Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-09-12
Personal and Local

position at Johnson & Hill Co. store.
With the schools at work again, the
parents of lazy children viii all be-
gin to find fault with the teachers.
Miss Hazel DeLapp is in Camp
Douglas visiting with friends and rel
atives.
Clara SchalIa of Pittsville has &C
cepted a position at the home of DR..
Ed Hougen.
Mrs. August Karlofski of Pittsville
has returned to the E. NJ. Coyle home
where she has been employed.
Miss A. L. Hewitt of Stevens Point
spent the week end in the city visiting
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. A. Binneboose of Marshfeld
is in the city visiting at the home of
her mother Mrs. Charles Smith.
Miss Anna Sandman of Stevens
Point spent the week end in the city
visiting her parents.
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the Wood County Reporter printing
office. If.
After July 1. 1919, the old topers
will be feeling so much better that
they will be claiming they started the
whole bone dry movement.
The advance of our armies is rap
idly convincing the hesitating neutrals
that our cause is a just and righteous
one
The churches are reopening after
the summer, but the devil has not
made any particular kick about hav-
ing no vacation.
The New York BARRIERS who have
struck against anti-tipping notices, are
doing their best to persuade their Gus
toners to learn to shave themselves.
WANTED-10 Girls. Roddis Lum-
Der & Veneer Co., Marshfeld, Wis.
If.
Bread with only 20 per cent substi-
tutes is permitted now, but people may
all want the substitutes now that they
don't have to use much of them.
The boys begin to see the value of
garden, now that the tomatoes are
ripening up to the soft state when you
use them to plug the kid in the next
back yard.
And the girls look so sweet that
they really couldn't take hold and help
Mother without spelling their new
| clothes.
Miss Marie Hayes has accepted a
position at Johnson & Hill Co.
Leslie Snyder has returned to his home
on Eighth St. after spending his sum
meT vacation in Hartford, Wis.
However, the people that condemn
the churches most strongly for clos
ing up in summer, are usually those
who never attend church themselves.
1t is already evident that you can
| get some things done in year of war
| that would require century of peace
to accomplish.
Mrs. Bert Cummings and daughter
| Chariot of Marshfeld are visiting the
formers parents Mr.. and Mrs Nick
Thomas for a couple of weeks.
Mr.. Max Mitchell who has been en-
ployed in Lake Crystal, Mimi is in
the city to register He will return
to Lake Crystal next week.
Frances Grosskopf has returned
to her home after spending a week at
the home of her brother Douglas Gross
kopf in Biron.
Mrs. Nick Nissen who has been Wis
iting at the homes of Mrs Ed. John
son and Mrs. VIM. Rowland, returned
| last Thursday to her home in Racine.
When a motorist is caught knock
| ing people down and then running a.
way, it should be perfectly legal for
everyone else to run over him as much
as they please.
The Congressional method of show
ing respect for the death of a mem
Der, is always to adjourn and delay
the things the member was trying to
| get done when alive.
Those Americans who were going to
amount to nothing in this war have
| now invented wire cutting machine
that will take care of all those en-
| tanglements that the Huns rely upon.
After wondering why supplies are
not transported faster to the soldiers,
lot of people will get out on Sun
day and use up five or ten gallons of
gasoline needed to move the supplies.
The first draftees worried about hav
ing to go to war, and the boys too
young for the draft are now Worrying
for fear they won't stand any chance
IN life after the war if they don't get
into the service.
Mrs. A. Reinert Jr. and daughter
Gertrude, and Mrs. A Reinert Sr. are
visiting with the latters' daughter, Mrs
w Blish, who recently underwent a
serious operation at Racine. They ex-
pect to return home Saturday evening.
The situation on the gridiron of war
now, is that the Germans not mere