People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

MILROY.

BY REV. PETER HINDS.

Wheat and rye looking fine. Henry Beaver gone to Oklahoma. Church at Center next Sabbath. James Sutton has moved to Missouri. G. W. Foulks has sold his farm. Wm. Isenhour and wife, of Monticello, are visiting here among friends. Several new houses going up and considerable wild land being plowed for corn. Schools are progressing finely corn husking nearly completed and the turn out better'than expected. The election is over and we are all waiting for those good limes of long expected and long promise to arrive, and wandering if the republican legislature will have nine door-keepers to ecch door like the democrats did. We have been in nearly every state and territory in the union apd still we say for good health, pure water and fine pasture, Jasper county cannot be excelled and we, of Jasper county need not be ashamed to recommend our soil, water, grass and products to these seeking t< buy farms here as for nearness to markets we are in the swim R. W. Coats, of Bloomington, 111., who bought the Cleveland farm, has erected a feed grindei and built a large shed and n pay ing 40 cts. a bushel for con and feeding 100 cattle ‘and 5< head of hogs. He is negotiating whu some parties in regar d . puting in a thousand rods of til and plowing 20C acres of wik sod. Mr. Coats says we nee< liivmouga drainage and we ar sure of yood crops.