Contributed by our Regular Correspondents Local Brevities The Ladies' Aid Society, owing to divers and sundry could-n't-well-avoid-it happenings, failed to come to time last week. We are authorized to say that it will meet at the house of Elder STAPLES on Thursday evening next, the 21st. All are invited to attend. As will be seen by a notice elsewhere it is proposed to have a donation party at Wright's Hotel on the evening of Tuesday, the 19th, for the benefit of Elder HARRINGTON. As the laborer is worthy of his hire we trust the Elder will be liberally rewarded. Hi. MASON is requested to call or send for a few dollars left for him in our care two or three weeks since. It's rather temptatious carrying another man's money these times. Our neighbor J. HAWKINS is the champion fish-catcher of this village. On Tuesday evening last he took from the pond four or five as nice pickerel as one could wish to see. And then in the goodness of his heart he remembered the old printer, and on Thursday morning our better half furnished us with a little the nicest breakfast we have had this many a day. HAWKINS has our thanks for that fish. It was good. "Fair play is a jewel," and we hereby acknowledge the receipt from W. M. WRIGHT of a can of as nice fresh oysters as ever sent a fellow into a land of horrid dreams and wild visions. Wright has our thanks. It wasn't his fault that we didn't know when we had enough of a good thing. Blessed is he that remembereth the printer. Mr. O. B. CRANE, of the town of Lincoln, visited the Press office last Wednesday. He intends in the spring to remove to Princeton, Green Lake county, and preliminary thereto has issued posters, announcing a public sale on the 6th of March next, of a lot of cows, steers, Poland-China swine, farming utensils, wagons, buggies, household furniture, crockery, stoves, and much other valuable property. We judge that those who want to add to their stock of plows, drags, cultivators, &c., could make good bargains by attending the sale. Thanks,--Our thanks are due Hon. T. O. HOWE for valuable public documents. Big Spring Items Suicide, Fire, &c.-Our regular correspondent at Big Spring sent us the following last week; but it reached us one day too late for publication in the Press of the 9th: On the evening of February 7, Willie, the son of Mr. Wm. MYLREA of this town, aged between 18 and 19, went to the stable between the hours of 6 and 7 o'clock P. M. to see if the horses were all right. Not coming back his father went to see what had become of him, and not finding him at the barn went to one of the neighbors to see if he was there. Not finding him at the neighbor's search was made for his tracks which were found leading to a piece of woods about one hundred rods distant. Some rope was also found missing. Those in search found him suspended from the limb of a tree about twenty feet from the ground. He had fallen about nine feet, the fall breaking his neck. No cause can be found for the deed. He came home from school, did the chores, and ate his supper as usual. Mr. B. S. WILBER's store, with all the contents, was consumed this morning, Friday the 8th. Also his dwelling house. His furniture was mostly saved. At one time it was thought the whole village would be consumed. Pierce & Sons' store was saved with difficulty. Their loss is only in the removal of goods, Elder TULL, F. WARD, and Frank PETERSON were more or less injured by the falling of a part of the wall. It is supposed the fire caught in the paper rags in the store. Insurance $900. Elders CAMPBELL and TULL closed their series of meetings on the evening of the 7th. Some forty or more have been converted. J. R. School Report Of District No. 2, Town of Lincoln, Feb. 3, 1878. Total enrollment, 44. Average daily attendance, 36. Pupils neither absent nor tardy during the month, Willis COOL, John HESLER, Frank HALL, Frank WARREN, Edwin COOL, Claude EDWARDS, George COOL, Jennie WARREN. In deportment the following numbered pupils are marked 95 or above 95 on the scale of 100: 28, 24, 25, 27, 31, 19, 35, 20, 21, 18, 9, 6, 39, 8, 23, 18, 17, 14, 16, 35, 22, 32, 41, 42, 33, 34, 15. No. of visitors, 8. Parents are invited to call. L. RICHMOND, Teacher DONATION There will be a donation and oyster supper for the benefit of Rev. Mr. HARRINGTON, on the evening of February 19th, at WRIGHT's Hotel. All are cordially invited to attend. By the Committee DIED McCLYMAN.-In New Chester, Adams Co., Wisconsin, February 6th, 1878, Sidney, son of Thomas K. and Josephine McCLYMAN, aged 5 years. SLITER-In Friendship, February 3, 1878, of dropsy on the brain, Imogene, aged seven months, the little daughter of Wm. And Julia E. SLITER. Roswell W. STOWELL, whole death was noticed in the last Press, was born in Otsego county, New York, May 14th, 1811. A few years later he went to Oswego county, New York, to reside, where he was married and engaged in active business pursuits until the winter of 1856-1857, when he and his family came to Friendship. Previous to this he had professed a hope in Christ, and united with the M. E. Church. After residing a couple of years in this then new village of Friendship, he removed to his farm about three miles southeast of the village, where he resided until his death. Being one of the oldest residents of this place, Mr. STOWELL shared in and had to do with all those questions and interests that have left their impress upon our little community. He loved his won church and in all honorable ways sought its prosperity. But he was not only a lover of his own, but of all that loved Christ. He had his imperfections-no one knew this better than himself; and so to the very last his hope of eternal blessedness was in the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. Brother STOWELL we expect to find among the saved. We doubt not he has gone to see the King in his beauty-there to await the coming of the loved ones yet left in the old home.-- NOTICE Is hereby given, that I have given to my minor sons, Frank E. and Charlie A. CRANE, their time to do business for themselves in all respects as thought of lawful age; and from and after this date I will not be held responsible for any debts of their contracting. O. B. CRANE, Dated, Lincoln, February 13, 1878
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