Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-10-01

invoice Of the box. Its receipt will be imne.
diately acknowledged By letter. This viii
insure the free Transmission Of all boxes, bar
rels and packages.
At the close of the fair, a. complete cata.
logue of articles donated, with the names and
| residence of the donors), will be published
| and copy furnished TO every contributor
| Each Stat" will be credited with the amount
of her donations
| Every Alu society, Union League, and
Good Templars Lodge in the North West, is
| requested 10 appoint Committee, immedi-
| ateiv, to canvass its neighborhood, and to Sc
cure laborcrs for this great work Clergy
| men of all denominations, are urgently re-
qucsted to interest their parishes in this great
enterprise, and stimulate their ladies to the
manufacture and donation of articles for the
Fair. They can thus materially aid the noble
cause of hospital relief, which needs uninter-
hitting bcnefactions. Efforts for the Fair
should not interfere with the regular work for
the hospitals. That must. in no wise, be d.
minished or postponed.
1t would facilitate the labors of the Com
mttee OF Arrangements, if lists of articles
promised could he forwarded to them at an
early day, thus giving them power to supply
important deficiencies. Letters NAV be adj
dressed to Mrs. \. Y. Aoge, or Mrs. D. ?.
Livermore, Chicago Sanitary Commission.
The Fair will be opened on Tuesday morn
ing, October 9th, at Bryan Hall, where visi-
tors will be informed what other Halls are
IN use of the Fair. The arrangements are not
sufficiently perfected TO make this announce.
ment at present.
Dinner viii be served in the lower Hal,
(Bryan) from II NJ. to 4 P. NJ, on Tuesday,
and thenceforward, every dav, at the same
thp ,ff ba
Arrangements are being made to dine from
1000 to l,5OO persons, elegantly and COM
tortabiy, during each day of the Fair.
There will be brilliant evening enter.
talnment, at Metropolitan Hall, on Tuesday
evening, October 9th, and thenceforward
every evening during the Fair Particulars
VIII be given hereafter in the papers, and at
the Halls Of Exhibition.
The hearty, prompt, and efficient co-ope-
ration of the entire Northwest, is urgently
solicited. The great, ever-rcnewed and
painful needs of our heroic soldiers, sick and
wounded, in hospitals, call for the utmost
efforts OF all loyal men and women, to make
TINS affair an overwhelming pecuniary sue
cess. 1t should be remembered that the
Chicago Branch of the U. S. Sanitary Com
mission bestows its benefacton on all sick
and wounded soldiers, without regard to
o'"'t, i"iih, CoioI, arm OF navy. Hence, IL
has claims on the Eberality and labor of all
loyal men and women.
Mrs. A. H. HOGk, J ~, -,
" D. +. LIVERMORE, 'ilieaso' liz
" j. S. COLT, Milwaukee, Wis.
" DR.. CARR, Madison, Wis.
Miss VALERA CAMPBELL, Detroit, Mich.
" SHELLEY, Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. DR.. ELY, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
" n. II. BRAINARD, Iowa City, Iowa.
COMMITTEE.
TO THE GERMANS.
Mrs. Governor Solomon, of Madison, Wis.
consin, has kindly and generously consented
to solicit and receive the contributions of
the Germans for this Fair. These offerings
will be sent together, will be arranged, dis
played and sold in a separate department,
space being reserved for them exclusively,
ovef which Mrs. Solomon consents to preside
in person, throughout the Fair, assisted in
this work by Ladies of her own selection A
most cordial and earnest invitation is extern.
dcd to the German ladies of the Northwest
to cooperate with Mrs. Solomon in her I'M
dertaking, with the assurance that every ia
cility will be granted them for the display
and sale of the beautiful handiwork, and fam
cy wares in which they so greatly excel.