Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-07
NEIGHBORING NOTES.
Taken From Our Exchanges and COM
densed for Local Readers.
MET By 4 BRASS BAND.

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ney Williams lives to be a hundred
years old he will never forget the
reception rendered him at Centralia
Monday, morning. Its pretty, we'll
known that Mr.. Williams was elected
mayor of this city at the last election
but he never supposed it was known
outside the city limits. 1t was a clear
case where the office captured the man
and not the man the office. Now the
office of mayor in this city is all glory
and few perquisItes. Its the former
that Williams cares the most for. On
arriving at Centralia Monday a brass
band was at the depot and as the train
slowed up they played soul inspiring
music. AS there was no one else on
the train but Mr.. Williams the thought
struck him that perhaps he was the
hero of the demonstration; that the
people down there had learned of his
victory in Marshfeld and upon his first
visit since his election, had concluded
to meet him with a brass band. He
glanced over the crowded platform and
was about 10 spat on his hands and
make speech when some one pulled
his sleeve and asked where the rest of
them were. Williams felt little
abashed at the inquiry but said: Good
man arise, take up thy feet and walk
away; there is but one mayor of
Marshfeld of whom am he." Then
the band stopped playing and chorus
of voices asked where the rest of them
we're. You see, Monday was a gala
celebrating the 77th anniversary of the
order of Odd Fellows and the band had
come to the train to meet the crowds
of visiting brethren expected to come
from this city, and none had went
down. When Williams learned the
true situation Of matters he felt the
honor supposed to be his had been
ruptured and he went out and took a
hack.
Tomah Journal: w. S. Braddock,
ex-president of the Wisconsin Gran
berry association, was in our city We'd
nesday Mr.. Braddock has taken much
interest in the possibility of successful
marshes in this part Of the state and
study. He believes there is no doubt
that much of these marsh lands, which
have heretofore been devoted to cram
berry culture, is finely adapted for
stock farming and that this will in the
course of a few years become one of the
best dairy districts in the state. Mr..
Braddock and George A. Marvin, Of
Mather, have become extensive dealers
in these lands, having some II, 1000 Of
farming lands in Jackson and Juneau
counties which they offer on easy terms
at from $3.50 to 500 an acre.
The Lethbridge News of April 30,
published at Lethbridge in the
Province Of Alberta, n. w. T., Canada,
contained the following item: Mr.
in. West, of Mountain View, has been
in town for the past couple Of days
Yesterday he was married by Rev.
Chas. McKilop, 3. A, to Miss Margaret
Biringer, of Centralia, Wis. who
arrived from that place by the south
train yesterday afternoon. He leaves
for home in the morning.
PittsviIle Pilot: Mr.. n. H. Robinson
returned to Dexterville from Mime
apolis Wednesday morning, with two
car loads of full blooded Jersey COWS,
for the Geo. Hiles Land & Lumber Co.
Almond Nelson and Nicholas Kruger,
of Stevens Point, are two transgressOrs
who suffered the stern penalty of the
law the past week for illegal fishing,
complaining warrant being sworn out
by game warden John Sellers. Nelson
bad been killing trout in the Little
Plover by exploding dynamite, and
Kruger plead guilty to the charge of
fishing for trout III the same stream
with two hooks on his line. Each
received prize of $25 and costs. The
former is taking it out in jail: the latter
paid the price.
AN OLD WOODEN BICYCLE.
Stevens Point Journal: The first
bicycle ever built in the state of Wis
consin still stands rusting, neglected
and alone in the Green Bay freight
depot Of this city. 1t is still the
property of Louis West, who rode it on
the streets of Appleton in 1868 and
though there were at the Worlds Fair
as many as three bicycles which claim
the distinction of being the first built
in the state, Mr. West is prepared to
prove priority for his bone breaker,
built in 1867 at Milwaukee. To be
appreciated the old yelocipede must be
seen and it is certainly worthy Of a
place in some bicycle museum. Why
don't some of our dealers get it and
place it by the side of their modern
wheels so as to show the wonderful
evolution the machine has undergone?
The old timer would be a novel feature
in bicycle parade ridden by its present
owner, who enjoys the distinction of
being the first man in the city who ever
rode two-wheeler.