Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-14
James Macmillan. of the Evening


northwestern country as correspon,
dent for the above paper.
n. L. Emmons is buying and SELL
ing biueberries by the wholesale. He
ships them to Chicago, Milwaukee,
Appleton, Oshkosh and Neenah.
On Tuesday afternoon he shipped
ca st about ton of them.
Jas. Canning returned from the
east, Prince Edwards Island, Monday
evening. He has been visiting his
brother there He brought home a
fine four year old horse of a Bay
color. Mr.. c. has gone into the woods
again with j. E. Ingraham.
In an interview in his cell, Guiteau
has stated that when he saw the Pres
ident turn pale and fall heavily he was
certain he had killed him, or he would
have walked up to the PROSTATE man
and sent bullet through his head.
The Hon. B. r. Sherman, the Re-
publican nominee for Governor of
Iowa, has been on the bench and has
been for six years Auditor of the State
He was volunteer during the Civil
War, and was left for dead on Shiloh
battlefield.
Rob't. Lyon, the blacksmith, who has
been down the river for several weeks
is back and ready for business. Robert
is among the A No. l. blacksmiths of
this western country. Stop in and
give him trial shoeing your horse.
Hank Edwards has lately added two
new buggies and one horse to his al
ready large stable. Hank is bound
to keep the best horses and buggies
there are in the market. He can now
turnout the best rig in the city.
We would call the attention of bus
mess men and others whose interests
are largely on water street to the ad-
visibility of getting water from the
hill through pipe to supply water
street. After the sheds are built on
the island, it would probably be a good
idea to have water through.
B. F. KEEsLING, NJ. D. Druggist,
Logansport, Ind, when sending in an
order for Prof. Guilmette's Kidney
Pads, writes: II wore one of the first
ones we had and [ received more bene-
fit from it than anything ever used
In fact the Pads give better general
satisfaction than any kidney remedy we
ever sold
The special term of our Circuit
Court closed on Saturday noon last,
having disposed of several important
court cases. The case of Thos.
B. Scott VS. HI. W. Remington ct. al.
ct. al. was argued at length by Webb
and Gardner and Geo. w. Cate.
While riding the Bicycle Friday
we were unfortunate in THROWN ourself
headlong to the ground and crippled
both wrists, so that we have been
unable to do any work this week.
After to-day though, you may bring
on your job work, and we will do it
for you on short notice.
The admired and coveted Son of our
popular County Clerk. is very danger
ously i'll and fears are entertained for
his recovery. All is being done for
him that can be, and it is sincerely
hoped he will recover. Frank seems
to have hard time in raising boys.
should he be unfortunate in this case
We received from the hands of
DIR. G. T. Witter, the fifth annual
report of the State Board of Health,
for the year 1880 It's very neatly
gotten up, and was printed by David
of the State Journal. 1t is
a valuable work and should be read by
everyone.
We publish on the editorial page
of this issue an article which should
be read by every reader of this paper
if only through curiosity. It is we'll
worth a careful perusal. Of its posi-
bilities and probabilities we leave them
to our readers to draw their own con-
illusions. Don't fail to read it.
A Judge of the Michigan Supreme
Court has just rendered an important
decision in a grain gambling case.
One party having lent another party
money with an agreement to share the
profits, in an attempt to get up corner
on wheat, the lender sued to recover his
money. The court held that such
entered into to artif cially
affect the price of necessity of life,