Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Belle Stultz spend Sunday with Mrs. S. E. Fulk. Mrs. Belle Stultz and son George were in Rensselaer Monday. Chas. A. Lefler is building a fine big cattle barn for Simon Cook. J. A. Whitlow’s baby has cholera infantum and has been quite poorly for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Armstrong, of Barkley, visited with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McDonald Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E- Ranton and children from Phoenix, Ariz., are visiting W. C. Rose and family. Jay and John Wood and Bernice Long, of Rensselaer, are visiting the boys’ grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips. Carl McCombs returned to his home near Fairmount Thursday, after a few days visit with his uncle, Reed McCoy and wife. Mrs. George Bond and son Georgie went to Dayton Tuesday evening for a few days visit with her sister, Mrs. Finch Jennings and family. A force of men has been at work this week on the Monon railroad putting in connecting wires on the rails, to be used in operating the automatic block system. Two wires are used at each joint, and are inserted through a hole which is drilled through the thin part of the rail, and then wedged with a plug. This work is done very rapidly and requires scarcely any more time than if they were drilling through, wood.