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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
BUY LIBERTY BONDS TO
VERY Ll55lT or RESOURCES
Everyone Should Give the Boys cover
There" the Financial Support
Needed fcr Victory.

An article recently published in some
papers Of the central West gave an er-
roneOus impression as to the part the
farmer should play in financing the
great struggle for liberty and world
freedom. 1T suggested that the farmer
should not borrow money with which
to buy Liberty bOnds-that he should
not Inconvenience himself" in lending
financial support at this critical time
in the history Of the nation.
This is no time to think Of incOn-
venience at home. Il Inconvenience is
to be the basis of thought, let the
American farmer consider first the in
convenience of the boys on the firing
line IN France. At this particular time
it is 40 to all Americans to make sac
rifices. This is no time to think Of com
Portable financial circumstances and
freedom from inconvenience. The
government is at a great deal of in
convenience If the boys at the blaz-
ing, tLunderOus front are standing in
muddy trenches lodging shell splinters
and Hun bullets and facing the terrible
the farmer at home should not extend
himself to help out.
Don't think of inconvenience. Think
Of the inconvenience and danger of
your sen, or your neighbours son, at the
front, and buy Liberty bonds to the
limit. Stretch your financial system
to the breaking point, if need be, TO
support your government and the boys
who are actually engaged in the bust
ness Of fighting your fight.
If you haven't the money at hand to
do your full duty toward the great
cause. go out and borrow it from your
bank-bOrr0w so that you may buy
bonds until it hurts" Your financial
support may be a measure Of your
practical patriotisn-and the nation
needs practical patriots at this critical
period.
Don't think Of inconvenience-thi
only C success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
CLEAN Up
YOUR TOWN

Clean up the town. This is not
lang. Declare war on filth, dirt and
.ubbish.
People are often judged by the
clothes they wear, until known for
their true value or unworthiness.
A stranger will always Judge a town
by its looks.
Dirty streets, alleys and yards full
Of rubbish, and fence and building
corners full of weeds indicate lax,
sIovenly citizenship and great lack of
home pride.
Now is the time to put on the NUM-
cipaI spring dress, now the time to
clean up the winters accumulation
of fire and disease-germ breeding rub
bish and debris, wherever found, in
Easements, attics, closets, yards, area
ways, sheds and barns.
A clean town means health, it
means saving Of property from fire,
it means saving of lives from the
ravages of disease and fire, it means
dollars and cents, it means satisfac-
ton with your surroundings.
Let mayors and village presidents
designate and proclaim the first week
of May as Clean p-Week.
Let the house and shop keepers
thoroughly clean up all rubbish in and
on their respective premises.
Let health officers, fire chiefs, wo-
mems clubs and other civic bodies aid
in planning and carrying out this
clean up work.
Let the school children be organized
as cleanup squads.
Let everybody work and boost for
a clean town.
Use caution in burning leaves and
rubbish. Too many careless children
are burned at such fires, and often
such fires, left unattended, spread to
buildings and destroy them.
This is no time for needless sacri-
flee of life or property through pre-
ventable fires or diseases. Such sa-
crifices must be made across the seas,
combating liquid fire, poisonous gases
ard disease germs of rampant auto
cracy.
When your back yard is cleaned up
spade it up to its every corner, and
raise much needed food instead of
unsightly weeds
Replacing dry, moss-covered shin
gle roofs and defective chimney tops,
closing up needless wall openings,
using paint literally, and tilling and
identifying your home grounds and
buildings, will help to make city
beautiful and safe.
Let there be no civic slackers.
This is your home town, so work
and boost for it and help to make it
the best and cleanest town in the state
Cleanup, paint-up, spade-up, and
plant food, plant manhood, plant civic
pride, secure safety.
You try it, it is catching.
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
ALLEGES A BIG FIVE" PACT
Francis A. Heney of Trade Body Re-
sumes Packers Inquiry, This
Time at Omaha.

Omaha, Neb., March 20.-Letters to
show an agreement between the big
five" packers to divide the live stock
receipts at Omaha and other points on
percentage basis were read by Fran
els J. Heney, general counsel of the
federal trade commission. at the re-
sumption of the investigation of the
packing industry in Omaha.
Evidence was introduced designed
to show the effect of the control of
the stock yards by the packers on the
prices paid to producers and ultimate
ly on production. 4. L. Stryker, Secre-
tary and traffic manager of the South
Omaha live stock exchange, the first
witness, said that the general under
standing among cattle producers was
that Armour & Co. dominated the
Omaha stock yards; Swift & Co.,
Sioux City; Swift & Co, st. Paul :
Morris & Co. Oklahoma City; Swift
and Armour, Fort Worth; Swift and
Armour, Denver; Morris & Co, Kan
sas City; Armour, Chicago, and Nor
ris, st. Louis. The earnings of the
Omaha yards last year were given as
s per cent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
EARLY MATCHING OF CHICKS
CockereIs Are Ready for Market When
Prices Are Highest and PuIIets
Lay More Eggs.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agricultural
Early Matching reduces the risks due
to the vicissitudes of Matching. When
eggs do not hatch well early in the
season there is time to find the reason
for poor Matching and correct it before
the season is too far advanced to get
reasonably early chicks in the num-
bers desired. In that case poultry
production may not be reduced at
ALL and egg production is retarded
only few weeks. When late hatch
ing is not satisfactory the crop of
poultry is cut short and egg produc-
ton fails.
Early-hatched cOckerels are ready
for the market when prices are high
est. Early-hatched pullets lay when
prices of eggs are highest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Flood Does DAMAGE.

ShebOygan, March 20-The entire
heart of this citl is inundated as the
result of the sudden breaking of an ice
jam in the ShebOygan river at the Ash
by bridge, Il mile north of the city. An
area four blocks wide and q mile long
on the west side of the river is under
water. -Four large factories and many
residences are flooded. Several streets
in the west end of the city called The
Flats are closed. LOokOutS were
posted near the bridge when the water
rose beyond the danger point. The
Ashby bridge and the West Side bridge
have not yet been carried away but are
seriously threatened. One man and a
team narrowly escaped drowning while
driving near the bridge when the jam
broke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04

be planted until the ground has De
come warm. For this reason 1t is use
less to attempt TO grow the muskmelon
IN sections where the growing season
is not sufficiently long or where the
temperature is not uniformly high. The
northern portion Of the United States
is not suited TO the growing of this
crop for the reasons cited above.
It is advisable to start the plants
in berry boxes, or on sods in the hot
bed, transferring these to the open
ground after the ground has become
warm. In this way considerable time
can be saved and much better results
obtained. It is a good plan to place
plenty Of well-rotted manure in the
hills, which should be about 6 feet
apart Sufficient seed should be plant
ed so that four good strong plants may
be had in each hill. Another plan is
to SOW in drills in rows or 7 feet
apart, thinning the plants until they
are from Is inches to 2 feet apart in
the rows.
Cultivation should be frequent and
thorough until the vines begin to run.
After this the only cultivation required
is to keep weeds down.
Muskmelons are liable to be attack
ed by several diseases and have at
least one serious insect enemy. For in
formation on the control of insects and
diseases affecting the muskmelon, re
for +o ENorYY1orS, pT1IIo+ip S56 optitJo6
Control Of Diseases and Insect Enc
mics of the Home Vegetable Garden"
u. S. Department of Agriculture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
HELPLESS CHINA 4 LESSON
Every Man, Woman and Child Should
Contribute to Success Of Third
Liberty Loan.

Within the last few months the ter
rible bubonic plague has been sweep
ing over western China. Starting in
Mongolia, it crossed the great wall and,
with appalling speed, invaded province
after province. And China-great,
HELPLESS China-is unable to care for
its unfortunate people. Missionaries
and the Rockefeller institute have been
doing much TO alleviate suffering, but
their efforts have been little enough to
stem the tide OF the dread disease.
China lacks the organization and the
initiative to 90 much more than bow
before the inevitable. ----
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
WHAT THE new
Chairman SAYS
IF THE nation
Al REPUBLICAN

II want to most heartily recommend
the National Republican to Republi-
can workers and to the well-wishers
of the party everywhere. There has
been no agency in Indiana working for
the good Of the party which has ac-
complished more than this organ. The
editor, George B. Lockwood, is one
of theablest newspaper men in the
country and most virtile and lucid
political writer. The circulation of
this paper cannot but help work
great service for the party wherever
it reaches. [ urge the cooperation
Of all Republicans with the efforts of
these men to increase the papers cir
culation and the consequent advance
ment Of the party's interests"
WILL H. HAYS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Can Remove Branches,

Madison, March 20.-That the Wis
consin Defense council has arbitrary
power to remove a member of local
council on the ground of inefficiency is
the opinion of Attarney General Spen-
Ger Haven to a. II. Melville of the
council of defense In another opin-
ion to L. c. Whitfield, Mr.. Haven held
that it was necessary to hold an cleo
ton for the election of a municipal
Judge in Waukesha to fill the vacancy
caused by resignation there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Be = Fighter and Buy Bonds.

It is time that we all realize tn,
country is at war. The railroad
found themselves relieved of the mar
agement of their properties over :. n.
Prices have been set for food an,
steel and coal The draft is in FIJI
operation. 1t is no longer questiGl
of patriotism in supporting the gov
eminent, it is an absolute necessity
If the soldiers refuse to fight, tht
war is lost. If we at home refuse t,
buy bonds, the war is lost because tn,
government will be unable to finance
the operation. The man who refuses
to buy bonds in this great crisis is il
a class with the soldier who refuse
to fight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Back Uncle Sam With Bonds.

Russia's condition today should bo
a lesson 10 us in America. Its gov
eminent 7as OverthrOwn and the Hur
invaders overrun its soil Your gov
eminent must be supported in the face
Of the German menace. The purchase
Of Liberty bonds is the best assuranc,
Of support you can give at this time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
INVITED TO THE BIG DRIVE
Correspondents Reported Going to
Front, Invited by German War
Chiefs.

London, March 20.-The heads Of
the German army have invited Il num-
Der Of neutral newspaper correspond
ents to be present at the German of
fpnsive on the western front, the FIX
change Telegraph correspondent at Co
penhagen reports. The correspondents,
1t is stated, will start for the front at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Files Campaign Expenses.

Madison, March 20.-James ThOmp
son of La Crosse, La Toilette candidate
for the Republican nomination for
United States senator, filed state
ment in the office Of the secretary of
state declaring that he had to date
spent $2,553.6S for campaign purposes
Unpaid bills, according to astatement
filed by L. +. Gettle. his campaign
manager, will bring the total expenses
up to $3,2529 81. The Thompson cam
paign committee spent $2,427,9O and
owes in unpaid bills the sum of 1925.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
FIau Is Dedicated

Horizon, March 20.-An open-air
service flag dedication took place in
front of the German Lutheran church
here Sunday in honor of the % mem
hers who are now in service. No man
has ever shown greater love than he
who lays down his life for his country.
Rev. O. Hansen, pastor of the church,
said. America" was sung at the open
ing and close of the exercises which
were attended by about five hundred.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Mahoney on Advisory Commission

Madison, March 20.-D. O. Mahoney
Viroqua, member of the university
board of regents and president of the
American Equity society, has been ap-
pointed on an advisory commission of
% members by the federal department
of agriculture. The board will meet in
Washington, D. c., March %.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04

WANTED-A good, steady gentle
manly salesman to handle a Wards
wagon in Wood County. No experience
needed. For full particulars write
promptly to Dr.. Wards Medical Com
pany, Winona, Minnesota. Establish
ed 1856 6tw.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Germans Buy Bonds; Why Not You?

Germany's last loan was over-sub-
scribed. The Germans are determined
to win this war. We have more money
than they, and we must spend it.
Lend to your government by buying
Liberty bonds. Crush Germany's arm
les under the weight of American dol
lars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
HERE'S PLEA FROM FRONT
Lillian Gish Says You'd Buy Bonds
if You Saw War
Itself.
BY MISS LILLIAN eIsH,
TMovie Star Once in War zone.l

If you had seen the war as I have,
you would buy Liberty bonds.
I have seen mother standing in the
doorway Of her little home, and in the
room into which she looked were the
mangled bodies of her two babes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
EVerYaodY's Doing Il.
erty bonds.

No one in a crowd Of men is 50 des-
picable as q poor spender. Don't put
your hand in your pocket and keep it
there. Buy Liberty bonds while 9th
ers are buYing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04

A sandy loan with plenty of we'll
rotted manure incorporated in the soil
is well adapted to the production of
muskmelons. The muskmelon is heat
loving crop, requiring a long growing
season, about four months, and cannot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
For reliable NEWS read the WOOD
REPORTER.

Until bankers and business men
show active interest in public welfare
movements they may expect to be
Misunderstanding worse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
THE MARKETS
Grain. Provisions. Etc.

chicago, March 19.
Open High Low Clos
March ,..127zs 1275s rs. 127%
May ......1,24 7s-25 1.26 1.247s 1257s-a
March ......Ss .go4 SITS .soK
May .........S41z-7S .S67s .S415 .S6ssA
FLOUR-The United States administra-
ton -four standards are as follows: Bar
ley flour, IS lb. cotton sacks $3.50; corn
flour, 9S Ib. cotton sacks. $3.50; white rye.
in jute, $500 per Dbl. SO ID. sack basis:
dark rye, $1+75; spring wheat in jute, $1,000
610.S0; special brands, $1,000; hard winter
in jute s1060q10.S0; soft winter. s10.6o9
1880.
HAY-Choice timothy, 30.OO031 90; No. l
$2S OO629O0; standard. s27.00d2S00; No. 2
red top and grassy mixed, s210002300;
clear clover and clover mixed. s24O0Q260O;
threshed timothy. s15.00017.0O.
BUTTER-Creamery extra, 41c: extra
ffrsts. 401ac; f1rsts, 3912640c; seconds, $50
39c; centralized, Ale; ladies. 341a0351Ac;
process. 3Sc; packing stock. 3o632c.
EGGS-Fresh frsts, sec: ordinary f1rsts,
356S515c: miscellaneous lots, cases includ-
ed. 341b6S51ac: cases returned. 331aG3416c;
extras 40041c; checks, 31d3113c; dirties,
S3634c
LIVE Turkeys. 25c; old
ROSTERS. pc; young roosters, 28G31c; ducks
2S031c; geese, 24d25c.
DRESSED POULTRY = Turkeys $40
Sac: young ROSTERS, 25q29c; old roosters.
G2029c: ducks. 22025c; geese, 20d23c.
POTATOES Wisconsin, white, s1.159
I.25; western. 81. 3501.45.
CATTLE-Good to choice steers. S13 $50
i475: yearlings. good to choice. s9.00G13. q:
stockers and feeders. sS,50612-00; good -
choice cows. 50 o3d11.75; good to choice
heifers. So 00611. 10; fair to good cows, s775
ass. Gamers. S6.5GG7.50; cutters s750G
800; bologna bulls, sS,0o09,00: BUTCHER bulls
50 00711. 90: heavy calves, s9.0NQ12,d0 veal
calves. S14G0G17.50.
HOGS-Prime to light butchers, s1750f
IS 90: fair to fancy light s1T.256lI.S5; me-
dunn weight butchers. 200624o lbs. s17.40q
i7.75: heavy weight butchers, 24oG 400 lbs.
81. 15G17. 10: choice heavy packing SIS 906
10. rough heavy packing, s16.50616.9G
pigs. fair to good, S1600G17o0; stays. S175o
1850.
SHEEP Good tc choice wethers. 's12 oo6
i45O: good TO choice ewes, s11o1d 14.00;
yearfings. s1350016,75; western lambs, good
| 10 choice. s16.5O61265: native lambs. good
| TO choice, s15.e061I.75.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-04
Buffalo. y. Y. March 10.

BuILaIO. n i. HaTNH II
CATTL E-Receipts. $50; steady
CALVES-Receipts, 500; strong: s7.oaG
1925.
HOGs-Receipts. 500; slow, easier;
heavy. S1S0Vd1S.10; mixed. s1S2Nd1S %:
Workers. s1S.2501S.35: light Workers and
pigs. $500; roughs, s1S.o0G1s.25; stays,
a3e0Gf400
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts. $500:
steady: wool lambs. s1s.eo9is-no; others I'M
changed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-25
BRITISH FALL BACK CALMLY
TO PREPARED DEFENSE POSITIONS

prisoners and a certain number of guns.
But very few pieces of artillery have
been taken by the Germans since the
first day. In fact. the whole with
drawal has been executed in mas
inner, showing how thoroughly
the British had planned for the very
vents which have occurred.
There IL every reason to believe that
na~der fighting than has vet taken place
viii develop shortly. The Germans, IN
the British view. cannot now hesitate
IN carrying on their attack, and 1t Is
a case of break through or admit de-
feat In this circumstance 1t Is inter-
esting to note IA statement made by
German officer. prisoner. who declared
that the German offensive was an act
'.~r ration brought on by the fact
that the fatherlar' NuSt have peace.
However. the British take such as
sertions at their face value and are
proceeding accordingly.
The hardest fighting saturday oc-
CURED east Of Peronnc and in the BoiS
de Genlis The most important phase
of the battle occurred in the latter neigh
borhood. During the morning the Ger
mans had pushed southwark toward
Ham and had succeeded in getting a
foothold at some points in the defenSes
To- which the British had fallen back
The British organized a Counter-at-
tack and hurled themselves against the
Germans with such ferocity that the
enemy was forced to give way and the
situation was restored. This was one
of the very few counter-attaCks as yet
attempted by the British.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-25

With the British Army in France,
March 25. The German offensive is
viewed with optimistic eyes at the front
Fighting of most desperate nature
has been continuous since the initial
attack. but so far the British have used
few troops other than those which We're
holding the front lines. These shock
troops have been making as gallant "A
defense as was ever recorded in the
annals OF the British army. and as n
result they have enabled the main body
of the forces to fall back deliberately
tions which had been prepared long
before the German offensive began.
The Germans. on the other hand.
operating under the eyes of the En-
neror and the Crown Prince. have beer
hurting vast h1rdes into the fray with
utter disregard for life and have fol-
lowed into the abandoned positions. get
ting further and further away from
their supplies and finding their COM
N"rications increasingly difficult
More than fifty German divisions al
ready have been identified 10y actual
contact. and many of these men We're
simply given two days iron rations and
sent over the top into the frightful
maelstrom made by the Allied artil-
lery. machine guns aud rifles Tie
slaughter of the enemy infantry as IT
advanced in close formation over the
open has been appalling.
The British losses have been within
the bounds expected, due to the tactics
# the commanders. The Allies have
lost a considerable number of men in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-25
ALBRIGHT SENDS Def
IN MAIL TUBE CHARGES
Boursc Head Challenges Representa-
tive Rouse to Name
"Hirelings'

An open letter. forwarded to Wash
ington by Emil p. Albrecht, president Of
the Philadelphia Bourse and chairman
Of the joint committee OF local business
interests which has fought for the re-
tcntou of the pneumatic mail tubes here,
challenges Congressman Arthur II.
Rouse, of Kentucky. to substantiate his
charges that those business men who
advocated the continuance of the tubes
are financially interested in the COM
panics that operate them or are the
"hirclings' OF these companies or their
agents.
Congressman Rouse, who was a MEM
ber of the congressional investigation
commission which recently held hearings
here. as we'll as in other cities where the
pneumatic tubes are in use, was the only
member OF the commission to oppose
their continuance.
In minority report attacking the
tubes. as against the majority repo-'
signed by the five other members favor
ing their continuance and ultimate pur-
chase by the Government. he cast scri-
Gus reflections on the testimony of those
who urged retention OF the tubes.
Mr.. Iouse's report, which was mimco-
graphed hurriedly and scattered broad
cast by the PostofIlce Department to in
fuence sentiment in Congress and else
where in support of Postmaster General
Burleson's stand against the tubes while
the majority report favoring them still
remains in the HANDS of the Public Print
er at Washington, was considered such
serious charge against the local bust
ness men who testified before the COM
called upon TO reply directly to the Con-
gresham