Willis

Baby Ruth Holland has a little sister about a week oíd. Walt. Bailará has re-sided his barn and put a stone basement under it. Mrs. A. W. Snodgrass, oí Detroit, has been visiting relatives at this place the past week. W. A. Anderson (the village blacksmith) makes a steel mole trap that sells like hot cakes. One farmer near Belleville ordered two dozen ot them. Wheat is being cut and put into barns at a rapid rate in this vicinity, It is not going to be as good as the farmers expected it would be. The heavy rains about two weeks ago causee! the rust to strike it, and the kernel is badly shrunken in many instances. "VVithin the past year, eight persons in this community haye suecumbed to the dread influence of that fatal disease, consumption, and there are likely to be other victims. Mr. Ogen, a young man, died June 28th. of this disease. He had been been sick with consumption for several years.