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

INDEPENDENCE.

—Plenty of rain the past week. —Roads a little slippery at this writing. —John Hopkins did business at —Mr. Ray did business at Rensselaer last Saturday. —Fred Renicker was buying up cattle in this vicinity last Monday. —J. CL Porter of Rensselaer did business in this vicinity last week. —L. S. Renicker was seen on N. R. last Sunday with a new bicycle. —Several Rensselaer people attended the German Baptist church last Sunday. —Ves Austin and family of Wheatfield, visited Charley Jenkins lart Sunday. —Charley Snyder and family visited friends near Kniman Saturday and Sunday. —Lincoln and J. Hopkins took a pleasure trip over the Gifford I district last Sunday. —Our heavy rains of the last few days has delayed the corn planters for a while. —Abraham Miller of near Wheatfield, talked to the people at the German Baptist church last Sunday. —Our Independence Sunday school will attend the Sunday school convention at Valma next Sunday. —One of those mountain sheep 'from Vulm.was seen in this vicinity last Sunday. That’s good, come again. —Charley Jenkins is now done planting corn, and as he hasn’t had very much sleep since oats sowing began, he will now take a nap and then help his neighbors o«L Good enough, Charley. —Farmers are complaining of the bad weaiherthis week. To remedy this I think it would be well enough Jto use the D. V. correspondent’s advice on seed corn, have the state legislature pass a law making the weather good. —One erf Samuel Hopkins homes got into a very bad racket with a steel water tank, as one of the snaps caught hold of the tank while the horse was drinking. Hethen got scared and dragged the tankail over the barn yard and kicked it to pieces. The horse was quite badly hurt. —The sewing machine agent of Rensselaer, was in our vicinity lart week, where he had a bad runaway. The team run and broke the tongue out and threw the man overboard, also broke a tug, one line and a neck-yoke. TW his team broke, lmd«d himrolf in and started for town.