Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1914 — HANGING GROVE [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jordan called on Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell a short time Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Stephens and children Mayme and Frank and R. V. Johns and daughter Eva attended the state fair Friday. Wash Cook and son Sam and Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McDonald went to Forrest, Sunday, to visit Martin Cook and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Westfal of Francesville and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cochran took dinner with J. F. Cochran and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bussell of Rensselaer and Elvain Bussell visited Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler at Tecumseh’s Trail over Sunday. The Sunday school picnic has been postponed indefinitely on account of the sickness of Miss Ethel Ferguson as she was one of the “young people’s class.” The six-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ringeisen has whooping cough 1 . They were visiting over in Illinois a short time ago and it is thought the child contracted the whooping cough while there.

Frank, 14-year-old son of W. S. Lohmanreceived a very painful cut on the left knee with a corn knife at Lawlor’s Hanging Grove farm. He was in the field where the men were cutting corn for the silo and just took a corn knife and cut a few hills, and the first stalk he struck at resulted in the above accident. The doctor was called out and dressed the wound and is pdrhaps getting along as Veil as it can but all ady Sunday the boy was in much misery’. Miss Nell Biggs, the trained nurse who had been caring tor Ethel Ferguson at McCoysburg, took quite sick Sunday iqprnlng and had to be taken home T Another nurse was procured from Chicago, but did not arrive until the milk traiif Sunday evening. A subscription paper has been ’circulated to raise money to P a ? the nurse Every one hap given very readily and Up to Sunday morning nearly $40.00 had been paid in. Here is an ex-, cellent opportunity to do some missionary service