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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24
TWO GERMAN ENJOYS WHO SIGN.
PEACE TREATY

Latest photo of Gustav Adolf Bauer,
German peace" Chancellor, in sue
cession to Phillip Scheidemann. In
sert: Latest photo of DR.. Johannes
Bell, Minister of Colonies in the new
German Cabinet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

If You are a SUI
ferer from Appen-
dicitis, Rupture, Gall
Stone, Collie, Goitre
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
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

The state convention of the Cath
Ollie Knights of Wisconsin will be
held in Wausau on July %, % and 80.
An attendance of about 800 delegates
and members of the order are expect
ed. A class of 100 candidates will be
initiated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

The latter, formerly Mrs. Ava Will
ing Aston, first wife of. the late Colon
ell John Jacob Astor of New York
whose recent wedding in London was
kept a secret from all but their most
intimate friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24
he WAS ALMOST PAST GOING

81 suffered with kidney trouble for
three years" writes D. Bell, St. James
City, Fla, and for six months have
been almost past going. | began TAX
ing Foley Kidney Pills, and before
used two bottles my pains were all
gone" Relieve backache, rheumatic
pains, stiff, swollen joints, sore mus
les. Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24
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A Medical Book Free
By DR.. n. A. Goddard

Modern Methods of treating
Chronic Diseases without Opera
ton has just come from the Specialist
and is one of the most interesting as
we'll as instructive little books the
doctor has ever written.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24
PROCEEDINGS OF
GRAND RAPIDS
COMMON COUNCIL
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City Hall, Grand Rapids, Wis.

City Hall, Grand Rapids, Wis.
July 1st, 1919.
The City Council met in Regular
Session, Mayor Briere presiding, al
Alderman present, except Roenius.
The reading of the Minutes upon
motion made and End was despenced
with.
The following Petitions received
and referred to proper Committees.
Petition for Sewer ON Witter ST.
Petition for Water on Gardner ST.
Petition for Sewer replacement on
18th Ave. So.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

Walter Riesk uatil she fegains. her
strength.
A party Of young folks dropped in
at the E. Stein home Sunday evening
and enjoyed an hour of music and
singing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24
WANTED

Good woman for head waitress.
$4,000, room and board per month.
Apply Foeste Hotel, Sheboygan, Wis.
Ste.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

Total overdraft July 1st SS.656.73
respectfully Submitted
LOUIS SCHALL.
On motion made and End Council
Adjourned.
F. G. GILKEY, City Clerk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

Good temper is like a sunny day; it
sheds it's brightness everywhere.-Sid
ney.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-07-24

Treasurede Report of City Books
and the Water Dept. filed as follows
Orders drawn in June -. 2152.67
Overdraft, July 1st $12, 696 %
Arizona republican., 1919-04-16


 View of derrick, flowing well and oil storage reservoir of Adams No. 2. This well has now settled down to a natural flow of 825 barrels per day. Note the number of producing wells surrounding Burk-Bethel in these ac- tual photographs of the immediate vicinity.
 This is only one of the many pro- ducing wells surrounding Burk-BetheI that are plainly visible in these actual photographs just received from our Burkburnett field headquarters.
Arizona republican., 1919-04-16

This photograph shows the first lot of material arriving on our Burk-Bethel location No. preparatory to building the derrick. We will be drilling here soon.
 The Adams Gusher No. 2 may also be seen in the near background on the adjoin- ing lease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
THE PENALTY OF WEALTH

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 Gregory Glue,- merchant prince, sat musing in his palatial apartment, and the heart of him, as lady poets always say, was sad.
 Around him were evidences of uncount- ed wealth! Tapestries, jades, rugs of the orient, priceless paintings of the masters of old. and yet his heart was afar.
 A score of servitors were at his beck and call-he had but to press the pigeon blood ruby set in his teakwood escritoire
 and his limousine would breeze up the lift to thu fourteenth story and anchor
 outside his chamber door. And yet he unused on an ancient tin type. It was picture of the old cottage where he had struggled in the early days before he had invented the Gregory Glue Invisible Suspender. which had made him a billionailre.
 Little old cottage!" he unused. You had natural ventilation and an openwork roof and hot and cold water, according to the weather, and your bathroom hung on peg outside the kitchen door. ex- cept on Saturday nights. But willingly would I trade this 1S-karat apartment for you now. You-had cellar!' For it was the last day of June
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19

well known lawyer yesterday. Pre-
 cisely what the war meant to young
 men who contemplated taking up the
 profession of medicine and su rgery.
 prohibition will mean to the ambitious
 students of Blackstone. Formerly the young doctor and the young lawyer
 full well knew they would be poorly
 paid until they had each established
 reputation, which might require many years of patient and laborious effort. Now that the war is over, the adv4n- tage seems to rest with tho law school There is absolutely no doubt of flood of legal cases to defend when genera! enforcement of state and national pro- hibition laws is begun, and there is no means of telling how long the hostile attitude of vast number of persons toward the bone;,dry measure will con- tinue. Law libraries will have to be enlarged to accommodate the new tonnes of the decisions that Will be handed down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
REQUESTING GOD

From the New York Herald.
 At bolshevist demonstration in Russi a recently one of the speakers said, I've have abolished God"' This is abd ut as full and frank a statement of boIshevist principles as can be i'm agined. For what does it mean? It does not merely mean the suppression of religion. although the bolshevists have done their worst in that direction by the massacre of the clergy and nuns and by the destruction and desecration of places of worship. It means that they have abolished principle, that the hap py, benign and just relations of man. kind in the family and home, in the forum and mart, in the courts of Jus tice, ill the pleasures and amenities oi life ara not permitted to exist and that character is not allowed to count. Men and women under bolshevist rule be- come part of a soulless system. Re- ward according to merit is not allowed the degraded and base have opportuni- ties and advantages denied to the v1r- tuous and self-respecting, for only the former would willingly submit to 8 system, in which every one is reduced to the same level.
 Reading accounts of what happened in OdeNsa when the bolsheviki entered that city, one realizes what men be- come who have abolished God" So- called freedom of mind and body,' tenet ot bolshevism, resolves itself into hideous excesses, bestial indecency and moral depravity. A trustworthy eye witness on that occasion tells of orgies which defy description, of footed wine shops and cellars and gutters running wine la.pped up by drunken monsters; of brutal assassinations and indescrib- able mutilations and of tortures com mitted chiefly upon the ''bourgeois' class, the class which preponderates the class which respects itself ano others and which is neat and tidy ir appearance. The last is a prime offence against ,bolshevist principles, for clean Hness. an organization which starts bJ abolishihg God will very readily aboE ish the daily ritual of ab1ution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
Promise of a
 Perfect Sunday

l 1S AsTER Sundays are sometimes 0 bleak or inclement, but for to-
 morrow a perfect day is promised bright, balmy and colorful. Men may wear straw hats without seeming to force the season and women will ar ray themselves in gay apparel without thought of having their new outfits spoiled by rainfall.
 The merchants here have been ex- Iceptionally busy this week and all Bir-
 mingham will be seen in "gIad
 clothes" Easter of 1918 found people depressed by the world war. While
 there was manifestation of joy for
 the time being, the old festival spirit was lacking But now that the war is ended we will have a typical turn
 out of well -groomed men, stylishly
 adorned ladies and smiling faces. Churches will be crowded and the
 streets will present beauty show of Isurpassing animation. When Bir-
 mingham is blessed with ideal Easter weather no city in the land appears quite so festive or enchanting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
THE DUSK OF THE IMMoRrALs

By Minna Irving. Along the silent gallery And up the empty floors Dim figures move from desk to desk, And vanish through the doors. And phantoms in the buckled shoes And queues of long ago Touch heads in confidential groups, Or hurry to and fro. No busy pages pass in haste. No gravel sharply raps, No oratory shakes the dome With verbal thunderclaps. No bills are molded into laws Or eloquently spurned, No long debates are lost or won, For Congress has adjourned But after it disbands, the great, Who wrought with heart and hand The fabric of ourSliberty Through storm and stress to stand Washington, Adams and Monroe With all their glorious train Of patriots, return to walk The halls of state again. Like shadows in the dust benea tn The famed rotunda vast, They come, mighty company, 1mmortals from the past, To see if Freedoms bodyguard Has kept these latter years The high and holy covenant She s's-rad with hlood and tears
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

It is so hard to make friends and so easy to make enemies that we should all appreciate our friends more than
 we do.
 Our observation has been that tho
 dame who had to advertise in order to get husband never held him long. And what has become of the 0. f
 schoolboy who used to snap his fingers in the air when he wanted to attract
 the teachers attention Congressional pork is when al Decent
 clapboard town gets $200,0OO marble postoffice.
 It may not have occurred to you. but the best way for you to help solve the Great Issues of the Day is to stick to your job
 Our idea of liar is an ovArgrown 15-year- old boy who believes in ths
 Easter Rabbit. The woman who wore low-cllt shoes and knee-length combinations all win ter is now worried for fear her husband | might take his heavies off too soon anu catch cold.
 It is easy to be popular. All you have to do is listen to other peoples trou- | bles and never tell yours. If you are riding in the machine aud | you just miss hitting pedestrian, the | pedestrian is a wall-eyed idiot. But il
 you are the pedestrian and the machine
 just misses hitting you, the man in tn, | machine is the wall-eyed idiot. 1 There are lot of different ways! foi | a man to have a good time. But all o. them cost money.
 Eight years ago we predicted in thi: 1 colyum that just because the natives of Hickville Crossing went to bed a 7:S0 D. m. they would fix things 'so tha ] the natives of the big cities would have to do the same thing And the city fel l lers laffed and laffed. They thought
 was great joke. But you may hav'
 noticed that Hickville Crossing is reg ulatng your habits right now, and vii | soon regulate your hours. l It doesn't hurt to tell the truth one
 in a while. If most of the husband
 were not henpecked lot lof tn preachers would have slim coHgrega tions and hard sledding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19

been a week since the jail was built that it did not house prisoners charged with murder.
 It is regrettably true that Birming- ham is listed among American cities with a high record for killings, and has held that position for many years. The explanation must lie deeper than the liquor evil, although it was no in- considerable factor in causing deeds of violence in the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
:t ss < Further Disclosures Of Military Justice"

lQY what process of reasoning do kO army officers reach the conclu- sion that 'the existing system of mill stary jurisprudence is designed to pro- auce an efficient, dependable army, not to do exact justice to individual soldiers? ?" If that is true court-mar- hal procedure is contrary to the ideas of our government and the funda- nentals of true democracy every where.
 Officers who appeared before the committee of the American Bar asso- citation, now engaged in Investigating military jurisprudence, contended that Ehe present machinery for enforcing military discipline is fair and efficient, although admitting that ridiculous sentences were imposed for minor of lenses. "When exact justice inter- feres with the building up of the army" said Maj. Charles H. MacDon- Rld, "exact justice must be sacrificed" :"
 This view of the case, typical of many officers in the regular army, should prove enlightening to the American people who were not aware Ehat Prussian methods were necessary to maintain discipline in the American army. The admission that severe penalties were imposed with the ex- pectation that they would be ultimate ty modified is a confession of weak hess in court-martial procedure.
 The statement that such treatment s necessary to make an army eff eient will not convince the average civilian. Nothing so quickly under mines the morale of a soldier as the Thought that he is not being given a square deal by his officers. Undue barshness may have disciplinary ef- feet for a while, but sooner or later it will cause a reaction, a fact which Russian and German officers learned to their sorrow. Thousands of them were murdered by their men in the Generalization that preceded the close of the war.
 There should be happy medium for maintaining discipline, based on common sense and fairness, which could be arrived at without either go- ing to the absurd extremes of the soviets or patterning after Prussia's 1ordc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19

Al papier-mache arch of triumph does we'll enough for day. but what we should have is an arch that will stand rough weather for a thousand years.
 # # # Al crusade against the "cup that che prs" would no doubt be lfberally supported by a manufacturer of a cer- tain substitute. 'There's a reason"
 F x x At any rate, the war between Lloyd GeoNge and Lord Northcliffe will not compel any Britisher to cut down his daily allowance of tea. The old-fashioned statesman who asked, What would Washington say?' seems to have tired waiting for an answer
 German soldiers who threatened to strike because their pay was cut evil dently don't realize that Mars is bank rupt,
 # # The Rev. W. A. Sunday says the league of nations is 70. K.- Being a battIer himself, Billy" ought to know.
 < # # It'N a trif1ing matter, but America had the Big Four, railroad long be- fore the Big Four" met in Paris.
 # # # Thanks to the ending of the war, overalls win not be conspicuous in the Easter parade of the fair sex.
 # < # Other than Sign here" comparative ly few words will be addressed to Germany's peace delegates.
 * < J. The climate of Russia is no better and no worse than it has always been, except for Grand Dukes.
 % # x Although Kiau-Chau sounds like sneezs. it's a serious matter to the Japs and the Chinese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
I'ELION ON OSSA

From the Atlanta Journal.
 Never did we quite realize what it meant to pile Pelion on Ossa until we read one upon the other. a boil weevil classic from the Valdosta Times and the sequel which it inspired in the Dublin Coxrier- Herald. The Times had chronioled in it's woptedly piquant manner the story of Laurens county ginner who in repacking some cotton that had been baled four months pre- viously found in the middle of a bale a boil weevil, mashed flat. But when the fresh air struck it, it began to show signs of life and soon flew away to help reduce the cotton production"
 That is Ossla- Now for the effort
 which, as Hamlet would say. makes Ossa look like a wart"
 'This reminds us," the Courier-Her- ald innocently begins, "of converse ton we heard recently between two Iaurens county farmers:
 "One stated that he had tried to burn a boil weevil in the kitchen stove but after keepino him warm for one hour the varmint flew out and set his gin on fire before he could be caught and hanged. The other farmer stated that he nut two boil weevils between two 100-pound blocks of ice and that after five hours of pressure and sub-norma 1 temperature the first boil weeVh cahhe out with a little palmleaf fan in on9 hand and an ice cream cone in the other-we did not learn the fate of tne other weevil; human nature could stand no more"
 ! There are more things in Georgia Horatio. tha n are dreamed of in your 1 philosophy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
Murders Still Frequent In Jefferson County

WIT ., ten n murder % case, s'a..is set for of the Jefferson county circuit court for the week beginning May 12, Jeff ferson county maintains it's ugly repu- tation for homicides.
 When prohibition orators were abroad in the land and battles were being fought between the "wets" and "drys" the numerous killings in the Birmingham district were attributed largely to liquor and it was predicted that with the abolition of the saloon there would be a great reduction in the annual number of homicides.
 Yet human life is still cheap in lief ferson county and the county jail con- tains nine of the alleged murderers whose cases will come to trial next month. There has probably never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
Spring Painting and the City Beautiful

"A LONG with cleanup week in Bir- GN mingham let's start a cam paign of house painting. It is an in- different landlord or home owner who does not appreciate the value of paint.
 No frame building should go un- painted longer than two years. Many well-built dwelling in this town has been without fresh paint for five years or more, and of course every one of them has a poor, not to say dilapi- dated appearance.
 While the war lasted, there was ex- cuse for allowing your house to wear 1 it's old coat, but there is no good ex- cuse for neglect now. The economy of paint is obvious. It pays. And in addition to the economic value of paint lit is a distinct factor in the city beau tiful scheme.
 Even if the house painters wage is higher than it was before the war, the cost of two good coats is not ex- cessive. With paint-up movement we'll started next week Birmingham will look like a different city before m id dS11mmar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
AN OLD SCORE TO SETTLE

CarolineI Dawes Appleton, in Golfers
 Weekly.
 There is in Paderewski a certain sunny malice, an irrelevant humor which spurs his owh strength and strikes a laugh form the most weary war worker or associate.
 There is a man in France who has fought with the silver eagle blazoned upon his scarlet shoulder strap, who has smiled in the face of danger at the memory of Paderewskrs whimsical ad- monition as he bade him goodbye at the gate of New York pier
 "Do something for mel" the masters voice rose over the din of motor trucks and the shrieking sirens of river traf- fic The embarking Pole turned back expectant Paderewski was holding hard to the brim of his soft hat and cupping his voice against the wind and noise.
 'Tf you get chance to pick your German, try to find the man who bought my Minuet" He only paid me 200 marks for it-and he got all rightsr
 It ranlsles, that forty y-odd dollars for fairy creation of his youth. It was written in 1885, on summers holiday at St. Malo. in Brittany. in those far off days when fame was a chimeric dream and his worldly wealth trem- bled beneath the strain of an extra coffee in modest cafe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
THE SAAR VALLEY

many small towns, such as s|aarburg. Saarlouis, serrig. Merzig and Taben.
 Near the Lorraine border is Saar- brucken, metropolis of the region, with only 5000 population Not all the coal mined in the Saarbrucken fields, by any means, is used in local indus, tries. Much of 1t went, before the war, up the Saar and through the canals to Italy and Switzerland.
 ''Saarbrucken, but 40 miles northeast
 of Metz and 45 miles from the French border, was the Fort Sumter of the Franco-Prussian war, scene iof the first and last success of the French arms in 1870, and the one brief foot hold the French gained on German soil There Napoleon III, with his son at his side, led the unprepared French forces against a vanguard of the army of Prince Frederick Charles. The Ger mans practiced an adroit sort of cam ouflage. Day by day the same sol- diers would appear in different unl- forms and new caps, leading the French to believe they were opposing a much greater force than was on hand at that point. ''When the Emperor's son fired the first mitrailleuse he war was on, the Prussians retreating in few hours
 and in Paris the victory was hailed as a smashing initial success. Later it was learned that fewer than 100 men were killed on both sides. Four days later the Germans recaptured Saar- brucken and proceeded toward Paris.
 Nearly every town along the Saar has some historic landmark. At Saar- burg are the ruins of the old castle of the electors of Treves; at Serrig is x chapel where Frederick William " laid away the remains of King John of Bohemia; Taben has many ancient abbeys; at Mettlach is an eighth cer- tury home of the Benedictines which was utilized by an earthenwaTe fac tory more than a century ago; at Mer- zig is Roman cathedral of the twelfth century, and Saarlouis is the birth place of Marshal Ney. An old castle at Saarbrucken saw the rule of the counts of Ardennes, the proprietorship ip of Nassau, the garrisons of France, the
 iron rule of Germany, and now awaits the decision of the Paris con-
 ference for its future fate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-19
Naming Public Places

T learned one thing in my stay in England" said Hugh Martin, land that
 is that the hotels, inns and villas are very much more interestingly and pic- turesquely named than they are here in America. There is subtle magic in q name. Take for instance the name
 suggested for the new viaduct, for the
 word Rainbow brings up all kinds O. fancies. Arthur Crowder' was right, the calling of the new pier at East Lake The Public Utility Building does not suggest any romance, but is en- tirely too utilitarian, whereas Persn- | ing Pier acts like a tonic"