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Column Two -- W E S T U N I O N has fewer Priests than formerly. -- Cour's circus is to be at Independence May 30. -- JNO. SWEARENGEN was up from Oelwein Monday. -- ED EASTON has cement and stucco to sell. See his adv. -- Dr HADSELL, expects to move his family from Maynard next week. -- E.T. KEIM, the telephone superintendent, was in this city Wednesday -- E.C. DICKINSON, of Co. C., 3d Iowa Inf., died at Des Moines a few days ago. -- J.H. LAKIN is in St Louis at the annual meeting of the Army of the Tennessee. -- It was our pleasure the other day to shake Frank Webb, of Strawberry Point, here on a flying visit. -- DAN BRUCKART, of Independence, who is to be the next Dist. Atty. of tho district south of us, was in town Monday. -- D.D. FINCH, Duane for short, arrived from Colorado Friday for a visit among his hundreds of relatives aud friends. -- THE past week was grand weather for corn planting, and was greedily accepted by farmers all over Fayette County. --SAM COWAN came down from Dakota last week, and is yet among us preparing to move his family out to the new home. --GEO BROCKWAY was down from Crane Creek Tuesday, as happy as ever. He called here to see how a great paper is made. --JOHN ANDRICK, the veteran editor of the McGregor Times, was in our city Saturday, and of course found the way to this office. --At MRS.J.W. COOK's new millinery store will be found choice goods, good work and low prices. Wedding hats a specialty.   Column Three -- Monday our office was gladdened by a visit from J.R. McDonald and O.G. Scriver, from Putnam. Mac makes a tour hither about once a year, and a;ways finds a warm welcome from his many friends in West Union. -- BLAKESLEY, the jeweler, had company last week; L.M. Blakesley, a conductor on the Pittsburg & Ft. Wayne, J.W. Blakesley, and E.M. Blakesley, train master of the Wabash, all brothers in law, residents of Ft. Waune. -- BLAKESLEY, the jeweler, has kept a record of every change made in his regulator for the year [ast, from May 6, 1881 to May 6, 1882, and the variation amounts to only five seconds. He gets the time about once a month from Cedar Rapids. --Rumor says BRO. SCOBEY has been invited to deliver an oration over the laying of the corner stone of the new jail. No fitter choice could be made, and no one more deserves the compliment implied than Mr. S., who has done so much for West Union. -- FRANK THATCHER was ordered to the reform school by Judge Granger, and taken there by Lee Desart, because of his bad habits and viciousness. He has been leader of a gang of bad boys who have committed petty acts of thieving during the winter, and has begun the road that must lead to penitentiary unless he mends his ways. His condition should be a warning to all such as need a warning.