Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-06

man Schafer against the Upham Manu-
| featuring Co. for damages in the sum Of
$4,000, sustained by reason of the loss
of hand while in the employ of the
company at Marshfeld several years
! ago.
THE HEAD OF a WOODTICK.
Marshfield Times: About a year ago
| Charles Richeleau, of Greenwood, was
| bitten in the breast by wOodtick We
use the word bite but it is incorrect.
| Woodticks don't bite, they bore and
| they do it so gently that no pain follows.
| When they get in up to their shoulder.
there is no shaking them off and they
suck blood and swell up like ruptured
weinerwurst. Richeleau was not aware
of his companion until his shirt front
began to heave out and his vest put on
the shape of a corset. Believing that
something was the matter he made an
examination of himself, revealing the
fact that he was being eaten up by a
| woodtick He ierked the monster
from him but in doing so must have left
the head in, for recently be began being
troubled with a pain in the locality of
| the bite and it is now feared that blood
| poisoning will set in. Richeleau sleeps
| on bedtick, listens to clock tick, and
at times gets tick at a store, but he will
have nothing more to do with wood
| ticks. We have often wondered why
| Brother Harston of the Cleaner carries
a cOrkscrew but it is easy enough to
guess now. He uses it when he breaks
off a woodtick.
Marshfeld Times L. J. Mangold in
| forms us that be has been appointed
agent in this city for the Champion
| binders and mowers in place of the
Thompson Bros, who formerly sold
those machines. Mr.. Mangold has had
considerable experience in selling ma
chinery of this kind and as he repre-
sents a good company he will no doubt
meet with good sales during the trade
| OF next summer
Waupaca Post: Plainfield and Mount
Morris have been boasting about their
| big hogs. The former town started the
ball rolling with one at $50 pounds,
| Mt. Morris saw them one better with a
porker weighing 57393. Larson & Pope
of this city. think nothing of getting
hogs that dress 574 pounds, and or
Monday had one that weighed COS,
dressed. Next.
| New Lisbon, Tomah, Wausau, Merrill
and few more towns touching the
Valley division of the St. Paul Ry have
been entered lately in a newspaper
race as to which should have the diyi-
sion point understood soon to be moved
from Babcock. Says the Wausau
| Herald:
Merrill would like to get the division
Of the st. Paul railroad, and thinks it
| stands as good show to secure it as
does Wausau. Well the St. Paul com
pany has not given out that it will move
| the division from BabcOck, but if 1t
| should it is dollars to doughnuts Merrill
will not get it. The officers of the road
who make their homes at the division
point want to get into Il real city. That
is why they are anxious to leave Bah
cock, and they will not take chances on
any more small country towns"
A neighboring exchange has the
following as parsed by girl in their
| town:
| Kiss is noun, though generally used
as conjunction. 1t is more common
than proper. 1t is not very singular,
generally used in the plural number
and agrees with me.
In its issue Of Dec. Dist the Appleton
! Gazette saws Of VIM. Hawley Smith,
who was one of the lecturers in the lee
ture course of the Congregational church
at Appleton: "From the start to the
| finish the effort was instructive as well
as entertaining, witty, pathetic and
anon yividly humorous. < < He is
doubtless the most vivid word painter
on the lecture course, his audience be-
ing alert and enthusiastically apprecia-
| tive throughout the evening""
| f,o, + 4l,o, i
section Of the Northwest will be found
in what is known as northern Wiscon-
| sin, a portion of the state which few
years ago, was regarded Of little worth
after the timber should be cut off. Ten
| years from now, that land will be held
at three times the value placed upon it
at the present time. People who have
never visited that portion Of Wisconsin
have but all inadequate idea of its value
and its future prospects. Northern
| Wisconsin is a great empire within it
| self.-Sheboygander.
Wausau Record: Judge Chas. NJ.
Webb will be reelected 10 the bench in
his circuit this spring without opposi-
| ton. That is the way he is esteemed
where he is best known.
LOGGING NOTES.
The Tomahawk: On Tomahawk river
about eight million feet of logs are be-
| ing put in as against forty million feet a
year ago. On Somo river one million
feet going IN as against 10 million feet a
year ago On Wisconsin river above
this point there is falling off in amount
of logs going in of over forty million
feet as compared with amount put in
year ago. 1
The Tomahawk: Miss Rose Levin
and Roy Brasted were married last Sun
day evening.
The war in Wausau begun by the
business men against the Standard Oil
Go. was of short duration, lasting only
few days. The Standard agreed to
furnish higher test oil and to come
down Il cents below the old rate
charged. One car load of oil had been
shipped to Wausau by the Northwestern
Oil Co., of Milwaukee, and has by this
time been disposed Of.
Marinette Eagle: Judge C. IL Webb
Of Grand Rapids, who declined an
appointment from Gov. Upham TO the
Supreme bench, will be elected next
spring to succeed himself as Judge of
the Seventh Judicial circuit without
opposition. He Is an able Judge and
clear-headed man and the people Of
that district are to be congratulated on
having their judicial affairs determined
by him.