Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11

| ter, Mrs. Ocain. Mr.. Upton return
ed to his home Sunday and Mrs Up
ton viii remain for week.
Messrs. George Schinn, and H. S.
Webb, masons, have just completed
the laying of the foundation walls for
AL Sutor's house on the corner of
9th and Wiley streets. The car
penters viii now commence upon the
superstructure.
Mrs. Sarah Steinberg and daughter,
Ida, returned Friday from Milwau-
kee, Chicago and Minneapolis where
they have been spending a couple of
weeks purchasing their fall and
winter line Of millinery goods and
dry goods.
The game law IS the same as last
year in reference to the number of
birds you can kill. That is you
can kill prairie chicken and
grouse in any one days hunt, but no
more. This was true last year and
is the same this year.
S. A. Spafford brought III a win
ter apple this morning as a sample
of what he raises upon his farm in
the town of Rudolph, on Section 81,
Township %, Range 6. 1t was a
fine looking apple and of excellent
size and flavor.
Mrs. Geo. Otto and baby left Sat
urday for their home at Davenport,
Iowa, after a visit in the city at
the Grant Babcock home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto expect to return to this
city to make their home in the near
future.
A. G. Koch, manager Of the Cohen
Bros. department store, is taking his
vacation this week. Al. just bought
a new automatic shot gun and there
is no doubt but what his family will
be well supplied with chickens all
this week at least
The year 1913 has been a sore
disappointment to the farmers of
nearly every state except Wisconsin.
Here, as usual, all crops are good
and some of them extra good. And
the prices Of Wisconsin's principal
farm products are higher than usual,
while those of other states are lower.
Carl Knuth had his right arm
cut off at the elbow Monday morning
at the Port Edwards mill. Mr.. Knutl
was working near cOnveyOr belt
which ran from the chip room to the
digestor room His arm was caught
in the belt He was taken to the
office of DR.. Wagner where it was
necessary to amputate the arm.
Cranberry picking started Monday
morning. All day Sunday pickers
were going to the different marshes.
In spite of the number already on the
marshes, it looks as though there
would not be enough pickers. The
crop is estimated by experts to be
about two thirds as large as last
years crop.
Misses Ruth Emmons and Daisy
Thornton were hostesses at a mis-
celIaneous and apron shower given
for Miss Jaunita Jackson at the En-
mons home on third street, Saturday
evening. The evening was pleasant
ly spent in social converse, guessing
contests, etc. Dainty refreshments
were served.
Messrs. John and Arnold Smith,
S. A. Rint1emann, Ernest Rintlemann
and Frank Ticknor were members of
a hunting party on Sunday that bag
ged thirty chickens. They found
most of the birds in the brush, so
that the hunting was not as ideal
as it might have been had they found
the chickens in the marshes.
Miss Frances Jochem of NekOosa,
became the bride Of William August
Benter of Alvin, Wis, Thursday af-
ternoon when the knot that made
them man and wife was tied by
Judge John Roberts. They were
attended by Miss Floy Berg and
Humphrey Benjamin, who acted as
witnesses. Mr.. and Mrs. Benter will
make their home in Alvin.
An Eau Claire banker is spending
$40, 900 on buildings on farm
which he is opening in one of the
upper Wisconsin counties. That is
lot better than investing in some re
mote part Of the country, as many
have done in the past. We have the
money and plenty Of places within
the state to invest it. Money kept
in Wisconsin helps Wisconsin, and
that means all of us.
In some localities the chickens had
a bad time of it Sunday, while in
other places, it was the hunters who
had the bad time. Some got and
some got not. There were enough
who went after the chickens if the
number of licenses issued by County
Clerk F. H. Eberhardt is any criter-
ion to go by. Up to $3.50 Saturday
night there were 1860 licenses is
sued.
J. E. Gillespie, engineer and two
assistants went to Nekoosa today,
to survey and lay out the site for
the new wagon bridge to span the
Wisconsin river at a point just be-
low the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper
Cos mill The birdg e will be erect
ed Jointly by the state, county, vii
| Iage of Nekoosa and town of New
Rome This bridge will prove of
great value to that section of the
state.