Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1915 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Ethel Elston, of Brookston, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Hague and family. Janies Letter went to Rensselaer Wednesday to assist hisaister, Mrs. Geo. Werner, in getting her household effects moved to town. Mrs. Werner owns property in Frankfort and will probably go there to make her future home. Wash and Harvey E. Lowman were in . Rensselaer Wednesday closing u$ a big deal, Whereby they are tradingtheir Milroy for ffbalf section of unimproved land in Oklahoma. They were down to see the Oklahoma land last fall and were well pleased with the country and think they have some fine land. Neither of them expect to move there this year. The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mrs. J. R. Phillips Wednesday, but on account of the bad weather only a few were out. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. J. M. Ray. There seems to be a scarcity of water at some of the farms here. The well drillers just completed the redlining of the well on the D. S. Makeever farm, where Willard Tanner lives. They loosened the windmill and leaned it over far enough to get their drilling outfit over the well. Thgy went from there to the Dr. Wetheral farm, where the well has been totally dry for some time. With the increased drainage every year, the water level naturally gets lower, and by fifteen or twenty years more the present wells will have to be loweo*«LMr. and Mrs. D. W. Johnson went to Indianapolis Sunday for a few days' visit with her sister, Mrs. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lutes have been keeping house for them. Rudy Molitor returned to Payne, Ohio. Saturday, after spending the | holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Otis Culp and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stephens and Mayme and Frank Stephens returned home Monday evening from their visit with relatives in Montgomery county. Mrs. S. L. Rogers is visiting her daughter at Frankfort. Helen Tyler is now able to be up and around and no other members of the family have taken sick, so it is believed it wasn’t smallpox the iittle girl had. Mrs. Robert Cook is not improving as iast as she might, and Monday her condition was such that the doctor was called out twice to see her. There has been a puss formation o nthe lungs since she first took sick, which the doctor has sought to drive away without operating, but it has resisted stub bo i nly and Wednesday is was found necessary to draw the for eign element from her lungs, and it is hoped now that this will lead to her speedy recovery.

Mrs. M. V. Kendall, of Wabash, has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. A O. Moore and other relatives here fox the past week.