Saturday, September 25, 1897 Local Brevities The Fair is on. O. H. WAIT attended the Fair at Westfield this week. Hon. J. W. GUNNING attended the Westfield Fair Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. WILBER and Miss Irene WILBER visited Coloma Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. HILL attended the Marquette county Fair this week. The Ladies' Aid Society meets on Thursday of next week with Mrs. H. J. DARTT. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. VROMAN, of Jackson, are guests at Register McCONICK's. Miss Mamie RISK, of Easton, is a guest at Thos. RISK's. She came up on her wheel. A. F. HILL and G. W. WATERMAN attended the Indian payment at Necedah last Friday. A brother of L. C. ROUS, from New York, is visiting that gentleman at his home in the town of Preston. Mr. Isaac MEAD, of Janesville, was a guest of his cousin, J. A. WILBER, in this village, the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. BINGHAM, of West Superior, are guests at the home of G. W> BINGHAM in this village. C. L. KRENTZ, of Westfield, was in Friendship on business on Monday. He was accompanied by his little son. The village schools have vacation on Thursday, and Friday of this week, to allow the school children to attend the Fair. Rev. J. A. THOMAS and J. PARMENTER attended the State Convention of Congregational Churches at Ripon this week. Lafayette J. GALLUP made final proof on his homestead entry before Clerk of the Circuit Court SICKLES on Wednesday. Rev. P. KURZEJKA wishes us to announce that he will hold services in the Catholic Church at Friendship, on Sunday, September 26th. We notice among the list of Portage and Baraboo young men who will start for Alaska this winter, the name of Jesse NOYES of Baraboo. Mrs. KEYES, mother of Mrs. J. B. KEYES, is quite sick at the home of her daughter in this village, suffering from a slight stroke of paralysis. Misses Minnie HIGBEE and Nellie HILL are each the happy possessor of a new wheel, which arrived Monday, and are rapidly mastering the art of cycling. Rev. S. H. BABCOCK, of Milton, preached at Adams Center Wednesday evening and will speak there again on Saturday evening. Next week he will preach at Glen. Dr. M. D. BARBOUR, Dentist, of Mauston, will be in Friendship October 20th, and remain four days. All those wishing dental work done will please remember. The railroad survey is going along in good shape and a better route into the town is being found than on previous surveys. They tell us the road can be built from Princeton in sixty days. The Wisconsin Business University of La Crosse, opened its fall term, September 6. We have the largest attendance in its history. This is one of the few schools that it is safe to patronize and commend. It invites all students to attend one month on trial free. A. C. DIXON, senior member of A. C. Dixon & Son, of Kilbourn, has rented the new store room of H. BARTON, which will be ready for occupancy in about 10 days. He will put in a new stock of dry goods, boots and shoes and ready made clothing. He comes highly recommended as a lively business man. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Davis who have been residents of the town of Dekorra for more than 35 years have removed to Pilot Knob and will make their home with their daughter, Mrs. Edward CHURCH. This removal is necessitated by the illness of Mrs. DAVIS who suffers from rheumatism. Mr. DAVIS has rented his fine farm, which was the second in his neighborhood to be broken for cultivation.-Portage State Register. The agricultural editor of an eastern paper thus answers a correspondent who wanted to know how to keep his neighbor's hens out of his garden. "Dear correspondent: Take a lot of small, stiff cards, about 1x2 inches; write on them: Please keep your darned old hens at home. Tie a short string to each card, with a grain of corn at the other end of the string, and scatter them where the hens congregate. When the hungry biddy gobbles up the grain that draws the prize, she follows the string, stowing it away until she comes to the card. Then you will see her put out for home, carrying in her mouth your polite request." Local Correspondents Roche-a-Cris Ripples A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. ROUNDS, Sept. 16th, and now Geo. is happy. Invitations are out for a party at E. L. BILLINGS, Tuesday evening. Miss Maud CARPENTER, who has spent nearly a year in Fond du Lac county county attending school, is now home on a visit. She intends leaving for Chicago in a few days, where she will continue her studies. Grant Cage, of Plainfield, visited at O. Gardner's last Friday. Mrs. Lillie HOLMES commenced a fall term of school in the Hamilton district last week Monday. School in the Billings' district is postponed a week on account of the Fair, so a good representation may be expected from that vicinity. Bert HAMILTON left last week for Waushara county, where he will dig potatoes for some time to come. Mr. Wm. MEYRES from Freeport, Ill., is building a house on land he has recently purchased; and expects to bring his family this fall to occupy it. Mr. Chas. LINDERMAN, from Freeport, Ill., is here, and is making preparations for building and occupying his property in the near future. Messrs. MEYRES, LINDERMAN, HAMILTON, and BEEMAN went to Necedah for each a load of lumber for Mr. MEYRES, last Friday. Mr. Jas. RASMUSSEN spent last Wednesday at Colburn, attending Justice Lathrop's court in the C. M. Simons case. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. ELY visited at O. GARDNER's early in the week. The Indians drew their annuities at Friendship last Saturday, and are now unusually happy. Nameless Coloma Station Miss Bertha HOPPER, of Friendship, visited friends in Coloma last week. Miss Kate SHOREY visited in town last week. Chas. DUMAN, the photographer, has gone to Westfield. Carrie HAMILTON, of Hancock, visited our schools Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred. BARTZ are visiting friends near Westfield. Mrs. Louie PREMO is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McLAUGHLIN. Miss Mabel PARKIN is visiting her uncle's family. Miss Etta RUNNELS is at Hancock, working in a millinery shop. Mr. Jas. McLAUGHLIN, Jr., and Mr. Frank BASSETT are home from Nekoosa, where they have been working in the mill. Mr. Frank SPEES, who has been working on the store building of Fearne & Follett, returned to his home in Plainfield Saturday evening. D. H. DAVIES, of Wautoma, was in town on Friday. Prof. DAVIES, a teacher from the State University and his little son, were guests at Thos. FEARNE's Thursday. He was on his way to Wild Rose to visit his father, who is very ill. Pilot Knob Mrs. C. CUSHMAN, of Portage, visited with friends in this place last week. Miss Jennie NESBITT visited friends on Russell Flats Saturday and Sunday last. Mr. and Mrs. J. BARNETT, of Coloma, visited at Mr. DIMICK's one day last week. Ladies' Aid Society meets with Miss Ellen PECK on Friday of next week. The farmers are busy cutting corn and pulling beans. Mrs. J. GLOVER and two children, of Westfield, have been visiting friends in this place. Mrs. C. LYON is on the sick list. Born, September 8th, to Mr. and Mrs. V. VIBER, a daughter. There is to be a dance at Mr. Joseph VOBERIL's on Friday night of this week. Miss May RITTENHOUSE is working for Mrs. J. KING at Coloma. Elmer MORGAN has hired out to work for L. BROOKS this fall. Mr. Frank VONDROSIC, of Chicago, visited friends in this place last week. Rome Jack Frost came on Sunday evening and made us an oldfashioned call. The threshing-machine will be down through Barnum this week. Miss Ida SCHOFIELD spent Saturday and Sunday at HORTON's. Mrs. Loren FINCH visited her daughter Tressie, at Stevens Point over Saturday and Sunday. Mr. G. W. ANDERSON returned home from Minnesota last week. Will GEORGE, Chas. PARKES and the Misses OLESONS visited at Henry GEORGE's on Sunday. Mr. A. W.SWEET came down from Centralia Sunday on his wheel. Jimmie SHURTLIFF, is occupying Mr. WEBB's house this year. It caught fire Sunday morning and burned down. There was time to save but very little. Excelsior LOVELAN, Col., claims to have raised a potato weighing eighty-two pounds, which is eighteen inches long and ten inches across.
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