Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1916 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cochran, spent Tuesday night with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cochran. Mildred Jenkins was resting slightly better Thursday morning but is still in a very critical condition. Miss Ola Drake came up from Lafayette Saturday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Rollin Stewart and family. . Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, of Roselawn, came to McGoysburg Wednesday for a visit with their daughter, Mrs. Leslie Lowman and family. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Jordan will go to Crawfordsvilie Fnday to visit relatives there and at other points outh of Lafayette. ?■ Hanging Grove court was in session a short time Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Anna Chambers, of Marion townstep, filed suit in Squire Bussell’s court to replevin a cow and some ducks and chickens that were left with her sister, Mrs. Wm. Gordon, some months ago. The trouble was the outgrowth of a little quarrel a few day® ago. The plaintiff hired a lawyer to defend her, while the defendant pleaded her own case. The court gjave Mrs. Chambers back her property excepting a small calf, which was left with the defendant.

John Moore, who went to Texas in - April to work for an engineering firm here, has written home, stating that he has been given a better position with the company and that he is working with a substantial increase in salary. John is now running a transit and is one of the head engineers and is now located at Wichita Falls, Texas. He made no statements concerning the United States-Mexican .situation there. ,