Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-07-14
NEKOOSA.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

the guest OF her uncle, A. u. Marvin,
and family.
Miss Ella Young, of Tomah, arrived
Monday to spend the summer with
her sister, Mrs. A, K. Fitch.
f. A. Boles and wife now enjoy the
pleasure of driving with new rubber
tired buggy recently purchased.
Messrs. III. e. Fitch and Jerome
Farrar returned Tuesday morning
from a business trip to St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. I'll. A. Morgan and son
left Tuesday for Sparta where they
expect to spend week camping out
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Brazeau
departed Wednesday for Scion Springs,
Wis, where they will spend two
weeks vacation camping out.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Femling, of
the town of Saratoga, are rejoicing
over the arrival of son born to them
on Tuesday afternoon, July II.
Fred Scheibe of the town of Port
Edwards, who Is in poor health, lleft
Monday night for Sparta where he
will enter a hospital for treatment.
o. d. Billings, of Kellner, is ex-
pected back to work at Kleberg's
hardware store this week after an
absence of one month on account Of
poisoning himself. He has had a
serious time.
The mush and milk social given at
the Congregational church Friday
evening was largely attended and
proved social and financial success.
1t was in charge of Mrs. w. H. Mogg's
Sunday school class.
The census is being taken by
Herman Helke, under the supervision
of the village clerk, III. e. Fitch.
The authorities are not looking for a
very great increase over the census as
1T was five years ago.
Mrs. Warren Beadle was given a
pleasant surprise on Saturday evening
by seventeen lady friends who called
upon her and took possession of her
home. They were made welcome and
everyone had royal good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.sP. Thompson will
soon leave permanently for Loveland,
Colorado, where they make their
future home, He expects to dispose
of his household furniture when he
will be ready to make the trip to their
new home.
The Board of Review has closed it's
session after reviewing the assessors
work. The assessments are little
higher than they were last year due
to the fact that considerable new
building has been going on and
improvements being made to present
property.
Miss Maude Searles, of Grand
Rapids, has been engaged as teacher
of the fourth and fifth grades of the
public schools of Nekoosa. and Miss
Kathryn Schantz, of Stevens Point,
has been selected as teacher in the
second and third grades. The school
board Still has one vacancy to fill.
G. P, Thompson, the shoe and
harness maker. sold out his stock of
shoes to Mrs. L. Gutheil and his stock
of harnesses, fixtures etc, to P. M.
Krough, of. Necedah, who took pos
session on Saturday. Mr.. Trough
engaged l.. A. Oaks as his assistant,
who will continue in his employ,
working in the store the same as
before.
Mrs. William Hooper and son
Harold departed Wednesday in COM
pany with Mrs. Lydia Houston, OF
Grand Rapids, for Tacoma, Wash.
Mrs. Hooper expects to spend about
three months in the west, visiting the
principal cities, and will take in the
Portland exposition. During her
absence William will have to batch
it and make the best of his own
cooking.
Tom Babcock is laying the founda-
tion wall for an addition "a by 80 feet,
for A. III. Kleberg the hardware
merchant. This addition will be two
stories high. The rear part of the
present building which is only one
story high is being raised another
story, so that his entire building will |
be 120 feet long, running from Market
street back to the alley. 1t will be
two stories high, giving Mr.. Kleberg
double the floor space that he now has. |
The carpenter work is in charge of
John Simmett. This improvement
was made to provide for the con-
stantly increasing business that Mr.. |
Kleberg enjoys.
MessrS. Ernest Eichsteadt and John |
K. Gurdy, popular residents of the |
town of Port Edwards, were informed
on Tuesday last that VOLTS lodging
place had been found upon the
island. These gentlemen are known
as hunters of rare ability and they
Immediately secured assistance in two
men with long handeled shovels. |
They retired to the island, made all |
the necessary preparations for secur-
ing the wolf household and then
started the men digging. After two
hours of hard labor they reached |
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