Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-25
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

Members OF Racine Council No. 40,
Royal Arcanum, intend to erect a club
house and lodge room to cost $4,000.
The eighth annual convention of the
Wisconsin State Association of Postoffice
Clerks will be held at Oshkosh July f.
III. j. h'instad, who has conducted
large furniture store in Washburn for
number of years, has made application to
be adjudged a bankrupt
Jake Brodsky, Beloit fruit dealer. was
bitten in the hand by a tarantula and the
doctors are endeavoring to save his life
The poison began to show its effects upon
him at once.
Senator Isaac Stephenson takes a per-
sonal interest in the Carl Schurz memo
rial chair at the State university. He
was one of the first to contribute 81 900
toward the fund
l.. f. Easton and Manning e Wellman,
a real estate firm, have donated n tract of
thirteen acres known as Millview, adjoin-
ing Oak Grove and Myric park, to La
Crosse for a public park
l.. A. Budahn of Fond du Lac has been
chosen principal of the Chippewa Falls
high school to succeed James B. Murphy.
Mr.. Budahn was a teacher in the Eau
Claire high school last year.
John A. Jacobs logger of Washburn,
was seriously injured while watching a
stump puller work. A cable slipped and
Mr.. Jacobs was struck across the back
and his head was cut against stump.
He is in a critical condition.
The Social Democratic party of Wis
conSin, in convention in Milwaukee, de-
clared adherence to the platform adopted
in Chicago by the national Socialist party
and named State ticket headed by Har-
vey d. Brown for Governor
C. E. Blodgett Of Marshfeld has pur-
chased the building and property owned
by Robert Parrish of Grand Rapids. The
property is one of the best business loca-
tions in Grand Rapids. Mr.. Blodgett
contemplates erecting hotel and opera
house during this summer.
In order to save the life of a child
who was riding bicycle directly in
front of his machine without needing his
signals, A. A. House of La Crosse dashed
into an iron fence, completely wrecking
his automobile. Mr. House and compan-
ion escaped without injury.
The pest that has been an uncomfort-
able feature of summer resort life on Lake
Winnebago is believed to be at an end.
This year it is noticed that the dragon
flies in large numbers are quickly exter-
minating the lake flies, and very few Of
the latter are to be found
letter written twenty-one years after
his disappearance from La Crosse has
been the means of Louis Metz's inheriting
50, 800 from his mother. who died six
years ago. At her death Mrs Metz made
provision for her absent son in case he
was heard from within six years, after
which time the estate was to be divided
among the remaining children. The estate
was about to be settled when a letter was
received from the son, who is now resi-
dent of Nevada.
Starting out from Neenah twenty years
ago a lonely school teacher, with but
5000 in her pocketbook, Mrs. Peter
Hirsch, then Jennie Quinn, went West.
She met Peter Hirsch in Colorado, mar
ried him. They both died at Montrose,
Colo, and last Memorial day a large
monument was erected in their honor at
Montrose by the Socialists. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hirsch were the pioneers of the Socialist
movement in the West. Mr.. Hirsch being
the first nominee of the party for Gov
ernor Of Colorado in 1896.
Cornelius Corcoran, president of the
Milwaukee common council, and Miss Ag-
mes Murphy were married at st. Johns
cathedral. The attendants were Miss
Ella Kneeland and former Alderman
Chauncey Yoclsey. Mayor and Mrs. Rose
were members of the wedding party.
Leon Demares, committed to the Men
dota asylum from Chippewa county, jump
ed from the window of a car near Mer-
rilIan Junction while the train was GO
ing at the rate of forty miles an hour.
The man was found unconscious, having
struck on his head He was soon revived
and will recover.
Frank Borowski, employed on Layon
brothers farm on the Wisconsin river,
near Rhinelander, drowned while giving
a horse a bath. The animal must have
kicked him. The horse also drowned
julius Heimke and William Burhans,
both of Kaukauna, were each given a
formatory for the burglary of the North
western depot in their city last March.
All but four of the seventy societies of
the Northwestern Saengerbund have ap-
piled for quarters in La Crosse during the
in July and the affair prom
ises to be the biggest of its kind in the
history of the organization.
Owing to the fact that the city of
Fond du Lac failed to notify the govern
ment that the city would discontinue the
harbor lights the common council at a
meeting tonight must make an appro-
priatioD for the purpose of maintaining
the harbor lights this year. The light
and water committee of the council had
to recommend that no appropria-
ton be made, but the city attorney holds
that the city must pay the cost OF operat-
ing the lights this year on account of its
failure to inform the government.
Frank Cutze, aged So, who was struck
BY a street car while crossing the track
IN La Crosse, died in the hospital as a
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