Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1881 — Keener Items. [ARTICLE]

Keener Items.

Keener is in a thriving condition. Corn gathering is in full blast. Mrs Rachel Cox, of Medaryville, visited her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Antrim, last week. The young folks of Center and vicinity met at Center school-house last Friday night and organized a literary society, with the following officers: J. F. Bruner, President; L. H. Frame, Vice-President; Mi*s Annie Hansen, Secretary; J. P. Fairchild, Treasurer. Schools have all commenced for the winter. Walter Harrington, who is teaching in Morning Star, says he wishes that our trustee would borrow money to fix the road between, their house and the dividing ridge for the water is so deep to wade, and then it is getting “so cold,” especially after night

Walter says that th* Grape Island man was a little mistaken about that “gray horse but we can overlook his mistakes for he is such a great latitude above the animal, and no doubt had left his glasses at home, as he failed to see the long ears that were attached to the “gray horse,” he says, but it was nothing more than Bruner’s little white mule that Scott rode after the cows. Mr. Grape Island, I advise you, as a friend, to let those web-footed girls of Gillam alone for you will find them a match, even for a professor, on the write. <.

Yours,

SPY.