Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-19
the city visiting relatives.

JHt Guy FISLllHS RELATIVES.
Cleve Akey of Portland, Oregon.
is expected in the city this week to
visit his mother, Mrs. Hannah Akey,
over the holidays.
Mrs. Baer and daughter Mrs. Harry
WiIdish of MarshfieId were business
visitors in the city Wednesday.
Mrs Emil Haumschild, Mrs. Aug
Jacoby and daughter, Miss Edna E
bascher of Rudolph and Mrs. c.
! Blankenship Of Hampton, Iowa, were
shoppers in the city Thursday.
Philip Galatzer, of Milwaukee is
in the city this week the guest of
his sister Mrs. J. Cizon.
Mrs. A. L Chambers left this week
for a visit with relatives in Canada.
Mr.. Chambers will leave the first of
next week for Canada, to spend the
holidays.
WANIFD;-Good girl for general
homework. Small family; good
wages. Apply to Mrs. Geo. L. Will
Iiams, Ills Third street south. it'd.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Miss MathiIda Spearbraker and
Mr. and Mrs. August Spearbraker
will spend Christmas at their home
in ClintonviHe.
! Miss Stella Kinister left Wednes-
day for Sioux Falls, SD =, to spend
the holidays with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. S. c. Blake of Okla
homa are in the city, coming to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. H. Carman
Miss Carmen SEEKER, matron of
the German Lutheran college for girls
at Mankato, Mimi, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. J F. Wolter, on Third
] street south.
| Mrs. r. E. aCaniff. and son J. B.
have returned to Fond du Lac after
visiting in the city and Marshfield
for the last two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur PodawiItz
of Eau Claire are happy over the ar
rival of baby girl born Friday morn
| ing, December IS.
Mrs. J. J. Hazard is recovering
from a three weeks illness, the eff
fects of a bad cold.
w. H. Gets, travelling salesman
for the MacKinnOn Mfg. Co., return
ed home this week from an extended
/ trip through northern Wisconsin and
| Michigan. He enjoyed a splendid bu-
siness and met a few old friends and
acquaintance while away. In Pesh-
tigo, he met P. 0. Whittier, who for
merIy run and published the Wood
! County Times at Nekoosa. At Bay
field he met Frank Kern who is re
presenting the Bayfield, Peninsular
Fruit Co., Of that city. They shipped
sixty car loads of Apples and "a car
loads of strawberries the past season
He also met Peter Barnaby at Ish-
peming, who was formerly in the en-
| plOy of the Arpin Co. at Arpin Mr..
Gets reports these people an well and
prospecting.
The electric show given BY the
Natwick Electric Company, which
started Thursday, drew lots of peo-
pie who are interested in electrical
devices for the home. The show was
a revelation to many as to the won
derful things that can now be done
with electricity. The display of de
cOratiye, useful and needful articles
is we'll worth seeing. A visit to this
show viii demonstrate that you can
secure an electrical device to use for
everything for which you now use
fuel, You can heat the house, cook
the meals, curl your hair or warm the
bed beside lighting the house and
amusing the children with electric
toys.
Miss Olga HenkeI of Wausau is
visiting friends in this city and Ne
koosa this week.
Richard sowasEe spent Thursday IL
MarshfieId Visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Arpfn Left
Thursday for New York called there
by the death of Mrs. Arpin's mother
Mrs. Nefnsteadt. They will accom-
pany the remains to Clarfnda, Iowa
for burial
Harry Levin, a former resident Of
Grand Rapids, who has been making
his home for several years in Penn
sylvania, arrived in the city this
week and viii reside here in the
future.
Miss Stella Kinister has resigned
her position in the local telephone
office as Ions distance operator, and
viii leave in the near future for Sioux
Falls, S. D.. where she viii hold a
similar position.
Rev William Redfng accompanied
the Ri Rev. James Swebach OF La
Crosse, who was his guest here O
yer Sunday, to Wausau Monday where
they are going to attend, and take
part in, the dedication Of st. James
new church in that city
Messrs. Earle Pease, Guy O. Bah
cock, Chas, T. Kellogg, VIM. F. KEEL
logs, o. T. Hougen, Tom Taylor, E.