People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Wheat is badly in need of rain. Oats sowing is the order of the day. There are about fifty cases of measles in this vicinity at present. Our township assessor is on the alert. Charles Bentley is visiting his parents. Horace Marble was in town last week. The largest and finest dwelling house in this township has just been completed. It is the property of Horace Marble and will be occupied by G. D. Clark. James Pullins has his buildings nearly completed. George Hohen is building a good building in town which will be used for a meat market. F. H. Scott and Geo. Stemble

have purchased the. stock of ui ugs of Samuel Turner and will take charge of the saqie on the 17th. Mr. Turner will still continue to practice medicine at this place. Elder Nicolson, of Brazil, preached at the Church last Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night. Tfre L. T. L. is still growing in numbers. They meet every week at the Christian Chapel. W’e think King Alcohol will be lonesome in the near future.

S. J. Bentley is making arrangements to build a good dwelling house in the west end of Bentley’s addition. E. W. Phelps is also making preparations to build. The body of Ella Turner, which was buried in the Myers’ cemetery about three years ago, was last Saturday taken up and buried by the side of her father in the Wheatfield burying ground. Adrift.