Contributed by our Regular Correspondents Local Brevities It's cold, and then it isn't. Cranberries are selling at $1.00 per bushel. Potatoes are worth from 30 to 40 cents per bushel. Supt. HIGBEE closed the Fall Examination of applicants for teacher's certificates on Friday of this week. Mrs. Emma BOLLES and Miss Hattie PIERCE left Friendship, for the home of the former, on Monday last. Charley NEWTON is getting his new residence fitted up in good style, and will occupy it shortly. N. B. SMITH has been around town this week, busy as the business end of a wasp. WALKER, WAIT and GREINER have made a big hole in the ground, probably for "electioneering purposes," though our better half says it looks like a well. This week concludes the publication of the County Clerk's list of delinquent lands. As it has been published in supplement, it has not trenched much on the reading space of the paper. Our frisky and youthful friend, A. J. HILL, has gone and done just what might have been expected of such an inexperienced youth. Look among the marriage notices for the proofs. We've taken him to task about it, but as he promises not to do so again, people ought to condone the youthful indiscretion. Badinage aside, however, we sincerely join in the hearty congratulations of the many friends of the parties. Big Spring Items The ladies of the Big Spring Free Baptist and Congregational Churches held a Festival at the New Haven House, on the evening of October 17, for the purpose of raising money to pay for the insurance on their house of worship. The proceeds of the entertainment, and what absent members have since paid in, amount to $24. J.R. Married HEBERLEIN-STOWELL.__At the Union Church, Big Spring, on the 6th day of October, 1878, by Rev. D. A. CAMPBELL, Charles HEBERLEIN, of Douglas, to Ellen B. STOWELL, of Big Spring. HILL.-WILNER.__In Friendship, Adams county, Wis., Oct. 21, 1878, by Rev. P. R. STAPLES, Mr. A. J. HILL, of Friendship, and Mrs. Marian WILNER, of Corning, N.Y.
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