Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

1 >• * ■ Mr. and Nlrs r C. A. Armstrong spent Sunday at Clarence Maxwell’s. Mrs. J. Ross spent Friday afternoon with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Pattee. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Nitzschke visited with relatives at Winamac Saturday and Sunday. Misses Vera and Feme Parker returned Saturday from a week’s visit with relatives and friends in Chicago. Mrs. Eldridge returned to Crown l?omt Saturday after an extended visit with Wm. Willits and Wm. Eldridge and families. Mr. and Mrs. George Parker and Misses Ada Gwin and Clara Ringeisen took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell Sunday. Omar Church had the misfortune to run a rusty nail in his foot Friday while working on the section. It is causing him considerable pain. Twenty-two tickets were sold at McCoysburg Sunday morning for the Chicago excursion. Several took their dinners and spent the day in Lincoln Park. Chas. Erb had a new Perkins’ windmill erected at his house last week. The only fault now is that the stock cannot drink enough water. Just last winter Mr. Erb put up a modern barn. The shrubbery and stumps that have occupied the 80 acres of land west of the Banta school house, are being speedily eliminated by Washington Cook and his boys. This piece of land was sold early last spring at auction, to settle up an estate, and luckily, it fell to Mr. Cook, as it joined his farm on the east. This has always been a very discouraging looking piece of land, but now they have it well toward a state of cultivation, which will add materially to the beauty of the land. This year’s growth of weeds and brush are mowed down and when dry enough they will be treated to a sweeping fire.

There is some mighty fine corn throughout Jasper county this year that the rains of this week will develop into the best ever raised in old Jasper. A trip to Remington Thursday showed many fields with mammoth big ears and corn that looks for the world like it might make from 80 to 100 bushels to the acre. Even in some of the land where the water used to stand the year round almost, but which has beeri drained out, there is some splendid corn, while some sand ridges also have a better yielding prospect than ever before. There is but one thing left to fear now and that is the frost and lots of corn will be out of its way by the middle of September. Without doubt Jasper county will have by far the greatest corn yield in its history this year and it will be the best corn, too, if the weather continues as favorable as it has been for the past three months.*

The general secretary of the Children’s aid society at Indianapolis has caused the arrest of a saloon keeper and a printer of that city, charging them with having obscene pictures and literature in their possession. The card which caused arrest of the two men was taken from a young girl who was on trial in the juvenile court. In her possession were other cards of a similar nature which may result in the arrest of others if the persons who used them can be found. There is a great deal of this literature in circulation in the state, not only among the youth, but men of mature years, who have a mania for anything that is obscene. There is enough temptation to waywardness in the present day youth, without the introduction of the foul printing and pictures that are altogether too common. “I would never water cattle of mine in a flowing stream. There is poison in the rivers and creeks of India.™, rnd every- other thickly populated state,” declares Dr. Hurty, state health officer. “The time was when this condition did not exist, but that time has long since passed. We samples of water from rivers and creeks all over Indiana and have examined them in the state laboratory with the result that we have encountered poisonous substances in every instance.” Jerry Healy left Brook Sunday Tor a weeks’ vacation. He reports business good considering the time of year when farmers are so busy threshing. He reports that Mrs. Forsythe was some better when he left Sunday morning. Brook is to have a band concert and ball game Thursday afternoon for the benefit of the team and band. Your "Want" adv. ’Will receive prompt attention. Phone 18.