Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-25

or Cough use DIR. Marshall's lung
Syrup. it will cure you. % cents a
bottle, large size 80 cents. Sold by
Z. j. Wood.
Henry Pratt is about to retire
from his position as Auditor and Gen
eral Ticket Agent of the Wisconsin
Genital Railroad, for the purpose of
connecting himself with one of the
Vanderbilt roads. He will leave for
New York city the early part of next
month.
Mr.. Henry Hayden has sued us for
libel. He wants $4,000 because we
called him shyster. Now here is a
problem. If Mr.. Henry Hayden can
get $4,000 for our calling him shy
ster, how much could he get from the
whole community if it were to tell
what it thinks of him.
&C. W. Blake, Principal of the
Ashland school made pleasant
call at the REPORTER Office last Tues,
day. Mr.. Blake is agent for the
Sectional map of Wisconsin, gotten mp
by Messrs. Nicodemus and Conover
which embraces the minutes of the
Geological Survey. 1t is a valuable
auxniliary to schools. One should be
in each district.
Bill Browns ice wagon ran away
the other day The ice was so slip
perry that it couldn't stand still if you
said whoa" all day. The horses
didn't get out of the way of the wag.
and the wag. stepped up to 'em till
Geo. Wood put on his snow shoes and
worked over the end board with an
over coat and buck mittcns on and put
on the brakes. That's an ice team,
that is.
The Plover Times says there is
no longer any donbt about the "big
meadow being adapted to tame grass
es. A large number of acres have
been seeded during the past year or
two, and in a majority of cases it is
doing we'll. We understand that DIR.
Phillips has some that bids fair to
yield upward, of two tons to the acre
The same is true Of some of Doty's-
Stevens Point Journal
The fact that tame grasses can be sue.
cessfully raised on our marshes is becom
ing generally understood. The marshes
inv God County can be made the best in
in the world for grass culture. Mr.
Henry Sampson has been eminently
successful the present season in raising
red top, and onl y regrets that he did
not sow clover. We have the most
natural grazing country in the west.
Mr.. +. B. Philips this week re.
tired from the Office Of general manager
of the Wisconsin Central Railroad
He is succeeded by Mr.. Finney, late
superintendent of the Toledo, Peoria
& Wausau railroad. Mr.. Chas. L.
Colby, the present President of the
road, will hereafter manage it's finances
The Milwaukee News, commenting
upon this change justly remarks:
sit is fact worthy of ncte that the
Phillips & Colby construction company
retires from active business with the
work for which it was organized com
pleted, with all of it's contracts per-
formed and paying one hundred cents
on the dollar on all obligations"
John Suffer, the clothes line in
vestigator, who is spending the sum-
mer in Wards cellar, Inadvertently
fired the Cont House few days ago.
He wanted to get some Of the moisture
out of his room, and having no clothes
wringer, he built fire which set
Pills shirt and drawers on fire, which
were hanging by the stove-pipe, while
Phil was lying in bed waiting for them
to dry Mrs. Ward and the hired
girl just poured on the water till John,
the Suffer, thought he was like to
drown, and extingushed the fame. If
Suffer had known there were clothes
hanging so near he would probably have
managed some way to have got hold
of them, for it seems that kind of bust
ness is in his line. Phil. is around
again wearing his night shirt and pair
Of pantaletts the Court House is
saved, and John Suffer is singing:
How vain are all things here below,
scarce can klose my eyes,
From pole to pole long to go.
Before the women folks rise.
There, Phil. now sue us for libel
The following is the Game Law, as
it will appear in the Revised Statutes,
taking effect November 1st. Nimrods
in this part of the state will do well to
paste a copy of it in their hats: