Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-27

Having received the Grand Agency
for Steamship Lines, parties desiring to
go to the old Country or send for their
friends, will find it to their interest to
call upon me and secure terms etc. F.
w. CRAPsEY, Agent c. NJ. & St. P. R'Y.
If.
q. i. R. Post has arranged with the
Green Bay and Western Rv. to run their
coach through to St. Paul Monday,
August 3lst. They will leave with the
regular train at 11:40 a. m. reaching
Mcmillan in time to connect with the
special train on the Omaha division.
Arrive in st. Paul the same evening at
Z o'clock.
Joint School District No. 6 has had a
new school house constructed this sum-
mer. Mr.. Clinton did the carpenter
work and painting, while Geo. Moulton
did the plastering. 1t is a very pretty
school building and we'll adapted for the
comfort of the children who will attend
there.
Messrs. Guy, James and Royal Nash,
sons of Z. E. Nash, Centralia, left the
first of the week for trip down the
Wisconsin river in row boats with the
DeIls as their objective point. They
expect to be absent a period of ten
days. They were accompanied by their
sister Miss Nellie, as far as NekoOsa.
Chas II. Egbert, who was in the
employ of Geo. n. Wood in the sew
ing machine business thirteen years
ago, here, passed through this city
this morning in ''prairie schooner"
bound for his old home hartford,
Wis. He came overland all the way
from Western Kansas and had quite
an experience.
Mr. Chas D. Kipp is the guest of his
liza. Charles took hand in Saturdays
ball game, but not in the pitchers box
where he used to do such effective
work. Mr.. Kipp injured his arm
throwing base ball some time ago and
he has never recovered its full use for
tWlrling.
Prof. Guy S. Ford is back to the city
after the summer rest attending to
preliminary matters preparatory to the
opening of school on Monday Septem-
Der 14th. Mr.. Ford said he has en-
ioyed his vacation and is feeling well.
Mr. Frank Ford, brother of the Pro-
fessOr, will return to Grand Rapids and
attend the Howe High School another
year, expecting to graduate next June.
State Journal: Mr.. Frank E Comp
ton, of Grand Rapids, returned yester-
day to commence work with his
colleagues, Messrs. Theodore Brazeau
and George B. Nelson, on the Joint de-
bate for the coming year between
Philomathia and Athena debating
societies. The above named gentlemen
are on the PhilOmathia side of the
question.
Centralia's stlcet commissioner and
assistants were busy yesterday laying
new walk at the west end of the
bridge. The boards were placed on the
north or most travelled side and the old
planks taken up were we'll worn. 1t is
needed change The old and the
new will not match very we'll and so no
doubt Grand Rapids will soon fall i'll
line and do as much for the north side,
east end.
Mesdames B. c. Spaulding, James
Dunn, John Turner, Ross, and Newly,
all of Stevens Point, came to Grand
Rapids Monday and pleasantly sur
prised Mrs. c. D. Whiting, the occasion
of her 62nd birthday. 4 jolly anniver-
sary celebration resulted in which
Mesdames Brown Andrews, Ayshford
The ladies of Stevens Point returned to
their homes Tuesday.
Last Sunday, August %, 1896, the
water in the Wisconsin river at this
point was ten inches below the zero
mark on the ice breaker just above the
wagon bridge. This is two inches lower
than previous records. The water was
down to the above mark for only a few
hours. The bed Of the river back of
Judge Webb's residence was almost
bare. Mr. and Mrs. Lipke walked
across the slough 70 the island without
getting their feet wet.
A picked ball team from Mauston.
New Lisbon, Necedah, and other points
down the line, with state league bat
terry from Jefferson, Wis, is booked to
play against the Twin City Team at
Fair Grounds Sunday next. Manager
Lindahl is negotiating with Porter, the
Wausau second baseman, and with
Gitchell for assistance; it is expected
they will wear twin city suits on that
dav Thus strengthened the locals can
put up a good game. Bandelin and
Gotchie will be the battery for the
home team.
Since 1873 there have been nine
epidemics of dysentery III different
parts Of the country in which Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy was used with perfect success.
| Dysentery, when epidemic, is almost as
severe and dangerous as Asiatic cholera.
| Heretofore the best efforts Of the most
skilled physicians have failed to check
its ravages, this remedy, however, has
cured the most malignant cases, both of
children and adults, and under the
most trying conditions, which proves it
to be the best medicine in the world for
| bowel complaints. For sale by F. L.
Steib & Co. August.
What is true of the lumber business
is true of other branches Of trade and
commerce. The effects of the present
administration is set forth in an adj
dress issued by the Mississippi Valley
Lumbermen' association showing that
! the cut this year has been curtailed
more than 25 per cent. and that the
saw mills are idle while the importation
of Canadian lumber has doubled. The
! directors declare that this state of
affairs is due to reduction Of the tariff
on lumber and the fear of free silver.
They advise members to impress these