Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-06-07
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Head the IaEen UP hotices ia "
days paper.
The best gymnasium-a weedy
garden.
The circuit cnurt at Ellsworth I'D
jourued last Thursday.
A pleasant paslime--ratting potato
bugs on the patio with pine paddle.
David Stiles Of this city, celebrated
his IO5lh birthday the 2lst of last month.
-Redmon dL Hutchinson and N Stone
* Co, shipped 1000 bushels of wheat
last week.
The highest pr;ca paid for wheat
this week is SI.I2-about two cents
above the regular market price.
Mrs. Chester Fox has the than ks OF
tie JOURNAL OFFICE for a dish Of fine
strawberries--first Of the season.
Last Saturday night one of the
windows in Mrs Markle's store was
smashed by rowdies.
Miss Burnett has severed her con-
npction with our city schools, on account
of III health.
Charley Hutchinson. the pedd!er
man, piPed unto US. bat we would not
dance. Shall puff at our leisure.
Sheriff Burnett left last Monday for
Waupun with c.. NJ. McRqe. who was
sentenced TO one years Imprisonment in
the State Prison for forgery.
The warm weather and frequent
rains are ripeuing the strawberries very
rapidly. The first IN market sold for 20
cents quart.
Mr.. Lemon Of Hastings, now con
nected with the newspaper about TO be
started in River Falls, made us a brief
call this morning.
The St. Croix is blockaleI with
LOGS above Saltwater. Tue WymGn Y
lost one whole "trip in consequence, and
Saltwater has been made the temporary
"head of navigation"
"A Sunday School Convention for
the Prescott District will be held at Os-
ceola, July llth, in connection with Tie
Ministerial association of said district to
be held at the same time and pace.
1t is said that ducks turned into a
potato patch will soon clean out tie po-
tato bugs. They eat them with avility,
without injury to themselves.
M B. Kimba!, of the Ellsworth
Herald was with us an hour or two. last
Monday. He departed to swing around
the circle of half dozen states and will
be absent about a month.
Joe h9bert IS laid up for repairs.
lie won't DO any more general drayage
business for some time to come. Last
Saturday during little unpleasantness
with some Of his neighbors lie had leg
broken.
An excursion party from this place
and Hastings went to st. Paul last Sun
day on the Nellie Kent to assist in the
exercises at the laying Of the corner stone
of the Catholic Cathedral at the saiutIy
city.
The new brick blocks of George A
Dill and n. S. Dunbar are looming up
grandly. When finished they will be a
substantial addition 10 our business blocks
and an improvement in which every eiti
zen takes just pride.
Clark johnson. of Clifton 10 build
ing a fine barn of brick and stone. He IS
also giving the finishing touches to his
commodious brick residence which was
built last year. Mr.. Johnson is model
farmer and we are glad to record these
substantial evidences of bis prosperity.
BY the loud smell which pervaded
our office one day last week we thought
something was dead in our immediate
Eicinity. We found out afterward that
it was only one of our neighbors, who
was not dead, bnt dveing.
Mr.. Manion of Oak Grove informs
us that potato bugs are more numerous
IN that section than ever before. Time
and labor spent in destroying them are
useless expenditures, as they seem to
multiply faster than destruction can pro-
coed.
Work will commence for the repair
of sidewalks as soon as the resolution
adopted by the common council goes in
to effect. All sidewalks that are not put
in proper order before the 10Th inst, by
the owners of adjacent lots, will be re.
paired by the city and the cost of the
came charged against such owners.