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Stevens Point Journal from Stevens Point, Wisconsin • Page 6

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II I STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL PLANS A PAPER MILL pecial for Apr. 28 charges are made to hefp along its good work. Tihe rates charged for this ball are tlie same this year as in the past. STORM BRINGS DUCKS mm We will place on ale 10 dozen made of standard quality Gingham, fast colors, embroidery trimmed and short sleeves. Come in striped, checked and figured.

All sizes from 34 to 46. Price for Saturday only A big bargain at the high price of Ginghams 401-403 Main immtiiiiiiiwiiniiiiiiiiiiinmiiin Street LYO MOST THRILLING "One leaves astounded at the immensity of it." Today's Stevens Point Journal 3 SHOWS LAST TIME THE SEA Spectacle of Al! Times 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER Our Promise Made You is True THE GRANDEST and SUBMARINE WARFARE As Never Seen Before Learn All About SUBMARINES See ihe Wonders at the Ocean's Bottom -v ONE SHOW ONLY 8:15 H)(T RESERVED 35-50C all UC DON'T MISS IT ii AMY OF DIRT CHASERS THURSDAY, APRIL 2G, 1917 Entrred tt tbe Post Office Stvens Point as second-class mall matter. By carrier. 10c ver week, pa yableeach Batur-37mornlneto tbe carrier. By mail.

$4.00 per rear payable In advance. Siwrle copies. 8 cents. FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Probably showers Friday in southwest portion.

Continued cold. Temperature freezing tonight. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT, Cottage on Madison street. Inquire at 714 Strvngs avenue or Tel. Red 400.

26-3 (WANTED. We want you to bring your old shoes to ns for repairs. We guarantee our workmanship. A. Ringness.

20-tf. WANTED, Girl for general housework. Inquire at 530 Normal avenue 26-tf. WANTED, Good girl for general housework. Good wages.

Inquire 540 Clark street 204 f. WANTED, Girl for general housework. Inquire at 302 Ellis street. 26-tif. FOR SALE, FuB-lb-loodeJ, Columbian Wyandotte cockerel's.

Also eggs for setting. AM res F. D. Reynolds, Rivervaew Terraee, Stevens Point 26-tf. WANTED, Girl for general housework.

Inquire at 406 Ellis street. 26-rbf. CITY BRIEFS Mrs. Jennie Kendall is a guest at the Loehr home in Fond du Lac. Palmer Howen of Nelsonville was a visitor in the city WcJauisday.

Mrs. W. J. Boston and son. have returned from a visit with relatives in Fond du Lae city and county.

Prof. J. II. Ames of the River Falls Normal visited ihis Prof. M.

M. Ames, here this week, returning home Tuesday. A school program and dance will be given at the Forester hall at Ouster evening of May 3. It to be for the benefit of the new school at Omster. Hie directors of the Stevens Point Fair association will nuciit at th office of Secretary I'ourn Fridaj night to elect a direteor to succeed the late W.

A. GetHiing. Russell Skinner, a student at the Normal, has been confined at his home at Endeavor for the past three weeks on account of illness, lie returned' to this city Wednesday. Mr. Skinner was recently operated upon for appendicitis at Portage.

As yet his condition does not permit him to resume his studies ut the Normal. Miss Helen Looinis, a student at the Normal, Jkhs been considerably handicapped in her school work for the past week as the result of a pairiful felon on the index finger of her right hand. She has also been suffering (from an abscess located between the elbow and wrist on Jier right aim Miss Loomis has been ewnipclled to give up her work in practice at tlhe sch'ool for the present. The Journal's strictures upon the subject of inflated prices for commercial and other general iVineeis were in no wie aimed at the Library ball as some may have inferred. The library kill is recognized as purely a public benefit enterprise and all are glad to contribute whatever HIGH COST OF LIVING TO GET BIG JOLT There is a rush for irarlen ing this spring unequaled in the annals of the country.

In this connection it should be well to remember that the valuable crops will be vegetables that can be kept until January, February and March, 1918, such as potatoes, onions, parsnips, carrots, beet.s1 cabbage, squash and turnips. After raising and harvesting have a proper place to keep them. No one in this part of the country need pay the prices for provisions next spring they are now paying. tPrt a garden and get one of the prizas offered by this big bank and with the money you save in raising your own vegetables, will en side you to start a substantial savings account in this strong bank. First National Bank Established 1883.

U. S. Depository Capital and Surplus $130,000 George W. Mead Says Plant Will Be Built Beside New Dam When Built Here The Jackson Milling company's new dam will not be built here this season owing to the high prices of steel and the scarcity and cost of labor, according to a statement credited to George W. Mead of Grand Rapids.

However the company is going ahead with preparations for ultimate development and will also loc; te a paper mill along-sice the dam which is expected to develop 3200 horsepower in an ordinary stage of water. The new lam wiH be located about 500 feet upriver from the Soo line bridge. The mill will be of moderate "size, it is stated. WEDDING ENDS SUIT. Judge Murat Unites Frank Kutella and Susie Cychosz.

Hymen stepped in and took the judicial gavel in municipal court late WeJaiosd'uy afternoon, finally deciding the case of the state of Wisconsin againt Frank Kutella and Susie Cychosz. The couple was arrested Wednesday charged with unlawful cohabitation. It was charged that they had been 'living as husband and wife since last summer although they had never been married. The girl, who is a daughter of Mrs. Rose Cyehoisz, is only 17 or 18 years of age.

The man is stated to be about 33. They had resided in a downtown flat. Kutella is a general workman employed by Jules Iverson in looking after his various buildings. The couple were bound over to the circuit court Wednesday but finally agreed to be married. The ceremony was performed soon after by Judge Murat at his officeiS.

The action against the two will therefore be dismissed. TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION Interesting Tests Under Hard Conditions Friday The Staude Mak-a-Tractor wiH give a demonstration of plowing in sod and stubble neaT Arnott Friday, by the Wisconsin Tractor company, under tbe supervision of E. Van Heeke and G. C. Jensen.

An expert from the factory will also be there. Forty to 50 dealers are ex-peeted and the demonstrations will continue all day. All interested persons are invited. Farmers especially are aslkcd to be present to see the tractor work. It will pay them to take tlhe time to go.

The demonstrations will tiake place on the farm of Nick Eiden one and one-haltf miles south of Arnott station. 26-1 THIRTY MEMBERS HERE Attending State Board Convention of the W. C. T. U.

Thirty members of the state board of the W. C. T. 1J. are holding executive sessions at the Presbyterian church today.

Meetings will continue through Friday. An ojH'n session will be held at the church tonight, when David Bogue of Portage will speak; also one for pupils and teachers IViday afternoon at 4:15 when Khe talker will be MrsLottie Woodford, state superintendi'ut of scientific instruc tion in the public schools', and a big banquet will be given at 6:150 Friday evening at which there will be a number of i'or nH who attend. Alliscissions are at the church. FEDERAL HIGHWAY AID ACCEPTED BY THE STATE (Continued from first pajre.) not vet been laid out, and therei'tire to be oxxliuled from tho work, are the "Waupaca road, the Moore barn-Kccne and the riover-(irand Rapids road. The county board appropriations for these 'amount to $10,000.

It is etinrnted that if no federal aid is takeji this year, the county can next year draw the appropriations of two years, amounting to without levying another dolifir of its own tax. Enough o'f the an'oney now" on hand would be left over to provide the county's share under the federal plan foT botih 1917 and 1918. NORMAL SENIORS ENTERTAIN Annual Senior Ftfr and Carnival Friday Afternoon and Evening The annual Senior fair and car nival will be conducted at the Nor mal Friday afternoon nnd evening. A matinee dance will bo held in the gjunnasium, continuing from 4 :30 o'clock until 7, and another dance Hundreds of Birds Seen on River After Snow Wednesday Morning Nature lovers have had an unusual opportunity to wild life among water foul on the river here Uhis spring. The migrating ducks have been exceptionally numerous and have been comparatively tame, ajiparently realizing that the closed season for hunting protects them the spring: It is a serious offense to kill any game in the spring and this law is strictly enforced.

Wednesday nwrnirig's storm of the kind that duck hunters like to see in the fall and brought down tlhe duck's in large iiumlhers. A huge flock was observed on the river Wednesday afternoon and it is estimated that there were hundreds of birds there. Old settlers say they never saw the birJis numerous on the river at any one time. The flocks were composed largely of teal and hi chills, it is slated, though some say they saw many wood ducks. SCHOOL HONORS FLAG Principal Emil Hofsoos Institutes Patriotic Ceremony at Rosholt Principal Emil llofs-oos has instituted a patriotic obisemimce in the schools under 3iis direction at Rosholt.

Every morning al the pupils march out and form near the flagstaff in front o'f the building. Two of the boys then raise the flag while the rest of the company stands at salute. Whern the flag has been raised all1 repent in unison the following pledge of loyalty! to America "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it one nation, indivisible, with Liberty and justice for all." After the singing of "America" or "The Star Spangled Banner'' the pupils march' back to the school building and take up their regular work. CLIFFORDS START FIRM Organize Badger State Lumber Land CoJ Will Have Yards at Arnott and Amherst Junction J. W.

Clifford and lib son, J. William 'Clifford, now engaged with a lumber company in Minneapolis, are organizing a new firm here to be known as the lVadgcr State Lumber I-iand Co. Incorporation will be effected in a. few weeks and other stockholders are included. The ob ject of the company is to operate retail lumber yards in central Wis- onsin and already sheds are being reeled at Arnott.

An office is also eing built there and business will soon lie opened. A site has wen purchased at Amherst Junction of NcLs Docka, the land being located north of the village hall. The vard will be laid out soon. NOTICE All dental offices of tbe city will close on Saturday afternoons he- ginning with May 12th, nnd during the months of June, July, August and September. Stevens Point Dental association.

20-G THE BUYERS' COLUMN New footwear arriving at Ring-ss. 2(5-2 1'cit's jitney now makes regular stups at Taylors drug store on Strongs avenue. 2t-tf'. phone 21 21-2 Copps coal. Phones 22 and 23.

Anyone desiring a nurse call Mrs. Ruff, 311 East avenue. Tel. Black 74. 27-1 mo See the new footwear at Ringness.

2(5-2 Money to loan on farm property. Interest rates and terms reasonable. Inquire at law office of J. R. Pfiff-ner.

27-tf. Persons telephoning wood orders to Gus. Swan son and unable to reach him at the office may phone their orders to the residence, Rei 514. 26-2 Blue Gem Sootless. The Copps Coal Co 29-tf.

Get your soft coal at Swanson's. Tel. Black 194. 23-tf. All Masons and their ladies are invited to attend the dancing party to he given at the Masonic temple Friday evening, April 27, from 8 to 12 o'clock.

Music by Weber's orchestra. Committee. 24-3 Ringnos-s has the newest things in footweaT for men, women and children. 26-2 Dustless Dust Laundry Soaps, Water Softeners, Furniture Polish, Disinfectants, Sponges ChamoisXand everything in the line of House Cleaning Goods "GOOD TOOLS FOR GOOD WORK" Let us supply your Home Brighteners MATINEE. 2:15 School Children Mati- 15c nee at 4:15 5T in the evening from 9 :30 o'clock until 11.

The music will be furnished by the Normal 'orchestra. Ten big shows will be staged during the afternoon and evening, also many other attractions, including, an acit by a handcuff imiarvcl and a clairvoyant act. A cafeteria supper will be served by the borne economics department. Folk and aesthetic dancles will be staged in the auditorium under the direction of Miss Mary Bronson. Part of the proceeds from this performance will go toward paying the expenses of the proposed Red Cross chapter.

WIN INSURANCE SUIT Piajnfield Residents Secure Insurance for Plank Estate SIii Jennie Plank and Lrs. J. Eastling of Fkiinfield won their suit to recover two life insurance policies held by their father who has been absent Sot nine years and is believed dead. The action was tried out at the (present term of circuit court at Wautogwa. In spite of the evidence of a witness brought from the west who stated that he saw the elder Plank in 'Washington state three and a hnlf years ago, the decision Ls for the heirs.

Other policies covering Mr. Plank's life are heJd by the heir, the action jusit finished being a test t-ase. ORGAN BLOWER INSTALLED. The new electric organ blower ordered by the choir -society of the Presbyterian church has arrived, here and is already installed ready for use. The device is made by the Organ Blowing Engineering Co.

of Fond du line and at point of shipment. The co.t of shipping and installing raises the total outlay to $27 and this lebt has been shouldered by the society. The blower is a two stage centri fugal apparatus and consists of a one-horepover electric motor oper ating a equipment. This devrcc takes the place of the old time bellows which is a discarded device. POTATO EMBARGO LIFTED Local potato dealers received messages- from the headquarters of their companies Wednesday night informing them that t)lue embargo upon shipments has ieen removed nad that they arc now at liberty to ship their stocks.

BECOMES METER TESTER Joseph Woitkovieh of Wausviu ha9 arrived here and taken a position as meter tester for the Wisconsin Valley Electric Co. Woitkovieh baa rented the house at 321 Pine street recently vacated by Martin Woboril and family. He expects to move his family here in a few days. KREMBS DRUG STORE Phone 27 ANNO UNCEMENT The Arcade Restaurant has just received a most modern, high-priced Fountain and other equipment for Ice Cream and popular drink service. Also it has received its order of pie tins and other supplies needed in making its own pastry.

The Arcade announces to patrons that beginning with Saturday it will cater to the most critical Ice Cream trade. The newest and most delicious sodas and sundaes will be served. The Arcade will also make all its own pies and will guarantee them to be as good as any other served in the citv. The Arcade Restaurant Main Street.

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