Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Harvey Saidla has quite a severe case of tonsilitis. Mr, and Mrs. Estel Osborne visited with Charles Lefler and family Sunday. Wash Cook is building a hog tight fence around the 80 acres west of the Banta. This will add further to the improvement he has already made. Misses Dora Phillips, Clara Ringiesen, Ethel Parker and Ethel Ross spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McDonald. Chas. Tyler, of Chicago, and his mother, Mrs. Anna Tyler, of Rensselaer, took dinner with her brother, J. N. Tyler and family Wednesday. A dog was killed on the Jame 3 Parkinson farm last week that was thought to be going mad. It was seen by the hands to be acting very strange in a field near the house. At times it would jump up and snap at imaginary things in the air. The Banta and Osborne schools were out Friday and the Moore and Fairview were o#t Saturday. The McCoysburg school will be in session for a few days yet, on account of sickness in the teacher’s family during the winter.

Next Sunday there will be preaching at McCoysburg at S p. m„ weather permitting, and Sunday school as usual at 2 o’clock. There has been no Sunday school nor church for the past few weeks on account of stormy weather. About forty persons, old and gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDonald Saturday night and gave them a shower. There were many beautiful useful presents brought in to the appreciative young couple. The party ate lunch at a late hour, and left for their respective hopies wishing the bride and groom a prosperous and happy life. Arthur Williamson seems to have more than one man’s share of sickness. Some member of the family is sick the greater part of the time and if sickness is not in the family, it is among his stock. This spring the children are having a siege of whooping cough, and the case of their daughter Minta has been real severd, but all were feeling better Wednesday morning. The local sportsmen about McCoysburg are indulging quite extensively in the frog industry this spring. Several boxes of live frogs are shipped to Chicago each week. Frog catching is one of the late industries and seems to be growing very rapidly. This may be partially accounted for by the small outlay for equipment, which consists of a coffee sack and garden rake. Only a few years ago the poor little frog was thought to be a worthless creature, but now he is hunted down like game. Indianapolis papers have it that the Methodist church government is to undergo some radical changes during the following year. One change of most consequence is the discarding of the office of district superintendent, more commonly known as presiding elder, and placing this work in charge of the bishope. The matter will be discussed at the state conferences throughout the year and finally settled upon at the national meeting at Minneapolis in 1912. The hoped for result Is that it will make the church more powerful and effective.