Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1903 — HANGING GROVE [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE

Mrs. Ed Randal spent the day with Mrs. J. C. Gwin Thursday. Miss Maggie Wright, of Gardner, 111., is visiting Mrs. Lutz. Mr. Stalker and family spent the evening with J. C. Gwin Friday. There was no school at Parker Friday. The teacher, Ray Yeoman, was on the sick list. Mrs. Clyde Randal spent a tew days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dodd, at Lee. Ed Barr and family have left for Boone county, where he expects to farm a little for himself and do whatever other work he can find to do. The Lefler school has been having a hard time. About the time it got over the mumps it took the whooping cough. Mary Iselman has returned home from Mr. Boarder’s. Mrs. Eveline Randal has been on the sick list for several days. Emil Johnson’s brother and a friend from Chicago have spent a. few days at Mr, Johnson’s lately. ’ Thomas Wright, of Gardner, 111., came Saturday to visit Mr. Eibs. About forty friends and neighbors spent a very pleasant evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Johnson Feb. 2ist. The occasion was in honor of their first wedding anniversary. An elegant lap supper was served by the hostess and the company dispersed about midnight wishing the worthy couple long lives of happiness and prosperity. Misses Alice and Jennie Eib and Messrs. Herbert Eib and T. Wright spent the evening at Mr. Stalker’s, Sunday and while there, their team of bronchos broke loose and ran home with the carriage, with no farther damage than a horse blanket torn in two and a slight break of the carriage seat.