Wood County Reporter from Grand Rapids, Wisconsin • 1

A. L. FONTAINE, Publisher. UNCLE SAM; ALL I duyBoHDSU YOURy soy AMERICAN WOMEN CALLED INTO SERVICE i Must Conserve Every Resource, Save Labor and Money to Make Fourth Liberty Loan Success. i By MRS.

ANTOINETTE FUNK, 1 Vice Chairman Woman's National Liberty Loan Committee. This is war Hint belongs to women. It is not being waged for conquest, nor for glory, nor for any empty rite, nor for material gain. It is a war for humanity, and wherever men. women wml children are concerned it Is business.

In tlds great world crisis that Is now upon us the president of the United States has called American into the service of the world. Our allies remain unconquered because of the devotion, heroism and sacrifice of their women. We, too, shall prove Invincible with the complete consecration of our womanhood. When McAdoo called the women of America to do their part in financing the world, he reminded them that while battles were won by men, wars were won by money, and that money could only be raised with the aid of the women. Women do not often handle large sums of money, but a giant army of them hold a large per cent of the fifties and tfie hundreds of the last Liberty loan.

Those with small savings. too small to invest in high class securities are purchasing the finest securities under the sun in the market of the world. Money alone will not win the war. For, if all the gold in the world were placed in a shining heap. It would he useless unless converted into terms of labor.

Labor means everything that we must use in the war clothing, munitions, ships, houses, railroads, all the vital elements that make up the everyday life of individuals and of the nation. Woman must conserve labor as she conserves food. No woman has a right to anything to wear or to eat, to look at or to listen to, that she can possibly do without. All of these take labor to produce and detract from the of war. When the government has reached its hand and laid it on the lives its men nothing else matters.

When men have been asked to give all life itself if need he that we can do or suffer really matters. What do the graces of life matter our plowshares are beaten into What does the quality of food or the kind of clothing matter hen men and women must ask themselves, my hoy he We can give nothing that has not already been given by the youth that has marched out of our homes. Liberty bonds are as good as coin of the realm, hut if they were not and America needed the money, the women of the nation would frame those bonds and hand them down to their children's children as certificates of loyalty. ABE MARTIN. A Feller Should Be Engaged in Some Useful Occupation Own at Least Four Liberty Bonds Before He Boasts WOOD COUNTY REPORTER.

Entered June 12, 1903, at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879 LIBERTY DAY OF THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN Anniversary of Discovery of America Designated as Liberty Day of the Big Freedom Drive. Saturday, October 12, the anniversary of the discovery of America, has been designated as the Liberty day of the fourth Liberty loan drive. It Ims been the custom in previous Liberty loan campaigns to select the second Friday of the drive as Lib erty day. For the fourth loan the plan suggested by the United States bureau of education to designate October 12 as Liberty day has been adopted.

The day will be celebrated through out the country, and it is proposed to have a Harvest Home festival in every school district in the United States. The treasury department of the United States, in co-operation with the United States bureau of education, will request every school district from the Atlantic to the Dacific to arrange for (he celebration of the discovery of America with an appropriate festival. The plans made for five observance of the anniversary of the discovery of America by the Liberty loan organization as Liberty day are contained in a letter from L. B. Franklin, director of war loan organization.

in outlining the plans this letter sttiles; Is a logical unity between both these ideas and the Liberty loan. When the people of a community recount the fruits of their labor. they will naturally ask themselves what' share of them they ought to invest in Liberty bonds. When they come to realize what the discovery of America has meant to them personally, what is has meant for the cause of freedom and democracy, what it will mean for the salvation of the world in the present world tragedy, when they begin to feel ail this, they must of necessity say. this is worth investing in, worth fighting for, worth making any sacrifice for.

create this state of mind is the purpose of celebrating the discovery of America. It is our hope that the nation-wide celebration will stir such enthusiasm over mission In the world as to enable each community to reach its quota by that day. Let every local community make this its goal and on Liberty day announce the achievement and rejoice over The 300,000 schools in the United States will receive suggestions for a Harvest Home festival from the buiVau of education. This form of festival is the earliest form of American and it is thought desirable to carry the idea over into city life as well as of the country. City and country communities will celebrate the 1 day each after its own fashion, but the Harvest Home idea will dominate both.

a particular type of product may be. on Liberty day its aim should be to reap a harvest of dollars for said Mr. Franklin. this day we meet. noT as city people or country people, but as citizens, all united for the single purpose of serving the nation by devoting a part of our products to its needs.

is something vastly inspiring in the thought of all the local neighborhoods in the United Stares meeting the same day on the basis of citizen ship with united devotion to the ideals for which America stands. is to force ns three to said Napoleon. To mobilize the spirit of America is of paramount importance. October 12 furnishes the occasion for ex pressing the nation's spirit in definite terms of service to meet the nation's present need. idea is big.

the opportunity is great. The time is short. This should be made the most successful national celebration since the war Help Buy More Tanks. Tanks are a big factor now in rolling hack the German lines. They are saving the lives of thousands of men by crushing the vicious machine-gun nests which are the worst obstacle to infantry advance.

Invest in Liberty bonds and Uncle Sam will be aide to protect our storm troops with a life saving screen of tanks. GRAND RAPIDS, WOOD COUNTY, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, October 3, 1918. JOHN KALLMAN AT HOME The many friends of John Kallman have been calling upon him ever since his arrival home the past week. They were all pleased to find him looking well and feeling pretty good all things considered. Of course he was glad to return home, and see mother, sister brothers and friends.

His welcome has been warm and cordial. The is just as he left it. He was greatly grieved to miss the cordial greeting of father. He had to eternal rest and sleep after i long well spent life. Peace to his hallowed memory.

An interview with John Kallman the war and the personal he passed thru was the oleasure. He told us the story simple as he knew it. His work as lineman was necessarily dangerous and he and his men were always exposed in caring for the telephone lines which connected the trenches with the headquarters. Whenever they were shot to pieces severing the connections, it was his duty to see that they were mended. It was while on this kind of work near Toul, France that he was gassed and remained in the tpen field six hours before he was and cared for.

His hands and body were badly burned by the liquid gas in several places to the bone. His were almost blinded and are still and dim sighted. The fact that he had his mask on saved his face and his eyes somewhat. His Ihngs were badly affected and he still suffers an abscess on his right lung, rom the effects of the gas he inhaled. He returns to the hospital for further treatment this week as he was only two weeks furlough to come home and attend the funeral of his father.

He said that he saw only one Pelgian girl about 8 years old with her hand cut off and that was in France. He heard a great deal about the atrocities committed by the German solliers while passing thru Belgium but had no opportunity of seeing any part if Belgium while he was overseas. He -Hated that he had seen none of the Grand Rapids boys while over there. He exchanged letters and local papers with Dr. F.

X. Pomainville but he was the only one as he had been near Toul, France, most of his time. It was his opinion that the year 1918 would see the end of the conflict, judging from what the German prisoners had to say and the progress being made by the Allied forces on the west front. The English French and Italian people cannot find words to express their appreciation for the help rendered them in this war by the American people. They show it in every possible way.

Mr. Kallman expects to leave Grand Rap'd? the latter part, of this week, refreshed from his splendid visit at the old family fireside where he loved to dwell. DEATH Of CHAS. AGERSTROM Mr. and Mrs.

Wm. Hagerstrom received notice from the War Department Monday evening September 30, 1918, that their son Charles who had been badly wounded while in action on August 19th. Charles was a member of Battery Milwaukee, having been transferred from Troop when the Grand Rapids Company had been made into an Artillery unit Just how the boy -was wounded or how badly, no one knows. The messaga received reads as follows; Mr. William Hagerstrom.

549 10th Grand Rapids, i regret to inform you that it is officially that Private I Charles Robert Hagerstrom, Field Artillery, died August 9th from i wour.ds received in This makes Charles Hagerstrom the first Gr-n 1 Rapids boy to die in the service jof hi country, so far ns is known. It is no mistake in this nor moment, his parent? certainly have the sympathy of their friends the entire community in this sad 'orr of their bereavement. This will be first death of any member of 1 Troop which left this city. El's. Chas.

E. Daly is back from Merrill where she had been visiting he past week. She reports Mr. Mike I Gan hee, a former resident of Grand Rapids and well known here, as in pretty poor health. Leon Foley, of the Great Lakes Training Station, is home on a ten days leave and making the most of it at home with his wife, parents and friends.

ROCKWELL Formerly A Resident of Grand Rapids, Was Given A Military Funeral The following notice of the death of Vera Rockwell was sent to Mrs. lack Kinister of this city by her 'riend, Mrs. Edith West of Chelsea, soldier who never used a rifle, went to her grave yesterday, not mietly, as she might have gone in times of peace, but fittingly, with salute of guns and full military honors. was Grand first wonan to die in service, Miss Vera Rockwell, Red Cross nurse, known here thru here work as supervising nurse of the anti-tubercular clinic whose name will be inscribed along with the rest of our hero dead on the monument now being erected in Fulton Street Park. truly as our soldiers on the battlefield give up their lives that others may live, so she also made the great said Rev.

C. O. Irieshaber, as the Red Cross Motor Corps, the firing squad and representatives of the tubercular clinic and nurses from every hospital in he city, stood about the plot set aside for the bodies of soldiers in bakhill cemetery. labor of love gives more opportunity for devotion and heroism than is shown by those who follow in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton, gallant Red Cross pioneers. It was a sudden and tragic ending for a life full of useful the minister concluded.

Rockwell died at Chelsea, of pneumonia. She had no living relatives. She was a graduate of Milwaukee-Downer college and the university of Michigan school for nurses. Her closest friend here was Mrs. Edith West, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Warren, 313 Avenue, N. E.

with whom she made her residence. Mrs. West was with her in Chelsea at the time of her death. Preliminary funeral services were held at the Berton Spring Miss Vera Rockwell will bo kindly remembered by a host of Grand Rapids friends who knew her intimately. She graduated from the Lincoln High School in this city.

Her father practiced medicine here for several years and her mother died and was buried here. She had many excellent traits of character which won for her many varm friends who will be saddened to read the above announcement of her death. iii u.i PARSON With the president of the United I States, and all other sane urg- 1 ng us to jruard against carrying into this war the spirit of revenge and hate, it comes as a shock to many to have a Christian minister nlay the role of fire-eater and seek to stir in the hearts of his congregation the spirit of unforgiving bitterness and hostility against the common enemy. When so-called Christian ministers give up their pulpits to travel from sea to sea exciting to unrelenting hate their fellow citizens, they do nothing less than turn their backs upon the Master they once professed to serve. Call this anything you will paganism, barbarism, madness, but, in name, do not call it Chris tianity.

No matter what the may be, hot as a man's moral indignation may become at the nhuman wrongs committed, here is warrant for the spirit which would eek personally to pronounce the senmice of eternal doom and declare the milty past all hone of divine or human pardon. engence is ve are told was said by the only One competent to judge mankind. Who of us is big enough, or wise enough, or holy enough to claim a seat beside Him and arrogating his august auhority say, is mine Instead of justifying ourselves for hating and damning our enemies by Old Testament quotations, we would do better to sit at the feet of lim who, as his merciless and uneeling foes drove the rending nails through his hands and feet, praved I mly this. forgive them, they know not what they do Dumb Animals. Mr.

and Mrs. August Gottschalk re in Chicago this week visiting with her brother who resides in that city. llli LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE NOW ON The allotments for the various cities, villages and towns in the county as finally arranged by the committee at its meeting at the club Monday are as follows: Arpin 20,000 Auburndaie 25,000 Cameron 0,500 Carey 3,000 Cranmoor 7,000 Dexter 3,000 Grand Rapids Town 9,500 Hansen 19,000 Hiies 1 2,000 Lincoln 27,000 Marshfield Town 15,000 Milladore 8 20,000 Port Edwards Town 4,000 Remington 4,500 Richfield 12,000 Rock 12,000 Rudolph 25,000 Saratoga 4,500 Seneca 5,000 Sherry 10,000 Wood 8,000 Sigel 25,000 Auburndaie Village 7,500 Biron Village 7,500 Nekoosa Village 50,000 Port Edwards Village 100,000 Pittsville 10,000 Total Towns 442,000 City of Grand Rapids 588,000 City of Marshfield 440,000 Total $1,470,000 The drive in this city is progressing nicely and it is fully expected that each precinct in Wood County will meet her obligations to her country promptly. CARD OF Mill We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the beautiful floral offerings and kind assistance in the of our beloved fathei. Mrs.

Claus Kallman and family. SOLDIER BOY BURIED AT EMBARRASS The funeral services over the remains of Albert Jacoby who died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Jacoby, in the town of Matteson, on Thursday, September 19th, were held from the Lutheran church at Embarrass last Sunday afternoon at 1:30. Rev.

Schilling, pastor of the church, performed the last sad rites. The funeral was largely attended by the many friends of the family and those who had known the deceased during the years he had been a resident of the also who, a few months ago had seen him go forth in the strength of his young manhood to defend his country in its time of trial, and who in sorrow bowed their heads on the solemn occasion of the consigning of his body to its final resting place. The casket was covered with the American flag and the funeral was given as much a touch of the military as the conditions would permit. The pallbearers were Alfred Tummel, Arnold Frederick, E. Krubsack, Grover Gerth, Anton Wagner and Albert Booth.

The Misses Frieda Krubsack, Viola Gruetzmache i Maybelle Timmel and Frieda Keintz were the flower girls. He leaves besides his parents, five brothers and four sisters of Grand Rapids; Arthur, who is in the Army in France; Herman at Camp McClellan, Edwin and Lewis at home. The sisters are Mrs. Charles Martin cf Spokane, Mrs. Mike Mhson of Grand Rapids, Mrs.

Herman Fritz of Superior, and Esther, at home. was born in the town of Elden, Fond du Lac county, July 10, 1890. He attended school at Rudolph, Wis. He spent some three years at Milwaukee and about three years ago came with his parents to his late home. He was in Detroit, when called to the colors and went to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich.

He was transferred to Camp Gordon, where he was taken ill and sent to a hospital at Atlanta. His case was pronounced to be hopeless and he was given an honorable discharge and returned to his home. Tribune. Mrs. K.

L. Fritz and Mrs. Mike Mason were in Clintonville the past week where they attended the funeral service of their brother Albert Jacoby. Kis obituary appears in another column of this issue. THE STANDARDS OF TRUE AMERICANISM LIBERTY LOAN A TEST OF AMERICAN SINCERITY A Test cf Real Sacrifice to So That Money May Do Its Bit.

By COL. S. BURKHARDT, Commandant Fourteenth Division, Camp Custer, Michigan. On the battlefields of France and Italy and Belgium there are more than a million and a half of American soldiers, who are watching with great interest the results of the fourth Lib erty Loan. They will insist upon knowing whether the men and women safe at home are freely dedicating their dollars to the cause of Liberty, or whether they feel they have performed their duty when they have noted the gains made by the American army.

The fourth Liberty Loan will he a further test of the sincerity of American people in their belief in the principles of democracy. It will test the willingness of the American people to really sacrifice that their money may be loaned to our government to he used for the unceasing and relentless battering down of the German defenses. The huge sum asked for in the fourth loan should merely strengthen our determination to provide any amount the government wants. To fall short of the full amount would he a national disgrace and a comfort to the kaiser. There can he no excuse for failure, for never has our country been enriched by such crops of wheat and oats and corn and every product of the soil.

Never has wage of the great army of industrial workers been so high. It is the duty of every able-bodied man and woman to find some way of buying twice as many bonds as ever before. The men in uniform are fighting and suffering for those who stay at homo. They will buy their full share of bonds as well, as they have in the past. Your part is to he with them with your hearts and your souls and your money.

BACK THE BOYS WITH BONDS Our Hearts and Souls and Money Must Help Win This War. BY GERALDINE FARRAR. Famous Operatic Star. At a theater the other day a box party was given in honor of half a dozen heroes disabled while fighting for that victory at the battle of Ghateau Thierry. Some were without arms and others without legs; others so badly injured by the deadly poisons of the Germans they probably will not live more than a year.

But from every one of them came a strange spirit of spiritual gladness. They held their heads anti smiled as though to say. was fine to have done what we did. And the rest of ns in the audience we who were safe and whole and well tugged at our hearts and brought stinging tears to onr 'cs. What have the most actively patriotic of us done to compare with them We are past the time of mere logical calculations.

Onr hearts and souls, as well as our minds and bodies are in the struggle. And we are winning, winning, winning! Every day brings tiding of new victories. But remember, we have yet to strike the fina decisive blow. And without money do it. PUT A SERVICE -TAR BOOK VOLUME GO, Xo.

38. IS MY WAR YOUR WAR, OUR We Must Alf Dig Up Our Dollars to Invest in This Libeity Loan to Win It. By MEREDITH NICHOLSON. This is my war. The outcome, whether defeat or victory, vitally concerns me.

No one urged that America declare war upon the Teutonic empires more stridently than I. I re? joined In my soul when my country joined-with the other great civilized powers in driving hack the barbarian. In the strictest sense, in all the cunnotations of the phrase, (his is my war, as completely as though I stood on my own doorstop, gun In hand to protect my household from sword and brand. I am only one of a hundred million American citizens who share my sense of responsibility in the eon-, diet does not greatly matter. This is my war; it pleases me to think of it as something personal and intimate, undertaken at my behest and imposing upon me responsibilities which I should he the basest coward to shirk.

Within a short my home sleep my two greai-grandfathers who were soldiers under Washington and my father who fought under Lincoln. They made this my war. The American citizens who perished on the Lusitania made (his my war. Every shot fired at tin American ship, every man wounded or killed under the Stars and Stripes intensifies ray realization that this is indeed my war. The right of my children to freedom, happiness and peace make this my war.

And it is my business, my politics and my religion to do my utmost, at any sacrifice, that this war, my war. may he carried to a triumphant conclusion. No dollar I can earn, no privileges I enjoy, no faith 1 hold in man or God will avail me aught unless 1 win this war. This war is my job. I stand alone and take counsel of my conscience as to whether 1 am doing all that 1 can to win it.

The demands are constant. The war that my blood cried for is not cheap. But viewing the mighty conflict as a vast undertaking, carried on by the United of America for my benefit, it is not becoming in me to fret or quibble over the cost. The fourth Liberty loan is about to be offered. It is in my heart to sttbscribe whole issue, hut I Iris being impossible, it is with elation that I reflect upon the millions who will say to themselves: This is my war and dig up their dollars and buy bonds.

This is my war, jour war, our war. Every investor in the Liberty loan qualities its tun active member of the great fellowship of American democracy. Every oversubscription of a Liberty loan is an American triumph, a stunning defeat for autocracy and barbarism. Win the war and win It quickly. Whip the devil; and beat the kaiser.

This is my cause and yours; this is our war! SAFEGUARD THE HOME. I.