Otter Village.Protract at Poston. Everv one should attend.A good crop of* ice can be harvested this year.What has become of the saw-null we were to have here,Mary O’Neil has been spending a few days in Cincinnati.The creek road* are impassible now on account of the ice.Steve 0* Xc.il makes a splendid bachelor, if some one cooks the bread.Isaac Anderson rushes rround more lively than ever. He says its a girl.It is said weave to have n protract here soon. We need a new church first.Mrs. Mosier has been visiting at Smyrna, Decatur county, for a few days.Some of our farmers intend erecting quite a large amount of wire fence in the spring.Albert Brown and family have returned from Iowa where they have been for a year.Newton Smith is meeting with goodsuccess in his school at Nip and-tuck, so we aru informed.Alva llnby’s horse took a near cut for home one day last week, and in so doing got lost. M.ke MeFatridge put it up.From present indications, the wheat crop will he a failure next season, as it seems to be nearly all frozen to death.Our school teacher, Miss Clara Crew, has more pluck than the most of them. She walks to and from Poston everydav.•We notice quite a large amount rftimber is being cut and hauled to IV.T). T. E. Willson's stave factory at Osgood.the n poorlmakein supeopehur juste the r at ihtheshouPiOrIbnbvMiThaiJoSabi:ElSatuMsoonsmalDitheSlt; A d aD;pi nrMah orRhelpgatiwhiiRnalP