Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.


After thirty-eight years of service z.
G. Simmons resigned as president of the
First National Bank of Kenosha.
The home of Patrick Phalen was liter
ally stripped by thieves during the alb
sence from Oshkosh of the family.
A special electin will be held in April
on the proposition of the GaleSville fire
department to enlarge the city hall.
A civic organization is to be formed
in Marinette with a view of promoting
homecoming for the week of July +.
DIR. Raymond II. Stetson. professor of
philosophy in Be!oit College, has been of
fered a professorship at Oberlin College.
The Brown County Butter Makers
Association elected f. ]. Flynn presi-
dent and Henry Boerschinger secretary.
The Racine Refrigerator and Fixture
Company plant at Racine was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000. Insurance, S40,-
600.
Vincent Gnatt. aged 4, son of a we'll
known Rhinelander farmer, attempted to
swallow the mouthpiece of a toy horn
and choked to death.
After having been missing twelve years
and pronounced dead by the court Uriah
Eichelberger formerly of Allentown, Pa,
has been found at Brokaw.
Charged with starving their cattle,
John Smith and Christina Ferris have
been arrested on complaint of the La
Crosse Humane Society agent.
Upward of twenty cash prizes will be
distributed among boy and girl contest
ants in corn growing contest by the
Green County Agricultural Society.
Just IS he was about to begin work
at the plant of the La Crosse Can Com
pany. Roy J. Wilson suffered a stroke
of apoplexy and died an hour later.
A stock company has been organized to
take over the work of conducting county
fairs which has been in the hands of the
Lodi Union Agricultural Society hereto
fore.
Leaving a guest at dinner. Tim Salli-
van, proprietor of a hotel at Charley
Bluff, Lake Koshkonong, shot himself in
the left temple. He is not expected to
live
1t is estimated that from 800 to 800
GAINESVILLE people were policy-holders in
| the Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Waterloo. which has been
adjudged nsolvent.
In Rhinelander Thomas Davidson and
John Boyd. two Indians. pleaded guilty to
having robbed the Flambeau Lumber
Company and were given four years in
the penitentiary each.
Gov Davidson appointed William r.
Graves. Prairie du Chen, county judge
of Crawford County, for the unexpired
term of James \. Curran. deceased, the
term expiring January l, 1910.
Following request made by the Busl-
ness Mems Association of Neenah, the
dates of the State convention of retail
grocers there will be August %. "A and
-. instead of August O. 10 and II.
The Sparta Council has allowed a bill
Of $500 OF the American Detective Asso-
citation of Chicago for services in trying
to ferret out violations of the liquor law
in Sparta. The detectives work was
| fruitlass.
Disregarding his plea of the unwritten
law Judge Shielding of Racine sentenced
Joseph Doklekar to fifteen months at
Waupun for assaulting Nicholas Barko-
wich. whom he accused of having run
| away with his wife.
Lying face downward in the woods,
with bullet hole through his body. Ar
thur Hagen. Il Stevenson boy. was found
by his sister. He had fallen while hunt
ing. accidentally discharging his rifle.
The bullet lodged in his heart.
/ Miss Vera Gustman who was within
three months of graduation as trained
nurse from the Beloit hospital. eloped
with Clinton Synder. railroad engi-
neer of Danyille. Ill. They were married
at Rockford. leaving few hours later
! for New York.
At a dancing party of the Holiday Club
given at the Century club house in Osh-
kosh. Mrs. c. G. Chase lost a diamond
Sunburst valued at $1,000. The loss was
discovered shortly before the close of the
party and a thorough search of the build
| ing failed to reveal the jewel
| James z: Petit, a son of the late
| Judge J. J. Petit of Kenosha. and wide
| ly known among veterans of the Civil
| War in Wisconsin. dwied at his home in
| Oak Park. aged 66 years. He enlisted
in the First Wisconsin Infantry at Mad
| ison and served to the close of the war.
| 4 COW which had been purchased by 4.
| IpmSki. an itincrant meat dealer. while
| being led to Marinette. smelled blood on
| the butchers wagon. charged Lemski and
gored him severely before he escaped over
| fence. The COW continued on its ram
page attacking several persons and other
cows. 1t was finally shot by James Han
lahan of Peshtigo
Fire at Milwaukee destroyed the gar
age of the Sanger Automobile Company,
! 572-574 Farwell avenue, together with
| twenty-four automobiles. The loss is
| $4,000. partly covered by insurance.
| To prevent f. F. Lemma from COM
Dieting his logging operations near Fred
eric unknown persons have resorted to
dyamiting. Mr. Lemma built a steel
! bridge across u creek to aid him in his
work. One day he found it a mass of
| twisted Orders. He replaced it with a
wooden structure and this, too, has been
put out of commission.
| Isaac Chaimson of Chaimison Bros,
who operated stores in Northern WiscOn-
| sin was brought 10 FOnd du Lac by the
| State fire marshal. charged with setting
| fire 10 his stock of goods at Red Granite,
Noy. 20 last when nearly all the bust
ness portion of Red Granite was wiped
out.
| Samuel Chase, an aged man living
alone on the outskirts of Brodhead, was
attacked by two men, who beat him into
| irsensibility and left him in a critical
| condition. while they ransacked his
| house. They secured but a dollar in
money. missing a large amount which
was hidden in the building.
| Winslow Greene and Charles Mund-
| Iinger had a narrow escape from drown
| ing in Fox River while fishing near Com
b;ned Locks. Without warning Green
was precipitated into the water by the ice
giving way. and while endeavoring to
| rescue him Mundling also got in. They