Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1881 — Barklev Township Items. [ARTICLE]

Barklev Township Items.

As we have not seen anything In The Sentinel irom this part of ihe county for some time we are jifra ; a you will thiak we Lave sunk into oblivion, or nothingness. We are an here though, and Health is good. The schools are iu full blast. The new saw-mill is in operation. The roads at this writing are slow ly becoming better. Township Institute at Pleasant Grove the third Saturday of mis in. i.i !i

Win. Ri: y, Frank Parker and Martin Burns returned last Friday from a visit to relatives an.) friends in Kingman county, Kansas. Why don’t some one in every township write to the Sentinel? What has become of Sw ekieham mer? He who wielded his pen so gracefully, aud whose “flow cf eio quence” we fail to flnd adjectives to describe? Has lie, to use his own expression, “gone the way of all flesh? We are at a loss to krow. But rumor saith he hus lately been seer, at the big house on the hill. Shodn’t wonder. More anon. GOSSIP. December 8, 1881.