Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
Erad w Rurt Or on apcOIInt Of his

and II. W. Lord has taken his place.
Mr.. Burt is in his list year and is one
. Of the historic characters of the town.
having settled here October p, 1857.
He is native of Newark, n. j., and
came to Wisconsin in 1850. AS post
master and assistant postmaster he
has served the people Of this city for
the past 26 years. His family was
reared and educated here. His oldest
child, Mrs. Jessie E. hampton, now
lives in Connecticut, Harry is at
| Rhinelander in the employ Of the
| Rib River Lumber company: Fred is
| at Wausau in the barber business:
Walter is at Moon, employed by the
Decentralization Lumber Co., and
| viii and Carson are at Green Bay,
| Will as barber and Carson employed
! by the Hatch Electric Smelling Co.
Pursuant to the provisions of chap
ter 1916 Wisconsin statutes, Judge
John a. GaynOr of this city, Geo.
Coca Of Waupaca and ChaS. A. Holmes
of New London was appointed by
| Judge Webb as tax commissioners
| to investigate the assessment IN
Portage county, an appeal having been
taken last fall by the city Of Stevens
Point from the apportiOnment made
| by the county board of that county.
a preliminary meeting Of the COM
miSSiOnerS was held at the court
house in Stevens Point last week and
plan of procedure for future work
adopted. The work of the commits
| SiOners will probably last through the
months of July and August.
The Grand Rapids Pressed Brick Co.
are now burning a kiln of brick to be
used for sidewalk purposes. These
brick must be much harder than
those used for ordinary purposes and
it takes longer to burn them properly.
MeSsrs. Scott and Alexander have
qnite large number of contracts
about the city for brick walks. Besides
those heretofore mentioned DR.. o. L.
| HOugen, B. ClOSuit and ThOS. Love
are preparing to lay brick walks in
front of their properties on Water
street, near the Green Bay depot, and
| johnson and Hill Co. and others in
| that block on Cranberry street on the
west side will replace the old plank
with brick.
The Wood County Telephone com
pany is making improvements on the
| West side that may temporarily dis
cOmmOde some of its patrons
| but future service will be
the better for it. 1t is the intention
of the company to have all the lines
Strengthened and frightened before
winter. Charley Dougherty has been
employed to fill the position, made
vacant by the resignation Of A. W.
Bryant, at salary of $50 per month,
and he will be assisted by Ben Smart
at a salary of $40 per month. To carry
out the improvements now cOntem-
| plated, both of the boys will have
plenty to do between now and the
| beginning of winter.
Lightning played some queer pranks
in this vicinity last Monday night
during the fierce thunderstorm. VIM.
LEM. living one and a half miles
south of town on the east side of the
river, had his barn struck by lightning
and three horses and a colt killed.
| Phil Wards house near the Howe
| High school was struck and the
plaStered walls of the building was
more or less damaged and the family
greatly frightened but fortunately
none of them were injured. A tele-
phone pole On the West Side was also
| struck and torn into SplinterS.
The damage to the cranberry crop
| by frost in this section on the night of
the 9th of last month, is greater than
| at first supposed. Judge GaynOr,
one of the largest growers in this
section thinks that One-half of the
prospective crop was destroyed. The
| prospects before the frost was for the
largest crop ever grown here, but it is
| thought if growers will take good care
of what is left as large Il crop as last
year will be harvested.
An extensive change in the personnel
of the local officers of the Milwaukee
road in this vicinity is on the tapis.
| The probabilities are that Agent A. j.
Fries at Grand Rapids will return to
his old post as agent at Merrill; L. NJ.
| Schlatterer, agent at NekOOSa, will
take charge of the Grand Rapids
station, and G. G. Hanover of Necedah
| will become the agent at NekOOSa.
The change occurred on Wednesday
at both points.
Jack Carkeek of Waupaca and John
| COmStOck of Michigan, sometimes
called the Michigan giant, were the
principals in a wrestling match at
Stevens Point on the Fourth. Fred
Beel of Marshtield acted as referee.
| The Michigan giant weighed 222
pounds and Carkeek 1913, but the
| MiChigander was no match for the
Waupaca man who won in two
straight falls in about 10 minutes.
Sam Lupa and Joe Ja!Iin "mon.
keyed" with big cannon crackers at
the recent Polish picnic at Sigel. In
consequence one is nursing a hand
from which a thumb was nearly torn
off, and the other has hand rribly
burned. The boys have our sympathy
but they should have known that d
cannon cracker is as dangerous as d
pistol that is not loaded.
Dr. Karl Baker, who graduated from
the Wisconsin College of Physicians
and Surgeons and School of Dentistry
of Milwaukee in April has settled
down to the practice of his profession
at Greenwood in Clark county. Many
friends in this locality will be glad tC
hear of his success and good fortune.
Jacob Judah of Medford and Dan
Nc DOnnell, two men i'll the employ of
the Arpin Hardwood Lumber Co. al
Bruce, were killed Instantly by light
ming at 5:45 o'clock Saturday evening
in the Arpin Lumber yard at Bruce
The team they were driving was alSC