Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10

-Blackberries have seen their best
days.
--Threshing is well along. This
will tickle the boys.
How to "see the point. Take
the bus at Plover.
Hop and cranberry picking has
almost depopulated our city.
Bright with all his idiosyncrasies
gets up irst-ciass paper.
See notice Of cattle either strayed
or stolen, in this issue.
Mr.. Kelley has letter to the peo-
pie of Wood Co. in this issue.
Mr.. Gaynor returned last week
and will open the school Monday next.
Tim Daily has been appointed
State agent for the city of Grand
Rapids.
Seven carloads of new wheat
came over the G. B. road last Satur-
day.
Mr.. Stowell, the aged parent of
Mrs. H. W. Lord is reported very
sick at Friendship.
Mr.. Bearss will have over two
thousand bushels of cranberrics picked
tonight.
See notice of County Republican
Convention to assemble on the 10Th
inst.
There seems to be an affinity ex-
listing between ghosts and green
fruit.
If young men have nothing to do
printing Office is not the place to do
it.
Don't forget Judge Hayden's lee
ture at the Methodist Church this eve
ming.
Choice lots are now b. sale in the
Cemetery grounds. Applications to
Mr. F. J. Wood will receive prompt
attention.
A Point woman who put vitrol on
her scalp to remove dandruff, says it
was the dandrufest experiment she ev-
er tried.
Weeks Floral Guide No. 4 for
September is on our table. Send for
it ye who love roots and bulbs that
blossom and emit sweet odors.
The decree of the court in the
Kline as. Sampson suit is, Mr.. Samp-
son to have the property and receive a
deed by the payment Of $4,000.
We were in error in our statement
last week that Judge Wood had ex-
pended $4,000 in the preparation Of
the cemetery grounds. The amount
expended approximates $3.50
-Stansbury, at Warmers old store
is recommending The Tidy Cool
stove as the stove par excellence.
Call and examine it. 1t has all the
latest improvements, and is what every
housewife should have, a TIDY Cook.
The Waupaca Agricultural and
Mechanical Association will accept
thanks for complimentary ticket tc
editor and wife to the County fair,
Waupaca, Sept. Is to II.
Charley Raymond isn't under the
necessity of paying funeral expenses
because he was not quite killed by a
fall from a ladder at Mr.. Hubbard s
residence in Centralia last Friday.
A foolish burglar went through
Closuit's saloon last Sunday. Sixty
three cents in cash, two handsfull OF
cigars ana what whiskey his stomach
craved was the fruit of his arduous
toll.
We are sorry to learn that the
little one of Mr.. and Mrs. J. D Wit
ter was taken suddenly sick at Milwau-
kee last Friday. DR.. Witter was tele-
graphed for, going thither on the P.
NJ. train, Saturday.
The Barnum Mill of Russell &
Co. started another feet of lumber
last week. This mill is turning out on
an average one feet of lumber in six
days.
The editor of the Sentinel is try
ng to pass himself off as the little abb
Quoted boy, Charley Ross. 'Twon' t
do Alec. Charlie is spoken of as ''an
unusually bright, interesting and in
telligent boy" IF you must attend
the Centennial, why, talk right out and
We'll make up purse.
We narrowly escaped frost last
week miss is as good as mile how