Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-29
EAGLES HIGHLY
PLEASED
About 500 Grand Rapids People
Visit MarShfieId on Thursday.

The members of the order of
Eagles, the Grand Rapids band, and
the base ball team went to Marsh
field, Thursday, to take part in the
program Of the Eagles State Conven-
ton which was in session there last
week. All together about five hun
dred Of our citizens visited Marsh
field on that day. They went by train
was extremely hot everybody that at
tended this convention came back
highly pleased with the Eagles Con
ventiOn and the doings that took place
there. The Grand Rapids band and
Eagles in uniform were voted the
one hundred dollars for having the
second largest number of Eagles in
attendance. Winfield Scott was Civ
en- the prize for being the largest
member of the Eagles in the process
sion and Chas. Giese was given the
prize for being the smallest man in
the procession
BASE BALL.
From Marshfield News.
Stevens Point rubbed it into Grand
Rapids good and plenty this morn
ing at the fair grounds before 1000
people. A lone run for Grand Rapids
in the opening term served to put
them safe beyond the possibility of a
goose-egg but after that they could
MT get a man to plate. At that the
error score was a shame-Point 6,
Rapids 3.
Van Patter for the Point, a star
twirler, struck out six men without
a culver, while the famous Dunbar
from Wausau, pride of the Wisconsin
Valley, retired three in the same way
Dunbar also sent two men to first
on balls and Van Patter let one lone
county scatter by without slugging the
globe.
And say, look at this: They might
have had the same guardian angel
for Stevens Point returned eight hits
for thirteen bases and Grand Rapids
got six hits and touched the bags
nine times
Batteries: Point, Van Patter, p;
Tragresser, c.
Grand Rapids, Dunbar, p; Fer
nell, C.
In the game of base ball between |
Grand Rapids and Stevens Point our
won out on score of !
to 3. The game was interesting thru
out but Stevens Point was too much |
for us. They received the seventy |
five dollars out of the hundred dol |
lar purse while Grand Rapids receiv-
ed only twenty-five The Eagle Pa |
rade, with the members of that or
der dressed in different uniforms, and |
the seven bands in line representing |
the various organizations from Mil |
waukee, Wausau, Grand Rapids, James |
vile, Sheboygan, Amigo and Menasha
We are pleased to announce that the |
Grand Rapids band of thirty pieces |
more than held their own with the |
best bands, in the procession and |
they received many high compliments |
for the high grade music that they |
furnished.
1t is reported that about four thous
and people visited Marshfield Thurs |
day, the hig day of the convention |
and that the Marshfield citizens |
took good care of theta in the man
ner of entertainment and cordial well !
come that the visitors were given. |
The Eagles Convention is reported |
to be one of the best held in the |
state as to numbers, and excellent |
program rendered One of the novel |
features of the day was the large |
live Eagle carried in a cage by the |
Amigo delegation. He was a beau |
tiful bird and attracted a great deal |
of attention and much comment The |
people of Marshfield are entitled to
great credit for the excellent manner
in which they treated their guests
and cared for them during the Eagles
Convention The Grand Rapids dele
cation speak in the highest terms