Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-23
Our Small Change.

Just tolerasle slipping.
A good wagon for sale at this office.
Church Sociable Administrations
and one makes Stew.
See Supt. Williams report to the
Board of Supervisors.
Portage has red ribbon club of
over one thousand members.
Mrs. Livermore next Wednesday, at
Writer'S Hall. Buy your tickets.
The lee in the river is about t.ree
feet thick, and Brown is canning lots
of it.
Turn out on next Thursday evening
and listen to the most popular woman
in America.
Judge Park has adjourned the
Wood County Court to the 10th of
February.
Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter received
the nomination for the Z. S. Senator
ship at Madison yesterday.
Have you inquired if any in your
neighbcrhosd have need of psrtiC
of the good things whereof you a
blest
The pews of the Congregational
church will be rented Friday. the 31st
inst, at 2 o clock z. NJ. Let al who
desire seats be present promptly.
little snow, heap o grit
Make the logging teams git up and git"
and the drivers incline to = profuse
overflow of explatives which sounds
terribly to an outsider like swearing.
There were about 100 persons pres
ent at the NJ. E. Sociable at Mrs.
Smiths on Wednesday evening. All
had a good time. The proceeds we're
about S11.
All through the east continuous falls
Of snow arc making disastrous block
AIDES. Over nine feet on a level have
fallen in the state of New York, and
the loss and damage to the Central
railroad is put at S1,000,000.
We notice posters up announcing an
entertainment to be given at Witter' 5
Hall, Friday evening, Jan. "a, by the
Centralia Minstrel troupe. We can
not speak more fully as We are igno-
rant of further facts.
The Warner House of Sparta took
fire about 7 o'clock last Tuesday even
ing, and burned to the ground, bath
rooms and all A great deal was
saved from the fire but very much
of it badly damaged and broken. We
have not learned whether it was in
surcd or not.
The Black River House kept by
Samuel Freeman at Black River Falls,
was totally destroyed by fire last week
Wednesday, about daylight. We
have stopped with Mr.. Freeman many
times and came within an ace Of be-
ing ledger the night the house
burned. Loss about $4,000; insured
for S., 900.
Remember Mrs. Livermorc's lecture
Wednesday evening next the 29th inst.
The resumption of specie payments
has already had very marked effect
in the revival of confidence in business
circles in New York. 4 special dis
patch says that new life is visible on
every hand, capital is 10 longer timid,
and the depression that has prevailed
for the past five years has disappeared.
Preparations are making Tor a new
business operation, and cheerful,
hopeful feeling is discovered on every
! hand. This is just what the advo-
Gates of resumption predicted would be
the result, but the fulillment has
come sooner than many of them antic,
ipated. The future will give much
more emphatic testimony to the wis.
dom of the policy for which they SO
! long and earnestly contested Nil
Wisconsin.
We hear of a very strange thing. in.
deed, in the way of crop raised or
the farm of Mr.. William Overend, near
Pleasant Grove The story is vouched
for as absolutely true in every particu.
lar, by what we deem undoubted
authority. 1t seems that year age
this last harvest time, couple Of low.
ers, who were on visit at Mr.. O's
place, went out into the field to cut
some oat-straws, taking pair Of com.
mon scissors with them with which tc
cut the straus In their celestial dream
of love they lost the scissors in the
field. and were unable to find them
again. This year, however, they were
found in multiplied form. Half an
acre of the field spronted up in the
spring with solid crop of scissors and
shears of every kind--from pairs Of
mammoth sheep and timers shears,
down to the tiniest little toy scissors.
Mr. Overend harvested between seven
and eight thousand pairs in all, and i.
making we'll out of them--the price
averaging about nine cents pair. His
| other crops were yery moor this wear