Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-12-28

way home for the holiday vacation.
She had to stay over in changing from
the Port Edwards to the St. Paul road
Mr. Frank Steib, Centralia, was the
recipient of a handsome gold watch
chain and charm on Christmas day the
gift of his father Frank was highly
pleased with his present and we'll he
might be.
Miss Emma Bellows, at one time a
teacher in the Howe High School, is a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
B. Brundage. Miss Bellows now holds
position as typewriter and steno-
grapher for law firm in West Superior.
Married at Rudolph on Saturday
December 23rd, Mr.. Charles Sullivan
and Miss Cora B. Refine, at the home
Of Jesse Waters, justice of the peace
This couple have many friends in
Rudolph who join with us in extending
best wishes for future happiness.
The Centralia High School closed the
fall term of work Friday last with very
appropriate and interesting exercises.
| A goodly number of parents and in
terested ones were present. The
program consisted of recitations,
declamatious and essays.
Mr.. Frank Houston came home from
his studies at Rush Medical College,
Chicago, Saturday night He reports
his work in that institution progressing
finely. Frank will spend the holidays
! with his mother and sisters in Centralia.
Mr.. Jesse Waters, justice of the peace
| at Rudolph, performed the ceremony
in the town Of Sigel Dec. Goth, which
made Mr.. T. D. Mulienbach and Miss
Maria Slye man and wife. The wedding
occurred at the residence of G1r. D.
Mullenbach.
A miniature Ferris wheel took the
place of the usual Christmas tree at the
| Christian Church in Rlchland Center.
1t was very novel arrangement made
| as large as the room would admit and
| so as to carry presents.
Charlie, Mabel and Ethel Compton,
| drove to Auburndale Saturday to assist
their sister Celia, in a school concert
given that evening, which proved a
success both socially and financially.
She has an enrolment of fifty-seven
scholars. They returned Sunday morn
| ing.
Messrs. VIII Conway and Theodore
Brazeau, sophmores at the State Uni
| versity, returned to Madison Tuesday
evening after spending a few days
vacation in this city. The winter term
| does not begin until Jan. Sth, but
Theodore and Will went back early to
do little extra work.
Mr.. Walter Smith had a little mishap
Saturday afternoon in tipping over with
his wood saving engine which he was
hauling on pair of sleighs. The long
smoke stack over balanced it as it slid
into sort Of rut or hole in the road
julius Melang, of Wausau, but now
clerk in Mrs. John Hamm's store was
married Tuesday December Goth to Miss
Ollie Lucas, of Pullman, III. They
arrived in the city this morning and
will go to house keeping over DR.. de-
Grandpre's office.
Mr.. S. c. Horton, who has been at
tending the Milwaukee Normal School,
arrived in the city Friday night to
spend his Holiday vacation. He will be
remembered as having served in the
capacity of principal in the Pittsville
school the past two years.
The following is a list Of the local
teachers whe are teaching outside and
are home spending the holiday vacation:
Addie Skeels, Clara Rablin, Grace and
Minnie Gets, Winnie and Mariette
Blanchard, Ada Skeels, Edith Martin,
Anna Martin, Selena Douville, Helen
Philleo, Ella Hasbrouck, Julian Baker,
Stephen Brazeau.
Mr.. Hubbard Robinson is again
welding the willow in the four mile
creek school house after an absence of
several weeks on account Of sickness.
Hubbard had severe struggle with
pneumonia the effects of which are
still apparent He is however all right
now.
Mr.. Walter Ross, q prosperous
farmer of Saratoga, shot large Amer
can eagle near his farm on Tuesday Of
last week which measured seven feet
from tip to tip. Mr.. Ross was driving
to the marsh after load of hay when
he CHANGED to see this eagle sitting in a
tree. BY good luck he had a gun with
him and so he downed "America."
About fifteen school-teachers passed
through Centfalia on the south bound
passenger Friday evening on the way
to their respective homes for the holi-
days. They came from Tomahawk and
Merrill. Among them were Misses
Ella Hasbrouck and Helen Philleo, and
Selma Douville and sister, who stopped
off in the Twin Cities
We noticed the following men on our
streets during the holidays who are en-
ployed at different vocations elsewhere:
John Star, Hugh McGowen, Frank
Houston, Lee n. Ticknor, John ?.
Horton, Pat Star, F. W. Wright,
John McGlachlin, Dell White, John G.
Love, James Canning, John Ray,