Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-11

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its pins. but it finds it mighty thin
work. Somebody wants to tip bar
rel of Spirits Nitre Dulcis, in about
Grandfather.
-Greenbacks are selling for 81 IL
They are bringing good price, there
fore hadn't we better make some more
of them, quoth the greenbacker.
There is dog in Centralia that
they say is down dead from barking at
candidates 70: County Superintendent.
who have been perambulatins among
our sister city.
IT this weather is not cool enough
for you, you will have to wait until
next winter, when the mercury is at
80 below, before you can experience
absolute happiness.
The G. B. & NJ. r. r. Is taxed
to the utmost to furnish rolling stock
for The transportation of the immense
quantities of wheat passin. over the
road, and the business is increasing.
: There is rumor on the streets
that friend Ferguson is negotiating for
the hardware stock and building late
iy owned 10y l.. B. Warner. Should
like to see Ferguson p. rmauantly Local
ted in our midst.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, in speak
ing Of the arrest of man in Illinois
for assuming false name. warQs Wis
Cousin Democrats who are styling them
selves Rcformcrs to look out, as that
severe law is i'll force in this state.
A prominent democrat in one Of
the towns of this county says that he
will get 100 votes in that town for NJ
LIS. and not one Of them will be a
democrat, by pretending that he is go-
! ing tor greenbackS, but he is not, by
damn sight -Port0ge Register.
Our inability to write up the Fair
this week, owing to severe sickness. is
our apology for the non-appearance OF
such items this week. We will endeav-
Or to give a pretty fill synoI o
Wood COS first exhibition next week.
--The Socialists held their State
convention at Milwaukee last week,
chose set of State candidates by ac-
clamation, and passed a very elegant
series of resolutions Nobody ever
heard of the candidates before, nor of
such a lot of resolutions, for that mat
ter. The whole column of them when
boiled down, mean simply. that the
man who has saved dollar is a rascal,
and ought to divide with the man who
has spent his dollar foolishly.
Does it pay to ship the immense
amount Of bark that has gone over the
Central and Valley roads this summer?
Wouldn' t 1t pay better for some enter
prising man to build mammoth tau
merry in Wood County, say at Millador
on the Central, or at the Mill Creek
crossing. on the Valley road, and use
up this bark at home. It would seem
as if the freight on the hides that
wonld have to be shipped here to make
the leather, would not be an infnitesi-
NAL part of the amoun5 that is paid to
get the bark out of the County.
The Chicago Weekly Post can be
had in clubs at from seventy to fifty
cents per copy. The advertisement of
this standard newspaper will be found
in another column, and its proprieto~
seem determined that everybody shall
take it. Everybody knows the Post
as live, sparkling newspaper, full of
information and good counsel, and ev
erybody can afford to subscribe for it,
at the prices stated in the advertise
ment 1t seems to be the intention of
the proprietors to place it directly in
the hands of the million, by putting
the prices so low that nothing can pre-
vent its introduction into hundreds of
thousands of households. No such
popular offer was ever lnade by any
other representative, metropolitan
newspaper, and we hope all of our
readers. after they provide for home
news by taking their lacal paper. will
send in enough to take the Daily or
Weekly Post.