Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22


for this state will be held at Omro, on
the 6, and 9Th of June.
Louis Lionais is plotting a feet of
tweuty-four rapids pieces for Messrs
Parrish Bros. from the mouth of Mill
Greek to St. Louis.
LosT-A email horseshoe watch
chain charm. Finder will be literally
rewarded on leaving the same with B
G. Chandos, at Centralia mill Office.
Miss Emma Morrill, leaves this
evening for Red Lake Falls, Mimi,
for visit She intends giving Scott.
Mary, Henry and wife. regular sur
prise.
Miss Sarah Boguslawsky has been
quite i'll the past two weeks with lung
fever but is now mending. Sarah re-
grets the loss of her school more than
anything else.
New York Herald To the old adage
that "a fool and his money are soon
parted" should be added: Outside of
their own business, most men are
fools.
Mrs. Hopkins of Cambria, Wis,
was foully murdered at her home on
the 10Th. aged 65 years. Money is
supposed to be the cause of the muir
der.
An Iowa Judge asserts that the
trouble with our laws is that lawyers
in legislatures make them, and will
never let any outsiders amend or i'm
prove them.
Mayor Pratt of Oshkosh is making
things hum fer the Telephone Com
pany in that city. He means to make
the Company pay for their use of the
streets. He is right.
j. Ware has now finished moving
his fine stock of furniture to the
Gardner brick block. He sells furn-
iture at prices that he can live and let
live.
Cotton-seed hulls are being substi-
tuted for cotton waste for packing jour
nal boxes Of railway cars, and are said
to effect saving Of fully one-half the
cost and to answer a good purpose.
Mr.. n Gerard was recently elected
to represent the Odd Fellows lodge of
this city at the Grand Lodge to be
held in Madison, on. Mr.. Gerard
will make worthy preventative.
On the 9Th Of thi month Mr.. Frank
Whitrock lost his barn by fire, 1t
was insured in the Cencordia of Mil
waukee for $3.50. Wm E. Yetter
the companys agent settled the claim
last Saturday paying the loss in full.
Mr.. John Landry returned home
Tuesday from Rice creek where their
logs are hung up for the present ow-
ing to the low water. Landry and
johnson will probably make but little
out of their logs this season.
j. L Whitney has recently returned
from below St. Louis where he sold
feet of lumber and has another feet
near La Crosse ready to be towed to
same place. Mr.. Whitney has an
excellent reputation among lumber
buyers.
The Centralia FIGURING Mill was
obliged to take a brief rest on Tues
day owing to break of some of the
machinery. 1t was a beautiful day
and Mr.. Jackson took a brief but
needed rest.
Under the new management of the
Merrill Advocate it has been enlarged
to seven column quarto. The pa
per is full of news and alive to the
manifold interests of Merrill.
The newspapers of Wisconsin con-
tinue making improvme nts. The
New London Times recently enlarged
to six column quarto. The boys
are all doing well.
To those young men who love
games and sport and are compelled to
find amusement in saloons, it would be
to their interest to make speciality of
attending the roller skating rink.
One of Blaine's strongest supporters
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