Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-28
Our Small Change.
The river is rapidly falling.

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his class for the summer term imme-
diatly.
Will. E. Shea is studying law,
Keacauna Enterprise.
Undoubtedly Shea VIII make
success of it. Shea certainly Will.
F. Shea perseveres.
That prince of dead beats, Wayne
Galloway, will edify the Berlin man on
the "Fourth'' by spouting ''nigger
Grafton" The Berlin brain must be
amused you know.
---Ths Wise. Valley road will sell
excursion tickets to all points on the
road at half rates, good till after the
18th" A rare chance to go up or
down the line and have good time.
Some one has calculated that if
the salt in the ocean should be spread
over the Land it would cover it to the
depth of 900 feet, but it would kill
business. So it is inst as we'll, perhaps
to leave it where it is.
A Dinner will be gotten up
by the ladies of the Congre-
gational Society at the base
ment July 4th,
The Georgia MINISTRIES arrived on
the Green Bay train from the east this
p. m. forming in columns at the depot
and marching through our streets to
the Rablin House while treating our
people to some Of the finest band mu-
sic we have heard in our city for years.
The company comprises fifteen per-
formers, among whom are two excell-
ant soloists, All are colored. They
perform at Writer'S Hall this evening.
A large number of Beron's men
who went to 101, or Worcester on the
Central Road. thence twenty eight
miles overland, through water reaching
from the knee to the waist, in order
to reach the "drive," returned last
Friday having accomplished but little
the water having fallen SO rapidly, as
to make it utterly imposibly to move
the logs.
L have observed one very undeni-
able fact in my own experience. and in
nv observation Of others. This fact is
that every thing depends on the man
ner in which first sins and first slips
from the right path are treated. IF a
first false step is promptly met by a
thorough repentance as in the case
of Peters lie in Pilates HalD, then
the mischief ends.
Most of us have had troubles all
our lives, and each day has brought
all the evil that we wished to endure.
But if we were asked to recount the
sorrows of our lives, how many could
we remember? How many that are
six months old should we think worthy
to be remembered or mentioned? To
days troubles look large, but a week
hence they will be forgotten and buried
out of sight -SeLected
The little items of news FROM the
towns in the county and adjacent,
published in our two last issues are
we'll received, and show what may be
done by an interested party in making
county paper newsy. For two years
we have been trying to get some one
IN each town to serve up to the Re
porter these little messes of town hash,
and we are glad to see that our efforts
are being rewarded. Don't be weary
in well doing. Come again with more
of it. Let every town find us spe-
cial correspondent.
The Nashville country is fast
developing Mr.. S. J.. Mason reports
larger acreage under cultivation this
year by half than last year, with the
most favorable prospects for enormous
crops notwithstanding the severe win
ter exposing the soil to biting blasts.
Winter wheat looks better than at any
previous season. Hundreds of acres
have been cleared up the past year.
and the old ground is rapidly becom-
ing decayed and mellowed. The tame
hay croy will be materially larger than
last year. Stock raising is fast be-
coming a speciality with the Lincoln
farmers. Mr.. Mason has some of the
choicest breeds Of cattle to be found
and will have five hundred head of
sheep at the close of the season.
You ask bitterly, like Pontius
PLATE, "What is truth? In such an
hour what remains 2" l reply, obedi-
ence. Leave those thoughts for the
present. Act-be merciful and gentle
honest; be true to duty that you
know. That must be right, whatever
else is uncertain. And by all the laws
of the human heart, by the word of
God, you shall n OF be left 20 doubt
F. W. Robertson.
REV. MCGHEE, a verltable wolf in
sleeps clothing has just been taken to