Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-02
Brevities.
DR.. G, f. Witter, residence Drake
St., office P. o. building. If.

Rain incessently this week.
The river is very low.
Fix the sidewalk between W. Eel
tons tin shop and T. G. ST. Amour.
Children get your slate and books
ready, school begins Monday.
Latest style stiff hats just received
at T. C. St. Amour's.
Go to the parlor of the Cong. church
this evening and have royal time.
Communion services at the Cong.
church on Sunday morning next.
Buy your canned goods and grocer
les of all kinds of t. G. St. Amour 5
Step in McRaith's and get that Fall
suit you intend getting soon. Now is
the accepted time.
Miss Gordon has her oil stand in
apple pie order and millinery goods in
large quantities
Read the article On editorial page,
written by the chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Republican
club.
Mr.. Griffith, who has been confined
to his bed, the last two weeks with
bilious intermittent fever, is slowly
improving.
J. A. Gaynor has purchased a
beautiful Office secretary of the latest
improved pattern and placed it in his
office over the Fist Nat Bank. It's a
beauty.
The band serenaded Scott Morrill,
and wife Tuesday evening. Scott is
member of the band and a good
one
J. O. Hebert will move his art gal
lery in the building formerly occupied
by Mrs. Harrington He is having
it nicely arranged and will be in his
new rooms soon.
'Meet Ne on the Other Side," is
very beautiful sample song and
chorus, published by J. NJ Lyons &
Co. Milwaukee. Send 80 cents and
get it.
MARRIED:-Ou Monday evening
Aug. 30th 1880. at the residence
of Mr.. Chas. Grover, Grand Rapids,
by Rev. j. S. Norris, Mr.. Jason
Maunders and Miss Elizabeth Berry
John Hamm has just received a
full line of clothing and dry goods
and will sell them at astonishingly low
prices, go in and try him. He is do
ing large amount of business and
can sell cheaper than most merchants
in the County.
We have peruesd with pleasure the
able letters of Hon. G. NJ. Webb, of
Grand Radios, published in the Wood
County Reporter. We recommend
Republicans to read and circulate
them, for he has happy faculty of
condensing facts and placing the issues
of the day clearly and tersely before
the public Wausau Central.
The APPEAL, the Temple of Honor
organ, has made its appearance under
the direction of j. N. Phillips and
Geo. A. Barry, and is published at
Chippewa Falls. 1t is monthly
publication, furnished al 80 cents a
year in advance, and every temperance
family in Wisconsin should subscribe
for it.
The new Bishop at Cincinnati must
be a man of most excellent Judgment,
if the following from the Inter Ocean
is correct: Gle has thrown a boom
,,erang into his large flock by declar-
ling that women with banged hair
''will not be allowed in his congrega-
''tion.' It may be somewhat dictate
E'rial, but shows that Bishop Elder
s'has a good eye, which is not pleased
with such absurd and ridiculous
fashions"
The Green Bay Company are put
ting in new U. S Standard Howard
Car Scale at this station. 1t is being
put in between the bridge and Fred
Closuits saloon building. Some of our
business men will have larger freight
bills and will be forced to load cars
lighter than heretofore. It is frequent
~ the case that car is over loaded
when they have no scales to weigh the
cars. Mr. Landon is bossing the job
The census shows Wisconsin to
have gained about 20 per cent, during
the last decade South Carolina
beats it, by the census, some 10 per
cent. and by lying systematically, pro-
badly about 35 per cent. The man
who will pretend to say that Wiscon-