Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-07-25

Miss Ethel Frisbee of Milwaukee
is in the city visiting Miss Anna Nc
MILAN.
Master Emmett J. Carey, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Carey departed
Thursday morning for Milwaukee to
make an extended visit with his I'M
cles John T. and Emmett W. Carey.
Fred Turbin's new house on 9Th
street is ready for pIastering and the
siding is being laid.
Property owners on 8th st. s., south
of C. J. Garments and the city of
Grand Rapids are having cement
side walk laid on the west side of
said street to the Chicago and North
| Western tracks. John Rasmussen
is doing the work This will add
greatly to the travel on said thoro-
fare
Isaac P. Witter is having cement
side walk laid abutting upon his
/ lots facing Lincoln street so as to
| connect with that of E. B. Redfords
on the same street. The city is al
so cutting down the hill and filling
in on the same street SO as to pre-
pare for the side walk. This improv,
ment viii add greatly to the con-
Venience of travel on said street.
Miss Cecile DeLap of Kilbourn is
in the city visiting Geo DeLap and
family this week.
Born, a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Gleue, Tuesday, July %.
Mrs. Lee SchIatterer returned Mon.
! day evening from a visit with friends
at Necedah.
Misses Title and Myrtle Cizon
left Tuesday for a visit with friends
in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Miss Esme Raath left Tuesday for
Chicago where she will make an ex-
tended visit with her sister.
W. P. Meyers of Chicago is a bust
ness visitor in the city this week.
Leslie Smith of Beloit is in the city
for visit with his grandparents Mr..
and Mrs. o. Denis.
R. F. Matthews, has returned from
Chicago where he took a course in
ladies tailoring. Mr. Matthews is
now prepared to take orders for la
dies tailoring.
! Miss Edith Norton left Tuesday
for a visit with friends at Marshfield
Lalah Hansen erturned Monday
from two weeks visit with her sis
ter at New London.
A tin peddIer cheats a farmers wife
out of eleven cents on her rags and
seventeen cents on a calf skin, while
she works off two dozen bad eggs on
! him at fourteen cents, and stuffs a
pound of hens feathers into a sack
of geese feathers she sells him at for
ty cents a pound Wonder how much
the tin peddler is ahead.
Put some men in a petty office ant
| they use up the most of their time
working out their petty grudges
against some one whom they imagine
did not support them at the polls.
They may be the worst hobos on
earth, that cuts no ice. You must say
nothing but take your medicine and
shout their greatness or you are a
victim of their spleen. Did you ever
notice this?
A lawyer in a court room may call
a man a liar, scoundrel, william or
thief, and no one makes complaint
when court adjourns. If a newspa-
per prints such a reflection on a
mans character there is a libel suit
or a dead editor. This is owing to
the fact that the people be lieve what
an editor says.
VINO weeps with you when you are
sad, and laughs when you are glad,
and smiles at you when you are mad
the editor Who has to be both
kind and wise and never (hardly E.
yer) lies, and when he does creates
surprise-the editor Who owns a
heart as well as cheek, possessed of
spirit proud yet meek, and lives on
forty cents a week-the editor.
A large oak tree that stands near
the Clark Lyons home was struck
by lightning Monday morning. A large
part of one side of the lower part OF
the tree was torn completely out. All
the fuses in the house were blown
out and Mrs. Lyon said that she
experienced a severe tingling sensa.
ton
Mrs. Leo. Game and son of La
Crosse are visiting at the Frank
! Collier home this week on Eighth St
South
Joseph LaMadeline, formerly a re
sident of this city, but now residing
with his daughter, Mrs. Sophie Noe
at Port Edwards, is. reported quite
sick. His wife is enjoying pretty
good health all things considered.
The carpenters are making pro
90
gress on Chas. Whites house OF
] the corner of 9Th and Baker srteet
since it was moved and the new eel
lar and foundation walls have beer
4 completed. The wing part is beini