Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-08-28
STATIONS CLOSED AT
VESPER AND ARPIN
Things Are Booming. However, in These
Burgs.

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above stations will now be prepaid
stations same as the G. & n. w. and
Wisconsin Central.
A Marshfeid man shipped carload
OF sheep from this station on Sunday.
Chas. Anderson drove down from
Sherry on business Sunday afternoon.
A card and dancing party was given
at the j. 2. White residence Friday
evening.
| John Dassow, of Sheboygan Falls,
returned to his home Saturday after
several days visit with his son.
Orville Carlin is putting a rock
foundation under his house, on the
west side of tue Hemlock.
The three civic societies of the vii
lage have each rented the new hall
and will hereafter hold their meetings
| there.
T. j. Flanagan and family came
out from the city and spent Saturday
night and Sunday at the residence of
his father.
Samuel Boynton, of Pittsville, par
took Of the hospitality and good cheer
of the Hotel Olsen Friday afternoon
and night.
Mrs. Albert Gilmaster and son,
Harold, of Grand Rapids, were
visitors at the home of John Hassler
over Sunday.
The hall is now ready for the
painters and will be pushed so as to
have it completed for next Thursday
night when the opening dance will be
given.
From the manner in which Mr..
McNicOll is going ahead with his dam
it would appear that he hasn't much
faith in a water wheel located in a
wash tub.
Miss Ethel Putney, of Sherry, was
visiting friends here the latter part of
tie week. She leaves Wednesday for
Portage, where she will attend the
high school this coming year.
The NJ. w. A. will have a picnic in
the woods adjoining the village on
the south on September 10. The days
festivities will close with a ball in the
evening at the new opera house.
w. B. Clements, with the law firm
of Clements & Clements, of West
Union, Iowa, is here. He is well
pleased with the country. We hope
that he will find it to his interests to
locate here.
BlackberrieS are tremendous crop
this year if we may judge from the
great quantities brought out of the
woods. Scores Of people daily gather
ing them are coming from distances as
far as Nekoosa, Grand Rapids and
MarShfield.
Thursday night, August 81, the
Vesper Building association gave an
opening dance in their new hall.
There was good music and good floor
managers in attendance and every
thing was done by the management
to insure a rattling good time.
A crew of men unloaded the tele-
phone poles of which we spoke of last
week. We were unable to learn from
them the objective point of the line.
The line will pass through the village
and north along the Cahill road, 1t
is said that eleven wires will be
strung.
Another Jones, who also pays the
freight, desires to be enlightened as
to the difference between the thief
who steals from the government and
the one who steals from an individual.
If there is none then he wants to
know why the poStoffice thieves are
only dismissed and others puoished.
G. R. Goldsworthy is indefatigable
in his efforts to boom Vesper. He
has been working to have good show
ing Of vegeti Dies and other products
at the Central Wisconsin state fair.
One of the products that attracts
considerable attention is turnip, 32a
inches around it. 1t was raised on
the Lipke place. northeast of Vesper.
There is to be a farewell party at
John HaSsler'S IN honor of w. III.
Birmingham, who is going away this
week Everybody is sorry to have the
genial agent go, but what will be our
loss will be some one else's gain as the
community that he enters will receive
substantial addition to its better
class of citizens. When lie leaves an
old land mark will disappear for he
has been here for the past IL years.
During that time he has acted as
agent of the G. NJ. & st. P. railroad
company for Vesper and Arpin. The
office is to be discontinued hereafter.