Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

R. M. Jordan was in Rensselaer Saturday. Ethel and Elmer Ross were in Rensselaer Friday. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Johns were in Monon Wednesday evening. R. V. Johns and Charles W. Bussell were over near Mt. Ayr Sunday. Misses Mary and Myrtle Peregrine were in Rensselaer Saturday. J. H. Hughes has returned to his former home at Pierce City. Mo. Roy Montz and Jack Clark visited relatives at Monon u few days last week. ■ Misses Ethel Parker and Lora. Phillips took dinner with Edna Lefler Sunday. R. C. McDonald and Blanche Cook took dinner with Ed Peregrine and family Sunday. A. Ulich, of Chicago, came Saturday for a short visit wtih his uncle, John Knopinski. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker. Charles W. Bussell attended the stockholders' meeting of the C. & W. railway at Kersey Thursday. Boyd and Wille Holmes, from west of Rensselaer, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Wilson and Elvin Bussell. Andrew Knopinski was in McCoysburg a few minutes Friday morning. He reports his father in quite feeble health this summer. Remember the Ladies Aid will serve ice cream at McCoysburg Saturday night, June 25th. The cream will be first class arid flavors to suit your taste. Two Mormon missionaries came to McCoysburg Friday afternoon and preached to a small audience in front of R. C. McDonald’s store in the evening. Miss Lora Phillips came home Thursday evening from Monticello to visit her parents a few days. She and Feme Parker will clerk in the Chicago Bargain Store the next ten days. A number of young people gathered at the home of Miss Clara Ringeisen Friday evening to remind her of her sixteenth birthday. • Ice cream and cake was served as refreshments. Rev. Kuonen was unable to fill his appointments at Lee and McCoysburg Sunday on account of funeral services at Gillam, and a minister from Francesville, by the name of Sands, filled the pulpit. Rev. Walter Maxwell also preached to a large audience at .McCoysburg in the evening. We hear an unusual amount of complaint about ground hogs this summer, which is something very uncommon. Their principal place of abode is some old straw stack or a vacant building. It is said they will catch young pigs and young poultry, but their most noticeable damage is burrowing in the ground and undermining foundations. As many and five are reported to have been killed in one place.