Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Blanche Cook went to Rensselaer Saturday. / J. N. Tyler’s children have been sick with the grip. ) Geo. H. Thornes caiie from Lafayette Friday. Chas. McCashen’s baby was sick a few days last week.' Hazel Lowry and Lizzie Molitor were in Rensselaer Friday. "Hazel Drake came home Sunday morning from a jbort visit with relatives at Monon. Mos£ of the wheat is looking fairly well, but needs a gooa, rain to start it growing. Mrs. Thomas Eldridge, of Monon, received a very bad fall Monday evening, that resulted in a broken arm. Postmaster Reed McCoy carried the mail Wednesday during the absence of both the regular and substitute carriers. Mr. and Mrs, Hervey Brannon, of Monticello, Mr. and Mrs. John Braund, of Monon, Miss Anna Montz and Clarence Montz spent Easter with J. H. Montz and family. , James P. Overton is having his house painted, and also intends to build a new yard fence. Both are much needed repairs and will add to the beauty, of the place wonderfully. M L. Ford is the latest victim of the measles. He is getting along nicely, but it is a very busy time of the year for a busy man like Mr. Fo’-u to have the measles. Roy Gwin is doing his work. Mrs. Jantes Lefler returned to her home in Marinette Co., Wis., Thursday evening after attending the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. W. W. Bussell, whose death occurred Monday evening, March 21st.

Ed Peregrine has rented the R B Porter place and moved his family there Friday. It is rather late to move, especially poultry, but the improvements are so much better, that tl\ey expect to profit by the change. A part of Mr. Herr’s family and goods have come. His threshing outfit came in Saturday afternoon. Ail of the tool boxes had been bursted and all of the valuable stolen. It is a fine looking threshing machine and has only been run a short time. The foundation is laid for a fine, big, new barn on the fann where Frank Lowry lives. It will be made to hold about 20 head of horses, besides corn and oats bins. There is also an addition being built to the house on the Conrad farm, where R. M. v Lowry lives. People should be very careful about setting out fire during such dry weather as the past' two weeks. A fire was started in the Poole marsh sometime Wednesday evening, and burned slowly all night and until about 10 o’clock Thursday, when a strong wind the eastward. The barn on the Geo. Stalker place was burned, and the neighbors had hard work to save the hoqse and the two sets of buildings on the Bledsoe & Engle farm. The vast area that burned over has not been in cultivation for some time and had grdwn up in weeds and grass as high as a man’s head, which caused the flames to leap many feet high.