Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-10
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.


trains on business at the county
seat.
VIM. Downing and his two daugh-
ters left Wednesday for Tacoma,
Wash, where they will make their
future home. Mr. Downing has a
son, who is employed on the rail road
out there, and expects to make his
home with him, for this winter at
least.
Lloyd Fowzer of Manawa, who has
been visiting with relatives in this
city for a couple of days, departed
Tuesday for Vesper where he will
look over the ground there with
view of locating in the practice of
his profession which is that of a
physician.
w. A. Brazeau who has been visiting
in this city for couple of days re-
turned to his home in Merrill on Sat
urday. Mr.. Brazeau will move his
family to the far west in the near
future, but has not decided as yet
home.
John VanHecke, attorney at law
in Merrill and member of the law
firm of VanHecke and Fisher, is re-
ported seriously i'll by the Merrill
Daily Herald with erysipe1as. Mr..
VanHecke has many friends in this
city who will anxiously await for ia
vorab1e reports of his recovery.
From the Stevens Point Journal we
notice that A. H. Mcmillan Of that
city committed suicide while intoxi-
Gated at his home by drinking car
bolic acid. He died within fifteen
minutes from the time he took the
fatal drink. He was only 81 years
of age.
The Sunday School class of the
Baptist church drove to Biron on
Wednesday evening where masked
party was held at the home of Supt.
Wilmot in that village. Refreshments
were served and the evening was en-
joyably spent in playing games and
social converse.
Dave Manning, brakeman on the
500 Road at Abbottsford, was the
unfortunate victim of very bad ac
cident on that road last week. He
was caught between the cars and
badly crushed, five ribs and an arm
being broken. He will be laid up
for some time but will recover. Mr..
Manning was formerly conductor on
the Green Bay & Western freight
running west out of this city.
A pleasant surprise party was ten
dered Mrs. Weisenberg at her home in
this city on Thursday afternoon, by
about twenty-five of her lady friends,
in honor Of her forty-second birthday.
Mrs. Weisenberg was the recipient of
hearty congratulations by everyone
present, after which delightful re-
past was served, and the balance of
the afternoon spent in social converse.
A very jolly time is reported by all
who attended.
The following persons were in at
tendance at the Christian Science
Lecture Friday night from out of
town: From Tomah, Mesdames K.
Corrigan, l. G. Stutsman, Lamont Ro1
lands, E. E. Schuerer, w. C. Homer
miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Fra nix Drew,
and H. A. Lightner. From Cranmoor,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. N. Whittlesey, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Whittlesey and Jos.
Fitch. There were others from Port
Edwards and Nekoosa.
The ice on the river in front of E.
c. Ketchum's home has been scraped
and marked preparatory to cutting
and the ice-house is being fixed up
this week so as to be in readiness
to receive the cut. The harvest will
start on Monday, Feb. 18th. About
25 men will be employed and men
Will be kept working at night to
keep the river and ice in proper con-
dition so there will be no delay in
the cutting. It will require about tw
weeks to complete the work.
August Miller returned home
Thursday from Boaz, near Madison,
where he had gone to put in set of
new slate black boards for the new
school in that place. Mr.. Miller re-
ports that the people in that part of
the state, are in prosperous condi-
ton, as is evidenced by that fact that
they are putting up $4,000 school
building with an enrolment of only
80 pupils.
The members of the home talent
company, who played the Phoenix
here recently, departed Thursday for
Plainfield, where they produced the
play in that city on Thursday evening.
About ten members of the Grand
Rapids band accompanied them to
furnish the music. This will be quite
a treat TO the people of Plainfeld, as