Saturday, May 29, 1897 Local Brevities -Frank B. PIERCE, of Randolph, is a guest at the home of the editor. -Mr. and Mrs. John HILL visited at Necedah the latter part of last week. -Mr. M. D. BARBOUR will be at Friendship, June 16, 1897, and remain four days. -F. M. FILKINS and daughter, Miss Myra, of Spring Creek, were in town last Saturday. -W. R. ATCHERSON and Miss Gertie ATCHERSON attended the circus at Westfield on Wednesday. -Mrs. Mary NEFF and Mrs. Lizzie CAMPBELL, of Easton, were Friendship visitors last Tuesday. -Misses Bertha HOPPER and Mame WILBER visited friends in Richfield from Friday until Sunday last. -Memorial services will be held at Church next Sunday morning-a Memorial sermon and music. -Miss Nina RISK, of Easton, visited with the family of her uncle, Thomas RISK, from Sunday until Tuesday last. -Miss May PIERCE returned home last Wednesday, after a visit of several weeks with relatives at Randolph. -Miss WHEELIHAN and Dr. G. H. PARHAM, of Necedah, were guests at Dr. H. F. FREDRICK's on Friday of last week. -J. W. GUNNING is erecting a new porch on the east side of his house, a very comfortable addition on a hot summer day. -Wm. HOPPER has added very materially to the appearance of his residence by the addition of a veranda the entire length of the east side. -Editor PIERCE visited Madison the first of the week. Mrs. Nellie PIERCE and Thornton PIERCE accompanied him as far as Kilbourn, and visited a few days with relatives there. -Rev. J. A. THOMAS will deliver a memorial discourse at Quincy next Saturday, and will preach at the school house in the upper district of Quincy next Sunday evening at 7:30. -Miss Maria HOLM, accompanied by her little nephew and niece, Jay and Ada POWER, of Portland, North Dakota, is expected to arrive in this village this (Thursday) evening, where they will spend the summer with Mrs. R. B. HOLM. -Mr. ROURKE, the expert accountant who has been examining the financial affairs in the county treasurer's office for the six years preceding the year 1893, and who filed his report on Saturday last, recalled it on Monday for correction and amendment. -Hon. Geo. H. RAY and a friend, of La Crosse, are expected to visit Friendship as the guests of the editor the latter part of next week, and enjoy piscatorial pleasures along the Little Roche-a-Cris. Mr. Ray was a very prominent candidate for Speaker of the Assembly last winter and his fitness for the position was universally conceded. As a member on the floor he is able, independent, conscientious, and industrious. -Every column in a newspaper contains from ten to twenty thousands distinct pieces of metal, the displacement of one of which would cause a blunder or a typographical error. And yet some people think it very strange when they find an error in a newspaper. When they see a word with a wrong letter in it or a misplaced one they are sure they are happy for a whole day and go around telling how the editor made a mistake.-Press and Printer. From Local Correspondents Pilot Knob -The Ladies' Aid will meet with Miss Ellen PECK next week. -The Morgan school will observe Memorial Day with appropriate exercises. -Mrs. NESBITT and Robert NESBITT visited friends on Russell Flats last Sunday. -Mr. and Mrs. STAPLES have moved on to their farm again for the summer. -Bert SMITH, of Coloma Station, visited at his father's on Sunday. -Mrs. LEONARD has recently moved to her farm. -Joseph VOBERIL is at work on his new house. Jonesville -A welcome rain blessed this ville Saturday. -Tom HAMILTON has hired out to Will OSBORN for the summer. -Henry HUBBARD has moved to Jonesville center. -Will DEMOTT had a barn dance Friday night. -Dick HUBER is hustling the farming this summer. -T. K. McCLYMAN has a fine crop of lambs. -Andrew WOHLFERT's windmill blew to pieces last week. -Miss BURNHAM is assisting Mrs. Cora OSBORN in cleaning house. -Norm. JONES is painting his house. Takes a lot of paint. -Mr. SIMPSON and wife, of Big Spring, visited at Herb. MASON's Sunday. -E. HUNT starts on a trip to the northern part of the state this week. -D. D. CAMPBELL is getting his house frame sawed at the Jackson mill. A. P. Accurate Point Bluff -Died, May 20, at Olin, May Belle WARD, aged 9 years and ten months. She had suffered for about two months, then passed away. (page 4, column 4) -Mr. Geo. GREEN and wife and little son were up from Dane county, visiting relatives. -Mr. Ed. DOUGLAS and Miss May went over to Baraboo with their cousins last Saturday. -Mr. Wm. KETCHAM is raising a pair of twin Jersey calves, real beauties. -The farmers are getting along pretty will with the corn planting. -There will be Sunday School at Point Bluff every Sunday. It will be at ten o'clock one Sunday, and when there is preaching it will be at two o'clock. Next Sunday it will be at two o'clock, and preaching at three. -Well, some of our young girls are justly proud of their having received diplomas. Only had to wait two weeks after writing for them to get them. Two of the girls were less than fourteen years of age. -Mr. Leon HARRISON and son Ray were down from Harshaw to attend the funeral of Mamie Ward. Plainville -Mr. John TOWNSAND, of Stevens Point, visited a few days with his son and other relatives. -Mr. and Mrs. M. WALKER, of Big Spring, visited with their son, Sunday. -Mrs. T. W. DONNELLY, of Portage, is visiting her grandparents for a week. -O. S. ATCHERSON is having some repairing done on his house. Messrs. COLBURN and FEDDERLY are doing the work. -The lecture and social last Thursday evening were well attended, proceeds being $6.85. -Next Saturday afternoon, May 29, every one is invited to come and work in the cemetery. -Mr. and Mrs. Wm. LAWRENCE, of Kilbourn, visited with his brother last Sunday. -Mr. L. HARRISON and son, of Harshaw, Wisconsin, attended the funeral of his brother-in-law's child. (page 4, column 4) -Died, of quick consumption, at the home of her parents, Mamie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. WARD, May 20, aged ten years. The funeral was held at the Olin schoolhouse Sunday afternoon was held at the Olin schoolhouse Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. C. W. TURNER. Mamie had been sick all the spring, suffering with whooping cough and lung fever, which finally ended in the dreadful disease of consumption. The family have the sympathy of the community in their deep sorrow. (page 4, column 4) -Johnnie WARD, of Jordan Lake, came home to attend the funeral of his sister.
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