OAKLAND.

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     Miss Florence Gray is on the sick list.
     John Venard's new house is rapidly nearing completion.
     Misses Pearl Stump and Anna Shidaker spent Sunday in Cincinnati.
     Arthur Austin, of Blanchester, spent Saturday and Sunday with his aunt, Mrs, Mattie Magee.
     Miss Willa Ballard, of Wilmington, was the guest of her sister, Mrs, M. M. Mullin, over Sunday.
     Levi Brannen and family, of Muncie, Ind., are visiting Mrs. Brannen's father, Henry Van Tress.
     Miss Carrie Smith and son Harry, of Greenville, spent last week at William Harlan's and Milo Hale's.
     Miss Gertrude Zimmer, of Cincinnati, was the guest of John Magee and family the first of the week.
     Mr. and' Mrs. Amos Mills have returned home, after a week's visit with Mrs, Mills' sister, at Belle Center.
     Joseph McVey and family are entertainng his sister, Mrs. William Morrison, and niece, Miss Holmes, of Lexington.
     Mrs. Ella Taylor, who had been very ill and was convalescing, had a relapse Iast Sunday, but is a little better at present.
     Miss Hattie Hackney and brothers Edward and Wilbur, of Dayton, came over last week to attend the Collett-McKay píc-nic.
     A large crowd went from here to the general meeting at Cæsar's Creek last Sunday, and a few attended the camp meeting at Sabina.
     About fifty from here took advantage of the excursion via the Ohio Southern to Sandusky, last Friday. They report an excellent time.
     Mr, and Mrs. Thomas McCoy and Mr. and Mrs. Judson McCoy, of Good Hope, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Williams from Saturday until Monday.

CARL.

MACEDONIA.

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     Mrs. Emma B. Sidwell, of Wilmington, visited her sister, Mrs. McKay, over Sunday.
     J. E. Mitchell is preparing to put out a large wheat crop---seventy acres or more.
     Mr. and Mrs. Levi Jones, of Brown county, visited their daughter, Mrs. C. A. Patton, Iast week.
     J. M. McKay attended the thirty-second annual Collett-McKay pic-nic, near New Burlington, last Saturday.
     We are all glad that the war is over and we hope the final treaty will be as satisfactory as the preliminary conditions.
     Dana Bond has his gravel pit opened up in good shape, and hauling has begun in earnest. He expects there will be two thousand loads.
     Seymour Morris, son of Avery Morris, is here from Jay county, Indiana, with his family, visiting his parents and other relatives and friends.
     Last Monday a tobacco drummer drove into the gravel pit. There were twelve persons present, and all but two took a sample plug. If this furnishes a true basis, more than eighty per cent use tobacco.
     Several women and children sre finding more employment than is pleasant looking after stray turkeys. Roup is among some of the turkey flocks. Try spongia and aconite. These are standard remedies, and some folks succeed well with them. Use ten drops of each in two gallons of drinking water.
     Surveyors are running the line of Clark and Washington townships. Part of this line has not been run for sixty-five years. This work so far puts Andrew Hunter, of this neighborhood, on the fence, not knowing in which township he lives. Washington township has always claimed him, and we hope the final settlement will leave him with us.
     Our Township Sunday School union held a second convention at Cuba last Sunday. Our school was well represented, and furnished a song and, also, an excellent paper by T. P. Morris. A spirited discussion followed the pa- per, but the speakers got off the question considerably. The next convention will be a grand rally in the grove at Caba, and all schools in reach will be invited.