Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Barn Burned. [ARTICLE]

Barn Burned.

Tlie barn on Warren Robinson’s farm, adjoining the city on the east, just outside of the corporation, burned about one o’clock Wednesday morning, entailing a loss of at least SI,OOO, with no insurance. Two horses, farming implements, 100 bushels of grain, 5 or six tons of hay, a carriage and other property was burned. The barn was in flames when the alarm was given and owing to the great distance from a hydrant it was some time before a stream could be thrown. The building was entirely consumed.

In China when a bride meets her mother in-law she must bump her head on the floor twice. In this country when a groom meets his mother-in-law, if there are any heads to be humped the mother-in-law does it, and sho doesn’t take the trouble to tear up a part of the floor, either. Hildred, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, of southeast of town, died Tuesday evening of cholera infantum. The funeral was held at the family residence yesterday. The Jasper County Teachers’ Institute is being held this week. Some able instructors are present, and the institute is being well attended. George R. Price, an osteopath, is visiting Rensselaer.