Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — SHARON. [ARTICLE]

SHARON.

—Times lively. —Wm. Hensen delivered his corn this week to Rensselaer dealers. —A literary society has been organized at the Green school house, south of here. —Eight farms surrounding Sharon have been disposed of in the last two weeks. —There are several cases of grip in the surrounding country and some of a serious nature. —The eldest child of Myrt Chilcote was buried last Monday. Interment at the Crockett cemetery. —There was a necktie and apron social at Black Oak last Tuesday night. A large crowd was present. —A Butterfly social was given by the Sharon Y. P. S. C. E. last evening at the residence of Wm. Zea. —Messrs. Purshey, Fenter and Brown having exchanged their farms for Missouri land, will leave here about Feb. 1.