Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-21
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.

The kenosha common council has rem
ed committee to secure estimates on
the euilding of a lighting plant.
In GAINESVILLE 13-year-old Henry Bull
broke his left arm at the elbow while
scuftiing with a schoolmate at recess.
After tenure of a quarter of a CEN
fury ). r. Kenyon resigned the office of
Rock county superintendent of poor
Joseph y. Alexander, an evangelistic
singer from Reedsburg, died at the Wei
lington hotel in Baraboo of heart failure.
He leaves a family.
Leslie Bangey. aged II years. pupil
at the Whitewater school for the deaf
and dumb, while skating broke both legs,
an ice boat striking him.
Suit to recover $4,000 for alleged per-
sonal injuries has been brought by Au-
gust Bugs against the Rock County Su-
gar Company in GAINESVILLE.
Hannah, wife of August Larson of the
town of Rolling committed suicide by
hanging. Hers was the fourth suicide in
the family in as many years.
The annual convention of the Wis
consin State board of agriculture will
be held in Agricultural Hall at the uni
versity in Madison, Feb. and 4.
Alex Gubosski, Chicago lad who came
north to work in the lumber camps, was
taken to the Oneida county almshouse at
Rhinelander with both hands frozen.
Search is being made for James Morey,
a farmer near Neenah, whose team ran
away, severely gashing the drivers head.
1t is feared Morey may have frozen to
death.
Thomas Richie. killed in a mock duel
at Oakland. Cal. was a son of Robert
Richie of the Beoit college class of 1871,
and grandson of DR.. Richie, formerly
of Beloft.
Jerome Medbery. aged 81 years. a pio-
neer resident of Walworth county. died
the other morning. Mr.. Medbery has been
resident of Elkhorn for the past twenty
five years.
Two hundred fruit growers, nursery
men and landscape gardeners of this and
adjoining States attended the annual
meeting of the Wisconsin State Horticul
tural Society.
A portion of the floor of the assembly
room of the Simmons Manufacturing Com
pany in KenoSha collapsed and fell to the
ground floor No men were at work in
the building.
Eau Claire is considering having its
own private telephone system for the po-
lice as we'll as for the fire department.
The cost of installation is placed at APP
proximately $3.50
\ daring Jail delivery was frustrated
ut Ashland by the discovery of two bars
which had been sawed through and a set
of saw tools made of an old kitchen knife
and a clock spring.
Burglars entered p. F. Dolans resi-
dence in Shawano and took his gold watch
and chain. They also helped themselves
to a lunch and departed without arous-
ing anyone in the house.
Relatives of Miss Mary Albano, who
conducted a Racine restaurant for years
and who went to Europe two months ago
to make an extended tour. fear that she
was victim of the earthquake i'll Italy.
The annual report of the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Dunn
county shows insurance in force amount
ing to $I252,6S The total losses paid
during the year amounted to $10,94S10.
In Palmyra the store building of O. E.
Scherer was destroyed by fire, including
three automobiles. The Gospel brigade of
seven persons. which temporarily occupies
the apartments over the store, barely es-
capped. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
DR.. Valentine, president of the village
IF rnrIi.. i III Oft
of that city who disobeyed the orders to
close on Sunday. He swore out warrants
for Michael Lee and NJ. \. Brown. charg-
ed with keeping open on Sunday, Dec. u.
Ten years in the State prison was the
sentence imposed upon Louis Anklam of
MenaSha. a tailor. who was charged with
assault with intent to kill his wife. Mary
Anklam. and his son, Louis Anklam. Jr.,
at the opening of the January term of the
Circuit Court.
Stricken with paralysis while in the
confessional hearing the confession of a
pcnitcnt member of his congregation. Rev.
John Sroka. pastor of the largest Polish
church in the diocese of La Crosse, was
picked up unconscious and died at st.
Francis hospital, aged rs years
+. L. Hawn. president of the Ruby
Lumber Company and member of the
county board is in a critical condition in
Chippewa Fails as a result of getting his
head squSezed between two lobs while
supervising work a a rolway. His skull
was r&ctured and the side of his face is
paralyl ed.
Complaint is to be filed with the Wis
con, in railroad commission for an exam
in& sion into the rates charged by the
Bristol Telephone Company, it being
claimed that this company is dscrimi-
mating between city and rural subscrib-
ers. 1t is claimed that rates from Ke-
noSha to subscribers on the Bristol line
are just double the rates from Bristol to
KcnoSha.
Nicholas c. TerenS of MiShicott, one of
the best known Democratic politicians of
Manitowoc county and ex-Assemblyman
from the Second district. has filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy in the United States
court at Milwaukee. TerenS has been in
business for years, succeeding his father
and four weeks ago the firm of Terens 4
Oswald was dissolved by the retirement of
Oswald Terens' difficulty is said TO be
due to his inability to realize on his
property. The liabilities are scheduled
at $4,000. while the assets may not ex-
coed $4,000. The creditors may receive
60 to so per cent.
President c. II. Van lIise of the Uni
vcrsity of Wisconsin. who has just re-
turned from the tenth annual convention
of the Association of American State Uni
IL. Y IL
that the next convention of the associa-
ZION will be held in Madison some time
next winter.
Starting in as clerk in the Office of the
assistant superintendent of the Northwest
ern railroad. Watson Webb. son of DIR.
Seward Webb. New York millionaire, be-
came an employee of that road. He has
come TO work up in the railroad world
and starts as lowest clerk. He is a grad
uate of Yale. 1907.
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