Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-26
Our Small Change.

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-Redbreasts are as scarce as Green
backs.
See Tim Days card for Marshal
in this issue.
Won't it seem good to hear it
thunder once more.
Last Sunday night was one of the
coolest of the season.
Skates. sieighs and boys sleds have
retired to private lite.
| The music of the Spheres The
click Of the Spring marbles.
Thirty days hath September
we'll, who disputes it?
Don't forget the Tea" and Fes
tival this afternoon and evening.
How to prevent nose bleed. Keep
your nose out of other peoples bust
ness.
Hens are feeling migty proud
just because eggs are worth 20 cts
dozen.
Keep on reckoning for butter to
'scome down )" it will roll another
month.
March is maintaining her reputa-
ton She is going out very like a
jaekass.
-"Let's Port our helms" is what
they say now. A little more high
toned you see.
Don't fail to read the article on
the Liquor Business on the first page
in this issue.
Quite a sprinkling of snow fell
last Tuesday night. 1t will help carry
off the old.
Tim Days chimney burning out
last Sunday created quite an alarm,
many thinking another fire was on the
tapis.
We learn that Hiles Portable Mill
broke down last week. The machin-
cry has been brought to the Foundry
for repairs.
Less than two more weeks before
election. What are our people to do ?
AROUSE and put strong ticket be-
fore the people at once.
The American Sardine, Co.'S Bone
less Sardines, are much better, and less
than half the cost Of imported Sar-
dimes. 11y1.
Boss Tweed has been removed
from the Penitentiary to the jail.
Now his hair can grow and the stripes
may assume the perpendicular.
The streets are full of men coming
from the woods. Now if we had a
reading room, many a one would be
saved from drifting into the saloon.
Twas Congregational Preacher
They say it was Henry Ward Beecher
Who said to a hen that
She was a most beautiful creature
Then the hen. she laid two in his hat
She thought 1t was fair, tit for tat,
And thus did the hen reward Beeeher.
Jack went to Wausau last week
and his last issue contains an interest
ing gossipy article relative to the
thriving burgh and it's genial inhabit-
ants.
Remember the Teachers Institute
next Monday at the School House
We hope every teacher in Wood Coun-
ty will be present and remain during
the entire session. It will be week
we'll spent.
Christian Sharpe the inventor of
the famous Sharpe rife, died suddenly
at his residence in Vernon, Conn, last
Thursday night of hemorrhage of the
lungs, at the age of sixty three years.
He was native of New Jersey.
Harvard says that enquire" is
right, and Yale says its Enquire
Our D. says ''Yale Harvard work
to enquire correctly into the pronuu-
citation of that word now that the two
great seats Of learning are at difference
in their opinions.
The Good Templar's Lodge is in
very prosperous condition. So ear
nest an interest was never before mani
| tested in the furtherance of the tenn
perance cause ia our city. We only
hope it may continue to grow till a
public sentiment shall have been built
I'D that will forever prohibit the pres
encc of the peace and home destroyer
in our midst.
We Rear that the Centfaiia Grist
Mill has again changed hands, Messrs.
Jackson & Co. of Oshkosh having
purchased it of the late proprIetors.
Messrs. jackson & Co. are reported to