Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-02

city for a visit among relatives.
Miss Lelah Markee left Saturday
morning for her home in Auburndale
after visiting with relatives in this
city for week.
Mrs. F W. Calkins<- entertained
the J. B. K club at her home on
Birch st Friday evening Games
were played and dainty refreshments
were served.
Mrs. C. Graves, of Fond du Lac,
is in the city spending a few days
with her daughter, Miss LoueIla
Graves, who is teaching summer
school in the city.
James Spencer Camps, the local
parcel post mail carrier, passed high
est on the list in the recent clerk
carrier p O. examination. The per-
centage attained by Mr.. Camps was
| IS. 20.
Mr.and Mrs.J.E. Brooks left Mon
day for New London, where they
will visit with relatives before go-
ing to Waupaca, where they will
spend the summer at the chain of
lakes.
| DaIy's theatre was packed Satur-
day and Sunday evenings, the atrac-
| -, bo;,,or tho yvo,,d ,7r;IJo apd nia+nra
show This closes the vaudeville on
Saturday and Sunday evenings at thi
theatre.
Mrs. Ethel Klockinbring, of Chi
cago, who has been visiting her cou-
sin, Mrs.A. Koch, left Saturday for
Albbotsford, where she will visit
with relatives before returning to
her home.
| Mrs. Georgiana Buckley is back
from the Sacred Heart Sanitarium at
Milwaukee, where she has been I'M
der treatment for some time. She is
some better, but not wholly free
from her trouble.
| Elmer B. Crotteau, who under
went an operation in st. MaryIs hos
pital at Wausau, has returned to his
home in Rudolph. Mr.. Crotteau is
much improved in health and is get
ting along nicely.
w. H Nugent was arrested by
Chief of Police JAS. Gibson Monday
and is being held pending the arri-
val of the sheriff from Waupaca coun
ty. Nugent is alleged to have jump
ed a board bill at Waupaca-
Miss Carrie Oberbeck left Thurs
day for her home at Chicago, after a
visit in city at the C. E. Kruger, home
She was accompanied to Chicago by
Mrs c.. E. Kruger, who will visit
there for "a couple of weeks
The deputy Marshal of Marshfield,
arrived Monday p. m on the 500
line with Hsrman LaGreat, a col
ored man, who had been sentenced
by justice in the city of Marsh
field to ten days in the county jail
for vagrancy.
Leonard Olson, the eleven year old
boy who was shot in the eye with
an air rifle about two weeks ago,
was brought home from Milwaukee
Friday eve The shot was taken out
of the eye and the little fellow is
getting along fine.
o. R. Moore, of Wausau, has pur-
chased the photograph business from
the Kaudy's and will take possession
Monday morning. Mr.. Moore is an
experienced and very successful pho
tographer and will no doubtydo goot
business in this city.
The down pour of rain that set in
at an early hour Friday kept many
away from attending the Holstein
Breeders picnic which was to have
been held on that day at the J. q.
Kieffer farm at Auburndale. Likely
another date will be chosen.
The Brockman and Akey Restaur-
ant and confectionery store on the
west side has been sold to Messrs
Brigham & Roth of Almond. Messrs.
Brigham & Roth come to this city
with an excellent reputation as ex-
nerienced hotel men. Mrs. Hanna
Akey and Mr.. Brockman will stay
with the new proprietors until they
become acquainted.
The spectators at the Al G.Barnes
show in the afternoon were treated
to a spectacular act that wasn't adj
yertsed. This was nothing more or
less than a fierce fight between
two of the lions in a cage. The big
animals were tearing into each other
with a yengence and it was neces-
sary to use the iron prodIs to sep
arate them and to finally put them
into different compartments of the
cage.
G.. NJ. Webb IN his lifetime repeat
eddy gave expression to his admira-
ton for Senator William H. Hatton,
of New London Wis, who is now
candidate for governor, and will
be voted for at the coming primary
election. Judge Webb was known to
be capable of forming a very correct
estimate of men, and his friends in
Wood county will receive with ap-
prevail the name of William H. Hat
ton for governor.
A number of the friends of Post
master Robert l.. Nash pulled off
| 'tgetemoutofbed" stunt last night.
There We're fifteen in the party and
May commenced an assault on the