Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-08

at Hazelhurst Tuesday after a YlsI
with relatives in this city.
Alex Bandelin and Fred Nelson
spent Tuesday at Green Lake fishing
Miss Edna Kruger has completed /;
term of school at Wautoma and re
turned to her home in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Burrows left fo-
Milwaukee Tuesday where they vii
visit friends.
Earl Hill was awarded high honor!
at Ripon college this week when ht
was selected by the class of 1912 a:
their president and was also elected
president of the Oratorical Board o
Control
Mrs. Myer Friedstein and baby
left for Chicago Tuesday where she
will visit friends.
Roy Kammerer left for Milwaukee
Tuesday where he is employed after
spending a couple of weeks in this
city visiting his mother.
Ben Hansen has returned from q
several weeks trip through North Da
company.
Tom Sinnet who plays ball with the
Grand Rapids base ball team is spend
ing few days in Eau Claire on bu-
siness.
Conrad Houlton, who has been en-
ployed as plumber for the Grand Rap
ids Heating & Plumbing Co., left
for Minneapolis Tuesday, where he
has accepted employment.
Miss Cora Wilsey of Pittsville is
spending a few days in the city a
guest of Miss Grace Nowatney.
Miss Agnes Kubisiak, who is en-
ployed in the dry goods department
of Johnson & Hills is spending a
weeks vacation at her home in Yes
per visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ c. Bramham and
left for Fargo, North Dakota.
Monday, where they will make their
future home.
Miss Hazel Schweers is spending a
few days at Tomah visiting friends.
F. A Hoefs, agent for the Badger
Casualty Co., of Green Bay, is at
the Witter House in this city and eX-
poets to spend the week. He is sell
ing stock in said company and speak
very highly Of the future possibilities
Of his company 1t will be remember
ed that Mr.. Hoefs was formerly sta
ton agent for the Green Bay & Yves
tern railway in this city for period
Of five years He left here % years
ago and was with the Green BayRail-
way Co. until the first of this year.
He has been with the Casualty Co.
since the first of 1911. We take
pleasure in recommending Mr.. HOef'S
to our people, who may be interested
in taking stock in his company, that
he can be relied upon as a man of his
word.
F. J. Wood, president of the Wood
County National Bank left Tuesday
for Eau Claire and Rice Lake to look
after business matters
r. A. Dunevan, who is employed
at Ladysmith had two fingers of his
right hand badly injured by being
caught between two timbers and
so that he was unable to
work. He came home Saturday to stay
with his family while he is idle and
the fingers are being looked after by
his local physician.
This section was visited by another
thunder storm attended with strong
wind Monday night. 1t was probably
not quite as severe an electrical stor1
as it was the night before, but there
was almost a hurricane wind blowing
Webster E. Brown, ex-congressman
in this district, and his wife and two
daughters of Rhinelander arrived in
this city Sunday evening in a five
passenger Buick car on their way to
Madison They stayed here over night
until Monday afternoon when they de
parted for Madison by the way of
KiIbourn While here Mr.. Brown
called upon F. J. Wood, a class-mate
Of his at the University with whom
he has kept an acquaintance ever
since their school days.
The shooting gallery proprietor,
who is at present conducting a gallery
next to H. f. Gaulke's grocery store
on Second street has rented a part
of the vacant lot next to Link &
Werle's meat market upon which he
will erect a back-stop and provide a
plank platform which will be used fol
shooting gallery purposes.
During the storm Saturday night
the Catholic church steeple was
struck by lightning doing a little
dammage.
The electrical storm which prevail
ed in this section Of the state Sat
urday night was certainly the worst
one we have experienced for years
1t lasted about twelve hours. In yiol
ent electrical display and heavy down
pour, it rivalIed with the worst storm
we have ever had.
A w. Lambert, foreman of the jot
rooms at the Reporter Printing OF
flee returned Sunday from Madison
where he went to accompany his sol
Gordon home from the Sanitarium a
Madison, where he had been receiv
| ing treatment for knee trouble TO