Adams County Press
Local Brevities Justice HARRISON's court has been running heavily on assault and batter cases this week. The County Clerk's annual ad. Appears this week, and those interested should look it over. The streams are out of their banks, and the hay marshes are flooded. Hay gathering will be difficult and disagreeable, and of course the amount must necessarily be small. The editor and Mrs. PIERCE acknowledge the receipt of a superb boquet from Mrs. Dr. WEBSTER. It was a most magnificent beauty. MAXON, ye miller man, dropped the string of a fine bass upon our finger last Saturday evening. It was the finest one caught in the stream this season. Thanks. George WAIT, on Monday, speared a red-horse fish in the little Roch-a-Cree that weighed 5 ½ pounds-the largest caught in the stream this season. The storm of Tuesday evening flooded this section and blew the corn and other crops flat. Al. HILL is having a new wall built for the basement to his big barn. Mr. C. B. GLASS is doing the masonry work. Mrs. Nannie HENRY, of Pennsylvania, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. CROSBY, and her girlhood friends in Friendship. The hop crop in this section is not a success this year. A great many yards have been ruined by the lice. Hon. C. M. WEBB of Grand Rapids visited this place on Monday last on professional business and stopped over until Tuesday afternoon. The call for a Republican Convention for this Congressional District, to be held at Grand Rapids on the 4th of September, is out. We shall publish the call next week. ---- The Ladies' Aid Society will meet at the Church next Thursday at two o'clock in the afternoon. No morning services will be held at the church next Sunday. Afternoon services will be held at half past four. Elder STAPLES will officiate at Easton Sunday forenoon. Tall Timothy. G. M. WITTER, for Mr. John SCHOFF, of Easton, sent us on Tuesday, a sample bundle of timothy grass equal to any presented this year. One head measured 11 ½ inches, and the heads of the bundle average about 7 inches. The Register of Deeds, Mr. PERKINS, has received the Session Laws for the present year for distribution to the several towns in this county. He will be obliged if Town Clerks will call for those belonging to their respective towns at the earliest convenient opportunity. HAIL STORM Last Tuesday, between the hours of six and seven o'clock P. M., a tremendous storm of hail, rain and wind, swept over this place and a large section of the county. It is best described as a flood of falling hail and water in a gale of wind. In a space of time not exceeding fifteen minutes the surface of the ground was literally covered with water, presenting the appearance of a vast river. The hailstones, though not so large as some that fell earlier in the season, were driven by the wind with such force as to cut the corn blades and the leaves of other plants into shreds. Gardens, or places in them on depressed ground, were submerged in some places to the depth of a foot or more, and thee hours after the shower we could have shoveled up bushels of hailstones where they had bounded from the roof of our barn. Cellars were flooded, to a considerable extent, and one well at least, Elder STAPLES', has more water than he knows what to do with. Great damage has been done to the corn and oat crops, and probably to all crops of growing vegetables; but at this time no estimate can be made. Corn, in addition to having the leaves cut into shreds by the hail, is also badly blown down and many of the stalks are broken off. SCHOOL REPORT Of the Big Spring School for the month ending July 26th. Number of pupils registered this month, 49. Number of pupils not tardy, 36. Percent of attendance, 90. Names of those pupils who have been neither absent nor tardy during the month: Gertie PHILLIPS, Herbert PHILLIPS, Clarence RUSSELL. Pupils whose standing in attendance, deportment, and scholarship, on a scale of ten, average 9: Jessie MORSE, Lena PIERCE, Myrtie SWEET, Kate CAMPBELL, Ina RUSSELL, Edith STOWELL, Ruth MARSHALL, Beulah POWERS, Lizzie STOWELL, Irvie WELLS, Ira SWEET, Henry WELLS, Birnie LANDT, Elno RUSSELL. Esther A. HANKS, Teacher
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