Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1913 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

G. W. Infield was in MeCoysburg Thursday night. Miss Cecil Jordan is attending school this summer at Terre Haute. Paul and Mayme Stevens ami Dora Phillips were in Rensselaer Saturday afternoon. Farmers are done sowing oats and are getting a good start toward plowing for corn. Ethel Ross visited a few days the latter part of the week with M. Ringeisen and family. Chas. Saidla, of Rensselaer, unloaded a couple of cars of fertilizer at MeCoysburg Friday and Saturday. Severl new families have moved to MeCoysburg in the past ten days. Most of them will .work qn the section. G. W. Dennis, who has been quite poorly for the past few weeks, has improved considerably and is now able to be about. Gifford Marrs and Edna Lefler spent Sunday with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Estel Osborne, and family ■north of Rensselaer.

Ed Cook found a new door key last week in the road near his place. Evidently it had not been lost very long, as it was not a bit rusty. Prof. Otto Braun was, down from Lowell last week for regular band practice. This is the first regular practice the boys have had for five weeks. SQOfct Robinson started for Manitoba, Canada, Wednesday. He expects to remain there until fall and then return here for a two weeks’ visit, before returning to Spokane, Wash. W. T. Hankins returned home Saturday night from Gary, where he has been for almost two months. He has secured permanent work on a Gary street car line and is now home to pack his goods, preparatory to moving, his family there this week. • An insanity inquest was held, on the person of Mrs. Jape Beebee at McCoysburg Sunday afternoon by Drs. Kresler, Gwin and English, and Squire C. W. Bussell. She was adjudged of unsound mind and a fit subject for treatment at the hospital for the insane, to which place she will probably be taken before long. The old lady is 73 years old and makes her home for the most part with her son-in-law, James Jefferies, but she has other children living, including a son, Guy, living at Newland, and Abe Beebe, who Uges at Logatee. She is a soldier’s widow and seems she should be entitled to a pension, but there is some dispute concerning the pension and she has not been receiving it. If it is proved she is entitled to a pension, then she may be provided with a place in the soldiers’ home, after a few months’ treatment In the hospital. She gets quite violent at times and threatens ipembers of the family.