Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-13
NeuUs Notes of Wisconsin

misunderstanding to Supt. Geo.
McKerrOw of the department of farm
ers' Institutes, all that is necessary
to secure farm institute during the
winter for any locality is a signed
application blank, which will be fur
nished upon request Any town, no
matter how small or how far from
railroad, is entitled to an insti-
tute provided it is located in farm
ing district and has a good hall in
which to hold a meeting.
misunderstanding to State For
ester e. M. Griffith, there is grave
danger of devastating fires in the
forest reserves within the near fu-
ture unless hard rains come soon.
Some small fires are burning, it is
reported, and the wardens are en-
gagged in cutting them out If the
hot weather continues and no heavy
rains are experienced, nothing can
prevent a repetition of the forest
fires of 1909, he said.
Madison. - The appointment of
Taylor Frye, assemblyman from Eau
Claire county, as deputy commission
er of labor and statistics, has been
made by Commissioner J. d. Beck.
Mr.. Frye will succeed William Fl.
Price, whose resignation took effect
June 80 and who goes to a faculty at
an eastern college.
La Crosse. -Inspired by the pres
ence of his fiancee and his little
daughter Mildred Ferdinand Krause,
aged 80, a widower of Winona, Mimi,
broke his neck in attempting to
show the party how to make dive
from a height of six feet into two
feet of water in the La Crosse river
here.
Reedsburg. - During a severe
storm here, William Sempson, aged
IT, sought refuge in a barn and was
killed when the structure was blown
down by the wind.
Superior.-During an electrical
storm, lightning struck the Hotel
Superior and several other structures,
buL III dOIhcLSC clo IClt.
La Crosse.-Dr. Perm Wakefield OF
West Salem is dead as the result of
the big fire that practically destroyed
the entire business section of that
town. DR.. Wakefield worked in an
effort to help check the fire and be-
coming exhausted from overexertion
and grief over the loss of his proper
ty, redred to his room, where he was
found dying by his wife an hour
later.
Maiden Rock.-The first green
sweet corn was marketed here July
g. This breaks all records for early
sweet corn in this section.
Portage.-While returning from an
automobile trip from Randolph to
Rio, the car owned and driven by C..
L. Gilbert of Rio went into the ditch
near Columbus. The machine was
burned, and Herman Blankenschein,
Rio business man, was injured.
Neenah.-The best crop of hay that
has been harvested for years in cen
trail Wisconsin is now being cut. The
early summer rains followed by the
warm weather has caused an UMPIRE
cedented growth. The corn crop with
timely rains and hot weather which
prevail, will be a bumper one.
Marinette-Max Engles of High
Falls on the Peshtigo river, had a
miraculous escape from death when
ne touched one of the high power
wires with a steel fishing rod En-
giles was knocked unconscious and for
some time it was feared he was dead.
His right side is badly burned.
It is said that $4,000 volts o. cleo
tricity passed through his body.
Wausaukee.-T sleepers, a din
ing and kitchen car of the Northwest
ern railway, and about a half mil
ion feet of logs and 200 cords Of tan
5ark were destroyed by fire.