People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Rensslaer 4th July Celebration Correspondence Department. [ARTICLE]

Rensslaer 4th July Celebration

Correspondence Department.

Foreman. Some of the farmers have begun to cut oats. M. E. .Timmons is on the sick list at this writing. Is it possible we are going to have a new school house? People that were at Brook the 4th report a good time. W. D. Foersman will soon have his elevator completed at Mt. Ayr. Perry Hamilton of Rensselaer was on qur streets Tuesday and Wednesday. Phil McCabe won third money in the bicycle race July 4th at Remington. Most of the hay is in the stack in this neighborhood. The yield and quality are both good. L. A. Sunderland has the contract to build Dr. A. B. Smith’s house at Brook and one for B. Foresman in this city.

Neighborhood Notes and Gossip.