People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — STOUTS BERG. [ARTICLE]

STOUTS BERG.

House cleaning seems to be in order now, and some of the ladies engaged in it appear in unique head dress.. Marshal Comer spent a few days in Gillam last week returned Sunday. A Sunday school has been organized at Moate’s school house; meets each Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Wheatfield Center Sunday school meets at 10:30 a. m., John Shatzley, superintendent. Joe Grube seems to be enjoying the moonlight nights The boys in this vicinity are thinking seriously of organizing a brass band. Go on with it boys. Its the right thing at the right place. Lewis Griffith and Miss Agness Lintner spent Sunday in Porter county visiting relatives. Henry M. Stanley and family have moved on the Wake wood farm north of here. Elam Stimson says that a small brown bug is eating the leaves and blossoms all off of his strawberry vines. Hay promises to be a good crop in this locality this season. Oats looking fine. Wheat and rye seem to have been winter killed, and not looking well. Hundreds of acres of corn will be planted on sod in this locality this spring. The Comer Bros., who have been sawing lumber for M. Gifford, have closed their mill till after harvest. Judge Lintner attended the Crown Point horse sale last week, and returned with a fine draft horse.

Mr. Hollister is now located here with a nice, stock of flour, groceries and notions. Give him a call, for you cannot do better than to patronize your home merchant. r

Everybody that likes target practice should use the English sparrow for his target. They are becoming more numerous each year apd our song-birds becoming correspondently scarce.