Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1910 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bachtold visited relatives in Fairbury, 111., last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell visited with Simon Cook and family Sunday. ikrs. <R. L. Bussell spent Wednesday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Parker. C. C. Randle is having some cement work done around his house, porches, walks, etG, - Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rishling spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents near Remington. Miss Laura Phillips came home Tuesday evening from Oxford for a two days’ visit with home folks. Miss Edna Lefier went to Rensselaer Monday for a week’s stay with her sister, Mrs. Estel Osborne. Clara Peregrine was the lucky bidder on the Wm. Large ditch and will begin work at once, having until the first of January to complete the job. Cecil Rishling has rented a farm north of Rensselaer and will move about next Tuesday. Cecil is a good, honest young man and we wish them well in their new home. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips came home from Monticello Tuesday night, after a few days stay with Mrs. Harvey" Phillips. The latter is improving nicely from her operation. Mrs. J. W. Kelley, of Marion, who has been visiting her parents, and Mrs. George McCoy, and brother, Reed McCoy, for the past week, returned home Wednesday. Supervisor Lute Jacks, of Lee, put in a big galvanized sewer pipe at the culvert south of the George McCoy house last week. This is the terminal of the Wm. Large ditch. Wash Lowman finished his big job of plowing near Monon Wednesday. He had several teams at work and turned over several hundred acres of land. A swarm of bees that have made their home in one of Mr. Gilmore’s houses, where Walter Jordan lives, for sometime, were taken out Wednesday, together with about 500 pounds of honey. Robt. Jordan is hauling gravel out of the old Continental railroad ditch, on the Gleason farm. He has begun graveling at the township line north of J. Ross’s and will work this way, as long as funds last. Mr. and Mrs. Snedeker spent Sunday with their son, Brooks, and family. Mr. Snedeker has a Maxwell car that he has used for two or three years and it now runs with the same smoothness as a new car. The C. C. Randle ditch will be sold Nov. sth and it is hoped it will fall to some Oompetent man who will push the work along rapidly, as the new ditch, when completed, wih put a large acreage of wet land in a state of cultivation. p Mrs. Chas. Wolfe has been quite sick for the past week, but is reported able to be up again. Mr. Wolfe has

bought a half interest in a hardware store at Francesville and will move his family to town soon as the crop is taken care of. Mr. Gifford’s dry land dredge has quit work a few rods south of the Tillet bridge. All the dirt they could scrape out was not paying, as the rock in some places crops out at the top of the ground. The dredge will be taken to Pleasand Grove by wagon road and loaded on a flat car. Tire onljr, way to ever get this creek dredged properly will be to get the petition granted that is now in the courts. Then the rock will be blasted out, which will not only make a sufficient water course but will also furnish an immense amount of rock road material. ————