Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-02-05
Our Small Change.

Have you paid your taxes
Grandfather Brundage!" How's
that?
Now is the time to can your ice for
summer consumption.
Who's got new mich COW? We
know a man who wants one.
Cleveland ge.s up choice Oyster
stews, and his "fries" can't DO sur
passed.
Burr Robins is getting we'll. Glad
oft. Nothing but Bengal tiger can
kill a Snowman
Gus Breasted is running an engine
on the Valley road. Gus. is boss of
any steam cutter that ever whistled.
\ hired girl wanted at the PhilIco
House. A good girl can secure
steady place.
Brown has put up several hundred
tons of the choicest ice ready fer the
coming season.
The memory of Tom Moore is to be
honored by the setting up OF his bust
in New Yors's Central Park. -Er.
The question naturally arises
which one OF To L. .. busts will be- set
up? Set up comes in good. @
They had a pounI party at the
Elders the other nj ght. and nine
pound party at our nephew all the
same night.
This is regular chicken pox weather
as spotted as leopard and MS striped
as il Zebra. No two days alike, and
all provocative of bad grammar
among loggers
DIR. Marshall's Lung Syrup is a
standard remedy and vii! cure cough
or cold in half the time required by
ordinary remedies. Call on your drug
gist and try i bottle, only % cents.
=; Sold BY L. j. Wood.
Tha. semi-legal-llterary-editor
What is it," has retired from the
Portage Co. Gazette, and there is q
more wholesome atmosphere in the
AZORES aid office.
Marshal Compton is after the delin-
quints with sharp stick. Compton
is only doing duty his Office dem ands.
Let all the taxes be paid and those
lawful taxes" will have lost their ter
ror, and yearly grow less till they get
down to a point where they will be
considered luxury.
Bodet,'s little boy tried TO mash a
cast iron old printing office threshins
machine with his finger last Monday,
and found the iron was net a. soft a.
dorny pillows are. He carries his
digit in a rag now.
Our band" are rejoicing over a
new bass horn the property Of Charley
Clark. 1t is beauty : cost $125 less
the discount. The band now has two
BASES. 1t is rapidly becoming one
of the best bands in the state. Look
for concert very soon.
Several of our people bought var
ieties of fruit aud shrubbery from
salesman representing Troy, N. Y.
nursery, last week. The varieties
shown were very choice.
A large hanging advertisement of
| several of our business houses. giving
the hours of closing and receiving
mails, has been placed in the post
Office 1t is ornamental but not profit
able as an advertising medium. An
advertisement III newspaper is al,cays
read.
We hear Hon. Thos Scott quite
favorably mentioned as successor Of
Hon. L G. Pound, as member of Con-
gress. = Pioiadeaier.
Your just right Kibbe. Senator
ScorT is whispered quite audiibly.
Bob johnson will lick postage
stamps another four years at Wausau.
IT'S we'll. Robert is boy of the right
stamp. We've Sent several letters to
Wausa1 and Bob never stole a cent
cut of 'em
Fred Closuite is preparing to lay a
stone wall nnder his building next to
the hardware store. '.Swi glass lag
err, will build structure when the
''staff of lif,' couldn't fling a spade of
dirt.
About four crockery crates of girls
came down from Plover last Saturday,
no, we learn that they were sedate
married women, hence our city is right
side up They had a good time.
Come again. ladies.