Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-01-24
Our Small Change.

-Ys logger looketh up to the sky
and says-
-Ded 'Og sells at cts per lb. at
Stevens Point.
Gold, So. The thing i, rssum-
ing itself.
Who'll sue the Clerk of the
Weather for breach of promise?
Bright says Ben. Butler is in ia
yor of the Representation of silver.
The song of the boy with a new
top is; Hum, sweet Hum
The railway companies pay into
the State Treasury about 100000
annually.
Choir rehearsal next Saturday
evening at the residence of Mrs. H
Hayden.
Schuyler Colfa1 iectured on Abb
rsham Lincoln, at Stevens Point last
week Wednesday. He had rousing
house
Senator Scott returned home last
Saturday. He returned to Madison
on the Monday 5 p. IN train by Valley
road.
The church bell has new clapper
but it would be little consolation to
know who was mean enough to steal
the old one.
MIR. z. Lavigne, who is always
ready to give to a worthy cause, has
contributed cord of geod dry maple
wood to the T. of II. Reading room.
Always speak well of the dead,
and once in a while say coed word
for the living. if you have the time.
.SteUens Point Journal.
We always rather liked Cate. If
we wern obliged to carry a load of
Eaters into the cellar, We say word
for SwayZe.
Fourteen thousand dollars was
recciTed for freight at the New Len
don depot on the g. B. &. NJ. r. R.
in December. So says the Waupaca
Republican.
Mrs. Worthington had another
runaway near the school building the
other day We'd swop that horse for
Spitz dog, Susie, and then shoot the
dog.
We understand that Mr.. JOS
HOMER and wife have lately returned
from St. Paul whittier they have been
to secure fortune left them by de-
ceased relative
That man who is truly religious
will never accept pay for preaching, as
true religion Is of the love of God,
without. money and without price
Pomea oy's Democrdt
We are pretty positive that "Brick
will never preach" His Saturday
Nights arc as full of richness as a
rose with a worm convention under its
leaves.
The legislature are very modest
as yet They haven't got right down
to business, though they want to buy
400 copies of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionaries They probably want to
ascertain what they are there for.
The Waupaca Post is the title of
a new paper just started at Waupaca
by Ogden 4 Pitcher. They are capa-
bic of making an excsllant paper, and
the copy before us attests the fact that
the Post will be just that kind of an
animal We wish them success.
The resolution to open the daily
sessions Of the legislature with prayer
was lost by a vote of 40 to Al.
Whittier are we drifting? The grand
old Puritans with all their bigotry,
and but for them our legislature would
be not even embryotic, would weep
could they behold such degenerscy
ALI persons, members of the old
Musical Association having Palmer's
Concert Book in their possession are
requested to leave them with the Gus
todian of the same, Mr.. L, 3. Fritz
singer at the 1st National Bank.
This request Is made in order to Sc
cure sufficient number Of the books
for union choir practice.
If you want to know how the
boys enjoyed Colfa1 lecture at Stey-
ems Point you have only to ask Schultz
or Siocum, or any of the boys who
didn't pump hand car eighteen mil
es. They had their shirts and clean
socks all packed for a trip for their
health, but che lightning said that
hand car wasn't adapted to running on
Colfax guage, so the boys went home
and had a curtain lecture, we suspect!
An exchange Informs us that