Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — Barklev Township Item's [ARTICLE]

Barklev Township Item 's

We Wish We bad A top buggy. Dried corn io abundance. 106 degrees in the shade last Friday. Hauling water is the order of the day. J. C. Norman is still drilling at Ad. Robinson’s well. Some farmers are talking of feeding their stock, as pasture is burned up. Why don’t Mr. Reader say some thingabout the Smith Sunday School? Billy Bennett has a top on his buggy. That’s right, Bill; the rest all have ’em. S. R. Nichols shipped’a load of cattle from Donivan, Illinois, one day last week. We notice in last week’s Republi can that “Bill Bat” says chat Framt Parker and Billy Bull met with quite an accident at Alters’ Mill. We wo’d inform him that it was Billy Bull and the man that Frank Parker boards with. Billy Dixey’s “Jillam tates” didn’t pan hout good. Too dry for ’em. Wipkb Haihzes 2 Boys. August 17. 1881.