News: Neillsville (19 Sep 1918)

Contact: Ann Stevens
Email: ann@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hobbs, Dennert, Bruley, Zimmerman, Caldwell, Rotenbach, Brettner, Reindel, Brott, Kaudy, Beck, Crosby, Buttner, Schuelke, Zemke, Smith, Neyreis, Christie, Butler, Stoffel

----Source: Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 9/19/1918

Neillsville (19 Sep 1918)

Mrs. Ernest Hobbs is home for a week’s vacation.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dennert on Tuesday.

Tom Bruley returned Tuesday from a few days’ trip to Minneapolis.

The W.C.T.U. will meet at the library at the usual hour next Tuesday.

J.G. Zimmerman and Dan Caldwell went to Milwaukee Tuesday to spend a few days.

Private Rotenbach of Oshkosh is here assisting the exemption board at the court house.

Mrs. N.P. Brettner returned home to Chicago Tuesday after a visit at the George Reindel home.

Mrs. Anna Brott of Longmont, Col., came Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Kaudy.

Miss Katie Beck left Tuesday for Chicago after spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. E.W. Crosby.

Wm. Buttner, the blacksmith at Christie, has made arrangements to sell gasoline, oils and spark plugs at his shop at Christie.

Herman Schuelke, who has been home on a furlough for a couple weeks, started Tuesday for Rhode Island to resume his work in the navy.

School opened last Monday with a total enrollment of 406. Of this number 146 are in the high school, 223 in the grades, 37 in the kindergarten. Wm. Zemke is the new teacher of manual training.

The regular meeting of the Woman’s Community Club will be held with Mrs. Smith Friday, Sept. 20th. Everyone cordially invited. Come prepared to sew.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Beyreis and daughter, and Mrs. Geo. P. Christie of Wausau autoed here Saturday evening and spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Christie’s brother, Jos. D. Butler, returning Monday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stroffel received a telegram from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Sunday stating that their son, Glynn, was seriously ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Stoffel departed that evening for Cambridge. Glynn recently went to Harvard from Great Lakes.