines. virtually in the Bois De Caures.
 The nature of the terrain forbade the use of tanks. Theretore- She at- tack was unique, because It proKe through strongly wired permsanen1 positions solely by the element of sur- prise and dash. have hindered the advance were smothered by the American artillery.
 This operation has aided largely m f,,rthar releasing Verdun from the enemy men2ce. to,,o,
 About 4O00 prisoners were taken.
 Today the German rushed up reln-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
Comment on Presidents
 Note to Germany From
 The FOrieqn Countries

was the allies main war aim; if the war ended without it, Democracy was lost.
 Viscount Grey began by saying that one of the objects of the meeting was to assure the government of their support in the actual conduct of the war.
 The main object of the meeting, he went on, arose out of the very re- markable speech fthe president of the United States on Sept. 27, last, in which most pointed appeal was made to the allies with respect to the interpretation of the issues of the war and regarding the means where by a settlement could be- reached, A little lates, he said, MT. Balfour spoke in the same sense as MT. Barnes had just skone.
 The object of the meeting was to make clear that all were agreed that statement of the issues of the war was the statement from all the allies and that they believed in that method of obtaining a settlement on those Issues which President Wilson so earnestly advocated
 "But, of course" he continued, "the real authoritative answer on a question of such importance on be- lpale of the country must come at his own time and in his own way from the prime minister.
 And 1 have no doubt that it will so come.
 "'Unity of purpose among the allies is what the President asked for and that unity of purpose, am sure, the other allied governments will pro- vide"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
MUST WORK 48
 HOURS A WEEK
 FOR OVERTIME

Washington, Oct. 10.-In announc- inr award in three labor controversies today the War Labor Board laid down the rule that no workers shall draw overtime or extra time pay unless he works AS regular hours a week, ex- cept where illness or some other just cause prevents.
 This policy meets complaints that have come from many war indus tries that some employees make a practice of laying off during the week to work overtime on Sundays for higher rates of pay.
 Today's ruling puts this practice under the ban. and at the same time provides that excessive overtime neither shall be permitted nor exact ed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
GERMANS MUCH INTERESTED
 IN THE CONTENTS OF NOTE

Pars, Oct. 1O.-German newspap- CTS received in Switzerland indicate with what feverish intensity Berlin awaited President Wilson's reply to the peace proposals of the Central Powers, says a dispatch from Berne to the emps.
 Deep feeling was aroused in the German capital on Oct. when ru- nor spread that President Wilson had rejected the German offer.
 In other cities reports were circu- lated that an armistice had been agreed upon.
 The news was posted immediately in public places, the dispatches say and the crowd could not conceal their joy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
PRESIDENT MAKTS PLEA
 FOR LIBERTY BONDS.

 Washington, Oct. 10.-Presi- dent Wilson today issued this statement; on, the Fourth sLi- berty Loan campaign. ' fRacent; events have enhan- ced, not lessened, the import ance of this loan, and I hope that my fellow countrymen will let me say this to them very frankly.
 "The best thing that could happen would be that the loan should not only be fully sub scribed, but very greatly over- subscribed.
 We are in the midst of the greatest exercise of the power of this country that has ever been witnessed or forecast, and 8 single day of. relaxation in that effort, would be. of; tragical damage alike to our- selves and to, the rest of the world.
 Nothing has happened, which makes it safe or possi-E ble to do anything but push our effort to the utmost.
 "The time is critical and the response must be com plete.
 (Signed), "Woodrow Wilson" ', . . S = * ' Y + i * + <
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
INCREASED RATES TO
 TALK ON LONG DISTANCE

By Associated Press.
 Baton Rouge, La; Oct. 10.-Increas- ed long distance telephone rates were asked in petition filed by the Cum berland Telephone and Telegraph Company with the railroad commits sion of Louisiana today. The com pany seeks to substitute for the pres ent system of measuring distance by parishes. division of the state into blocks seven miles square and sec- tion 35 miles square.
 Increase in local rates was asked in all parishes except New Orleans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11

(Continued from page one.) eighteen miles of the brad now at a point nearly one hundred miles in an an airline from the point where the British threaten it on the north.
 It may be race to cut the road, but the strategic effect would be diff ferent in each case.
 Such move might be considered vitally necessary to the launching of a blow at the Rhine valley.
 Should this line be broken by the Americans now moving forward on both sides of the Mouse it would cut the German western front in half.
 German troops in the north could offer little help if that lateral rail system that has stood like a wall be- hind the whole German front in France, be lost to them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
NOTE IS ! GIVEN TO GERMAN
 PUBLIC THUPsn,, /,

Amsterdam, Oct. 10.-The sov. fioial Wolff Bureau of Ber,in fie'll0t ,0t made public. President Wilson,, ns' ply to the peace proposals of D., rs 'Maximilan, the imperial ,ns slnQ
 char cellor with the following mt, nSllaas a pended: '' se
 '"The official text of the Fowl, still awaited ,but the rep;v 'ps s! that further declarations from SuVsi W German government "'e necess,ru ul
 "To that end careful considara!' by the government is necessary 'l'l
 "A, reply to the Presidents G. question has been given by the snas llAs in the reichstag on Oct. 5. bv 1esey ps'y dent Fehrenbach, who, in inc ns' ,es of the German nation, declared A'a .s Ecjchstag approves the peace o.sa a and makes it it's own. '''iV
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
Associated Press.
 A GOOD EXCUSE-MAYBE

Amsterdam, Oct. 1O.-The Frank fort Zeitung in explaining why Ger many asked for peace, says: After Bulgaria's collapse, Aus tria Hungary resolved to approach President Wilson with an offer of an armistice for the purpose of bring ing about peace negotiations.
 "At the same time similar step wes being prepared in Turkey.
 Germany, thereupon, decided to join the movement and chancellor Maximilan made his appeal to. Presi- dent Wilson"