Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-05
Cur Small Change.

"A good house to let. Enquire of
REPORTER.
Pretty soon now, pay your taxes
We've entered upon the winter
month.
Winter is here, but she hast Il
got her snow shoes on
Services next Sabbath AS usual at
the Congregational Church.
About four inches of snow fell
last Tuesday morning.
Read the various prospectuses of
first class papers, in this issue.
The skating on the river is very
fair, and SO are many of the skaters.
Wood and Schultz have a fne lot
of Holiday Goods, just opening,
Mccormick 5 auction sale Of stock
came off last Friday-"to a good
house."
Hard dry maple wood may be
bought in our streets for $3.50 per
cord
1t is reported that Barnum is
crazy. We don't believe it. Idiots
never 'craze J"
"A woman in town calls good
hooking Charley Webb, The chap
with the bias eye" Who is it?
Phillips on the Central R. r, is
lighted by seventeen street lamps. It's
light enough they say to shoot man
in the street at midnight
Scott Morrill, had his leg badly
jammcd by falling under Lis horse last
Sunday morning. He'll soon "blew
his horn.''
-Barnum was in town last Monday
lie was down here we suspect, to see
if tile report were true, that there had
been greenback ticket in the field the
past fall He was with Hayden; we
guess Hayden told him.
We are in receipt of the Gaia.
logue Of the Officers aud Students o
the University of Wisconsin for the
academic year 1889 The Univer
sity maintains its standing as Que O
the best educational institutions Ia the
country. It's Faculty is the best.
One of MIR. Brazeaus little one.
tried the experiment Of standing OF
the back OF mothers chair and let
ting mother get up-cons.quence /;
little hole In the afternoon OF the little
ones head, Whole stove-1O cents
worth Of salve-little one all right
Mr.. Barrows, it is reported, i:
thinking Of moving to Montana. W.
guess he believes in getting down to .
gold basis. lie will be approaching i
the moment he leaves Chippewa. We
wish him only good luck wherever b,
goeth.
The diphtheria, or yirulent form
Of throat disease is prevailing in tn,
city, List parents observe strictly The
necessary sanitary regulations and no
be controlled by fear, and we seliev,
nine out CT ten of the cases may b,
+ cured. Good care, the exercise o
reason on the part of nurses, and earl
attention to the patien. upon the AZ
J pearance of the premonitory symptom
and she disease loses its terrors. Don
be dils:ory in calling physician am
, applying remedies.
Friend Loomer, of the ,Sha,can
Journal, quotes portion of our com
ments on the election in Wood Coun
ty, leaving out that portion which i
explahatlve OF the language used, ant
: then notes the fact that we are a stric
church member, and calls attention tt
our Gas he terms IT'D sacriligious utter
ance. We have always given Bro
, Loomer credit for fairness and candor
lie has been neither fair nor candid
He knows that the name Jesus is ;
name as much in vogua with the Span
) lard as John or James with Americans
aud the Germans not infrequentlJ nam,
: their children Jesus. It is name
used to denote Saviour, with no refer
ence to the Messiah, and that we uset
, the name in this sense Loomer know
, perfectly well, but he had not th,
manllncss to say SO, not the fairness t
) give other than a sarbled quotation
: which carries with it a wrong implica
ton. We had entertained a noble,
opinion Of the editor Of the Shawanc
Journal
A friend sends the REPORTER
the following for publication. We in.
sert it gladly. The remeday is simple.
and the time employed in giving it a