Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — JORDAN TOWNSHIP ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

JORDAN TOWNSHIP ITEMS.

BY EGYPTIAN.

Net much news from here this week. Our township is as quiet as the Potomac in the days of the Rebellion. I learn that a large number of cattlo are grazed in the eastern part of the township. The ground is drying up rapidly, and corn planting will be pot through with a rush. Some of our young men want to know how many jumpe Al. J. Kitt takes to jump seventeen feet. 1 The usual queries of fanners when they meet are: How’s yer oats ?’’ “Nearly done plowinT” “Planted any corn?” A Sunday school was organised at Egypt with John Lewis as Superintendent; Wm*_ Baker, Assistant Superintendent; George Boodgrass, Secretary and William Snodgrass, Librarian. A Mr. Clinton bought the fhrm of Mr. Jones some time ago and has now setup a blacksmith shop thereon. So you see some of our fhrmers wont have to go to Remington or Rensselaer when they want their plows repaired. Mr. Larshbaugh has returned from Michigan with his blooming bride. The boys went out to give him a good old-fhshioned, cow-bell charivari. They made considerable noise but were soon hushed when told if they would quietly disperse they would be treated to a dance. They skedaddled. John Timmons has sold his farm, eighty acres, to John Waymire for thirty dollars per acre. John T. talks of trying his fortune in Nebraska. He was bonr and raised in this community, and was always an esteemed citizen, and we are sorry to lose him and his lady, and hope they may prosper in their new home, wherever that may be.

An old friend es mine was south of Rem. ington, last week, in Giiboa township, Beaton county. He reports farming operations well advanced for the season. Many of tho. fhrmers are using fee riding plows. They out from sixteen to eighteen indies, andv are drawn by three horses. A man can put on his fine boots and gloves, climb into his seat, do his day’s plowing wife no greater strain oa his physical* powers than riding along the road in a wagon, and Us work willbe fhr better done than in the ordinary way. He syr some second sod plowed four inches deeper than fee first plowing. All corn stalks and rubbish buried completely out of the way, fee plow running a regular depth all fee time. He thinks they do tho best plowing he ever saw.