Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — WHEATFIEID. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIEID.

There will be a box social at the Tmnie schoolhouse, next Fjidayeve, Feb. 1. "Fatty" McNeil of this place transacted I rivate business at Hammond last week,

, L. H. Hamilton, county superintendent, was visiting schools in the nerth end Wednesday. / The bank furniture was put in last week, and is not to be excelled anywhere in the county. The party given by Miss Adda and Mr. Henry Phillips was well attended and a good time reported. B. J. Gifford of Kankakee, was locating a few more building places on his ranch south of town Wednesday. Robert Parker of Remington, president of the Wheatfield Oil and Gas Co., was up in these parts the first of the week, looking over the situation. Last Wednesday, after E. W. Phelps returned from a drive, his horse became uneasy and started to run away just as he was getting'out of the buggy. There must have been some very lively movements for about two blocks, or as long as the rig lasted. As luck would have it, no one was hurt. Last Friday, while Marshal Brown was walking down main street, some one from the direction of Moritz’s saloon turned loose with a load of No. 8 shot which caught Mr. Brown square in the back. Before he could call their attention long enough to inform them that he had had enough, he received a second load, which made his coat look like a seive, to shy nothing about the holes punctured in his ear and face, that would perhaps take a dime's w >rth of court plaster. The shot also broke a window in August Lidtka’s house, and the only consolation that Brown has at all is that he thinks, that the fellow who done the shooting was about three-fourths shot himself.