Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

—Miss Kittie Callahan visited her parents Sunday. —Frank Parker is platting farms for Mr. B. J. Gifford. —James Jones of Rensselaer, visited Tom Tanner Sunday. —William Camp and Ed Trahn did business in Kankakee Tuesday. —Gus Stahl and Eva Denean of DeMotte, visited at Mr. Levereau’s Sunday. —Buggies were in good demand Sunday. Ed; Black offered three dollars for one that evening. —Miss Lottie Reese and Elias Yaste of Williamsport, are the guests of A. L. Bowlus this week. —Mesdames Richardson and Parkinson of Valma, attended Sunday school at North Lawn Sunday. —Johnnie Fauson, Ed Trahn and Will Camp expect to go to South Dakota to work in the harvest fields. —Tie making is the order of the day. We understand the new R. R. will be built as soon as enough ties can be gotten out. —Ben Clouse, of dredge boat “Minnie,” went fishing Saturday night and lost a ten dollar bill. He didn’t catch any whales, either. —Dredge No. 2 is laid up for the summer on account of scarcity of water. This is the first time for six years that Mr. Gifford has stopped dredging. —The wild and wooly thresher can be heard abroad in the land, where everything coming in its wake is doomed to destruction, figuratively speaking. —Sunday was an unusual day in this vicinity as nearly everybody was cutting oats, as the army worm and chinch bugs were destroying them. Some fields are not fit to cut. C. Houser, John Kieth and O. Callahan each lose about 25 acree.