Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-05-28

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joe staub, electrician, has opened
J an electrical office at Stevens Point.
Bert Kinister has taken a position
as baggugemam at the c. N. & St.
Paul depot.
Miss Margaret Jacobson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. j. c. jacobson, is
i'll with the measles.
Mrs. Cy Young, of Fredonia, is in
the city visiting with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Latus.
Mrs. P. Lassa. Of Chicago, is in
the city the guest Of her parents,
MIR. and Mrs. Paul Latus.
Sheriff A. J. CoweI and Frank
Steib took Pat Kane, sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary for lar
ceny, to Waupum this morning.
Miss Margaret Wilson, Of Minnie
apolis, who has been visiting her par
ents the past week, left this morning
for the Madison Sanitarium,
Mrs. Matt Carpenter and daughter
who have been guests at the Grant
Babcook home left Tuesday morning
for their home at Birnamwood. =
Mrs. JOS, Yesbe, Mrs. Mayme Mar
tin, and Mrs. Fred Desper and son,
left Tuesday for Appleton where they
will attend the wedding of a relative.
Frank Hathaway wants his old
friends to know that he is back,
ready to work again. Leave your or
ders with ReiIand & Perrodin and
they will be attended to.
Theodore Wilson, who has been
confined to the house the last month,
with a badly burned arm and foot,
started Tuesday for Madison,to take
treatment at the Sanitarium.
Miss Nita Sherborre who teaches
school on the west side and Miss
..catrice Sherburne who has attended
school in the city the past year will
81, Mt the summer vacation at their
nome in Fremont.
The Board of Public Works left
Wednesday for Fond du Lac, Ply
mouth and Sheboygans where they
will inspect and investigate the pay
ing In those cities. Special attention
will be given to the cement pave
mants at Sheboygan.
Register of Deeds e. e. Ames re
turned from Weyburn, Canada, Mon
day afternoon Mr.. AmCs said that
the grain i'm western Canada WAS
much further advanced than at
home and that the prospects for
bumper crop were much better than
ever before.
Otto Geunther's Sunday school
class gave a farewell party for Hob
son Rogers in the Methodist church
parlors Monday evening. Hobson Bog-
ers has been attending school in
the city and will so to his home TO
spend the summer. Games were play
ed and dainty refreshments served.
The wok Of putting in the new
pavement on Second street north, ard
market square, will be commenced as
soon as the sewer and water COLI
nections are made by the property
owners. There are only a few lots
that are not already connected so
it will be but a short time before
actual paving operations commence.
Word has been received in the
city that George Peltier has passed
all of the examinations at the Univer
sity of Illinois at Urbana, H., and
has been given the p H. d. degree.
This is a high honor and Mr.. Petit
er is to be congratulated upon his
success.
H. L. Boyington, lineman for the
Wood Co. Telephone Company, was
thrown from his motorcycle Tues
ldab7 morning while ON his way TO
ENekoosa. Mr.. Boyington struck on
the left side of his face and his
left ear was partly torn off. The side
of his face was ground into the dirt
and pretty badly scratched.
James .Meehan of Milwaukee. and his
daughter Mrs. f. J. Piffner of Stoves
Ipoint. are in the city,yisiting, oldttime
friends. Mr.. Meehan says he came tc
Grand Rapids the first time in 1854
so years ago in October. That's som
time. We are pleased to report that
Mr.. Meehan is enjoying pretty good
health and glad to meet with his ole
time friends.
Contrary to the usual custom, Sat
urday will be fish day this week
For ON Saturday, May 80, the close,
season for game fish is over. Satur
day being a holiday, no doubt there
will be lots of drowned minnows ana
worms and lost spoonhOoks. dowagi
S acs, etc, and little or no fish, bu
the holiday pleasure seeker will hav'
spent a happy day in the open breat
d ing in the life giving ozon and re
5 turn home with a healthy appetite.
\ bumper wheat crop is predicte'
by the United States department Q
i agricultures. a condition of $50 o,
Nav eov-e a., -,xnort &c iDs3ice
/ tive Of a yield per acre of approx
e mately IFS bushels On the estimat
/ ed area to be harvested lis bush
$ els per acre would produce 100000
a 600 bushels or 2O,S per cent NOR
5. than in 1913. 57.5 ner cent NOR