The school is doing fine under J. Hillis Rigor, teacher.

There has been lots of work going on: Nelson & Brush, on the Baker farm, and Dug Bates & Co., on 5he Bay Valley farm, have been doing a lot of fall plowing. The Marberry mill has been sawing on the Fred Campbell place. Wood choppers have been cutting cord wood and making mine props and mine ties; and last, but not least, Uncle Tom Ditterline & Co. have been hunting and trapping fur-bearing animals. They have already caught 37 possums, 4 minks, 2 'coons and one fox.

The population of Bay Valley has been increasing, notwithstanding the fact that Uncle Harry Clanahan and wife have gone to E. St. Louis for the winter, and Bob Clanahan and family to Pittsfield, Ill., for the year. George Mott has moved onto Bay Valley farm and brought two sons and a son-in-law. Last week one son went back to Johnson County and brought home a bride, Miss Anna Alsey. To the other son, Marion, Dr. Crow last week brought a fine 8-pound boy.

Dug Bates and Seph Brush did some fine work dynamiting the Bay Bottoms relief channel under the direction of Abraham Baker, drainage director.

We now have two stores in Renshaw ( Dixon Springs station), Roy Hall, the old store and post office, and Henry Bullock, the new store. Both are buying anything the people have to sell and ordering for them any article they do not have in stock. No need now for anyone taking a long trip to other places to trade. Now, when the hard road No. 145 comes along, Bay Valley and Renshaw will be sure on the map.

The recent cold snap has put a quietus on most of our activities, for the present; but our slim wood piles made some of us face the northwester.