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

Word was received early Monday
morning, by Mr.. and Mrs Alex NUN
that their son Kirk was very low anc
probably would not last through the
night. Mr.. and Mrs Muir left on the
early Green Bay train for DePere hop
ing to get there while he was yet a.
live.
| Attorney B. r. Goggins is a bust
ness visitor at Wautoma for severa
days this week, going down on the ear.
| ly North Western train, on Monday
morning.
Advertisers are rapidly being
convinced that the local newspaper
gives better results than any other
form of advertising The local fam
from week to week. Bills and circu-
lar advertising are glanced over and
then thrown in the waste paper bas-
| ket. If.
| Miss Zulecka Morrill, saw sixteen
years old Saturday last, and on Sun
day, the event was celebrated by q
family dinner at the Morrill, home
Miss Zulecka received many pretty
gifts in remembrance of the day.
Mrs. Edward Morrill, who has been
very i'll for some time past is feeling
a little better at the present writing
which is very pleasing to her many
friends in the city.
-WANTED:-Reliable man with
some experience in retail lumber yard
work. Spencer Lumber & Supply Co.
Spencer, Wisconsin. If.
A telegram was received by Mr.. and
Mrs. B. R. Goggins on Sunday telling
them that Hugh, had successfully pass
ed his examinations in the aviation
corps at Ithica, New York, and hac
| graduated on Saturday. Just where
he will be sent for the air part of his
training is not yet known.
Miss A. Keuster of Caledonia, MINI
is visiting this month with the w. A
Owen and H. S. Wagner families OF
Second street south.
This is a selfish old world. The av
erage man doesn't care what happens
| just so it doesn't happen to him.
| Postmaster Robert L. Nash is busy
and much sought after man, these
days. The registration of enemy a
liens and distribution of War Savings
and Thrift Stamps keeps him and his
official family on the jump. Late al
night long after the P. o. force hav,
quit, light is burning in the P. Ms
private office showing Bob" still peg
ging away at the mass of bushes!
which has accumulated during the day
and its always cleaned up.
The total snow fall for both Mil
waukee and Chicago in January wa:
over ffty-one inches; the total fal
for this section since October 9, 1911
(the first snow of the season. as rec
orded by Geo. T. Nixon, local weathe,
observer was 1913 inches.
Mrs. J. H. Newmann of souther,
Montana is the guest of Mrs. F. A
Bernier $50 Third street south for tn
winter months.
| Notwithstanding the late mails AM
cold and disagreeable weather, the cit,
mail carriers have sold thousands O
War Savings and Thrift Stamps tn
past few weeks, which speaks we'll TO
the patriotism of our local boys il
Gray" Help them to do their utmos
70 Win the War.
Mrs. John Lind SIC 18th avenue mort
who has been quite sick with stomac
trouble is reported better at this writ
ing. DR.. Donald Waters is in attend
: ance.
The F. W. Worth home 1904 Fourt
avenue north is under quarantine thi
week on account of mild case Of scar
, let fever.
Prof. NJ. H. Jackson of the Woo
County Training school visited a yea
or two ago at Larne, Ireland and othe
places on the Irish coast made prom
nent the past week by the landing c
= survivors from the torpedoed shi
e Tuscania
Last Sunday morning for the fir:
time in several months, not a weathe
bureau station in the United State
or Canada reported below zero ten
y perature.
Movie fans and others who have II
habit of attending Stark's Ideal the.
k ire are lound Ia their praise OF the his
:. class pictures shown at that hous