From Local Correspondents White Creek Bert BACON is building a new house. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. BACON are visiting old friends in this vicinity. Miss Grace WINTERSTEEN spent Sunday with her parents in this place. There will be a dance in Dunn's Hall Tuesday evening, Nov. 2d. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Bill, 50 cents. Misses Minnie JENCKS and Mabel WINTERSTEEN spent Saturday with friends and relatives in Kilbourn. Miss Alice BERGMAN has returned from Lakeside, where she had been visiting friends. R. LARKIN and F. BAUER spent Sunday in White Creek. There was an entertainment in Dunn's Hall Tuesday evening. White Bows Dr. Jones and wife, of Delton, were calling on friends here last week. F. METEYARD is building an addition to his house. Smith FERRIS is re-shingling his house. Some of the members of the Kilbourn order of M. W. of A. visited the Camp at White Creek last Saturday. A temperance lodge, the L. O. G. T., has been started in Quincy. It would seem that White Creek and Quincy might join in that. E. JENCKS drives a new horse. F. M. JENCKS is putting a new roof on his residence, and is drawing lumber and timber for a new barn. If talk, will bring the railroad, it will surely go through Adams county. Mrs. E. NEFF visited at Frank WITT's last Sunday. Several members of the Friendship Forum visited White Creek Forum last week. Come again. A. M. Pilot Knob Ladies' Aid Society meets on Friday of next week with Mrs. H. MORGAN. Elder FOSS preached to a will filled house on Sunday last, and is to preach in two weeks at 2:30. Mrs. W. HOPPER and daughter Bertha, Mrs. GRAHAM and Miss Ada HOLM, of Friendship attended the Aid Society at Mrs. F. McLAUGHLIN's on Friday last. Mrs. W. FULLER and son and Mrs. F. YAPP, of Pittsville, are visiting friends in this place. Mr. Robert NSBITT has a new wind mill. Mr. A. H. PECK and son Walter are on the sick list. Mr. Joseph VOBERIL has his house nearly ready to plaster. Mr. James PAYN has a new housekeeper. Miss Mila DIMICK is working for Mrs. L. T. STAPLES. Mrs. L. H. MORGAN and Mrs. J. CRAWFORD and two children visited at H. MORGAN's on Sunday last. Miss Lottie LYTLE is working for Mrs. MALTHROP. Local Brevities Mrs. J. A. HODAN is visiting relatives at Richford, Wis. A. F. STOWELL, of White Creek, was in the village on Monday. Miss Nina RISK, of Easton, is a guest at Thos. RISK's in this village. Misses Pearl STOWE and Clara LAPHAM visited relatives at Oxford the latter part of last week, returning Sunday. Mrs. F. McCONICK, who had been visiting relatives in Chicago for several weeks, returned home Saturday evening. Miss Edna McCONICK is the happy possessor of a new Royal bicycle, and is being initiated into the mysteries of wheeling. A neat, new sign, reading "Friendship House" adorns the popular hotel hitherto known as the Niles House, kept by Mr. and Mrs. John KEOGH. Mrs. Gertie LANDT, of Hillsboro, N. D., arrived here on Wednesday evening, and is in attendance at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. J. W. GUNNING. G. B. BACON, for may years proprietor of the Howard House at White Creek, but now of Cumberland, Wis., called on old friends here Tuesday. He and Mrs. BACON are on their way to Florida to spend the winter. Miss Gertie ATCHERSON gave a five o'clock tea at her home on Wednesday. Those present were Misses Mame and Irene WILBER, Marie THOMM, Deska BOWE, Ada HOLM, Bertha HOPPER and Jessie PIERCE and Mrs. Nellie PIERCE. Prof. and Mrs. J. W. PURVES and little daughter, who have been spending several weeks at the home of Mr. PURVES father in River Falls, returned to this village last Saturday evening, called here by the illness of Mrs. PURVES' mother, Mrs. J. W. GUNNING. Remember Prof. TARDO, the great hypnotist, will give a wonderful exhibition of his powers at GUNNING's Hall on Saturday evening, Nov. 6, Come and see a person placed under the strange and marvelous influences of hypnotic control. Why is it? What is it? Come and see. Mr. POWERS, reporter for the Milwaukee Daily Journal, visited Friendship last Tuesday and Wednesday, and a write up of the past transactions in the offices of the County Treasurer and County Clerk, from a democratic party standpoint, and in the interest of that party as Mr. POWERS sees it, will probably appear in a day or two. Leo TARDO, a skillful Hypnotist, assisted by his wife, will give an exhibition of his marvelous powers at Gunning's Hall on Saturday evening, November 5th. Will run a lady's hair through his cheek, a canula through his neck, make a pin-cushion of forehead, swallow a sword-blade nearly thirty inches long, suffer himself to be thirty inches long, suffer himself to be bitten by a live rattlesnake, and perform many other wonderful and incomprehensible feats and acts. This (Thursday) forenoon while getting our paper ready to be worked off in the afternoon, Sheriff RARNETT informed us that both S. S. LANDT and J. M. GRAHAM had been arrested on warrants charging them with embezzlement of moneys while acting as county treasurer. The complaint against LANDT was made by J. A. HENRY of Easton, and the one against GRAHAM by W. J. McDONNELL of Colburn, and the warrants were issued by M. LATHROP, Esq., of Colburn. The parties left for Colburn about 11 o'clock. The friends of the late Percy SMITH, brother of Mahlon C. SMITH of Friendship, have just erected a substantial and beautiful monument to his memory. The monument now stands in Mount Repose Cemetery. The stone is made of granite from the Granite Heights Quarry located between Wausau and Merrill in this State. The monument is in the style of a sarcophagus, and is about three and a half feet wide by five feet long and four and a half feet high. It is beautifully polished and lettered, and embellished with the appropriate Masonic emblem, of which order the deceased was a 32d degree member. The work was done by a Portage manufacturer and cost $500. Lost A paper cover account book, having picture illustrated cover of the Weber Wagon Co. Contains principally threshing-machine accounts. Lost between the residence of Mrs. SCHIEBER (opposite ATCHERSON House) and the Niles House in Friendship. Finder please leave at the Press office. J. D. ANDERSON, Dated Oct. 26, 1897 Married At the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Esther WALKER, Miss Anna WALKER of White Creek, and Mr. Melvin E. SEELY of Fremont, Nebraska, were joined in marriage by Rev. A. C. MARDEN, Oct. 21, 1897. The newly married couple have gone to their home in Nebraska, and their man friends wish them a long and happy future.
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