Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
Our Small Change.

Weep not for meas the onion
said to the cook.
Chicago bummers are thicker than
Minnesota grasshoppers.
Court begins next week, Monday.
The Jurors will take notice.
Don't forget the Methodist Fes-
tiral to-day at Music Hall.
Negotiation is looking up and the
harvester feels like swinging his
cradle.
Not less than dozen brick resi-
Iences are in course of erection in
Wausau.
The Illinois State Penitentiary
cleared $4,000 above Its expenses last
month.
The officers of Riverside
Lodge No. ia were installed last Mon
day evening.
Nearly all our mills are cutting
up logs though the supply on hand is
not large.
And still the call is for more
houses. A vacant dwelling can't be
found in our city.
Stevens Point rejoiceth over new
fine steamer christened The Central
City. Good for the Point.
Rev. Jesse Cole delivered a very
earnest and able discourse at the Cong
Church last Sabbath evening.
1t is estimated that the internal
revenue receipts for this month will
exceed S9,000,O00.
The river like baby just learn
ing to toddle, rises and falls, but on
the whole behaves itself admirably.
The Iowa State Fish Commission
er has placed 10000 young shad in
the Des MONIES river at De5 Moines.
There will be no service at the
Cong. Church next Sabbath. The
Sabbath School Will be held as usual.
We are told that We shall have
lots Of rain now that 1.-The ice is bro
ken" We'd like to know where the ice
has been.
Milking the Woodruff mp with the
Beecher-Tilton muss is like dropping
hunk Of assafndita into priyy
vault.
The thermometer stood at 1872
in London recently. 4 terrible storm
followed almost equaling the Pittsburg
calamity.
We don't want to treat serious
matter lightly, but we do wish that
Hank and Thedie would fix up that
little difficulty.
Cranberry pickers are being
sought after thus early. This looks as
though there were fer berries in
Wood County after all.
The prospect is now good for an
abundant yield of potatoes, as well as
of corn and other cereals. The rains
have made things look brighter.
The transfer Of the North Caro-
linians from the depot to the hotel last
Monday was as good an advertisement
as first class Brass Band.
Various are the comments of the
press on the Beecher-TiIton fasco.
Some sharp editor says; Beecher is
dung hill covered with flowers.
We learn that Cashier Cochran
Of the 1st National Bank is confined
to a sick bed We hope to see him in
his position Of trust and confidence
again very soon.
--Messrs. Compton & Cole are re-
moving the old awning which has
sheltered innumerable of the just and
unjust, good pay and bad pay, live
men and dead beats for years.
Prof. Balcomb announces the
postponement of his usual fall concert
by his pupils, until the early winter,
for certain reasons. The concert will
be given probably in December.
IN PUBLISHING the Address of the
Union Republican Congressional Com
mittee we omit that portion relating to
Postal arrangements which is not Of
material Importance
A man named Squires working at
Clark & SCOTS mill don't wear a ring
on one of his fingers now. The head
ing saw coaxed him not to do so, and
fDr. Witter convinced him that it was
among the imDossibillties.
The Louisville Courier Journal
editor saws in response to the interrog-