People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — The Way of Our neighbors. [ARTICLE]

The Way of Our neighbors.

In Georgia and other southern states where hay is scarce, the most careful attention is given to saving corn fodder. While the leaves are yet bright and green they are stripped off by hand and tied in little bundles which are hung on the ears of corn. These bundles of rtutricious leaves are gathered as soon as properly cured and protected from the weather. After the corn is fully matured the tops of the stalks are cut off and cared for similarly as are the leaves. The corn is not shucked on the stalks but gathered with all the attached hulls and leaves, the husking being done under cover where the shucks can be saved. This process, though laborious, gives the linesl substitute for tame hay that can be had.

Albert Overton spent Sunday with relatives in Lebanon. J. F. Sears sold his house on River street to Mr. Wells of Illinois. Ike Kepner and family have moved into their new house on Front street. Rev. S. L. Brady is holding quite a successful meeting at Marlborough. Miss Vergie Watts of Monticello was the guest of Miss Grace Gee last week. J. H. Cox sells the best coal and wood in town at the old stand of Dexter & Cox. Frank Watson will move his family into the fine house of J. F. Sears on River street. Mrs. Stockton entertained a number of her lady friends last Friday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Johh McKeever went to Indianapolis last Thursday to visit her sons and other relatives. Simon Fendig and bride of Wheatfield w r ere at the family home in Rensselaer over Sunday. Mrs. Voliva of Newton, Ind., visited her son, Rev. Voilva of the First Baptist Church, last week. Mrs. Littlefield of Rensselaer and Mrs. J. B. Erwin of De Motte were visiting at Brook Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Minerva Strickel of Hamilton, Mo., is visiting her uncle, G. H. Bro\\*n, and other relatives in Rensselaer. Mogan Tanner and wife of Bolton Landing, N. Y.. are visit ng at ,J. H. Perkin’s. Mrs Tanner is a sister of Mr. Perkins. They will remain several days. The Rensselaer Steam Laundry is now well equipped and prepared to do first class work. Expert workmen are employed and a specialty is made of fine linen work. Mrs. Maggie Yeoman, daughter of Joseph Parkinson at Pleasant Ridge, who has been visiting her parents and relatives the past ttvo months, returned to her home in Oklahoma last Thursday. Mrs. Add Park inson accompanied her as far as Kansas, where she will visit her sister.