LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS.The Misses Luella and Cora Johnson are visiting in Lone Tree.Miss Anna Liska has gone to Cedar Rapids, to spend her vacation.Miss Margaret Cash will spend her fortnight's vacation in Riverside.Miss Sophia Hertz has returned from a jaunt to the World’s Fair. tMrs. James Luscomhe is home from a trip to the Exposition. Her niece. Miss Bessie Clark of St. Louis, accompanied her back to the Athens.Ur. Reginald Maresh has “swung his shingle to the breezes” in Riverside, where he will henceforth practice— until success shall call him, it is hoped, to a greater field. The young Iowan is a graduate of the college of dentistry, call of 1904. He is the son of a pioneer household in the Athens, and has a host of friends who will be glad to see him ,vin lame and fortune$2.00 buys a Graph ophone at A. Sunier Son Saturday.Miss Catharine Mullin is in Waterloo, where she is visiting her newly-wedded sister, Mrs. Mark Butterfield.The Lone Tree school hoard has elected the following teachers for the ensuing year: Principal, Amos Huffman, Kensett; grammar, rda M. Cotter, Oxford; intermediate, Francis Stratton, Iowa City; first primary. Rachel McCreery, Marion; .second primary, Lizzie Guthrie, Lone Tree.The local owners of fast horses are getting their steeds in shape for the coming fair here, and elsewhere m the Iowa and. Illinois circuit. The fair grounds presented an animated scene yesterday, when there were seen spurting around the track, fast horses, owned or driven by Thomas and Ray Applebee, A -D. Smith, C. S. Lucas, George Sueppel, Doc. Potter, Will Wydenlcoff and others.