Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Ed Ranton, Jr., and children, of Hoopeston, 111., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rose. Mrs. M. A. Rishling went to Monticello Thursday for a short visit with Mrs. Harve Phillips. Mrs. Harry Cook and baby, from Remington, came up Thursday for a few days’ visit with Simon Cook and family. B. J. Moore has shipped in a few carloads of stone from Monon to build the south end of the White county road. Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Smith are both dqwn sick at their home on Ed Randle’s tenant farm. Mr. Smith’s parents from Bainbridge are staying with them. News of the sudden death of Mrs. Marion Robinson, at Rensselaer, Saturday evening, came as a severe shock to her parents, brothers and sisters and friends here. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Crowder, living southwest of McCoysburg, and lived with her parents here until her marriage to Marion Robinson a few years ago. She was very popular among friends in this locality., Percy Smith, 23 years old and a very popular young farmer, died at his home on the Ed Randle tenant farm, Saturday at 2 o’clock, of typhoid fever. Short services wdre held at the house Monday at nine o’clock and the body was shipped to Bainbridge, Park county, for burial. His wife is also down sick with the same disease and will not be able ta-go to the burial of her husband. They also have a little daughter about 2 years old. It is indeed a very sad affair.