People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Everybody busy harvesting] their hay. Oats all cut. ] Joseph Cason, who has beer] sick with the dropsy, is rapidl] improving. ] The dredge, north of 1 own,] had to quit work owing to fii] scarcity 7 of water. ] Dr. Turner has sold his stock] of drugs and gone t» Lansing] 111. ] Mr. Fendig, of Rensselaer,] has opened a drug store here] He comes highly recommended] We heartily welcome ail Sue] men. ’] Dr. Vaughn, from Winamac] has located here. . • | The Kankakee- river is very] low, and a great many fish ar] being caught. ] S. W. Hamilton has sold hi] barber shop to Will Sowder] and is clerking for Marble &] Clark. Grover Smith has remodeled] his saloon building, and it im-l proves the looks of Main street] A child of our section forem'a] has the diptheria. I Owing to the dry weather th] late huckleberries are drying] up. | Mrs. Nathan Keen is sick with! a fever. I Meyers Bros, have built ] mammoth hay barn here. This! makes four large hay barns* It] looks as if the hay would all be] bought this year. Mr. Me-] Laughlin, of San Pierre, is yet] to build a large hay barn here. 1 A. B. C. |