Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1918 — Hanging Grove. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove.

The snow storm Saturday caused the trains to run very late again, after just extricating themselves from the storm of two weeks ago. The C. & W. I. division of the Monon failed to make its schedule Saturday evening, and consequently a number of passengers were dissappointed. The train crews are making a fighting effort to keep traffic open. The wagon roads are quite badly drifted again t which will seriously handicap hauling and may interrupt the rural mail service again in some places. Dwight Large shipped a load of hogs to Chicago Friday night. Jake Ray and W. R. Willits had some exciting experiences Friday, while attempting to take some hogs to Lee. They were making the trip in with a sled, and when driving along the dredge ditch bank, their sled up set and all the occupants rolled out in the snow. Jake was the only hog with a cop on. Fortunately no one was hurt, so they drove the hogs back to a neighbors and reloaded them. Mr. Willit sold two hogs that weighted 1090 pounds and bought him the sum $155.54. These were probably two of the largest hogs ever sold in Hanging Grove. J. E. Ross and family and Mr. -and Mrs. Robert Johns left Thursday morning for their home near Mesa, Arizona. ... Mrs. Robert Cook is sick with pneumonia, but her condition is not thought to be serious.