Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Keener Items. [ARTICLE]

Keener Items.

Plenty of rain up here. Corn looks fine. Wheat will be about an average crop. Oats light. Potatoes promise to be good. Farmers are beginning io talk about haying. The grass never was better than it is this year. Last Sunday Keener seemed to be filled with buggies and wagons, and the buggies and wagons filled with young folks who seemed to be enjoying themselves hugely. Mr. Ralph Marshall is dealing quite largely in stock this season. Mr. Marshall is a man of energy, and is a successful cattle man. May our township be settled by many other such gentiemen. _

Mr. A. A. Tyler was greatly surprised last Saturday on coming from his work to dinner to find -a large number of his neighbors and friends at his house, and a table spread and loaded with the good things of the land. He had -forgotten that he was just fifty-six •years old on that day (June 11 Mr. J. F. Antrim still surveys the Kankakee marsh. Strange that he does his surveying all in Wheatfield township. James has piercing eyes and no doubt knows what he is doing.

Keener wants a bridge across the Kankakee river to; Hebron. Why don’t the commissioners, whjje building bridges elsewhere, give us one ? The road runs just, past our doer and it would be very oonvenient'for us. y ’ The Pleasant Valley Sabbath school can furnish as good music as we have heard for a long time Mrs. Lola Shortridge is organist. All are cordially invited, to attend.

We noticed several Rensselaer boys out in Keener filing kst week Among them were Marsh Bhosdee and Joe Bh«fp.They seemed to enjoy tike qxnt agd darned away a few fine fish-. Several Union township iiadiea and gtrikmwi gave Ketnern "Mnfi this week. Among themwure Messrs. John Gant and Thocnas Sayers, Miasm Sayep qnd Viola Harrington. .GoSae Ogriiu ' On Monday night of last week Mr*. Bungerts started to hunt the cattie, but tost her* way in] the woods and was not found until the next morning. It ceased considerable excitement among the neighbors, but nothing serious resulted from her lonely walk. r ' We searched the township over to find the school teacher in Keener who, according to the Sentinel* correepondent, said that the “Democrat Sentinel was the best paper in the county,” but have toiled to find him. If he arid so he has tong srnee taken it back.' v .1 L Miss Nellie Bentley, of San Pierre, has bran visiting- .MrBruner and wife this wgpktio says W. C. Tyler. ■ Jack B.