Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-06

city the past week (; partlcIpator In
the Odd Fellows festivities and an
aren't locker into the bungs of beer
kegs stamps, You know.
Last season Mansion originated q
pickle factory, and now Tomah bound
to never play second f,lile to- Mausten
considers herself some on the Pickle O.
How their great grandchildren will
celebrate Che centennial of that Gu
eumber transmografer
William NJ. Baker. the popular
American author, has been preparing
new story, the opening chapter of
which, illustrated, is given in the Illus
tratel Christian Weekly of April "a
1t is entitled Garter Quarterman; or,
AS by Fire, and bids fair to equal the
most popolar Of this authors writings.
We have heard of a man writing
a letter and forgetting to append his
name to it, but we never before heard
of Board of Inspectors of election
counting the votes and then forgetting
to finish the job, till We heard how
they did it in the town of Wood re-
Gently. The inspectors, we are in
form ed got into discussion over out
SHE matters and actually went home
and forgot whether they were on foot
or on horseback and then the Chair
man and some others of the 'seleet''
forgot to qualify. 1t woald seem that
they are an abse 1t minded people over
at Pit.sville.
The activity shown in our streets
on Saturdays and Mondays, the gener-
ally considered market days, reveals
Fact. which is. that we are becoming
an agricultural people; that while lum-
Der, which has heretofore been consider
ed our mainstay, (while it is still, and
will remain business of magnitude
must eventually yield the supremacy
to agricultural interests. Slowly, but
surely the soil which has grown the
mighty pines is becoming BUNDLED,
and must be content to produce instead
the lowly stems whose wealth Of kerr
mel feeds the millions. 1t is no hunil-
iation, rather proud triumph, and
one which will in few years have
transformed our county into one of the
wealthiest regions in the state. To the
casual observer the transformation is
unobserved, but let him penetrate our
county ia any direction and he will
find thrifty farms where only few
years ago were uncultivated acres.
The famous Four Mile Greek section
is becoming garden and a thriving
yeomanry are learning to rejoice in the
truition of golden hopes. What was
looked upon as a sterile waste is being
turned into a productive soil thickly
dotted with substantial farmhouses and
capacious barns. Even old Saratoga
which has been a laughing stock is
making pretensions to excellence, and
not without just and tangible cause.
La Rudolph the change is most strik-
ing. Formerly "lumber" was the
watchword n this town, and as proof
of her ability to pronounce the word,
she has foated millions upon millions
of that commodity 10 the Mississippi
markets but to-day she has as noble
farms as can be found in Wisconsin,,
and with each coming spring she is
turning over more acres to the produc-
ton of crops which successfully COM
pete with those raised in more widely
known regions of the state. All
through our western tiers Of towns
rich farming lands are being developed,
and with each years cultivation more
abundant crops reward the husband
men. In our western borders no bet
ter soil can be found in the whole west.
Western Sigel, and Seneca and Lincoln
townships are just grand-superlative-
ly superior for agricultural pursuits,
consequently steady, healthy growth,
and rapid development of our agri-
cultural resources is the result
When we commenced this article we
thought only to make mention of
fact, but it has grown into somewhat
lengthy item of obstinate facts which
are being corroborated from day to
day as men learn to observe the muta-
tions incident to our accruino adyan-