Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-26

All our people will be glad to
learn of Rev. Jesse Coles rapid i'm
provement. He'll be as good as new
in few weeks.
Thanks for an admission card to
the Portage Co. Agricultural Society's
Fair at Amherst, Sept. y, % and %.
We shall try to be among the vese-
tables.
Mr.. Fargo the general supervisory
agent of the American Express Co.
was in the city last Monday, looking
after the interests of the Co. in the
carrying business.
The Pra. Chick. infatuation is at
its height now. A Plover ''sport"
writing to friend at Prairie du CHEN
superseded the epistle, Prairie Chick
en-, Wise.
"A brave Nimrod who lost his bot
tie coming in from the marsh with a
bag of pra. chicks, was heard to very
sensibly remark, "Well there's no
great loss without some small game"
AN exchange says:
The trunk-makers of Oshkosh have
struck for higher wages.
Let no check be put upon them
let 'em travel.
Wed pity the little lad whose
mother had been so unfortunate as to
marry a man named Frost, should he
venture to make application as cram
berry picker, particularly if the loving
twain had playfully called him Jack.
When we saw those circus chaps
offering palm leaf fans for twenty five
cents, we thought how genius was
wasting, and the noble lightning rod,
book agent and life insurance profess
sions all open,
Charley Slocum went to the Point
last Saturday. What in the world in
duced Charley to 60 to the Point!
Now if he'd "a staid at home maybe
we'd had no frost. That head, yea
know.
"A little son of Clarence Warren
fell from horse in front of the LIST
National Bank, last Thursday, badly
bruising his face and damaging
him internally somewhat. The little
fellow is doing finely.
-"Batchelor Benz is the title of
choice volume recently issued by Messrs
Atwood & Culver. It is said to be a
very interesting story. But then how
are we to praise it's merits not havinga
copy to peruse?
L. A. Wheeler and son, promi-
nent drygoods merchants of Milwau-
kee, were recently guests at the resi-
dence Of R. G. Worthington. The
parties were up on prairie chicken
hunt, and fishing excursion.
1T does worry the Stevens Point
Psnery--the go by Howe's circus gave
the Central Cisy. The Ed. of that
paper, (is it Bro. Cate p has learned
that we have prayer meetings at Grand
Rapids, too. It must be Cate, Swayze
couldn't tell the difference between
prayer meeting and circus. If Ca
leb should ever get into one, you would
hear him for week, odd sell, id
sell, no clown. Well, Currrn, what
yer goin' to have for dinner to-day?"
Our article on the cranberry
marshes don't read worth a cent since
the terrible frost; nevertheless 1t is
all true and tells "what might have
been." Just play that saucy Jack
hasn't left his card, when you read it.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. Bearss
is in nowise discouraged, and that he
bears up bravely under so fearful
wiping out of the finest cranberry
crop ever grown in Wood County.
year, and undoubtedly there
will be smiles where there are now
frowns and disappointment. Frosts
before the middle Of September are
not "specialty."
We have received the following
from Portage County relative to the
frost damage:
STEVENS POINT. Aug. 2S-Severe
frosts last Saturday and Sunday nights
utterly ruined the cranberries in this
county. With favorable fall weather
we should have gathered at least 1000
barrels, but now there will not be
enough to supply the home demand.
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