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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15

The Senior class play, at Pays to
Advertise" will be given at Days OPP
era House either Tuesday, May 81, or
Thursday, May 20. Definite announ-
cement will be made next week. The
cast is as follows:
Mary Grayson MANOR Matthews
Johnson, Butler at the Martins
-----------Ver Vernon Natwick
Comtesse de Beaurien ------
Dorothy Normington
Cyrum Martin, A Soup King
William Smith
Rodney Martin, His son---------
-------He Herbert Bundle
Ambrose Peale- Clement Meilicke
Marie, Maid at the Martins
-Immogene Rousseau
William Smith Robert DeGuere
Miss Burke, Clerk -Cicely Damon
George McChesney----Douglas Hess
Charles Bronson Charles Riley
Ellery Clark, Son of Ivory Soap
Carl Kluge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15
No. [.
PLANTING CORN

The season is just before US. How
many boys and girls will earn some
money in that way and then "plant"
the money in our Savings Department,
where the compound interest we pay
will make it grow like the corn grows.
Small deposits are invited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15
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, 1919-05-15
It's Jour oton nzouey 6
you're spending. aS@
says BameyMedGeef46AlR6

good tobacco taste
stays with it."
Good taste, smaller chew,
longer life swhat makes Gen.
uine Gravely cost less to chew
than ordinary plug.
Wrife fo:-
GENUINE GRAVELI
DANvILLE, VA.
for booklet on cheering pias.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15

Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Mead of
Grand Rapids, who have been week
end guests of Senator and Mrs. |. P.
Witter at the Park Hotel, and who
came to attend the dinner dance for
Theta Delta Chi fraternity at the
Studio Saturday night. leave tomor-
row for visit in Rockford.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15
PHYSICIANS

w. MELVIN RUCKLE, Nj. ID.
Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat. Glasses fitted correctly.
Eye and Ear Surgeon in Riverview
Hospital. Office in Wood County Ma
tional Bank Block.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15
ENTERTAIN IN MADISON

From Madison State Journal
One OF the prettiest parties of the
season was the dinner dancing party
given Saturday night at the Studio by
senator and Mrs. I. P Witter in honor
OF the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, Of
winch Senator Witter is a member.
An elaborate six-course dinner was
served. The tables were decorated with
cut flowers, and each feminine guest
was presented with a corsage bouquet
as favor. The Studio was bower OF
roses, ferns and hydrangeas, and the
lights were dimmed with pink shades.
The programs were heavily embossed
with the Theta Delta Chi seal and
tied with the fraternity eolors of blue
black and white Covers were laid for
10. During the dancing, punch was
served.
In the receiving line were Senator
and Mrs. |. P. Witter, Mr.. and Mrs
George W. Mead, Grand Rapids, Mr.
md Mrs. George ". Hambrecht and
Senator and Mrs. A. H. Wilkinson, who
also acted as chaperones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15

Having caught the bolshevist spirit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15
Thursday. May Is, 1919.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

The consumers Of sweets are very
sour about the new luxury tax.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-15

$50 ahead and
chew your sweet,
sticky plug, if you
like it. But there
isn't an ordinary
tobacco that's one,
two, three with Real
Gravely. The real
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08

the great treat in the volume; that is
what will make England read it,. and
particularly that ripe England which
still likes to remember the times of
Dizzy and Gladstone.
TT ..,., $50. i., -.
When Washington Irving went to
Europe to remain for many years he
left behind him his faithful friend
Brevoort, and commissioned him to
write him all the little happenings
and scandals of the New York of that
day. In turn, Irving wrote to Bre-
voort about his life abroad. Their cor
respondence makes two large and in
teresting volumes. We seem to see
a parallel in Eustaec Morven for
Johnston, for Mr.. Wells asserts that
the novel is an autobiography going
to Africa and keeping up a long and
deliberately preserved correspondence
with friends in England. The results
of these interchanges Of rs"are
part of The Coy Dombeys. The peo-
pie in England tell the exile what he
will like to know about. He, in turn,
tells them of an Africa that was still
raw, even after eighty years of Brit
ish exploration and enterprise. A
Bagstoek is out there as Governor of
Bulombel:
HE cares nothing for science or
Africa; merely looks upon service in
the White Mans Grave as a gamble
with Death. I had all sorts of ro-
mantle notions about becoming a
great explorer, another, Wildwood
Reade. :. 80. The Governor came
down on me like a sledge hammer;
said was here to work and not to
play-he hates any mention of VIM
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08

wood Reade or any writer on Africa
says their books are all dam lies,
that one niger is very like another
niger, and making botanical colfec-
lions won't help trade. ~ - ~ = .
That sounds like a real letter, with
changes of names. made to avoid
wounding the feelings Of the relatives
of the Governor, who is described as
being as varied in his choice as was
the Sultan before he met with She
herazade." Other letters, such as
Eustace's mothers, signing over the
silly APPROXIMATION Of the Dombeys'
name, are obviously written in to
piece out the Dickensian pattern.
Then there are real bits about the
great English men and women of the
eighties:
"Susan Knipper-Totes talked across
to Frances about the 'Alcestis just
given at the New Theatre at Oxford.
Lucilla Smith had acted in it. What
did she think of A. E. w. Mason as
Herakles, Coningsby Disraeli as the
serving man, and that young fellow
Bourchier as Thanatosi" At mid
night in came Henry Irving, John
Hare, George Grossmith, Eric Lewis,
Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry, Mrs.
Bernard Beere, Lucilla Smith and Ar
thur Pinero. Lucilla Smith is thrown
in to keep the fictional tone. She is
the lady with whom Paul Dombey had
his affair and latter she is killed in a
train wreck while on her triumphal
tour of the United States and she
leaves her little boy-who is. also
Paul's little boy-to Paul S wife. Mrs.
Dombey takes the situation, and the
boy, philosophically.
Social life, political intrigue, all
the British things that came under
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08
From Okapis to Dombeys
A NeoDickensan Novel by Sir Harry Johnston, Vet
eran Faunal Naturalist, Is Patronized by Mr.. Wells

the keen eye of Johnston while on his
vacations are played upon in
the most intimate and delightful man
ner. Mr.. Wells fears that Sir Harry.
has disguised some of the characters
so thinly that there will be a swarm
of objections" from those whose.
motto is No Personalities. Well, no
woman seems to be slandered, and let
England argue over any harm that
may be done to her Victorian states
men and journalists. A man may
put in a novel what he could not put
in his memoirs; and these are partly
Johnston memoirs, charmingly dis
guised and set in a frame of romance.
The love affair of Eustace Morven OF
course is fiction, but his English life.
and his African misery are fact.
III I
Lett slip over to Africa for mo-
ment Eustaee Morven is speaking:
81, have seen the tail end of this
Africa In the seventies and eighties;
the incessaLt fighting between village
and village; the ravaging smallpox
epidemics and half forgotten plaques,
the famines every ten years or so.
Why, in dry seasons I've seen living
skeletons of natives following the
lions about, trying to snatch bones
and offal from their kills when the
lions were moving away to drink and
before the jackals rushed in :.
and the lions despising their leanness
too much tomake meal of them"
t. .. Yes, the diseoyerer of the striped
.'Okapi usestthe triple period, kindly
lent perhaps by Mr.. Wells. You find
them on every other page Of The Gay ,
D6mbeys, often where they are not
needed They come in handy N the
scene where Sir Eustaee is overcome
while making a great speech in the
House:
"Was it to be his triumph : Il.
at lasti Then he had need to con-
suit his notes. .Here- were
the figures. Misery! He could not
see them. They were covered by q ?
whirling Catherine wheel of black
and gold. He>raised his head. Any
face he looked at seemed only half q
face. He faltered. The Catherine
wheel became two, four, eight, count
less. He seemed to be standing amid
a shower of gold. =. Was he
standingi No, he was lying on q
bench in lobby and there was a
smell of ether or some
thing"
Sir Eustaee asked Lady Feenix to
marry him after Lord Feenix was .
year dead. She refused; it was too
late "and / don't want to drop my
title; it helps so with the police In
these suffrage struggles. -.
A book Of remarkable interest to
everybody who cares about nineteenth
century Africa or the great: folks'of
Victoria's day. 1t IS more likely to
shock than to please old fashioned
Dickens worshippers.
THE GAY-DOMBEYS. BY Sir HAR8Y
JOHNSTON. Ths Macmillan Company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08

TN connection with the publication
L of Sir Harry Johnston The
Cav Don,beys, the Westminster Co.
sette explains that the distinguished
authority on African affairs has been
a Dickens worshipper since he was
bow; even before 1869, when he saw
Dickens. On shipboard, bound for
Africa, and in the miserable solitudes
of that country, Johnston-whlle
other Englishmen INDUCED in gin and
brandy cocktails and courted the
fever-let his imagination play with
the future and the descendants OF
Dickens's characters. The result IS
The Coy Dombeys, a rich, sometimes
patternless but always Interesting
story of the Victorian period. Three
English publishers declined it, and
then II. G. Wells read it and showed
ii to publisher-and here it is. -
Mr.. Wells of the iron wrist has
written six page preface to the book.
This is not necessarily fatal, several
authors having stood for Wells
prefaces and lived; but it must be a
bit annoying to persons who puy the
book on the strength of the author s
distinction and the reputation of the
publishers to be solemnly told in Mr..
Wells's most didactic manner chat
the book is and isn't. "By the stand
ards of the austerer school Of critics
this is certainly not perfect novel. "
Well, who caresi The world is weary
of Perfect Novels. Mr.. Wells pro-
cteds to tell why this novel isn't per-
feet: it lacks restraint, humorless
statement, and "the complete sup
preston of the authors personality. "
, Mr.. Wells's novels are not lacking in
the first two points, but we hope he
doesn't believe that his readers see
the Wells personality completely, II
at all, suppressed in his recent works.
He begs the reader not to let the
fact that Sir Harry is amusing blind
him to the fact that he has succeeded
in writing one of those novels that are
history" There need be no worry on
that score. The reader may be ut
terIy ignorant Of the characters In
Don,bey and Son and consequently
uninterested in what happens to any
Dombey. Bagstock, Feenix or Granger
because of their literary ancestry. He
may even be unmoved by the hopeless
love affair of Eustace Morven this
father was a Morfn and his mother
Carker), who is the hero of the
novel. He may find dull the unhal
lowed love affair Of Johnston j. not
Dickens s, Paul Dombeg. He may
even forget Mr.. Wells s preface; but
he will not be blind to the historical
side of The Gay -DOmbeys. That is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08

THE GAY-DOMBEYS. BY Sir HARzY
JOHNSTON. Tia Macmillan Company.
$I.75. -..---.------------4
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
Need for More consuIs.

The chairman OF the shipping board
has called the attention OF congress
and the people to the need Of enlarg-
ing our consular service abroad, in
view Of the fact that our great mer-
chant marine will be released for use
In foreign trade.
Mr.. Hurley tells US, observes the In
dependent (New York;, that the Uni
ted States will have 100000 tons Of
merchant shipping by the end of 1920
and that as fast as these ships can be
freed from military work they will en-
ter commerce. The present consulates
would be entirely inadequate to handle
this enlarged business. There are not
enough of them, their STATS are too
small and they are handicapped by In
experience with duties that will be de-
manded and by antiquated regulations
Even now the burden OF work, espe
clally in the way of inquiries to be an
swered, is overtaxing the undermined
and underpaid force. Mr.. Hurley
therefore pleads that immediate steps
be taken 20 remedy the situation.
"We need more consuls and larger
consular STATS he tells US. III we dC
not provide them today and prepare
for the great growth in our merchan
marine and trade after the war. feai
that we shall suffer a serious break
down"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15

The Vermont Local Option
League is maintaining lobby at the
statehouse in q vain effort to prevent
Vermont from ratifying the national
prohibition amendment. Thirty-one
states have already ratified and there
are q dozen more which are likely 10
within the month. The forces OPP
posed to prohibition may just as well
lay down their arms one time as an
other. They won't get any mercy
anyway but they may temporarily
avoid further punishment. 1t is con.
ceivab,e that the local option league
by the liberal expenditure of money
! (not in buying yotes), with the help
of Governor Clement who Is strongly
that way OF thinking might for time
delay the adoption Of the amendment
by Vermont but It would be only a
temporary holdup. In the end Yer
mont is sure to ratify and the at
tempt to provide for a referendum on
the subject is but an effort to delay
It is probable that Vermont has nc
power under the state constitution
and laws to apply state referendum
to a proposal to amend the fedora
constitution but whether It has or MOI
the proposed referendum can have nC
other effect than to delay the resul
a bit The Banner does not believe
that the legislature should inhict {
referendum over an Issue that is al
ready settled and deeiiG1 The out
come is no longer in doubt,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
You've Heard EN-.

'Look here said the city editor to
the cub reporter, lyon should write
everything as briefly as possible. In
stead of saying the middle-aged bald
headed performer in the hired aggre-
cation of followers Of orpheus who
nightly provide the harmony at one Of
our leading temples Of mlrth, seized
his trombone firmly in his hands,
placed his feverlsh lips TO the mouth
piece and sounded thereon an unearth-
ly tone like the wailing of lost soul
on the main street OF Inferno'-now
shorten that up"
so the reporter merely wrote: "The
slip horn player In the orchestra blew
helva note
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15

Wednesday, January IS, 1919.

We wonder if Chairman Il. ID.
Moore, of the House end of the Com
mittee on Game and Fisheries, realizes
that he has landed one OF the busiest
jobs that 1t is in the power of the leg
islature to inflict? 1t is the duty OF
the chairman to take charge of the
bills on the door of the House and to
be at all times prepared to justify the
action Of the committee. 1t is just a
little hotter place than that of general
manager of q Sunday school picnic
that has run out OF ice cream.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
NO DISGRACE TO FEEL FEAR
One Result of War Has Been Ssnsf
Idea Of What Constitutes
Real Bravery.

An English observer calls attention
to the fact that our world war has
destroyed the fear Of being afraid.
Heretofore, even TO most distant an
tiquity, the one quality insisted on in
the soldier was that he should be
fearless and the more callously SO the
better. The falntest tremor OF timld-
ty was black mark against the Iaost
respondent knight as well as the low
Hest bowman or halbardier, and the
schooling for war was an utter DEN
ance of the personal risk.
This theory held, as many VIII re-
member, even till the period OF the
Boer war, when the British suffered
50 severely in officers because 1t was
held cowardly for commander 10
seek cover. Men, then as now, ielt
fear, for that is one OF fieshS attrl'
butes and. indeed, is one OF the most
valuable OF human possessions, since
fear is our protection from dangers
and harms innumerable. We fear wild
! beasts to avoid them, snakes ant
spiders to increase our attention
/ storms and tempests that We may pre-
pare means Of escape from them.
SO 1t was only in battle that chiy
airy insisted that man should be with
out fear, or pretend 10 be.
With the coming Of new warfare
however, all lands at once came TO
more sane understanding and the oil
physical bravery has given place 4
moral resolution. The man who nov
enters the hell of shell fire, OF hurle'
flames and deadly gases, no lonse
attempts to fool himself into the be
lief that he is not afraid. He know
full we'll and only stupid natur
could avoid the knowledge that tn
human is at the mercy of forces
million times beyond his own abillt
to counter. +. The old knight migi
really believe he was able 10 JUNIORS
all the enemies that rode against MI
and therefore might concelyably j
without fear, but how can soldit
I feel that way when facing moder
weapons of destruction?
Therefore, 1t is no longer o.
grace to feel fear or to admit 1t; u
only disgrace is TO allow fear to pr
vent one doing his duty. How muc
: finer fiber Is needed for this new d
fiancel
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
A Cattle Queen.

A cattle-shipplng season to the East
ern stockyards is in full blast, and
Mary Vail, Los Angeles heiress, said
to be the richest maiden in California,
is in these large sales and shipments,
figuring us a notable cattle queen. Miss
Vail is the daughter Of the late Wal
ter Vail, who had over 100000 head OF
steers and sheep on his famous
ranches. Under the direction of Miss
Vail AMI her mother the cattle do
main lett by the father and husband
greatly increased in value. The meat
barons are paying them $1,000000 for
steers and sheep this fall.--San Fran
cisco Bulletin.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15

Editors Joke.

A budding author sent a hum1r-
Gus paragraph 10 The editor Of a daily
paper. Not finding it printed within
reasonable time or hearing from the
editorial department, he wrote to in-
Quirc about II. Il sent you a joke
about ten days ago. | have heard
nothing respecting its safe receipt and
should be glad to hear whether You
have seen It," The editors reply was
as follows "Your joke arrived safe
~, but M to the present we have not
seen It."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15

II the legislature wants to do the
state favor it might kill off the law
permitting trial by jury in municipal
courts. Local juries trying local
cases are more often wrong than
right and add considerably to the ex-
pense. Trial by the court is the bet
ter way. Even in the bigger cases in
county court the juries often so as.
tray, as did the jury that. tried Bank
Commissioner = Williams last week.
The jury was made up Of good citi-
zens, above the average of intelli-
gence, but, In the opinion of The Ban
ner, they were not justified in return
ing a verdict of guilty, in the absence
of any motive shown for the alleged
crime.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
Canadian Monsx ordsrn.

Canadian money orders are issued
on blanks Of various denominations,
each with the amount Of money for
which the order is issued printed on
II. A lady living In Ontario, sending
a bunch Of 30-cent money orders to
make up remittance TO Boston firm,
apologies thus: Il apologize for all
these post Office orders. 1t seems That
the local postmaster got In q stock six
years ago, and the 30-cent orders were
the slowest to sell, He has no others
on hand now"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
Back In The Game.

Another slgn that the war is over"
eyes"
IAN old.fashloned stock promoter
wearing diamonds and flashy clothes,
was in here tho other day."
"werl weli"
'Those chaps are crawling out of
their dugouts again l'-Blrmingham
Age-Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
Probably of Some Ane

Clarence was always doing things
that brought EXPLANATIONS OF surprise
from his mother. This seemed to puz-
zle the little fellow One day he
asked: How old viii l have 10 be.
mother, before l quit doing things that
your are surprised atf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
Prepare for defeat,

while expecting success. Keep work
Ing, keep expecting, keep insured
with us. National Life ms. Co.. of VT
(Mutual) Earle S. Kinsley, Genera
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland, Vt
ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15

Feverish Headaches and BODY Pains
caused from a cold are soon relieved
by taking LAXATIVE BROMO GUN
lNE Tablets. There's only one "BromC
Qulnine." II. w. GROVES signatur,
ON the box. zoe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
VIVA, saves US.

The thing that saves us in this life
Is an occasional opportunity to smile
NJ its follies.-Baltimor Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-15
A Realization.

SLOWS prohibition wOrkln' in Grim
son Gulchg"
"All right" replied Three Finger
Sam. "rhe boys are beginnln' to real
lie that a mans conversation Is jes
as interestin when he's sober an n
heap more reliable"