Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
PERSONAL.

were noticed driving about our streets
yesterday.
Miss Mae Armstrong has returned
from her visit at Necedah with parents
and friends.
Miss Ella McRaith entertained a
few of her young lady friends to tea
Tuesday evening.
Miss Pearl Lees, of Marshfeld, has
been visiting her young friends Maud
and Cloa Crotteau, Centralia, this week.
Miss Emma Biron, of Merrill, came
to the city Sunday night to spend her
vacation with her mother and friends.
Gus Frank left Friday morning for
Grafton, North Dakota, where he will
put in the fall months threshing.
John P Breitling, of Chicago, a lum-
herman friend of Will Kellogg was in
the city on Wednesday, his guest.
Michael Mathews leaves this week
for Dakota where he expects to remain
several months.
Landlord Hathaway of the Witter
House is spending the week with rela-
tives in Detroit, Michigan.
The Misses Mary and Jennie Reilly,
of Marshfeld, are being entertained in
Centralia as the guests of Miss Mary
Mcmillan.
Mr.. and Mrs Martin Kennedy, of
Sioux City, Iowa, were in the city the
past week called to the bedside of Mrs
Kennedy's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Lipke are at
the Witter House for the present until
their cottage on High street is in readi-
ness for occupancy.
Mrs. Fred Moore and child, of Stevens
Point. were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
F. Moore, Centralia, the first of the
week.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Brundage,
Wednesday morning, August 18th, a
daughter. The parents are correspond
ingly happy.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Thompson and son
Oscar, of Kaukauna, were guests of DR..
and Mrs. O. T. Hougen the past week.
Mrs. Thompson is a sister of the Doc
tor
Messrs. Fred Jackson, Nathan Harris,
Floyd Moore, and Joseph and Plat Cor
riveau report an excellent trip down the
Wisconsin river by boat. They were
gone ten days.
John Housfeld has gone to Milladore
to act as cook for A. H. McWithey who
will run a saw mill in that vicinity to
saw timber belonging to Edward
Lynch and Will Scott.
Irving and Willie Schultz, Arthur
Pepin, Wilbur Kellner and John
Belanger are camping above Biron.
They started in Wednesday and will
follow fishing as an occupation.
Dick Stevenson came down from his
labors near the State line on Monday
evening and has been shaking hands
with his numerous acquaintance in the
twin cities.
Rev. S. Sather, will deliver a
temperance lecture in the Moravian
Church, Centralia, Thursday evening
August 22nd in the Swedish language.
All countrymen are cordially invited to
hear him.
Mr.. Gus. Otto, the efficient and
obliging druggist behind the counters of
Johnson, Hill & Co.'S pharmacy, Contra
LA, has been absent this week in
Sheboygan attending a large pill
vendors convention.
Mr.. Alfred Brooks, of Nekoosa, and
Miss Zania Davis, of Centralia, were
married at the home of the brides par
ents, Wednesday evening, August 14th.
Rev. A. L. McClelland officiating.
Mrs. L. P. Powers, who has been in
Algona, Iowa, the past year, arrived in
this city Friday and will have her
household effects packed to ship them
to Algona where she will make it her
future home.
Rev. John Rowland, of Waupun,
was in the city to-day on his way to
Stevens Point. He reports his family
all we'll and enjoys his new passionate in
that city.
Mrs. n. Higbee left to-day for her
home in Minneapolis. Mother Fon-
tame continues to gain slowly of which
the members of her family and friends
are glad.
The School Board have engaged Miss
Leanore Caldwell, of Pewaukee, Wis,
to take Mrs. D. B. Philleo's place as
teacher Of the first intermediate depart.
ment of our public schools.
Mr.. E. Meyer, who came here three
months ago and opened grocery store
in the DAILY block, Centralia, sold out
the first of the week and has moved
back to Chicago. Business did not
warrant his continuance.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Buckley are
guests of Mrs. John Arpin. A ten
pound baby girl was born unto them
on Sunday August 11th. The parents
are delighted over their little family
which now consists Of one son and two
daughters.
The following residents were il
attendance at Camp Douglas during the