Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — North Barkley. [ARTICLE]

North Barkley.

Lawn Boyd is on the sick list. Dr. Johnson is attending him. Harry Gifford was in Chicago buying horses last week. Earl Newland was in Rensselaer on business Sunday. Mrs. John Richmond, of Lewiston, is not expected to live. Miss Anna Lane visited her parents near Surrey Sunday. Mr. Huster, of Attica, and Tayler Wood, of Parr, were Newton visitors Saturday. John Kimble has the material on the ground for a new drug store at Gifford. Germain & O’Meara will go to Chicago to paint a house at Hyde Park for B. J. Gifford. Miss Maggie Callahan is visiting Mrs. Watson, of Pleasant Grove, for a few days. Earnest Coarse, Frank Eisert and Billie Boughan were in Chicago a few days last week on a pleasure trip. Eh? Taylor Hawkins returned Saturday from a two week’s vi>it to friends in Tennessee. He says they have had scarcely any cold weather there so far this winter. Teams were plowing in the field when he left.