Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10
Our Small Change.
February tastes Of March.

-At UeloW AOio iaSt oOSua
morning, week.
The engine was taken out for in
spection last Monday.
Don't forget the Choir Concer
this evening at the Congregations
church.
-"Neither here nor there" is wha
the girl said who was on the track Of
hea
The weather betokens spring, but
it is hard to determine what it will look
like on the morrow.
The Chippewa Herald, one of the
best papers in the state, has swallowed
the Avalanche.
The Adams Co. Press is out as .
quarto. We are glad to note this slgr
Of prosperity in Bro. Pierce's paper.
SO far as we can learn trade is
wearing pull-back everywhere, but
Grand Rapids doesn't wear any larger
one than our sister cities.
The Improvement Company is en-.
larging the locker pier. Stone is being
drawn up the river on the ice, for fill
ing.
When the cutter runners scour or
the frozen sand, the girls say Couch
dear me drive over there" where il
looks as though there had been light
frost the night before.
The Green Bay State Gazette. al
ways good paper, is decidedly im-
proved under the editorial manage
ment of Mr.. Curtis. Mr.. G. is a clear
able writer.
The bill amending the city char
ter so that our spring election may be
held in March, has passed the Senate
and will undoubtedly pass the Assem-.
bly,. 1t is change absolutely need
ed.
We are indebted to Mr.. Ed Smith
for lunches of pie plant and celery O.
his raising, out of doors. Mr.. S. il
one of the best gardeners in the west
as these testify. Ed. sells his celery
for three cents bunch and can supply
all our citizens. Give him your or
ders.
-Lumbermen at Whitfield. n. H.,
are working for Sc month and board
A good teamster, with four horses
sled, and chains, al equipped for log
ing, gets So 25 day, ana has to pay
for his own repairs at that. Wood
men get all the way from IS to ST.
and board, with here and there an ex
ira hand at $40, or foreman at $26.
Failing to secure our usual supply
of paper from Chicago last week, we
were obliged to send some of our sub
scribers half sheets and half blank at
that, as we supposed we had an ample
supply till our issue was entirely off
We don't propose to be caught in &
dilemma again, and ask our patrons to
not be too hard on us for this blundel
which was not ours, but Chicago's.
Mr.. James Wick, the Rochester
scotsman and florist, is an old-time
printer, and worked at the lease" with
Horace Gaeely and Robert Craighead
the wellknown ook-publisher and prin
ter of New York. This accounts fol
the beautiful topographic style of the
publications issued by Mr.. Wick il
his business, and also is the secret Of
the genial seeds MANS scientific ane
energetic advertising,
1t does US good to note the fac
that w. T. Reaser is in fair way tt
make his everlasting fortune out Of
his patent buckles He returned from
the east few days ago having made
arrangements with the 2. T. Barnun
Manufacturing Company, for the ex
tensive manufacture of all the varie
ties. Old fashioned buckles will
pIease hold their tongues. The new
are the thing.
A COOP DRIvE.-We find the fol
lowing in the Appleton Crescent, writ
ten undoubtedly by SAM RYAN. [
| is a good drive at Jack Turner, of tn
Portage Register, the present Chic
Clerk Of the Senate:
''If any of our lady readers hav'
choice plants which they wish to pro
tect during our cold snaps, let them Sc
a lighted kerosene lamp in the mids
of them, and the heat from them vii
protect them during the coolest nights