The report included notices from 1881 that a storekeeper put up a partition, separating the oyster saloon from the other part of his shop; that people of Shortville and Sherwood were eager to secure a direct mail route from Scranton to Neillsville, and that Mrs. G. Wesenberg of the Shortville area had it rather lonely that winter, with her husband away working in the woods and she left caring for the livestock.