Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-13

We often hear comments on the
splendid appearance of Cranberry
street. The macadam work is now
complete to the St Paul railroad. and
the 12-foot brick walk is complete
from Front street to the NJ. & S. E..
road with the exception of short
strip ia front of the Hayenor property
and Mcmillan Bros. residence. From
the VI. s s. E. road to the St. Paul
road the sidewalk is incomplete and
is and probably will be of wood. Be-
tween the curbS the street is - feet
wide and the uniform color of the
brick walks makes a very attractive
looking street.
VIM. Annas was tried before Justice
Cooper last Thursday on a charge of
wife beating. The evidence against
him was sufficient to indicate his guilt
and the Justice sentenced him to 80
DAYS in Jail. AnnaS promised the JUS
tice a cord of nice, dry. hardwood if
his honor would do the right thing by
him. and according to our way of
thinking. he owes Mr.. Cooper the
wood, although the justice refused the
proffered reward fer doing his duty.
OF course the right thing in Annas'
mind was not jail sentence. but
great minds differ on ali kinds of sub
jeCtS.
Rev. T. 4. Nimits will preach at the
NJ. E. church on Sept. 10th at 1880 a.
M. on the following subject: Lead
Us Not Into Temptation" In the
evening at 100 he will speak on The
Saloon Evil and Society, a Sure REM
edy for the Evil" Everyone interest
ed in the saloon business, for or
against, is invited to be present.
There will be no abuse of any person,
but a plain statement of facts, with
some illuStra tiOns taken from our
streets. Everybody is cordially well
come.
Mr.. and Mrs. \. D. Hill returned
last week from their summer vacation
which was about four weeks in dura-
ton. They went first to Winona,
Mimi. then to Chicago, st. Louis
and Fruitdale, Ala, d small place
about 80 miles from Mobile, where L..
Fl. Reed who formerly lived here is
located. Mr.. Reed is growing peaches
on an extensive scale and has a fine
crop this year. Mr.. and Mrs. Hill
had delightful trip and a pleasant
visit with many old time friends ia
the different cities where they visited
Godfrey Bruderli made valuable
addition to his rabbitry this week by
the purchase of five French hareS
from Waupun, a buck and four does.
They are the most peculiar rabbit
that has yet made its appearance in
the town. their long ears that reach
to the ground, being the feature
He also received three pairs of Bel
gian hares from Minneapolis. He is
having very good success now with
his rabbits and we are glad to note
that bis bad luck has vanished.
S. f. Durga and A. Strange from
Menasha arrived in the city Saturday
and stayed until Monday night, guests
of County Clerk Reeves. Mr.. Durga
is the Wisconsin Central agent in his
town and Mr.. Strange is the manger
of the John Strange Paper Co. of
Menasha. A hunting party was
organized consisting of the visitors,
w. H. Reeves, D. B. Philleo, Dr.
Hougen and Chas. Kellogg and a
general slaughter of prairie chichens
took place.
Quite number of Grand Rapids
young people were over to Stevens
Point Sunday, the attraction being a
double game of base ball between the
Portage City and ManitoWac mines
and the Stevens Point and Appleton
mines. The first game was decidedly
a One-Sided affair resulting in a score
of Il to in favor of Portage. The
second game was scrappy contest
that kept the hooters in fine fettle,
resulting to in favor of the Point
aggregation.
The following people were in the
city, last week, to receive treatment
from DR.. J. w. Bird in his special
line: Mrs. David Lutz. of Grand
Rapids Mrs. Nan V. German and
Miss Mclaughlin, of Plaintield: Alfred
Buzzard of Buena Vista: George Mil
Ter, of Marshtield: w. II. Fernholtz,
of Arcadia: and Mrs. George Shilling,
of AbbotsfOrd. Stevens Point GaZ-
cite.
Dr. Herring of Shell Lake and II. A.
Scott of Amherst, were in the city on
Wednesday. They were enroute for
Waterbury on a. hunting expedition
and stopped here to look over O. w.
Gothke & Co.'S kennel. After trying
some of the dogs they selected an IS
months-old English Setter, which the
doctor purchased and took with him
on the trip.
Mcmillan Bros. began buying pc.
tatoes this week. Only a few are
coming in as yet but the quality OF
stock is fairly good. The price paid sc
far has been 20 cents. Farmers report
only about half crop in this section
this year. There is short acreage and
the dry weather early in the season
will cut down the yield about 80 pei
cent. per acre.
Considerable improvement is being
made on South French street and dur
ing the past week heavy reports OF
explosions of dynamite near Nels
J0hnsOn'S and T. f. Nash S residences
tells Of the arduuuS work being done
there in the rock to bring the side.
walk to grade. Many brick walks is
being laid OH this street.
Hundreds of piCllcrs began work Ill
cranberry marshes of this section on
Monday and the work will be hustled
no ln rnC