Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-26


100000 gallons per day.
The Waupaca county teachers
institute, conducted by Profs. J. / Jegi
OF Milwaukee, ". H. Hickok of Bur
lington, Taylor Frey OF New London.
c. B. Stanley of Manawa, and Supt. D.
+. Burnham, is in session. There are
100 teachers IN attendance. The in
stitute will continue until aug. 8.
Crawford county farmers have
organized telephone stock company
TEN, in the western part of the county,
by Aug. l. The officers are: President,
James Fisher, Jr. of Eactman; vice
president, DR.. c. Z. Cole. Prairie du
Chen; treasurer, \. n. Seville,
Seneca; superintendent and secretary.
c. H. SDeck.
The people Of Lynn are searching
for two highwaymen who held up Mrs.
William Schroeder. Inc act was com
mitted at o'clock in the morning In
an unfrequented locality She was
chloroformed and, after being searched
for a large sum of money she was
thought to have on her person, left III
the woods.
The team of NJ. 5. Bachelor of
Byron ran away in injured two
persons. The team ran away down a
street and at that moment Henry
Wentworth drove by and the runaway
team dashed into his rig. His 11-year-
old daughter, Louise was in the buggy
and was terrible hurt Mr.. Kent
worth, who is so years old, sustained
several wounds.
At ViroQua Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin
Henry celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary Of their marriage. There were
200 guests present, including eight
children, fifteen grandchildren and six
among the pioneer settlers of Vernon
county, having settled there in 1852
Fifteen delegates from the Miss
issippi Valley and Wisconsin Valley
Lumbermen's associations conferred in
Minneapolis on the state of the trade.
1t was agreed to maintain the present
scale of prices indefinitely, since the
is a shortage of important dimensions
and a sustained demand in the terri
tory supplied by the associations.
Henry L. Stout, millionaire lumber
man, is dead at Dubuque, aged Sc. He
was a pioneer of the northwest; mayor
of Dubuque in 1860; one of the incor-
porators of the Dubuque & Dakota
railroad; one of the Originators and
heaviest stockholders in many Dubuque
manufacturing concerns and has given
literally to public charities. He was
the father Of State Senator Stout of
Wisconsin.
Wisconsin pension granted:-Origi-
nal, Henry G. Smith, national home, Mil
waukee, Sc; Elias Johnson, lola, Sc:
Friedrich Mockler Prairie Du Sac
$12; additional, Thomas Mould, White
water, S12; David H. Pattern, national
home, Milwaukee, IS; increase, Peter
Fassan Racine S12; Henry Mount
gomery, Camy Douglas, So; Loren NJ
Bennett, Ashland, IS. Re-issued
Michael Drummer, (Brunner), Plum
City, So; widows Eliza A. Rowland
Osseo. S12.
Rural free dilivery to extend over Isl
square miles Of territory has just been
ordered established IN Wisconsin.
The service is to go into effect Aug. /.
At Barneveld, Iowa county, "a square
miles will be covered by carrier, serv-
ing a population of $50. Edward Reese
was appointed carrier. The routes at
Belleville, Dane county will cover an
area of Al square miles, with a popula-
ton of 500. Frank Burrows will be
carrier. The service at Middleton
Dane county, will enable $50 people to
get their mail by carrier, living within
and will complete thirty miles of sys-
an area of 30 square miles. E. w.
Williams is appointed carrier at
Watertown, Jefferson county. le
proposed service covers an area Of 40
square miles, with a population Of 600.
William w. Spear is carrier. Samuel
Snider of Haywood has been appointed
superintendent of construction of tho
Indian school to be erected at that
place.
Wednesday evening, July 25, there
will be instituted in Milwaukee, Lodge
No. of the Independent Order Of the
Sons Of st. George, which lodge will be
the first OF the order in Wisconsin and
for that matter the first in the United
State outside of Massachusetts. The
objects of the order are: To unite in
the bonds of charity, unity and peace
all acceptable white male persons born
under the British flag, or their sons or
grdudsOnS, between the ages of Is and
55, and honorary members over %
years of age; all applicants to be or
good moral character and believers in
the Supreme Ruler OF the universe.
The movement is in no wise oppose
to the present organization of the Sons
of st. George but is rather auxiliary
to it, and so far as Milwaukee is con-
cerned, the fact is that those who are
foremost in the movement are mem
beTs Of Acorn lodge of the Sons of St.
George which has been in existence
for seventeen years. Only those who
are of English birth or immediate de-
scent are eligible for membership in
the Sons of st. George, but in the new
order any person born in country
under the British flag, or the son or
grandson of such person, is eligible.
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