People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — CARLIN CROSSING. [ARTICLE]

CARLIN CROSSING.

The above is the present name of a milk station on the railroad between Surrey and Fair Oaks from which has been shipped daily during the past year from six to sixteen cans of milk. Also express matter, besides being a convenient point for passengers. The place now has a prospective future as the road has agreed to put in a switch in the early spring. The switch will be located on the eastern side of the Thompson ranch and will be a convenient shipping point for the neighborhood. A depot, store, post office, etc., are only matters of time. Doctors Hartsell and Washburn came out last Thursday and removed a tumor from the right breast of Mrs. Theodore Warne. At last accounts she was doing well.

S. A. Brusnahan has a very sick child. Mrs. J. R. Wilcox was called Saturday to the bedside of her father, who is very poorly at his home near Medaryville. Thos. Hamacher will move to D. S. Alter’s farm in the north part of the township. Tom is a good neighbor and a good People’s man and we cheerfully recommend him to his new neighbors. A Mr. Brown will occupy the house vacated by Mr. Hamacher. E. J. Stuzman has purchased a new feed mill and will grind feed for his neighbor dairymen. There will be several applications for graduation at the coming examination at Rose Bud. Our town school (Slip Up) looks like a dilapidated barn, the weather boards being mashed on every hand. Why do people delight to destroy public property. ' Circle.