People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — NEWTON COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

NEWTON COUNTY.

BY DEW DROP.

Literary at Union School house December Bth was good for the beginning. There will be another one December 22nd and a better time is expected. The weather is cold at present. It looks like it was going to freeze to hard for tiling for a while. There will be a spelling school at Iroquois School house on the evening of the 21st of December. Mr. Hudson has some fat cattle he will ship when the prices suit him. Ben Thompson shipped a carload of cattle to Chicago last week. Poultry is plenty. Everybody can eat turkey for Christmas. A shooting match at Henry Putt’s on December 23rd.