Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-03
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRS.

ter of the Danish clergyman in Clinton,
fell from porch to concrete stone side
walk. fracturing her skull.
years. is dead as the result of d small cut
or, the knee caused by his ak slipping
while setting stakes on a fiat car.
Hermogene Smalley, known in Manito-
voc. his boyhood home. as Gene" Small
ley is dead at Kansas City, aged SO. sur
vived by wife and three children.
Albert Sagan and Magnus Markenson
of Deer Park were drowned in the river
near Ely. Mimi. while hunting. Both
men were married and leave families.
John Dawes. Pittsvile. shot through
the body by his brother. who mstOok him
for a deer, is dead The bullet entered
his back and penetrated the liver and
lungs.
While working at Neenah Paper Com
pany plant, Gabriel Hayes of Oshkosh
was pinned down by heavy steel truss
and crushed. He sustained internal in
juries.
In a runaway accident Fred Meyer.
prominent business man of Menasha, was
thrown over the heads of his horses,
breaking his arm and suffering internal
injuries.
While filling a gasoline stove in La
Crosse the can holding the liquid ignited
seriously burning the hands of John Tel
mi and damaging the saloon of William
Scherrer.
Rev. l.. L. Sanders has resigned the
pastorGte of Tabernacle Baptist church
in La Crosse, ard will leave to assume
charge at East st. Louis, where he says
a wider field is opening for him.
Sitting in a chair with throat cut from
ear to ear, the dead badly of Andrew
Pittach. a farmer residing near Burr Oak,
was found by Mrs. Pittach. A razor
was tightly clasped in his hand.
Bert Constine of Marinette is believed
to hold the hunting record not only for
this season, but for seasons ten years
past In one day he shot and killed
not only the two deer allowed by law. but
also two bears and wolf.
The University of Wisconsin AgricIil-
tural Society has elected the following
officers President w. T.. Thompson. 90,
Summers; vice president. l.. +. Grab1r,
Mineral Point, 10; secretary. y. c. Ba5r,
II. West Bend; treasurer, w. f. Helm
eek, 10. Madison.
Mrs. James Bowling of Baraboo has
gone to Eau Claire to see her ffty-second
grandson. Paul Denver Bowling. Mrs.
Bowling has not yet reached her seven
tieth year. but thinks she has done as
much for the country, according to Roose-
vcltian ideas. as the average citizen. She
and daughters and in appearance is as
youthful as a girl of % years.
Because of a gunshot accidentally re-
ceived in his hand which necessitated his
going to town for treatment, Charles
Lowry. who has been hunted by the
sheriffs of two counties, was arrested By
Sheriff Burns at Richmond. Lowry is
an escaped inmate of Mendoza and is
wanted for assault.
Frank Hams. the young man who fell
off the footboard of the paper machine
in tie mill of the Menasha Paper Com.
pany in Ladysmith. and was carried four
times around the felt tightener roller. will
live. Had he been carried crosswise in
stead of lengthwise of the roller, he I'M
would have been killed. =
The Richland county board voted
new $4,000 structure for it's county nor
nal school which has outgrown its pres
ent quarters. \ spirited contest between
Viola mad Richland Center as to the 10
cation of the new school was decided by
the board in favor of the county seat.
The new building is to include the coun-
t. normal; model school for eighty pu-
pills. AID a domestic science school, all
under one head.
John Brit. 4 years old. while skating |
On Yellow river in the town of Sigel, |
broke through the ice and was drowned. |
A number of playmates were near, but
were unable to assist, as the ice was too
dangerous to venture near the hole.