Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — SHARON. [ARTICLE]

SHARON.

—Mr. McKee is visiting relatives at this place. —lra Cheek of Remington, was a business caller here last Monday. —Several of our farmers delivered hogs in Rensselaer last week. —Mrs. John Pursley has been been quite sick for the past two weeks. —Rev. J. D. Carson preached at the Sharon school house last Sunday. —Corn husking is progressing slowly and continues with the weather. —Bruce Hardy and Miss Brown of Rensselaer, were callers here last week. —There was a social hop at the residence of John Harris last Friday night. —D. M. Way mire has purchased the Havens farm of fifty acres adjoining him. —Miss Belle Chapman of Fairbury, 111., is visiting at the home of John Pursley. —Del Thornton has moved from near Wolcott to the Wolf farm, one mile east of the village. —Joseph Schertz’ who recently visited his farm here, is lying at death’s door, in Danvers, 111. —Mr. Criswell of Jordan tp., has rented the Coates farm, east of town, and will move ere long. —Miss Florence McGee, who teaches near Seafield, visited with relatives the latter part of last" week. „ —A box social was given last Friday night at the Queen City school house by the teacher and pupils. y-,

—Farmers are taking advantage of the dry weather and are having their corn shredded. —Sharon will observe Christmas with a tree and appropriate exercises given by the Sharon Sunday School.

—County Superintendent of schools, L. H. Hamilton, was vising the schools around Sharon last Tuesday.

—Our Endeavor society is in a flourishing condition. The leader for next Sunday, Mrs. Effie Shew. All are welcome. —Rev. Carson and Underwood will begin a series of meetings at the Sharon school house next Saturday night. / —Messrs. Chas. Brown, Frank Fenter and John Pursley, farmers living southwest of town, have returned from Missouri where they were inspecting land. They have exchanged their farms here for farms in northwest Mo.

—Mr. Worth Farmer, one of our most prominent young men left last Wednesday for Oklahoma where he will reside in the future. Worth has been an active church worker, a prominent Endeavorer and will be greatly missed by his fellow workers.