Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — HANGING GROT. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROT.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Miller visited A. W. Williamson and family Sunday. Elmer Ross is still gulte sick with typhoid fever, bat is getting along as Well as he can. The Ladies Aid met at the home of Mrs. J. R. Phillips Saturday afternoon to do some sewing for Mrs. Ross. Mrs. James Lefler went to Lafayette Saturday for a couple of days visit with Mr. and Mrs. Len Lefler, Ola and Ellen Drake went to Monoa Sunday evening on. the milk train to tie on hand for school Mondajr morning. Mrs. James Lefler returned Monday from her visit in Lafayette, and is now visiting relatives near Rensselaer.

F. W. Fisher hao-his new barn ready to shingle. The new barn is built on the road that the house is on, which will be much more convenient Wm. Messenger, the man convicted for selling game here, and placed in jail in default of payment of fine, was released Tuesday afternoon by hi* brother-in-law, Wm. Johnson, who stayed his fine. Messenger is husking corn for Johnson. Miss Bowman, deaconness of the Monnett Home at Rensselaer, talked to the church audience at McCoysburg Sunday efternoon, telling of the work connected with the training of the little orphan girls. She had one of the little girls with her, one that had formerly lived in an uncomfortable flat and was almost a physical wreck. Now she is a healthy, obedient child. The section men at have been laid off and dagos put on instead. The families affected by the change are Chas. Stultz and Mr. Hurley. The latter has only been here a short time and is a brother of James Hurley, the section foreman. Chas. Stultz is one of the steadiest men that has ever been on the section here, and it is regretted that the railroad company has placed these foreigners in the place of men with families.

A trained nurse was brought out from Rensselaer Tuesday to take care of Elmer Ross, the 14-year-old son of Joshua Ross. The boy’s fever run to 106 Monday night, but with good care he will probably get along all right. This illness will be very hard on the family financially, as they had sickness and death in the family last March, when they lost their baby. Mr. Ross is a hard working man and a rood neighbor and they nave the syn - pa thy of all their friends. He ' has a very good corn crop but the sickness in the family is peeping him out of the fields.