Posted on: Wood Co. Wi Bios Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WoodBios/129 Surname: ALBAN, BANGS, BARKER, BECKWITH, BENCHLEY, BIGELOW, BINKS, BONUM, BOYLAN, BRANDS, BRAWLEY, BRUNDAGE, BUCK, BUTLER, BYAM, CATE, CHASE, CHESTER, CLARK, CLINTON, COMPTON, EDWARDS, ELLIS, EMERSON, ENSIGN, FORDHAM, FOSTER, FRISBIE, GARRISON, GERMAN, HAINES, HANNUM, HAWLEY, HINCKLEY, HOMIER, HUYANEN, HYER, JENKINS, JONES, KING, KINGSBURY, SLINE, LANG, LANGWORTHY, LEBY, MARTELL, McRAITH, MOSHER, MYERS, NEEVES, OLIN, PEARSON, PHILLEO, POWERS, PRENTISE, ROUSSEAU, SCHAEFFER, SCOTT, TARBOX, WALKER, WEST, WHITE, WHITNEY, WOOD ------------------------- >From the Wood County Reporter, Volume 1 Number 11, Wednesday, February 17, 1858 On the night of the 7th, E. B. CLARK's store in Plover robbed of $30-40 P3C1 Fire at the Blacksmith Shop of Messrs. HANNUM & BIGELOW at Plover, yesterday P3C1 Mr Daniel WOOD, age 92, died at Seneca, Ontario Co, NY, of old age, leaving a large family. He was the father of (local) Judge Joseph WOOD P3C2 HAWLEY's ad, "shingles wanted, highest cash prices paid" P3C2 Legal Notice, George WHITE, plaintiff vs Jerome KING, defendant, writ of attachment for debt owed, also mentions Geo WHITNEY, S H ALBAN and William BUTLER, Justice of the Peace P3C2 COMPTON's ad, "furs wanted" P3C2 William R. & Charles R FRISBIE ad, Cabinet and Turning Establishment producing chairs, window sashes, blinds, doors, etc at BARKER's Mill P3C2 Tom HYER's ad challenges any horse in Wood Co to trot against his celebrated trotting horse "Frank Hurley" for one to five-hundred dollars P3C2 MOSHER & FOSTER ad for groceries and provisions "no business done on credit" P3C3 G A BINK's ad for groceries & provisions P3C3 HAWLEY's ad for groceries & provisons, "opposite the Eddy, in Neeves' block" P3C3 HINGLEY's ad for groceries, wine & brandy, & provisions P3C3 D F EMERSON's ad of a Tavern For Sale in the thriving Village of Fordham, on the Plover-Grand Rapids Road, including the FORDHAM House (hotel) formerly kept by J PEARSONS P3C4 Ad for Two Mile Creek House, a "new house with stables attached, 2 miles from Grand Rapids on the Portage-Grand Rapids Road" owned by D F EMERSON P3C4 Ad for a Washington's (Day?) Ball at the Two Mile Creek House, music by ROUSSEAU's band, ad paid by D F EMERSON P3C4 B P BANGS' ad for the BANGS House (hotel), "formerly CLINTON House" P3C4 Ad for "New Stage Route from Kilbourn City (present Wisc Dells) to Grand Rapids, also from New Lisbon to Grand Rapids" ad paid by H W KINGSBURY, Quincy (Adams Co Wisconsin) P3C4 Ad for T B SCOTT & Company's Dry Good Store (clothing, crockery, hardware) to be "sold out clean by the 1st of April" Ad paid by John H COMPTON P3C5 GARRISON & Co's Variety Store "Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, Hardware, etc" by O GARRISON & Co P3C5 BENCHLEY & PHILLEO's ad for "Dry Goods, Fancy goods, Woolen Goods, Clothing, Glassware & Crockery, Groceries, Drugs and Medicines, also Liquors for Medicinal Purposes" P3C5 J X BRANDS, proprietor of the Magnolia House (late Empire House), ad P3C5 POWERS & LANG Law, Land & Insurance Offices "Opposite the Wisconsin Hotel" ad lists references of BRAWLEY (Stevens Point Land Office), ELLIS (Stevens Point Land Office), CATE (7th Judicial Circuit Judge, WI), SCHEFFER (Banker, Stevens Point), HUYANEN (Banker, Menasha), EDWARDS (Hazel Green WI), OLIN (Esq, Milwaukee), Wm. JONES, Jr & Co (Chicago) CHASE (Governor of OH), WEST (Esq, Elyria, OH), CLINTON (Esq., Grand Rapids), and SCOTT (TB Scott & Co, Grand Rapids) P3C6 Legal Notice, Sheriff's Sale of Mortgage Foreclosure, George N RICHMOND, plff vs Felix and Jane ROULEAU. Other names mentioned are MARTELL, BUCK, KLINE, PRENTISE & POWERS P3C7 Legal Notice, Commissioner's Sale, John W. C. LANGWORTHY, plff vs Defendants Edward D. SCOTT, John M. BOYLAN, Philander BYAM, Edward CHESTER, Henry HINCKLEY, Obadiah GERMAN, Nelson F BECKWITH. Court Commisioner B JENKINS and plff's attorney T H WALKER also listed in notice P3C7 Legal Notice, Sheriff's Sale of execution (sale to satisfy debt owed to KLINE), William KLINE vs Lewis HOSBROOK P3C7 Ad for Ladies Cloaks for sale, J. W. COMPTON P3C7 Ad "Furs Wanted", MOSHER & FOSTER P3C7 Legal Notice, Attachment, State of WI, Town of Saratoga and Asa P TARBOX, plaintiffs, vs. MYERS & BONUM (whose property would be sold to pay debt owed to Tarbox) Also lists Justice of the Peace John ENSIGN P3C7 Ad for clothing and fabric for sale at M. McRAITH's, "Terms cash. Shop one door east of HINGLEY's" P3C7 John N BRUNDAGE, Editor and Publisher, E M HAINES, corresponding editor for the Wood County Reporter, Advertising and printing rates listed, subscription price $2/year in advance P3C7 Joan M. Benner, Golden Rule Genealogy Member Association of Professional Genealogists Rootsweb Sponsor Link: Golden Rule Genealogy URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/resource/r-joanb.htm>