Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26

10 poulIonAuS PoPSA SOo oi0
Gazette.
L. Fourier has put in another chair
in his tonsorial room and secured the
services of an artist He solicits the
patronage of the public and hopes to
succeed in pleasing his customers.
Trains were suspended Monday and
Tuesday on the Green Bay railroad
owing to a washout on the west end
near Whitehall and another near New
London. Wednesday they began
running trains again as far as Merrill
Ian.
T. D. Kanouse, G. W. G. 7 will
address the people of this vicinity at
the M. E. Church Friday evening
next and wi be assisted by B. F.
Parker, Gran Secretary. These gen.
tlemen are Fl speakers. The church
will undoub eddy be filed to overflow
ing.
Julius Mathews, of Sigel, brought
to our Office this week sample of
winter wheat taken from his farm
which is of superior growth and quail
ity for this section. He has in only
one and one-half acres and says it will
yield about 40 or As bushels.
Mr.. & Mrs o. L. Richard entertain
ed a goodly number of guests at the
lawn sociable given at their home
Wednesday evening, last week. The
attendance would have been much
larger had the sociable been more gen.
orally known
On the strength of the gold and
silver excitement in Rudolph. this
county, Almeron Bates sold forty Of
his land to a company last week for
$4,000 cash on delivery of deed. This
will have a tendancy to raise the
price of lands in that part of the
county.
All over this broad land there are
towns that have been ruined by lack
of enterprise, and they are standing
to-day like monuments over graves of
departed hopes. Encourage enterprise
and you will build the town; dis
courage enterprise and you sign its
death warrant as sure as the sun
shines. -Medford Star and NeDs.
Reader, does that hit us or does it
not? Are we going to get that cotton
mill =?
We have ommitted to note that Mr..
John Phiel has been dangerously i'll
for some time past with Asthma. He
has had the best medical aid in this
and Portage counties, and still he re-
mains low. Last week Mr.. J. e.
Carey paid him visit and placed
upon him a suit of magnetic goods
which are doing much good. Mr..
Carey believes they will bring him out
O. K. yet. Mr.. Phiel was veteran
during the late war and has many
friends in this county.
The cranberry crop of Wood county
is now complete failure without any
doubt. The prospects until quite
recently were fattering for fair crop
but the more recent rains have blasted
this last hope. The marshes so far as
we can learn are all under water which
is scorching the larger portion of the
young berries. The rains have damag-
ed the crops ia Wood county at least
100000.
The REPORTER Office was visited
this week by Mr.. Jesse Waters, Of
Rudolph, Wood county, and we were
shown a certificate from the Chicago
Smelling and Refining Company dated
July 14th 1883. 1t reads as follows;
''This is to certify that [ have care
fully assayed, mill run, for gold and
silver the sample of ore deposited by
A. @. Merritt and marked "mill run
100lbs'' and have found the same to
contain to the ton of two thousand
pounds. Silver 6 and 2-10 ozs. Value
at 81. 10 per OF. Gold 4 and Go ozs
Value at S2O.67-1OO per OF. Tota
S90.16. Signed. Chas. W. Forebush
assayer. No. 1850.
} EVERYBODY KNOWS IT--Whel
you have the Itch, Salt Rheum, Calls
or Skin Eruptions ofsall kind, and the
Piles, that YOU know without beins