Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — Carpenter Township. [ARTICLE]

Carpenter Township.

Times dull. Farmers doing, notheing. Wheat considerably winter killed There are three good literary societies in Western Carpenter one at No. 4 one at No. 6, and at No. 7. W. S. Hubbard, John Hunkin Elmer Suoddy, and many others are becoming noted spouters on debate. , Mrs. B. R. Moffitt is very sick. Mrs. L. 8. is just recovering from an abscess of the breast. Many of our old neighbors are leaving this Bpring; Rank’sJamily, Ed. Bartley and, others leave us, hut we hope good men will come in their place. Lewis and Lacy Alter have bought the Van Vleet Nursery, and now have about 10,000 apple trees more than they want for their own use. We have had our due proportion of storms but no serious losses. *■ * *