Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — VIRGIE. [ARTICLE]

VIRGIE.

Plenty of snow. Miss Rilla Ridenour has moved into her new home. David McQuarter is going to move on a farm near Rose Lawn. Owen Grimm is stsyir.g a f ew <j ays WitQ his brother Calvin Grirnm. George Cover and son Macil have returned from their trip to Maryland. Virgie people as a general thing are very grateful for favors, but somehow they have got it into their htads that the Dakotas ought to keep their blizzards and snows at home, and instead of congratulating each other on their fine winter weather, as they did in the early part of the winter, the most pious have been heard to say: '‘Confound the weather.” Had John Chinaman been in Virgie the other evening when Ora Yeoman received his large consignment of new goods he would have realized that he was way behind in his primative wheelbarrow methods which ne follows these days, as he would have seen Mr. Yeoman grab up a barrel of coal oil under one arm and a barrel of sugar under the other and mozy off towards the store as if he was monarch of all he surveyed. Esq. Wiseman still dispenses justice at the old stand and besides that he has a brand-new marriage ceremony that is wai ranted to stick tighter and hold on longer than any other that can be found this side of the Atlantic ocean. If there are any younjj fellows who think that some Betsy, Nancy or Molly is indispensable to their future happiness, who will just bring them forward, the old gentleman will take pleasure for the small sum of *5 in applying one of those double strength, back-actkin mairiage ceremonies tor them. The Prof, in our high school is still carrying on his astronomical invsstigation. This time he is endeavoring to find out how far the old man in the moon is advanced in civilization, and as soon as he can find out whether the seas of the moon have aregularcoast or an irregjrlar one he will be able to give some definite information iifregard to the matter. We trust the old man will brush up

and m&ke a good appearance, because we always did like the old fellow and would hate awfully to have him get a bad reputation in his old age.