Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1914 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Louise Strantz visited Mr. and Mrs. Ford Saturday- and Sunday. Mrs; Rebecca Philips, of Monticello, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips Friday. , ■ ' „ Morris Jacks, Miss Ethel Parker and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussfell and children went to Logansport Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Stephens and two children went to Linden Saturday to visit a brother of Mrs. Stephens, who w’as injured in a fire at that place some time ago. Mr. and Mrs. .Rollin Stewart and baby and Miss Ola Drake came up from Tippecanoe county Thursday and remained until Sunday visiting relatives and friends. They drdve Mr. Drake’s Buick. Leslie McKinney, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McKinney, had the thumb on his left hand torn off- and the first two fingers very badly crushed .in a corn elevator Tuesday. His father had to break a cogwheel to release the boy’s hand. He was hurried to a doctor in Ftaneesville, where it w’as found necessary to take the thumb off, but it whs thought the remainder of the hftnd could be saved. The boy will be laid up from work the rest of the fall. Sunday was made the occasion of a joint birthday celebration for E. C. Maxwell and William Bennett, whose birthdays occurred on Oct. 22nd. Both were busy that day and unable to lay off for a little thing like a birthday but their wives were unwilling to see the occasion pass without some notice and a jpint dinner was prepared and served at the home of Mr. Maxwell Sunday. Besides the two families the following were present: Mrs. Fielder, Clarence Maxwell and family, Arthur Arnott and family, Fred Arnott and family and Miss Jwjnie Maxwell, the latter of near Lee. A pleasant time was enjoyed and a fine dinner served.