Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-07
Our Small Change.

-Four tons of lead in oil received
at Philleo & Cos.
Sporting men speak of the Shah
as diamond flush.
Miller is in his new store, with a
choice lot of goods.
New fences are being built in va
nous portions of our city.
1t seemed to have been very gen
eral holiday among city officials last
Tuesday.
Its dog days now; let every wo-
man go to Miller's and buy a yard or
so of muslin.
An English authoress has written
book to prove how lady may dress
on $50 year.
The annual contest between the
Western farmer and the Canadian
thistle has commenced.
Bishop Armitage will visit Grand
Rapids on the Goth inst. and will preach
at the Methodist Church.
Worden's stone quarry is pronoun-
ced "marble quarry" We speak
for a slab, friend Worden.
j. Rablin Jr. is adjoining his fine
residence with beautiful blinds, like
wise, our friend Judge Hayden.
A gentleman of Greeley, Colora-
do, lost the train the other day because
a grsshopper got into his chronometer
The river is slowly rising, though it
is not yet so high as to warrant the
running out Of anything heavier than
sawdust.
A new cross walk has been laid at
the junction of the street with water
street, Just north Of Mr.. John Rablin' $
residence.
We are panied to announce the
very low condition of Mrs. Francis
Biron. Her decease may be expected
almost at any moment.
A new time table took effect on
the Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railway
Sunday. The corrected table will be
found in the usual place in our col
umns.
The best cure for the nose bleed
is reported to be a vigorous motion Of
the jaws. That's the reason two or
three women we know never have the
nose bleed.
We saw a little "rat" in the street
the other day and we knew by his
shirt that it must be about Saturday.
We looked at ours editorially and con-
cluded it was only Friday.
We have heard of blue lightning,
but never witnessed red, white, and
blue runaway. Such one they had
in Buffalo when a horse hitchei to a
BARRIERS pole ran away with it.
To pronounce 'tShah" correctly
you want to take pinch of snuff :;
then you get it, ct. Chaugh."
In Persia, that's name not to
be sneezed at, but in America
p'shaw
The finest specimen of Kaolin we
have yet seen is presented US by Mr..
Dutruit. 1t is surprisingly pure, glis-
tening quartz being visible, intermin-
gled with the clay. This is pronoun-
ced very superior.
A chap concluded that he couldn' t
afford to supply whole boarding
house with hair oil so chucked into the
bottle little croton oil, and now the
hired girl wants to know what makes
her hair come out so.
The Juneau Co. Argus says that
James Lynn has withdrawn his hacks
from the Lisbon road, and is deyoting
his energies to the completion of the
G.. B. & L. p. r. r. The argus is
correct. Lynn sends ten horses to the
front Immediately.
We want FIVE hundred more sub
rcribers to the Reporter, and then we
get Power Press, We want agents
in Marathon, Portage, Adams, Juneau
and our own (Wood) counties. to
whom good commissions will be paid,
Who will solicit subscri bers?
Mr.. Daily, Brim's tother, or as the
BOYS have it Tins brother, is erecting
an awning over his place of business.
A capital idea as they sell green fruits.
To those who are not acquainted, and
wish to know where to buy all manner