Willis

Milo Hammond bas been very siek, but seems to be gaining slowly. Lemael Allen's borse wbiob bad tbe tumor removed by Veterinary Surgeon Drury has recovered iiicely. Traine are moving very freely on the Wabash. One traiu is hardly out of hearing before another comes. Frank 01 ds, of York, and Mr. and JVlrs. Geo. Hammond and son were at John Day's last Snnday afternoon. Leroy Bntts is not to be seen in Willis just now. He and his bike had a falling ont, Leroy feil off and now has a brokeu bone in his leg in oonseqaenoe. Rain would be a welcome visitor if it would remain wanu afterward. lt is very hard plowing on olay gronnd, the lumps beiug almost like stone. The roads are also very dry and dnsty. Some of theK O. T. M. of Willis Hive, No. 687, visited the Mooreville bive and found them alive and very aofcive. The rïay we were there there was a great deal going on in and out of the hive. It is now thonght by the physician who attended or heJped attend litte 01 ive Niles that the ball must have dropped ont while she was being caí ried to the doo or's. She seems to be as well as ever and plays around as us aal. Reporta frora the Grand Army en carnpment teil os 7,000 have dropped out of line during the last year anc have goue home to answer to the rol cali np yonder. What a sadness runs through our soul as we think of the falling out of rank. "Brave boys were they. " The farmers around Willis whose orops were hindered last spring on aooount o] wet weather, "smile a smole" on acoount cf this present warm spell which will ripen the nrn, potatoes and beans. Soine have ;i!rp,ady harvested their bean orop and uow cuttiug corn. Bul this is not thie general rule. A few days ago while Miss Viola Butts was driving her father's horse and carriage her horse beeome frightened and untuanagable at a wagon oaded with bags filled with grain. The horse ran away throwing her out and injnring her quite seriously and demolishing the carriage. She is able to be out of bed at present. There has been some excitement goDg on this last week on account of a 'ew seeing a tramp who was wantefl or the murder of a man in Penn, 3nt he has so far evaded the offioers He passed by the old hotel at Whittaker's Corners and was seen by several, bat when word. carae he was vanted he could nof be fonnd.