Willis

VV IJ1IÖ. Mrs. Edwin Butts and sister, Miss Snodgrass, have gone on a visit to Oil City, Penn. Whooping congh is ragiug extensively in and around Wilis. The little ones being very sick. Mr. Thomas Thorn, ar.., is in very poor bealth. The doctor gives him no i promise of recovery. Heart tronble is the cause. " Q. N. Hammond has been favored with his hay erop. He has over forty tonsof good hay. The wet weather did not hurt it a bit. The sound of wedding bells were correct, ringlug at Briar Hill, Carltou township. It was announced last week - Mr. Bert Lord to Miss Lola Smith. Died, at Willis, Sunday morning, at three o'clock, little Stephen Foley of whooping cough, aged 14 ïnonths. Iuterment in London cemetery, Monroe connty. Mrs. Arbagast ánd Mrs. Miller, mother and sister of Mr. Andrew Arbagast, of Eaton Mills, were visiting at the latter's home last week but have returned to Tyrone, Penn. Mr. Jay Lord preached at Friends' church last Sunday. We listened to a very interesting discourse. And may the Lord bless him and use him as the meaus of winning many souls for Christ. An Epworth League picnic will be held in the woods of V7m. Thorn, just north of Willis, one day during the last week of this ïnonth. The Detroit district secretary and treasurer, Seott W. Jones, also several others, are expected froru Detroit. The farmers on the route of the Wabash railroad are liaving a great deal of trouble on accouut of fires. H. S. Day and John Jewell have lost hay, pasturing aud fences and Mr. Jewell nearly lost his baru. Many more are experiencing the same troubles. Mrs. R. F. Walters, accompanied by tier little daughter Mable, and Mrs. Naomi Daring have gone on an extended visit in Wayne county. First to see Mrs. Lindsy, a sister of Mrs. Walters, -who has consmption; thence to Wyandotte, also to Detroit and perhaps Pontiac.