Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — Jordan Township. [ARTICLE]

Jordan Township.

Mr. Nathan Keene at last accounts w>ur ill though net dangerously so. The bad weather will cause the general average of school utiendance to fall considerably. On Fjbnnry till) Vir. v, rsley iieod, tea her of school Su 2, closeu a three months term. Dr. Stockwell has quite an extensive practice in our township and the adjoining one of Newton county. There have been several weddings lately but the o' erwor ed cvrresponden has failed to get even the names of the happy ones. We regret that u«ir esteemed neigh tar, Mr. Wilder, is obliged, by poor honltb, to quit farming and resort to stock-raising in Walker township. . According to scripture we hereby claim to be wieo men indeed, as our houses have •food firm while the storms have beaten and the floods descended. The revival meetings held at Egypt closed February 2nd, without a new convert entering the fold. The worthy members and their earnest leader worked energetically in the midst of two overpowering forces, tobacco and audible conversation. The author submits the above feeling that though it la peor the best has been done for has she not roamed into the neighbor's atfoira at far aa the bound* of propriety will allow ?

Truly, /_

MADAME RUMOR.