Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1915 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Johns and Mr. and Mrs. W. S. McDonald went to LaCrosse Sunday to visit relatives. Miss Mary Robinson and Miss Ruby Murphy, of Morocco, visdted J. R. Phillips and family here a few days this week.

J. R. Phillips has been sick with malarial fever for the past week. His son, Harvey, has ibeen clerking in the £tore in his stead.

Mrs. Robert Cook and baby went to Auburn last week for a visit with relatives and from there she will go to Anderson for a further visit.

Miss Zura Snedeker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Snedeker, was operated on at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock for appendicitis. A small tumor was also removed. Zura has been in failing health for over a year, but it is thought her operation will restore her health.

J. E. Ross and Robert Johns, of near Seafield, are hauling rock on the new road, having lost their entire oats crop by the army worm and flood. Mr. Ross was only able to save 23 shocks of oats. Hundreds of other farmers will soon be in the same condition if the weather does not clear up. There are perhaps 1,000 acres of oats yet to cut in Hanging Grove township. Some have put engines on their hinders but the ground is so soft that it is impossible to go through with an empty binder in many fields.