March 18, 1893 March 18, 1893 Local Brevities Fay Hill was quite sick the first of the week. Miss Alice Lapham is visiting friends in Easton this week. Prof. H.D. Keyes is spending his vacation at his home in Delton. E. Knight takes the cake for erecting the first building in Oaklawn. Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Simons visited their children at Necedah last Sunday. Miss Sarah Eddy, of Easton, visited with friends in this village last week. George Bloss, of New Chester, was in Friendship the latter part of last week. Henry Atcherson, of Plainville, visited with friends here the latter part of last week. Mrs. S.A. Hamilton has been quite sick for the past week with congestion of the lungs. Mrs. Wm. Hopper spent a few days the latter part of last week with relatives near Colonra. Mrs. J.M. Graham has been very sick for the past two weeks but is now somewhat improved. H.W. Shipway and Fred. Holmes, of Big Flats, visited Friendship last Tuesday on business. Mr. Chas. Newton and family started for Beloit last Friday where they will make their future home. E.S. Hunt, of New Chester, visited Friendship last Monday and dropped in to this office for a brief chat. Mr. and Mrs. James Thurber, of Spring Creek, will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary next Tuesday. Mrs. Earl Stafford was last Thursday made the recipient of a handsome new organ, the gift of her mother. Miss Millie Burnham, who has been attending school here, returned to her home at Little Lake on Sunday last. Mrs. Frank McConick and Mrs. Earl Stafford left last Monday for a visit with relatives in the southern part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Bement and two children, of Jackson, visited with Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Graham from Friday until Sunday. Mr. Thos. Risk has considerable lumber drawn for the new house which he will erect on his lots just west of the village this spring. Miss Mamie Wilbur intends to start next week for an extended visit with relatives and friends in Massachusetts. She expects to be absent a year and perhaps longer. J.M. Schoff, of Easton, an old-time subscriber for the Press, visited Friendship last Tuesday and made this office a friendly call. Mr. Schoff has been in poor health all winter. M.E. Lawrence made a trip to Necedah last Tuesday and hauled back a load of 2,000 feet of lumber for S.S. Landt, which the latter expects to use in building at Oaklawn. DIED SCHIEBER - In the town of New Chester, on the morning of March 17; after a long illness and much suffering, Eve, the beloved wife of Lorenz Schieber, in the 73rd year of her life. The departed one is the mother of four living children who all reside in this county; Frank, the eldest, at New Chester; Ferdinand, in Adams; Pauline, wife of Mr. W. McClyman and William, in New Chester, at the homestead. Mrs. Schieber was born on the lower Rhine, in Freneli, Germany, came from there to Buffalo, New York, where she was married to Mr. Schieber in 1844; moved from Watertown in 1856, coming to Adams County, since which time they have resided in New Chester, being much esteemed by their neighbors. The funeral took place from the house on the Sunday following. ORDER FOR HEARING PROOF OF WILL State of Wisconsin, County Court for Adams County, - In Probate In the Matter of the Will of Lucinda Finch, deceased On reading and filing an instrument in writing, purporting to be the will of Lucinda Finch, late of the town of Rome in said county, deceased; and also the accompanying petition of W.W. Burhite, of said town, representing among other things that the said Lucinda Finch lately died at said town of Rome, that said instrument is the last will of said deceased and that the said petitioner is named as one of the executors therein and Loren Finch is named as another executor, and praying that the said instrument may be proved and allowed as the last will and testament of said Lucinda Finch, deceased; and that letters testamentary be thereon issued to W.W. Burhite and Loren Finch, It is Ordered, that said petition and the proofs of said instrument be heard at a regular term of said County Court, to be held in and for said county, at the Court House in the village of Friendship, on the first Tuesday (being the 4th day) of April, A.D. 1893, where all concerned may appear and contest the probate thereof. It is Further Ordered, that notice of the time and place of such hearing be given by personal service of a notice thereof on Loren Finch of Rome, Adams Co., Wis., Phoebe J. Weaver, of Grand Rapids, Wood Co, Wis., and Elmer Finch, of Rome, Adams Co., Wis., persons interested, at least ten days before the time appointed as aforesaid, and by publication of such notice at least three weeks successively, previous to said time, in the Adams County Press, a weekly newspaper, published at the village of Friendship, in said county. Dated March 7, A.D.,1893 By the Court John B. Keyes, County Judge
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