Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Dr. Ii. Hannum has been appointed
physician Tor the Red Cliff reservation,
succeeding DR.. W. J. Griffin of Ashland.
resigned
\ farmers clearing house where they
can dispose Of all their truck is to be es-
tab!ished in Neenah. with the support of
the local merchants.
\ Jersey COW belonging to William
Niles. farmer living near Neenah. gave
birth to three calves. All are living and
in the best of health.
A. Reitz. a pioneer shoe merchant of
Manitowoc. died at an advanced age. He
had retained active management of his
business up to the time of his death.
George Otto of the town of Knowlton
drew bounty of $40 from County Clerk
King on the hide of a wolf he killed.
This is the third such animal he killed
within a month
Thomas Pritehard. a former resident
of Racine. was killed at Chicago He
fell down stairs. sustaining a skull frac-
ture. He was "a years old and leaves a
wife and children.
Two fires within three weeks and a loss
| of $4,000 in the heart of the business
district will hasten action by the Mani
towOc Council for extension of the fire
limits. asked by business men.
Henry Zastrow of Waupun was acct
dentally killed while hunting His body
was found in a field near a fence. The
supposition is that he climbed the fence
and tried to pull his gun after him with
| fatal results
Hugh Corrigan was perhaps fatally in
jured in the mill of the Dells Paper and
Pulp Company in Eau Claire a flying
piece of wood struck him in the face and
head, his lower jaw bone being broken in
| two places.
BY the will of Miss Miranda B. Coon,
an aged unmarried woman, who died Fri
day evening near Albion. Milton College
is to receive a farm worth about $4,000
TO establish an endowment fund for the
college library.
| Twenty-three camps of the Order of
Modern Woodmen in Manitowoc County
| Will lodge strenuous protests to the re-
| ported plan to increase rates in the or
der, and there is the threat of heavy
losses in membership if the plan is adopt
ed
The first annual poultry show of the
Dunn County Poultry Association closed
with the election of the following Off
GERS: President, J. d. Miller; Vice Presi-
dents. Thomas Witt1g and Mrs. Caleb
Sundby: Secretary and Treasurer, Louis
Ehrhard.
| In New London a movement is on foot
to abolish the offices of street commits
sioner. city engineer, superintendent of
sidewalk and sewer work. and secure a
competent engineer as a superintendent
of public works to have charge of all city
construction.
1t is reported that the federal grand
jury which has been sitting in Madison
for two weeks. has returned 167 indict-
ments against ninety-five different per-
sons for violations of federal laws. Most
of the indictments it is said are for
minor OffenseS.
George d. Bartlett. member of the
county board from Stanley, has resigned
| as cashier of the Citizens State Bank
of Stanley and accepted the position of
secretary. treasurer and general manager
of the American Bank Protective Com
pany of Minneapolis.
|
has purchased the NJ NJ. McCarty farm
of 204 acres near Kaukauna, which was
made famous by the murder of its owner
by Wenzel f. Kabat. who is serving
life sentence at Waupun. The consid-
Grafton was $4,000.
John McQud is reported missing since
January 20 when he left his brothers
home in BelOit to return to GAINESVILLE,
where he had been working for several
years past Thomas Mclaughlin. who
has been missing since January -, has
also not yet been located.
The coroner's jury which investigated
the death of Michael Cronin, brought in
verdict in GAINESVILLE that he came to
his death by a blow on the head infiict-
ed by person or persons unknown. The
district attorney and the police are still
at work on the case and a reward of
5000 has been offered for the arrest of
the murderer.
Dates have been fixed for the annual
conference of the Young Peoples Socie
ty of the Norwegian Lutheran Church
for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,
to be held in Manitowoc, Feb. 21-22.
Churches throughout the eastern section
of the State of that denomination will
participate and it is expected that 100
delegates will be in attendance.
In order to determine whether or not
there are sufficient deposits of copper and
iron to warrant the opening up of a
mine in The southwestern part of Bayfield,
County and the southeastern part of
Douglas County. the Weyerhauser and
! inf lnnv
prospecting and now have a crew of
twenty men engaged in the work.
Neal Brown of Wausau. with a corps
Of civil engineers has been preparing
plans for the construction of an electric
interurban railway system TO connect the
city of Grand Rapids with the villages of
Port Edwards and Nekoosa. 1t is esti-
| mated that it will take about $4,000 to
finance the construction. The ultimate
plan of the company is to extend the
road to Stevens Point, Wausau and Mer-
rill
4 walkout involving between twenty
five and thirty men took place at the Osh
kosh plant of the Diamond Match Com
pany. Those quitting work We're employ
ed in the ssw room and the cause was the
refusal of the company to grant de-
mand for increased wages. According 70
those who went out. the company reduced
wages last fall and promised a restora-
ton when business improved. When the
crew went to the superintendent and
asked for the scale to be restored this was
refused.
On February "a the Knights of Pyth-
las will install a lodge of thirty-fve in
Barron. to be known as the William Nc
Kinley Lodge. The work will be conduct
ed by the grand officers from Milwaukee.
assisted by knights from lodges at Eau
Claire. Chippewa Falls. Ladysmith, Wey
erhauser and Bruce.
kilograms received in Kenosha tell of
the murder of William Wilson. former
Kenosba man. which took place at Wal