Sorry, I'm running behind again! I have an obit that will follow and another 1906 for July, will send it soon as I can get to it. -------------------------------------------- Excerpts taken from March 1906 issues-Cedar County Republican Community Items Arnica March 1: We are having some fine weather at present. Miss Leslie Callahan just closed her school at Alder and the directors have hired her to teach the spring term. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Callahan, of Caplinger Mills, were visiting their parents near Arnica last week. Steve Claggett is building a new dwelling house. March 15: It seems as if we are going to have more winter. Mt. Grove March 1: S. S. Hopkins is very low with throat and lung trouble. Miss Artie Henson, oldest daughter of John Henson, was married on Wednesday to Chas. Utley, of Dunnegan. We extend congratulations and best wishes. March 8: P. T. Curl sold 100 bushels of corn to Chas. Grant last week for 33 cents per bushel. March 15: Loran Underwood sold a horse to Jim Thompson for &80 last week. Bear Creek: March 1: Sheriff Arnold passed through Bear Creek last Sunday. Little John Thompson is very sick. Dorris Simmons is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Smith Brown of these parts. March 8: There will be singing at Paynterville Church Sunday night. Everybody is invited to attend. March 15: Considerable improvements is being made on farms around Paynterville. R.B. Brown is fencing eight acres with long wire fencing. C.W. Jackson, Geo. Barkley, Zula and Ruby Fox, and Cleo Jackson attended the entertainment at Antioch Saturday night. Rowland March 1: Mr. Finnedge has rented the VanDyke farm for the coming year. Miss Nellie Willett will teach the spring term of school in the Bishop Grove district. Mt. Enon March 1: Misses Myrtle, Moore and May Swartz have been counting on a trip to Cass County but they have been disappointed and will not get to go. Tingley March 8: Some excitement was recently occasioned by a mad dog scare in the neighborhood northeast of the Sand Ridge schoolhouse. As report has it, a man named Joseph Begley, of Filley, was visiting at the home of Sam Cox, when a dog of the former went mad and bit a dog belonging to Mr. Cox. The rabid animal then left the place, but also bit several other dogs and a hog or two before it finally disappeared from the neighborhood. All the animals supposed to have been bitten have since been killed. Graceland March 15: Riley Graves and Floyd Tutt went to Fair Play Saturday after a load of freight. Local and Personal March 1: Eggs were higher in Stockton than they were in Kansas City on Monday. The farmer received the benefit and the dealer the loss. The Stockton and Kader Telephone Co. met here last Saturday and elected S.S. Thompson president and Finis Wrenn secretary. March 8: Five young men have been arrested for playing a game of dice on Sunday. The trail [sic] is set for next Tuesday before Squire Cox. The school board has sold the colored school property consisting of one acre to Lin Butler for $60. The case against the five boys for gambling on Sunday was dismissed before the day of trial. R.B. Morlan, of Rowland, was in town last week and favored us with a call. He is considering being a candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket.. J.C. Simrell, the well known merchant of Arnica, was here last Friday. Make a drag and drag the roads. An hour's work with a drag, once or twice a month, will save several hours time in driving to town in the course of a year. Besides it will enhance the value of your farm. Interesting Items from adjoining counties and elsewhere: A Jasper county farmer left his new mower standing in the field and a fellow came along, broke it up and sold it for junk. Served the farmer about right for not putting the machine away when he finished using it last fall. It is rumored that there was a serious cutting affray at Cane Hill just across the line over in Cedar last Saturday. We have been unable to get particulars but hear that six were stabbed by one man. Is there an epidemic of bad blood in the air? If someone gets mad at you, be sure to hold your temper. We are informed that there was trouble at Dadeville last Saturday also, but we have no particulars. --------Greenfield Advocate One of our prominent citizens a short time ago, held a conversation with his wife wherein they decided to order a vapor bath cabinet and try its cleansing qualities. The cabinet arrived and that night it was tried by both our citizen and his wife. Imagine their surprise the next morning when they awoke to find their skin entirely black. They had used a coal oil lamp instead of burning alcohol. -----Jerico Optic We have a case of small pox near the city limits. The subject is a transient who arrived Sunday morning by way of South Greenfield, but was caught and quarantined in a tent and will be cared for with precautions which will leave the public in no danger. --------Greenfield Advocate