Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1875 — Jordan Township Items. [ARTICLE]

Jordan Township Items.

Everything in lovely. Apples are very scarce. •Farmers are stacking thear oats. The melon time is here with all its glorias. Bimon Wllmore is sojourning In our midst William Wilmore wants to sell and go West Rober Michael has recovered from>is recent severe illness. John Timmons has gone to Boswell, Benton county, to buy him a form. ’Squire Lewis has returned from Illinois where be hasbeen visiting friends. John Eller has got back from Warren.county. He reports hard times on the Wabash. The young folks aroniid Mount Prospect meet every Wednesday evening to practice singing. There will be a picnic, base ball snd a dance in Galey’s Grove, Saturday, the 4th of September. A good crowd Is expected. Farmers have got most all of their oats cut.. Some cut them with scythes, some mowedrihem, some reaped them, and others did not save them at all. When there were thirty or forty acres to be cut and it had to be done with scythes it looked like an impossibility ; but many done this, and most of the oate were saved. Egyptian.