Nebraska advertiser., 1877-03-22
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Furnished by Special Correspondents
for The Advertiser.
London.

and ages.
= Coquettish spring vouchsafes an
occasional smile.
- Once more the time has come
when the ''good wife will take the
poke from behind the door and pre-
pare for early sass" a time on
which hangs great interests to the
public veal. f.opitious winds watt
favorable influence heavenly dews
descend on the cabbage and tomatoes
and oh! ye winged grasshoppers,
spare all kinds of garden sass"
= Teachers Association at the
London school house next Saturday.
A young man. who is blind, gave
NJ usical entertainment on Monday
evening. 1t was very fine. This
young man, deprived of the power of
sight, has beautiful gift of song. and
is skillful accordionist. "The con-
cord of sweet sounds" from the in
strument. mingling with the tones of
his fine voice, make a very pleasant
and profitable entertainment. He
gives another concert at the Camp
bell school house April I'd. Good
people of London. give him full
house, and full pay, too. Consider
the darkened way of this uu Unfortunate
class, and "do good as ye have oppor-
tunity."
- Arthur Griffin, a former resident
of this place. has taken unto himself
a wife, and he and wife are visiting
Mr.. C. Campbell. A party in honor
or of the occasion was given last Sat
urday night. 1t was very pleasant
time, 1t is said, and all was as ''merry
as marriage bell"
= Mrs. Savell has been very sick.
Is getting better.
- Oh. goodness! 1t was Julia. not
Julias, Harding Mamie Pollock came
to visit. But we will not scold the
printer. expect ]. am not careful
enough in making up manuscript.
often see mistakes. but when they |
only point to me 1 let them go but
when they make Mamie go to see Ju-
Illus, there must be correction.
BraffOR.
We are having regular March /
weather, for change. 1t is just what
we want. The warm weather in Feb
ruary hatehed cat great many hop
pers, and We are of the opinion that
the present cold snap will destroy
them, as well as damage great many
eggs.
= Mr.. J. R. Whitney has just fin-
ished a very neat dwelling house on
his farm near Bratton.
= Mr.. Joseph Harper and family,
of Brown Co., ILL.,, has been visiting
relatives here. He is well pleased
with Nebraska, and is about purchas-
ing farm near Humboldt.
Winter wheat is in good shape,
and If Mr.. Hopper lets it alone it will
make & full crop.
- The Democrats of this part of
the county are rather long faced, but
acknowledge that ii is a child of their
own begetting.
Grant.
March l6.-Here little and there q
little, here a line and there a line,
here a word and there a word, here
thought and there thought, here q
sentence and there e sentence. So
our lives are made up of Titles. The
Titles taken together sum up our ex-
istence. So in farming as in every
other department of life. one must
keep ones eyes open, as also our ears
must be attentive to everything per-
tanning to our interest. If this be
true at any time. how much more so
now, when threatened with those
pests everywhere spoken abont as the
destruction that walketh by MONDAY.
| am glad 10 see the farmers awake to
their interests, and busily devising
expedients to be prepared; as fore
warned is fOreaI
In looking over your valuable
paper the thought impressed itself
upon my mind, why is it that peo-
pie will take the papers published ia
cities outside of our State Ia prefer
ence to taking wide-awake home
Oii IF
is ever up with the times, full to over
flowing with home news of intrinsic
merit and value to the faFaes as well |
as to all CLASSES of society.