Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-26

ellis. LORD says ne mas seven sets OF
harness on the stocks. Look into their
sales room.
A strong south wind banked up
the musquitos against our garden fence
last Wednesday night. We had no
trouble to find the Fence after we had
found the scoop-shbvel.
Warner wants to tell the house
wives of Wood County that he is SELL
ing off his cooking stoves acay dorm
ever so low. Cosywhy he is going to
get in full stocklright early.
We have always supposed BUS
was for the taking Of passengers, 'sto and
FROM" "hither and yon," but it seems
that we are mistaken. Wiley, put a
lock on that Bus door O. nights.
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The morning train on the G.. B. &
l.. T. from the west was detained sew
eral hours last Tuesday owing to the
washing away of a, portion of the track
by the heavy rains.ts
The graders on the Tomah line
discovered another very large bed of
purest Kaolin on Garrison's land in
Centralia, Monday, 1t is an enormous
deposit and very superior.
The river is getting down. It
threatened at one time to get above
! Its business, but has behaved itself adj
mlrably considering the number of
bars 1T passes. It's down at the mouth
and IS getting generally discouraged.
The whistles on our railroads keep
the atmosphere in perfect undula-
ton. The air waves are doing a heap
OF co4ueting with the echoes.
Our Lock up" kindly embraced
two unruly members of society last
Saturday. They were drunk. While
they reclined on an unmattressad
board, some other people were reclin-
ing on mattresses and upholstered loun-
ges. Such is life.
I'VE inadvertently stated in our last
issue that the dedication of the Catbo-
he Church would take place on Satur-
day, the 2Sth inst. We regret the
blunder. The dedication will be on
Sunday, the 29th inst. next Sabbath
The morning train last Thursday
on the G. B. & L ?. Railroad, from
the west was composed of twenty-six
cars IN all, making a train much longer
than the bridge. Twenty-Five freight
cars laden with wheat and general
fr-lSht were part of the train.
Remember the railroad excursion
by our Methodist friends on the
Fourth, y As there is no patriotic
powder and bonfire celebration on that
good old day, of course every BODY
and his wife will help to swell the
throng on the cars.
Our devils girl came into the office
the other day. He hadn't seen her
for twenty-four hours, and when she
hollereG he tried to make us think she
had caught her hand in our Gordon
press. 1t looked as fat as custard
that had just received the caresses of a
passing steamboats,
-Green Bay has had day Of re-
joicing. The Northern railroad, form
ing a direct line with Milwaukee was
completed last week. The event was
the occasion for great rejoicing. Speech
es, and toasts, and bonires. and the
firing of cannon. were the order of
business for a good twenty-four hours.
We congratulate Green Bay.
The Tomah road is doing already
a big passenger business. Thursdays
train brought in hundred passengers,
and on Friday over sixty arrived. The
out going trains are also full. The
road has superb passenger coach
es. A turn table will be put in, and
depot building be put up Immediately.
The work of grading is being prosecu-
ted with vigor, and by fall the iron
will be laid to Mosinee in Marathon
County.
How fires and lightning strokes
and deaths, bring around the Insur-
ance Agents, and Lightning Rod men,
and Tombstone chaps, and Fire Engine
boys. Last week the fourteen hun
! dred beds of the RahIin and Roobo