Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30
Our Small Change.
Rapids has tiue hotels

"A handsome store is good adver
tisement.
-Wausau now wants to be called tn
Pine City.
: Vote for D. J. Cole for Co. Sup't
Of schools.
Next Tuesday is election Ar
you registered
-Arpin is moving the little Catho
lie Church.
See Notice of estray nnder heao
OF new advertisements.
Daniel Drew on the Howes tina,
Vanderbilt, and that's what caused the
panic.
We must again repeat, eye who
have steers to shed, prepare to shed
them now"
The beautiful "snow'' recitcd it.
self last week just stansa or two
the whole poem was delivered "down
east"
The eastern "freight" on the G..
B. & NJ. R'y due Saturday evening, ar
rived about daylight Sunday morning.
Cause, detention by snow.
October has cast off her gaudy
balmoral, and donne1 the old time
frost embroidered skirts of century
ago. She is becoming old fashioned.
The old fashioned shawls with a
horse collar loop behind ar t in vogue
now, but we saw one last week. They
wear a narrow strip of stair carpeting
now.
Jack Turner is going for the ere
formers" down in Portage. That's
right, go for EN- Jack; they need re-
forming. We are glad we ar'n't John
Bean.
PEARSON Talmadge suggested that
if they could roll "Old Hundred
through Wall street the panic would
end. Wouldn t old Five-twenties an
swered the purpose just as we'll ?-Ne,o
York Commercial Advertiser.
An exchange tells how man fell
off seven story building striking on
his head on pile Of dimension stone,
but the paper forgot to tell whether or
not it killed him.
THAT ubiquitous" chap don't
know what ''bustle' means. We won t
argue the point, If he thinks it
means something else, we sha' t
stick out about it.
John Ginder set his foot on a
skunk the other evening while on his
way home. Judging from the last
Adoance we put our foot in a whole
nest of them last week. But that is
what we arc here for.-Jack Turner
A huge bear squatted on the track
near Amherst last week, and dared the
builgine to come en-. The engineer
gave one sharp shrill whistle, and Ursa
Major had business elsewhere in /. hur-
ry.
Our friends of the NJ. E. Church
choir have been procuring new anthem
books and are pleasing their congrega-
ton with some excellent musical COM
position most excellently rendered.
If you want to get the hired girl
up in the morning just "holler" out,
Il brought up your new hat last
night" We've tried it, and had break
fast after the hat was thoroughly
looked over
The new Postal Car was put on
the W. V. R. r. last Monday. Post
al agent, W. B. Naylor says it just the
thing having sixteen newspaper boxes
and one hundred and forty-four letter
boxes besides other Accommodations.
IF any of our young men observe
vertical parallels Of buttons about as
big as saucer, perambulating the
streets, they must be brave. for they
are only fore runners of the coming wo-
man-they will find female behind
them every time.
-Four very beautiful Gothic chairs,
richly upholstered have been presented
to the Methodist Society by the La
dies Sociable Society. They are fine
gift, and besides being ornamental, are
as Bro. Cole can affirm, very useful
and comfortable.
"A man went into one of the Point
stores the other day, and this is what
he said. "Yeas got in spelling books?
what, two shilling! that's too much.
/ tell ye' don't it cost a man to live
nowadays. l guess | wont take it.