Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — FROM WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

FROM WHEATFIELD.

Weather disagreeable, wind, rain, sleet and snow. Measles raging in and around Wheatfield. The Dunkard meeting at the W heatfield school house last Sunday proved a failure on account of the severe storm. Douglas Clark and his new bride now occupy the <.welling he recently erected in W heatfield. Chas. Mayers is making arrangements to erect a large dry goods store in Wheatfield. John and Flora Collins. William Shirey, Marion Davis, six members of the Gru u b family and Jesse Bennett are on the siek list.— Quite a lively time for the doctors, they are on the road night and day. Mr. Napp, of Valparaiso, who has purchased tne widow Deselms’ farm one mile and a quarter south of Wheatfield, will take up his residence there some time in the near future.

F. W. Austin is anticipating a fine crop of oats. He has put in a nice field, are cicely froze up, and covered with about two inches of snow and sleet. Frank is not at at all discouraged, as he declares it is is good as a coat of manure. * Obituary.—Jas. Spikens, at his home one mile south of Wheatfield, departed this life Monday evening, March 19th, 1888, in the 72d year of hi age. Mr. S. has been afflicted more or less all winter, but was taken seriously ill on the 14th, and suffered intense pain and agonv from that time until death released him. — His remains were taken to Valparaiso and interred in the cemetery at that place. He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and loving father. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.

WHEATFIELD DEMOCRAT.