Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — WHEATF ELD ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

WHEATF ELD ITEMS.

Items scarce. Farmers are taking advantage of favorable weather ar.d getting their corn-in good condition. The harvesting of rye is about complt ted. Samuel Clark, er., one of the oldest residents of the county, is suffering from kidney disease. Mrs. Langdon near this place, is just getting over a seveie attack of hemorrhage of the bowels. It is supposed that one of the most extensive Faw suits ever tried before a jus'ice in the county was that of Smilev vs. Hollett, before Justice Spriggs, where the plaintiff sued the defendant for possession of a farm and for damages. The case was continued from the 4th to the 24th of June There were 38 witnesses in attendance, and the trial lasted three days. The jury, composed of six as good men as there is in the county, was eighteen minutes in coming to the conclusion that the plaintiff had not established his complaint, and rendered a verdict for the defendant. Holleck and Graves for pl’ff, Marshall and Bowman for def’t. Mr . Tyler, late proprietor of the Melser house, has removed with his family to DeMotte. <

One of Alston Nichols’ sons has been having a severe tussle with scarlet fever. Dr. Bowman in attendance. J. A. Hollett is stepping high, and all because its a girl at his house. Mother and baby doing well. Wheatfield. For a Studebaker wagon, the world’s best, §o to C. A. Roberts. “Protecting” the Farmers.— “The McKinley bill cuts off the sale by Western and Northern farmers of $32,000,000 worth of farm products annually to Canada. It wo’d be difficult for farmers to see how they are benefitted by that It is done m pursuance of the bar* barons and unenlighten’d idea pervading the jmcKinley bill that com m.jrce is a public evil and sho’d be suppressed.”- Bep. Fx.