Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

William pnd Carl Erb went to Harvey, 111., Friday fox a visit with their grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong visited with Mr. and Mrs. George R. Robinson Sunday. Carl Bowers returned to his home at Salem Thursday, after an extended visit with Clyde Fulk. Misses Hazel Drake and Lizzie Hooker went to Monticello Saturday to attend Old Settlers’ meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ott and family, of Barkley, and Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer, of Rensselaer, visited at Thomas McDonald’s Sunday. They came over in Mr. Ott’s new Maxwell touring car. Next Saturday is the fourth and last quarterly meeting at Barkley. Those who have, not yet paid in their quarterage will please do so this week, as we do not want to be delinquent at the close of the conference year. The ice cream supper at McCoysburg was not much of a success. Only ten gallons of cream was sold and the remaining five gallons were sold out Sunday at cost. Cold weather and the busy threshing season is attributed as the cause for the small crowd. The crowd was large enough, had it been a warm night, to have used all the cream they had. The John Herr ditching machine threw some sparks of fire at the Fisher farm last Thursday as they were on their way to Monon and if it had not been for the timely appearance of Jos. Stewart on the scene, the whole set of buildings would have been burned. Water was carried in buckets, and by the use of a ladder, the blaze was extinguished before it had gained much headway. This is the second fire that has been started recently. A couple of weeks ago the ’kitchen roof at C. W. Bussel’s was set on fire by sparks from the flue, but Mrs. Bussell set the ladder up and extinguished the flames with a bucket of water.