Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-03
THE NORTHWEST.
More of the Local Events which are
Daily Happening.
WISCONSIN,.

THE postmaster at Fond du Lac has
discovered that less than 10 per cent. OF
the people who apply to his Office for
mail receive any.
APPLETON is organizing military
company.
AT Ripon they are having maple-su-
gar socials and dances.
J. H. PARRY, a prominent merchant
at Bangor, made an assignment. Liza
bilities. about $1,000.
Fort ATKINSON has an "Anti-Horse
Thief society,"" with one hundred and
thlrty-nine members.
A FOND DU LAC nrm recently ship
ped two car loads OF harrows to Manito-
ba.
The next annual meeting Of the State
Teachers association is to be held in La
Crosse.
THE GAINESVILLE guards have been in
vited to join the 3rd regiment of Illinois
National guards in their annual en-
campment at Freeport, July to6.
The next northern Wisconsin fair will
be held in Oshkosh, as usual A large
exposition building will be built on the
grounds this spring. Senators Carpen-
ter, Howe, and Mr.. Garfield have been
invited to crate.
Gov. SMITH appointed Knut Koegh,
M. d., Of La Crosse, trustee of state hos
pital for the insane, for the term ending
April 1, 1884, vice Hon. r. E. Davis, Of
Middleton, term expired.
EDWARD O'NEIL, of Milwaukee, and
William Blair, of Waukesha, have been
reappointed managers of the industrial
school for boys at Waukesha, for the
term Of three years, commencing March
4, 1879.
EPHRAIM Bowen, of Broadhead, and
Cyrus Miner, of GAINESVILLE, have receiv-
ed reappolnted as trustees of the in
stitution for the education of the blind at
GAINESVILLE, for three years commencing
April 1, 1879.
AS trustees of the institution for the
deaf and dumb at Delavan, for the term
ommencing April 1, 1879, the governor
has reappointed Aaron l.. Chaplin, of
Beloit, and S. Reese La Bar, of Della
van.
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but little snow in the woods, and unless
there should be heavy and continuous
rains next month, the prospects for a
fair drive are anything but fiattering.
A good many Of the logs have been put
in on small streams, or at the headouar-
ters of larger ones, and cannot receive
much benefit from dams.
The governor has appointed the fol
lowing commissioners to represent the
interests of the state on the board Of
commissioners relating to the improve
ment of the Mississippi river: Edward
| d. Holton. Milwaukee, John Lawler, of
Prairie du Chen, and r. B. Wentworth.
of Portage.
MINNESOTA.
THE body of Louis Schmitt, son of
Martin Schmitt, drowned Nov. IS, 1878,
was found on the Scott county shore
mile above Chaska, recently.
A young man named Mcfarland,
living with David MarCott, at Amboy,
Mobiles county, shot himself last week,
and it is believed Intentionally.
THE town of Richland, in Freeborn
county, voted no license, by acclama-
! ton, at the recent town election, as also
did Bancroft.
LAST Wednesday, the Otter Tail
county commissioners destroyed $780,
600 worth Of county bonds, issued for
railroad buildings
4 NUMBER of farmers from the vicin-
ity of Northfeld are settling near Fer
gus Falls.
A CINCINNATI company contemplates
erecting large sugar refinery at New
Ulm.
The Rushford wagon company made
one thousand wagons last season.
II. NJ. KNOX, Esq, public examiner
of the state, accompanied by his assist
ant, Mr.. A, Whitman, was looking into
Wadena county finances last week.
Col. WAIVER, of the U, S. engineer
corps, is building dredge-boat at Moor
head, to be used in the improvement of
the Red river. Work on the boat has
already commenced.
GENERAL Manager Myers, of the
Southern Minnesota railroad, will occu-
py Hon. Alex. McMillan's residence at
La Crosse, and Mr.. Mcmillan contem-
plates trip to Europe.
Mr.. JOHN BUSH, of Eyota, had four
teen sheep killed by dogs last Tuesday
night while he slept. The sheep were
very choice ones. There was one
strange dog found there in the morn
ing; but of course he did not kill the
sheep, so the owner thinks.
ILLINOIS.
PEORIA is to have a Catholic school.
AN effort is being made to start a
German paper IN Peoria.
STEPHENSON county grangers run
store of their own in Freeport.
WINTER wheat is said to be growing
finely in most parts of the state.
DURING the past year $4,000 has been
drawn from the poor fund in Joliet.
They are so temperate at Marengo
that not even clear cider is allowed
| to be sold.
The first white child born in the city
of Sycamore was Al years old the other
day.
Mrs. JANE MCDONALD, supposed to be
105 years old, died at LIE Sueur last
week.
MISSES Edith and Matte Davis, of De
| Kalb, have recently inherited $3.50
by the death of their grandfather.
AT the April election the citizens of
Fulton county will again vote on the
question of stock running at large.
A NEw-FANGLED disease is killing off
the bees i'll De Kalb county. One
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