Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1910 — NORTHEAST BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTHEAST BARKLEY.

C. P. Moody went to Chicago Sunday in his auto. Day Jordan lost a valuable horse Friday night. Miss Alice Bingham called on Letha Rees Friday night. Floyd Tow is slowly improving from his recent sick spell. Wm. Rees worked at Lewiston for B. J. Gifford Monday. Mrs. W. J. Miller, of near Pleasant Grove, is on the sick list. < Miss Mary Rees worked for Mrs. Geo. Johnson last week. T. M. Callahan and Ed Oliver were Pleasant Grove callers Monday. Miss Letha Rees went to work for Mrs. Kenton Parkison again Monday. Mrs. G. M Beebe and daughter Ella called on Mrs. T. M. Callahan Monday. Mrs. Geo. Martin and little son Floyd; called on Mrs. Wm. Rees Sunday evening. The Barkley choir met at C. P. Moody’s Saturday evening, practising some new songs. Miss Alice Bingham spent Saturday night and Sunday with Wm. Hershman’s, near the oil fields. George and Charley Margin, Claude Bowman and Art Kennedy spent Sunday with Wm. Martin and family, of McCoysburg. Mrs. Wm. Rees and two daughters Hazel and Letha, and little son, Charles, called on Mrs. Samuel Rees and family Sunday afternoon. T. G. Brown and John Hellengreen’s furniture and stock left Pleasant Grove Thursday for North Dakota. Their families will go the first of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Akers, of Lewiston, have rented the house where. John Heil recently lived in Pleasant Grove. Jim intends to work in the tile factory when it opens again. Miss Rae Haniford, of Gifford, took Maggie Richmond’s place as clerk kt Reed McCoy’s store at McCoysburg. Maggie and her two sisters and father intend to go to lowa soon. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson and two children, Mary Rees, Edith Saltwell Jim Branberg, Maude DeMoss, and John Newcomb called on S. W. Went: and family Sunday evening. J. P. Merilat, a well known citizen of Ft. Wayne, was fatally injured by the plunge of a freight elevator from the fourth story to the basement of a wholesale drug house yesterday morning and died an hour later at the hospital.