Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1915 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Frank Fisher, of Tefft, was through Hanging Grove Saturday. Logan Houston, of Gillam, was calling on friends in McCoyaburg Sunday evening. Elvin Bussell was at Lowell and Hammond Saturday and Sunday, playing with the Rensselaer band. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Peregrine and family, of Tefft, called on friends and relatives a short time here Sunday afternoon. They came down in their new Studebaker "six". Wild strawberries seem to be very plentiful this, season. In some instances people have gathered (three and four gallons at one trip. Every precaution should be taken to prevent being bitten by rattlesnakes. The annual commencement of the public schools of Hanging Grove and Milroy townships will be held at McCoysburg school house Saturday night, June 2ftth. There are five graduates from Hanging Grove and two from Milroy. The McOoysburg choir will furnish the music. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Wash Cook and son, Sam; Mr. and Mis. R. C. McDonald and R. V. Johns and daughter, Eva, attended a birthday surprise dinner on the former’s mother, Mrs. Carry McDonald, at LaCrosse Sunday. Mrs. Wm. McDonald did not return home Sunday evening with the crowd but remained for a longer visit with her parents and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robinson and children came over from Morocco Saturday evening and stayed all night with their daughter, Mrs. Harve Robinson and family in Rensselaer, and then came on to McCoysburg Sunday to spend the day with J. R. Phillips and family. Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson returned home with them tor a few days’ visit. Mrs. Floyd Miller was bitten by a rattlesnake on the thumb last Wednesday while picking wild strawberries. She was taken to Monon in an automobile but all the doctors were out so it was some time before medical aid could be had. Her hand swelled quite badly and Thursday her condition ■ was quite had but since then she has been feeling better and is thought she will get along all right. Mr. and Mrs. Miller live ni Nauvoo.