Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — Hanging Grove Items. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove Items.

Farmers are very busy harvesting their wheat. Health is good with all excepting those who on the Fourth of July ate too much lemonade and drank too much ice-cream. Uncle Fred Riceling, who was taken sick before the death of his wife, which occurred last fall, is still very ill. Jesse Lefler and his sister Jennie have returned from Nebraska, where they had gone for the benefit of the former’s health, but we are sorry indeed to know that the climate of the for west did him no good. All their friends sympathize with James Hayworth and family, who parted with their beloved daughter and,sister, Mary, on the Ist day of July. Mary was dearly beloved by all who knew her, and we trust the bereaved parents will be consoled by knowing that she is at rest with her Redeemer. >- The young folks are practicing singing at the Osborne school-house for the grandest pic-nio of the season. Hanging Grove can boast of as many fine carriages as Gillam, bnt nevertheless they do not make fools of the young ladies. John English and Frank Jones came from Goodland to spend the Fourth with their Hanging Grove friends, at Renselaer, and Emma R—n expresses regret that the Fourth did not continue a whole ■BMP Billy Bull thinks the road to England is so long that he can’t possibly go oftener than once a week, especially when the mosquitos are so thick. Miss Lemmy Gray went to Mr. Ritchey’s protracted meeting,which oommenced on Saturday evening and continued until the Fourth. 4 We thought that mysterious comet which the learned astronomers could tell nothing about, was a sure sign of war, bnt, lo! it indicates that Jimmy Overton has purchased a new covered carriage. The Orphans.