Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Charles Bussell is building a new granary for oats and wheat Mr. Price came up from Lafayette Wednesday morning. Miss Helen Stinson, of Michigan City, is visiting her uncle, Robert Drake and family, T X Mrs. Blirins, a sister of Mrs. W. R. Willits and Wm. Eldridge, is visiting here tor a tew days. Arthur Miller had a good average of wheat on the fifteen acres he bad out, it making 21 bushels per acre. John Herr’s threshing machine finished at E. Ramsey’s Wednesday, .and pulled to another ring, over south of Pleasant Ridge. Two Latter Day Saint missionaries landed in McCoysburg Monday evening, and talked to a small audience in front of one of the stores. John and Lillian Weging, of Chicago, are visiting at John Knopinski’s. They are spending their summer vacation here and will return only in time to re-enter school. * .

Russel lWillits is working with the John Herr threshing machine crew as “waterboy,” but during his spare moments he sells fruit trees for a leading nursery company in New York.

Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Merrill and daughters, of Crawfordsville, visited Sunday and Monday with R. M. Jordan and family, and left Tuesday morning for a visit with Rev. C. J. Bunnell and family at South Bend. They are making the tour in an automobile. The Gifford nine played a pick-up nine of local ball players at Mr. Johnson’s, west of McCoysburg, Sunday afternoon. The score was 8 to 9, McCoysburg players getting the short end of the score.

The stone crusher was brought out to the new quarry south of A E. Nitzschkes’ house, Tuesday. The men experienced some difficulty in getting their heavy machinery over the sand. In some places they had to board the track.

The trustee and advisory board met Tuesday for the purpose of awarding contracts ’ for school supplies for the school year of 1911-12. All classes of goods were awarded to Reed McCoy except class 18, which had to do with school wagons. This was given to the Delphi Wagon Works. Mr. and Mrs. A Armstrong, of Michigan City, visited their son Chas. and wife in Barkley last week, and also called on old friends in McCoysburg a couple of days. Mr. Armstrong was a former employe of the McCoys on their ranch at McCoysburg, several years ago.

The property owners on the north side of the wagon road in McCoysburg are taking up the old tile that leads up to the spring on the Kistner farm, and will soon have their lots dry and in a state of cultivation. There has been considerable awakening in McCoysburg during the jpast year since the land has been settled up. It may be we will get an electric railroad before Rensselaer does.