Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Anyone wanting a dozen nice 100 pound shoats see J. D. Miller. R. B. Porter has been quite sick for a few days, threatening pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bussell were in Rensselaer Tuesday evening. R. S. Drake bought a couple of loads of young cattle at Chicago last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker spent Friday night with Roy Bussell and family. Mr. and Mrs. I. W. McCurtain spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bussell. Miss Jennie Downs came Thursday to assist Mr. Downs, who will move next week. Mr. and Mrs. Chester powns moved to their new home near Mt. Ayr Tuesday. Miss Dora Phillips went to Rensselaer Saturday morning and returned Sunday evening. Mrs. A. A. Rusk was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at Lafayette Tuesday for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Downs, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Downs, Mr. and Mrs. John Marnitz and Connard Maxwell ate dinner with Geo. Parker and family Sunday. August Tigler is another very popular young farmer to join the list of daily paper readers, because he gets his mail at his door everyday. Reed McCoy is able to resume his duties at the store, and thereby relieving the assistant agent, J. R. Phillips. C. W. Bussell sold a young pair of his wild geese to a man by the name of C. O. Falls, at Noel, Mo. He shipped them by express Tuesday morning. Eugene Hughes entertained about fifteen of his friends and school mates last Friday evening from 7:30 until 10 o’clock. The occasion was his 13th birthday. ' - Mat Carr, of Fair Oaks, came down to McCoysburg Thursday to get his traction engine that Moffitt used to pump "water with at the dredge last spring. Simon Cook shredded fodder this week, and at the same time the whole family is having a siege of measles. Mrs. Cook began taking them Wednesday. Ed was the first to have them, and is now able to be about

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cavinder, Monday, Feb. 7th, a nine pound boy. John WilkenS came home Wednesday evening from Watseka, 111., where he had been to see his sister, who is very low of typhoid fever. Her condition has become very alarming and her ilfe just hangs in the balance. Lewis Hooker can handle more corn in a single day than anybody. Saturday he handled seven loads of corn to C. W. Bussell’s elevator, a distance of, one and a quarter miles, and scooped every load into the wagon himself. Totaling 350 bushels. Wash Lowman came home from his western trip Tuesday. He • took a northern route going out, and returned by way of New Orleans, seeing much beautiful country, and wonderful sights. He stopped, a few days with his daughter, Mae, at Orange, Calf. There he found flovlers in bloom and oranges growing, bringing some of the latter home with him for the children to sample. It was a lovely trip and a long one and Wash did not seem much the Worst for wear, with exceptions of a cold he contracted after leaving New Orleans.