Dear REPORTER:- There has been nothing of an exciting nature going on here during the past week, unless we make an exception in the case of Chris WEINHOLOT, who has been busy during the week, breaking a yoke of steers. There was considerable doubt for some time as to which would be broken first, the steers, the ox yoke or the teamster. The cattle finally got the start and the last seen of them they were heading towards Shawano with the travois.They were going about eighteen feet every jump and Chris was making a little less than seventeen feet eleven inches each span. Guess he intended to tire them out. LATER:The oxen (they are well broken now) have returned on their way to the river with the travois and 7,000 feet of pine saw logs. Chris will probably get home tomorrow.

We are getting an occasional flurry of snow now and the jobbers are in hopes of being able to begin skiding logs soon. It turned cold so suddenly on Friday that the mercury knocked the bottom out of our thermometer in its haste to get down out of the cold and the only way we can tell anything about the weather is to judge by the amount of wood we burn.

Herman DIECK is putting in poplar for H. HANKWITZ: he has banked an enormous amount (about a back load) already and expects to get in as much more by spring. During his spare time he will give a few exhibitions of his penmanship, doing his writing in the snow by the roadside where the school children can see and study on their way to and from school.

Mr. TRECARTIN injured one of his hands so badly that he has been compelled to throw up his logging contract with Frank DOWEN and he has returned to his home in Maple Valley.

Our population is being increased by an occasional case of bay or girl with weight to correspond. Any person having an idea that the logging industry in the town of How is at a standstill should take a survey up the river this week and they will be surprised at the amount of winter commerce carried on here.

"Uncle" Jim ARMSTRONG will build a blacksmith shop at his residence near the corner as soon as the weather will permit. This is a move in the right direction and it should be sustained by every man in our town who is interested in the common welfare. What we need is a few energetic business men to push our interests and bring forth the resources of our town. We have a good water power, sufficient for a saw or grist mill that could be got almost for the asking and a good mill could be made a paying investment. Why not have the natural advantages of our

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