Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS.

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

PARR. —Mrs. B. D. Comer is quite sick. —Mrs. E. D. Hudson is still improving. —Joseph Leach of Valma, was in Parr Tuesday. —The late rains have pat a stop to corn planting. —Wm. Nowels visited at John Lesh’s over Sunday. —James Babcock shipped a car of hogs Sunday night. —John Martin is building a good residence in Parr. —Will Porter has gone to Chicago Heights, where he has a good job. —Stephenson & Gilmore are putting down a well for Thomas Murphy. —Cecil Alter is trying Soy beans and cow peas in connection with his farming. —W. L. Wood did business in Lake Village and Medaryville the first of the week. M. 0. Gant, our hustling merfchant, is all right, but he can’t pitch horse shoes. —Mrs. James Babcock entertained twenty-five little girls Tuesday, 16th, in honor of her little daughter Blanche, who was eight years old that day.