News: Colby (11 Oct 1881)
Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Barney, Hildreth, Johnston, Norton
----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 10/22/2014
Originally published in the Colby Phonograph, October 11, 1881
We regret to learn that Mr. J. F. Johnston, the genial landlord of the Abbot
House in Abbotsford is about to vacate that house. Mr. Johnston has run the
house for a little over two years in a manner that has given the utmost
satisfaction to the traveling public and all will miss his hearty greeting as
they enter the house. The House will be taken by a Mr. S. H. Hildreth, of whom
we know nothing, but presumed he is a competent man, or the company would not
entrust their house to his care.
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E. T. Parkhill raised 68 pumpkins this fall on a piece of ground 20X45 feet, a
majority of which measured four feet and five inches in circumference. He dug
two bushels of extra nice potatoes of Clark’s No. 1 variety from 1.5 pounds of
seed. Also one and half bushels of Beauty of Hebron variety from 1.5 pounds of
seed. Our agricultural editor says that the above is a big year. Can anyone beat
it?
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A report reaches us that the Spencer Tribune has changed hands. A. B. Barney
having sold out to Thos. S. Norton, of that place. We shall be happy to welcome
our cloned friend to the ranks of journalism and have no doubt that the Tribune
under his management will not only continue to be a source of pleasure to its
readers but one of the profit to its proprietor.
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