People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — Wheatfield. [ARTICLE]

Wheatfield.

B. K. Zimmerman of Rensselaer was in town Sunday night, driving over with Simon Fendig. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig were in Rensselaier the last of the week, because of the illness of Mr. Fendig’s mother and sister. They are better now. An Endowment Rank of the Knights of Pythias was formed here last Saturday. Rev. Burton of Knox, pastor of the M. E. church, preaches here every two weeks. He was here last Sunday. A camp of the Independent Order of Forresters, (the socalled Canadian Order) has just been instituted jiere. A lodge of the Woodman of America has been organized here within the past two weeks. Miss Lottie Field of Denham, Ind., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Es L. Phelps. She will remain for several weeks. Albert Keen, furniture dealer and undertaker, is complaining of a dearth of weddings and demises. Ed. Biggs went to Rensselaer on the Monday morning train. J. D. Moates has a salfe advertised at his farm west of Stoutsburg, April 20th.