Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1914 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson and son, Scott T. Robinson, visited at Mr. and Mrs. Well’s in Barkley, Sunday. Dan Robinson and family were also there from Bluffton, having sold out their stock of goods near B.’uffton and are here for the present and have not fully decided on the future. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Bussell took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bussell Sunday- T Mr. and Mrs. Cha's. Jordan visited with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook' Mr. and Mts. Frank Ringeisen and baby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cochran. Elvin Bussell went to Dyer Sunday with the Rensselaer band to play for another Catholic festival. The next quarterly meeting will be held at Gillam Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, May 10th. This point is in good standing financially and will be able to pay up in -full. Ladies’ Aid will give a ten cent social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gps Stephens, Friday evening, May Bth. Everybody invited to attend. Our stone road from the county line around to the Gifford railtoad is in a very poor traveling condition on account of having the loose rocks pulled up in the road a few days ago. Mr. and. Mrs. Chas. Marlin, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Herr and family. Cracker Hughes, a section foreman, and three other men, of Monon, went up to the Kankakee river Sunday morning by motor, over the Gifford branch on a fishing trip. They found fishing poor on account of the wind and high water, only catching two fish. During their tramping about they found two young foxes near a pile of old ties, which they felt sure made up for their poor luck fishing. They took the young foxes home alive and intend to raise them.

There was a real old-fashioned 4th of July or county fair couple of lovers in town today. They went down street with their arms about each other’s waists and the mellow light in their eyes as they billed and cooed bespoke an affection that, should it prove as lasting as it seems ardent, should make a happy home for the next half century. Presumably the couple was one of the two that were granted licenses to marry. That is the only way out of a real bad love affair.

County Commissioner Charles A. Welch and Frank Fenwick, both of whom are named as defendants in the libel suit filed in the federal court by Addison N. Love, treasurer of the projected interurban railroad, were in Rensselaer today. Both disclaimed that they ever said a thing that might be distorted into a question of the responsibility of the individuals who are promoting the railroad. Both were opposed to the subsidy proposition, Mr. Welch lives in the west part of Carpenter township and has adequate railroad service at Goodland. Most of the farmers in the west part of Carpenter township looked as Mr. Welch did on the subsidy question. Mr. Fenwick says that he never said a (thing about the ability of the men to build the'railroad. He opposed the voting of the subsidy on the ground that he believed that if the men wanted to build a railroad, they should build it themselves and not ask the subsidy aid. It is probable that the other defendants fought the subsidy as a matter of conviction and it would seem that the suit which Mr. Love has filed is a flimsy procedure and vety poorly calculated to assist the proposition of the subsidy in either Jordan or Carpenter townships. It Is understood that a United States marshal has been here serving subpoepaes on the men named as defendants.