E. G. RICHARDSON returned from Chicago the other day. He had been in with live stock, and he made a visit to his old home in Illinois while gone.
A child of Z. Burdick died the thirteenth instant and was buried in the cemetery near Zearing.
The grain warehouse of Clift's will be much more convenient after the changes are completed.
On the afternoon of the fifteenth instant the barn of John Rahfelt, a German who lives about three miles southeast of Zearing, was destroyed by fire. It contained thirty or forty tons of hay, a lot of oats, corn, wheat, and some farm implements. The loss is estimated at $1,500 with some insurance.
Mr. E. Dakins, an old and respected citizen of the Township, was severely injured internally on Wednesday of last week while getting off an ugly horse which he was riding. It is feared that he will not recover from the injury.—( Zearing, July 22, 1885.) EB.
Zearing is lively and trade good.
Maynard has fitted up the basement under his store for a restaurant.
I. Q. Burgess has his new house nearly completed.
I suppose there will be a change of postmasters in the Zearing office soon, as it is reported that Bert Hix has received the appointment. The affairs of the office have been well managed by Mr. Burkhart, and I suppose politics is the only reason for the change.
The first issue of The Crucible, a Zearing newspaper, made its appearance Monday. It is quite newsy and spicy. We hope it will prove a success. It is edited by M. Kuhn. Mr. Arthur Lewis and Miss Susie Williams have been assisting Mr. Kuhn in the office during the past week.
There is considerable corn coming to market, for which the buyers are paying twenty cents for eighty pounds. Oats being eighteen to twenty cents, flax ninety-one cents per bushel. The merchants are paying sixteen cents per pound for butter and sixteen cents per dozen for eggs.
John Rafeldt has a larger barn built than the one burned.—(Zearing, Nov. 4, 1885.) EB.
The Crucible, the new Zearing paper reached our editorial table last evening. It is quite newsy and in every respect creditable. Morton Kuhn is the editor. We wish the little journal success. —(Nov. 4, 1885.)
Very lively in Zearing the past week. Large quantities of corn being brought to market for which the buyers have been paying twenty cents for seventy-five pounds until Saturday, when Brooks commenced to buy corn, and the price soon advanced to twentyone cents for seventy pounds, which was quite an advance for one day.—(Dec. 16, 1885.)