Saturday, August 14, 1897 Mrs. John TURNER and children, of Mauston, are guests of Judge and Mrs. J. B. KEYES. E. H. THEILE of Arkdale, was a business caller in Friendship last Wednesday. The Ladies' Aid Society will meet next Thursday, August 19, at the house of Mrs. P. PAULSON. Rev. THOMAS will preach next Sunday evening at 8 p.m., at the Pleasant Prairie schoolhouse. Mrs. J. W. GUNNING has been quite sick for more than a week past, but is now very much improved. Rev. J. W. HADDEN, formerly of Big Spring, has accepted a call to Spring Green, Sauk county. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. ATWOOD, of Evanston, Ill., are guests at the home of N. M. JONES. Mr. ATWOOD is a brother of Mrs. JONES. J. B. HILL leaves on Friday with two horses, Hillwood and Black Beauty, to attend the races next week at Marshfield. The teachers' institute now being held in this place, conducted by Profs. JACKSON and TERRY and Supt. LEWIS, is well attended, and excellent work is being done. Thos. SKINNER and wife, of Milwaukee, are visiting relatives near Westfield, in Marquette county. The Press office received a pleasant call from Mr. SKINNER this (Thursday) morning. E. F. BABCOCK, the photographer, after enjoying a liberal patronage from the public here, will remove his tent gallery to Arkdale the last of this week and will remain there several days. If you want your picture, Bab. Will take it for you. Fishermen, sometimes with a good looking bird-dog to watch and guard the dinner baskets, are visiting and fishing in the vicinity of the trout streams in this region. Wonder if the dog is a retriever used to pull out the fish that the fishers don't hook. There will be an entertainment in the Allen schoolhouse, town of Springville, on Thursday evening, August 26, for the benefit of Elder ROBINSON. Program will consist of sciopticon views, singing, speaking, and instrumental music. Admission, 10 cents, and as much more as you feel like giving. The official figures, as gathered by the assessors at the time of making his annual assessments, show that 466,864 bushels of potatoes were harvested in Adams county in the season of 1896. Estimating these at 500 bushels to the carload, it would take 934 cars to carry them to market, and would load a train more than twelve miles in length. Owing to the long haul on wagons and the low market price, there were thousands of bushels of potatoes that remained in the ground undug. In the same season 401,778 bushels of corn, and 252,855 bushels of corn were harvested. Add to this the wheat, buckwheat and thousands of cattle and hogs shipped out of the county the same year and one may be able to get some idea of the local support a railroad would obtain if one were built centrally through the county. Such a road would easily receive 2000 carloads of shipping annually. The Teachers' Institute There can be nothing more forcibly impress upon the mind of the friends of our common schools as the means by which the primary schooling and education of the children of Adams county is to be attained than the spirit of devotion to duty-the desire for a higher and broader fitness for their great office work-of the corps of teachers who attended the summer school here that closed last week, or are here now in attendance at the teachers' institute. The ambition to excel is one's calling is a laudable one. To upbuild one's self, that so we may the better uplift or lead others, is nobler still. In this direction, it seems to us, has the work of the summer school and the teachers' institute largely tended. Its beneficent influences must be felt, to a greater or lesser degree in the schools of the county. That success and appreciation may follow the labors of the earnest young ladies and gentlemen who have availed themselves of these advantages, is the sincere wish of the Press. A few weeks ago we gave the names of those attending the summer school. Supt. LEWIS has kindly furnished us with the following list of the names of those present at the teachers' institute: Tessa CUSACK, Lillie NEEDHAM, Sarah McMAHON, Hettie DAWES, Carrie LAPHAM, Ethel WILLARD, Lily BREENE, Viola PFLAGER, Alice McLAUGHLIN, Lois McFARLIN, Rosa BROWN, Grace WINTERSTEEN, Vernal WALRATH, Mary GIBSON, Fannie MILLER, Cora HAWKINS, Nessie McGOWAN, Lucy SCHOFF, Alma. CROTHERS, Alice MOORE, Alice LAPHAM, Georganna DAWES, Maggie MARVIN, Carrie CHRISTENSON, Louise EDDY, Mabel PISHION, Ella MORLEY, Abbie PISHION, Bertha HOPPER, Minnie HIGBEE, Ralph HURLEY, Lola GARTHWAIT, Ada HOLM, Lillie FOAT, Millie BURNHAM, Mabel WINTERSTEEN, Nancy LAMPHEAR, Tillie HOLM, Amanda McFARLIN, Myra McFARLIN, Bertha SCHOFF, Faith MILLER, Olla DEMOTT, Theressa FINCH, Iva LAUGHLIN, Ned McGOWAN, Alice BERGMON, Katie SHOREY, Jesse BURDICK, Jesse SCHOONOVER, Eva TURNER, Scott WAIT, Jennie KREJCHIK, Frank PIERSON, Maude E. BURROUGHS, Lottie BURROUGHS, Bertha GEORGE, Lenore LEWIS, Pearle STOWE, Gena AUSLAN, Carl ARVOLD, Etta MILLER, Libbie BUCKLEY, Fannie COON. Winnie McFARLIN, Carrie L. McCLYMAN. MARRIED. HALSTEAD-WILSON-At the residence of Rev. John DAY, in the town of Easton, July 29, Mr. Eugene HALSTEAD to Miss Clarissa WILSON of Springville. From Local Correspondents Strongs Prairie George JOHNSON and wife, of Tomah, uncle and aunt of Ada BLOOMFIELD, tarried over night last week on their way to Hancock. Fishing seems to be the order of the day. They have no trouble to bring the fish home. Marion FREELAN and wife, and Josie Bowen and wife, from Hancock, made their friends a friendly call on Saturday last. M. R. HAMMOND is now flying through the place on a wheel, as young as any of the boys. Lettie FREELAND, of Wautoma, is visiting friends on Strongs Prairie. C. MATTISON and F. KENT have gone to Spencer. Harvesting is nearly done. We will soon hear the buzz of the threshing machine in the land. Mrs. MARTIN is quite poorly again. Pilot Knob Mrs. T. HAWKINS and Mrs. R. GIBSON visited with friends in Friendship on Sunday last. Ladies' Aid meets with Mrs. J. B. AYERS on Friday of this week. Elder MILLER preaches his farewell sermon in this place on Sunday next. Mrs. H. NESBITT and Miss Jennie NESBITT are quite sick with measles. Measles have been quite plenty in these parts for the last six weeks. Miss Mary NESBITT has again gone to North Dakota, where she is attending the summer school before beginning her school. Miss Mary LYON is at work for Mrs. NESBITT. Mr. Walter SMITH was quite wick with the measles last week. The farmers are busy stacking, getting ready to thresh. We learn that Miss Carrie PAINE is married to some one near Plainfield. The donation at Mr. E. CHURCH's last Friday evening was not very largely attended. Mr. ABBOTT, the Crusader, preached at the Morgan schoolhouse last Sunday, and is to preach again in two weeks. Mr. Adolph LYON begins work for Mr. A. Peck for this fall. Mr. W. CARDO is going to Montello to work on a threshing machine this fall. Miss Ellen PECK has about eight bushels of black raspberries picked on one-quarter of an acre of ground. Big Flats Crops are looking good in this section of the country. Nearly all grain is in the stack. Haying has begun in good earnest. We are having fine weather, with occasional showers. Mrs. T. F. SHIPWAY spent last week with her daughter, Mrs. Loren FINCH, at Barnum. Miss Laura McLAUGHLIN, of Coloma, will teach the winter term of school. Miss Anna LINTLER left last week for an extended visit with friends at Oshkosh and vicinity. H. W. SHIPWAY and family visited Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lou REINE of Quincy. Esburn MATTHEWS, of Centralia, is spending a short time with his parents. The north end of town has a real live ghost that prowls around nights, making strange noises. A good charge of fine shot or rock salt would be apt to make it keep its place. A dance at Wm. MURRY's last Friday night. Fred. REID is working for O. MATTHEWS. Mr. Eph. Raymer and family have returned from Browntown, where they had been visiting for some time. N. P. Christenson is doing a good business. He makes a trip to Hancock nearly every week to keep his store in supplies. Jonesville Pretty wet harvesting. A haying in this ville. Urban WOHLFERT has been harvesting som fine oats on T. K. McClayman's farm. A. WOHLFERT sold sheep in Packwankee last week. Carrie McCLYMAN and Frank PIERSON are attending the Institute at Friendship. A. S. CHANCEY visited in this ville last week. Dan. CAMPBELL had a dance in his new house Friday night. Mike WAGGONER has nis new house finished. Bill McFARLIN was in this ville after a load of oats last week. We understand that Fred FENNER has the promise of the most of the threshing in this ville at 1 and 2 cents per bu. It looks like old times to see from 5 to 50 acres of clover on each farm in this ville again. H. H. KEACH and Elroy Atkins are preparing to manuracture a large amount of sorghum this fall. Henry BURGDORFF has a splendid lot of shoats. Plainville Master Clarence SLOCUM is visiting relatives at Camp Douglas. Harvesting is about completed. J. A. COLT returned last week from a two months visit with relatives at Jefferson. Misses Maude ATCHERSON and Edna Edmonds returned home Friday from the summer school at Friendship. Mr. Judson SLOCUM, of Iowa, who has been visiting his brother here for a week, returned home last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. GRIFFIN visited with relatives near Oxford, Sunday. Rev. TURNER will preach here Thursday evening, August 19. Mr. and Mrs. Harry BARRETT and son visited with relatives on the Prairie Sunday. Most of the farmers are busy cutting hay which they claim is very good this year. Mr. Bob EDMONDS visited in Friendship last Friday. Mr. Wm. LAWRENCE, who has been sick, is on the gain. Mr. Fred TOWNSEND, of Milwaukee, visited with relatives and friends Sunday. Point Bluff. Mrs. N. C. WOOD visited Mrs. C. Cook the first of the week. Mr. Jean EVANS spent Saturday and Sunday with his family. Mrs. D. SMITH and son were down to T. JOHNSON's to see Dr. Towns last Sunday. Several from here attended church Sunday, and some went over to the Mars schoolhouse to hear Elder ROBINSON. Mr. DOAN and Mr. LARSON, of Germantown, were looking over the Hagar farm for a friend in Chicago, one day this week. Dr. and Mrs. TOWNS returned to their home in Fond du Lac Monday. White Creek. Dr. LISTER was driving about Sunday with his new team. Rev. MARDEN and Mr. HOWARD were in Friendship Monday. There will be an icecream social on the lawn by the church Tuesday evening, August 17th. In addition, there will be a museum and gypsy tent. All are cordially invited to come. The proceeds will go to help pay the janitor of the church. Misses Margaret MARDEN, Verna WALRATH, Grace and Mabel WINTERSTEIN and Alice BERGMON are attending Institute at Friendship. Miss Margaret MARDEN will teach the fall term of school in this place. The young ladies of this place are cordially invited to come and help decorate the grounds Tuesday afternoon for the social in the evening. Minnie JENCKS has returned from her visit with relatives at Lodi and Baraboo. Eugene FISHER is visiting friends and relatives in this place. F. STOWELL was in Friendship Tuesday. Dr. H. F. FREDRICK was in town last week on professional business. Mrs. M. E. AUSTIN and son Alvah made a business trip out east last Saturday. Mrs. Nealy PEASE was the guest of Mrs. George STOWELL the first of the week. Miss Julia WILSON, who has been on the sick list, is very much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Frank WITT were calling on relatives at Easton on Thursday evening of last week. Mrs. N. A. METEYARD and Miss Alice WILSON visited Mrs. GULLICKSON of Quincy, last week. Mr. C. N. WITT has gone to Wild Rose, where he expects to learn the barber trade. Mr. E. HALSTEAD, of Easton, called on friends here last Saturday. Mrs. WALKER is enjoying a visit from a daughter from Merrill. Mr. Will SWEET, of Kilbourn, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Belle STOWELL, the first of the week. Mr. Ed. COLBURN was seen on our streets on day last week. Mrs. WALKER is enjoying a visit from a daughter from Merrill. Mr. Will SWEET, of Kilbourn, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Belle STOWELL, the first of the week. Mr. Ed. COLBURN was seen on our streets one day last week. Little Bluebell
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