A Century

* Last Friday night at the Twin Mound schoolhouse, the Republicans held a political meeting, and a good crowd came out to hear the candidates' talks and discuss the day's political issues. Each candidate gave a short talk, and O.

* The Carlin test well is now down 2,965 feet, and the drilling stopped on the Osward limestone yesterday. The crew is now under-reaming the hole and setting the six-inch casing down to the solid limestone.

* The drillers at the Casey well south of Zurich are drilling away at this time with a lot of expectation in their work. The well is down close to 3,100 feet, and the chances of hitting oil are good; they expect to be able to step into it before the week is out.

* At 2:30 in the morning, the cry of fire awoke the people of the city, and they hurried and turned out to watch the A. J.

* At a city council meeting last week, they decided to reduce taxes as much as possible and cut the sidewalk levy. They reduced the city tax by two mills, which is a big reduction when everything is taken into consideration.

* A very sad accident happened Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

* At 9:00 on Wednesday morning at the Catholic church, the wedding ceremony that made George Garvert and Miss Lenora Meyers man and wife was solemnized by the Reverend Father Henry. * The drillers on the oil well being put down on the Case farm south of Zurich are going ahead quite rapidly at this...

* On Saturday morning, when George Westhsin opened his store, he found that someone had been there before him and removed quite a lot of goods. The robbers had forced their way into the store through the rear, having broken a window to get in.

* The Farmers & Merchants Bank of this city closed its doors on Friday night. It failed to open for business on Saturday morning.

* The Isaac Walton League held a meeting on Monday night at the city library for the purpose of seeing what could be done regarding building a lake in this part of the country. They had a proposition from Mr.