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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
4
VOR Sabi Horse, 13 years old, is listed with ailment and is not able to work. A bid of $50 is noted as accepted. Otto Nettzel of Grand Rapids Wisconsin appears as the consignor or contact. Details are fragmentary but indicate a quick sale or auction action.
The Republican Congress adjourned after six months with a barren record of unkept promises and lost chances. A Washington dispatch cited in the Philadelphia Press criticizes defeats of department bills, inaction on labor and Bolshevism, railroad legislation, merchant marine upbuilding, and pay reform, accusing the GOP of waste and missed opportunities.
Friends planned a December 16 surprise at the Ctstave Manthel home. Mary McLaughlin joined supper at the A Wiken home with Jaanita Parks and Thelma Wiken inviting her under pretense. the gathering included games, music, and a late lunch. She left for Port Edwards Wednesday morning.
Merry wishes fill the page as families gather from Mosinee Rudolph and Fond du Lac. Death in Kansas touches friends in Biron and Randolf. Land sales, factory shifts, and pulpwood demand ripple through the community. Meehan Telephone holds its annual meeting while schooling and holiday programs illuminate the season.
MERRY Xmas greetings as Bell school shuts for a two week vacation while teachers travel to Grand Rapids. Jacob Lipsita returns from Chicago. Mrs Simon and daughter head to Chicago for the winter. George Krohn hauls pulp wood to Grand Rapids. Alice Engdal and Dorothy Matthews visit the Lindah family. Local folks haul potatoes and rye to Grand Rapids for Christmas shopping. J Simon visits the Lipsitz home. Mrs M S Winegarden visits Barneveld Wisconsin. Chauncey Winegarden and wife return from a week with relatives.
A roundup of local residents arriving home from Minnesota and Chicago for the holidays, with reports of family visits and Christmas programs. Nearby towns note schools closing for a two week vacation, teachers and staff heading home, and residents traveling to Grand Rapids and Arpin for Christmas.
Pleasant Hill notes a diphtheria quarantine at the Geo Gabel home with Miss Trene infected and other family members ill but improving. Nearby communities report Christmas preparations, shopping trips, visitors from Grand Rapids, and local farm and school activity. Several names and local places appear, with mentions of travel to Hiles and Waukegan, Illinois, and a Christmas program in Dist No 2. For sale items include two gas engines from Jensen and Anderson.
Christmas masses set at St Philomena's Church Rudolph Wisconsin with 6 00 7 30 and 10 30 oclock solemn high masses the program lists choral pieces Organ and orchestra numbers and a pantomime Also notes a local pork remark a marriage in Rapid City South Dakota and a plan to rebuild a farm home plus odd health and chemistry asides about the human body
Multiple probate notices from Wood County Wisconsin reference estate actions for C. J. Brown Timothy Daly Warren Fisher Fred Miller and others. Dates span December 1919 to January 1920 with hearings set in Grand Rapids and notices to creditors for claims by April and May 1920.
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