Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-28
STATE NEWS.


The Dodge county fair was success.
Low water at Merrill has again stopped
log driving.
Neenah and Menasha dealers are fear
full of an ice famine.
Red sand stone is being used for side
walks in Menominee.
A new life boat has been added to the
outfit of the Sturgeon Bay life saving sta
ton.
Pile driving on the Wisconsin Central
company's new ore dock at Ashland has
been commenced.
The new town of Hurley has purchased
fire engine, bose and two hose carts, at
Bcost of $500.
! The Appleton linen works of Ingram &
| Heat will be removed to Minneapolis in
about fortnight.
The pier lighthouse and elevated walk
at Two Rivers has been completed. The
latter is 1876 feet long.
| The Green Bay Water Works company
! has voluntarily raised the wages of the
laborers employed by them to $3.50 per
day.
Clintonville has a new fire steamer.
Bears are very numerous on the Chip
pewa river.
Part of DR.. Pritchard's quarry, near
Manitowoc, is rock that yields 1851 of
| gold and silver to the ton.
W. B. Minnahan 8 Son have started a
republican paper at Chilton-The Guar
diana large eight-column sheet.
| Oshkosh's common council adopted a
resolution to purchase lot on Main St.
upon which to erect city hall to cost
| $4,000.
The Sparta high school paper, the
| Spartan, has new board of directors.
| Their first issue was a creditable effort.
The cost of lighting stores in Milwau-
kee with electricity and gas, is 1856 per
apnum for the former and $3.50 for the
latter.
By means of packing their artesian
wells, shutting off the veins of hard
water, the Fond du Lac water works com
pany is able to furnish consumers with
pure soft water.
About 400 buildings are being erected
in Sheboygan this year.
A chair factory is one of the late indus
tries of Chiffon.
There are 108 students in the Normal
proper of the River Falls Normal school
During last week 1874 ,979,554 gallons OF
water we're consumed in Milwaukee.
Joseph Fox, 16-year-old Racine boy
has been sentenced to prison for one year
for burglary.
Great is the slaughter of ducks and
jacksnipes, morning and evening, along
the south shore of Lake Winnebago.
Two Germans have established pa
pier mache factory at Medford. Their
speciality is the manufacture of toys.
| Wisconsin Journal of Education: The
normal room at Whitewater contains 185
students, and the preparatory and model
classes are large. The junior class mum
bers II.
The last catalogue of Ripon college
shows total of $50 students, of whom 81
are in the college course. The faculty of
the college is composed of eight profes
sors and four instructors.
Hog cholera is raging around South
| Caledonia, Columbia county, and many Of
the farmers have lost from ten to twenty
five porkers each. This loss, which
would be felt at any time, is all the more
unfortunate this year of crop failures and
| hard times.
Anabel Langan, a nine-year-Old Wis
consln girl, tasted fifty three days and Is
now recovering. She did not eat simply
because she was not hungry, and insisted
| that she could not starve without first be-
coming hungry.
Miss Belle Parker came from Philadel
| phia to take charge of the La Crosse
school for deaf mutes, but was refused g
certificate by State superintendent Ora,
ham, and had to return home.
A house of il-repute situated just out
side of the city limits of Eau Claire is 6
terror to the neighbors round about
and many are moving away from the
vicinity for fear of violence from the
| toushs that congregate there.