Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — BARKLEY ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

BARKLEY ITEMS.

Wheat favors a good crop. Oats are booming since the rain. Corn is growing fine, and farmers are in good spirits now. A son of A. H. Arnold, of Blackford, injured a short time since by falling from a hay mow, is slowly recovering. Mrs. R. Burns has been very ill but is now on the mend. Wallace Nichols is travelling for health and pleasure. Sunday School at the Brushwood school house next Sabbath at o’clock a m. Everybody invited. Charles Stalbaum and brother, of Walke. township, paid a flying visit to relatives in Barkley last Saturday e ening and Sunday. Quite nice little growing showers we are having to-day. John Shrare, of this vicinity, is having a well • rilled. J. W. Clor.se has returned from Hoopston, 111., where he has been engaged at work. Miss B. Hairron has returned to her old home, at Rockford, this State. Old Mac. J une 16, 1886.

Joseph P. Hammond is canvassxng for the “Practical Home Physician.” The high standing of its authors in the medical profession, Doctors H. M. Lyman, Christian Penger, H. Webster Jones, and W. T. Belfield, should stamp it as a standard work which should find its way into everv home. It is highly recommended by Physicians in Rensselaer. Give Joe your name. - Miss Alice Irwin has returned from Terre H rite, where she has been in attendance at the State Normal School, and will enjoy vacation with friends in Rensselaer. Bert and Will Small, sons of Rev. G. Small, have commenced the publication of a six-column newspaper at Idaville, Ind.,— The Observer, —the Independent having suspended. We certainly wish the young gentlemen abundant success. M. C. Stackhouse, at his tile works lijf miles north of Rensselaer, is prepared to furnish tile and brick at reasonable rates, and will give from 6to 10 months time on large orders. W. P. Baker is making arrangements for the erection of a new dwelling house on his farm. On Wednesday of last week, in Barkley township, Wm. Steele had his right arm broken by a kick from a vicious horse.