Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-17

The mail agents on the q. b. 4
L. P. R'y are giving entire satisfaction
to their employers and the comm uni
ty at large. No better men coulc
be found to fill the responsible posi-.
ton.
The Methodist Sociable met al
Mrs. George Neeyes yesterday. The
gathering was large, and all enjoyed
themselves hugely. The little ones,
plenty to do and the extreme heat
told "our folks" it were better we re.
main at home.
The freight train going west last
Wednesday took eighteen cars out OF
Green Bay, leaving three at Amherst,
and conveying fifteen through to Nine
sofa Ella w. W. Road. Large quaint.
ties of wheat are going east over the
road daily.
Somebody's unruly COW freed
somebody's girl in the lot back of Nick
Wrinkles last Saturday. The girl
Rugged the tree bravely, while the COW
looked on in admiration. We would mt
have liked to have been that girl,
neither that mean old COW, but we
would have liked to have been that
tree. The cows need looking after.
Miss Susie Rablin came near meet
ing with a serious accident in passing
out of the Congregational church after
rehearsal last Saturday evening. Owing
to misstep she fell upon the boards
bridging the space between the church
and the walk, striking her lip upon
the points of one of those little charms
"a pair Of scissors-now so much
worn. Fortunately, it was only tri-
fling wound. 1t might have been
worse.
A recent number Of the Republican
publish ed at Binghamton, N. Y. con-
tains very flattering notice of Mrs. Z.
G.. Halbert, sister of Mrs. s. J. Purdy,
who participated in concert recently
given in that city. The Republican
says: Mrs. f. G.. Halbert for the
second time, we believe, in FIVE or six
years, appeared before an audience in
a musical entertainment. She sang a
solo "Di Placer, Italian, and in such
style IS would have excluded the theory
of an absence from the lyric platform
single season. Mrs. Halbert's many
friends heard her with manifestations
OF the very rare pleasure they felt.
Her voice in the higher registers is
maryellously strong and clear She
responded to the inevitable encore with
"Smiles and Tears
%! don't It hot last Sunday night,
and all day Monday, Amt it? For for
ty eight weary hours humanity swell
tered. A little girl on Wylie street
was IS hot that she ran down to see
her auntie on Oak street, A little
boy up town hanging ON ttapeze bar
found his arms suddenly fosty seven
inches long. One of our city boys out
riding horseback didn't discover any
thing wrong till he found his feet drag
eing in the sand and bis brooches too
short fer him, in the meantime he was
getting wonderfully rt-waistea An
elderly gentleman laid down on the
roof Of his residence in Quality Row,
and when the sun got around he had
fallen asleep. The hired girl caught
him in a wash tub as he came down
the spout. At the foundry mculder
laid down upon pattern for patent
cast-iron hitching post, now his wife
don't propose to hitch to him any long
er he's SO out Of shape. Little boys
ran all over the streets. Thermome-
tiers stood from FIVE to eight feet all
DAY we saw one sixteen feet high :;
it hung out the second story window
of the Rablin House. We saw two lit
tie girls running down town together.
O! it was woeful hot. If it had been
an election day, it would have been
difficult to tell which candidate had
ran best Angry men were in a melt
ing mood all day. We have heard,
however of only one case of sun stroke,
it weighed eight pounds and a half.
Fourth of July passed of quietly
with little quapeling. Grand Rapids
was here and our people did all they
could with the brief time they had, to
them. We hope all we're as
we'll satisfied DIS we were. To us a 4th
of July celebration is a tedious affair at
the best. IF we have one here next
year, we propose to go fshing.-To-
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