Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
Our Small Change.

And now Jim Miller has been
sou-struck.
Gov. Taylor says that Sat Clark
can't be one of his sat-alites.
The copious rain will help materi-
ally the hay and potato crops. Good !.
Lynn don sprinkle now, we don't
know what denomination he does be-
long to now.
There has recently been a change
in agents at the Amherst station, L.
?. Harvey retiring
If you want baby carriage
cheap, now is the time to buy at the
Wood Co Drug Store.
ALI. Luns, the genial land agent
for the Wise Central r. r. Co., was
in town last Tuesday.
The thermometer stood at about
1000 in Brooklyn, we judge, last
week, by the B. & T. scale.
The American Sardine, Co.'S Bone
less Sardines, are much better, and less
than half the cost of imported Sar-
dimes. 11y1.
The pigeons are nesting this year
in the vicinity of Colby, where there
ar: said to be countless thousands of
them.
The name of the station of the
Wisconsin Central heretofore known
as Wa!tham, has been changed to
Spencer.
New potatoes have been selling in
our streets for S1.25 per bushel the
past week. s. so has been asked, but
consumers couldn' see it.
The depot at Plovcr was entered
one night last week, and three chests
of tea carried off Two Of them were
subsequently recovered, but no clue to
the thief
We return thanks to Congress
man McDnl for a Compendium of the
9th Census of the United States
It is valuable statistical work, we
prize.
Certain cuthouses in orr city in
the naighborhood of the &" Magnolia >
need looking after by the rightfully
constituted authorities bnt who are
they?
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
says the committee appointed in that
city TO collect funds for the needy of
Oshkosh raised the handsome sam o.
$2,34034.
The foreman of the REPORTER of
flee says that now he has got to run
ring the matrimonial engine on the
double track road it will be we'll enough
to :" look out for the CurrS'
The farmers in the neighborhood
of Watertown and all through Column
bia county are turning their cattle into
the fields, or firing the crops ruined by
the drouth, to destroy the chintz bugs.
If the publishers of GRIFFITH
GAUNT don't do the fair thing by Mrs.
Tilton for advertising the book, they
will be ungrateful indeed. We'd like
to have an interest in 4" Griffith now.
A copious rain "opened up" last
Friday evening, and all vegetation re-
joiced exceedingly. The heavens
talked to the earth in thunder tones,
and already the gardens have begun to
& sass back.
Gin vain the fancy strives to
paint the sickening ef1uvia that
arises from the vaults and impure
places that need cleansing, Already
we hear of fevers that have their ORR
gin in the malaria injecting the atmos-
phere.
! When you see the doctor carelessly
looking over the plum trees to see how
the yield promises, and a. little boy the
next morning conveying home PAIR
of steelyards, it is pretty go'd sign
that the good angels have been max
ing somebody present.
Our old friend, Moses Norton
installing his fist for the hind qnarter
Of beef Slated an ak into it the other
day. Moses discovered his mis- steak,
and will be ready to throw up stone
wall or move building Oh call, by the
time you read this.