Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-18
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ln3HCl!SS S4tA1S - tudiit "''' l'AA.N'N
"; but his munifcence was by no
means 50 sterling as that Of Nr. Lick.
The $4,000 foa a monument to the
lthor Of the Star Spang ell Banner
shows that the gi7er IS an earnest Am
eucan and a patriot It IS a good deal
Of glory for 4 few stanzas.- Sentinel.
James is undoubtedly putting in his
/ best licks. That $4,000 monument
would almost tempt man to wish he
had been the author Of the Star Span
7 clei Banner It IS simply question
q living, and going to the circus and
slipping weak lemonade and holding a
lottery ticket and enjoying other minor
/ pleasures, or lying, on your back, very
dead, and holding ~ demoraliZed
stone quarry. while scores Of inc;picnts
5u1Iers are footing those ..stanzas and
thinking with throbbing hearts Of the
slumbering patriot who indited them.
We think We prefer to let somebody
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The Stevens Point Journal goes
into " PaIoAySa o. happiness O''' '"O
eut.ce into that incorporated mummy
/ Of a town, of two men from Green Cay
/, q III -. rVL,v'va lots
looking after null site. lney We i'''
OF good mill sites at the ro'n'' pu'
''ley are i'>o ''le s'a"'' '''II' so ~
man found down in New hampshire
II h'4 every P'5S.9ie a1S'A''59 on'
the one important requisite Of '7d'er.
he .Jon0ta. enlargcs upon the Won
dertul capacity OF the Point for busl-
ness, and anlmadyerts, With great gus
10 upon our deplorable condition --as 1t
appears to be in the eyes OF Pointer.
The Jonraat says; "becanse Their lit
tie burg has the appearance OF grave
yard, they want our city TO LOOK the
same, and then says by way OF EN-
phasis; Owe would advise them all to
mind their Own business. a little
closes application in that direction
might be particularly advantageous"
Now Ed.-Ed. is the little nervous
man that runs the Jomnal,--if our
city looks like a grave yard, it is when
said grave yard is attire with great
throng attending the obsequies of some
notable man, We've seen deadcr
places than grave yards on such occa-
sions. As to minding our own bust
ness" and the advantages that might
accrue by so doing, as you suggest.
that Is all very well. We ought, perhaps,
to obey the Scriptural injunction, ''let
the dead bury its dead, but it comes
so natural to lend helping hand that
we are a little careless. However,
drive on, drive on with your funeral
Ou0 scatter d niue H'ia ana o'H1' us
l"ieetant' about, that 1--we ana neai'ny
towns may not DC 'on'''ii i'I''s'' "0'
DC o0ll&ea 70 lnl@'7 'ne "''l''i' '"AS
arrives from Tue PURIFYING 'o.''' u
deiuhet business hopes L u'h r7''-
~ make SO mucA difference VITA our
CITY, "hefe VA9 rushing i"p''' WIN
power TO drive IhH'lon SPihoieS' an1
q Thousand rotarys, are continually
purifying and re-creating, but soma
towns oro rot ca favored and then
!, l,,1.,, 1,,,,,ls ooro
your own business MEATH oe'h'n - cure
fuIness. Don't be SO blamed sein7n,
If YOU are bound to die, why die if
Won want TO Init remember Plover,
49, o,..,.3,u,,;,a so++1o,,on4 OIL
ana 'ae 25"'ol''T,'' '3'''7'''' q"
Sprin@Hold- Don Try 10 oFa3 Che'h
down into the commercial sepalchre
/ inst bccausa Won NAV feel lonesome in
,,,,,r ,,r4roe,,;o,, Ro little ,,cnerous
MI 0'"'t''''
The passage Of the Civil Rights bill
the Senate has caused a profound SEN
so+ion tbrorrbort the SoutA in regard