Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-06-03

c., and on to Virginia Hot Springs,
Va Mrs. Roenius will stay at the
Virginia summer and winter resort
while Mr.. Roenius will make bust
ness trip up thru Washington, Phil
adelphia and New York. They ex-
pect to be gone about week or ten
days.
Fred Stamm, of Minneapolis, the
well-known barber of this city, was in
the city the past week guest of Mr.
and Mrs Sam Parker. While here he
consulted DIR. J. K Goodrich for an
illness he was experiencing in his left
leg. His many old-time friends were
all glad to see him. While here he
] could not forego a trout fishing trip.
J. E. Rolfe, superintendent of
/ schools at New Lisbon, has accepted
! the position as principal of the Lin
coin High school in this city. Mr..
Rolfe will fill the position left vacant
! by the resignation of VIM. A. Bal
dauf, who has been associated with
/ the schools of this city for several
years past and in recent years been
principal of the high school.
The local chapter of Royal Arch
/ Masons will go to Marshfield Thurs
day afternoon to confer the Royal
Arch Degree upon the Marshfield
chapter. They will leave here at
$3.50 p. m and dinner will be served
by the chapter at Marshfeld.
Messrs. M. S. Pratt and S. J. Knapp
of Kilbourn, were here for Decora-
1 ton Day and marched in the process
sion to the cemetery M. S. Pratt
comes to Grand Rapids every Decora-
/ tion Day and has ever since he left
here. He says every year the ranks
of old soldiers graw thinner and will
until they will be wiped out entirely.
He is glad to know there are young
men who were in the World War to
/ keep up the day and spirit of the old
veterans. S. j. Knapp left Grand Ra-
pids twenty years ago and came up to
look after the graves of loved ones
/ who are buried here. Both gentlemen
/ enjoyed the visiting with old friends
and neighbors.
Prof. and Mrs. w. A. Sprise, teach
er in our public schools, left Saturday
for Odonto, where he will spend the
/ summer looking after his farm there.
/ He is improving the farm and build
/ ing new modern barn thereon this
summer
! Chas Manske, foreman of the Black
River Falls Box Mfg. Co., is spending
several days in the city visiting with
his family and packing his household
goods preparatory to moving to Black
River Falls to reside in the near fu-
i ture.
Present Indications are that the
Grand Rapids Stevens Point road will
/ be in pretty good shape before the sea-
/ son is over is seen in the fact that
there is good deal of work being done
on the highway between the two cities
and several stretches which have been
] bad in the past are being repaired F.
Bossert has been running continuously
on the concrete work on that road
while On the Stevens Point end of the
road large crew of men have been
busy for several days crawling a
stretch of six miles east from Plover.
The balance of this road has been in
pretty good shape.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Mead and
daughter, Emily, left Tuesday eve
ming for a two weeks pleasure trip
to Boston, Mass; New York City,
Lakeside, Conn.,, where they will visit
their son, Walter, who is student at
Hotchkiss School and on to New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, where their son, Stanton is
attending Yale College, who will re-
turn home with them.
Ellwood H. Aldrich, who received
his degree as civil engineer at the
University of Illinois this week was
appointed city engineer to succeed A.
7. Thompson, who resigned about
month ago. Mr.. Aldrich will report
to the city to take up his new duties
about June Is, when he will have
completed his course at the University
of Illinois.
The American government and pri-
vate bankers have extended credits to
European countries amounting to a.
bout eighteen billion dollars. And
congress says it doesn't know how it
is going to raise the money to pay a
small bonus to our former service men.
Better bly, that pair of overalls to-
day. Tomorrow they may object to
the lowly estimate placed upon their
monetary value.