Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

I -Mnd! Mudd!! Muddd!!! —Sam Bowers did business in Rensselaer Monday. —Messrs. Wilson and Abler did shopping in ! Rensselaer Saturday. —The party aa Mundell's was well attended, iAU report a good tine. ■ —Wm. Camp and 7om Glynn were in Knii man Thursday on business. I —Miss Artie Stevens of Hercher, 11l- is visiting brr sister, Mrs. Hany Gifford. —Messrs Brenton. FiUbanm and Gutherie transacted business in Rensselaer Friday. —Mr. Halm who lived near Morocco, has moved on the Headquarter turn and will try i gardening this year. —Mrs. Schofield of Fair Oaks, visited her husband, at Comer. Friday, where he is engaged in carpenter work. —Dredge No. S will be completed and ready for work in three weeks. It will begin work near Zadoc. and go north. —B. J. Gifford started his hydraulic dredge boat Thursday, but broke the shaft on the ■water wheel and had to send to Kankakee for repairs. —L. B. Hewitt is anlarging his poultry house. Hethinks becan raise turkeysenough to pick the potato bugs off the vines and save buying parts green. Next. -Mr. Lewis off Buffalo. N. Y-. visited has sou. Frank Lewis, but week. He eras very much pleased with this country and thinks some of locating here permanently. —Building has begun after a week's lay off , it being too bud weather to work at Comer. One store building. 20x40. taro stories, one dwelling house, one double corn crib 129 feet long. full of corn. How ia that for a town scarcely three months old? An onion house large enough to bold ISO.OOO bushels will be built before harvest.