People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — SORGHUM VALLEY. [ARTICLE]

SORGHUM VALLEY.

As we did not get to write last w T eek we will consolidate the news this week. The quarterly meeting held at the Chapel Saturday and Sunday a week ago is said to have been the largest and best of any of the kind ever held at this place. About 25 visitors from Prairie church and Badger Grove were present and Rev. Jackson, of Ridgeville, addressed us Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Miss Blanche Hoyes, teacher of Belie Center school, dismissed her school last week on ‘account of sickness in her school. Miss Emma Overton spent Saturday and Sunday with her brother Elvin of this place. Robert Hopkins started for Valparaiso Sunday where he will attend school. This is the fifth representative to that school from the Valley within the last six months, which we think is a very good showing. Mrs. Hoyes and daughter, Nancy, spent Tuesday and Wednesday of this week with relatives in Goodland. There is talk of holding a gospel temperance meeting at the Chapel in a few weeks. We hope to see the result of the organization of a gospel temperance union at this place. The debating society met Saturday night with a rather small attendance and not much good

accomplished. We understand 1 the society is not progressing I very rapidly, though we still en-*| tertain hopes of its booming, 1 I School Boy. ; J