Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1917 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

—Mrsr STiftOTl Cobk returned home Monday from Kankakee, HL, where she had been visiting her two sisters, Mrs. Anna Warner and Mrs. Christiansen Clare Peregrine has been suffering considerably the past week from blood poisoning. Monday his condition was quite alarming, but Wednesday he has some better. Sam Cook has rented the farm on which he and his father farmed in partnership this season, and will farm for himself the coming year. Sam recently bought a tractor attachment for a Ford and is going to use it in his farm work. He is using it now to help get the wheat ground ready for seeding and as soon as the gang plows come, he expects to do considerable fall plowing. F. P. Morton is having the cellar wall and foundation laid preparatory to building a modern dwelling on his farm. .... Hugh Davisson has resigned his position as station agent at McCoysburg and accepted a position as cashier in the freight office at Lafayette. That he will make good at his new work there is no doubt. Mr. Davisson had teen agrit here for over four years and had many friends who are glad to see him rise to a higher position. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cook visited*Mr. and Mrs. O. Mannan at Hamlet Sunday. The county steam roller worked on the new stone east of McCoysburg Wednesday but did not seem to succeed in packing the loose stone very well. Cochran Bros, have bought another threshing machine outfit and will use the engine pulling ensilhge cutters this fall.