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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
COUNTY CLERKS LIST
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK,

Wood County, Wisconsin
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. That the fol
IN lowing described lands were sold 10y the
County Treasurer on the 21st day of May, A. d.
1899 for the taxes and charges thereon for the year
of 1885, and the same are yet unredeemed in this
Office, and the holders of certificates of sale OF
said lands viii be entitled TO tax deed thereof in
accordance with the laws of this state, unless re-
deemed on or before the 21st day of May, A. D.
1892. The interest and charges including re
demption fees, are to be computed to the last day
of redemption.
Given under my hand and seal at Grand
SEAL Rapids, Wisconsin, this 18th day OF
August, A. D. 1891.
S. T. YOUNG,
County Clerk, Wood County, Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
Town .. Range 4 East.
Town %, Range 4 East.
VILLAGE OF 4UBURND4LE.
Town 25, Range 4 East.

Unknown east part of Sc sw, Sec D So 5
do Is lot 2, blk. 2 10 5
do south of r. R blk 2 !
Unknown. Commencing on the a line run
ming north and south through Sec p,
l66 TT. north of center of w. G. r. R.
and 30 IT. east of said ID line running east
20 it., thence north $50 it., thence west
ia it,, thence south 153 it 70 place of
Starting. ,
Unknown. Commencing 1854 it. east Of
southeast corner of block and running
north $50 it., thence east 90 it., thence
south $50 it., thence west So it. to place
of starting g
Unknown. All of sw Il of Sc Il of sec. %
south of w. c. r. R., not otherwise listed ,
Unknown. Commencing 33 it. north and
7434 TT. west of the Sc cor of Sec p,
and running north IS it., thence west 81
IT., thence south IS fit. thence east 81 it.
to place of starting. @
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
CITY OF PITTSVILLE.
Town 90, Range 3 East

A piece Of land in
Sc sw described az
follows: Commenc-
ing 172 feet west anG
300 fit. south of n. E
cor. of the above de
scribed 30 acres;
thence west 125 feet,
south 80 fl, east 125
fl. north 80 fl. 10 be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
Killed Her hildTen,

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 22.-Mrs.
BanI owse1, wife Ct one OF the most pros
peIous residents Of Helvetia. dming a fit
of temporary insanity drowned her babe,
tIailsG her thIee-!tar old child and
vainly attempted suicide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
REDUCTION IN PRICES.
The Following on Houskeeper's Sheets and
Workinamen's Shirts.

The following table has been going the
rounds of the newspapers for some weeks.
1t is not necessary TO say that the list has
found no place in papers that designate
the present iariff system as McKinleyism,
and that, lecause they are disredited and
rebuked, they regard every reduction in
prices and the scccess of every new indus
Try as a national calamity. There is no
doubt but that thorough research would
show similar reductions in prices in all,
or nearly all the articles affected by the
rev tariff. The prices given are from the
Dry Goods EconC mist-a trade paper not
in pohtics-snd the articles are beached
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
SECOND WARD.

lot of land commencing at point $50
feet south, 315 feet west of the Il post be-
tween secs. and Il, Town %, Range
East; thence south 102 feet, west 307 feet,
north 1902 feet, east 370 feet, to place of be-
ginning
A lot of land commencing &c feet north and
1G5 feet east of sH corner Of lot 1. sec. II,
Town p, Range East, running thence
east 211 feet, north 235 feet, to center
of the creek on the line between the lands
of G. h. Gardner and n. e. Sampson;
thence north 7815 deg. west along the CEN
ter of said creek 214 feet, to the east line
of a lot of land heretofore conveyed by 6.
R.Gardner to the city of Grand Rapids;
thence south 1852 feet, to the place of be-
rim
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

Unknown lot 1, blk. 6 So rs
do lot ., blk. 6 "a
THIRD WARD.
Unknown lot 2, blk. 9 $40 OF
do lot II, blk. 30 10 81
do NV 20 fit. lot II, blk 81 4 90

do NV 20 it. lot II, blk 81
Unknown. A lot of land commencing GAO
fit. east of the Sw corner of NV ID of NV "a
of Sc a of Sec. II, T. %, r. 6 E., running
thence north log it., east 135 it., south 1902
it., west 1876 TT. to place of beginning.
Unknown. A lot of land commencing 600
ft. east, and 1G2 it. north of the sw cor. of
Is of NV ID of Sc "a of Sec. II, T. %, R.
T., running thence north 2O4 it., east 270
It., south 204 it., west 270 it. to place of
beginning.
Unknown. A lot of land commencing 106
it. east Of sw corner of tract. lot 2 Sec. II,
I. 22 r. E., running thence 1918 fit. to
the Sc cor. OF said tract lot 2, thence
north along the east line of said tract. lot
2ahout 600 it,, thence southwesterly about
40 it., thence northwesterly about 200
it., thence southwesterly about $50 fit. to
the place of beginning, containing about
IA acres.
Unknown. A lot of land commencing 495
fit. east and 23l fit. south of the NV cor
ner of the Is of NV a of Sc "a of Sec. II,
T. o. r. E., running thence east 135 it,,
north 102 it., west 1876 it., south 102 fit. to
place OF beginning.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
Skating Then and Nox.

The opening Of the skating season this
winter revealed q curious fact. Very
few of the girls of a certain age, those
just blossoming into young womanhood,
knew how to skate, and there was n like
deficiency in the boys of the same set.
Brothers and sisters q few years advanced
were perfectly at home on the ice. This
is easily accounted for. If the warm
winters of a few years past were to con-
tinue ice skating would soon become Il
lost art. Another factor in the case was
the recent prevalence of roller skating,
which crowded the older and better sport
out of fashion. The Springfield boys and
girls of fifty years ago found good skat-
ing at their very doors. Frost's pond
was Just off Main street, back of the pres
ent site of Brigham's stores and the Sec
ond bank, and when tho meadows were
flooded, as was oftenthe case, the young
sters could skate from State street clear
up to Carew by climbing IN occasional
pair of bars.
In those days tho crack fancy skater
of the town was Emory Whipple, the
now veteran jcwelcr. There were none
of tho ingenious skates which every boy
has now. The runner or shoe either had
a groove along the bottom or consisted
of two parallel pieces of steel. The
present narrow edge vas unknown; the
toe ended in Il fantastic curl, and the
heel was held to the boot heel by a spike.
The skate was securely bound to tho
foot with many windings of a strap.
Getting ones skates on was not the triv-
ial matter that it is today.-Springfeld
| Mass.) Homestead.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
The Historic Hatchrt.

We take the Ratchet for our text.
because Tomorrow is the anniversary
OF the birth of George Washington,
and the Legend of the little hatcllet is
i%nsepartlly connected with the mem.
DRY OF the great man. And yet these
m~atter'of-fact people, who so patiem..
ly housing around a,nong old dur,..
ments and records, say the pretty
story is not trur-and so another
cherished belief is shattered. Still
the hatchct remains an emblem for IL
truthful man, (wlien it does not sug.
gest the bad Indian with his toma.
lawk) though IL good many of OR
fellow citizens have evidently "buried
the hatchet," as it does not appear us
Il sign over their doors. Railroad
men arc supposed to have no use for
the hatchet us II tralp-mark-eXcept
the agents of 1.-The Burlington," who
have no need for anything but the
truth in detailing the advantages and
attractions of the 1000 miles of track
of the system, the superb equipment,
the fast time, the courteous treatment,
the sure connections. Call on IVY
railroad coupon ticket agent in the
Northwest for confirmation, OF write
to w. j. c. Kenyon, Gen. Pass. Agent,
G. b. Il N. r. r., st. Paul, Mimi.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
Tho Rage for Hot Milk.

BY the by, there has never been so
much vogue given to milk as there is just
now. In fact, there arc hundreds of
clubmen who have never seen us much
since they went from one bottle to IL
other. You are asked to have IL glass IF
hot milk, or u glass of hot vichy, just ~,
you are asked to have a cup of tea, or
some creme de menthe. In u cut glass
goblet, standing on n bright hued plate,
the milk and vichy is particularly appe-
tizing, and it is marvellous how much Of
it the men drink.
1t is the result of Offering Il simple
drink in an attractive ANN Service
in this world means so much, and really
it seems to he more appreciated by men
than by \ boiled potato and a
piece of beefstcak on Il hot plate, with Il
glittering silver fork and IL bright steel
knife, with the butter in Il dainty little
pat, and the bread in a smooth cut piece,
with the whitest of 1lapery, is more APP
petizing than IL dinner of twenty courses
served in u careless fashion.-New York
| Cor. st. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
Temperature in the House,

1t is strange how few people there are
whose feelings are a criterion as to the
proper temperature of u room. No room
in winter should be higher in tempera-
ture than 6S dogs. Fahrenheit. Yet Il
great many living rooms and, worse
than this, sleeping rooms, are kept habit
ually at a much higher temperature.
Many wise people believe that the fro
quency of pneumonia and other danger
Gus diseases of the lungs and breathing
organs i'll winter may be directly traced
to ovcrheated houses and the sudden
change experienced in going from this
high temperature into the cold outer at
mosphere. 1t would be better if we
made more use of the thermometer in
regulating tho heat of houses, the
aires and lecture rooms.-New York
ih1
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21

\ Hint to Railroads,

The Listener saw Il sight the other day
which has moved him to make n protest.
On the Back Bay, at the crossing of the
Boston and Albany and Providence rail
road tracks, IL gang of men were engaged
in burning up a lot of railroad ties. Ev:-
IDENTIFY the ties made capital fuel, for
the fire was cracking merrily. They
were evidently disused but by no means
rotten. OF course the railroad would
not venture to keep ties in place on the
roadbrd until they were rotten. The
Listener has often seen ties burning on
the tracks near the city, but never before
so far within the city itself, and actually
within IL short stones throw of the homes
of the poor people who would have been
only too glad to relieve the railroad cor
poration of every stick of their disused
ties at an hours notice.
Did it ever occur to you, Messrs. Rail-
road superintendent or Directors, or
whoever is responsible for this destruc-
ton of good fuel, that your old ties would
give at least q little warmth to q good
many households that have had none, or
next to none, through all this cruel
weather? There would be no need of
advertising for people to come and take
the ties; every laborer among the num-
Der who work ut the task of destroying
them must know families who would be
glad enough to get them. The railroads
could actually save money by giving the
wood away.-Boston Transcript.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
crcdenco in Medicinal Charms.

1t is not only among the rude savages
of India that the virtue of medicinal
charms is implicitly credited. The il
literate and simple minded of England
reposo all necessary faith in the same
fascinating delusions, and there is no
ancient woman in any of our remote viii
lagos, who processes the customary
knowledge and superiority of her age,
who has not a specific charm for whoop-
ing cough, ague, teething, commissions,
epilepsy and every other common all
ment and disease.
Every one is acquainted with the eff
cacy of the "royal touch" in cases of
the kings evil, or scrofula, and scarcely
a week passes that we do not see in our
newspapers IN advertisement for the dis
posal of q child's cold or a serious form
of deafness.-London Tit-Bits.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
London's High Death Rate.

Not for Il long period has the death
rate i'll London been SO alarming as it
was last week, when, owing to the fog
and cold combined, it reached the high
figure Of 2G per 1000. This is an in
crease of 8 or 6 per 1000 on the returns
for recent weeks, and how great the
leap is may be judged from the fact that
iii recent years the rate has averaged
only about 10 per 1000. The weather
has chiefly affected those with weak
lungs. The registrar general shows that
deaths from diseases of the respiratory
organs increased by nearly 800 during
the week, and reached the unusual total
of 1913, or nearly 800 more than the av-
crasc for this time of year. The NOR
tally is not S great in London as in
Preston, where the death rate has gone
up in a week from 333.2 per 1000 to 51.6.
But tho average for the great towns is
only 25.1, and London is on the wrong
side of that figure.-London News.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
influence of n Simple Invention.

Ono cannot always tell, until after the
event, on what apparently insignificant
act his whole future hinges. DR.. Cyrus
Hamlin, president of Middlebury college
in Vermont, and formerly of Maine, in
a recent address at Woodford's said his
life depended on the making of a screw.
When at Bowdoin college in 1882 he
made IL brass screw for Professor Smiths
t%heodolite, and that led to his making a
steam engine, the first one built in Maine.
He had never seen one in all his life,
but he asked the professor if he thought
he could sell an engine, if he could make
one, for as much as he could earn by
teaching in the vacation. The professor
thought he could, he had made the screw
so perfectly. So he went to Portland,
and went to work in a clockmaking es.
Enlistment. At the end of ten weeks
vacation the engine was completed, and
sold to Bowdoin college for s175. He
could have earned but $40 teaching. The
price of the engine was sufficient to pay
a years expenses at Bowdoin in those
days.-Bangor News.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
rco,,c WHO Eat Alone.

In all thoroughly civilized countries
the members of IL family and their guests
partake of meals while collected around
a central board, hut this is not so with
the minority or even a fraction of the
scmi-civilizcd and barbarous nations.
The Marlivian islanders dine alone, re-
firing to the most secret parts of Their
huts for the purpose of eating their food.
This custom probably arose among them
in all carly period of their history, for
fear. perhaps, that another with equally
as sharp an appetite and o bodily
strength would deprive the feaster of
his meal.-St. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
The Shortage In tho Food Crops.

The magnitude of the food supplies of
IL nation is not very easily conceived.
We get an approximate idea i'll the i'm
ports of Great Britain. In 1899 no less
than $4,000. 900 bushels of wheat went
into British ports. and flour to the value
of $41 ,000, 900 has circulated in English
bread pans. 1t is calculated that the
shortage i'll wheat in the crop of 1883
will not be less than 100, DOC, GOO bushels.
Potatoes are placed at the SAME short
age. Fruits, vegetables aul berries are
credited with IL deficiency of 100. 900, 600
bushels. Europe reports 233 900, 900
bushels lacking in the average potato
crops, and the wheat crops us being 3d.
600, 900 bushels less than tho annual con-
sumption. Should these figures be but
approximately true, thcyindicatc a gray
ity in the situation that the coming year
will very pertinently show.-Economist.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
A Vessel in Two Parts,

A vessel constructed on the shores of
Lake Michigan was recently hoated
down to the sea in two sections. The
course was through the Welland canal,
down Lake Ontario and ON to Montreal,
which was reached in eleven days. The
after section of the ship, containing the
machinery, had steam in n boiler and
backed at the rate of seventy revolutions
per minute, steaming stern first, while
the forward section followed in charge
of two tugs. On arriving at Montreal
the two sections were placed on creased
ways i'll ~ dry dock, and when the parts
were closed in upon each other the butts
am together SO closely that a knife
blade could not be inserted between the
plates. The r%e-riveting was accomplish
ed with facility in the usual way, and
the vessel was tloated out of the dock a
complete hull, defying the eye of any ex-
pert to tell where the junction had been
made.-New York Commercial Adver.
tiSer.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
Advice 10 Mothers.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. has
been used by mothers for children
teething for over fifty years with per-
feet success. 1t relieves the little
sufferer at once, produces natural.
quiet sleep by freeing the child from
pain. and the little cheruh awakes as
Upright us IL butt, H." 1t is very
pleasant to taste, soothcs the child,
softens the gums. allays pain, relieves
wind, regulates the bowels and is the
best known remedy for liarrhna.
whether arising from tccthing OF
other causes. Twenty-Five cents II
bottle. app. IDLY.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21

WV SlSSIuA aso 10
The inordinate employment of the
possessivc case is Il vulgar solecism, and
not used to excess by those of gentle
breeding. There are both men and wo-
men who are forever talking about 'my
carriase," ''my house," etc, until they
disgust their hearers. One is apt to i'm
agine that such PERSONS are the possessors
of newly acquired wealth and its appur-
%tenances, when this small, two lettered
word slips from their lips with unseem-
ing frequency.
The pronoun ~ should not be too
often repeated, as it gives too personal
and e.otistic Il turn to conversation, and
the frequent recurrence of "Isaid so and
So" and IL did so and So" reveals Il nat
u1e weighed down with sense of its
own Importance, and caring little about
wlet other people ;:rc doing or thinking.
-Jenncss-Millcr Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21
Don't he a "Mere Atom"

Only u few months ago l heard q
young man in New York say derisively:
aHow can wealth be created on those
sterile western prairies% answered
that the prairies were not sterile, and.
that if he wanted to know how wealth
had been and could be created in the
particular prairie region from which I
hailed, he could get all the information
he wanted by addressing the Great
Northern Railway officials at St. Paul,
Or officials Of the prosperous cities of the
Red River valley. Iguess he did not
take my advice, because he looked as
though he would rather be u mere atom
in the East than to go where ! had
directed him, and by his W efforts
become an individual, surrounded with
peace and plenty.-Froln a private
letter written by j. s. Pinney.
The Dickinson press., 1891-02-21

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