Jan. q, 1877, continued

The settlers hereabouts have sown fall wheat. Most of us will be busy with lambs this winter. Our two school houses have been completed and will be ready for the school marms in spring. The German Evangelical Church has organized a society here and have occasional preaching. They have got a burying ground and if we only had a doctor the town would soon have its fill. It is very strange to me that so many men and families will stay in the cities and villages and barely make a living when they can get 160 acres of land for almost nothing with almost a certainty of future independence. Come and see. Come and breathe the pure air of northern Wisconsin and drink some of our pure spring water, and you will never sigh for the pent up air and filth laden water of the city.
SOUTH BRANCH

April 6, 1878

Yesterday was town meeting day and it passed very quietly in this town, the number of votes polled was 22, 3 voters staying at home. The sugar season is over and it was short and sweet. The feathered songsters have come and the mosquito occasionally presents his bill for an atom of blood. Mr. Louis SUERING has taken unto himself a better half and we wish them joy. The following are our town officers: T.W. BROWNELL, chairman, Ed. SUERING & John KRUSE, supervisors; Alex GRIGNON, town clerk; Ed. YAKEL, treasurer, Louis SUERING, Assessor"A. GRIGNON & T.W. BROWNELL, Justices of the Peace, Louis SUERING & Chas. SCHROEDER, Constables.

N.O. BODY
July 27, 1878

If you expect to hear from this remote part of the county very often, you are doomed to be disappointed, in fact, items of interesting news are very scarce among such a steady, industrious class of people as we have in this It is so very healthy that there is no sickness or deaths to chronicle, and owing to the entire absence of ardent spirits there is no quarreling or fighting. The 4th of July was enjoyed at a picnic party at the GRIGNON residence on the banks of Pecore lake. The table fairly groaned with eatables. Teams were hitched up and went out to the Indian settlement where we found them having a dance. They welcomed us in a beautiful little speech by Thomas LA BELLE. We spent a short time there and then returned to GRIGNONts where the night was spent tripping the light fantastic toe - Mr. Edwin GRIGNON furnishing the music. Mr. SARGENT is in town putting in elm lots. Mr. VAUGHN of Menasha has been up making improvements. Martin SCHUTTPELZ had a narrow escape from death while helping Herman YAKEL raise a log barn. He fell from a corner of the building about 12 feet to the ground, but luckily escaped with slight injuries.

N.O. BODY
November 16, 1878

The summer has passed and the harvest is ended, and yet we are not all rich, but doing well. The harvest of small grain was universally good. Hi POLAR's threshing machine threshed a thousand bushels of grain, and some was threshed with a flail. Our town has increased the year past by 29 persons, 15 by immigration and 14 by birth, and still there is plenty of room for all. Election day passed quietly, 20 votes polled, 6 not voting.

N.O. BODY
March 1, 1879
Mr. Herman YAKEL's youngest child died a few days ago and was buried at Belle Plaine. Mr. Ed SUERING's house caught fire one day last week while he was absent from home, but his wife managed to keep in under control until help came. It burned a hole in the roof. We thought the time for making pr:esents was passed but we learn that Mrs. L. SUERING presented her husband with a thousand doliar baby boy one day last week.
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