Local News From the Saturday September 14, 1878 Adams County Press




Transcribed by Joan Benner




Married: Wightman - Ager
On the 29th of August, 1878, at the Crosby House in Friendship, by Rev.
L.J. Herrington, Mr. James W. Wightman, County Superintendent of Juneau county, to Miss Belle Ager of Briggsville, 
Marquette county, Wisconsin.


Sheriff's Sale
Sheriff's Office, Adams County, Sept. 12, 1878 J.M. Harrison, Plaintiff, against Thomas Thompson, Defendant By virtue 
of execution issues out of the Circuit Court for the County of Adams and the State of Wisconsin, and to me directed, 
in favor of the above-named plaintiff and against the above-named defendant, Thomas Thompson, I have levied upon the 
following described real estate, the property of said defendant, to wit: the south-east quarter of the southwest quarter 
of section 34 (34), in township sixteen (16), north of range five (5) east, and in the said county of Adams, and State 
of Wisconsin, which I shall offer for sale, and sell at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the front door of the 
Court House in the village of Friendship in said county, on the twenty-eighth day of October, A.D. 1878, at one o'clock 
in the afternoon of that day. H.A. Merriman, Sheriff.
By W. H. Crosby, Under Sheriff


Application for Administration
State of Wisconsin, Adams County Court-in Probate In the matter of the estate of Ephraim Hecocks, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of A. E. Hecocks, administrator of the estate of said deceased, representing that 
he has fully administered upon said estate, and praying for the final settlement of his administration account thereof, 
and for the assignment of said estate to the persons entitled thereto.
It is ordered that a hearing be had before this court, at the probate office in the village of Friendship, on the 23rd 
day of September, 1878, at 1 o'clock p.m., and for the assignment of the residue of said estate to the persons entitled 
thereto. And it is further ordered, that notice of said hearing be given to all persons interested by publishing a copy 
of this order for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing, in the Adams County Press, a weekly newspaper 
printed and published at Friendship in said county. 
Dated August 22nd, 1878, J.P. Harrison, County Judge



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