Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-05
Our Small Change.

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: Strawberries are losing their pres
tige.
Hilton 1.-The Jewnlan forever. y
The farmers are miEding their P's
and @. cumbers.
-Hurrah for "The Dollar eff our
Daddics. and the Money ofour Nam
mics"
The county apportionment of
the school fund gives Wood County
S7S5.15.
-S2,O0O,OOO is the increase in, the
revenue for the fiscal year just closed,
over the preceding year.
Choir rehearsal at the Cong.
Church Saturday evening. Let there
be full attendance.
Ono pint of kerosene mixed. with
five gallons of water is said to give
potato bugs a free pass to the ~"beauti-
full shore
-"Our Nine" left on the G. B. &
NJ. train for Waupaca Tuesday, with
err they go to conquer, or be conquered
/ by the Waupaca nine.
When the girls on Quality Row
friz their hair, they take a revolving
egg beater and give it, say half dozen
twirls and say ''There, now"
The heavens northward have be-
tokened heavy rains which possibly
may help the logs along the river
remains almost fat as yet, however.
The alluring melon will soon get
its grippe upon the bowels of the aver
age youth waiting for shutdown and
no moon.
The NJ. st. Paul r. r. Co. will
span the Wisconsin river at Kilbourn
with substantial iron bridge. The
work will be accomplished in thirty
days with no detention of trains.
If you want some good land plas-
ter, just ask Uncle Isaac L. Mosher
where 70 get it. And thereg shall be
Whaling and Nash ing of teeth if I'm
Gle Ike. sows any more cement for
land plaster.
When Spencer spoke of the '*SUr-
vival of the fttest," he had special
reference to an old maid dress-mak er
one hundred and twenty seven years
old, living near the chalk cliffs off
England.
A shower of flesh is recent phe-
nominon 20 be accou nted for in Ken
lucky. Ii the pieces Of the little
darkey who prodded the mule could
talk, the mystery could be wholly ex-
planned.
"A terrific thunder storm sent its
booming peals through the heavens,
and a superbly grand illumination of
the whole armament ushered in the
''Fourth. Fireworks were abashod
at the display,
The schools are out, and tho OBJ
serving man can tell the good faithful
boy pupils by the cocoanut like monkey
face that peeps out upon promising
world just below where the suspenders
make sawbuck on the urchins back.
Uncle Billy Armstrong is Just
whooping 'er up in our streets. 1t
would be an act of mercy to Billy, and
only an act Of justice to our citizens
to put him in Wards cellar. But
then, we forget, we have legalized the
industries that are turning out these
fabrics.
Like clapp of thunder from a
clear 81 Ky came the intelligence to the
Chicago ear last Friday, that Sec'y
Clapp,. Sec'y of the Chicago Life ms.
Co. had ''gone West to grow up, with
the country" or to some other locali-
ty. with some $4,000 of the Co.'S
funds in his shirt pocket And such
is Life - Insurance.
Judge Gardner sentenced John
Mcdonald to Waupun last Thursday
for nine months, for breaking into the
house Of Mr.. Jas. Graves in the town
of Rudolph and committing petit lar
ceny. The rascal pleaded guilty.
Phil. Ward trotted him right along to
the stone mansion.
A report is current at Columbus
that Hayes has promised to appoint
Governor Young consul to Liverpool
within, the next sixty days. This
office is worth about $4,000 per year;
and is now held by ex Gov. Lucius
Fairchild of Wisconsin. Gov. Young
was elected Lieutenant Governor of
Ohio on the ticket with Hayes and
became acting Governor when. HAYES
was elected to the Presidency.
Rev. Mr.. Haoermau of Wausau