Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

G. W. Infield was in McQoysburg Wednesday night. Mrs. Smith Hughes and daughter Eva were in Rensselaer Friday. Alf McCoy is here his parents near Lee, and hie brotner at McCoysburg. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Miller spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Porter. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ireland went to Lafayette Thursday to be present at the funeral of Mrs. Ireland’s sister-in-law, who was killed in a runaway at Lafayette the Fourth. J. R. Phillips and daughter lx>ra went to Rensselaer Friday. The latter will join the picnic party, composed of the Chicago Bargain Store clerks and proprietors, in an automobile trip to Parr, to spend the day. Each one will carry a banner, bearing the words, “We quit forever,” and this is the closing chapter of the J>ig store.

Arthur Stewart has killed out a small patch of Canadian thistles on his farm by placing a handful of salt on each plant. These thistles have become, .a terrible .nuisance in many localities, and farming the ground every year tends very little toward destroying the weed, but if the salt course is pursued, it will have the desired effect.

Friends and relatives worked a complete birthday surprise on C. W. Bussell Sunday. About thirty people came in to remind him of his fiftysecond birthday. A long table was spread under the shade trees in the yard and a bountiful dinner was served, together with eight gallons of ice cream that was eaten during the day. Those present were, Wm. Jacks and family, Mrs. Mary- E. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Markin, Mr. and Mrs. I. N McCurtain, Mr and Mrs. R. L. Bussell, Mr. and Mrs.* George Parker qnd daughter Ethel, Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker, and Harry E. Pass.