People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Stoutsburg and Vicinity. [ARTICLE]

Stoutsburg and Vicinity.

John Beachley has moved back to Stoutsberg. Jacob Hill is going to move to Walker township. Farmers in this locality still have a good deal of shock corn to husk. Arthur Yeagley is going to spend the summer on a farm in centra; Illinois. Mrs. Juan Lintner, who has been in poor health all winter, is very poorly at present. Chester Miller thinks some of removing to Ohio. We hope he will decide to remain in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Phelps and daughter of Wheatfield spent Sunday with A. Stimson and and family. Mr. M. Dillahany and Messrs. Conquelin of Ottawa, 111., have settled on their farms which they purchased of Horace Marble. The box social at the Moates school on Friday night was well attended considering the almost impassable condition of the roads. Wild geese and ducks have been quite plentiful on the river marsh north-west of here. A sportsman from Illinois is reported to have killed forty ducks in one day. B. J. Gifford has purchased several thousand acres of land in this vicinity lately, and is now engaged in building houses and. barns. He has a saw mill on the Stout ranch sawing timber for frames. March 4. 1896.