Contributed by our Regular Correspondents Local Brevities The people of Easton will celebrate the Fourth. The Friendship merchants are rapidly winning a reputation for selling excellent goods exceedingly cheap. The "Excelsiors" of Easton will play a match game of base-ball with the Friendship club this (Saturday) afternoon, on the grounds of the latter. Doesn't it do one good to see the smiling faces of the farmers and hear them tell how finely their grain is growing? Messrs. MAXSON and CONVIS have secured the entire control of the Friendship Mills for the ensuing year, and are rapidly putting them in good order. They are evidently bound to win success by deserving it. We have never since 1856, seen a time when the prospects for Adams county were so promising and encouraging as now. Crops excellent, people hopeful and cheerful and seeding their lands to clover. More acres of land have been seeded to clover in this county, during the past spring than in any one previous year. The seed has taken well and the crop is growing finely. A few years of clover will make the sandy lands of Adams county the best in the state. Mrs. WARNER has added a postscript to her advertisement, announcing that she will give instruction in the manufacture of wax flowers, mosses, grasses, and all kinds of ornamental wax work. Mr. MAXSON seems to be the champion fisherman this season. On Wednesday last he caught a splendid sucker, and kindly remembered the old printer. To destroy bugs on squashes and cucumber vines, dissolve a table-spoonful of saltpeter in a pail full of water, put a pint of this around each hill, shaping the earth so that it will not spread much, and the thing is done. The more saltpeter, if you can afford it-it is good for vegetable but death to animal life. The bugs burrow in the ground at night an fail to rise in the morning. It is also good to kill grub in trees-only use twice as much, say a quart to each tree. There was not a yellow or blistered leaf on twelve or fifteen trees to which it was applied last season. No danger of killing any vegetable with it-a concentrated solution applied to beans makes them grow wonderfully. Report of the Proceedings of Lemonweir Convention The 20th Annual Meeting of the Lemonweir Congregational Convention convening at Grand Rapids, June 11, 1878, was opened by a sermon from the Moderator, Rev. P. R. STAPLES. Text, Gallatians, vi;9, Scripture Reading, by Rev. D. A. CAMPBELL. Wednesday Morning, June 12th. Convention called to order by the Moderator. Opened with prayer by Rev. G. J. WEBSTER. Revs. J. W. LANE and W. C. WALDRON were elected as corresponding members of the Convention. Roll of members called. The following churches were represented by delegates: Big Spring, Albert WELLS. Friendship, L. STOWELL, Chas. HILL, Mrs. Martha SMITH. Grand Rapids, H. B. PHILLEO, Mrs. H. W. LORD. Hancock, A. J. POTTER New Chester, A. W. HARWOOD, Chester JONES, Mrs. Mary HUBBARD. Wautoma, Mrs. J. MEYERS. Westfield, E. H. FISHER. Plover, A. A. WALBRIDGE. The following Pastors were in attendance: Rev. D. A. Campbell, L. M. FOSTER, P. R. STAPLES, G. J. WEBSTER. A. A. YOUNG representing the Churches at New Lisbon and Orange. Robt. QUAIFE representing the Church at Elroy. Election for Moderator resulted in the choice of Rev. D. A. CAMPBELL. G. J. WEBSTER was elected Temporary Clerk Committees were then appointed as follows: Business Committee, Bros. YOUNG and POTTER. Religious Exercises, Bros. FOSTER, PHILLEO and STOWELL. In the absence of Rev. J. W. DONALDSON, Brother A. J. POTTER led the morning prayer meeting. Business was then resumed as follows: Reading of minutes of last meeting. Reading of business report, showing a balance of $3.55 in treasury, which was then discussed and adopted. A letter from the church in Westfield was read by Rev. P. R. STAPLES, after which the subject was referred to a committee consisting of Bros. STAPLES, PHILLCO, and QUAIFE. The next subject on the programme "The Present Home Missionary Crisis-What it Means for us?" was opened by Rev. A. A. YOUNG. Wednesday Afternoon Prayer meeting led by Rev. D. A. CAMPBELL. Sermon by Rev. QUAIFE. Text, James v; 19-20. Communion service followed in charge of Revs. LANE and STAPLES. Children's Meeting addressed by Revs. YOUNG, QUAIFE and WEBSTER. The question of the next place of meeting was decided in favor of Wautoma. Convention then adjourned until 7:30 P. M. The exercises of the evening were: Reading of the Scriptures and prayer by Rev. A. A. YOUNG. Essay on "The Christian Life and Growth," by Rev. G. J. WEBSTER, followed by Rev. J. W. LANE, of Plover, in elaborate remarks on the same subject. Thursday Morning, June 13th Meeting was called to order, and opened with prayer by the Moderator. Re Rev. Matthew BENNETT, a member of this Convention, having united with the Methodist Episcopal West Wisconsin Conference without having applied for a letter of dismissal from this Convention, or having notified the church of the fact-on motion, his name was dropped from our list of members on account of his having left irregularly. The committee appointed to consider the case of the Westfield Church, offered its report, which was adopted and the committee was discharged. Rev. P. R. STAPLES then took the floor, discussing the "Needs of Our Home Missionary Fields and the Future Apportionment of Aid," and was followed with remarks by Revs. A. A. YOUNG, LANE, QUAIFE, Bros. WALBRIDGE, PHILLEO and POTTER. The Question drawer was next opened, and the enclosed questions read by Rev. A. A. YOUNG and answered by various members of the convention. The Convention then adjourned to meet, subject to call of the Moderator, at the General Convention, at Waukesha, otherwise at Wautoma next December. Votes of thanks were extended to the people and Congregational Church of Grand Rapids for their hospitality, and to the choir of said church for its music. Signed, D. A. CAMPBELL, Moderator G. J. WEBSTER, Clerk. Legal Notices Sheriff's Sale State of Wisconsin-Circuit Court for Adams County Charles E. MYREA, Plaintiff against Stephen S. CLOUGH, Defend't In pursuance and by virtue of a judgment and decree of foreclosure and sale in the above entitled cause, rendered on the 13th day of June, 1877, at a general term of the circuit court for the 9th judicial circuit of the State of Wisconsin, held at the courthouse in the village of Friendship, in the county of Adams, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the front door of the court house in said village of Friendship, on the thirteenth day of August, A. D. 1878, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the following described real estate, lying and being in the town of New Haven, county of Adams, and State of Wisconsin, to wit: the north half of the south-west quarter, and the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section twenty-eighth (28), and the north-west quarter of section thirty-three (33); all in township fourteen (14), north of range seven (7), east, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy said judgment, with interest, costs, and expenses of sale. Dated at the Sheriff's office, Friendship, Adams county, Wisconsin, June 17, 1878. H. A. MERRIMAN, Sheriff, By W. H. CROSBY, Under Sheriff J. BOWMAN, Plaintiff's Att'y, Kilbourn City, Wis. Order for Final Settlement State of Wisconsin, Adams County Court-In Probate In the matter of the estate of James M. WINCHELL, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of W. C STOWELL, and John D. STOWELL, executors of the last will and testament of said deceased, representing that they have fully administered upon said estate, and praying for the final settlement of their administration account thereof, and for the assignment of the residue 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 8th day of July, 1878, at 1 o'clock P. M., for the examination and allowance of said account, 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 June 12th, 1878. J. B. HARRISON, County Judge
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