Saturday, September 4, 1897 Local Brevities Chris CHESEBRO, of Richfield, was in town on Tuesday. H. BARTON, of Hancock, was in town on Wednesday. Jas. THURBER, Jr., of Spring Creek, was in town on Monday. D. HASKINS, of Coloma, was a visitor in Friendship on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. AYERS, of Pilot Knob, were in town on Wednesday. G. W. WATERMAN returned Saturday from his trip to Estelline, S. D. Miss Deska BOE, of Iowa, has formed a class in music in this place. Dr. STEELE, of Oshkosh, was a business visitor in Friendship Wednesday. Wm. WOOCK, Jr., of Baraboo, is a guest of his grandparents in this village. Miss Mame WILBER returned Tuesday from her visit with friends near Coloma. Chester JONES has gone to Chicago for medical treatment.-Kilbourn Mirror-Gazette. Miss Lena PAULSON returned Thursday of last week from a visit with friends at Oxford. Miss Ada HOLM and Ernest SMITH accompanied Miss Marie HOLM to Necedah Wednesday. J. E. DALY, Optician, of Necedah, will be in Friendship Sept. 4th, to look after people's eyes. Never were the prospects for a great fair in Adams county so bright as they appear now. Misses Lena and Gertie PAULSON visited the latter part of last week with friends in Big Flats. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. LEWIS are moving into town and will occupy the house owned by Charlie NEWTON. Co: Supt. John P. LEWIS held teachers' examination in this village on Monday and Tuesday of this week. A. F. HILL, N. M. JONES, and J. B. HILL are among the Friendship people in attendance at the Mauston Fair this week. Will. HOPPER, of Richfield, was a guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. HOPPER, in this village, on Sunday last. Remember the Ladies' Aid Society at Mrs. N. M. JONES' on Friday afternoon of this week. A pleasant time is anticipated. Mrs. F. MCCONICK and Misses Edna and Irma MCCONICK have returned from their visit with friends in the town of Jackson. Fall term, Wisconsin Business University, La Crosse, begins Sept. 6th. Three months additional tuition free to all students who enter first week. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie STONE and children, of Strongs Prairie, visited Mrs. STONE's mother, Mrs. TARBOX, on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Work is being pushed on the race track, and everything is expected to be in nice order for Adams county's greatest fair to open on the 22d of September. Stanley THOMAS entertained his little friends to the number of about twenty, at the home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. A. THOMAS, last Tuesday afternoon. The Columbia county veterans will hold a reunion at Pardeeville September 9th and 10th. Speeches by prominent men will be an important feature of the occasion. Miss Nessie MCGOWAN went to Necedah Wednesday afternoon to meet her mother, Mrs. W. E. MCGOWAN, who has been spending several weeks with relatives in Iowa. Miss Marie HOLM and her nephew and niece, Jay and Ada POWER, who had spent the summer with Mrs. R. B. HOLM, started on Wednesday for their home at Portland, N. D. More shelving and more space than ever before are being provided to furnish room for the great exhibit at the next fair. Make your entries early. You can do so by mail and so save the rush on opening day. Prof. and Mrs. L. C. RUSSELL and infant daughter arrived here on Thursday, and are housekeeping in their old home, the Ferris house. Mr. RUSSELL's old pupils and their many other friends are pleased to welcome them back again. Even the Indians have become enthused over the approaching Adams County Fair and purpose to measure strength and skill with the white men in the base ball games and also will enter several of their ponies in running races. There'll be fun and don't you forget it. The M. W. A. Lodge of Friendship will give their Annual Fair Dances on the evening of September 24th, at Williams' Hall and Gunning's Hall, to which everybody is most cordially invited. Two best Bands obtainable will be furnished. Bill, including oyster supper, $1.25; without supper, 75c. H. M. OLDER and family will leave Monday for Ripon, where their daughter, Miss Margaret is attending college, and where they will make their home for some time. They will be greatly missed by many friends here who hope they will be pleased with their new home.--Kilbourn Mirror-Gazette. The Adams county people who have gone abroad to attend Fairs in the past, have concluded that they will attend their home Fair this year, and see the best of all. The hustlers all over the county are "in it" this year, and when Adams county people move unitedly to do a good thing, it goes without saying that the good thing will be done. See! There's good sense behind the move and patriotism all through it. From Local Correspondents White Creek Frank FERRIS, Frank STOWELL and Newell CARPENTER have gone chicken hunting for a week or ten days. A large number of White Creek people attended church at Point Bluff last Sunday, and listened to a very interesting sermon delivered by Rev. TURNER. It was inspiring and gave food for thought for many days. Miss Allie HENRY was the guest of Mrs. AUSTIN one day the first of the week. Claude METEYARD has joined the Easton band. Dr. Frederick and wife attended lodge at this place last week. Mr. MCFARLAND was the guest of Mr. METEYARD last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. FLETCHER were in attendance at the H. R. B. O. last Wednesday evening. Mr. CLENDENIN, of Joliet, Ill., installed the officers in the H. F. B. O. that was organized in this place. Mr. JENCKS' daughter and granddaughter are visiting at their home. Mrs. WITT visited Friendship last Saturday. Mrs. FERRIS visited in Adams Center one day last week. The farmers are feeling better at the prospect of better prices. Dr. LISTER will move onto his farm soon, but will have an office in White Creek. Anna WALKER has gone to Kilbourn to work for Mrs. JONES. Mr. and Mrs. DUNN visited in Quincy the first of the week. Mrs. WHITMORE has been the guest of Mrs. BERGMON for a few days. Charley WINTERSTEEN and little son are visiting his parents. This is Charlie's first visit in sixteen years. Mrs. AUSTIN visited in Friendship one day last week. Eddie AUSTIN has gone with an artist to assist him for a month or six weeks in his work. Mrs. NEFF, of Easton, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. HOWARD last week. The threshing-machine is heard in all directions and grain is turning out well. The Ladies' Aid will be held at Mrs. WINTERSTEEN's next week Thursday afternoon. Spring Bluff The weather still remains cool and dry. Mrs. TIM, daughter of Mr. Willis PHELPS, and Miss Fanny PALMER, from Grand Rapids, are down on a visit this week. Mrs. WORDEN, from Necedah, is visiting friends here this week. We are pleased to hear Jesse RATHBORN is still to remain our neighbor, as we are informed that he has bought the Worden farm. Mrs. J. M. VROMAN, of Nekoosa, is down on a visit this week. Mrs. JAROSH, who has been dangerously ill, we understand is improving some. Mrs. Emma PHELPS is not much better. Mr. Rudolph PHELPS has a valuable colt very sick with the pinkeye. Keeman Anderson & Co. are in this vicinity threshing out the people right and left. The town of Lincoln takes the cake for turning out the best educated, the best looking and the best behaved schoolma'ams in the county. Miss Ollie DEMOTT is to teach the Cleland school. Miss Ivy CRANE has taken a school in the Frank MAYNARD district. Miss Myra MCFARLIN has taken the school in the Ed. CHURCH district. Miss Lois MCFARLIN is to teach the Diamond school. We regard it as a very high mark for a young teacher to be employed her first term in her own district. Miss Ida DICKINSON has taken to Coonville school. Coloma Station H. W. ROBLIER is very sick at the present writing. Rev. MILLER, V. RUNNELS, Jas. PARLIN, R. BARNETT and L. RUNNELS have gone to Buffalo, N. Y., to the soldiers' encampment. Mrs. Jas. PARKIN is visiting her sister at Baraboo, Wis. Gospel meetings every night, except Tuesday, by the S. D. B's. J. T. KING's "old Nell" horse got cut in the wire fence quite severely one day last week. Quite a delegation of people took in the excursion to Stevens Point to the ball game Sunday. Potatoes are selling from 40c to 42c per bushel; beans, $1.05. Fearne and Follett are painting and repairing their store building, which they have rented to F. Luce & Co., of Plainfield, who are going to put in a stock of merchandise. Adams Center A much needed rain visited this place Tuesday. The sociable at Zimmerman's was well attended, and all report a good time. Theo. SIMONS has purchased a new McCormick mowers. Haying is nearly over in this section. Mr. ROBINSON, of Westfield, was calling on friends here the first of the week. Several of the young folks from White Creek attended the sociable at Zimmerman's and speak very highly of the way the hostess entertained them. Rev. ROBINSON preaches here the 5th of September at 10 o' clock. Mr. MCDONALD was buying cattle here last week. Frank DEITZMAN visited at Elder ROBINSON's the first week. Jonesville A little too dry for potatoes and buckwheat. Mrs. M. H. HODGE is visiting relatives in Jonesville. Mat. LANDGRAFF has let his farm to Dave REID. C. E. PIERCE's family are visiting at J. B. WRIGHT's. T. K. MCCLYMAN sold a load of oats in Friendship last week. Mr. and Mrs. George BASSETT, of Coloma Station, visited at T. K. McCLYMAN's last week. Doc. WALKER and crew are threshing in this vicinity. J. H. MARVIN and family have been visiting relatives at Linden the past week. Leon PERKINS put in a fine pump for Paul GARBOSKI. D. B. HUNT was down Packwaukee way last week. W. J. OGLE, of Oxford, caught four trout last Thursday that weighed 11 ½ pounds. Rev. CARTER, State Secretary of the Congregational Home Missionary Association, who was called here to straighten out some church matters, preached a sermon to a Jonesville congregation, that ought to do good, and will, where good is wanted. Roche-a-Cris Ripples Frequent showers materially interfere with the haying industry. Miss Eva Ford, of the Deaconess' Home in Chicago, and the daughter of Rev. J. FORD of Barnum, gave an entertaining and highly instructive talk on the mission work they are doing among the sick and needy in that city, and at Des Moines, Iowa, on last Sunday evening, to a full house. Mr. O. GARDNER was the guest of his daughter, Mrs. O. C. ELY, last week Wednesday. Mr. Chas. VINE has moved into his new house. O. M. HOLMES has been engaged on a job of carpenter work at Big Flats. Some friend or foe at Big Flats has had the audacity to assume my NAMELESS.
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