Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-08

x She can read, and | learn, that
| she can write. She is most intellect
ual. She is d shouting Methodist
she is capable Of doing anything she
undertakes to do. = :
WILLIAM S. BURRITT
| Readers of the AyOcate:-a Happy
| New Year. We wish you all long
! life, and finally that you may SereneIy
depart this vale of sorrows with your
newspaper bills squared up, and your
conscience at peace: that you may 60
! to that land which is never assessed
nor sold for taxes: that you may sit
down by those cool and pleasant
streams where there are no mill dams
or other prulaiIlieS, and where there
is no lumber made; and your days in
that happy place may follow each
other in joyous succession and never
| bring notes to maturitY-tllat, in fact,
they may all be days of grace: and
that there may never be hard times
there. Happy New Year. r.-Grcen Bay
Advocate.
Since issuing the paper expressing
our conviction that a steamboat TO ply
between this place Tor rather Point
naS, the last ''rapidS" below and
Kilbourn City, would be profitable
institution, we have learned that a
firm have already commenced the
construction of a boat at Point Bas,
| which is to be s. feet long. Is feet
wide, stern wheel. fat bottom, and
propelled by a double engine of at
least 25-hOrSe-pOWer. It is expected
that she will make the first trip as
soon as the first Of June.
New AdyertiSerS:-M. McRaith,
fashionable tailoring: Two Mile Creek
House, D. F. Emerson, proprietor:
groceries, $. IIingley; Steven Fl. AL
ban, attorney: G.. w. Whitney. physi-
Clan; John LiVcrnash, groceries,
Personal-We were honored with a
cali by Gen. Dodge, of Illinois, last
Monday. Meeting him in the street
so costly and wontedly located in his
carriage upon espying him the
question at once recurred to our mind
whether we were in Wisconsin or
Illinois. The general was taking d
general survey of our general rich soil,
noting the General good health of the
people in the pinerieS, and their
| general prosperity and cOntentment.
, He has arrived at the general con-
cluSion of visitors in general that the
pineries possess more general advant-
ages than any portion Of the country
he has travelled, and to the conclusion
of visitors universally that Grand
Rapids has nat ural merits uncquaIled,
for an inland location, for the forma-
tion Of pOpulous city. The General
has decided to come again when the
General and Office rp-OpapS to make
general grab at the lands of the
general government.
There is in Michigan a city of some
i 5000 inhabitants called Grand Rapids.
That city is beiLg continually con.
| founded with this place. When a
person; even in Milwaukee. announces
| his intention of going to Grand
Rapids, the listener invariably inferS
that it is the city of Grand Rapids to
which the speaker is going, and a
| long explanation of the location of
our town has to be given. X y Now
our citizens must do one of two things
.either eclipse the Grand Rapids in
Michigan, IN point of population, or
petition the legislature to change the
name of this town. If they
delay until another year, when our
town will probably number 2,O0C
inhabitants, it will be more difficult
to overcome the use Of the present
title than awhile the place is in its
infancy. We would humbly
suggest the propriety of adopting the
title of "WiSconsin Rapids"
Let us hold a meeting for the discus
sion of this subject.