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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
4
Local items recount visits and homecomings across Wausau and nearby towns. Residents and students like Jills Marie Melson, Miss Kate Sheridan, and Gertrude Golli spend holidays with families. several university attendees return home for Christmas. Community updates include travel to Milwaukee Osakis and Madison, illness notes, and local business movements.
Milwaukee visitor Henry Kinge stops in town to visit relatives while Roy Moers buys a Franklin Six touring car. Multiple residents travel for holidays to Shawano Wautoma Beymour and Berlin. others attend funerals, attend college, or host holiday gatherings. Local businesses promote Christmas candy and Edison phonographs as festive gifts.
Leon Foley assists at Otto's Pharmacy this week. Noltner buys a Ford taxi from Jensen and Ebbtbe. J EB Seidl of Pittsville conducts business in the city on Wednesday. J R Linderman of Kunkanna visits Saturday for basin Wago Snydaw is ill with appendicitis near the Packing plant. Marald and Dean Babcock attend Carrell College in Waukesha. Mr and Mrs M G Gordon and daughter Helen plan Christmas in Tomah. Adolph Alberts family move from Vesper to the city. Mrs O B Moore leaves for Baraboo to visit parents over Christmas. O W Henderson of the Wood county Soldiers relief committee dies in Marshfield. Sears Gardner teaches high school and may have measles. family returns to Platteville. Marion Phillen and Margaret Rugin home from Chicago for holidays. Harry Hagerstrom of Soo Jina at Stevens Point visits his parents. reports brisk Soo Line business. Joe Kuwa returns from western Minnesota where a dredge job ends for winter. Sleighing remains decent despite coarse sandy snow. farmers use sleighing for wood and odd chores. Fred Schnabel on the democratic convention entertainment committee. plans to bring friends to St Louis. Professor C J Culpin of UW announces a two day country life conference for Wood county in Marshfield March 31 and April 1 under Wood county training and Geo Varney.
Multiple churches announce Christmas programs and services for Friday through Sunday. Congregational, Scandinavian Moravian, First Moravian, East Side Lutheran, Baptist, West Side Lutheran, Episcopal, SS Peter and Paul, and Methodist churches outline cantatas, tree gifts, candies, sermons, and language services with schedules and charity acts for the holiday season.
Stevens Point area items report a robin seen in town with uncertainty if holdover or new arrival. Loyal Order of Moose hosted a Wednesday dancing party with Atoose orchestra. George Johnson of Rudolph operated at Riverview hospital after an appendicitis operation. Christmas holidays close public schools until after New Year. Laidauf plans Nashville trip for Christmas vacation returning with Mrs Balduf. Mrs Xan Schlatterer hosted guests for bridge with prizes won by Mr and Mrs Con way and Mrs Philley. The Sons of Mart speech sparked by a Grand Rapids visitor on social services. A circuit court suit involves Wisconmity Valley Leader dispute over $7,000. Fred T. Horton died in Joplin Missouri. former Stevens Point resident mourned. Otte’s cigars advertised for Christmas.
A cluttered page shows multiple small ads and notices from Marshfield and Grand Rapids Wisconsin. Items include job wants for a stenographer, sale listings for bobsleds pure bred sows dairy farm land and a house for rent, lost gloves and a watch found, plus rental flats and a two story house for sale with lots. Names include Haddis Lbr and Venevr Co Gust Lundgren Jar Reddin Anton Krieger Peter Frohner and Thos Bratton with Tribune office reference.
A chaotic report from a local event recounts a huge coal chunk weighing 162 pounds, witnessed by multiple individuals including Deer Lewis Panter and Homer, with many names and scattered details. The scene shifts to social visits and a Red Cross degree in Masonry, followed by oblique notes on deaths and local happenings with numerous misread names and places.
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