Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-25
Our Small Change.


Monday.
w hen man asks you for your
muller, tell him it's Lent. Z
: -Dux are beginning to show them
selves. HE thee, gentle Spring.
| Where, 0 where are the BLAIRs?
Cadwallader will be shouting that same
by and by.
We've seen several spiirit hern,on,-
c'ers about town, and they were all
dorm way down
The weather has moderated nicely.
but :" Old Calomel " said go" last
Sunday morning, nevertheless.
$4,000 reward for Spring Vio-
let before March 10. Payment made
on the Wisconsin River Bank
Schultz will have one Of the best
Prescription Gases west of the Beech
er-Tilton trial when completed.
The g Can, Can" is threatening
the Tonaoh toes. Rather early, but
we suppose they have been put up -
to it,
--Evarts, the great Constitutional
lawyer on the Beecher side, has only
fourteen children. We don't be dis
couragcd.
When somebody shows us the back
bone Of this winter Of our discomfort
in two pieces, then well believe it is
really fractured.
Wiley is entitled to thanks. He
has been drawing capital wooden let
ter A all through the heavy snow which
fell Tuesday night.
Following in the wake Of the NV,
York Herald. the Polar Bears, dis
gusted with the cold weather, are pc
titioning Ola Probabilities to resign.
A Minnesota Touring mill was
stoppe; the other night day by gorge
Of fish, and four tons of them were re-
moved. The boys never have to spit
on their bait in Minnesota.
-Mr. Balcomb, we have learned at
late day, broke his collar bone while
saving wood. He is improving. Now
all the boys think they have a valid
excuse for not touching wood pile
In consequence of the railroad
war now raging, one can buy a ticket
from Chicago to New Gork for sixteen
dollars. and few cents. Let's 90 and
not gig back.
What Frank Wood had to senl
half barrel of Meats foot oil to Tomah
| for, we cant comprehend. We" know
that Cromwell froze his ear, bat then,
it was only half barrel.
Miss Libbie Smith met with Sc
we're accident last week by falling down
pair of outside stairs. It was feared
for time that she had fractured one
or more Of her ribs, but she is all right
now, conyaIescing.
This cod weather is conducive to
poetical quotations. and we hear peo-
pie explating on sunny climes," etc
But you ought to see our sonny
climb Cor the wood pile these cold
mornings. Talk about poetry!
Rev s. Z. Lathrop of New Lon
don gives very interesting article on
E" Liquor in New London " in the
Times OF the 11th. The Rev. in COM
pairing the business of 1874 with that
Of 1873, finds decrease amounting to
S7,27S Good for New London
Rev. Mr.. Harris did not arrive in
season to preach last Sabbath The
trains not connecting, he was obliged
to remain at MERRIAM over the Sab
bath. He reached our city on the
$50 P. NJ train last Monday Preach
ing may be expected at the Congrega-
tionai Church next Sabbath.
The ice is four feet thick in the
eddy. Ii we have heavy rains and an
early spring; good by . taxable prop
erty fluctuations, assessments, &c . If
war Is inevitable, let it come We re.
repeat. let it come. We live on the
table land.
"A few choice spirits adorned Will
ley's Livery Stable with choice signs