Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Oren Peregrine has gone to , Mitchell. S. Dak., to work this fall. : - w ■ _ 5 Roy Hagg, of Rensselaer, visited at | C. E. Maxwell’s Sunday. Mrs. Cbas. Erb went to Illinois Saturday for a visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy were in Rensselaer a short time Monday evening. Miss Ida Maxwell, of Francesville. is spending this week with C. E. Maxwell and family. y Mr. and Mi's. F. P. McCoy and son Pierce, of Indianapolis, are here for a visit of two weeks with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Githens, of Indianapolis, visited her sister, Mrs. Sarah Fulk and son Clyde last week. John Clapp, of West Lafayette, is up to his farm this week, helping his tenant,. John Jordan, rebuild a granery. Mrs. Cora Brower and daughter returned to Hammond Monday after an extended visit with relatives at Lewiston and Wheatfleld. A dozen of Delena Lefler’s little friends came in Tuesday afternoon to* remind her of her birthday. Ice cream was served and the afternoon enjoyably spent at games. v

The C. & W. V. will run a special train Saturday morning from Kersey, to connect with the milk train at McCoysburg, for the benefit of those who wish to attend the show at Rensselaer. A threshing meeting was held at C. W. Bussell’s Tuesday evening to make final arrangements about threshing. The machine will begin at Geo. Potts’ Wednesday and thresh the wheat first, then begin at Will Murray’s and thresh the oats. Bob Drake has an unusually large crop of clover hay this season. He just finished putting It up last week. He put forty big loads in the barn, and has four ricks in the stack yard, all off of twenty-five acres of new meadow. The clover seed crop will likely be very short here, as it was cut rather late. John O. P. Bowers, of Salem, visited his sister, Mrs. Sarah Fulk and family from Sunday until Thursday evening, when he went to Indianapolis to visit another sister before returning to his home. Mr. Bowers states that they have had an unusual amount of rain in his section this season, just barely enough clear days to get their harvesting done. He also says they are usually done threshing by the 4th, but this year they are two weeks behind.