Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — South Lawn. [ARTICLE]

South Lawn.

A good rain would be a great benefit to pastures and the corn crop. Logan Nichols is still getting weaker and is not expected to last long. He is at Mrs. Wm. Lowman’s. Wilbur Bond has finished threshing. His oats made a good yield. Allen Louks got a letter from his son in Illinois stating that he would be home in September tojeat melons. Howard Thomas and family were the guests of Allen Louks and family Sunday. Allen Louks, while coming home last Tuesday, killed a rattlesnake in the road that had

13 rattles. He has the rattles to show nonbelievers. , If you want to laugh you should see George Pullins load oats. He puts on good loads.