The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County January 6, 1899 Willow Ridge. Mrs. BLACK is suffering with a severe cold. Miss Lizzie BLACK is home from Kansas City. The entire family of Chas. WATSON is reported sick with fever and la grippe. Friday being the fortieth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jas WEISNER, also the eighty-first birthday of the former's sister, Mrs. ELKINGTON, they enjoyed a little turkey roast and it is hoped they may live to see many more birthdays and anniversaries. Last spring after T.J. LAWHEAD drilled one prospecting well and found a rich vein of coal and an abundance of natural gas he then set to work near his dwelling in search of the same and went through the same vein of coal several days ago and last Thursday struck the gas which he intends poping in the house for fuel and light.