Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23

day evening from Milwaukee where
she has been spending several weeks
in a sanitarium taking treatments.
Mrs L. P. WoIIenschlager is
spending several days in Stevens
Point going up to attend the funer-
al OF her niece Mrs. John Maconia.
Pete schriner, Hans Garleck, vii
lis Langenberg, John Morowsh. Ray
Sellers, Harry Powell and Jessie
Cook Of Stevens Point were in the
city Thursday calling on friends
Mrs. Ernest Oberbeck is confined
at home with illness.
Work has commenced on the park
ing OF the property surrounding the
c. & n. W. passenger station. A
bout twenty-five car loads of dirt for
top soil viii be brought here from
Green Lake. A landscape artist has
been engaged and plans prepared.
A cement sidewalk will be built on
the north side of 18th avenue south,
from Grand avenue, to Third avenue.
The new office of the Bossert Bros.
Co., viii have to be moved back. sew
eral feet as it is over the street
line. The Dolan scales will also have
hn
work filling in where the sidewalk
is TO be laid. There are several more
streets that need sidewalks and it
is hoped that they will be built this
summer.
TWenty-one students from the Be
thel Academy were in the city Thurs
day and posed for photographs at
MenzeI's Studio.
A NJ. Cooper who opened the BIZ
jou Theatre on the west side has
been quite i'll and confined to his
room in the Julien Hotel.
The east side fire department re
sponded to an alarm of fire from the
fourth ward about Ais Thursday ..
m. A barn on 18th street, belonging
to Charles Kruger had caught fire
from nearby fire in a straw pile.
A few buckets of water put out the
blaze. The barn was filled with loose
straw and farm machinery. Consid-
ering the loose dry straw in the
barn and the fact that several holes
were burned in the roof, it was a mi
racle that the contents did not catch
fire.
This term Of court has. been a short
one owing to the going to pieces of
the criminal calendar, the lack of
witnesses and unpreparedness in the
civil actions and the sudden settl-
ings of number of cases out of
court.
A local agent for one of the rail-
roads in this city informed a Repor-
ter representative that no Chicago
freight has been received over his
line since last Friday The other
roads are in practically the same
predicament. One road received a
car load of freight from Chicago but
when opened it was found that the
contents were for practically every
point on this division except Grand
Rapids. The trouble is caused by the
strike of the freight handlers and
bill clerks in the Chicago freight
warehouses. The agents throughout
the state have been requested, it is
said, to send clerks to Chicago if
they could possibly do so. The strike
may assume more serious proportions
and tie up the entire freight business
of the northwest. 1t is now report
ed that several of the other affiliat-
ed unions may join the strike.
Miss Orah Nissen left this week
for Appleton where she will visit
with friends.
The many friends of NJ. o. Potter
will be glad to know that he is get
ting along nicely. Mr.. Potter had
his ankle crushed and big toe brok-
enn on his left foot while starting
gasoline engine on the cranberry
marsh last week.
Mrs. E. S. King of Merrill, who
was a guest of Mrs. Elizabeth DAILY
during the convention, Left Thursday
evening ON her return home. Mrs.
King has many old time friends here
who are always glad to see her
whenever she comes to Grand
Rapids.
Charles White is having his resi-
dence ON the corner of Baker and
Ninth streets moved back 20 feet
from both streets. When in place,
it will face south instead of east as
heretofore. Amsey Ketchum and his
workmen are doing the moving.
The new management at the Wltter
Hotel are gradually making favorable
changes in that popular hostelry
On Monday the decorators com
menced re-decorating the interior of
the building and after that's done
other things will follow. The table
board and service is constantly I'M
dergoing favorable changes so re
ported by the guests and boarders.
The business offices of the
c. NJ. & st. Paul road that have been
held temporarily in cars during the
moving of the depot have been trans
ferred back to the old depot where
they will be located until the new
depot is built.
Tuesday evening in spite of the