Ben Dudei bought Mrs. M. V. Ayer’s farm, Monday.

C. A. Guth transacted business at the county seat Tuesday.

Gus Deutsch and Miss Emma Marth Sundayed at their respective homes in Neillsville.

Miss Selma Handt after spending a week here with relatives and friends, returned to Minneapolis Monday morning.

Instant Louse Powder kills lice.  25¢ the can at Amidon’s drug store.

Mrs. Dan Rausch and Mrs. E. R. Wonser spent Friday morning with friends at Neillsville.

Frant Osgood is engaged in carpenter work at the Kearney Davis house this week.

Mrs. Carl Schuelke is enjoying a visit from a niece who with her husband came up from Random Lake last Friday on their wedding trip.

Mrs. Frances Woodward of Neillsville visited her friends Mrs. Baer and Mrs. Breed here, late last week.

Mrs. Gusta Breed is slowly recovering from a severe illness which she suffered the past two weeks.

Geo. Ure suffered the loss on his farm here of one of his best cows Saturday, through heart disease.

Mr. and Mrs. Herb Fradette and his sister were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Delos Raymond one day last week when Miss Fradette took the afternoon train for her home at Greenwood.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis visited relatives here Tuesday.  They expect to move here next month and take possession of their own farm, a farm formerly owned by Frank’s father and where Frank lived when a boy.

Mrs. Emery Crosby spent last Saturday here with Mrs. P. M. Ross and assisted with the party that evening.  She returned home to Neillsville Sunday noon.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mayhew of Plymouth after a 2 weeks visit between the Ralph Mayhew and  Frank Preston families left for Chippewa Falls on Monday for a visit with relatives and continuing their trip home.

The Mesdames W. S. Davis, August Holtz, Leo Chapel, Floyd Winn, the Misses Florence Chapel, Hallie Eberhardt, Minnie Moore, Hilary Ross and Gertrude Davis were Neillsville visitors Saturday.

Station agent John Locke was taken ill last Friday and went home to Ellsworth to recuperate.  E. H. Heckler of Wilson taking his place here.

Dr. P. M. Ross very pleasantly entertained the Masonic brothren of this place and vicinity at cards Saturday evening.  At 11 o’clock the doctor’s wife assisted by her friend Mrs. Emery Crosby banqueted them with delicious refreshments served in 3 courses.

Lew Davis arrived here Monday, from Helena, Montana.  He came home to see his Dad and incidentally to visit other relatives.  We can’t see but what Lew’s work agrees with  him for he is looking well.

For Sale:  An 80 acre farm with good buildings seven miles from Granton.  Business interests demanding my residence elsewhere I have decided to sell.  Address Geo. H. Alexander, Alma Center, Wis.

Mrs. George Hart returned home from Proctor, Minn., last Friday where she had been in attendance at the funeral of her only brother, Henry W. Freeman, who died there of pneumonia at the age of 42 years.  Mr. Freeman was employed in the air brake department of the Proctor shops of the D. M. & N. railroad.  He leaves a widow and six children.

Duluth News-Tribune: Earl E. Marsh, a corporal in Company E of the Duluth battallion is the best drilled man in St. Louis county.  Last evening he won the gold medal offered by the local officers in competitive drill with the five best men from the militia companies at Hibbing, Eveleth and Companies A, C, and E, of Duluth.

John Ure spent Wednesday morning on business bent at Chili.

Ross Paulson left on Wednesday on a horse purchasing trip into South Dakota.

Mrs. L. E. Schnare of Glendive, Mont., is expected here from Eau Claire, on a visit among old friends.

Floyd E. Winn has rented the Kearney Davis farm and hopes to get moved there the first of next week.  Kearney is moving into his town home here.

Mrs. Jas. Finnegan, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Rose spent Wednesday afternoon at Chili in attendance at the Royal Neighbors lodge.

Mrs. Emma Kalsow and her brother a Mr. Hoffman spent Tuesday here with their sister Mrs. Wm. Storm.

Vernon Kintzele who had his sightless eye removed at the Marshfield hospital last week Thursday is expected to be home to-day or tomorrow at the latest, wearing a glass eye in the socket from which his natural eye was removed.

The local O. E. S. ladies enjoyed a birthday party Wednesday afternoon in celebration of Mrs. Edward Schroeder’s birthday and at the time organized an O. E. S. birthday club.  Their object being to meet together as their respective birthdays fall due and celebrate the occasion in this social fraternal manner which is very pleasant to all concerned.

Mrs. A. B. Marsh and daughters Kittie and Fay spent last Sat. here among relatives.  Miss Kittie who is to be married to Wayne Miller a former Neillsville boy, next week Thursday and take up her residence at Akron, Ohio, was making her farewell visit before the event of her marriage.  Though these young people were born in Neillsville and went to school together they were little acquainted and it was only when Miss Kittie was engaged in millinery work at McKeesport, Pa., two years since, while he was stationed at Pittsburg in an Express Co.’s employ that he, learning of a Neillsville’s girl being there and going over to call, that he fell in love and set about to win her who is to-day his affianced wife.