Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-15
LOOKING Backward
Some Very Interesting Excerpts
from the Wood County Reporter
Published in the Year 1858.
EdltOr-JoHN y. BRUNDAGE.
Cor. Editor-E. II. HA1NE-.

VIM. c. Webb. it is reported has
resigned bis office OF county judge of
Nau>hara county.
Capt. Rood, who runs two boats
between Stevens Point and Waus;iu.
was in town last week.
The stock Of paper has diminished
to few quleS and our friends must
assist lis little to buy more.
a bill admitting Minnesota as d
state has passed the senate and will
undoubtedly SOOh pass the house.
The Plover Herald has resumed.
and since lis last issue We have learned
that it has passed into new hands.
One Of the Washington papers
accuses Senator Douglas of recently
selling all the slaves which he held in
the south
Officers of the Grand Rapids Lodge,
No. VI. l. O. .. E.: n. u, Vim. T.
Butler: V. G., Seth Reeves: Sec, r.
&. Worthington.
Rev. Herman Bangs thought slavery
might exist on philanthrOpic grounds
without sin, and quoted st. Paul as
recognizing the Institution.
Mr.. Huston handed us hens egg
that measured s. inches one way anC
ii the other. Whose hen will it beat
especially when eggs are but five
cents dozen?-Waupun Times.
A proposition to change the location
OF the capital or the state is being
discussed by the press and the legls-
lature, and the cities of Milwaukee
aud Portage are doing their utmost to
get il. Portage City needs it. and we
should like to see it removed to either
that place or KilbOurn City.
Senator Warren, of Green county.
has introduced into the senate a bill
which provides that every member of
the legislature who shall accept free
pass over any railroad in this state, or
ride on such roads free of charge,
shall be held guilty of bribery, and
punished accordingly.
The river is clear of ice to Wausau
and sufficiently high to make rafting
easy. Rats are continually going
over the rapids, and the great mum Der
or pilots and raftSmen gives lively
appearance to the streets. A generai
sweep of boOms has been going on,
From Stevens Point to NekOOSa. we
learn that all or portion of each
have been carried away.
THOSE Two LoTs-The announce
menU OF the present by Judge Wood
of two valuable lots to US, has been
the occasion of much comment by the
press from this state to New York.
A paper in the latter state saws:
"That's the way they abuse editors
out west. I've might fill column
or more with grave and facetious re-
marks about it. Bro. Holly of the
KilbOurn Mirror says: u. n Brund-
age, of the WOOD COUNTY REPORTER.
has received present of two village
lots in Grand Rapids, worth three or
four hundred dollars, from Hon.
Joseph Wood, of that place. On
those lots we may soon see the house
that Jack" built. Now, we have
woods shere: but we would willingly
wager our Wigwam that Joseph Wood
would suffer no disparagement by
comparison with all the Woods of
Wisconsin"
The man that don t take a paper
This cobweb individual was in town
yesterday. He brought his whole
family IN one horse wagon. He still
believed that General Taylor was
president, and wanted to know if the
"Kamschalkid" had taken Cuba, and
if so, where had they taken it. He
sold his corn for twenty-five cents
the price being thirty-One-but on
going to deposit his money, he was
told it was mostly counterfeit. His
old lady was smoking corn pipe"
and would not believe that anything
else could be used. One of the boys
went to the blackSmith's shop for
pair OF shoes, and another mistook
the market house for church. After
hanging his hat on meat hook, he
piOuSly took a seat in butchers
stall, listening to an auctioneer, whom
he took to be preacher. We
approached the old gentleman and
tried to get him to subscribe, He
was opposed to ''ilfernal improve
ments," and he thought 'larnin was
a wicked invention, and only vanity
and wexatiOn."
The villages and surrounding
country and rural districts of this
Wisconsin pinery afford more rational
enjoyment to both resident and
itinerant than any other portion of
Wisconsin; and as case in point we
will mention Grand Rapids. We had
an errand there a few days ago, and
we got Myers & Bonum to dead-head
US on account of some supposed
merltorious act of ours. We fetched
up at the Magnolia house, kept by our
chum, Jacob Y. Brands. Jake had
just got his hotel in good running
order, and most excellent saloon
connected with the institution. We
met our worthy coroner there who
fortunately got down there just in
time to see the exercises of very we'll
conducted dancing school ''School
was OUT about nine o'clock, and
general dance enSued. y \ Grand
Rapids is improving fast on both
sides of the river. There are five
hotels, six drygoods stores, and a
great many mechanic shops Of various
kinds: in short, it is great place for
business and is increasing rapidly in
population and wealth; and we would
also say for the encouragement Of
those whose hopes are beyond this
mundane sphere" that there are
three organized churches, three
ministers of the gospel. and a quite