Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-28
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

The school children of Grand Rapids
voted in favor of the violet for the State
flower.
Mrs Betsy Sykes of Rochester, who is
1O4 years old, has started in to cut new
set of teeCh.
Waterford residents are divided on the
ACCESSIBILITY of borrowing money to erect
a high school building.
In the Circuit Court in Kenosha Mrs.
Mary A. Wilson was granted a divorce
from her husband, Alexander Wilson.
Fire on the docks of the Lehigh Valley
Company at Milwaukee ruined 600 feet of
the warehouse. The structure was almost
empty. Loss $4,000.
The district high school defamation
contest held at the normal school in Ste
vens Point was won by Elizabeth Plantz
of Wausau, who gave Madame Butter
fly"
Ministers and leading citizens of Eau
Claire have organized a Acknowledgement
league to deal with alleged defiance of the
statutes by the saloons. The organiza-
ton is headed by millionaire o. II. In
gram.
During a severe thunderstorm, light
ming struck the home of Gilbert Jones
near Neenah A peculiar feature of the
incident was that thirteen bricks were
knocked out of the chimney and thirteen
clapboards ripped off the side of the house
The interior of the house was badly
wrecked.
Strong concerted effort for the adjust
ment of freight rates in the entire Fox
river valley is to be made. The West
ern Freight Adjustment Company is at
the head of the movement and representa-
tives are employed in all the cities in
the valley organizing the manufacturers
and retailers.
The 14-year-old son of Walter Van de
Nelson of Kimberly drowned 200 feet
above Kimberly paper mill while on
raft with his older brother. Both boys
were precipitated into the water.
For stealing goods from the Neenah
Knitting factory, George Cummins, Ches-
ter and George Redline have been sent to
the reform school at Waukesha, and nixe
other boys were put on probation.
Miss Sylvia E. Lounsbury of Madison,
IL
is i'll at the contagious hospital with
smallpox. 1t is said that number of peo-
pie in the university have been exposed.
While out picking flowers near the
town of Mason two school girls came
across the body of man lying near the
roadway. They notified the authorities
and an investigation was made. The body
nroved tn he that of Peter Nelson a
homesteader who has been missing since
last November.
In order to reduce the number of opera
tors the Northwestern road is installing
a long distance telephone through Madi-
son. between Elroy and Chicago. While
it is understood this is not to affect any
of larger train telegraph offices like Mad
ison. it will close up some of the smaller
offices that are now open.
A suicide tragedy was narrowly avert
ed at the Wood county Jail in Grand
Rapids. Michael Stankovich, who was
imprisoned on the charge of attempting
to strangIe Stanislaf Zdunek. for the pur-
pose of robbing him, attempted to commit
suicide by hanging himself to the outside
cage of his cell by using narrow belt
strap. His struggles, while choking,
aroused two of his felloI prisoners, who
went to his rescue.
DR. Franz Max Berberich of the Kiel
experiment station, Germany, is spending
two weeks in conference with the faculty
of the agricultural college at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, studying the dairy
industry.