>RUTLAND >What fine weather we are having and good roads. >A good many of our farmers have started spring work-plowing and sowing oats. >There has been a good deal of sickness around here the last few weeks. >Mr. Plunket has been dangerously ill for the last two weeks, and once not >expected to live, but is some better at this writing. >Mrs. D. Connely Jr. is very sick with malarial fever, and has had the doctor >in attendance most every day. >The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. F. Shaver was not expected to live during >this week. >Miss. Anna Plunket, formerly of this place, but now a sister of mercy at >Davenport, IA., was home a day or two last week to see her father who was >not expected to live. >Mrs. Underhill, of Brookfield, has been taking care of her daughter, Mrs. >Connely. >Mr. John Lynch, one of the old settlers of Rutland, died recently after a >few days sickness. >Cy Debolt is laid up with a lame back. >Patsy Harington says he feels lonesome since the school closed. >Well, John Blackwell must think it is spring, having called at the >blacksmith shop the other day. He concluded to have his head shaved with the >horse clippers, and Charlie Kleiber performed the ceremony. John bets he >will get a girl when the next dance comes off without going all over the >town and getting left. >Ross Shaver is keeping batch in Ranch No. 7; and likes it very much, but >thinks some of the girls ought to take a shine to him since he has cut off >his whiskers and gotten a new road cart. >Miss Dougherty finished her winter term of school last Friday in the Daniel >school house, and has given good satisfaction. The Directors have determined >to keep her for the summer term. Quite a number of ladies visited her school >the last day. >Miss. White, of Wallace, was the guest of Miss Dougherty last Friday. >Mr. and Mrs. Miller of Ottawa, visited friends here last Sunday. >John Collisen is fencing off a magnificent hog lot for those Chester White >pits. >The little folks had a good time at the dances at Josiah Shaver's last week. >Willis Shaver furnished the music. >Charles Briggs and Michael Delanty sawed their summer wood last week. >Fred Barlkey has been trading horses lately. >Mr. Harty and daughter, of Ransom, were visiting friends here Saturday and >Sunday. >James Feely has moved off of the Dunavan place to Ottawa. >Some of our neighbors say that Tascott has been arrested. >George Blair was the guest of Frank Shaver last week. >Mrs. Phoebe Leek, on old settler, and formerly a resident of Rutland, died >in Ottawa and the remains were interred in the Trumbo cemetery. >Fred Shaver had a horse drop dead in the street in Ottawa while leading it >to the doctor. > > >For further information on some of the name listed above, please contact: >sue@kaiconsulting.com > > >