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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
A FTSHERMAN'S LUCK

Twas Saturday night and all was
quiet
Along the banks of the creek.
The fisherman shivered in the camp
fires light
And longed for blankets thick
But the bottles they brought and
the fish they sought
Were many and very large.
In fact so large that some of them
thought
They would haul them home on a
barge.
The campfire flickered and died,
The fisherman shivered and tried
To sleep and purchance to dream,
But one can't, with rock meath his
beam.
But the. morning dawned cold and
fine,
With an abundance of warm-shine
Down the creek they splash
Where the waters swirl and dash
And the great speckled beauties lie.
Great beauties did say? All no, not
so!
About foru inches long you know.
But on they go till the sun has set,
Cussin' and sayin' I'll get him yet.
Oh the coin they've spent
And the rods they've bent,
And the hooks they have hung in
the trees.
The fish they catch the poor things
they stretch
Till there's nothing left but breeze.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
NEKOOSA

J. Golkey, who has been visiting
here for few weeks left Friday for
his home at GAINESVILLE.
Lawrence Smoody, left the latter
part of last week for Sartell, Mimi,
He made the trip by auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Helke were
guests of friends at Babcock a few
hours Sunday
Mr.. an dMrs. FL. C. Cleveland left
Saturday for Ind annapolis, InG.,
where they were called by the death
of a relative.
A large number Of high school pu-
pills drove to Lake Emily where they
enjoyed picnic.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Kellogg and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Rohr and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. God
dard and son, Frederick, drove I'd
Sunset Lake Sunday.
Mrs. A. T. Boles and son, Donald
who spent the past winter in Phoenix,
Arizona, arrived home Sunday. DON
aid is very much improved in health.
Mrs. F. Babcock left Monday morn
ing for Tomahawk to spend the week
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin Ferber and
children were guests of relatives at
Junction City Sunday.
Miss Pearl Barber left Monday for
Milladore to spend a few days with
relatives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
new Way
TOFINANCE
FORESTRY
(Reprinted from The Milwaukee
JournaD.


JournaD.
There comes from the south a
novel and interesting plan to SIM
plify the most difficult problem of
state forestry, the financial side.
In one southern state group of
lumbermen who own large areas of
cut-over land that is adapted to
growing timber have offered to sell
these tracts to the state at the fig
ures at which they are assessed for
taxation and to accept in payment
40-year bonds to be issued by the
state.
Under this plan the state could
acquire, without initial outlay, large
areas suitable for forest reserves.
This would leave only the work Of
planting and caring for the trees to
be paid for, as it progressed, by di
rect taxation. At the | of 40 years,
the life of the bonds, the timber thus
grown could be cut and marketed
and the bonds, could be redeemed
out of the proceeds.
One advantage of this plan is that
the state can sell bonds bearing
low rate of interest and in this way
the overhead expense of growing for
ests would be noticeably reduced.
The states opportunity to purchase
cut-over land at its assessed calu-
alton ought to insure a reasonable
price though it would not necessarily
do so. Here in Wisconsin, for ex-
ample, forest land has sometimes
been assessed at a figure far below
its actual value, but, on the other
hand, it has not infrequently been
assessed at a figure considerably in
excess of its selling value. A state
buying land at the assessed valua-
ton might get it at low average
price. 1t might be desirable, how
ever, to provide optional means of
determining what the state should pay
in some cases.
All in all, the plan merits serious
consideration. It may open new
way to facilitate forestry work, to
produce great natural wealth, to
supply lumber that is needed more
and more each year, to furnish raw
material for wood-using industries
including pulpwood for paper mills
and to benefit the state in social as
well as in economic ways.
In Wisconsin, of course it woulc
be necessary to amend the consti
tuition before bonds could be ISSUED
to finance the purchase of land, bu
there should be no hesitation abou
taking this step if the plan is fount
to be sound and feasible. Certain i
: is that timber must be grown her,
on quite large scale and it is jus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25

/ home Is far more deeply interested
in the welfare OF his neighborhood,
his ward, city, state and country. 1t
is obvious then that it will be agood
thing for these various political and
geographical locations if he be made
| to own a home.
Perhaps a Cure.
We have period of depression at
present as all know. What more Gre
atlve Of optimism, of an active labor
market, of renewed faith and ambi-
ton, of a quickened production. could
be suggested than a general move to
build homes by all the thousands of
men who should be building them.
buying them, owning them, but who
for any one of many reasons are now
renters? If national campaign could
be organized and launched with the
support and cooperation of all civic
boards of trade, real estate boards,
organizations of builders, lumber deal
ers, brick manufacturers, in fact
every producing group that is crea-
tor of materials used in building,
there is little doubt but what. every
newspaper in the country that has the
interests of its city at heart, and
that means all papers, would join in
heart cooperation.
An Endless Circle.
The amount of work thus created
would be lmitless, the pocket books
opened uncauntable, the trade stimu-
lation beyond calculation and the
very business boom thus created in |
turn would make new individuals !
capable and willing to build and buy
homes and thus go further along a
move that seems we'll fated to be an !
endless circle of good.
The recent war brought home to |
this nation as never before what a
home may mean and how dearly it
should be held, especially to those
who were over seas came the realiza-
ton that the nations are built of the
homes and the greatest unity of pur-
pose and unity of ambition rested
where homes were owned, not by the
few but by the many.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
WHY NOT A
Home OWNING
CAMPAIGN
Such a Move, If Successful, Would
Stimulate Every Activity in the
Nation.
Work for the Jobless and Orders for
the Silent Factories Can Be
FOreseen.
BY REX GROVER WHITE

Editor community News Service
Sore feet, owned by waiter, were
the cause of a brutal Staying in an
eastern city. A celebrated phychar-
trist traced the effect of the long con-
tinued irritation that tangled the
nerves and unbalanced the judgment
of their victim until, upon being rep
remanded for some minor lack of at
tention, he lost all control of himself
and struck the customer on the head
with a heavy silver dish cover.
America today is suffering from
sore feet, it's finance, its economic
status, its internal irritations, are all
tweaking at their base and how long
it will be before we, as a nation, go
mad and do things we will regret,
may be a matter Of speculation. To
remove some of these irritations is
matter that is up to the individual
citizen more than to any organized
action on the part of bodies of citizens
created for executive, advisory Or
other purposes. One of the first ways
! to create contentment, not slothfull-
ness, and ambition, a new love of
county, state and city, is to cause
these units to have something they
can be proud of, work for, find a goal
to battle toward, and reward worth
while at the end. If these units can
be made to do so their united efforts,
although carried on Independently
will surely react for a greater pros
perity for the whole and thus relieve
many of the irritations already men
toned.
What of This Idea.
With this as a general basis on
which to speculate it is not possible
that the mind of America can be re-
moved from the ache of its feet il
concentrated on something else anC
especially If that something else is g
curative agent that is working all the
time toward national, spiritual anG
economic health.
| What is man most proud of, most
eager to work for, most DESTROYS tc
retain once secured, most insistant
upon remaining fine and a center fol
all his own hopes and ambitions as
well as those he entertains for hi:
family? The answer is, of course, the
home. The home may be in a renter
fat, it is true, but it needs no deer
speculation or careful consideration
to see that the man who owns his owl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
OH THESE MEN!

a bright little girl, aged four, and
her brother, aged five, were spending
the night with their aunt. When bed
time came, the aunt asked them how
they said their prayers. The little
girl answered, sometimes say them
to muddie's knees and sometimes to
the side of the bed"
"And how about you, little boy!"
asked the aunt.
ooh, don't need to pray; I sleep
with y."-Carpenter Steel News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25

His Excellency DR.. Otto Wiedfeldt,
the first German Ambassador to the
United States since the recall of Won
Bernstorff arrived recently. Before
the war DR.. Wiedfeldt was a railroad
man. He is credited with devising the
German bread card system employed
during the war. Before becoming an
Ambassador he was a director of the
Krupp Works
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
THINGS TO REMEMBER

Dig deep and make soil fine on sur
face
Sprinkle the soil every day until the
plants are up.
Destroy all weeds as fast as they
appear.
Stir the soil after every rain, al
ways keeping the surface loose.
Water the garden thoroughly when
the soil becomes dry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25

as certain that for the present, and
for years to come, the state is the
only agency that can engage in the
undertaking.
Doubtless there are some who OPP
pose issuing state bonds for any pur-
pose whatsoever. There is all the
difference in the world, however, be-
tween issuing bonds that mean out
lay without any return whatsoever
and issuing bonds for works that
will bring returns not only sufficient
to pay principal and interest, but all
other expenses as well, and that will
yield snug dividends in addition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
TAKING NO CHANCES

An old lady at the ticket window
had purchased her ticket and handed
the ticket agent her money.
Change ut Youngstown, lady" he
said
'None of them tricks, young fellow,
I'll get my change before | leave
here" she replied.-H. B. Knight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
Our 1unrk

There's more in task than the money it brings,
Each duty comes laden with numerous things.
There's chance to be proud and a chance to exut,
And the world may be helped by the final result
Though grim it may seem, if you'll open your eyes,
You may see that behind it your character lies.
There's more in task than its silver and gold,
The joy Of your children it's fashioned to hold
The dreams which you treasure for all of your years
Are held in the duty which sordid appears;
There's road to glory save this one for you,
For all men are known by the work that they do.
There is this in task more than gold at the end
The respect of mankind and the love of friend.
For the thing that you fashion shall make you mar;
By your deeds the world visions the that you are
And your hopes for your children depend on the way
You shall finish the work that is given you today.
Do it well Do it WE'LL Let your task have your best,
For all you hold dear you are facing the test;
The praise of your neighbours your self-respect.
And the right to meet all men face front and erect
The peace of the future, your fortune and fame
Are all in the task that must carry your name
BY Edgar A. Guest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
OUTLINES
LEGION ACTIVITY
Commander MacNider Asserts Veter.
ans Are Busy Combating Evils
and Helping in Construction.
Points to Radicalism as Menace to
Nation Safety-Busy With Aid to
All Americans.
BY HENFORD MACNIDER
National Commander.

National Commander.
Editors Note:-Henford MacNider
is known to all Americans as the ac-
tive head of The American Legion. His
war record is fine one and to that
he is steadily adding a record for
clean leadership of a powerful organ
ization. The American Legion must
be counted in on every national
activity or movement. The men of
The Legion believe in and trust Com
mander MacNider AS an American
you can do the same in reading the
following.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
HELPED HER-WILL HELP
OTHERS

If you suffer from rheumatic, pains,
backache, stiff joints, sore muscles,
biliousness, dizziness, lameness, tired
feeling or other symptoms of kidney
trouble, try Foley Kidney Pills, Mrs,
i. Lechner, 1929 Main Ave, Clifton,
Il. j., writes: "Foley Kidney Pills
helped me, and they will surely help
TIERS" Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
A REVELATION

Bluff-'You ought to have been at
church today The sermon was q
wonder"
Ruff-"So I heard. Who was tell
ing you?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
Christian Science Church

Sunday Service-10:45 A. M.
Wednesday evening, Testimonial
r1eeting 7:45 o'clock
Lesson Subject-Doctrine of Atone
iaent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25

following.
The guiding motive of the American
| Legion is to keep alive at least some
part Of the wonderful spirit of service
that animated everyone in 1917 and
1918. If even a flicker of that spirit
| can be preserved and turned to good
account Legion men feel that their
organization will not have existed in
vain
The application of such a spirit of
service to national problems may be
known as Americanism. The Legion
has already succeeded in passing or
is working to pass in every state
school laws covering the teaching of
The American Constitution. 1t is
working to build up in the coming
generation vivid realization of what
American citizenship is, what
American institutions are and how
and why they should be respected.
Many states already are carrying out
in the schools complete programs
written by the Legion which will
inspire new kind of citizenship in
the years that are not far away.
The Legion is working actively to
combat radicalism. 1t has taken an
active and very influential stand
against lcass and sect selfshness and
intolerance in every form. The Legion
is working toward the passage Of
sound immigration laws and for
adequate military and naval defense
for the country.
Work is Practical.
The Legion's work is very practical
and not visionary and it is local-in
thousands of American communities
and not merely national. Almost
everyone of the 1000 Legion posts
can show concrete examples of good
work done for the community. But in
! Kansas, a post adopts Boy Scout
troop in Wisconsin the Legion stands
sponsor for the education and citizen
ship of an alien who had worn the
American uniform; in Missouri post
plants trees on highway, in New
York, the Legion raises $4,000 to
buy sanitarium for the tubercular
ex-service men. The examples are
myriad.
Then there is the Interallied
| Veterans Federation, that was practi-
cally sponsored by the Legion. 1t is
a dream but it is near to coming true
and its possibilities are far-reaching.
| The Federation embraces representa-
tives of ex-service mems organizations
in all the allied countries. 1t aims at
such an interchange of ideas and such
preservation of the spirit of COM
radeship of the war, that conflict or
even i'll will between late allies must
be impossible.
The Federation has made great
strides in organization. 1t has ex-
pected that even more will be accom-
plished after the convention of dele
gates from the allied countries in New
Orleans in October, just prior to the
Legion national convention
The Legion has always been first in
the fight to obtain justice for the
disabled of the late war. Surely, it
is a genuine community service for
the Legion to lead the way in demand
ing proper care for those comrades of
ours who came back blind, MANNED
and broken in health and body and
who must live the war forever in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25

Don't knock. Everybody likes the
robin better than the woodpecker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25
LET HER DOWN EASY

Young Husband-"Did you make
those biscuits, my dear?"
His wife-"Yes, darling"
Her Husband-"Well, I'd rather
you would not make any more, sweet
heart"
His wife-"Why not, m ylove?"
Her Observation-Disclosures, angel of
mine, you are too light for such heavy
work. Exchange
Team work will do more than any
thing else to prevent accidents.
Are you doing all you can every day
to prevent accidents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-05-25

Lets Save a Bit of Old Wisconsin,
, 1922-10-19
You Auto Know

That n of the principal
reasons that tires wear out be-
fore their guarantee has ex-
PRED is carelessness in driving
along poorly paved streets or
rough roads. The ''shell holes
which appear in macadam or
asphalt streets especially in the
spring, after the ice has loos-
ened Il portion of the hard sur-
face, are particularly hard on
tires, for the sharp edges may
cash the fabric and the jar in
cident to the sudden rise and
fall may give rise to bruises
and blisters which injure the in
ner casing.
The habit of driving in ruts
or along car-tracks, is also very
hard on tires, for the projecting
sides rub against the side of the
tire above the tread and soon
wear this away, making it easy
for water to enter and rot the
fabric. In addition. turning cor
ners at a high rate of speed or
skidding of any klnd-whether
on n wet street, or in starting
or stopping too suddenly-also
grinds the tires and causes
needless wear. Habits of this
kind leave their marks plainly
upon the tires and prevent the
driver from securing the refund
to which he is entitled II the
guaranteed mileage is not forth
coming.
t9 by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
, 1922-10-19
Zoninq In ST. Paul.

1t would be futile to attempt to
alter the present coming ordinance so
as to make it acceptable to everybody.
Any restrictions on the kind of build
.ngs to be permitted in different zones
or the laying out of zones thai would
n'+tt no objection whatever would be
worthless. The very idea of coming
Involves taking away from some prop
erty owners the power to use their
property in n way that would he iniu-
rious to their nelghbors. Some such
owners will object in any case. not
wishing to have any limitations made.
IL the restrictions are made so yngue
that they permit "A certain amount Of
depreciation of values by unnelgh-
borly building, there might as well not
be any restrictions.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
, 1922-10-19
HOME -
TOWN -
HE.LI. |.
TO PREVENT SOIL EROSION
Cities Should Copy Idea of Railroads
and Make More Use OF
Rambler Roses.

Experiments have proved that moth
ing prevents soil erosion on steep
banks more efrectualy than the ram
bier roses. These decorative plants
spread their root system over large
areas, are sturdy in cane growth and
establish a mat over n wider surface
tina any other available plant.
Thes roses are highly ornamental.
a fact impressed on all railroad trav-
elers. The right of way is frequently
made gay with blankets of red and
pink blooms wherever soil erosion is
to be feared. In the rocky cuts IA cur
tam or color is made to give a pictur-
esque touch to the surroundings that
under ordinary circumstances do not
reward the search for the beautiful.
n green of the shelving banks
presents a harmonious background
for the bright roses whose luxurlant
towering bespeaks the care with
which they are tended.
Many railroads have beautifed their
rights Of way and station grounds.
Flowers and shrubs are maintained
at most of their stations, especially
in suburban communities and import
ant towns in which land is not too
high in price. In this work the climb
ing rose almost invariably plays a
part, but it is not for beauty alone
that it is used on cuts and on steep
banks. In such paintings it holds the
soil fast, checks earth slides and CON
tributes to the safety of the road. The
roses delight the travellers eye in the
blossOming season and protect his life
twelve months in the year.-New York
Herald.
, 1922-10-19

first section of paving. 1t must be per-
mitted to harden under expert eur
ing" supervision for at least 30 days.
At the end of this period 1t may then
be opened to traffic while work is he
gun upon the second strip.
Two Principal Virtues.
Although a slight increase in orig
inal cost may be charged against this
method, it has two principal virtues
which commend it to the taxpayer
and the motorist alike. Doing away
as it does with the detour, it cuts
cost of motor operation more than
half aside from the big item of de-
creased danger and loss of time and
patience. Secondly, it eliminates the
cross-wise cracks which appear in
some hard-surface roads through let
ting down of the grading after the
paving is completed. The joint where
the two sides come together leaves
an almost imperceptible line in the
exact center of the roadway. This is
known as a construction joint and
allows just sufficient play to obvi-
ate h chance that imperfect grading
or poor designing on the part of the
contractor might result in unsightly
cracks.
The accompanying illustration
shows this system in use in Litch-
field county. Connecticut, in foothills
of the Berkshires. where it is re-
ported to be holding up under the
most sever traffic conditions.
, 1922-10-19
MOST LASTING OF MEMORIALS
Every City and Town in the Country
Should Set Out Trees to
Honor Heroes.

Since the day Bryant made the
planting of a tree poetical by his fa-
nous poem tree planting has taken on
more significance. When, at the sign.
Ing Of the armistice, the American For
estry association proposed the idea of
memorial trees, the suggestion was re-
ceived with instant approval. Since
then trees have been planted by in.
dividuals, schools, colleges, churches,
patriotic organizations-not alone for
the man who gave his life to his coun-
try, but to honor those who offered
their lives.
Hundreds of acres have been pur-
chased by some cities, where memorial
trees will be placed, a tree for every
one in war service from a given coufS
ty. Roads of Remembrance is an
other idea of the American Forestry
association, which has been taken up
by women's clubs, automobile clubs
and highway associations. Elaborate
Instructions have been issued from
time to time by the association on the
value of planting trees, the best kind
of trees for planting, the way to OBJ
tain the stock, the preparations for
planting, injuries to trees, insect en-.
emies, care after planting ana select.
ed lists of trees suitable for planting
In the various states, so that the eff
forts at memorials of this kind may
not be made in vain.