Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-07-12
LOCAL AND
Personal

WANTED:-Linemen and laborers
on electric transmission line construc-
ton. Wisconsin Power, Light and
Heat Company, Portage Wis. 3twc.
Mrs Gust Kurtz Jr., left this noon
for Madison to visit the George Pur-
nsIl family, who recently moved to
that city.
We are informed that Wilbur Her
schleb, who has been at Fort Sheridan
for the past 8 weeks has also been
discharged for minor defect of the
ear and is also home. He will re-
enter the service at the bakery with
his father. All the other boys are
reported we'll and doing nicely and
are on the job.
A rainfall of over two inches oc-
Cured at Park Falls, Price County
last Friday.
FOR SALE:-Moving Picture Show
best located show house in Wausau
for sale cheap. Must be sold at once
on account of main party leaving town
$500 will start you in business. Write
to Electric Theatre Co., Wausau,
Wis. 3twp.
Temperatures of SO and SO degrees
were reported at Devils Lake, N. D.,
and Yellowstone Park, Wyoming last
week In North Dakota this was the
lowest ever experienced in July.
Instead of making new sign boards
in Grand Rapids why not incorporate
the modern idea and method of Ne
koosa and other places, when building
new cement sidewalks, that the name
of the streets be stenciled in the side
walk crossing. At the corner or inter
section of the streets.
DR. E. J. Clark, wife and family,
and his father, who is visiting here
from Pennsylvania, all returned from
a visit with relatives in Richland
Center their former home. They made
the trip to and from in the Doctors
auto. He reports the roads on the
return trip better than going.
WANTED:-A subscription solicit
tor, lady or gentleman. Apply at this
office. If.
Mrs Nate Anderson and her three
children motored to Arkdale, Adams
County, where they spent Saturday
and Sunday with her people.
Brownie" Shearier has a new Is
foot launch equipped with Gray
Marine engine, two cycle, two cylinder
6 horse power. It is a very speedy
craft.
Hugh w. Goggins arrived home
Sunday morning from Fort Sheridan
where he has been in training for s
weeks. In accordance with rules and
regulations laid down by the govern
ment in that training camp, after pass
ing an the rigid examinations, he has
one physical defect the result of a
disIocated knee joint, received while
playing football, which was the rea-
son for his discharge. Hugh did the
best he could, showed his willingness
to serve his country, and on account
of this defect the government felt they
couldn't use him, at least not at the
present time. He is already back il
the law office of Goggins, Brazeau anC
Goggins, which he left, and Will be il
active service in law unless he can ge
into some other part of the service.
WANTED Good woman meat anC
pastry cook. Enquire Englebrigh
Hotel, Ripon, Wis. 3twc.
B. M. Vaughan during the past weel
or ten days, has been travelling in tn
east, south and Central Wisconsin, o.
drainage district matters considerable
Since his return the writer Intervene
him in reference to the crop conditio,
in these portions of Wisconsin. H
reports that the increase acreage o
potatoes, in the potato belt, is at leas
% per cent greater this year than las
He says that potatoes, clover, alfal
ia, wheat, and barley are all lookin
good while corn and oats are backwar
He says in some portions of the stat
the lowlands are almost covered wit
water, the rainfall has been so grea