Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Harvey -Phillips is working for C. W. Bussell. Mrs. H. E. Lowman’s mother visited her over Sunday. Miss Lena Zabel is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur' Miller, this week. There was German church at McCoysburg Monday forenoon. Chas. Saidla is unloading a car load of fertilizer at McCoysburg this week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker and daughter Ethel visited with Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ross and family and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy. The party at Robert Drake’s Saturday night was well attended. The affair was ip honor of Miss Hazel’s birthday. __ Mr. Morris went to Lafayette Sunday evening and returned Monday evening with a team of horses, which he will, use in improving the Price farm. He has already begun tearing down one of the big sheep barns. It will take several months to put the farm buildings in good repair. Some oats that were sown early are up nicely and looking well for the amount of rain and cold weather we have had. The acreage of oats will be comparatively smaller this year than it would have been if the weather had been better. A letter from J. P. Gwin and family, at Mammoth Springs, Art., which was received a few days ago, says they are all settled in their new home and like the country quite well. They had three quite heavy frosts after arriving there that did considerable damage to the peaches, the large Albertas being practically all killed. However, the other fruits remain ulidamaged and bid fair to produce a large crop. Mr. Gwin’s have been enjoying garden truck from their own garden for some time. • ■ . Sunday thirty-two friends and neighbors gathered at the horn* of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Erb about eleven o’clock with baskets of dinner. The occasion was in honor of Mrs. Erb’s 34th birthday, and was intended for a-sur-prise, but as usual some of the preliminary arrangements leaked out. Anyway, it was a joyons affair, and one that Mrs. Erb will remember for a long time as being the happiest Easter she ever spent. The families present were Drake’s, Simon Cook’s, M. L Ford’s, M. Ringiesen’s, Wm. Zabel’s, John Wilkins’. Floyd Miller’s and Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Miller. Chick Feed at The Home Grocery.