Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Robert Drake’s were in Rensselaer Tuesday shopping. Mrs. J. R. Phillips came home Monday, from her visit with relatives at Monticello. Nelson Christianson and family, of Chicago, returned home Tuesday, after a short visit with relatives here. The work on the new house on the John Richardson farm is moving right along and is now ready to shingle. Frank Peregrine and family have moved back to Jasper county from Mitchell, S. Dak., and are at present staying in Rensselaer. Mrs. George McCoy went to Indianapolis Wednesday, for an extended visit with son, F. P. McCoy and family. She will also visit her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Kelley, at Marion. John Pattee, of Stuart, lowa, is visiting his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Pattee, at McCoysburg, and other relatives. He says he loves “Old Indiana,” but lowa has it over us a time or two on corn. I. N. McCurtain is another of our farmers that will try the northwest, he having bought a good farm .near Menominee, Wis. Mr. McCurtain will have a sale this winter and move out to his farm in the early spring. Willis Lutz succeeded in getting his tile drain project through, by agreement, Wednesday. All the parties concerned met at McCoysburg Wednesday and agreed on the matter, ajid appointed viewers. The ditch has its origin in the Osborn neighborhood and empties into the Randle ditch on the G. W. Dennis farm. John Nagel, who works for W. B. Walter, received a telegram Monday noon stating that his mother was verybad sick, at her home in Plymouth. John left on the two o’clock Hoosier Limited for his home. His mother has been poorly for some time, having been in a Fort Wayne hospital for some time, until recently. She was taken home. Word was received here Monday that Willson Potter, had dropped dead at the home of Albert Warner, near Rantoul, 111., Saturday evening. Mr. Potter was getting quite old, and he will be remembered by nearly everyone here. A number of years ago he worked for Robert Drake, but for the most part, made his home with Albert Warner. Mr. Potter has one son in Indianapolis and two daughters in Buffalo, N. Y. Both of them have often tried to get their father to come and make his home with them, but for some strange reason, he never went. It was not learned here whether the body would he sent to the children or buried at Rantoul, probably depending upon the action of the children.