Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-23

/ house on account Of sickness.
Ora Billings. Of Kellner, was here
over Sunday with his family.
Mrs. Chas. Mohlke is quite sicl this
week with an attack Of pneurlOI ia.
Ernie Stevens returned from Plain
| field Monday night from a vel visit
with his parents
Mrs. j. NJ. Gage is visiting With her
parents in Stevens Point PRIOR to
moving out to Kellner.
A. J. Aplin, Edith Scott Aplin and
Ethel Scott, of PIainfeld, were at the
Herrlck House on Sunday.
Chas. Lutke sold his % acre tract
of land with buildings thereon to w.
j. Higgins the past week. COnsidera-
ton $3.50.
Frank Dupre expects to leave this
week for Ladysmith where he has
accepted a position with the MenaSha
Paper Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newey Wakley expect
| to leave for Spokane, Washington,
next month to make that country
their future home.
n. L. Wakeley, wife and iamily
from the town of Saratoga, spent the
Sabbath in NekoOSa the guests Of
their daughter, Mrs. @. P. Thompson
A. II. Kleberg has sold his stock of
goods out at Kellner to J. NJ. Gage
who will move his family there next
| week and give his whole time to that
business.
August Benz has under way trade
with Milwaukee party who will take
the Sherman House property in Ne
koOSa in exchange for Milwaukee
property.
MeSsrs. Olaf Skaar and W. f. Wolf
were greeted with q fair sized audience
in Brooks hall Tuesday evening. The
weather was bad on that evening or
they would have had laryer crowd.
The newly appointed road superin-
tendent, II. T. Ellis, of road district
No. 2, town Of Port Edwards, has a
crew of men at work claying the
Wood sand Hill, much needed i'm
prOyemeut.
Messrs. J. W. Cochran, tax commits
slOner, and his assistant, M. W..
Mosher, of Grand Rapids, were here
Tuesday interviewing the village
clerks record In connection with
assessment matters.
Frank Majestic, formerly Of Ne
kOOSa, but now of Milwaukee, was
here the first of the week visiting
friends. He says the city of Mllwau-
kee will give Governor LaFollette a
majority over Mayor Rose.
Frank Dupre, has been busy the
fore part Of the week laying the steel
sheathing upon the ceiling and walls
of Andrew Zurf1uh'S saloon building.
When painted and finished it will
give Andrew tiue lay out.
Jacob Kuter and assistants have
been reducing the hill in front of S.
l.. Stevens block and depositing the
surplus dirt upon the low places on
Market street in front Of A. e, Lap
hams and Eli Taylor's places.
Mesdames VIM. Hooper, John
Fogarty, Joseph Thomas, U. Y. Marvin
and Miss Sue BeestOn were in Grand
Rapids Friday afternoon to attend
the reception given by Mrs. L. E.
Nash in honor Of her daughter, Mrs.
w. A. Scott,
The election place selected for the
town of Port Edwards will be held
this fall in the Wood school house
just west Of the village of Nekoosa On
the brow Of the hill in section eight.
Voters in that town will bear this
fact in mind.
MeSSrS. John Brouer Of Menasha,
and Homer Z. French of Neenah,
were registered at the Herrick House
the first Of the week. They apparent
ly were hunting judging from their
dress, but everyone who saw them
decided that they were probably upon
some other mission.
The town of Port Edwards have
purchased steel bridge of the La
Crosse Bridge Co and it is being put
up this week on Cranberry creek
just this side of CraumoOr station.
This improvement Will be made at a
cost OF $500. 1t was very much needed
especially in the spring of the year
when the water was high.
Mrs. M. j. Belanger and Mrs. J. NJ.
Ferguson Of Grand Rapids, were in
NekOOsa Tuesday for dinner at the
Herrick House. Their visit to Ne
kOOSa was attended with some mystery
Your correspondent took it for granted
that they were down Looking after
some young lady who was having a
wedding dress made by Mrs. Belanger
the fashionable dressmaker in Grand
Rapids.
A very sad case of burning occurred
upon the farm of r. Steinert west of
this village Wednesday afternoon in
which their three year old daughter
lost her life. 1t appears the mother
was working in the field a long way
from che house. The children were
left at the house to keep up the fire
under large iron kettle in which she
was making soap. In some way the
little girls clothes caught fire. and
she was SO badly burned before the
fire was extinguiShed that she died
two hours after from the severe burns
she had received. The funeral service
took place Friday forenoon from the
Luthern church in NekOOSa, Rev.
Selle officiating,
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Siewert certainly
have the sympathy of the community
in the loss Of their little son Perry
who had nearly reached the age of
seven years, with scarlet fever He
came home from school on Friday
noon and stated that his head ached
and that he was sick. DR.. S. A. Mac
Gregor was called and he pronounced
the SymtOmS that of scarlet fever.