Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1913 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

John Ward is drilling a well for R. V. Johns. G. W. Infield was in McCoysburg a short time Tuesday. H. E. Lowman is sick with the grip and has been unable to be at the store for two or three days. Hallie Stultz has gone over to Brook to work for his uncle, John Paris, this summer, and may remain all next winter and go to school. The wind did considerable light damage in this neighborhood Tuesday night, and the lightning also struck a great many trees and telephone poles, bUt fortunately no fires were started. A good many old roofs were blown away and hay racks lifted from wagons, etc. : Old apple trees suffered perhaps the worst. The big barn on the Price farm at McCoysburg was quite badly wrenched and will require considerable work to straighten it out. It was built only a couple of years ago. Chas. Bussell’s wild geese are all through hatching and out of 27 eggs he has 26 goslings. There 26 goslings belong to 5 pair of geese. This probably is the most remarkable hatch ever known of, and brings the number of his flock back to fifty. During last summer and fall the wolves killed twentyfive of his geese, part of them being laying geese, which cut the growth of the flock quite materially. Mr. Bussell has killed one wolf and one fox this winter and dhus he may be able to raise all of his flock this year.