Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
Our Small Change.

And now Brown, the ice-man, be-
gins to find his occupation going.
That sidewalk along the south
side of Judge Woods residence does
not need repairing much.
The tramps are getting fewer.
Getting too cold for much comfort in
sleeping in fence corners.
The G. B. & NJ. r. R. have dou-
bled their carrying capacity the past
month and still the cry is for more
cars.
Candidates for the office of Coun-
ty Superintendent are getting thick.
Lynch, Rourke, Mead and Williams
are on the war path.
j. D. Witter has bought out Mr..
Trow's interest in the CentIalia mill,
and the firm name will now be Cole
man, Jackson & Co.
The Bible studio. at the Congre-
eational Church under the leadership
OF j. ID. Witter are very interesting
and enjoyable affairs Those interest
ed In its studies canno: fail to be bene-
! fitted.
An Oshkosh genius solves the
resumption problem. As gold is worth
only three per cent. premium, he says
let the government stick three cent
postage stamp on each dollar bill and
the thing is did
The funeral Of Mr.. Byron, on
Monday, was one OF the largest ever
witnessed in our city. There were
over seyenty-fve conveyances in at
tendance and-the procession was near
ly two miles long.
That couple that were enjoying
themselves in SO cosy way on the
Ccntralia shore near the Grand Shute,
last Sunday, are hereby informed that
Charley Slocum has got field glass,
Of the strongest magnifying powers.
The corn crop in our county is
turning out much better than was sup
posed. Had it not been for the drouth
it would have been an enormous Weld.
| The counties to the south Of us have
still better crop-the drouth being
not near SO severe there.
chicago papers quote cranberrie4
at from SIS TO 50, so PSF barrel There
should be no such difference in the
price as this Our growers may soon
learn, though it may cost them dear,
that there is not much profit III crowd
in. the market with green berries, not
half looked over Those are the So
berries.
The "Red Caps, of Centralia and
the "Gophers" of this place, PLAYED a
match game of Ball, on Saturday last,
resulting in defeat of the Red
Caps" by score of 13 to 5. The
boys play first rate. bat 1t looked as
though the Red Caps had two or
three captains, Boys, keep still dur
ing the game and let your captain do
all the talking.
The lumber market is materially
improving Prices have advanced
about 81 90 per NJ on the lower grades.
Our farmers are prosperous and they
are the bone and sinew of our land.
Let them prosper and our country is
wealthy. Our Greenback friends can
iesislate greenbacks into existence by
the car load, but they can't legislate
one dollar in wealth into our country.
1t takes work to do that.
One can now start at Clark &
Scott mill in the town of Rudolph.
go from there north to Mill Creek sta
ton on the Wis Central Railroad. fol-
low the railroad up to Marshfeld, from
there to the NasonviIlc settlement in
all distance of about so miles and he
will not go mile without finding at
least one improved farm. There is
nothing strange in this fact taken sep
arately, but when you come to take in
to consideration the fact that five wears
ago you could have taken the same
journey and not met with single in
habitant, we think it speaks volumes
for the development our county is un-
dersoing.
The recent DEVELOPMENTS in life
insurance business as conducted by
some of the fraudulent concerns. have
put all upon their guard against the
danger of being swindled. Such an
odium has attached to the whole uues-
ton, that insurance, especially on life.