Waldo Stultz, while leading a horse to water, was severely kicked in the face, but under the excellent skill of Dr. Stitzell no serious results are anticipated.—(Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.)
F. T. McLain is drawing stone preparatory to the erection of a fine brick dwelling house. Turner is one of our most successful farmers, and we hope the rumor of his moving to town is without foundation.—(Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.)
R. McClure has the barn for the M. E. church completed, an improvement needed at all country churches.—(Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.)
Christmas and New Years both were observed with big turkey dinners and other good cheer by some of the citizens of this township.—(Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.)
That energetic stock buyer and shipper C. M. Minkler has engaged the services of Uncle George Sowers the veteran buyer who used to make things hum for himself in years past.—(Milford, Jan. 3, 1883.)
J. W. Sowers' barn should be added to Milford improvements of last year.—Jan. 31, 1883.)
The decision of the supreme court in the amendment case casts a gloom over the hearts of our temperance people.—(Jan. 31, 1883.)
Hamilton Wakefield has lost about $200 worth of Chester White hogs lately from cholera. Charley SHULTZ estimates his loss from the same disease at over $300.—(Jan. 28, 1886.)
Dakota parties are in the north part of the county buying horses. Animals weighing from twelve to sixteen hundred pounds preferred. Object, able to keep in the furrow when the Dakota zephyr is frisking about.—(Jan. 28, 1886.)
Milford Township once had a town containing one house. This building, if yet standing, may be now on a good farm. " Prairie City" is the name of the town referred to, and was laid out on the south half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one, and recorded in book A, page twenty. Laid out in January, 1854. This township has some very good land, one of the best in Story County. It is improving rapidly. Good farms and good buildings dot its prairies all over. School houses have found their regular places—nine of them.
There are two church buildings in Milford. One is a Campbellite or Christian church;- in the northwest corner of section eighteen, and a Methodist Episcopal church near the northeast corner of section seven, having forty members. A nice brick school house stands near the Methodist Episcopal church, a few rods east and immediately in the northeast corner of section seven. The Pleasant Grove cemetery joins on the. north of the Methodist