Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1912 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

C. W. Bussell is moving a house east of Francesville for Mr. Severns. Charles Lefler shipped a load of cattle and sheep Tuesday evening to Chicago. Ola and Ellen Drake and Paul Cook were in Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon, the two former to take music lessons. Quite a number of friends from here attended the funeral of W. E. Moore at Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon. * There will be a Sunday school convention at Milroy church Sunday, July 14th. Quite a delegation is expected to go from here. Mrs. Arthur Miller Is quite sick with pneumonia since last Friday. A baby, about a year olfl, makes the case all the worse. Robert Drake cut his wheat Tuesday. He only cut about one-fourth the acreage that he sowed last fall, but what he cut was good. Mrs. S. C. Snowberger and daughter returned, to their home, at Yeoman Sunday evening after a short visit with R. M. Jordan and family. The heavy rains this week have caused the corn to grow wonderfully and perhaps has been the cause of many fields being laid by. Several fields of oats have been damaged some by the wind- but in all the recent rains have proved a great help\to the growing crops. During the Saturday evening storm, lightning struck the house where H. W. Smith lives, and did some damage in practically every room and also tore quite a hole in the brick flue, but fortunately did not Injure any member of the family who were all in the house when the flash came. The old saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place is considerably discredited in this case, as it has not been more than a year since the same house was struck. „ _