Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — Hanging Grove Items. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove Items.

Blackberries are ripe in limited quantities. We will be vefry careful in our comparisons this time, or Bill Bat may pick us up again. He is right, doubtless, but we will lay a’ wager that there is no .poetry in his soul, and that the song of a nightingale would have no more charm for hifn than that of a mosquito. Roasting ears are here to replenish our tables.

Ripe apples are provokingly scarce. Mrs. Mary Randall, who has been quite ill for somo time, is slowly convalescing. Mr. Simon Johnston’s little boy has been very sick with epilepsy the past week. Mr. Harvey Phillips has been indisposed for some time. Not so seriously that it interfered with his joking propensities, however. If a Royal Bengal tiger or an African Hon was turned at large in Gillam, we doubt whether it would quell thft excitement about tfie buggy question. Give ns a rest, please. Billy Bull is not the only tourist to England. Hanging Grove boys make the trip quite often in spite of mosquitos. Wm. Rader has returned from the West, where he has been residing for three years. Also Clay Me. Bride has returned from a three years tour in the West and South. Mrs. Sarah Benson of La Fayette, formerly of JaSper Co. was buried at the Osborn grave yard Sunday, July 24. She was beloved by all who knew her. The family have many friends, who extend their heartfelt sympathy to them in their bereavement. Mr. Editors, we are not going to to boast of the good things of Hanging Grove, but when that picnic “goes off,” we will send you word and let you judge of # the bounties, i. e., if they lot us know.

DaAMON AND PYTHIAS.