Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

J. A. Kimberly has donated $1,000 to
be used in manual training department of
Neenah high school.
From now until Sept. 1 all the law
offices in Grand Rapids will be closed ev-
cry Saturday afternoon.
Miss Grace Ainsworth and Louis Tonne
were married at the home of the brides
grandmother in Shawano.
Mrs. A. E. Magee and her daughter,
Dora, a school teacher, five miles south
of Wilton, were killed by lightning.
Principal Liebenberg of the Buffalo
county training school, who underwent an
operation at Rochester, Mimi, will re-
cover.
William Smith. Is years old, the son of
Henry Smith of Muscoda, drowned in the
Wisconsin river. He rode into the stream
on horseback
w. E. Nottingham, a pioneer settler
of Vernon county and bugler in Com
pany D, Second Wisconsin cavalry, in the
Civil War, is dead.
Raymond, the 5-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs Barrel of Sherry. died as a result of
being struck on the head with binding
pole from a load of hay.
The La Crosse City Railway Company
is planning an extension of the Main
street line and a revision of the system
which will give better service.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dunn celebrated
their golden wedding at their farm near
Mansion. Mr.. and Mrs. Dunn were among
the first settlers N Juneau county.
Robert w. Morse, for ten years court
reporter for Judge Charles NJ. Webb, sur
prised all his friends in Grand Rapids
by being quietly married to Miss Matilda
Stahl of that city.
George Willoughby of Milwaukee, STAY
er of his wife, pleaded guilty to charge
of willful murder and accepted a life SEN
tence to keep from exposing the name of
his Chicago affinity"
Returning from church where she had
been praying, Mrs. Paul Cichantek, a
Manitowoc woman, fell to the floor dead
upon entering her home. She was the
mother of eight children.
Claiming that her feelings have been
injured to the extent of $4,000, Mrs.
Tillie Schmidt of Appleton has started
suit against her husbands parents, charg-
ing alienation of his affections.
William Johnson of the town of Ru-
dolph, was seriously injured in a run
away The wagon was overturned, throw
ing Mr.. johnson underneath, fracturing
his leg and otherwise bruising him.
Arthur X. Ardstaedt of Beloit, who
was APPOINTED cadet at the United States
naval academy and who successfully pass
ed the mental examination, failed to pass
the physical test. He will return home.
Ludwig Coren, for thirty years one of
the leading merchants of La Crosse, has
been forced to make an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors. His liabili
ties are $4,000 with assets which will
about equal that amount.
William d. Kurz, superintendent of the
first electric street railway in the world,
the one which was constructed in Apple
ton about twenty-five years ago, and who
for the last quarter of century has been
one of the most prominent electricians
in Wisconsin, was married at Menominee
to Mrs Alice Russell of Neenah. Mr..
Kurz is at present employed as electrical
inspector for the Wisconsin insurance
commission.
Gov. Rollin Woodruff of Connecticut is
in Chippewa Falls attending the reunion
of the Woodruff family. About thirty are
present. Members of the family moved
to Chippewa county from Connecticut in
1857. This is the first reunion in twenty
years.
A little suit in a justice court revealed
a marriage in Kenosha more than two
years ago., The principals were Arthur
Eiler and Miss Lillian L. Davidson. The
action was against Eifer and he had been
sued as a single man. He presented a
marriage certificate. The court dismissed
the suit.
A tract of forty acres of land, belong
ing to Oak Grove cemetery at La Crosse
has been plated and will be beautifed
under the direction of a Chicago land
scape artist A viaduct over the Green
Bay railroad tracks will join the old and
the new portions Of the cemetery.
According to Prof. Charles K. Leith of
Madison, North America will never suffer
for lack of iron ore. In spite of the
predictions of waste and ultimate deple-
L
aggregate tonnage of ore in the West
will equal considerable part of the Lake
Superior region to which 1,OOO,OOO,OcO
tons have been assigned as a minimum.
Dean E. NJ. McGinnity of st. Patrick's
Catholic church in GAINESVILLE is dead ct
the age of 6S years. He was born in Ire
land and when s years Of age he came to
this country with his parents and settled
at Willow Springs. He entered st. Fran
els seminary, Milwaukee, and was ordain-
ed Ia 1863. He had charges at Meene,
Manitowoc county; Maple Grove, Fort
Howard, Darlington, Geneva Lake, Mon
roe and GAINESVILLE.
J. G. McCord, who is assisting his
mother in claiming Merrill property con-
veyed by her husband without her sigma
ture, says that he has put claims upon
his fathers property in Arizona, consist
ing of a $4,000 home and $4,000 farm.