Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-04-24

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with her parents.
L. NJ. Alexander, returned Wed
nesday from a business trip to Chi
cago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Gross leave
| tonight for their home in Madison.
Mrs. ]. ]. Patrick returned Tues
day evening from all extended Wis
| it with relatives in st. Paul.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Mic Marceau
on Tuesday, at Rudolph, a baby hey.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. X. Smith Of Prai
RE Du CHEN arrived in the city Wed
nesday for a few days visit with re
| Iatiyes.
Gus Schuman, the Supt. of Public
Works is on the job. He commenced
the discharge of his duties on Mon
da" April 81.
The west side fire department re.
sponded to an alarm from the eighth
ward shortly after 1: 80 o'clock this al
ternoon. The dry grass in the vi
cinity of the Cola home on Tenth
avenue south, near Gardner street
had become ignited and was making
a merry blaze. 1t was eXtinguished
before any damage was done.
A small barn, the property Of John
T. Rieman, south of Fair ground on
Chestnut street was destroyed by fire
! Wednesday afternoon, $3.50. 1t was
occupied by a mare, sucking colt an
cow They were released before
| the fire was under great Roadway
The loss of barn and hay Will amount
| to $15O. Origin of fire is reported to
be the work Of young boys Dlayin g
| in the barn.
Lew Van who gave his home as
New London, was given ten days in
the county Jail by Justice Edward N.
Pomainville Monday afternoon. Off
Ger Hewlett arrested Van for being
drunk and making a nuisance of him
self
City Engineer PhilIeo has survey
| ed for a side walk from in front OF
| the Clark Lyon place to the residence
of Miss Calla.s Mason on the river
bank south from First avenue.
Considerable complaint has been
made regarding the dust ON differ
| ent streets Those who wish to have
| the streets sprinkled must have pc
tition signed by a majority of the a
| butting property owners. L his peti-
| ton is to be presented to the council
| If the petitions had been presented in
time, the streets would now be
sprinkled. The sprinkhng is done
by private parties, but petitions car
rying a majority of the property hold
ers names will be granted by the. cOun
ell and the work of sprnkling order
ed done.
Mrs. G. T. butcher and son Tom AM
daughter MaMine of Oshkosh, are in
the city for an extended visit at the
Sam Church home.
Miss Eleanor Shapiro returned to
her home at Stevens Point Monday
after a few days visit in the city with
Miss Pansy Slusser.
Mrs. A. Marceau left Tuesday for
Menominee, Wis, Tuesday to visit
few days with her daughter, Mrs
Fox
Labor is one Of the supreme laws
of life. Toll is honorable. The prog
ress which the world has made is a
glorious testimonial to human handi-
work. Those who work know more
of genuine happiness than those
whose lives seem dedicated to idle
ness.
Ridicule, condemn, berate the mule
as you will but there is one thing
about mule that makes him worthy
OF all wonder and unstinted praise Ii
may be we'll to give mules heels
plenty of leeway, but no one ever
heard of a man, woman or child be
ing run over by a mule. You may set
a baby down in the street and drive
q thousands mules at a wild gallcD
down the street and not one of them
would hurt that baby You could
not force a mule to run over or step
on a child if you tried for athcusand
years.
A petition has been circulated by
]. r. Raglan in the second ward and
it has been promptly and literally
signed for a cement cross walk at
the head CT Sth street north. T his
walk should have been put in, in the
fall of 1910, when both sides of said
street were laid with cement walks.
In bad rainy weather the clay is soft
and muddy and pedestrians are obIig-
ed to go two blocks south on to Bak-
er street before they can find a cross
ing. This crossing should have been
put in long ago by the Committee on
Side walks without petition. The
tax payers in that part of the city
are entitled to this convenience.
F. S. Gill has the contract of pa
pering and re-decorating the interior