Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-07-12
NEKOOSA
IMPROVEMENTS
ANDPROGRESS

S. L. Stevens is erecting new block
adjoining the Voss Hardware store
building on the west. This building
will be 32x100 feet, two stories with
eight foot basement Of brick and tile.
| The first floor will be used for mer-
camille purposes and the second floor
for public hall This is an ideal loca-
ton and this new building will add
greatly to the commercial business Of
the east end of the village.
Market street, the main thorofare
of Nekoosa, is eighty feet wide and is
now undergoing preparation for the
installation of a reinforced cement
roadway. The sewer and wafer cor
nections are being installed. The pres
ent cement sidewalks are being
widened to twelve feet in width and
all the preparatory work is progress
ing nicely. In the sidewalk construc-
ton at the corner where the intersec-
I ton of streets occur, they stencil the
name of the street in the walk so that
any one travelling along the sidewalk
is informed where they are and what
street they are travelling on. This is
the modern and most simple and con-
venient way of establishing the names
! of the streets. The reinforced con-
crete roadway is to be Sc feet wide,
the entire length of Market street,
running thru the village. When this
is completed it will give the village
of Nekoosa a reinforced concrete road
way from the pavilion thru the village
to point one-half mile west
of the mill on the Wood road.
In 1914, commencing at the paviI-
ion they put in 2148 Iineal feet, fifteen
feet wide. In 1915 there was laid 4198
lineal feet Is feet wide to Market
street. In 1916, there was laid on
Point Basse Avenue 1860 feet from
Market street south on Point Basse
Avenue, which was Is feet wide. They
also laid on Alexander Avenue, from
Market street to the bridge 458 feet
from Is to % feet wide. In 1917, they
laid from Point Basse Avenue west on
the Wood road 5000 lineal feet, IL
feet wide.
When Market street is completed
this year Nekoosa will have laid over
two and one half miles of cement
roadway. This is certainly a gooc
showing for Nekoosa.
While in Nekoosa Saturday, the
writer was pleased to find that the Ne
koosa-Edwards Paper Company hac
supplied the Park keeper with a mo-
tor driven lawn mower we'll adapted
for lazy man. 1t has three and {
half horse power, single cylinder gas
oline motor. The blade is 80 inche!
long. When this machine is started
it propels and operates itself anC
really pulls the operator around will
it. He has got to travel to keep W
with it. The company also maintains
, one of the machines in the Park sys
tenn in the village Of Port Edwards
During the summer of 1916, while
a circus was exhibiting in the village
of Nekoosa, one Of the small monkeys
escaped and hid itself in the paper
mill. Later it was found in the paper
mill and superintendent Louis Kahne
who has been with this company fo-
the past Is years, has adopted the
> monkey and keeps it in the mill as {
mascot. It has become a pet among
the several hundred employees in tn,
mill who make a good deal of him
Besides the monkey they have cage:
of fox, gray and red squirrels. Giving
them quite variety of pets. The
zoo is in the pulp grinder room of the
pulp mill
Nekoosa certainly has much to b.
, proud Of, and thankful for. Thei
, principle industry there, the Nekoosa
Edwards Paper Mill, is the foundation
for the establishment Of the village
and it's splendid up-keep. And thu
company in return have the good viii
and loyal support of the entire village
In other words, they work together
hand in hand, for the up-building o.
: that locality. Thru the united efforts
they have a village of about 1900
: population. 1t is supplied with thu
5 purest Of spring water which is pipeC
5 from the sandy bluffs a distance of one
: mile and quarter from the old Woo
Hill on the west, and this is distributed
7 for the use Of the community. They
have an excellent water and sewe,
system and their streets and sidewalk!
are largely of concrete construction
Their lighting system is of the best
their telephone system is part of the
Wood County metallic system, anC
! their public school is modern and thei
school building has been recently e
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