Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1885 — BARKLEY. ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

BARKLEY. ITEMS.

Weather cold and roads mudfiy. The farmers are busy plowing for corn. p Pleasant Grove school opened pros perously with Miss Ella Ryan as teacher. Mr. W. K. Parkison is on the sick list Mr.« Georg» Brown is erecting a new residence on his farm. ■ Mr. Nathan Eldridge says he has the best field of wheat in the county. 4 ._ Pleasant Grove is well supplied with old bachelors, call around young ladies. Mr. Smith Newell will soon begin work on the new church in Barkley tp. The North Lawn school has opened in good shape with Miss Anna Henkle as teacher. •Rev. Mcßeynolds organized a Sabbath ■school at Pleasant Grove lasts unday, with Mr. Frank Moore acting as President and Granville Moody as SecretaryMr. Milton Makeever is now employed in teaching the Sand Ridg e school and is attracting much attention among the young ladies of that ■ vicinity. - —r - —— --r— — The young people of Pleasant Grove were sorrysto hear of the death of Marcus Harris and with his many friends they find consolation iu these lines: Let the most Blessed bet is guide. . _3f it lie hjs Hole Will; Unto his gate, within bis fold. Upon that Holy Hill.