Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
NerOs Notes of Wisconsin

misunderstanding the summer
| 66,000,000 feet of logs will float
down the Menominee river into the
sorting gaps of the Menominee River
Boom company. William H. Ste
phenson, superintendent of the boom
company, says 2 5, 900, 900 feet of the
logs are now being rushed down the
river to Menominee and Marinette
| mills and he expects that the drive
will be completed within two weeks.
Since spring 100000 feet of logs
have been run into the sorting gaps.
About 100000 feet of logs were
hung up from last year
Madison.-The State Bankers as
ISOLATION has voted to aid the college
Of agriculture of the University of
Wisconsin in the distribution of seed,
grains and to hold farmers meetings
and exhibitions. The plan will divide
the state into circuits, each to have
from three to five banks interested.
Exhibits of grain and other farm pro-
duce will be made at the meetings.
and prizes awarded. Winners in the
circuits will exhibit their products at
the annual bankers show at Madi-
son during the winter farmers
course.
Sparta. surrounds the
death of ]. w. Henry, a derrick en-
gineer, who was accidentally killed
at the material yards Of the new Mil
waukee, Sparta and Northwestern
railway, near this city No one saw
him killed. His left leg was broken
and there was a deep blue mark over
the heart. 1t is thought the piston
of the engine struck him. The pre-
vious night Henry applied to the
nightwatch to be given a safe Iodg-
ing, saying he was in fear of some
one doing him bodily harm.
Oconomowoc.-Geo Miller of
Chicago, young man spending his
vacation here, drowned in Fowler
lake while sailing with Erwin Violin,
also of Chicago. Miller was 19 years
of age and an orphan.
La Crosse.-Claiming that his wife
desires a divorce because ne believes
that women's suffrage will soon pre-
vail in Wisconsin and that she in
tends to run for governor, Olaf w.
Olson, has set forth this unusual
allegation in his defense to a di-
vorce suit.
Superior. - Thirty-nine Superior
ties, among the number being City
Controller John Erickson, City En-
gineer 3. B. Banks and the census
enumerators, have been subpoenaed
to appear at Eau Claire to testify
before the grand jury relative to the
taking of the census in Superior.
Kilbourn.-With a report that
was heard two miles away, a meteor
crashed through the barn of Charles
Gaffney penetrating the roof and a
two-inch floor before landing In the
basement The meteor was still hot
when picked up and weighed more
than two pounds.
Maiden Rock-The little daughter
Of L. Thompson, living near Elm
wood, had her leg cut off, both hands
mangIed and her body badly cut by
the sickle of a mower and died from
The effects of her injuries. The child
had gone to sleep in the grass beside
4 stump in the meadow. Her father.
who was running the mower, did not
see her. Just as the sickle was lifted
to go over the stump she awoke, but
too late. The father tied up the
wounds with binding Irvine and drove
to a doctors, but the little one died
from the shock.
Fond du Lac-Parties from May
Vile, Fond du Lac and La Crosse
have organized a new hunting club
known as the Blue Wing Hunting
club, and will erect a club house upon
wooded island in Rush lake which
has been leased for term of ten
years.
Madison old idea is not sus-
tanned that college graduates do not
marry at the University of Wisconsin
forty-eight of its graduates having
become brides or benedicts during
last June, while ten engagements
have just been announced.
Appleton.-N. Simon, who made
the 1000 pound cheese for the ma
tionaI dairy show last year, and who
recently was awarded the contract
to make a $4,000 pound cheese for
the next exhibition of the national
dairy show, has scured the contract
for a 5000 pound cheese for the
Minnesota state fair.
Neenah.-The Neenah-Fond du
Lac and the Neenah-Kaukauna inter
urban lines are to be connected with
curves in this city. This decision has
given rise again to the rumor that
the two companies are to consolidate.