The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County Friday March 25, 1898 Willow Ridge. Miss Bettie HELMS is home again. Miss Cora MARKS is staying near Cadmus. Mr. BENNETT has sowed millet. He is ahead of most of the farmers. It was reported that Joe SMITH planted corn the first of the week. Ruben SMITH Jr., was in Paola last Saturday taking the final examination. Samuel BATES, of near Paola, was the guest of his brother, Joe, the first of the week. Mrs. HELM is proud owner of the largest drove of little chickens on the Ridge. J.A. WEISNER has just received a box of fine "Hharteychockes" from his brother in Rockbridge, Ill. Uncle Jake CRAMER lost a valuable cow last week. She got tangled in the wire fence and died during the night.