WEST HARRISON,The damages by the frost of last week were confined mainly to garden truck. The corn blades were nipped some, but will come out all right.Meadows and pastures need rain very badly, The present outlook is for a short crop of hay. A great deal of meadow land was broken up this spring, and this with the present dry weather will greatly reduce the crop.Geo, Row is now able to be around after quite a severe sickness,M. w. Cadwaliader is off on a business trip this week.J. W. Tullls and wife, of Ottawa, Clark county, and G. M. l’uilis and wife, of Ottumwa, were visitors in this section thiB week.Mrs, Jessie McEweft is at the parental Lakin home for a few weeks' viBit.Lon Bernard and wife, of near Des Moines, are Bpending a week with relatives here,Jacob Whiteman and Henry Alder have improved the looks of their farms very much, the former by some of the new smooth wire fencing and the latter by trimming and burning a piece of hedge rbat had got to be an old settler.The W. C. T, U. had a meeting at Fairview last Sunday,R. 0. Carey and wife have moved to Belle Plaine. Mr, Carey is agent at Tama City,The Chicago North-Western Railway Co. sent their surgeon along the line one day last week to vaccinate the men in their employ. As a result the section boys here are laid up with very sore arms. This step was taken to prevent the spread of Bmallpox, which is causing much trouble in Chicago.Ralph Kelly, of Knoxville, was an over Sunday visitor at the E, T. Lakin home.May 24. Tel E. Phone.ttTTtTmn /-x t t-