Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-11-26
HOME TOWN TALK.

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DON'T be the man who put the
tsit in city.
BUILDING good houses builds a
good town.
SAVE q little money and save a
lot OF Worry.
A NICE front porch has prevent
ID many an old maid.
WHEN someone plans to hep the
town, plan TO help the plan.
THE BEST PLANS a man can
have for the future are house-plans.
FUNNY how hard coal or hard
wood VIII soften a hard winter.
IF you really love your home town
don't fIi-t with the mail order hou-
ses.
DON'T spend all your time telling
what you could do if you had some.
A GOOD way to make the world
better is to begin with the home
town.
A GOOD TOWN will do more to
keep the boys at home than good ad-
vice.
IF you think a COW can't laugh for
JOY. let the lumber dealer sell you
siio
A TOWN is like a girl; it a won
der what a little fixing up win do
for it.
OPPORTUNITY knocks once at
each mans door; better be at home
when it comes
If you would like to have some
body working for you, put a little
money in the bank.
DON'T spend so much time talk
ing war that you haven't any time
left to talk business
THE WORLD owes every man a
living; but the street corner is
poor collection agency.
PLASTER your house and every
body will follow your example Lath
and The world laths with you.
THERE is only one better man
han the man who gets behind and
pushes an effort to improve this
Gown, and that is the man who
goes ahead and pulls.
THE KICKER should. consider the
Dull frog, how he croaAB; he has
Deen croaking now for several thou
sand years, but, nobody yet has ever
-Ahen hun seriously.
DE live one and this town will
ever be dead one.
GOOD ROADS lead not only to
own but 10 business.
WHY should town muzZle the
.-Oess and not the knockers?
DE like d ball player. The thing
de Is always working for is home.
DE one OF the leaders OF the toW3
L you can; but, anyway, Keep up.
a TOWN is like a PEI ambulatoq lit
usn' n4uvh use unless il is pushed.
LEA > not De trying to stop some
hing All the time; lets start some
ming.
DON'T be a crouch; everybody i'll
ms Town wishes you weIi-eyen the
doctor.
W HAL some homes III this town
..eeu Isl LEV tango Steps, but new
mont ones.
IaE NAN who waits for somethin
% luln up is always geU,ing turned
uJWn
DUN T look for ostf snaps; the, har
DON'1 look Tor soft Snaps the nar>.
sDaIs ne the ONES that have the
5-Dgtr in them.
II improves The soup to throw a
lIUtIe pepper in it; and it is the
Same way with town.
MANY young man goes away to
seek his fortune, when Fortune is
steKins Ior him at home.
II Isll very long after a wise
young man reaches the marrying age
UeIole NE reaches the parsonage.
IL you will consider the men in
this town who are well-off You will
flnu that most OF them maze their
obey here.
YOU have to be citizen in order
TO vote; but you have got to do a
good ueal more than vote in order
70 be a citizen.
AFTER four thousand years man
has never found anything to make
MIN happier than a Wee house with
wee wife in it.
WHEN a wagon gets into rut,
there is nothing to do but to put
your shoulder to the wheel; it is
the same with a community.
THE BIG things weren't done in
the big towns; the greatest poem in
the English language Was written In
d country churchyard.