Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — DE MOTTE AND KEENER. [ARTICLE]

DE MOTTE AND KEENER.

(Crowded out from lust week.) Whooping cough is Wrestling with the young people around De Motta, vPrairie fires are raging ail } around the urarshes. Protect your hay. Trustee Fairchild has get his schools all running in good shape, e and to the general satisfaction of everyone. Mrs. Joseph Fairchild, has just got back home from a long visit with her folks, of course Joe is happy. I.art week was a cold one, and of course, lots of people had not got quite ready for winter yet. The potato crop is a very large one, and we heard of a good many that got bit, this snap. Elder Shortridge lost about 200 bushel. George Antrim is teaching the Pleasant Valley school, W. Tyler holds forth at the Tyler school house. The charming Chattie Sayers, at Center, Miss Sallie McKinney, at Marshall; and Lydia Shortridge, at the Jones school house. Society ddings are a little dull up this way. Too many of our nice young men are absent. J. F. Antrim is teaching in the southern part of the county, the two Tyler boys, Wm H. and Merrill W., are helpin g Keller Craig & Co., run their big store at Rose Lawn, and W. C. Tyler, teaching. C. W. Me Fall, agent and pperator of De Motte, is the happiest man in the State, havingjust committed with a fair and lovely lady from Peoria--111., whose maiden name we could not learn. Your correspondent wishes Mr. and Mrs. McFall, a long, prosperous and happy voyage, over, the sometimes squally seaof matrimony. •