Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-02
Centralia Notes.

rants 1t will pull the largest stump
in Wood County with proper hand
ling.
The council met last Friday evening,
allowed J. ". Cochran's bill for SER
vices in Bishop case against the city
of Centralia.
H. Lefebvre, has begun picking the
berries on Lyon and Dutruits marshes
Persons desiring to pick berries near
home better 60 on these marshes.
Geo. Corriveau deiires US to inform
the public he has received a full line
of fall goods and will compete with
other houses on prices. Go in and see
! his stock.
The Hub and Spoke factory caught
fire last evening as the night crew
were preparing the lanterns. One fell
to the floor exploding and set fire to
the shavings, but was soon extinguish-
ed by the boys who applied water from
the force pump.
We called at Moore Brothers wagon
factory Monday and noticed they have
a large amount of work on hand. New
wagons are being turned out rapidly
and as good as can be had anywhere
in the State W. H. Gets, is kept
busy continually painting these wagons.
He does some nice buggy and sign
painting also. 1t is with pleasure we
note these Improvements of the times.
Go in boys and make money.
Lyon Brothers are having the lower
story of their mill rebuilt with new
timber. They have already replaced
the old fume with new timber and
otherwise improved the surroundings,
Mill wright, Ira Purdy, assisted by
VIM. Lcmley, Battise Menier and Mr..
Dustin are doing the work. 1t is
surprise to all of them that the Mill
stood during the flood, as the main
timbers Of the entire mill were so
rotten, that they pulled apart in rails
ing the building.
DIED-Orin Joneau, in the City of Centralia,
,I,,r,,
and Heart disease.
Grin, was a bright boy of IA years,
but like great many, had the disad-
vantage of contending against poor
health from his birth, up to the hour
when death relieved him of his suf-
fering. He was always happy, jovial,
pleasant and seemed contented with the
cross he had to bear through life He
was first taken sick about six weeks
ago with violent convultions which
confined him to his bed, and since was
never we'll enough to be up and around,
and was finally taken off with heart
disease. Death was easy with him.
He had one desire to the last, that his
mother go with him.
He was inferred Tuesday morning
under the rites of the Catholic church
in their cemetery. The weather was
very dsagreable as it rained continu-
ally all day. The family have the
sympathy of large circle of friends.
New YORK, Aug. Designating
of the census frauds in South Caro-
lima, The Tri6uns's Washington cor
respondent says: Some curious proofs
Of manifest fraud have recently been
discovered. Census returns are made
upon sheets Of uniform size each sheet
being designed to hold certain num-
Der of names. These returns, in all
places where the census has been hon
estly taken, of course, are somewhat
soiled, and entries in them have been
made as the enumerators have gone
from house to house, and the writing
is irregular. A great many of the
sheets returned by the South Carolina
enumerators, however, failed to show
that. The entries in great many in
stances have been written at a single
sitting. They are uniform, as the
writing is at the same angle, and there
are other signs by which experts can
readily tell that the document was
prepared at one time.
In one of these lists there are some
thing over 700 names, and of these
all except four are returned as natives
of South Carolina. This of itself is
preposterous, as the experience of the
census officials shows that the names
of 100 persons taken together in a
State would show very greater per
centage of nationality outside the
State 1t happens that one of the
South Carolina enumerators failed to
fill two of his sheets except the col
umns containing the names of per-
sons and their nativity-a circum-
stance of itself, taken with the other
indications of the papers, fairly indi-
eating fraud. This is a specimen of
the discoveries that are being made.