Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-10

Mrs. G. H. Horigan, son George and
daughter, Miss Maud, of Beloit have
gone to Chronicle, Ala, to conduet a
fruit farm. Mr. Horigan will remain
in Beloit for the time.
Assemblyman Francis B. Keene AMI
family have returned to Milwaukee
from three months trip in the eas+
Mr.. Keene visited two months in the
Catskill mountains and were at Allan
tic City, New York and Buffalo for
time
Announcement is made of the ap-
preaching marriage of William c. Big
ger and Miss Josie Weisbrod, es-
teemed young people of Oshkosh. The
wedding will occur during October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bigger will reside in
Ashland. The bride-to-be is the daush.
ter Of j. NJ Weisbrod. a we'll known
early resident of Oshkosh. while the
groom is general manager of the
George Sparkling Dry Goods company
| at Ashland.
The October number of Success, a
we'll known monthly magazine, con-
talns a two page writeup of John
Player, formerly general superintend-
ent of motive power for the Wiscon-
sin Central. From Waukesha he went
to Topeka, Kas., in 1890 to take the po-
sition of general superintendent OF
lmachinery on the Santa Fe system.
which he held up to about a year ago.
when he retired. He is the inventor
OF the Player truck, frog, hand car and
other improved forms of railroad de-
;vices bearing his name.
Rev. ]. H. Schoechert and family,
who have been living at Carmel, Alas
ka, returned to Watertown and will
reside there for the winter Mr.
Schoechert has been doing missionary
work in Alaska for twelve years
among the natives of that country. He
brought with him native Eskimo and
he will with his own children take ad-
vantage of the educational facilities
D.
Schoechert will return in the spring
and take up missionary work while
their children remain at school,
John Wannebo, who is reported tc
have been massacred with a company
of the 9Th infantry in the Philippines
was son of Ole Wannebo of Wash.
burn and was popular young man OF
that city. He was a private in the 9th
infantry. Frank Utley and Peter Beb-
bon, privates, and John Berry, cor
poral, were all in the same company
but Berry is supposed to have been
transferred to the 7th infantry. All
the young men had served in the
Spanish-American war and they joined
the regular army last winter,
George Parmley, formerly a resident
of the town of Center, Rock county
has returned to GAINESVILLE after two
years sojourn in Cuba, a short 5is
lance from Havana He is much
pleased with Cuba as place of res
idence and thinks the climate far bet
ter than that of California. During
the summer months the thermometer
seldom went higher than 80, and was
usually about 81. During the time he
was in Cuba he ran large truck gar.
den and raised vegetables for the Ha
vana market. The growing time il
Cuba is from October LIST to May. Con
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Havana and about three crops a yeai
are harvested from one setting. TWO
crops are cured out and the last one is
used for seed. When the first croI
is cut the second crop comes right or
from the same stalk and the third il
the same manner. From fifteen tc
twenty-five thousand plants are sci
out to the acre. During the last sum
mer in Havana the sanitary corps
have been waging war against the mo
squitoes, and as result there has not
been a case of yellow fever in the
city since last May. 1t has been
clearly established that certain kind
of mosquito carries yellow fever. He
will remain at GAINESVILLE as his wife
is not in love with the manners and
customs of the country. Mr.. Parmley
fears that there will be serious
trouble in Cuba when the United
States troops are withdrawn as three
or four different factions are trying to
get control of the government. The
past summer in Wisconsin was hotter
than any he encountered while living
in Cuba.
Foraker Will Speak.