Contributed by our Regular Correspondents Local Brevities Town Meeting next Tuesday. The editor of the Press arrived at his home from Madison, on Thursday evening of last week. The Ladies' Aid Society will hold its next meeting at A. J. Hill's residence on Thursday evening next. Mrs. M. J. HAWKINS returned from Milwaukee on Wednesday evening last where she had gone to purchase a full line of millinery goods, which she will be happy to furnish customers in a few days at her new establishment over Hill's store. J. A. WILBUR has been sorely afflicted some three weeks or more with inflammatory rheumatism. We saw him in the village last Tuesday carrying with him the marks of extreme suffering, although feeling far better then he had been. He has our best wishes for his complete restoration to health. Uncle Bela TARBOX has swapped his twins for a V. Uncle Barnes is now the proud possessor, and thinks they will be as strong as an ox team in process of time. And Uncle Pratt has parted with his to Dan. SULLIVAN. Dan evidently intends to keep pace with the old fellows. Burglary,--We learn that the house of James McLAUGHLIN, town treasurer of the town of Richfield, was broken into on the night of Sunday, the 17th. Mr. McLAUGHLIN was chloroformed, and $76 were taken-town funds. Mr. McLAUGHLIN had just made his returns to the County Treasurer, and thereby probably saved the amount so paid. The thief or thieves no doubt expected to get the entire sum. Barn Burned.-The barn of Mr. A. S. FERRIS, about two miles southeast of this village was burned last Tuesday. The premises were occupied by the family of Mr. Grow, and the fire originated, we are informed, by the children playing with matches, and so setting fire to the straw littered near the barn, and thus communication the fire to it. In the barn and burned with it were about ten tons of hay. The barn was a new one put up the past season. No insurance. Vindicated We have been shown a full and complete retraction of the reports circulated by a certain party at Strongs Prairie Corners, to the injury of Rev. L. J. HARRINGTON. The retraction is as full and complete as it could well be made, and was designed to be published in the Press. For obvious reasons the friends of Mr. HARRINGTON advise him not to publish the retraction at this time, but to spare his traducer, at least for the present, the humiliation of public exposure. The moderation and generosity of this course will commend itself to the considerate judgment of every right-feeling person. School Report The following is the report of the Hubbard district school for the fourth month of the winter term: Scholars not absent during the month: Alice COTTON, Ernest McCLYMAN, Ella JONES, Mary JONES, Frank JONES, Cora JONES, John WOLFERT, William REID, George WOLFERT, Grant PICKET, Eliza McGUINESS. Scholars not tardy during the month: Mary JONES, Cora JONES, Hattie Jones, Mury REID, William REID, George WOLFERT, Eliza McGUINESS. Number of scholars enrolled, 39 Average attendance, 31. Number of visitors during the month, 5. Most of the scholars, by careful study, have been sowing the seeds for a rich and bountiful harvest. If they continue their reward is sure. A. EDWARDS, Teacher March 12, 1878
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