Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1916 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

W. R. Willits went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Eddie Rose is home from Purdue University. G. W. Infield was in McCoysburg Wednesday night. Mrs. Gus Stephens entertained the Ladies’ Aid Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Morris Jacks, of Lee, visited her sister, Mrs. R. L. Bussell, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Johns and daughter, Eva, and S. E. Cook drove to Lafayette Monday. iMr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker, Wednesday. The Ladies’ Aid will give an ice cream social at McCdysburg Saturday night, June 17th. Ruth Robinson returned to her home in Rensselaer Thursday after a visit with relatives here. Clyde Randle has traded his old Chalmers «ir in on a new Ford. Clyde has now joined the “Big Bunch.” The township advisory board met with Trustee W. E. Poole Tuesday afternoon to let the contract for the school and other supplies. Geo. Holmes and family have moved from their tenting quarters on the J. N. Tyler farm to near Zadoc, where George has a job of tiling. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Benson and family drove down from LaCrosse Friday for a visit over Sunday with their daughters, Mrs. Wm. S. McDonald and Mrs. Charles Beaver and families. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cook came up from West Point Tuesday for a couple of days’ visit with their parents arid other relatiVesT Ernest “Fas all his corn planted and most of it is up, ready to plow. The steady rain all day Tuesday and Tuesday night did a great deal of damage to the fields, both planted and unplanted, as it came so easy« that every bit soaked into the ground. Mang fields will have to be replanted. The acreage of corn .this year will fall short at least forty per cent of the normal crop.