i IVllUillK't -!MONTROSEin i leirti n ir-1 ier-f“ii-•8,nmlr-ff.isitKn.Miss Ruth Miner, «f Fort Madison, is visiting relatives and termer schoolmates during the holiday vacation.The M is sen Ruth Megohlesou and Ruth Grimes, who are students at Ames, visited home folks during the holidays. * * 'Mr» and Mrs. James Cooney entertained Mr, and Mrs. John Thomas of Montrose, Mrs. J. X. Morgan of Warsaw. Mo.. Mrs. Maggie Bishop of Keokuk, on New Year’s day.Mrs. Joel Ames is very ill.Messrs Karl and Carrol Buck were Christmas guests at the home of Ur. E. M. Buck. . i ' • - lt;v.Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Maxwell entertained to dinner New Year's Day. a company of friends and relatives. The out of town quests were Mr. and u Mrs. Harry King and daughter Jane H of Keokuk.The men who are working on the i electric line, running from Keokuk dj to Fort Madison, are still very busy y iu and near Montrose.Montrose (baskethall team dofeat-d ed the Nauvoo team at the city liall a last Thursday evening.Benton Hancock, who is attending i- school at Iowa City, visited his par-f ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Hancock. I- during the holidays. f| Brainard Covert of McCormick seminary of Chicago, visited his parents. Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Covert, .during the Christmas holidays.I ■ * ——r -Copenhagen. Jan. 3.—A dispatch 7o the Politakin declares that ? rumors are current in the European press that a bolshevik attack on the border states is impending and that; I the prospect is causing nervousness | | in Risa are “quite unfounded.**► Competent circles in Riga assert | that the soviet government recently . has been more peaceful than ever j toward the horde** states, adds the I message.