Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-31
From the Plover Herald.
Grand Rapids, Wood Co., Wisconsin,
and Variety Ct Other Matters.

is one thing and fiction is another, and
one of the truths is that the villages
and surrounding country, and rural dis
tricts of this Wisconsin Pinery afford
more rational enjoyment to both resi-
dent and itinerant than any other por-
ton of Wisconsin-we had almost said
and upon reflection we will say the
habitable globe; and as case in point
we will mention the thriving village
above named. We had an errand there
few days ago, and we got Myers &
Bonum to dead-head us on account of
some supposed meritorious act of ours,
in days past and gone. We fetched up
at the Magnolia House, kept by our old
chum, Jacob X. Brands; we don't mean
college friend, because every body
knows that neither Jake or ourself ever
saw the inside Of an institution Of learn
ing above the dignity Of log school
house; we simply wish to be understood
that we have eaten and camped togeth-
er, and swan the river before breakfast
at divers times. Jake had just got his
Hotel in good running order, and most
excellent saloon connected with the in
stitution, and furnished $50 they who
drink say with the very best Of liquors.
We had the good fortune to meet there
many Of our Portage County friends !;
among them was our worthy Coroner,
who fortunately got down just in time
to see the exercises in very well con-
Quoted dancing school, taught by Pro
fessor Gray, who is certainly an adept
in the art of teaching the ''poetry of
notion" "School was OUT about
O'Clock, and general dance ensued,
prior to which the professor very polite
ly handed to lis and our friend each a
ticket Is and 10, which brought us and
the Coroner every time in the same Co.
tillon. 1t will be easily imagined that
there was but little neutral territory in
that set during the time Of dancing
Evening thus passed off with the ut
most pleasantly and good feeling; there
was none of your conventionalisms, no
useless etiquette. If nimble blade
saw proper to cut the pigeon wing or
wiring in a few steps Of the old fash
toned French -Four, there were no ex-
ceptions taken. About two o'clock the
company adjourned, to meet again at
the Magnolia Hall, on Friday evening,
the 2sth inst, and we Will slightly Iii
gross by saying that if any Of our
friends from these parts are down there
on that evening, they had better lool,
in; we will guarantee that they will be
well treated.
Grand Rapids is improving fast on
both sides Of the river. There are FIVE
Hotels there, six dry goods stores, sew
eral provision stores, and great many
mechanics shops Of various kinds; in
short, it is a great place for business,
and is increasing rapidly in population
and wealth; and We would also say for
the encouragement of those whose
hopes are beyond this mundane sphere
that there are three organized churches
there, three ministers of the Gospel,
and a quite respectfully laity. And
now while our hand is in, we may as
we'll mention that we called on brother
Jack Brundage; we found Jack, like
brother Chubbuck, hard to work. Jack
is young man and an able one for his
age but O! Jerusalem, how ultra he
is. We think that he is 1--WE speak fig
uratively) full as woody as Booth. Jack
says that ultraists are necessary in these
days of proneness to political degene-
racy, and that the ultraist prevents hon
est conservatism from sinking into the
most abject old hunkerism-more truth
than poetry. BY the way, we must
now conclude this article, which is halt
epistolary and balance decidedly mixed.
Suffice it to say that we arrived home
on Saturday last, highly gratified with
our Journey and much renovated, at
peace with all the world and the bal
ance of mankind; but we must draw
to close instanter-the devil is at our
elbow with an order from JADE which
will have to be cashed, or one of the
valuable institutions of this County will
have to ego up and where the money
is to come from we don't know. O!
that our delinquent subscribers "would
turn from the error Of their ways before
it is everlastingly too late. We exhort
them most affectionately (no one will
doubt that it is with sincerity to re-
pent; and we would say to those who
are back on advertising, to 'quench not
the spirit" but when you are admon-
ished to pay the printer his arrearages,
obey the heavenly impulse, and by so
doing you will strengthen the monitor,
conscience; keep it ''keep it void Of Of
fence" and smooth your passage over
the tempestuous sea of life.
In behalf Of our citizens, we tender
thanks to the editor of the Herald for
giving extended publicity Of the merits
Of this town, which expressions, we are
happy to know, are corroborated by
every one who visits us and becomes
conversant with our prosperity.
In relation to ultraists, to which the
Judge refers, we regard them as the
engineers on the great car of human
action, and conservatives as the brake
men. 1t is necessary to have radicals
in order to continue on the road of pro-
erosion, and it is just as necessary to
bo,o conservatives to I-oo,, tho ,,Itro;e4 &c