Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Our Small Change.

u pun Cfil-d REPEATER
Good morning Mr.. Potato Bug.
Hail All Hail last Friday.
The cranberry vines are just more
than climbing.
A misplaced switch-Dem ar
hars in de butter.
Several refreshing showers have
made vegetation gigglc.
That was a wicked man who said
the girls who pick cranberries an swamp
angels.
SHAY Emmons sells phine phidd-
les and beaex. Every phlddle has its
beau.
u. S. Marshal Oakley, was in
the City Monday looking after the
Belanger estate.
The front of Frank Pomainville's
new building is one Of the finest in
our city. 1t will soon be ready for
occupancy.
See advertisement of John Hamm
in this Issue. He has large stock,
sells his goods cheap and gives you
good weight and measure.
Go over and get your supper at
Garrison's Hall this evening for 25
cents, and help make the festival a
success.
New Millinery Goods received by
Express every day at James Morgan's s.
$50 and 38S East Water Street, Mil
waukee. may3lw4
A meeting 20 organize or re-or-
ganize the Wood County Agricultural
and Mechanical Society is called for
Saturday.
BY the number of persons claim
ing of right to open the Vanderbilt
will, we should conclude that the Com
modore had only good will for all men.
If Count Schouvleoff will only
visit America next winter he can count
on US giving him a job on our side
walk with a snoWshoyel.
We notice the stately form Of
Peter Quinn upon our streets. Peter
is tall, like a hemlock, square as a
bridge timber and sound as oak. He
halls from Necedah.
A little boy wants to know why
his papa's morning dram is like a
vegetable, and our devil tells him be-
cause its par snip. Will somebody
please extinguish that dev,
The average Mississippian i'm
magines that reconciliation" means to
fill man with buckshot and slaughter
innocent children. Let Prest. Hayes
send them a dictionary on the point
of bayonet.
The Mehan Bros shown extraor-
binary pluck in running their lumber
the past week. They would stick, but
they would rnu. The rocks are quite
polished we suspect, for the lumber
has given them a good rubbing up.
The weather indicated frost Satur-
day and Sunday nights, but Monday
came out as fresh and warm as salt
rising biscuit, and all green things
laugh in their little beds. We rather
guess Jack E. will sshold bit
Two men, tramps, tramping our
streets last Tuesday, a week, acctden-
tally fell off the road near Hasbrouck' s
shop and now threaten to sue the
city for damages. Too thin boys, too
thin. The road ought to be fixed,
but men don't fall off slight embank-
mcnt IN the daylight so easily.
Our base ball boys met on their
grounds last Friday and played a game
of ball, playing 10 innings on side,
resulting in score of II to IS. Our
"Granite' club who were so success
tul last season. winning match games
out of 8 played, are better prepared,
we are informed by their captain, than
they were last season. "Foresters, y
wake up.
We are sorry to chronicle the
failure of HI. Belanger and Bro. No
better and more Conscientious business
man, than Henry Belenger is doing
business in our city. His failure is
not the result so much of 4 stringent
money market, as unfortunate asso-
Citations in trade. We don't believe
that Mr.. b. lays his misfortune so
much to "ruinous financial policy
as the Tribune alleges, as to matters
entirely foreign to any financial pol
icy" of which perhaps, we have no
right to speak.
Quite an amusing incident occurred
at tho post 0ffloa In Gr,nd p;J
last Monday. The mail had just ar
rived from the East and Deputy Burt