County And Vicinity

The Milán bank has $50,760.86 deposits. Seven carpenters are building a creamery at Azalia. A new fence has been bnilt around the Webster cemetery. John Lantis, of Waterloo, has put a steel roof on his barn. The Grass Lake bank has deposits amounting to 77,516.07. John Costello took charge of the Dexter postoffice, last week. Miss Lucile Ward has been appointed clerk in the Milán postoffice. Gen. Weaver, of Iowa, addresses the famers picnic at Wolf lake August 12. Rev. Mr. Andrews will preach at the Lyndon Baptist church during the coming year. Morris Vincent is now marshal o Milan. He will conquer those who refuse to pay taxes. A crowd of Azalia hoodlums rot ten egged a young woman from Dundee and drove her out of the hamlet. Robert Benz, of Dexter, broke his arm while drawing wheat. The accident was caused by a whiffietree breaking. The residence of William Cunningham in Scio was struck by lightning last week. The lights-were extinguished and the side of a room shattered. The new barn of Charles Harris, of Augusta, was struck by lightning last week and burned. Two horses, eight tons of hay and some farming utensils were also burned. The ihsurance was S700. A little 10 year oíd son of Gottlieb Hertier was seriously cut with a binder Wednesday. He had gone around in front of the knives to pull some straw away when the horses started and caught the boy by the left leg severing the cord and bruising him somewhat. -Saline Observer Abe Meyer had a rather expensive experience last Friday. He had just purchased a new binder and seemed bent on givingt a thorough trial, and did. While in the wheat field he left the team of three horses hitched to the machine a few nrinutes to set up a few bundies. The team were a little uneasy and in their maneuvers took fright and were soon harvesting at a wholesale rate. The way bundles and dust flew was a picnic for a bystander, but not for Abe, who took in the situation as a somewhat expensive laugh for himself. A rail fence close by proved but a trifling cade and was soon passed over. In their scared condition with the machine rattling and clattering, they continued their pace until a fair sized tree was struck by the machine, which brought matters to a standstill. Abe loaded up the shattered, bent and twisted wreek and brought it into town, where several mechan ics spent two or three days in tryin to get it back into shape. It is bad wreek and will never be anv thing