People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — IROQUOIS TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

IROQUOIS TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY.

The farmers were shelling corn most of last week. That made the school small, so many of the scholars had to help shell. The residence of Mr. John Hudson, of Carpenter township, burned’ . last Tuesday night. The origin of the fire is unknown. Spelling school at Percy ; school house next Friday night. I R« H. Putts, of Grant township, has gone to Tennsesee where he will make his future home. Mrs. Wampshire, of Jordan township, will remove near i Page station in the spring. Mr. Jasper Clinger will occupy the : house vacated by Mrs. Wamp- | shire. Rumor says he is going !to take a wife. That’s right, Jasper, get the cage before the bird. Mr. John Toyne, of Carpenter township, has moved to Hammond, Ind. Mr. Gotlieb Sylverburger, a former resident of this place but now of Illinois, is visiting friends and relatives with a new wife. Cowboy.