Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

Ray Love, instructor IN the schools at
| mahawk, is spending a two weeks,
vacation at his home in this city.
Sheriff Geo. H. Smith made trip
over to Pittsville and back Wednesday
| behind that footed team of steppers
which he drives.
| Mrs. J. w. Cochran, Centralia, enter
| tanned a small company of friends at
cards Tuesday evening for her guest,
Miss Anne Conner.
| J. G. Brocklebank of the Manufac-
turers Paper Co, New York, made the
rounds of some of our paper mills the
| past week on business pyramids.
Hon. Mvron H. McCOrd, governor of
Arizona and former congressman from
the ninth district, is expected to make
short visit at his old home in Merrill
today Thursday, March Il
Roy Gets. son Of W. H. Gets,
Centralia, burned the right side of his
face quite severely this week while
touching match to charge of powder
which he had set into hole bored in
stump. Roy wanted to blow up the
stump Just for fun, but he got nice
touch of war scare at the same time.
Edward Crawford, with the Omaha
Railroad company at Altoona, was in
the city few days this week visiting
among old time friends. 1t has been
so long since we saw him that we failed
to recognize him until he made known
his identity. He reported his mother
and sister we'll and that they reside in
Chicago.
The Misses Schmitt, milliners, passed
through CentraGa Sunday evening on
their way from Merrill to Chicago to
purchase a stylish invoice of spring
goods for their store in this city. The
| ladies expect to return to Grand Ra pids
the latter part of this week, in time to
open their millinery establishment on
Monday, March q.
Oswald G. st. Amour spent a half day
in the twin cities this week shaking the
handles off the many friends glad to
see him. Oswald is the same lively,
hearty and happy gentleman of old and
continues to make the world move
merrily wherever he chances TO be. He
left for his home in Chicago Tuesday
night.
| Carl Bandelin went to Marinette
Tuesday morning to accept his old
place as clarionetist in the Frank Dana
band and orchestra Mr. Bandelin has
also accepted position in one of Mar
inette's leading dry goods stores-thus
combining music with clerkship, Carl
has what many young men would call,
from the wage standpoint, "a nice
thing
Miss Eide Marceau, teacher at Bah
cock, visited her Centralia home Satur-
dav and Sunday. On Saturday she
attended the teachers institute and
spoke very highly of Prof. Livingso on
as a conductor. Miss Marceau is a
progressive, conscientious teacher and
is a favored instructor at Babcock where
she has given excellent satisfaction for
several terms.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Page Tibbits have
returned to Milwaukee, having visited
Italy and some of our eastern cities
since leaving Switzerland. Mrs. Tibbits,
soprano voice, sang before the Monday
Musical club in Milwaukee last Monday
evening, with Spanish fire and French
grace" as one of the Milwaukee papers
expressed it.
X. I. Hougan, travelling salesman for
Plumb & Nelson, wholesale grocers of
Manitowoc, moved his family Wednes-
day into one of the Dunaven houses in
the second ward and will now call
Grand Rapids his home and social
headquarters. He is brother Of our
genial DR.. O.. 7. Hougen. We are
pleased TO enroll the estimable gentle
man and his family on the list of per-
manent residents in our city.
w. F. kellogg departed southwark
Sunday evening, headed for Oshkosh,
to be in attendance at sessions of the
Wisconsin Retail Lumber Dealers
association held in that city on We'd
nesday and Thursday, March 1917.
Mr.. Kellogg started out few days
early in order to make calls along the
way with the lumber trade before the
date of meetings at Oshkosh. He is
expected home at the end of this week.
John Reinhart, q successful farmer in
the town of Carson, Portage county,
sold his farm recently and departed
with his family for Palms, Los Angeles,
California. where he expects to make
his future home. Mr.. and Mrs. Rein
hart have the best wishes of their manv
friends here for a successful and happy
life in their new home. California is a
grand old state with more advantages
than most any state in the union. We
have pleasant recoliections Of our trip
through that state.
Edward J. Whitney went to Plover
Wednesday TO put in a day COM
plotting scale Of logs for VIM. Scott
Mr.. Scott had crew Of men at work
about two months during this winter
on tract of timber four miles south of
Plover and they got out about Il million
feet of white pine for him. That whole
country was once covered by a thick