Wisconsin Valley Leader (Newspaper) - March 17, 1904, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin PER YEAR GRAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN THURSDAY MAR VOL III NUMBER Advance Showing I Carpets Rugs Lace Curtains Draperies i I j JOHNSON HILL CO Carpet Lace tain and Drapery department this spring will be something of a revelation to the ladies and housewives of Grand Rapids and vicinity who have not visited this department since its location on the second floor of our dry goods store It is chock full of desireable furnishings for the parlor sitting room or any other part of your home Our stock in these lines is the biggest contains the greatest variety and at the lowest prices of any store in central Wiscon sin We carry in stock everything that you may want in these lines and at prices that compete with the great department stores of the big cities We take a pride in being able to furnish you with thing you want and in having the goods on hand to immediately supply you Besides we have an pert man in charge of the department to cut and fit the goods to your rooms an expert rug maker and one who will be able to give valuable counsel when you are making your selections Housecleaning time will soon be upon us and for this reason we have decided to make an advance showing of the goods in this department Come and look them over We shall be pleased to show you the goods whether you are yet ready to buy or not Below we quote a few prices to give you an idea of how they range generally also a few that may tempt you to make a few changes in the furnishings of your home that will make it a anter place to live in next summer A A A Carpets Leicestershire all wool two-ply carpets worth at this sale Leicestershire and Philadelphia all wool filled carpets worth 55 and 60 cents pieces of Windsor Tapestry Brussels at per per ya Large line of sample Brussels per y ard from Mattings China Japanese Mattings a very large I variety ranging iu price per yard I I If to this sale linoleum per square yard linoleum per square yard Rugs See our big stock before buy Brussel rug per pair Real lace curtains per pair Bagdad worth 40.00 for Lace Curtains Draperies Ruffled lace curtains per pair f roui Bonne lace curtains per pair Panels from Rope portiers at from Johnson Hill Co MUNICIPAL MATTERS The City Warming Up to the Importance of the Spring Election The agitation over the city's financial condition that has been going on for the past three months or more has resulted in some good already It has brought into the field as a candidate for mayor one of the most conservative and best business men in the city L are still open for good men but it would take a mighty good man to beat Kash and it is not probable that any other candidates for the office will put in an appearance this spring City treasurer and alderman will now occupy the attention of the and if everybody turns out cuses and take the interest that they should take in these matters the election will prove a ratification meeting for the caucus nominees Strange to say no republican seems to want the city office nor so far as we know any other city office although the treasurer's office pays about a good pay for the work and time required in the collection of taxes and other duties of the office The school election which is to be leld at the old Howe high school ng 21st is just as important as he city election and every tax payer to see economy put in tice in this department of the city's governmental affairs will attend this s and exercise his duties as a citizen by voting his sentiments in the selection of members of the school board High School Notes Mr gave the eighth grade an examination last Friday afternoon Miss Reeves is again taking up the chorus worK in the high room The music was greatly missed by all the students Mrs J H Landry and friends were visitors at the high room Friday afternoon Tiie regular monthly examinations were given the last three days of this week The Senior Latin class had an ion on Book V of Vergil's Aeneid ng finished that book last week The Junior held a Tuesday night after school to discuss a Junior program to be given in the ni n tu re Rhetorical programs will soon be aken up again students who belong to neither the laurel Society or Debating Club will take part in hem The following Was the program for he girls Laurel Society last Monday Corriveau Chandos Baruch that the world owes more to navigation than railways Ruth Emmons Stella Negative Antoinette Smith Mable rooks Schroeder Dupre on the debate decided in negative The Senior German class have now finished Die a drama of life by Freytag but what will be taken up next has not yet been upon The girls basket-ball team is ng for n game with Black River Fall's for Saturday night ions are being issued and a reception rill be held after the game Wisconsin Workshop for the Blind MILWAUKEE Wis Feb In order to give all adult blind residents of our state an opportunity to work and eventually become able to support selves last year's legislature authorized the establishment of a workshop in which blind persons might be instructed in some trade and employed at some suitable work they to receive the margin between the cost of material and the price of the manufactured article The Board of Control selected a able place iu the city of appointed a manager and instructor vided all necessary tools and furniture and already has eighteen blind persons employed in various branches of industry such as making baskets dolls carriages slippers making and repairing mattresses and chairs The earnings during the first two or three months while learning the trade are of course very small and it is fore necessary that until the person be- comes efficient at his work and is able to Milk law governing the sale of milk j the annual school meeting of Grand food product on which many of I school district number one f} FUDGING ON MILK Dealer in Grand Rapids Violates State on Milk Vending There are stringent provisions in our state This food the babies in the land must be reared by bottle has been wisely guarded by law from adulteration either by separating the butter fat from it or by mixing other ingredients in it to cheapen and destroy its purity Several families with babies discovered that their children were ing on the milk were feeding them Protest to the milk man was treated with contempt when one man with more nerve than his fellows took samples of the milk purchased and had a local chemist test the milk on several occasions NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL TING Agreeable to section 2 article 9 Grand Rapids city charter to schools notice is hereby given that These tests have been preserved and April 9 1904 elect commissioners and such general business as may come before it will be held at the Howe high school situated in the second ward of the of Grand Monday March 21 1904 at o'clock p in are to be elected as First to ceed E P Arpin whose term expires April r Second to sue ceed J P Horton whose term April 9 1904 Third to ceed I P Witter whose term expires they show that the milk is almost ly devoid of batter fat whereas the milk should test at least three or four per cent of butter fat The explanation is simple The butter fat was taken out of earn a sufficient amount to support before it was taken out for sale self he be supplied with about the We believe it is not the intention of the aggrieved people to prosecute the case at this time as the milk man in question has ceased to run his milk through a separator before ing it but the evidence against him will be preserved and his future operations watched and if caught a second time in the act he will be prosecuted Dr Many friends Despite the strenuous duties of a life Dr Louis M Turbin of manages to favor Grand Rapids vilh one monthly visit His many patients and friends all like admirers of his exceptional ability s well as his qualities as a man avail for their occasions to express appreciation and thanks for their ure or to receive the necessary further attention to insure it Women haye learned that he is to be isely entrusted with the treatment of heir various ills The details of his success in the cure of diseases to the sex are on many tongues His vast experiences and finished ng in the highest achievements of the ealing art as directed to chronic ases of both women and men and his skill in treatment that or rectal ailments us well as his il methods tor the cure of organic and disease of early manhood cause Is offices to be crowded with afflicted who seek his aid They are never disappointed as the milling testimony of onr reliable citizens nd friends throughout the country fully ttests Dr Is not only the best of but a well tried true and ul friend will be In Grand March louse 24th nt the funds to pay for board lodging and othe necessary expenses abont per week In case the party himself or his are unable to proTide sufficient means the small amount necessary could undoubtedly be raised by subscription or if thought best by the authorities appropriated out of public funds If there are any male blind persons in your community that are desirous to avail themselves of the advantages offered at this institution you are re- quested to have their attention called to it The necessary blanks will be on application and any other information gladly given WISCONSIN WORKSHOP THE BLIND Oscar Kustermann Superintendent Diploma Examinations Diploma examinations will be held at the following Grand Rapids Training School Lindsey koosa Pittsville Rudolph Sherry and Vesper On Saturday March 19 examinations will be given iu Arithmetic Reading Geography TJ S History and ship and on Saturday March 26 in Grammar Constitution Physiology Orthoepy and Spelling If you have pupils who wish to take the examination in May report the number so that I may be guided In naming the places for that examination Pupils who write in the March nation will not be permitted to write again in the same branches during the present year Examinations begin at a m ROBI MOKRIS Supt Want Capital It's peculiar how many cities and even towns in tne state are seeking the state said Will T Richards a traveling man of Chicago at the Schlitz hotel I have been traveling about your state quite a little within the last two almost every place into which I I some people willing to swear that their city was the best for a capital Last week I was in Grand Rapids Somebody said that Oshkosh eighty-five miles away was looking for the capital and was making a strong hid claiming that it was nearest the center of the state What did those men do hut haul out an old map of Wisconsin and after looking about and figuring for abont half an hour decided that Grand Rapids was nearer the center And they put in a bid A Boy's Wild Ride For Life With family around expecting nim to a son riding for life 18 miles to get Dr King's New Discovery for Con- sumption Coughs and Colds W H Brown of Leesville Ind endured death's RUDOLPH Ferd Phillips who has been here for a few days on business departed Friday for Pittsville Albert F of Wis here the past week looking after some business Sirs A I Chambers and Mrs F M Logan were shopping iu your city one past week Miss Millie Alley of Park Falls is here visiting with friends and Mrs Geo Piltz returned home last week frum Park Falls where she has been visiting with her sister Mrs Abe Alley Gilbert Akey has been on the sick list the past week Miss Orelia Akey compositor at the Tribune office has been home on a week's vacation T Akey P Akey and 0 S business in your city day Will Warren of Berlin is the guest of his brother-in-law A I Chambers this week Will present myself as a candidate for clerk of the Town of Rudolph and if elected will promise to do the work to the best of my ability JNO HASSELL HAY CREEK Fred Frederickson called at liaisons Sunday afternoon A number of young folks in this com munity were in the skating the first part of the week All report a good time Roy Moe of Brook transacted business at Monday forenoon has come again Miss Lizzie Isaacson left here for terville Saturday where she ng friends and relatives for a few days returning to to resume her duties at Hotel Campbell John Anderson of Alma Centra arrived lere Saturday visit relatives lere fora few dais Hev J C Jenson of Dimcy Wis delivered a very interesting sermon here Sunday forenoon Another Candidate for Chas E Lester wishes us to call the attention of the voters of the county to he fact that he is a candidate for sheriff his year and we do so with pleasure agonies from asthma but this wonderful Mr Lester has long been of the medicine gave instant relief and soon cured him He I now sleep soundly every night Like marvelous cures of Consumption Pneumonia chitis Coughs Colds and Grip prove its matchless merit for all Throat aud Lung troubles Guaranteed bottles an Trial bottles free at John E Daly's drug store NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PROOF OF WILL Wood County Court Tn Probate STATE OF WISCONSIN Wood the mutter of the last will and tenement of Albert Krenke Whereon an instrument in writing porting to be the last will and testament of Albert Krenke deceased of the town of Pott Edwards Wood county has been filed n this office And Whereas application has bean mndo jy Bertha Krenke praying that the sumo ho woven and admitted to probate according o the laws of state land that letters be granted thereon according law It Is Ordered that said application be before me nt the probate in the itv of Grand on the 5th day of pril A 1804 ut 10 o'clock a m Ami It Is Further Ordered that notice of time and place appointed for ilia application be given to all in- by publishing ft copy of this order three In the din Valley Leader a newspaper printed in said county previous to hearing March 5th 1004 By tho Court W T CONWAY County Judge make a faithful and He made a good faithful party workers In the county is in every way capable of filling the tion and would energetic officer ing in the county convention two years ago when he was a candidate for the same office and will unquestionably have a strong following in the convention this year His announcement will pear later Manager Wanted Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage business in or this county and adjoining territory for well and favorably known house of solid financial standing straight cash salary and expenses paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters Expense money advanced Position permanent Address Manager 810 Como Block Chicago Illinois boya to Mr and Airs James Sunday March 18 daughter to Mr and Mrs L D Ostrander Saturday March 12 daughter to Mr and Mrs John March 10 of Sigel Thursday Fourth to ceed IS whose term expires April 9 1904 Fifth to ceed E R Griffith long term and to fill the vacancy caused bv the tion of G W term The terms expires April 9 1904 Sixth to ceed A C Otto whose term expires April 9 1904 Seventh to succeed M whose ex- pires April 9 1904 to succeed Dr A Ridgeman term and A McMillan short time whose terms expire April 9 1904 Mrs Wm is getting along nicely at present coughing very little and in weight and strength every day Only a few weeks ago she was so sick that her recovery was not expected She had been failing with a lung trouble which followed au attack of the grippe and the doctors had been unable to relieve her Fortunately Dr McElwee the successful Chicago list who comes to the Witter House for a day in each month was abont three months ago The doctor took hold of Mrs Thur's case and with his special treatment is fast bringing her out allright Mrs Thur and her husband think that all chronic sufferers should see Dr Elwee about their cases Several members of the lodge at Stevens Point came to the city day and were entertained by the bers of that order in their lodge rooms in the Gardner block that evening Various games were played a literary and musical program had been prepared for the occasion and a bountiful collation served Those present from abroad Mesdames Horton Hoag Johnson Heward Campbell Wilham of Stevens Point Tucker of Nekoosa and Lawler of Black Creek The following clipping from day's Milwaukee Sentinel will be of in- terest to many Grand Rapids people who are well acquainted with the Mr and Mrs Frank L Tibbits started yesterday for California where they will visit their daughter Miss Maude Tibbits Mrs Tibbits and daughter will remain at Pasadena and Catalina while Mr Tibbits makes a tour of the coast as far as Vancouver ing home by way of The Woodman of the world will give an open meeting and smoker with speaking and music at their next regular meeting March 22nd in hall and they would be pleased to have all gentleman come and have a good time It will cost you nothing so come one and all and listen to one of the best of the state of Minnesota T A STEIB Clerk Frank Stahl is a candidate for city treasurer before the citizens convention at the city hall next Saturday night Frank is a thoroughly reliable min has held the office once before and mads most satisfactory officer He has a host of friends in the city who can do him a good turn by getting out and working for his nomination Mr and Mrs C B Griggs have the Smith house on High street by the Jacob Searls family and will take possession as soon as they move out Candidate for Sheriff I hereby announce that I will be t for sheriff subject to the action of the republican county convention If nominated and elected will perform duties of said office to the best of my ability Yours respectfully JAMKS MCLAUGHLIN Notice All those owing me an account must pay or call and settle by April 15th as after that date all my accounts will in tho hands of an attorney for collection F D M D GRAND RAPIDS Win Sted A car load of Choice American Banner seed oats for gala nt the hardware Co store alto all arm and garden
