People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — SORGHUM VALLEY. [ARTICLE]

SORGHUM VALLEY.

Our teacher, Wilber Tharp, is reported as much better and thinks he will be able to begin school in a couple of weeks. Maggie Kenton will try to teach the school until he is able. Mrs. Liza Thornton was thrown from a sleigh Sunday and received a very painful though not serious injury in the arm. • Mr. Cale Hopkins and wife and Mrs. Hoyes visited friends in Fair Oaks last Thursday. Rev. Vice, of Rosebud, filled Rev. Shaft’s place in the pulpit last Thursday evening. Walter St. Clair spent Saturday and Sunday with his grandfather, H. T. Thornton, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hopkins, of Rensselaer, visited friends in the Valley Sunday. Mr. Joe Sparling and wife visited the latter’s sister, Mrs. Henry Thornton, Sunday. Miss Joe Hopkins spent last week with her grandfather Clint Hopkins, of Rensselaer. Mrs. Dave has been quite sick with the measles, but is now much better. Uncle Henry Thornton is hauling rock and putting on his lots in Rensselaer where he intends building a fine residence the coming summer. “The meetings at the Chapel closed Sunday night after a session of three weeks. No additions to the church were made. School Boy,