Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1913 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Simon Cook has bought a new Ford car and it was delivered to him Wednesday. Wednesday was cleaning day lor Wilson Bussell. He cleaned his store room from one end to the other which will add materially to the health conditions as well as appearance Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bussell and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bussell assisted him in this work. A couple of men from near Buffalo are camped here, hauling ties for the C. & W. V. The weather is so very warm that it makes tie hauling exceptionally hard work.

In the case of Lawrence Sayler vs. Belle Sayler,' on a ch&fge of assault and battery, before Squire Bussell Tuesday afternoon, the defendant was acquitted on the ground'that there was no evidence to prove the charge preferred. This is rather a pitiful case as these parents have a sweet little girl of eleven years, and what a shame it is they can’t get along for her sake The big rain here Monday evening came at the time and will be a big help toward making the corn, etc. But the wind did quite a bit of minor damage. The lightning also struck in numerous places but no serious damage occurred, except a couple of hay stocks being burned, one on the Linback farm, near Pleasant Ridge, and one on the R. M. Jordan farm, Several oat stocks were struck and burned, and the wind blew a good deal of corn down.

Arthur Williamson suffered another attack of heart trouble at the home of C. W. Bussell Tuesday, during the trial of the Sayler family. The heat and excitement was probably the cause. The spell lasted perhaps an hour and for a while the outcome'Tvould be fatal. A Rensselaer doctor was called and treated, and he was soon able to go to his home. Mrs. J. R. Phillips went to Monon Tuesday to consult the doctor, - Mrs. Clarence Messenger and children, Mrs. Louis Messenger and three sons visited at Mr. Johnsons and friends at McOoysburg, when returning to their home in Rensselaer, Thursday morning.