Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1912 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Miss Clara Ringeisen is working for Mrs. R. C. McDonald. H. E. Lowman made a business trip to Chicago Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Lowman went to Winona lake Thursday for a few days’ outing. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe visited relatives here from Friday evening until Tuesday morning. She started for Packard, Wis.,Wednesday evening for several weeks’ sojourn with Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler. a The McCoysburg band boys will not have their ice cream social Saturday night, July 27th, as announced, as it interferred with a social function, to be given August 3rd, by the Ladies Aid, for the benefit of the church. Neither seemed to know the other had announced their social so the band boys willingly gave up to the Ladies Aid;- - . ’

The barn on the Wm. Large farm, occupied by Roy Holeman, one and three-quarters miles east of McCoysburg was struck by lightning Tuesday afternoon during the electrical storm and burned in a few minutes. The men had just been filling the mow during the day with hay and had gotten in perhaps seven or eight tons when the storm came up. This and some other small notions will be Mr. Holeman’s probably S2OO in all. Mr. Large, the owner of the farm, carried some insurance in_ihe G. H. McLain agency.