Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1920 — BARKLEY ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

BARKLEY ITEMS.

Geo.' Long and family of Rensselaer were guests at the Granville Moody home last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Marion, who were caring for the Earl Barkley family during their illness with the | “flu,” returned to their home in Rensselaer. Do not miss seeing the Stereopticon pictures on China ait the Barkley church Sunday night. These pictures ate given under the auspices of the Epworth League and everybody in the neighborhood are invited to be present, at six-thirty. The little daughter of Mr. and •Mrs. Lon Colton, who has been very sick for several weeks, is now able to sit up a short time each day. Mrs. Cy Bates and daughter and Mrs. J. E. Dean motored to Remington Tuesday, visiting at the Geo., Cummings home. A' crowd of neighbors and friends surprised the Charles Stath family Tuesday evening by dropping in' to spend the evening. The. Stath family will move next week to their farm north of town, which they recently purchased. The Pleasant Grove school opened Monday- morning after a twoweeks’ vacation, on account of the “flu” epidemic which ran its course in that district. AH the children are back in school, excepting Earl Barkley and Ada Brandenburg, who are still suffering from the effects of the “flu.” Mr. and Mrs. Jim Walters and family, Whose home burned two weeks ago, are staying for the present with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walters. They will live in Wheatfield during the construction of the new house which will be 'built in 'the very near future. Their little daughter, whose fingers were •badly frozen the day of the fire, is getting along very nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Wolf and daughter motored to Monon last Saturday to visit Mr. Wolf’s parents. Miss Lois Bates, who is attending school in Rensselaer, is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bates, sick with the grippe. A good attendance, considering the sickness, at the Bunday school and morning service at the Barkley church last Sunday* Hr. McKenzie preached the morning sermon and immediately afterward held the quarterly conference. The conference was called for two o’clock in the afternoon, but the district superintendent had a very important meeting at Lafayette in the afternoon and did not know it until it was too late to let the local church know. Next Sunday morning the Sunday school will meet at ten ofclock. There is a class for each one. The evening preaching service at seventhirty. At six-thirty, under the auspices of the Epworth League,

'stereopticon pictures "bri Chink will bets shown. Everybedyis invited io this service. Next Wednesday evening the young married people will meet to organize 'their class connected with the Sunday school. All young married people who have at one tune or the other been in this class are invited to be present. A teacher and other officers for the class Will be elected. This meeting will be held at tike parsonage at