People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Town is booming. Several houses are being built. George Howann is erecting a fine two story building on the property he has recently bought of James Swisher. Who says Prof. Hicks doesn’t know anything about the weather? The old man hits the right nail sometimes. Women that made early garden are somewhat afraid of the late freeze injuring the tender plants. Mr. Ed Adams, of Streator, 111., is the guest of Chas. Meyers.

Measles are somewhat checked here now but scarcely anyone escaped the disease. No deaths have occurred so far as we have heard. James Keen was thrown from a colt and badly hurt. He was unconscious for a half hour. While cutting wood last evening Lou Crain struck a glancing lick and cut off his big toe. Dr. Turner was called to dress the wound. Our drug store, that was reported to have changed hands, fell back into Dr. Turner’s hands for some unknown reason. There are no less than ten carpenters in this place and you can’t hire one of them to do a day’s work for love nor money, they are so crowded with work. Every house in town is occupied. There is not a house to be rented. Wouldn’t it a good investment for some enterprising men to lay out some of their surplus in houses. Our town can boast of having as many enterprises introduced into it as any town of its size in the county. . A dance was given last Saturday evening at the Watson Hall. The music was good. The orchestra consisted of Dan Watson, violinist; Will Jackson, organist. Odel Norton blew the horn. Mr. Albert Keen, who came here from Foresman to put in a stock of hardware, gave up the notion and has put in a line of furniture and undertaker’s supplies, something that Wheatfield has long been in need of. North Star.