Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
PITTSVILLE PLUMS.
PITTsvILLE, Wis. Mch. 3.


PITTsvILLE, Wis. Mich. 3. 80.
Editors Reporter;-The people of
Pittsville aud vicinity are having run
of the scarlet fever and rash. although
we have had no deaths. We are also
having some severe cases of lung dis
ease. Mrs. r. H. Boynton and
Mrs. NJ. M. Duncan are quite low.
The new bridge across yellow river
at this place is ready for teams to
cross. The length of bridge is 237 #.
by II #. = in. wide, longest span 90
#, two forty feet spans resting on
piers Is feet above low water mark,
Captain Beadle, the head workman,
while raising the last chord, fell to the
ice below, a distance of "a feet, severe
ly injuring his face, and receiving a
terrible jar. He is improving fast un-
der the care of DR.. Brown of this
place. John Lahai, of Grand Rapids,
put in the piers. TIE whole struc-
ture looks substantial filling a want
long needed by the travelling public.
L. w. Pitts, the contractor, gets ST.
400 for the job.
S. G. Harmon & Son have in a good
stock of stave and heading bolts. The
hub and spoke factory have fair stock,
yet they did not get in all they have
got, and will Their efore have to draw
the remainder in on wheels in order to
keep them running the season.
From the general outlook over the
town of Wood the people seem to be
contented and prosperous, none talking
of leaving, but every few days we see
new faces on our streets. With the
new bridge connecting US with the set
Element and country west Of Yellow
river, it will open thoroughfare and
connect us with the settlement in the
souteast corner of Clark county, and
the travelling public will have better
and shorter route to and from Neills-
vile and Grand Rapids, via, Pittsville,
Weisner's and Tom. LaFlesh's farms,
than heretofore, via. Big Bull and
Nasonville. Grand Rapids and Cen
tralia will be benefited by this i'm
provement. One more important
change is needed and that is to shorten
the distance from Centralia to this
place by direct road running due
east from Pittsville, until it connects
with the Seneca highway at the north
east corner of Sec, 81, Town %,
Range 3 east. The ground is good to
make a road and it would leave the
distance for team easy to make from
Grand Rapids to Pittsville and return
in one day, making Centralia, Pitts
vile and Grand Rapids more neighbor-
ly. Mr.. Editor, if you could get in a
carriage about nine o'clock a. m. and
drive out to Pittsville in time for din
ner and back by four or five p. m. to
your home, we might hope to see your
face in our midst once in a while, as
also many others from your city, but
as it is now We can expect to see Geo.
w. Hungerford with an eye locating a
site for a tax certificate, or Captain
Hyde with some capital from the prov
inces sooner than one of our neighbors
from Grand Rapids or Centralia.
Even the Sheriff stands aloof, for as.
I understand from the oldest inhab-
liant there hasn't been a resident OF
the town of Wood or the territory
comprising it, in durance vile, during
his residence or recollection. There
has never been a murder committe on
our territory, and the States Prison
has no co ntribution from our section
The only wonderment to me is why
George Peck has not found this place
or sent his Sun here to canvass for hi,
machine for the benefit of school
ma 'ams, as the schools here show plen :
ty of material for the same to work
upon to test its utility.
SUBSCRIBER.