Daily Leader (Newspaper) - June 17, 1916, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin THE Generally fair tonight and Sunday DAILY LEADER RIVER FORECAST Rising stages are expected from be low Knowlton to Grand Rapids THIRD YEAR NO 645 GRAND RAPIDS WIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 17 1916 TEN CENTS A WEEK TROOP MOVEMENT WILL MEAN WAR 0 S FORCES CAN MARCH ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION Any Movement of Forces Except North to be Considered Hostile Act WHO WILL BE AILY LEADER WILD ANIMAL CONTEST WILL CLOSE TO MORROW AT NOON Special to the Daily Leader by Wire Chihuahua City June Jacinto Trevino commanding the army of the north has advised General J J American expeditionary commander that any of American troops under him from their present line to the south east or west would be con a hostile act and a signal to commence warfare General Trevino acted upon specific insl ructions from General Carranza Laredo Texas June that any American military force at tempting to cross Rio Grande in the Laredo district in pursuit of bandits would meet with armed resistence was confirmed today on what is believed to be unimpeachable authority Carranza troops in Neuvo Laredo it is said have instructions to put up an energetic fight to resist any pos sible crossing into Mexico of American forces regardless of the cause AMERICAN CONSUL COMES FROM MEXICO Special to the Daily Leader by Wire Laredo Texas June C Hanna United States consul gen eral at the Monterey one of the two remaining American consuls in Mexico accompanied by a dozen other Americans arrived here today They are very reticent as to the object of their visit FLOWERS FOR THE CITYS SICK FLOWER DAY AT CONGREGA TIONAL SUNDAY BRING FLOWERS Next Sunday will be known as Flow er Day at the Congregational Sunday school and all attending are requested to bring some kind of flowers cut flowers potted flowers anything in the shape of flowers are wanted These will be used in decorat ing the church and will afterwards be distributed among the sick of the city whether members of the school or not This Big Summer Special of the Congregational Sunday School wiV open at 10 oclock and it promises t be one of the big things this tion has undertaken There is nothing more appropriat than flowers for the sick and this ac tion the Sunday school will certain Jy be appreciated The new Congregational will furnish the music and among other features will be a hunt for bible verses referring to flowers This summer special will be en tirely different from the regular Sun day school and promises to be a big success First reserved seat tickets to Barnes Wild Animal Circus Second reserved seat tickets to Barnes Wild Ani mal Circus Third reserved seat tickets to Barnes Wild Ani mal Circus Fourth reserved seat tickets to Barnes Wild Animal Circus Fifth general admis sion tickets to the Ani mal Circus Next twenty prizes one general admission ticket to the circus DAMAGE AT MARSHES BIG MADE THAT DAMAGE TO CRANBERRIES BY HAIL IS LARGE Late reports from the marshes state that the greatest damage by hail was clone to the Gaynor Potter marshes and at the Experimental station At the Gaynor marsh the damage may reach 50 percent while the average damage is about 15 percent The other marshes escaped with very little damage the storm passing between them promises Neutral Trade Protection London June Robert Ce cil British Minister of Blockade who has returned from Paris where he attended a conference of the allies stated that while tho blockade of will not bo loosened tho al lies are steps to give further protection to neutral trade WINNER OF THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL WINS TWO EDUCATIONAL CON TESTS HERE THIS WEEK Miss Ruth Jurgensen 1 years old who attends district No 1 school in tho town of Lincoln Miss Ora Ingle teacher is not only the champion speller of Wood county but also stands at the head of all the rural schools as a rapid calculator During the rural school graduation held iu this city during the week a county spelling and rapid calculation contest wiis held The contestants wero the winners from each of the Say you kids are you in on this big ree distribution of reserved seat tickets Hundreds of young ters have already handed in their ists and many more are coming You till have time to tiy and win one of hese prizes the lists do not have to be handed in until tomorrow noon Some of the lists handed in are very good Many amazing new animals have been brought to light and it is a real pleasure to see how Industriously some of the youngsters lave worked There are a few of the contestants have not lived up to the rules Tey have used the letters and some of them have given the names of domestic animals There are twentysix prizes and the names of the winners will be poster in the front window of the Daily Lead er office tomorrow afternoon as soon as we know the results Every prize winner must be at the Daily Leader office immediately afte the parade Monday at which time Al G Barnes the worlds greatest anima scientist and trainer and owner of the big Barnes shows will meet the chil dren present them with their prizes and shake hands with them Now prize winners be prompt so as not to keep Mr Barnes waiting if you want to see him He is a busy man but he loves children and he wants to sec the little folks who have written so much about his pets And the Daily Leader is glad it was able to help some of the little ones see this marvelous collection of performing animals The Barnes show is a truly great circus One big thrilling on the program of the Barnes Wild Ani mal Circus is a lion act 30 of the full grown jungle bred African maneat ers being assembled therein This group represents the largest lion act ever successfully presented to the public and the entire lot are handled at one time by one Louie Roth a lion trainer of interna tional fame The group if placed on the market would easily sell foi 850000 Other thrilling wild animal nos are represented by Miss Adelaide who appears with a large number o leopards jaguars and mixe group and one of the hardest to con trol Miss Mable Strk shows traint Royal and Siberian tige s ll most vicious and known Thirty grizzly i i bind tid polar ac by Thornt are at p m aril the KCW sit bar at 0 MANY WILL GO FROM HERE SPECIAL TRAIN WILL BE RUN TO MERRILL TOMORROW FOR LUTHERAN The St Paul road will run a special train to Merrill tomorrow leaving here at a m and returning leave Merrill at p m The picnic and concert of the Lu which will be held there will call nearly 250 Grand Rapids people The choirs from this city who will take part in the big mixed choir will number 125 mem bers and there will be as many others going from here There will be about 365 voices con sisting of the choirs of Grand Rapids Nekoosa Marshfield and Wausau and Merrill The festival will close in the eve ning with a concert given in the Bad ger opera house The concert will start at p in sharp The first ight numbers of the program con ist of sacred songs Among these he songs to be rendered by the mass hoir Gott Gruesse Dich and the Jubel Psalm from Molitor as well as the chorus from Faust should prove to be especially interest ng The two Penitent and The Voice that Sang Alone promise o be a rare treat The second part of the program of secular songs and instru solos among which a splendid Tyrolian Folk Sonf and the senti mental Evening Song from Suchs dorf which composes one song of mix ed choirs will without doubt be very interesting The songs of the dual choirs such as Sehnsucht Fruehling am Rhein aus Abbazia and The Cottage on the Hill will without question be well re A splendid violin solo Romance from Svendsen and a brillian piano solo Mazurka from Gustavus John son provide for a welcome variation in the program The St Johns band will open the first part of the program with Gloria from and the second art with Lustspiel Overture by TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER SUNK Destroyer Eden Sunk in The English Channel Last Night Special to the Daily Leader by Wire London June torpedo boat destroyer Eden sank in the Eng lish channel last night a collision The admiralty has officially announced 31 of the crew saved There arc three officers miss ing The Edens displacement was 555 tons 220 feet long and had a speed of 262 knots an hour Her arma ment consisted of four 3 inch guns and two 18 inch torpedo tubes She was built in 1903 RUSSIAN CAVALRY SUFFERS DEFEAT Special to the Daily Leader by Wire Berlin June Hungarian troops south of the Dniester river in Galicia defeated the Russian cavalry is the official statement issued by th army ters CIRCUS ARRIVES TOMORROW 5ARNES BIG SHOWS WILL AR RIVE HERE TOMORROW SHOW AT SAND HILL The Al G Barnes big wild anima will in Grand Rapids to morning The big tents wil e pitched at the Sand hill at the end i Third street south It seems that the proposition sub by the city authorities to hem to show within the city limits vas refused the circus people claiming t a hold up and land just outside the limits was rented It is claimed that the circus will un oad near the grounds and their cars then switched down town to the Northwestern yards REASSESSMENT BORDERED YESTERDAYS HEARING RE IN ORDER FOR RE ASSESSMENT State Tax Commissioner Lyons or dered a reassessment of lands in the towns of Grand Rapids and Port Ed wards following his investigation in to the assessments which have been made by the assessors of these two owns The hearing was held at the court louse yesterday and from the evidence submitted it was established without a doubt that the assessments made in those two towns were not according to law The trouble grew out of the fac that unimproved land has been as sessed above their valuation whil improved lands were lowered DELINQUENT CERTIFICATES ARGE NUMBER OF LAND DES SOLD AT RECENT TAX SALE The total number of delinquent tax sold by County Treasurer Anderson Tuesday were 1305 This is larger number than sold a year ago he amount received had not yet been Dialled up this morning These certificates draw interest at he rate of ten per cent per annum nd this rate of interest must be paid or six months even though the certi are redeemed at any time prior o the expiration of six months Tax formerly drew interest at 25 per cent per annum but this rate vas educed by the legislature some rs rgo OLD RESIDENT PASSES AWAY AGED WEST SIDE LADY DIED A1 HER HOME HERE LAST NIGHT BASE BALL TOMORROW WAUSAU LUMBER JACKS WILL Mrs Emma Letwon died at he home Grand Avenue last night i 8 oclock after an illness ver a period of many months Deceased was born in New York stal Oct 9 1846 and was nearly 70 yea old She has resided in this city fo years The funeral will be held on lay afternoon from the home at clock and from the M E church Rev Logan officiating rural schools in the county and w to determine who the champions were It fell to the lot of 1 year old Ruth to win first place in both contests The prize in the spelling contest is free trip to the state fair this fall she will compete in the state spelling contest Miss Caroline Peterson of District No 2 Lincoln town teacher Miss Ella Clark won second place PLAY IN THIS CITY TO MORROW The Grand Rapids base ball lean will meet the Wausau Lumberjack in this city tomorrow afternoon Si far this season the local team lum not lost a game and they hope to up this winning streak Polzin and will be the bat lory for the Lumberjacks and and for the Rapids The game will be called at oclock CITY WAS PRETTY SIGHT ORNAMENTAL LIGHTS ILLUMIN ATED DOWN TOWN DISTRICT WILL HAVE MUSIC FOR EAGLES DANCE TO BE FURNISHED BY PICKED ORCHESTRA The orchestra which will furnish the music for the Eagles dance Thursday night will consist of eleven pieces as follows violin E Lambert H Gog gins cello D Ellis Ed K flute W II Heath corneas Goo Ellis W T Nobles trombone Prof Bliss II Ticknor LAST EVENING Grand Rapids was illuminated last evening as never before and the down town district presented a very beauti ful sight From the St Paul depot to the library building there were 3750 elec tric lights These are the electrical streamers put up for the Eagles state conven tion which work was completed yes and the current turned on for the first time last night There are 125 of these streamers hung across the street each having 0 lights WILL ACT AS JUDGES JUDGES FOR EAGLES BIG PAR ADE ON THURSDAY HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED The big Eagles parade to be held on Thursday of next week promises to he the biggest affair of the kind ever seen here The following gentle men havn been named to act as the judges Goo W Mend Mayor Ellis and Otto Koenius
