Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Keener Items. [ARTICLE]

Keener Items.

. Weather warm. Haymaking in full blast. Items scarce and far between. Keener was well represented at the Institute last week. Watermelons and cucumbers are to be found in abundance in Keener. M. M. Tyler has purchased eighty acres of land in our township, which he aims to improve this winter. It is reported that Miss Flo Van’t Wood is coming back from Brooklyn to spend the winter with her many friends in Keener. Mr. George Wesenesse and Mr. Joe Harrold are expecting to go to Oregon this fall. . Mr. Perkins, of Rensselaer, paid our township a visit, not long since, with a view of buying cream. He reports his visit a success. That “good rain” which bespattered the democrats of Union was just a little shower which catne up through the center of the township which is all marsh. It might have rained a little on the farm of the “Grape Island” man. Wonder if the killing of the “G. I.” man’s cattle by lightning was a democratic blessing? If it was, we republicans want no such blessings.