Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-13
Our Small Change.

1oA PooCy pOdo.
The river is full of logs.
st. Amour is putting up fine
awning.
Dwellings are going up in various
quarters of our city.
The universal yell-''Keep your
hens out of my Garden"
Only just think, 'sposin' this rain
had come before the ice had gone
out.
The grasshoppers in Minnesota
very highly recommend this springs
early cabbages.
Work upon the school building
was resumed last Tuesday. It will be
crowded to completion.
The Lays of the last Minstrels
are down to ten cents the dozen. Their
cackleations don't hold out.
Miss Ida Lillian Greeley married
Nick Smith last week. Ida seen him
roasted before Ida started another
Smith factory.
The chief reason why q Tomah
woman wouldn't buy Bible was be-
cause the agent hadn't one containing
any comic pictures.
The river has raised over two feet
since Sunday. Probably our Point
friends have been weeping over our
boom advantages.
If some of these fellers don't
stop saluting US, "Well, boss, how
came your eye ont ?" there'll be won
derful call for arnica.
We notice an advertisement ask
ing us: "Is your life aoorh ten cents?"
Well. since we lost our spelling Archie
tect, we don't know that it is.
They say Moulton's photograph
looks exactly like Judas Iscariot. It's
a good thing Judas is dead or there
would be no end of libel suits.
Y elbow River has been represented
the past week by quite delegation
serving as witnesses in the examination
of George Hiles for tampering with
the election laws.
How it detracts from the dignity
Of womanhood to meet a real pretty
face upon the sidewalk and hear it's
lips say: '.When [ come down town
again you can bet your bottom dollar,
I am going to dress up"
"A Stevens Point chap kissed his
girl about forty times right straight
along. and, when he had stopped, the
tears came into her eyes, and she said
is a sad tone of voice: All John, I
feat you have ceased to love me-"
'sNo, [ haven't" John replied, 'ebut [
must Breathe
And now the husbandman MAX
eth soap, and the air is full of his gen
tie words as he. patiently tolls, while
the cold woman keeps her eye on him
through the window, and he thinks
how happy little George Washington
must have been, who never made
I've.
How to become a valuable mem
Der Of society. Swallow $1,000 Dia-
mond Solitaire Ring, as that chap did
in New York recently; and now the
police are Watching him at both ends
of'the city. They keep green wire gauze
patch on the seat Of his trowsers, and
a muzzle over his mouth. They
down on Rings in Gotham.
We know Of no preparation that
gives such general satisfaction as
Vests Pulmonary Balsom, for the cur
ing of all throat and lung diseases,
such as coughs, colds, bronchitis,
whooping cough, asthma, catarrh, and
consumption. Vests Pulmonary Bal
sam IS not new preparation, pulled
into notoriety by extensive advertising,
but 1t has stood the test of fifteen
years, its sale increasing from year to
year, until it is now sold nearly over
the whole world.
The Tribune moves that we have
another "side holt" with the spelling
ing book next Saturday evening. We
I'd the mo mo, t-i-o-n s'tion," motion.