Mrs. Baxter is quite sick. Corn cutting has commenced. Mrs. Ot Barker has been quite sick The gravel roads are being rushed this week. E. H. Strong is cutting ons lage this week. S. L. Valentine is making lots of cider these days. E. W. Keller hauled the first load of gravel on the McArthur road. H. W. Vining attended his com any reunion at Columbus this week. He has just received a fine pair of Chester tie plas. Hosea Shadle is still improving his farm, he has his fine dwelling house completed, this week he is giving his barn a coat of paint. Mrs. T. Wright of Columbus, R. B. McClarren of Toledo, Chas. Wright, Geo. Wright, Cora McMannus and Mrs. W. A. Tappan visited at Robert Wright's near Siney Sunday. Winameg has no barber shop at present as W.L. Campbell has sold out. He had other work enough to keep him busy and he hadn’t the time to look after it. Sorry we will have to go to Delta to get our hair cut. W. A. Tappan, township clerk of Pike turned over the books to Chas. LaSalle who was sworn in Monday. Walter has been clerk for seven years and has made Pike a clerk and the books were turned over in good shape. Quite a commotion at the gravel pit Tuesday. V. W. Weeks thought he saw a team start without a driver. V. W. started an a run after running about forty rods and heading them off he found a man hold of the lines on the other side of the wagon. Perry Barnes came along the other day with tears in his eyes, couldn’t think what was the matter, come to find out Perry's dwarf calf had died, and Perry was feeling quite bad about it. He thought if Burt Welch had stayed away it wouldn't have hap pened. The girls of Mrs. Mary Faylor’s U. S. class gave a surprise party for Iva Shaffer last Thursday. Watermelon, music and games were enjoyed. l lowing are the names of those present: Almeda Hogeboom, Emma Gasche, Florence Gasche, Pearl Salsberry, Vi nce Blanche Faylor, Ella uyck. W.L. Campbell may be all right handling card, but he isn’t in it when it comes to running a delivery wagon he started out the other day with a load of cheese boxes for the AI factory. Everything went all right until Will got his feet tangled in the lines. The dash board went down, Will jumped, said he didn’t want to ride and the horse started down the road and de livered the boxes to suit herself. For tunately no damage was done, only a lot of dilapidated cheese boxes.