C.P. Ervin and wife will spend the winter in North Carolina. Men are working at the M.E. Church basement in Gladstone and hope to have it completed soon. While playing at school in Media, Johnnie Drain and Fred Hamburg were experimenting with serious results. Fred was holding a cap which had some powder in it while Johnnie touched a match to it just to see if it would burn. It did and blew the end off of three fingers and a thumb for Fred.
Experience is a good teacher but the fees are heavy sometimes.
Henry White is having a new corn crib with a cement floor erected near the elevator.