Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Reed McCoy was in Rensselaer on business Saturday. Chas. Bussell loaded a car of oats Friday and Saturday at 40 cents. Supervisor R. M. Jordan is building a fine lot of gravel road in his district this fall. He has built a quarter of a mile and intends to build a mile more. Quince Richardson returned to his home in Pontiac, 111., Saturday for a short stay, but will soon return, to help with the building of his new house. The township schools opened all over the county Monday. The teachers for this township are as follows: Edith VanArsdel, McCoysburg; R. C. .McDonald, ,Osborne; Louise Strantz. Banta; Olive Cole, Fairview; Wilma Peyton, Moore. Friday, September 8, was the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. George Parker, and the occasion was remembered by 45 of their (riends and relatives, who gathered at their home about six o’clock with baskets of eatables and enjoyed a good supper. Mr. and Mrs. Parker received some beautiful silverware to remember the occasion by. The big motor truck of Mr. Mansfield that is working on the John P. Walter farm, has been hauling fertilizer from McCoysburg. They hauled three tons from McCoysburg to the Walter’s home in forty minutes. They sometimes use spikes in the drive wheels when the roads are slippery, but these proved very injurious to the rock road, so the last few loads they abandoned the rise of the spikes. The machine is a very powerful one and it travels easily with three tons.