Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Miss Edna Lefler is visiting with relatives at Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy werft to Chicago Monday. —Mr. and Mrs. John Montz were in Monon Wednesday. Levi Miller has moved on the farm recently vacated b» E. K. Godshall. Roy Montz, of Onarga, 111., is home from school for a short visit with his parents.

Miss Laura Phillips, of Monticello, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips Sunday. Mrs. J. Ross and daughters Ethel and Nellie, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Pattee, Friday. The schools are all closed in this township except at McCoysburg, which will be out a week from next Wednesday. Mrs. Jim Turpie, of North Platte, Neb., and Mrs. John Russell, of Monon, visited Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foulks Saturday. Mrs. R. Foulk went to Salem, in the southern part of the state, Friday, to see a sister, who is quite ill. She will also visit some relatives in Indianapolis before returning home.

Tl.e fellow with the pointed toed shoes had better stay clear of the hen roosts hereafter. Orville Lambert had nine chickens stolen Friday night and the thieves were easily tracked in the sand about the barn yard.

Oscar Williamson met with a very painful accident Monday that will lay him up for a long time. He got his left arm caught between a gate post and a moving wagon and got all the ligiments severed from the bone near the elbow. Bad luck, it seems, is all coming to the lad while young, as it was only a short time ago he had both legs broken. Help “Johnnie” Robinson. This young farmer living south of Rensselaer lost practically all of his household goods, meat, lard, wearing apparel, etc., by fire last Tuesday morning March 29th. To the writer, this unfortunate young man is personally known and is an honest, upright fellow and any help that the people are able to give him and his family will be appreciated. He has a wife and two small children. The latter were saved from the flames clad only in their night clothes. His wife has been sick for a number of weeks and is now onlv just able to do her house work. You can leave whatever you wish, with Roy Bussell and proper delivery will be made to Mr. Robinson.

Almost simultaneously with the announcement that they were to receive a 6 per cent increase in their wages, all of the truckers at the Pennsylvania freight depot in Columbus, Ind., walked out and refused to return to work. Their grievances are that they were being worked long hours and short handed. The strikers’ places were filled shortly after the walkout.

By, a compromise, six widows of vie tims of the Cherry mine disaster, in which nearly three hundred lives were lost, have been awarded judgments of $1,620 each against the St. Paul Coal company. The women sued for $5,000 ea. h.