>RUTLAND RIPPLES >The Rutland gravel road has been made a success. The company who worked so >faithfully last fall enjoy it now; and the nonworkers also hold their heads >as high in driving over it as they that toiled so faithfully. >Card parties are all the rage now, and on ver "high C" nights oysters >appear. >Mr. and Mrs. Dittman entertained quite a number of our young folks one >evening last week. All report a very pleasant time. The evening was whiled >away with dancing with the exception of the time spent by some of the young >ladies disagreeing about some of their beaus-not ribbons. >Those that are in quest of a fine picture or a valentine for their >sweetheart, call on Henry Blackwell. >Frank Teal is erecting a new house. >Den's broucho is not seen so often as usual, winding its way in a south >westerly direction. >Mike, have you a hitching post for rent? >Frank Sluder is visiting relatives in Galesburg. >Cy Debolt has started at cutting ice in his pond. He reports a thickness of >six inches. >John Conners smiles that fantastic smile-a boy. "Hello, John heard you >had--" "No, sir, it's my wife!" The same old mistake over and over. >Say, Mike, why didn't you fall your trees the right way, and not break your >fence? >Quite a number of Rutlandites attended the exhibition at the Loring school >house last Wednesday evening. >Jim Feely is going to move off the Dunavan farm in the spring. Lime Lawrence >is going to take his place. >"One, two, three, Henry B. is too many for thee." >Camfield & Kleiber are the boss sawyers. Any one having wood to saw would do >well to call on them. >Mr. Mulvthill of Iowa and Miss Josie Lynch of Rutland were united in >marriage on Thursday last. The happy couple will remain here a few days; >then they will depart for their future home in Iowa. We congratulate them. >Mrs. Peister, one of our old settlers died very suddenly at her home, Jan. >28. The remains were interred in the Nichol's cemetery. >Our fox hunters, F. Shaver, J. Parr, S. Milliken and F. Robinson are going >to attend the big fox hunt in Chicago on the 22d inst. >Frank Shaver, our town collector, is calling on the tax-payers. > For more information on some of the names listed here, please contact: sue@kaiconsulting.com