Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-11-25
INTERESTING EARLY
DAY RECORDS

Through the kindness of Clark
Lyons, we have had the pleasure of
perusing Record Book No. | of the
town of Centralia, which he found a.
mong the old books at his fathers
home recently. On page l of said
record, we find this entry:
Gail papers or instruments not
recorded in this book, previous to
this date are filed with the town
clerk of the town of Centralia, April
6, 1860
E. B. Rossier,
Town Clerk.
From the above, it will be noticed
that next April it will be so years
since the entry in this book was
written. E. B. ROssier, who penn
ed the above lines, was father of
Mrs Celia Garrison, Emil Rossier,
Alfred and Edmond Rossier, who are
still living and two Of them now in
this city. The next instrument of
record, is the oath of office of Mr.
Rossier signed by H. L. Fontaine,
father of the present editor of the
Wood County Reporter, and Eman-
uel Dutruit VINO recently died i'm
Merrill, Wis The affidavit to this
oath of office, was signed by Orestes
Garrison, town treasurer, long since
deceased. He was father of Frank
Garrison, Lewe1len and Charlie Carl
son.
Among other official papers re-
corded in said book, we find the fol-
lowing names appearing in official
capacities; G. H. Brown, Geo. Corri-
veau, Patrick Hurley, q. P. Kipp,
H. W. Jackson, L. P. Powers, J. H.
Lang, Hugh Byrns, Caleb A. Harris,
Augustus Shuster, Jos. Fortier, and
Peter Morrell, R. G. Worthington, R.
c. Lyon, Severe Voyer, Louis Mum
Ter, Chas. Munier, William Bowmen,
A. B. Sampson, Chas. M Webb, A.
Bisaillon, l. L. Mosher, H. Lefebvre,
U. St. Amour, H. Clinton, H. Ripley,
Chas. d. Lemley, A. S. CLANCY, Jas.
Dixon, John Charnock, N. E. Rats
man.
These names all appear Oh the of
fetal record of the town of Contra
liza during the year 1860, with two or
three exceptions, the list have all
answered the last roll call
In the same book we find record
of the first meeting of school dis
trict number two, held on October
! 28th, 1854, as follows; "The legal
voters of school district number two
of the town of Grand Rapids met ac-
cording to notification at the house of
A. B. Sampson. On motion G. T,
/ Johnson was elected chairman pro-
tenn and afterwards was chosen di-
rector for the coming year and R.
] c.. Lyon was chosen clerk for the
same period A B. Sampson was
elected treasurer. On motion, frac-
! tional lot or a part OF the same, in
the north west corner of section
nineteen 10, town %, north range
east, was selected as a site for a
school house. At this same meeting
they raised a district tax of $500 Tor
the purpose of building this school
house. They also levied a tax Of $50
for the purpose of supporting a school
for three months. L. P. Powers ap-
pears on record as the town super
intendent of schools for the town of
Grand Rapids.
During this period this whole coun-
try was known as Poratge County
and this locality was known as the
town of Grand Rapids in said county.
More interesting items taken from
this record will be published in lat
er issues. Old settlers will do we'll
to clip these articles and save them
as historical records. We would sug-
gest that this book be presented to
the city and kept on file with the
official records so that it may be
preserved for all future time)