Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-07
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ihiFtYtW0 Years Ago.
The way they plan it at Wausau
when man brings his wife he gets
drunk and enjoys d good
sleep.
We axe informed that the contract
for bridge timber for the q. B. & l..
2. r. r, bridge across the Wisconsin
river has been let TO John Rablin.
George HileS lost a valuable lumber
mill 0y fire at MauStOn The loss is
said to be about $1,000. The logs must
be moved 10 another mill as Il cOnSe-
quence,
The Wisconsin Central company
has submitted propositions in six Of
the western towns Of WauShara county
to vote AID TO the Stevens Point and
Portage railroad.
Ordered by the city council that the
saloon license for the ensuing year be
fixed at $500: that the hotel license be
fixed at $40: that the wholesale liquor
license be fixed at 32J.
The following officers were elected
for tbe.ensuing year: City Clerk c. O.
Baker, Seth Reeves, president of
council: c. NJ Webb, attorney: Dr..
@. 7. Witter, city physician.
1t is high time to stop this constant
talk about smallpox. 1t has got to
pass that any man. woman or Child
that has q bad cold or any nan in
disposed report says that they have
the smallpox.
The rehearsal given by the pupils Of
Prof. Halc0m5, at the music hall, last
Monday. night was success. The
following took part: Misses Emma
Miller, May Purdv, Emma Zenier
Susie Rdblin. AntOuette Minnet,
Jennie Webb, Ella Roe. Esther Lyon
and Amelia Lefebyre.
The county convention which
assembled last Saturday elected |. L.
NOsher, r. c. WOrthington, O.
Garrison, Jos. Hasbrouck and Jos.
Wood as delegates to the assembly
convention. The assembly convention
yesterday elected George Waterman
and JOS. Wood as delegates to the
state convention and Geo. Waterman,
II. Pierce, .. Garrison, r. G. Worth
ingt0n and /, i. MOSher aS delegates
to the senatorial convention.
Our member Of the assembly. Mr..
NeeyCS, recently introduced q bill in
in the assembly limiting railroad aid
in Wood county to 800, 900 to any one
railroad. The bill is Il good one,
though we apprehend no cause Cor
feaI that Wood county will again
entertain any proposition looking to
the Exchange Of over 800, 900 OF her
bonds for like amount of the cOrpO-
rate stock Of any road that may build
through her territory.
About $4,000 900 feet of logs were
PVT into Mill creek this season at
Ne YES & Sons camp. yellow river
VIII float out over 50,000.000. 1t is
safe to say that the total amount Of
logs cut IN Wood county will be
l00 600, 600 feet. Ehe footing up of
the camps in and about the head
quarters Of the Wisconsin cut in the
HeighbOrhO0d Of Eagle and other
rivers contagious to the pinerieS will
not fall short Of 100000, 600, a large
portion Of which will be manufactured
into lumber by the mills situated in
W O0u county.
The Board of Regents Of Normal
Schools, after Il long session, has
rendered its decision IN regard to the
location of the normal school for the
sixth district. River Fails is the
lucky place Five ballots were taken
as follows: First baIIOt-River Falls,
,: Menomonce, ,: Grand Rapids, z:
Lacrosse, ,: New Lisbon, l. Second
balI0t-River Falls, 3: Menomonee 2:
Grand Rapids, l: Lacrosse, ,: New
Lisbon, |. Third ballOt-Riyer Falls,
3; MenOmODee, /: Lacrosse, ,: New
Lisbon, ,: Stevens Point. ?. Fourth
ballot River Falls. 5: Grand Rapids,
|: Lacrosse, I. Fifth baIlOt-River
Falls, !; Lacrosse, ).
WHAT WOOD COUNTY POSSESSES
Eleven consecutive miles Of water
power at Grand Rapids. such as can
not be found elsewhere in the state.
with fail Of nearly two hundred feet
in the whole distance. The finest
agricultural lands in the state. Weld
ing heavy crops Of all kinds Of cereals,
a soil that is vastly superior to the
prairie land Of the southern counties.
Acres OF hardwood forest uneQualled
in the west, comprising elm, birch,
oak and maple. A bed of Scotch
granite near Grand Rapids, which will
furnish shafts thirty feet in length.
equal to the imported stone. Beds of
iron ore and mineral, ineXhauStible,
and as rich as those in the great iron
producing region Of Pennsylvania.
Beds Of kaOlin on porcelain clay, fast
securing q rational reputation and
superior to the finest produced by
England, dis has been declared at the
eXp0sitions Of England and France.
Forests of pine that sends yearly to
the Mississippi market millions upon
millions of lumber sought for with
ayidity, because Of its superior eX-
cellenCe over the Mississippi and
Michigan pines,
In the northwestern part Of our
county lies the town Of Lincoln con-
tanning smart settlement called
NaSOnYille, taking its name from Mr..
). j.. Mason who some sixteen years
ago, with a deal of prudence and fore
sight, saw that the spot he had
selected for his future home must
some day become one of the finest
towns n the county for agricultural
purposes. Mr.. Mason has not been
disappointed. NasonvilIe today can
boast Of farms that have no Superiors
in the state. Possessing a soil of loam
light and airahln with just clay enough
TO prevent LEI ching the farm lands, it
is fast acquiring Il reputation that is
removing them from the monOpoliSts
and putting them into the hands of
actual settlers, sturdy farmers who
propose to get out of the soil all it can
yield by course of systematic and
scientific tillage NaSnnEille q few