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Phillips, Wisconsin, November 20, 1900.Editor Reporter:As it has been a long time since I have written anything for your paper I thought I would scribble a few lines to let your readers know how times are np here in the big woods. . It is snowing hard this afternoon, we have about four inches of snow now. Work is plenty and men are scarce. Wages are good in the logging camps this ter. They are paying from $26: to $40 per month, and good top load-ers get fancy prices, other men are paid according to what they can do. They are all boarded and lodged at the Company,s expense. I am making rail road tie3 this winter.We are working hemlock timber and we make good wages. John Arnold is working in this camp with me. He doesn’t look any older than he did ten years ago. He averages twenty ties per day at ten cents each. We pay $2.50 a week for board. Health is very, good at present. My health has been the best since I have been here that it has been for years except for rheumatism. I was laid up almost«aIl last winter with it. There are a good many Indiana peopie settling in Price county now. The government land is about alt taken up, but land can be bought in plenty at iReport reached here this morning that Elder Sickafcose died after a Short illness. Particulars next week.On account of sickues ib the family of Rev. 'Jones protracted meeting will not begin tonight as was announced last week.The gun club held a Thanksgiv-mg shoot yesterday. The following Won turkeys:W G Jamison- -L I) Snoke -C E Beigb ...J M BloomerJ C Hajr - - -Subscribe for the Reporter. -Water Tnbe* tor Jail Bara.A water-tube jail is one of the latest achievements of Yankee Ingenuity, is no longer necessary to make the prison bars so heavy and hard thatWATBR TCBB JAIL BARS.cutting , through them'becomes difficult but Instead they are made simply of pipes forming part of a high pressure water system. Should any of these pipes be severed the water escapes and quickly gives warning of the break.He Means Well.An enterprising native shopkeeper in Santiago displays over a great heap of headgear the sign, “These hats are virtuous.” It appears that In searching his dictionary for an English rendering of the Spanish word bueno” (good) he selected “virtuous” as being the most elegant.A Caterpillar's SiihtA French scientist says a caterpillar cannot see more than two-flfths of an inch ahead. The hairs on the body are said to be of as much use as its eyes in letting it know what is going oa around.Starch.About one hundred years ago the use of starch for stiffening the frills round the neck was considered highly reprehensible,.if not positively sinful.
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Silver Lake Record
Silver Lake, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1900
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