Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-05
Our Small Change.


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Mary pigeon as yet.
The weather keeps mighty shady.
-Grasshoppers song-this wheat by
and BIZ. -
Teams are crossing and re-cross-
ing the bridge. "a 6
-Peshtigo. is being scourgcd With
the scarlet fever. - - =. -as 49,
E. Thunder and Iightning-last Sat
urday night. Z z.G
Monday morning vas as euld e.
Tildsn's chances for the presidency.
The ice will be out of the river at
this point, probably by another week
Charley Slocum advertises red
top youngones for setting out this
spring. a
Gong. Choir rehearsal at tie resi-
denee of Mrs. G. 0. Baker this Satar-
day evening. @s e
The Temple of Honor numbers
nearly 80 membe.s, and still there are
''more to follow. --a
The hens seem to lay around since
Easter, as though they cackleated their
contract was finished. II 5-e s1r
The Grand Rapids Dramatic So.
ciety will play at Wausau on Wednes-
day evening, April, 18th.
Our water-power will show itself
to glorious advantage on the rapids by
another week. We invite the whole
world to take look. s
All sorts Of weather last We'd
nesday, one conld take his piek-and
bust up frozen sand or wade in slush
as best suited his convenience.
-SpaFord & Cole have just received
about $500 worth of boots and shoes
of all casts and kinds, and say that
they inted to suit anyone in kind,
quality and price. Dolph says he will
try them on. mc2Sw2.
Mr.. Huntley Of Fort Howard,
Wis, aged 10 ears, died at that
place last week. He voted at every
presidential election from Washington
TO Grant. Feeble health prevented
him from depositing his vote fer
Hayes,
An unfortunate editor of one of
our country exchanges, thus addresses
his delinquent subscribers:
Friends, we are penniIess. jobs
turkey was a millionaire compared to
our depressed treasury To-day, if
salt was two cents a barrel. we could
not buy enough to pickle jay bird. p"
1t was reported that the open win
ter, and the successive warm DAYS and
freezing nights in February had almost
entirely destroyed the grassloppers in
Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. Such
is not the case however the recene
warm days have shown the ground to
be full of the eggs of the pests, full Of
vitality.
Some person mas stolen a dog bel5n-
ing to the editor of the Madison Dam
crat During the last days of a ses-
sion of the Legislature nothing is safe
there If we were to guess, we would
say that a search warrant directed TO
the constable at New Lisbon, would
find the dog. Assemblyman Cash
would not steal, we are satisfied, but
If dog should attempt to follow him
off he is to kind hearted to drive him
back.--La Crosse San,
Joseph Dessert of Mosinee and E.
Laviene of Grand Rapids, Wis, have
just completed their contract with the
Wisconsin River Improvement Co,
for putting an apron on the dam at
Little Bull falls It consist of Eve
substantial cob piers at the foot of Tie
dam 20 feet deep, 26 feet wide, reach
1870 feet across the river. They are
filled in from bottom to top with stone
and the whole decked over with lumber
thoroughly bolted and trenailed. The
construction was-superintended by Mr..
Lavigne in person and is pronounced
one of the best jobs ever done en- the
rIfer.-Central Wisconsin,.