People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Mrs. Lee Jessup is improving rapidly. Our county superintendent was seen on our streets last week. Dr. Turner and family now' occupy one of Marbel’s houses on Main street.. The little child of Frank Glascoe is very dangerously sick with the lung fever. Considering the amount of bustle there is in our town we think Wheatfield will soon.be ahead of Chicago. Protracted meeting is going on at the Christian church and an entire different class of people from that of the late revival is at work. We believe the people are working more for the name of the church than for God alone. During the past two weeks in some parts of town and especially on the lowest ground the occupants of the houses were obliged to move up stairs on account of the water rising to the depth of two or three feet on the lower floor and some say that the w r ood chairs, etc. were floating around over the rooms, ■which was very nearly the truth. Some of our people left this place last Friday evening to attend a theater at LaPorter They got about onfe-third of the way and found they could go no farther on account of a wreck on the road. They amused themselves the rest of the night by skating on the ice and singing. They took f the first train to Wheatfield and have declared their intentions of not leaving this town very soon again. • Iceberg,