Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

J. R. Phillips was in Rensselaer Monday on the Erb ditch business. Robert Drake is nursing a game knee, the result of a kick from a young cow'. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Josserand and family, of Reynolds, spent Christmas with Clyde Randle and family. R. C. McDonald taught school at McCoysburg last week and up until Wednesday of this week in the absence of the regular teacher, Miss Olive Cole. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Miller have gone to Kewanna for a few days’ visit with relatives. Oscar Williamson is doing their chores while they are away. Chas. Bussell has been suffering quite a lot in the past four or five weeks from rheumatism. The part mostly affected has been his right shoulder. Only those that have rheumatism^ can sympathize with a sufferer. * All of the teachers left Tuesday evening to spend Christmas at other places. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McDonald left Tuesday evening on the milk train to spend Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. McDonald, east of Monticello. A post card received from Gifford Marrs Tuesday morning, stated he had reached Bloomington, 111., Sunday night about 9:30 o’clock, safely, but he found the Illinois road too rough for motorcycling and he stored his machine and went by rail the balance of the way home. Frank D. Murray, of Gillam, loaded his household goods at the Grove Tuesday to be shipped to West 'plains, Mo., where he has rented a farm. Perhaps after one year’s farming he may invest in land there. At present while the goods are on the road, Mr. Murray and family are visiting relatives at New Waverly, Cass county. George Parker and family, Chas. Bussell and family and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker and James Letter took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Royal Bussell Christmas day. There, were eighteen present for dinner and the reunion would have been complete except for Mrs.' Letter, who remained in Wisconsin. The wolves have been playing havoc among poultry, sheep, pigs, etc., in this community this last year. Especially do they seem to have a pick at Chas. Bussell’s flock of wild geese. Beginning early in the fall and up to this time the w r olves have killed twenty geese. It has .been necessary to hang a lantern in the lot at night to protect the balance of the flock. Christmas was well observed almost everywhere this year. Being sutih lovely weather made it possible for families to assemble together and enjoy a sort of family reunion. Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson and son, Dan, of Bluffton, and Mrs. Geo. Robinson, of Rensselaer, came Saturday evening to spend Christmas and visit J. R. Phillips and family. Scott Robinson came Sunday evening from Washington, and Sam Robinson and wife, of Morocco, and daughter, Mrs. Harve J. Robinson, of Rensselaer, came, over by automobile Wednesday afternoon. This was the first time for twenty years that Aunt Mary Robinson and her four children have all been together at the same time. It was a very happy meeting, indeed. Sam Robinson, who is a mail carrier at Morocco, made his route Wednesday morning by automobile in one hour and forty-five minutes, -in order that he might be at the gathering.