Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — Heavy Rains Caused A Wash In the Lowman Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Rains Caused A Wash In the Lowman Ditch.

The heavy rain of Sunday night caused considerable trouble for the contractors for the Lowman ditch in Milroy township. Fred Schultz and Charles Schwanke are the contractors. They found that the sand had been loosed along the bank and had slipped into a completed part of the ditch, almost filling it up for a distance of 300 feet. It required about two days’ work with the men and teams to reclean it. A good church supper for 25 cents Friday, beginning at 5 o’clock at the parochial school. There was another big rain this morning and it was not needed. The heavy rain of Sunday night and the light rain of Monday answered all needs, and some warm dry weather now is needed for thrashing and com. Pasture is growing splendidly, however, so the excess of rain is not without some good. The Foresters’ band will play for the lawn social at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Friday evening. Ice cream and cake will be served. 1 * /n -rin-j- 7 Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Warren and little daughter, of Lawton, Okla., have been in Rensselaer and Jasper county for several days and will spend the balance of the month here, going to Fountain Park, at Remington next Saturday to remain during the assembly sassion. Mr. Warren reports that in his part of Oklahoma the crops are good; cotton being a considerable part of the product of that section of the state. '' •