Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-08-29
Personal and Local

MI anu Wis Leoiidtu DeIutI spent
Sunday at Rudolph
VIII Bauer. Virgil Oleson and son
Nordstrum are home from Plover
where they have been employed.
The food dealers try to console us
for raising food prices by telling US
the prices will go higher still later on.
T. D. Williams of Appleton, was a
guest of Rev. and Mrs. c. C. Becker
the past week
The Congressman have been home
for a needed rest spent in agitated
efforts to repair their fences.
Albert Larson who is employed at
Port Edwards was an over Sunday
guest with home folks.
Edward Levin of Babcock, attended
the Wholesale Grocers' convention
which was held in this city the past
week.
Mr., and Mrs Louis Trossen of
Marshfeld spent Sunday of last week
at the Julius Matthews home.
Gus Otto, proprietor of the Rexall
Drug Store, in this city, is spending
the week in Amigo visiting with rel
atives.
Miss Ethel Waters is in the city
this week visiting her friend Miss
Beulah Cleveland.
These proposed taxes on soda and
soft drinks are declared by the girls
to be class legislation.
Mrs. W. G. Henke and Miss Nettie
Sandman are visiting with relatives
and friends in st. Paul, Minnesota
this week
Mrs. John Boggs and son John of
Chicago, are visiting at the John Ole
son home.
The profteers won't begin to make
enough money to buy the good will of
the soldiers when they get back.
FOR RENT-On easy terms 80
acre farm. Inquire or write Peter
Felio, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, Route
1, Box 85, Plover Road. 2tw.
The merchants who don't advertise
are reported exceedingly distressed
with the difficulties of war conditions.
When a man gets married to es-
cape the draft, the bride at least shows
| courage.
Undoubtedly the Germans retreated
voluntarily, as they claim, as they saw
they had to get out of harms way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Knuth and chill
dren of Port Edwards spent Sunday
at the Berg home.
The people who are trying to get
rich out of the war won't be very
popular candidates when the boys get
home from France.
This naming the aviation fields af-
ter fiers that have lost their lives,
would not seem just calculated to pro-
mote the courage of the novice.
A good many people are exercising
the right of freedom to strike and
hold up the war supplies for the army
that is protecting their freedom.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. G. Eggert and dau
ghter Betty, have been spending most
of the past week on their farm east
of Kellner
The smaller boys wish they could
go to war, as they learn that in the
trenches many Saturday night baths
have to be skipped.
Mrs. o. Boyer and children, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Swanson, Miss Ida
Swanson and Mr.. and Mrs. A Palm of
Port Edwards spent Sunday with
friends here.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Labus at Riverview Hospit-
al on Thursday August %. She has
been named patricia Jane"
The people who complain the most
that the streets are in a disgraceful
condition, are sometimes the same
ones who make protest when a street
is torn up and closed for repairs.
The government having invited en-
listment of over age men in certain
services, we are all listening to those
leading citizens who wanted to go so
badly.
The motorists deny that they see
the warning signs along the highways
as they are going so fast they couldn't
possibly read them.
Miss Dora Larson departed last
week for Minneapolis where she will
again be employed after spending a
few days at the home of her parents
here.
The Germans claim our troops are
all tired out. If so it must have been
because they had to run so fast to
keep up with the retreating Huns.
1t is mighty hard for a good did
fashioned hobo nowadays to find
place where there aren't a number of
Jobs waiting for him.
Judging by the scarcity of teachers
there are still many school boards who
can't see why a school marin isn't
willing to work for her board and half
|