Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-05
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wages at 1T.
School re-opencd last Monday
With a small attendance.
Cranberry tickets printed on
hort notice at the REPORTER Office.
JEFF Davis says the prospect for
he ssLost Cause looks brighter now
nan it did in 1861.
See call for Senatorial Conven-
ton in this issue, at Grand Rapids,
Oct. End.
The river Is up to its old time
natural stage. Those dams must be
overfowing.
-Rarus, the fastest horse in the
world, made only 2:15 IA at Milwau
kee last week.
Cricket music tells US Of coming
fall-long evenings-hickory nuts and
pumpkin pies.
Remember the Comfy Fair on
the 24-25-2 6-27. Gov Smith will
address the Association on the 25th.
The best legacy you can leave
your 10y is a respectable, honest pow
erty, with a constitution that needs no
amendments.
"A PANTHER in Clark county killed
and nearly devoured two yearlings and
a COW, last week. He has not yet
been captured.
Hops are looking up. Fifteen
cents were offered at Stevens Point
last Thursday, and refused. They
will probably bring % or 80 cts.
The Shawano Journal has enter
ed upon its fifth year, Loomer has
made it one of the best and ablest
democratic papers in the state. We
are glad to see him prosper.
"A soft plaster turneth away a
boil, but the vagrant wandering Of a
vicious flea over the human anatomy
provoketh one to consider lightly the
teachings of the third commandment.
The little ones are dying off at a
rful rate at Wausau. Summer COM
plant is raging violently. Wausau
has experienced terrible drouth
which probably accounts for the un-
healthy condition OF the city.
-Robt. johnson, Of the Central,
and wife were in the city last Thurs
day, en- route for Plover, the former
home of Mrs Johnson, where the
twain attended a reunion Of the AL
ban family. The Central gives very
pleasant account of the gathering.
Some countefeiters have been ar
rested at Fond du Lac with bad notes
in their possession. What this coun-
try needs is a currency so poor that It
won't pay to counterfeit it and that
is what politicians are working for, to
break up the honest industry OF coun-
terfeiting. San.
Every now and then some chap
writes to newspaper for receipt to
prevent hair from coming out. If
men would 90 home from the lodge
before midnight, with their legs sober,
their hair wouldn't come out so rapid
ly, We always 90 home early, and
we have more hair now than the day
we were born.-Norristown Harald.
The boys are back from Dakota,
and nearly all fail to see the glory of
the "New Jerusalem" Old Wood is
about the best place after all, boys.
There are as good farming lands. and
better chances for Industrious young
men to make money here, than in the
famed Eldorados westward.
The big posters gotten up by our
Fair Association are models Of beauty
They are equal to anything gotten up
in the state of like character. The
coming fair will be a big success.
Gov Smith will positively be present
the second day-the 25th, and address
the Association.
"A public meeting of our citizens
was called at the City Hall last Mon
day morning, to take measures to aid
the yellow fever sufferers. The result
is a contribution of over $4,000 in our
two cities. which will go forward con-
signed to the Howard Association at
Memphis We learn that the Masons
and Odd Fellows have contributed
also.
If man were to exercise his in
ventive genius as largely in loosening
up this bound world, as in trying
to twist himself into a comfortable
posture for nights rest in the atten-
uated seat of a railroad car, old Arch
indies with his lever would be forgot
ten in the surplusage of benefits that
would come to the human race.
The following 'pome' was hand
ed in to the Central Wisconsin, and is
commended to the careful perusal of
those anxious to serve the "dear peo-