Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-23
Our Small Change.

Initial Paper at the Wood Co.
Drug Store.
| -Root-you-beggars are sala-
BILE commodity in our streets, just now.
| Burns is taking fine photographs
at his car opposite the Wood Co. Drug
Store.
Less than over one million Al
manacs for gratuitous distribution at
Philleo & Co.'S Drug Store.
The President has appointed
Thursday the oath of November as a
day of National thanksgiving.
A Tomah woman recently threw
brick at dog, and hit her husband
who stood fifty feet behind her.
Our indian summer days have put
on the vail of stern autumn, and the
signing pines tell of winter approaching.
Notwithstanding very many Of
our people have not attended dancing
school, they are practicing the green
fruit quickstep with all the skill of
adopts. Paregoric for sale at the Wood
Co. Drug Store.
The piping blasts did pipe in ear
nest last Friday night, and the tall
peoples, and balm of Gileads'' did
dance in real earnest The blasts can
not say we have piped and ye have not
danced for verify it was quadrille all
night.
Til Central Wisconsin has dis
pensed with patent outside, ensmall-
ing its edition I'd is getting up the whole
form at home. The paper presents a
very creditable appearance, and is an
honor to the thriving city in whose in
terests it is enlisted body and soul.
We are glad to learn that it is being
abundantly supported.
-Rablin is p;ling all the lumber
his mill is now cutting. His yard looks
like a mammoth lumber yard. That
pile of lumber will bring a pile of
greenbacks, though the greenbacks will
be piled elsewhere where they will be
safe, from moths that corrupt, and
thieves that break through and steal
That lumber would make whiting
timber for a thousand million billion
juries.
G. S. Warren is excavating and
placing a snug cellar meath his house.
We notice also very many minor i'm
provements going on throughout the
city. Mr.. Roche is relaying his side
walk and Mr. Rablin has very much
improved the walks in front of his
store, and at the street crossing also.
Mr.. Lord has enclosed his residence,
and thoroughly fitted up for cold
weather and in various localities similar
improvements are being made.
How fortunate it is that the roll
ing river passes just beneath that aw-
ful threatning side walk If poor
unfortunate drops off in the blackness
of tartarian darkness, the sweeping cur
rent bears the body away in to the I'M
known. and only the ghost Of the de-
parted can possibly put in an appear
ance to claim damages for injuries in
Cured through the neglect Of our city
fathers. But, 0! by and by, there
will be such host of apparitions with
blood bestained visages coming up be-
fore the august assemblage, that we
shudder to think of it. O.! We "fath-
ers," prepare we for the day when Wis
ions of scars and deep incisions, and
mangled members shall come up before
your eyes, and the soulless bodies of
the slaughtered dead shall stand before
the Council arguing for vengence.
Then will ye cry, 90! that the dead
would sleep"
Mr.. Brown, the Mind Reader
A few months ago, young Iowa boy,
with no pretentions, modest and unas
Stunning, came into the great money
grabbing city of Chicago, and assured
the Princes of the House of Mammon
that he could do wonderful things;
In fact could read their thoughts, tell
their names, give their ages, locate
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