Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-16
IF Mrs Holm Wilmot or Oumat

Mr.. John Rablin she will receive in.
telli-ence that will be to her abvan-
tage
Billy Chambers entertains the
Tomah-hawks July 18th. OF course
BILLY" will be appreciated in Tomah ;
though if they have to pay an admit
tance fee Billy viii have a slim house,
an awful slim house.
Rogers Grand Rapids Silver Cor
net Blnl will give a dance at Music
Hall, on Frid1y. the 24sh inst. The
leader wishes to increase the humble
of pieces in the band AMI the proceel Is
Of this entertainment are TO be devoted
to their purchase.
One of the finest superb rosewood
case, Schumacher Pianos, seven and 4
half octaves, for sale at the Wood Co.
Drug Store. This instrument Is new,
direct from the mandatory, aud will
be sold cheap to make room for an in
voice of Cabinet Organs.
The corn don't seriously object to
this weather, but AL flesh is grass. "
If we were corn we'd stalk about in
silk and tassels and look as husky as a
little colonel We'd be sweet, none of
your old seed corn. If We weren't
grass we think we could enjoy little
Of this temperature.
The Stevens Point Journal says ::
Those who have visited the cranberry
marshes in this county inform us that
the prospects for good crop are very
promising. The blossoms are opening
several days earlier than last year,
which is an excellent indication that
they will ripen early enough to be out
of the way Of the frosts next fall.
The latest astronomical diagnosis
indicates that the comet Will swat Dex-
ter and Remington with Its frey tail
about the Dist. We hear that Rem
iington has made his viii and last tes-
tament whereby Wood Co. gets the
! drainage fund hereafter. What George
will do, the D l only knows.
The woods are all ablaze to the
south and southwest Of Centralia, and
the marsh east ana southeast Of Grand
Rapids is in fearful state Of conAa-
grafton Such are the reports reach
inc rs, and the dense clouds OF smoke
! paliing the heavens attest the truth OF
the report.
The weather has been fearfully hot
the past three weeks, III various locali.
ties. Several cases of sunstrot,e are
reported in New York, Boston, Phila-
Iclphia ana Chicago The mercury i,
reporte to have reached 1922 in The
shale at Fort RtH liIl, Dakota Terri
tory, aui los : AMI 100 was the
standard figures for days together wish
scarcely the variation Of degree un
less it were to go still higher
-Biela, who had comet smashed
mp by the negligence of Ola Probabil
it's in leaving the switch open where
by old Earth went through it, may
possibly bring an action for damages
The comet is now Chime | to be only 4
second hanl affair AMI not worth Gy-
ing up It has gone OF into space
with a crap7er naiar its tail AMI makes
only about $50, 900. eco miles an hour.
We suggest that we, Bieja off before
he serves an injunction on this lump
Of dirt which we are wont to call
Home. sweet Home
The Central Wisconsin Of Wan
sar has the following. It i not gen
orally known perhaps that Chnbbnck,
long the local Of the Ce"'ral, is a broth
er Of the Renowned Fanny Forester,
whose beautiful stories made 50 many
hearts glad in years past:
Miss Catherine Chuhbuck, of Ham
iIton, Madison County New York,
arrived in our city on Thursday last
on a visit to her brother and family.
and proposes, as We are informed, to
remain some weeks. Miss G. is sis
ter Of the late Mrs. JuGson, mission
ary to Burmah, and who under the
incog of Fanny Forester became
one of the most popular literary wri
tiers in the States. Miss C's. trip
was made from Utica to this city in
four days, (stoppages includei)
She expresses herself well pleased
with Wisconsin,. what she has seen OF
it, and is delighted with Wausau.
"A correspondent of the Stevens
Point Pinery writing from Amherst.
says the reason Amherst IS selected AS
the place for holding the camp meet