Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

Ed Oliver went to Chicago Monday and from there to Missouri. The work on our school house is progressing nicely. James Blacker is hauling watermelons to Rensselaer this vtreek. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams were visiting in Fair Oaks Sunday. George Martin is getting better. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tow spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rees. Misses Bell and Lizzie Tow and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bowman took dinner with Ed Oliver and family Sunday. Lawrence Blacker spdht Saturday night and Sunday in Delphi visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Tow called on Mr. and Mrs. Del Bowman Sunday evening. Mrs. John Fessler and children, Gladys and Dorothy Clark, Ruth and Cecelia Callahan and Versie' and Sylvia Watson spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. James Rees and children. T. M. Callahan and two daughters attended church in town Sunday.

Mrs. William Parry, of Crown Point, placed four handkerchiefs on a high bush to dry. An hour later two of them were gone. Mrs. Parry placed two other handkerchiefs on the bush several days later, and from the window in her kitchen awaited developements. The handkerchiefs had not been on the bush five minutes when two English sparrows flew down from a nearby apple tree and bore the linen away. When, Mrs. Parry’s son climbed into the tree he found the four handkerchiefs fashioned into a cozy nest

Mrs. Barclay Lancaster, wife of a farmer near Carmel, started to town recently with twenty-seven dozen eggs in her buggy. The horse became frightened on the way to town and backed the buggy off a bridge. Mrs. Lancaster, who weighs 350 pounds, fell on the twenty-seven dozen eggs. When the debris was cleared away three whole eggs were found in the lot

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