Sherwood
Mrs. O. Coffin is on the sick list.
Charles Baker has sickness in his family.
Mr. John Johnson has lost 2 children by scarlet fever.
Farmer Township
Alva Mote has the Kansas fever.
The schools are drawing to a close.
An orchestra is talked of at Farmer.
Robert Reeder has moved to Milford
Lewis Knight as a sale next Friday.
Will Ensign has returned from Illinois.
Charles Sweet is home from Hamilton, Ind.
R. E. Foot stands in Foot & Norway's store again.
Alice Roan will teach the Biglow school next summer.
C. Budd Jr. family will move to Missouri in a few days.
J. A. Hughs has sold his farm to James Beerbower and son.
Married Sat., Feb. 14th, by Rev. S. S. Byde, Wm. Beavers to Miss Amelia McCavitt of the village.
Farmer Items
Elisha Winn has bought Levy Hutchins' place of five acres. Consideration $500.
Asa Stone broke his leg fourteen weeks ago Saturday. It has just been put in a plaster of paris cast.
Samuel Knight who has resided in Oregon for twelve years is visiting friends in this vicinity. He returns in April.
When neighbors cut and split over forty cords of wood for the widow Stone, it shows an act of kindness which Farmer is full of.
Will Knight, one of the Mitchel railroad raiders whose adventures form one of the most thrilling episodes of the rebellion is here on a visit.**
John Bungard and Johnny Byers will work for L. W. Wilder this summer. Mr. Wilder is preparing to break for corn seventy acres of sod that have been grassed for twenty years.
**The Mitchell railroad raiders were a group of volunteer Union soldiers who commandered an empty Confederate train heading from Atlanta to Chattanoogo, Tennessee on April 1, 1862. They did has much damage as they could to the railroad lines and cut telegraph lines along the way. The Confederates chased them on foot at first, and then took various locomotives to chase them and finally did capture the raiders. Some were executed right away as spies, and others escaped. It appears that Will Knight of Farmer was an escapee! (Also called the Great Locomotive Chase and Andrew's Raid)
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