Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — Hanging Greve Items. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Greve Items.

The roads are good. The gardens are all looking fine.

The schools have all closed. The wheat is looking fine. . The farmers are all busy plowing for and planting corn. Uncle Fred Rishling, after a long spell of sickness, is still on the mend. Prayer meeting every Tuesday and Friday night, at the Osborn school house, and Sabbath school everySun* day. Mr. A. Jacks longs for the time to roll round, as he thinks it would sound very nice to call “Dora, mine!”

Ho! ho! Mr. Isaac Parker has bo’t a fine $65 Organ at Francesville, for his daughter Susie, as he thought he could get better rates there than at Rensselaer or Chicago. are all in good health, but if we could only have a big rain we would feel better. Mr. Joshua Paris is very proud. It is a ten pound boy, and the twentysecond child. We think he can afford to be proud. Mr. H. Randle is having his sum - mer kitchen painted. If some others would paint their houses, it would improve the looks of Hanging Grove. Jake is giving the supervisor fits for not working the loads by the Banta school house, as he says it is the nearest route to English’s.

UNCLEBILL.