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

o PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Q
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The young people held a theatre
| party at the Ideal Theatre, follow
ing the dinner
New lo1g and short tunic effect
skirts from $450 to $12, made of all
wool materials, in new fall colorings
Ill 4th Ave. N. I. E. Wilcox.
Messrs. J. R. Reagan, John Hor' on,
Jacob Learls, and Prof. G. w
Schwede left Wednesday morning
for Wausau, where they will inspe {
new school building and it's heat
ing plant.
The cyclone wrought it's disaster
to life and property during the
| height of a wedding celebration, and
| charivari Miss Mary KarZmarek had
been united in marriage that night
| to Wilhelm Manifke, of Milwaukee,
and a supper and dance followed the
ceremony.
Three people were killed and a
score of others were injured, some
fatally, at an early hour Wednesday
morning when a cyclone wrecked
| the home and barn of Michael KARI
marek, a farmer in the town of En-
met, three miles northwest of the
village of Halder.
Miss Bernadetta Schlatter enter
tanned the following young people
at dinner Tuesday evening, Misses
| Nell Rogers, of New Lisbon, Doris
Simonson of Tomah, Verna WEIGH
Margaret Raglan, Marian Philleo and
Dean Babcock, Joseph Holly Carlton
Stamun, and Walter Stamm
T 1t was a few minutes after the
rain started to fall, that a small
cyclone developed and swept down
| the house and balm, lifting both
! structures from their foundatiOnsya and
moving them short distance, when
the buildings collapsed and were
reduced to lumber ard debris.
Messrs j. A. Gaynor and George
| N. Wood board at the Commercial
House on the west side, with the
popular landlord, p Mulroy. They
make it lively for the landlord in
discussing politics and other ques-
| t ions which come UP from day to
day. The landlord says he holds his
own with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Boles were
host and hostess at a four course
o'clock dinner at their home on Wit
ter street Tuesday evening, the oc-
casion being their eighth wedding
anniversary Covers were laid for
twenty one Following dinner the
evening was pleasantly spent in play
ing Lilly bridge, Mrs. George F.
LaBour and Guy o. Babcock win
ming the favors.
There were many guests at the
dance, and party of young peo-
pie gathered at the house to chart
Vari the young couple. When the
storm broke out at midnight, the
festivities were going on merrily
and little attention was paid to it.
The young people on the outside
k1a H1s
gan to fall and awaited the time
for the rain to stop so that they
might go home.
Now that the hot weather is here
and there is am unusual number of
hoboes on the road, Chief of Police
Gibson said that if the people would
have the red light turned on, he or
his men would gather these unde-
sirable citizens in. No matter what
time of the day or night, people
should call for the police. Had the
people en- Third srteet called for
the police at 3 o'clock this morning,
the man proving around might now
be in Jail. AS il was, the police were
not notified until after O'Clock.
The young men who are going a
bout the country putting on "Billy's
Bungalow, are paying Grand RAPIDS
a compliment by using one of the
pictures taken here as an advertis--
ing feature. Several papers which
come in our exchanges are carrying
the ad. and the picture used is that
of Frank Abed and Miss Edith |
Weeks. Incidentally Abel & Poda-
wiltz get some good advertising and |
50 does the city, but the main fea-
ture is that it was necessary for the
young men to come to Grand Rapids !
to get the pictures of good looking |
people.