By Nemo.

Miss Lula Ayres is sick.

John Ayres has gone to Port Lavaca.

Miss Olivia Phillips is on the sick list.

I. F. and Walter Ayres went to Cedar Lake Saturday.

Ernest Zuch is spending a few days here with friends.

We had several good rains this week, which will bring in a few mosquitoes.

Ed. Gibson, of Lake Austin, was visiting friends in this neighborhood last Sunday.

Will Bell, accompanied by his wife and little boy, spend several days on the beach last week.

Walter Ayres went to Matagorda last Sunday night for Dr. Gober to come out to see Will
          McKee who's is dangerously ill at the home of Will Bell.

Matagorda County Tribune, September 9, 1899