Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-22

Mr. Tibbits now. and after the edi-
! tors return. to help him.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hollmiller of
/ Centralia drove up to Stevens Point
+ and back Tuesday on a pleasure and
business trip.
! D. J. Arpin aud sister Mrs. Edouard
/ 3. de Movers went to Chicago Tuesday
evening. Mrs. de NeTers came home
this morning but y, J. is still in the
Dig city.
Peter Holberg, the Gbliging clerk
counters for Johnson. Hill & Co. dur
ing the IaSi three years, resigned his
position Saturday.
Frank r. Houston is expected home
from Alaska the end Of this week
JOS. Landry arrived from Dawson
this morning and states that Houston
started home sometime ago by way OF
St. Michaels.
Lee Love Went to New London We'd
nesday to be on hand to cheer for Harry
Rablin in the two bicycle races Harry
has entered at the fair in That city.
Ben J Ciosuit went over this morning
for the same business.
Miss Florence Pray and Messrs. Rob
erts and Pease, teachers at the Howe
High school, rode up To Stevens Point
on their bicycles Saturday, were enter
tanned at q picnic Of the Normal school
faculty and returned to this city on the
evening Green Bay train.
James Nash of Centrala went down
to Milwaukee Monday night to take in
the sights at the Fair for day or two.
He will 90 from Milwaukee to Madison
and there begin studies of his sophie
more year in the General Science course
at the University Of Wisconsin.
Prof. J. J. Hayden Of the Centralfa
schools was taken sick last Friday
with typhoid fever and now lies quite
i'll in his boarding place at the resi-
dence of Geo. \. COrriveau. 1t is
thought that Mr.. Hayden will have
the full run Of typhoid, covering sew
eral weeks before he can resume work.
Prof. Frank Starr has taken Mr.. Hay
denis place temporarily. Miss Ada
Skeel is also teaching in Centralia for
Miss Mccoy during the latter's visit
at ShiOCtOn where her brother is down
with typhoid.
Geo " Davis, our spread eagle orator
fruit-dealer, departed Wednesday even
ing on his annual trip to the old home
at Murray, Iowa, where he will visit his
aged parents for about three weeks.
Mr. Davis mother is 20 years of age and
his father has passed the 18th mile post
on lite'S Journey. Murray is about 12S
miles east of Omaha and George will
probably run over to see the big expo
sItiOn a day or two while he is in the
neighborhood. Mr.. Davis stopped over
today in Sparta with his friend, Fred
Gross, and if the weather is propitiOus
will give an aldermanic discourse in the
opera house there tonight, that is, as he
would say, eff his beacon does not lose
its function"
Mrs. Thomas Young of Marshtield
and her three children accompanied
her soldier brother, Napoleon L. BOu-
cher, to Centralia Sept. 10 where they
are guests Of their uncle and aunt n.
J. Boucher and wife. n. L. Boucher
is just recovering from a very severe
illness and has a 30-day furlOUgh.
He enlisted in Company II, Eighth In
fantry on Feb. %, 1894, for five years.
and was stationed at Fort d. \. Rus
sell, Wyoming, He was ordered with
his regiment to Chickamauga On
April l, leaving June for Cuba. He
enjoyed his army life and not until
after peace was declared did his health
fail him. Mr.. Boucher expects to
join his regiment at Fort Russell
when his Through expires if his health
permits.