Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-24
Local and Otherwise.

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gss@ Bargains in stylish millinery at
Mrs. A. E. Donaldson.
Mrs. Cross, of Babcock, is in the city,
the guest of Mrs. Matte DAILY.
Miss Nettie Nissenbaum, of Chicago,
is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs.
Cohen.
Miss Mary Ratelle, of Rudolph, was
the guest of Miss Nellie Baker over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lara Ward are in town
to-day to attend the Brown-Farrish
wedding.
Rev. J. Churm has gone to New York
city to meet his family on their return
from Europe.
Misses Fosbinder, Carter and Sweat
land, teachers, Of Mansion, were in the
city Saturday shopping.
Saturday night Grand Double Show
by the Shaker Speciality Co. An elegant
diamond ring given away. Admission
| 10 cents.
Mrs. Ira Purdy is slowly recovering
from the nervous shock resulting from
a delicate surgical operation performed
a few weeks since.
| Mr.. and Mrs Alex Muir returned
from Winona Saturday after several
weeks absence. Their many friends
were glad to greet them again.
s3~ Mrs A. Z. Donaldson makes a
speciality of mail orders and pays the
express on all orders sent in from sur
| rounding towns.
Passenger trains known as No. and
on the Green Bay railroad at present
running between Mcmillan and Winona
will be discontinued after November
9th.
Mr.. Elmer Hawkins and Miss Amelia
Armstrong, of Necedah, spent the
Sabbath in Grand Rapids guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Davis.
Several cases Of typhoid fever have
been reported. We would remind
people in the infected localities of the
Importance of boiling all water used
before partaking of it.
Mrs. Lyman Rhodes and daughter
Nellie, also Miss Hattie Phillips and
MIR. Ellis Rogers are expected to spend
Thanksgiving and the rest Of the week
visiting Mr. Woodworth's family on
High St.
In pursuance of an established Gus
tom between the Methodist and Cong'l
churches of holding Thanksgiving
union services alternately in each
church, Rev. Kilbourne will preach in
the Methodist church Thursday a. N.
at the usual hour.
They have got things down very fine
in England, At the foot of every bill
the driver of a certain Yorkshire omni-
bus shouts, First class passengers keep
your seats! Second class passengers get
out and walk! Third class passengers
get out and push"
Wisconsin has the honor of furnish
ing the Worlds fair with an immense
monolith of brown stone 1t is the
largest in the world, and from the quar-
~ of the Prentice Brown Stone Co. of
Houghton. 1t is III feet long and 10 #
square and will weigh when dressed
over 400 tons
At the VI. E. church in this city last
Sunday a. m. the infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs L. NJ Alexander was christ
ened Pauline Edwards Alexander, Rev.
Churm officiating. Miss Martin of
Galena a cousin of Mrs. Alexander
stood as God-mother and Mr.. and Mrs.
J. W.Cameron as Sponsors.
Necedah Republican, Many were
the compliments paid to the Grand
Rapids band for the choice selections
they rendered here yesterday on the
occasion of the barbecue and dance.
They are fast becoming famous for the
quality of music they furnish and will
soon be the equal Of any band on the
road. We shall! again have the pleasure
of hearing them. at the Odd Fellows
dance next Wednesday night.
There is some controversy over this
comet, opinions differing as to whether
it is Biela's or not, Prof. Boss of the
Dudley observatory says that during
the week past observations taken indI-
cate that the new comet is far beyond
the orbit of the Biela and the distance
from the earth is increasing instead of
diminishing. Weeks must elapse be-
fore thoroughly reliable results can be
obtained, meantime Sunday is near at
hand and its worth the effort to watch
for the meteoric shower predicted.
The Superior Inland Ocean: The
announcement was made last Thurs
day on good authority that c. a. Pills
bury of Minneapolis now at the head
of the great Pillsbury mills of that city,
will erect in Superior next spring the
largest single mill building in the world,
which will be of 10000 barrels daily
capacity. Mr. Pillsbury has been agi-
tating this matter for over a year and
now it Is practically settled that the
decision of the Interstate Commerce
Commission will be in favor Of Mime
apolis, Mr. Pillsbury has looked favor
ably on proposition to build mill in
this city.