Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1913 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Van Wood and children, of Rensselaer, eame Sunday noon to spend the day with J. R. Phillips and family. J. F. Cochran has a 5-passenger Cadillac touring car. It is the Wm. Washburn car and is a fine running car, and Mr. Cochran knd family are sure to get lots of good from their investment. Lawrence Blunk, who works for Frank Ringeisen, has a Maxwell runabout, which he purchased at Monon. He will use this in preference to his horse and buggy. J. M. Ray is able to be about with the aid of crutches. It has been almost two weeks since hi received his injury by falling from a horse. Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Ray and two children, of Elwood, are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ray. They will remain here probably until the first of September. The family of Walter Jordan are all down sick with the typhoid fever, except one child, which is staying with its grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Jordan. Mrs. Jordan and the oldest boy are considerably better but Mr. Jordan remains quite poorly. It is thought they contracted the disease from a sack of rotten potatoes, which was overlooked in a corner of the milk house. Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Stewart, of Shadeland, came up Friday evening for a visit over Sunday with relatives here. Some of the thrashing rings were thrashing Saturday afternoon. One machine thrashed all day. The oats are quite damp, but generally those that were shocked up well are still in a very marketable condition. The recent rains have practically completed the corn crop in this community and if nothing unforseen overtakes this year’s crop, there will be more corn in Jasper county this fall than in any single year for twenty years, on a safe guess. The band concert at McCoysburg Saturday night was excellent. Two slide trombones, one clarionette, and one cornet from the Rensselaer band, besides the professor, came out to play with our boys. The music was thoroughly enjoyed by all and surely the boys are deserving of great credit for the program rendered and the progress they are making. Mr. and Mrs. Hague and family spent Sunday with relatives and

friends at Battle Ground. Mr. and Mrs. Wash Cook and children, James and Charley, and Mr. and Mrs. George Parker, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ray McDonald near Monticello. Mrs. Walter Hayes and childreb, of Muncie, are visiting at the home of W. E. Poole. Florence and Ella Bussell spqnt Sunday afternoon with the Misses Poole. Charles Bussell has his elevator all thoroughly overhauled and in readiness for taking in grain. The wind blew the elevator down a few weeks ago and completely demolished the wood work, and this part had to be built new. A. O. Moore has just completed a very fine new double crib It is a large building and will be equipped with an elevator. There is also a fine big crib being constructed on the H. Coonrod farm on the Francesville road. It has a crib on either side and a large crib directly over the driveway. This one is also equipped with an elevator.

Thomas H. Birch, of BurlingtofiL N. J., personal aid to Woodrow W!y son when the pres’dent was governor of New Jersey, has been selected for minister to Portugal. Work on the Atlantic and Pacific defenses of the Panama Canal fortifications is nearing completion. Most of the fourteen-inch guns have been received at the Canal Zone. Several twelve-inch mortars have been set up.

The production of coal in 1912 reached the great total of 534,466,580 short tons, valued at the mines at $695,606,071,’ according to a statement by Edward W. Parker, coal statistician, just issued by the U. S. geological survey.'

A man giving the names of Washington Garfield and John King, arrested for bathing in a public fountain at Washington, D. C., declared Friday to the police that he was Pat Crowe, who figured in the Cudahy kidnaping a few years ago. Two physicians from the government hospital, where the man is confined, Inspected photographs of Crowe at the rogues’ gallery and declared they were pictures of their prisoner. The man is serving a 60day sentence for vagrancy. The Washington police believe his story.