Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-02-14
LOCAL AND
Personal

-FARMERS:-Ali limited amount of
corn feed at $500 per ton. Grand
Rapids Milling Co. 1t.
Herman Smith, the general .opair
man of First street moved to his new
location on Monday last. He was as
sisted by w. j. Berard.
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A great many of our citizens have
been gathering the waste timber and
lumber that has been blown out of the
cofferdam this week. Some pieces
of the timber are in very good condi
ton while others are broken by the
force of the blasting. Anyone who
would take the trouble to go out on
come to it and many took advantage of
the opportunity, among those we no-
ticed were, w. C. McGlynn, Jess Wag-
ner and others.
-FARMERS:-Ali limited amount of
corn feed at $500 per ton Grand
Rapids Milling Co. 1t.
Messrs. L. Amundson, L. Schroeder
and F. F. Mengel have returned from
the Road School held in Madison the
past week. These gentlemen report
a very profitable time spent in Madi-
son.
IT'S not the largest number of
subscribers always that makes the
best advertising medium. Advertis-
ers want to reach the common. peo-
pie, who do most of their buying local
iy. If.
Mr. and Mrs Frank Zeaman receiv-
ed letter from their son Elmer who
left here with the local boys and has
up to the last few weeks been with
them at Waco, saying that when he
wrote he was on the transport and up
to that time, which was Feb. 3rd, he
had not been seasick Elmer had been
paid on the first, so he could not have
been on the water very long, however,
his friends here will wait anxiously
for news of his safe arrival on the 9TH
er side.
-FARMERS:-A limited amount Of
corn feed at $500 per ton. Grand
Rapids Milling Co. 1t. e
Yesterday, Wednesday, February IS,
1918 was Ash Wednesday and marked
the beginning of the forty days OBJ
served in the Christian world in COM
memoration of the forty days spent
by our Lord in the wilderness, and
called Lent. This season is becoming
to be more and more observed each
year by not only those of the Catholic
faith but by Protestants as we'll
The John Alpine house on the west
side now occupied by the Guy Miller
family has been sold to Henry Alpine
who will occupy the same this coming
summer.
-FARMERS:-Al limited amount of
corn feed at $500 per ton. Grand
Rapids Milling Co. IT.
Mr.. ard Mrs. M. C. jacobson are hap
Ply over the arrival of baby girl, born
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1918. The baby
is named May Ellen and both mother
and child are doing nicely.
it is from that city that ne enlisted.
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Mrs. Carl Kluge arrived in the city
from Waco, Texas on Thursday even
ing last, and reports the Grand Rap
ids boys located at Camp Macarthur
as already to leave, even to having
their lunch packed, Mrs. Kluge wa'
Joined in Chicago by her mother Mrs
B. E. Jones and from there they cam,
home together. Mrs. Kluge will re
main here with her parents during tn
time her husband is gone.
Only the very poor men and womel
doing the hardest kind of work ma,
have more than seven ounces of wa
bread day in France.
FOR SALE:-A weathered Ga
sideboard. Enquire of Mrs. B. f