Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — NEWTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NEWTON ITEMS.

Some corn planted. The weather is fine. Plowing for corn is progressing rapidly. Oats looking well, and there is likely to be a heavy yield. There is a ditching plow at work in the northern part of the township ditching the Iroquois marsh. Chas. Y. Henkle returned from Kankakee last week, where he has been teaching during the past winter. Sunday school at Saylerville at 10 o’clock. Preaching second and fourth Sundays of each month, at the same place, at 2 o.clock. A number of the candidates before th * Republican convention, and their friends, feel very sore over the result of its action. Mrs. Jared Benjamin, wife of the ex-Trustee, started to-d y (Monday) i.or Dakota, where she will spend some time visiting the family of her brother, D. T. Halstead, a former well-known citizen of She intends visiting in lowa, also May 3,1886. Democrat.

George H. Bishop tried the experiment of setting a hen on a double-yolked egg with success. After proper incubation a little head came peeping through each end of the egg, and when the shell was removed two chicks were found. They were slightly uni fce 5, but were easily separated.

Cartersville, Ga., is proud of Joe, a dog of superior intelligence. He has been known to seize an ear of corn, carry it to a rat hole, shell off a few kernels, back off out of sight, and then pounce upon the rat thus enticed to destruction.