Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
Our Small Change.
Have you paid your taxes


basement tonight.
Have you tried to pay your
taxes?
We've had nearly week of the
best weather Gin the shop
Judge Davis is worth only $4,000
900 and weighs only about 375 lbs.
-Sammy's got to come down with
that $4,000 on his income tax
The Congressional game of Pitch
began last Tuesday
The old Wood County bridge is
now down and out
The sleighing is going and loggers
are wearing long faces
This weather seems like spring,
but look out for 80 below zero about
Sunday.
The President has signed the bill
and will send message to Congress
containing his reasons.
The old bridge is among the things
of the past The north line of tim
bers was pulled down upon the ice
Tuesday.
Since the President has signed
the compromise bill the Democrats are
free to express that Tilden has a
sure thing.
Master Alec. Zenior has a fue
music class on the piano forte. but can
take three or four more. Give the
boy chance.
Fred. Case is taking down the old
bridge He gives $500 for the pri-
vilege, and has the old timber, some
100000 feet. We hope Fred will
make good thing.
The boys had the steamer out last
week and again last Tuesday. She
worked like a giant under engineer
Mahoney's management, and we guess
the general verdict is that we have the
right man in the right place after all.
When an editor is forty miles
away he can't very we'll read proof.
consequently ''sundogs' become 'Sun-
days" and other words become cruel
! fed and tortured to the death, and ye
editor wishes he had gone to writing
school in his younger days.
About an hundred girls and boys,
and some of ''larger growth" have
been improving the .'moony'' nights
sliding down the plank road on pair
or two of ''bobs.' They go like an
arrow from a beau clear to the post
| office
Attorney General Neeves wanted
only $500, for his legal services in
that tax certificate business, and the
County Board would give him only
$3.50 Too bad We presume he wan
ted to apply the amount on some ST.
10000 tax Indebtedness.
The Wisconsin State Agricultural
and Horticultural Societies will meet
in convention in the rooms Of the
State Agricultural Society in the Cap
itol at Madison, February 6, 7, s, and
| 9. The programme Of exercises is ex-
ceedingly interesting. The several
railroads have reduced their fares to
accommodate the attendance which
will undoubtedly be large.
The Taylor Co. Ne,os records the
following narrowing recital of che
freezing of a ''little one"
A little boy, son of G III. Church
iii, of Shawauo, has been in the habit
of taking ''short cut in going to
school. Last Friday he did not return
from school. and search was made in
the woods. He was found the next
day, the entire neighborhood having
turned out in the search. The body
was found nearly three miles from the
child's home. 1t seemed that shortly
after losing the path the child struck
the logging road and followed it di-
rcctly away from home, and that in
the storm he wandered around bliudly,
until too benumbed by cold to move.
The body was found at roots of large
tree turned uu by the wind. When
discovered the body was IN a sitting
posture, the head bowed forward to the
knee, one little hand pressed hard
against the frozen cheek, the other
clasping the throat--all frozen 20 a !
solid block of ice He was bright, |
happy-dispositioned lad. seven years
old--an only child, and the idol of
the household.
Illustrated Lectures. IF the
winter don't go back on us completely, |
our people will undoubtedly have the
pleasure of listening to two of the
most interesting lectures ever delivered |
in our city. Rev. Robert Quaife Of
Elroy lone a resident of London has