Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-01-07

/ i oslo hanSHelu mas Cleared the
Jim Fisk Estate out of $50, GOO and
wants $25, 600. She's pretty thing,
she is Jim's fortune is going where
the '.woodbine twineth" tasty.
"A line from Mr. Emery informs
us that his little one died Nov. 4th of
Consumption of the Bowels, after an
illness of three months. Mr.. and Mrs.
Emery will have the sympathy of our
whole community in their severe attic
ton.
The Roche House came near burn
ing last week Wednesday, One of the
girls happening to go in to one of the
upper rooms found it all ablaze about
the chimney which rests upon one of
the sleepers. 1t was a narrow escape
| for one of our finest structures.
Roche, of the Roche House, has
planted glorious lamp post, with s
glorious blazing lamp thereon, III front
Of his fine hotel. Its light illuminstes
the road for rods either way TO an ex-
tent that foolhardy man, though q
wayfarsr, may not err therein. Thanks,
Roche.
Fool Weston, the walkist, who ranks
next to Idiot Bates who ought to die
and be wrapped in the Stars and Stripes,
has Just succeeded in walking 500
miles in six days, Now let him go to
work and saw FIVE hundred cords of
wood in six hundred days and he will
have done something commemorate.
10. Skates Skates ! at F. J.
Wood s--the Wood County Drug
Store. We were somewhat surprised
to see this advertisement in the "Wo0d
county Reporter, but when we re-
member that Wood would, will and does
mean business, we wish him all success
in his new enterprise May he never
need his ''pure drugs and patent
medicines, but his course of life run
so smoothly that he may have the best
of health, without single pharmaceu-
teal preparation -Unicerstty Press
4Iudisom.
We have received from Andrew
| D. White, President Of Cornell Uni
versity. Ithica, n. Y. an Address de-
livered before the National Education
al Asso citation at Detroit last August,
upon the relations of the National and
State governments to Advanced Edl-
cation. 1t is clear, suscinct and argu
mentative, full of good ripe thought,
and wise suggestions.
We thank Bro Cole for the
"Minutes of the Wisconsin Annual
Conference of the NJ. Z. Church, .
held at Oshkosh last October. In
looking it over we find complete
book with a most valuable statistical
table giving she stations and circuits,
names Of preachers, value Of church
property, memberships, various collec-
tons, Sabbath School Intelligence &c.
&c. of the sixth district. comprising
the state The Methodists have
reason to be proud of the work their
organization is doing in Wisconsin.
= And now in the face of the hard
est times the world has ever seen since
the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock
Ginty of the Chippewa Herald has
gone and spread himself out on an
eight column quarto, the same as the
REPORTER before we ''took mp tuck :"
We are glad Of it. The Chip, Herald
has been Que of our best exchanges
Ginty is an able editor, genial fellow
and sound on everything except the
civil service business. We wish the
Herald greatly increase and may it
never have to go back to short dresses,
Our innocent Canvassing Board
since the New Year has been ushered
in and the time arrived for the surren-
dering of official positions to the law
fully elected, and consequently legally
entitled thereto, can see how their limo
cent action has operated to the advan-
tage of the county. Without some
rational action shall have been taken by
the County Board We shall have S some
two or three thousand dollars to be
paid in way of expenses, fees, salaries,
&c, &c. and all this will come out Of
the taxpayers. How do they like it :?
We HAVE re ceived the new journal.
/ The DaIv Commercial Times of MI