Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-05-15
Johnnie Hooper. Critic of
Forest County. is Ram
page0us.

We read with considerable in-
terest hast week q two column
mass Of copglomerated matter in
the Fcrest Republican, which
Johnnie Hooper, the noted author
| is pleased to tenn standard liter
ature. He had sent copy of
that same mastery editorial to
us last week, for insertion in the
ADVERTISER, but in pursuing
1.-The article with diligence the ed
| itor of the ADVERTISER conclud.
ed that the authors effort in writ
ing for the press resembled too
much an attempt of Il person
whose mind is not we'll balanced
in that direction and thinking the
authors mental condition might
have been questioned, had the ar
ticle appeared, we'gave HIM the
courtesy" of omission, r If the
Literary Giant of Crandon could
have written an article contain.
ing some common sense we would
have been glad to- have published
the same for him However,
space in the ADVERTISER is too
valuable to print a whole lot Of
literary rot Johnnie's article
must have been written while ID
prominent Crandon Attorney
was jumping from second
story window in Wabenom
! Johnnie Hooper, the we'll
known critic of Forest county.
begins his two column "tirade"
by stating that it is an answer to
an article "a few lines) entitled.
The Town Proceedings, which
appeared in the ADVERTISER two
weeks before, in which we gave
/ ~
the critic a few complimentary
remarks in behalf of the interest
he had taken in the "Town Board
Proceedings" and for Invaluable
"gratuitous information he has
! SO kindly furnished the town of
ficers during the past year or so.
The distinguished critic under.
takes TO "cfiticise and explain
| the language used in the ADvER
TISER mans article. Now if the
District Attorney has become a
grammarian and holds himself
out as an authority on that sub
lject, he most certainly has i'm
lproyed along that line wonder
fully, and recently too. We re-
member having in our possession
several important business letters
written by the Crandon Literary
/ Giant, which plainly indicates
that he is ignorant of the funda-
mental principles of the English
language. If his editorial mess
! in the last issueof the Republican
is free from grammatical errors
| (which we fail to SO find) it sure
| ly is because the obliging editor
OF the above named paper has
corrected the same for him be.
| fore putting his abuse into print
i The original article which we
have in our Office is sufficient
proof of the Literary Giants
ability IN N i 5 us n e the most
common English language. In
short, any observant reader
would quickly notice numerous
painful hlunders. He would not
\ necessarily have to ennob q
himself as an authority ON gram
mar either, to do 50.
The critic says, "that Attorney
Hooper had some time pro
nounced the action Of the people
Of Wabeno illegal in allowing the
Il ADVERTISER one hundred and
7 fifty dollars for publishing the
town board proceeding last year.
Now we do not want to insinuate
that our d istin ui s Ii G d
District Attorney is a quibbler,
4 because, you know, he says he
has professional reputation"
to sustain, but we do want to
brand that part of his invective
which relates to the compensa-
tion Of the ADVERTISER for pub