Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-19


great SUMNER could only have known
what was coming, we are positive he
would have wished to have outlived
the poet of the Wisconsin.
We were astonished to see the al
most countless quantity of old patterns
laid by at the Foundry, last Thursday.
They tell Of the enormous business
done since the fire three years ago.
Mr.. Patrick informs us that there is
work enough ahead to occupy the full
force for five months
Terrible jokes have been made
about mothers-in-law, but who ever
heard anything worse than the project
of the veterinary surgeon to founder
his by dancing with her until she was
thoroughly heated, and then giving
her all the iced lemonade she could
drink ?
We publish an excellent letter
from Polintus Jr, to the Milwaukee
Sentinel, in this issue. Polintus Jr.
gives a very correct account of Grand
Rapids and Centralia. Such letters
will materially aid our prosperity, and
show up our ADVANTAGES to the vision
Of unbelievers.
Hon. G. L. Park lectures before
the Library Association at Stevens
Point on Monday evening. the 23rd
inst His theme will be, "The Cross
and the Crescent" We congratulate
our Point friends. Park will say good
things-rare things that will be literal
ly an intellectual feast.
The Wisconsin Central having al
ready expended S6,0Q0,000 in build
its road thus far into the wilds of the
State, certainly deserve great credit for
their energy and enterprise. 1t will
require several millions more to finish
the great thoroughfare, and we utter
the sentiments of our citizens when we
say success to the Company who are
doing so much for the development of
northern Wisconsin.-AshEand Press
The women have found practical
champion in the House of Representa-
tives in the person of Speer, of Penn
sylvania, who has introduced a bill
directing that the government shall
pay the women employed by it the
same wages that it pays males for the
same service. This is simple justice,
IF woman does equally as good and
as much work in a given time as a man
there is no sufficient reason why she
should not receive the same pay.
On Tuesday last E. F Daley, in the
employ of Mclndoe & Co., at the log
ging camp of D. McPhail, met with
an untimely death from the accidental
discharge of shot gun in his own
hands, while out hunting a few rods
from camp. The charge entered his
left breast and came out between the
ribs Of the left side. When found life
was extinct. He was conveyed to this
city on Thursday, and a corners in
quest was held, resulting in verdict
of accidental shooting. His remains
were then forwarded to his relatives in
| Berlin for interment. Wis. Central.
The Coed Templars Lad a rousing
gathering last Saturday evening. We
believe some fifteen new members were
Initiated. The exercises must in some
manner be shortened up, and business
dispatched more speedily if the society
would have the interest kept up. 1t
wont do to have it drag along, necessi-
tating the holding of the meeting to
as late an hour as IL o'clock. Be on
hand prompt, and let it be business
till the hour Of closing.
A band of fifty praying christian
ladies has been formed at Muscatine
who pledge themselves to wage a wal
of prayer against Alcohol. One in
vulnerable saloonest shut the door Of
his cuisines Office in their ia ces and
: said ''you shan't get in, but the wit O.
the ladies was too many for him
| They came back at him with we MGsca.
tine and in they went. When womer
say she must, she must, or there vii
be a muss, and that saloonest probably
realized the fact.
The temperance contagion ha
made its appearance in New York ant
Philadelphia.
The ladies keep up the struggle an,
90 not lose their ardent spirits. Tn
brandy cruise and beer cask are stimuli
taneously attacked, and the bottle be
comes crusaded and caskaded.
The asSailants who formerly ap
preached at timid pace, now 60 in a
a decanter. The jug-or-not rolls on