Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10

Miss Lizzie Rowland closed a seven
months term of school on Friday. Nav
t, in district No. 2. town of Grant,
Portage county, with songs. recita-
tiOns. and other appropriate exercises
by tier pupils in the English and Ger
man languages. Her pupils advance
menG in learning show that she has
done her very best for the good of her
school. In order to do in the future
better school work she has entered the
Normal school at Stevens Point.
Unless a woman eats sufficient
nourishing food she can neither gain
nor keep a good complexion. Food.
when digested, is the base of ali
health, all strength and all beauty.
Herbine will help digest what you
eat, and give you the clear, bright.
beautiful skin of health. Price 80
and IS cts. Johnson & Hill Co.
Word has been received from
Messrs. McMillen, Rossier and
McKercher. who had arrived at the
objective point Of their destination
il Oregon, to the effect that they
were too late to secure desirable
claims and that they were somewhat
with the outlook there.
One of the noticeable beneficial
effects Of consolidation is the in-
creased attendance in all the churches
Of Grand Rapids. The jealousies and
hOStilitieS engendered by the rivalry
between the two cities is rapidly dis
appearing and the people are uniting
socially as they never have before.
There is talk of closing up the bowl
ing alleys in the city during the sum-
mer season. 1t is thought if the
alleys are kept running the whole year
interest in the game will diminish and
another winter it will be difficult to
arouse much enthusiasm in this line,
which is undoubtedly true.
Miss Laura, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. T. King of Merrill, attended thea
Return Party with her brother
She returned to her duties in the
schools of Merrill Sunday afternoon,
having enjoyed pleasant visit with
friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lafayette Porter of
Evansville, formerly of Sparta, have
moved into their home on Wylie street
which they recently purchased of T. |
A. Lipke and lately occupied by Chas. |
Philleo. Mr.. and Mrs. Porter are
valuable additions to this community. |
Thos. E. Nash, president, and John
Fogerty, superintendent of the
Nekoosa Paper Co., started Friday
evening on a tour of inspection of the |
eading paper manufactures of the |
east, embracing those of New York, |
Massachusetts, and Maine.
G. T. Hansen, representing the |
Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is in
jhe city this week looking after sub
1t is republican n politics, |
out gives the news of the state and is
me of the best evening papers pub
ished in that city.
Cards are out announcing the we'd
ling of Heber L. TibbetS, former
Grand Rapids boy, to Miss Nellie |.
of Clarinda, La. Miss Men
stead is a sister of Mrs. E. P. Arpin. |
The date of the wedding is fixed for |
May q, 1900.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. J. Wood left on the
;. M. & st. P. noon train Monday for |
While there they had the
pleasure of seeing and hearing Henry |
irving and Ellen Terry in that famous
I'D Shakespearean drama MERCHANT
IF Venice"
John Parrish has spent much of the !
past week in Chicago, Madison and
Beloit. In Chicago he was investiga-
ling planning mill machinery with
view of adding this feature to the
mills of the Grand RapidS Lumber Co.
Carson Burt is now imam in the
MOON" Monday morning he resigned
MS position in BraZeau'S barber shop
and started for Moon, Marathon
Wis, where he will make his
home for the present.
Mrs. w. J. Henry of South Bend,
Ind, has been here the past week
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas Raymond. She will visit friends
in Colorado before returning to her
home in Indiana.
Mis-. SdIdu IclIy VI w dUCt CoNll,
Wis, oldest sister Of Frank Dudley
and Mrs. George Boyer, stopped over
few days in Grand Rapids for visit
with relatives, while on her way home
from Merrill.
Plainield Sun:-Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew SearlS Of Grand Rapids were
in Plainfeld and attended the funeral
of las. l.. Barrett Wednesday. They
also spent some time with friends on
the prairie.
The ladies of the several aid societies
with the First COngrega-
tional church are cordially invited to
attend the next meeting at the home
of Mrs. E. B. ROSsier Wednesday
May 16.
Editor Williams of the Marshfeld
Times spent the day in Grand Rapids
Friday, taking in the Return Party
in the evening. The REPORTER
a fraternal call.
Frank Garrison, president of the
Wood County National Bank and G.
F. kellogg of the Centralia Lumber
Co., are in Adams county this week
on trout fishing expedition.
Mark Martin went to New Lisbon
to bid on the new brick school house
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