Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Mauss spent Sunday with relatives in Spencer.

Rudolph Peterson was an over Sunday visitor with friends in Spencer.

George HughBender was up from Spencer last Monday looking after business.

Elwin West left yesterday for Storm Lake to visit with his sister Mrs. Stanton.

Mrs. Hattie G. Brewer has returned from a month's sojourn at Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

R. E. Donaldson left Tuesday morning for Key West, Minnesota, to attend business.

Miss Libbie Harker spent Sunday at Spirit Lake with the Stoddard and the Harker families.

Mrs. R. E. Donaldson and Mrs. C. A. West went to Spencer yesterday to visit with friends.

Mrs. Christine Paton, of Jefferson, came last Friday to visit with her sister, Mrs. W. W. Paton.

Jack McCreery,lineman for the Midland Telephone Company, was an Estherville visitor over Sunday.

Rev. E. W. Henke came up from Charles City last Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Geo. Glade.

Howard Case was up from Spencer over Sunday visiting with his grandparents, Mr.and Mrs. Case.

C. Torstenson and C. F. Mauss went to Superior last Tuesday to look after their large farm near there.

Miss Elma Way, of Hudson, South Dakota, came last Thursday to visit with her sister, Mrs. M. C. Nelson.

J. C. Guthrie went to Southern Missouri last week to look over the country with a possible view of investing.

Mrs. A. A. Henderson and Mrs. Emma Hallett, of Arnold's Park, were visiting with Milford friends last Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Knudson and Lucille Knudson spent Sunday at Spirit Lake, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Knudson.

Miss Edna Lucas left last Monday afternoon for Whittemore, where she will visit for about two weeks with friends.

Miss Maude Lambert, of Spirit Lake, visited last week at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr.and Mrs. S. A. Holcomb.

J. O. Stephenson & Co. have recently sold two new phonographs, one to M. J. Wallace and one to Henry Langford.

Rudolph Peterson has purchased the half block immediately north of J. L. Pitcher's and is erecting a neat house and a barn.

Mrs. H. H. Shipman went to Spencer last Monday afternoon to visit with a sister and other relatives until Tuesday afternoon.

Henry Culverr, of McHenry, North Dakota,left for his home last Saturday after visiting a few days with relatives and friends in Milford.

L. G. Winey and family who have been residents of Westport town ship for the past twenty four years have taken up their residence in this city.

Mrs. J. O. Stephenson and children went to Spirit Lake last Monday afternoon to visit for a few days. Mr. Stephenson is doing grand jury duty there this week.

J. G. Revell and G. F. Bond of Peterson, were in town last Monday afternoon. Mr. Bond came up to look at Mr. Revell's residence property with a view of purchashing the same.

F. G. Meeker closed a very sucessful term of school in Excelsior township last Friday and returned to Milford on Monday. He has engaged to teach the same school for the spring term and will take up the work again after a three weeks vacation.

M. J. Ryan received word from his brother Richard, last Thursday stating that he was at Iowa City and had just had his right leg removed. When Rich was but 18 months old he was almost entirely paralyzed, having the use of but one arm. He gradually recovered the entire use of all his members with the exception of the right leg below the knee. He has had to use crutches ever since. He found that he is so badly handicapped in this way that he has submitted to the operation and will hereafter use an artificial limb. At last reports Rich was doing very nicely.

Mrs. P. E. Goodale left last Monday for Spencer. From there she will accompany a brother to Rochester, Minnesota, where he will enter the Mayo Bros. hospital for an operation.

Dr. Coldren reports the arrival of a fine girl baby at the following homes, Jassie Thomas, on February 22nd, Erin Groff, on Sunday March 10th, and Wm. Aker, on Tuesday, March 12th.

Rev. M. D. Bush went to Ruthven Saturday where he occupied the pulpit of the Methodist church the next day. Rev. George Cobb of Ruthven, preached two very acceptable sermons here Sunday.

Last week the town council at Arnold's Park granted the petition of John Johnson to operate a saloon at the Park, and it will be open for business about April 1st.

C. A. Arnold came down from Spirit Lake last Tuesday afternoon to visit with his sister, Mrs. A. Case. Mr. Arnold was formerly a resident of Milford and for many years he owned and operated the farm just north of town now occupied by Wm. Bellman.

Heldridge Bros. & Wilcox have received a new Marsalles corn shelter, purchased through the agency of S. O. Pillsbury. The machine came last Thursday and on Saturday they started it and did a job of shelling for C. Torstenson. The machine is a cylinder sheller and has a capacity of from 600 to 800 bushels per hour.

Mrs. Anita Hall has purchased the A. O. Hemphill residence property aud will return to Milford and occupy it in a short time. The property is now occupied by F. H. Merritt.

Walter L. Strike has concluded that misfortune knocks on every man's door once in a while. The first of the week he sustained an injury to one of his hands and had to come to town to have the member treated. Yesterday morning he received the news that during his absence on Wednesday night that his dwelling house and all it's contents, together with his brother's effects, had been destroyed by fire. Walter says he is unable to account for the cause of the fire as there was only a handful of live coals in the stove when he left the building. He will commece the erection of a new dwelling immediately. He's plucky. The above refers to a brother of Mrs. Frank Harker.

Miss Helen Hayea is visiting relatives and friends in Seattle, Wash.

Attorney W. J. Smyth and little nephew left this morning for a visit with relatives at Anamosa.

Robert Stants of Chicago is making a week's visit in the city at the home of his sister, Mrs. S. E. Walker.

Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Emery have gone to Cozad, Nebraska, to spend a month with Mr.and Mrs. John B. Henderson.

E. H. Cumberland of Center Point passed through this morning on his way to Shellsburg to attend the old settlers picnic and reunion of Benton county.

Rev. C. F. Ensign, pastor of the Olivet Presbyterian church returned this morning from his vacation, and will appear in the pulpit on next Sabbath morning as usual. Rev. Ensign spent his vacation in the west, visiting among other points the Seattle exposition.

C. C. Perrin, eastern manager tor the Thiel detective agency, with headquarters in New York, is in the city today for a visit in the Murray home. En route from a business trip to the Black Hills, Mr. Perrin is well remembered here as the detective who brought Frank Novak back from Dawson city, Alaska.

Wlllard S. Niles, accompanied by his brother, Hiram E. Niles of Anamosa, has returned from a three weeks visit to their sister, Mrs.Mary Niles Ballard, at Ft. Morgan, Colo. They visited Denver, Colorado Springs, Pike's Peak and other places of interest, being completely captivated with the beauties of the Centennial state. Mr. Niles says that the development of the country in the irrigation districts is something almost beyond human belief.

J. M. Kovar of the Hawkeye lumber company force, returned last evening from a visit to his old home at Blairstown, where he picked a stack of timothy with a head over eight inches in length. Mr. Kovar says the hay crop is unprocedented in that section.

Paul Tenley seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Tenley of Stanwood who was brought to St. Luke's hospital yesterday afternoon for an operation for appendicitis, died at 6:30 o'clock this mornings. The body was taken home on the 11:30 train this afternoon.

Miss Anna Benesh, of Cedar Rapids and Clarence V. Biederman, of Bertram were married yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Justice Lesinger at 214 Fourteenth avenue. Mr. Biederman is a well-to-do farmer and he and his bride will make their home on his farm.