Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-23
Black raspberries and blackberries

Benefit Ball tomorrow night az
Music Hall for the benefit Of she Roy
ers Cornet Band.
The Harvest is calling many ot
the boys to Minnesota. Mr.. Glass
ford informs US that he sold eleven
tickets for the harvest fields last Tues
day,
The bridge Is being repaired as
rapidly as possible. It Is ike setting
bone in the anatomy of a mummy.
1t won't knit Is 1t advisable to spend
more money on the d!Iapidassd struet~
ure?
The Foundry Is duplicating the
mammoth Ben Single engine for Mr..
Gerard. Mr.. Paterick can engineer
IS ponderous an engine as any of the
works Of far greater presensions.
Lets all swing oar hats fer street
commissioner Ed HayiIand, who has
made pass.ble street through what
was hitherto an impossible swamp be-
tween the tannery and Dr.. c. Z. Wit
ter's residence.
The question is, since the comet
is supposed to have fetched" US one
with its tail yesterday: Are We in /.
comet-ose state or no? Probably, no.
Our D. will persist in his little Joke!
-Rablin is stacking piles of lumber
near his mill just what our manufac
turers ought to have been doing years
ago. Seasoned lumber has ever been
q very scarce commodity.
We learn Of other attempts at
burglary Suspicious characters have
been detected about the premises Of
Ed. WheeIan and Frank Belanger.
The burglars at Parishes. we learn,
succeeded in appropriating Roberts
watch also.
Our friend Smith, the barber and
hair dresser, had the misfortune to
have the insignia of his business, which
is a striped pole, tumble through one
of his large windows Tuesday morning.
Mayor Lunt was being shaved at the
time, but we don't know as that had
anything to DO with it.
The Tribune speaks in great
praise of the Centralia -four manufac-
tured by Messrs. Trow, Coleman & Co.
Other of onr citizens attest the excel
lence of the Centralia -four, which is
fast becoming popular not only at
home, but abroad. The enterprising
manufacturers are meeting with en-
viable success, and We are glad of
it.
A Boston man sent $4,000 west
to buy cheese. It lay in a Madison
bank for a long time, and was finally
sent back with the statement that it
was impossible to buy $4,000 worth of
Wisconsin cheese here. If the grain
farmers, instead of sitting on the fences
watching chintz bugs and complaing
that they had nothing to sell, had only
bought few COWS apiece, they would
have raked in that $4,000 in cash, and
a great deal more.-sState Journal,
On account Of the unsettled state
Of railroad matters IN this State. it
was supposed that the Wisconsin Val
ley Railroad would remain at It's pres
ent terminus at the town of Knowlton,
bit it has now besn decided to push it
on to Wausau. eighteen miles, accord
ing to the arrangement entered int
last winter. Arrangements are made
for extending the telegraph line from
Grand Rapids to Wausau, and before
snow falls that fourishing town up in the
woods, will have quick and easy means
of communication with the outside
world.
Rev. Jesse Cole delivered pow
erful sermon last Sabbath evening, at
the Cong. Church, On building, the
material used, &c, &c. The Rev.
made an analogous argument, showing
the necessity of building for eternity
the superstructure of silver, gold and
precious stones, the foundation the
Rock Of Ages" An attentive aud
fence listened with interest to the Rev.
who spoke with great eloquence and
power.
"A young lady called at the RESI-
dence of ". S. Mellen, Gen. Ticket
Agent 6. B. l. NJ R'y, Lass week.
sadly destitute, in fact she hadn't a
rag to her back and was very hungry.
Mr.. Mellen with bis usual courtesy
took her in and viii give her train Of
her own one of these days if the
fashions don't change. Mellen,