Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
Musical Society Concert T

j Musical Society Concert - The
Stevens Point Musical Society, assist
ed by Miss Williams, a very fine SO
prano, gave an entertainment, the first
since its organization, last Thursday
Evening. The Journal speaks of it as
a very great success in everything e1
cept the attendance. We congratulate
our Point music loving friends in being
so fortunate as to form a home must.
cal association, for nothing, no! not
even lecture course has 80 much in it
that is entertaining, instructive and so
conducive to morality and general good
feeling in the whole community as a
musical society where each and all will
lingly strive together to preserve union,
allowing no petty jealouses to disfran-
chize the prerogatives of soul harmon
les, which to less or greater extent
mix in, and blend with our lives and
every day surroundings. We hope
the people of Stevens Point will not
make it necessary for the editor of the
Journal to again say that concert
given by the Society was not success
in point of attendance.
Sunday Evening Discourse. -
Rev. Mr.. Walker, who for period of
thirty FIVE years has been laboring I'M
der the direction of the American Mis-
sionary Board, in Africa, delivered a
very able and interesting discourse at
the Methodist Church last Sabbath eve
ming, relative to the mission work in
Ethiopian lands. The speaker made
no use of notes, but spoke extempore,
relating in a conversational way Incl
dents, and facts of major Importance
to every one interested in the history
Of mission labor among the benighted
inhabitants of that far off region. The
speakers recital of heathenish customs,
and his description of superstitious rites
and ceremonies strenuously adhered to
were eloquent and vivid, and spoke vol
umes in defence of the grand system
of missionary work which is slowly,
but surely dispelling the clouds of SUI
perstion, and breaking the way for the
reception of the grand truths of gospel
record, and the inshining of the mar
velous light upon the benighted nations
Of all the earth.
The attendance was not large owing
to the extreme bad walking and the
continuance of the terrible storm which
had made the roads almost impossible
Mr.. Walker is an aged man, the ripper
years of whose life have been spent
apart from all that is dear and hallow-
ed at home, in a noble work which
vouchsafes its reward here and here
after. His has been life of self de-
NAL and selfsacrifce, for verify, he has
obeyed the scriptural injunction ego
ye out into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature.
The Late Storm. -"Old Probable
ities' is not myth, neither is he a
deceiver. Two weeks ago he predicted
a terrific storm that would extended
throughout the east, and sweeping
westward, partially expend it's fury
over the northwest. The east has been
deluged, and last Saturday, Wisconsin
was the recipient of it's uncounted
ferceness. The leaden clouds Satur-
day morning betokened snow, and be-
before night the temperature had ma
terially changed and sitting fakes made
it anything but comfortable. All night
and all day Sunday, and Monday up to
Tues noon, almost without cessation,
the storm king reigned with an icy
sceptre. The snow fell to nearly foot
in depth, and all manner of out door
work was suspended. People wonder
ed whether or no, winter had set in for
good, and men talked of logging camps
and future numbering speculations, and
logging hobs were looked over, AM it
really looked as if we we're in for it,
and October not yet gone. Wiseacres
prophesyed, and weather prophets told
all they knew and more too,-and the
corn husks were observed to have been
very thick, and those weather guagers,
the musk rats; it was noticed had built
their nests nigh and dry above tide wa
ter, though we don't believe a musk
rat had been seen for six weeks Poor
pinched poverty looked about for COM
fort-for one palliating circumstance to
mitigate the terrors Of the incipient
winter, threatening to blossom into a
| full blown season of drearinesS and