Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

HANG IMG GROVE ITEMS. - ——- - ■- —•. v ' ' Several new graves in our Cemetery. Basket Meeting at Andersen Grove next Sunday. Felix Parker boasts the finest oats in Hanging Grove. , I_L_J Harvest is at hand, and the sound of mower and binder is heard everywhere. Our township is disgraced, by ball playing nearly every Sabbath, why is it not stopped. Mr. E. Peregrine writes a rather discouraging letter from Dakota, thinks of “coming back” . / Jacob Parker has bought a Three Rivers Thrasher and will thrash at a low market price. Charlie Bussell has a new binder, expects to cut Jasper county down before it gets “too ripe”. ':• ■ Grandma Hammerton seriously injured her hand some time ago. while pulling a stick out from a pile of wood, one of the sticks from above striking her hand, cutting quite a gash in it, she has not had the use of it yet. Quite an accident happened in front of Albert Parker’s house Saturday night. Sunday there was seen a girl with a badly disfigured face, hunting for the set out of her ring, and a gent down about Pleasant Ridge complainof a sore head. Mey. REMINGTON ITEMS. Miss IsTettie Price is seriously sick with scarlet fever. Mrs. Freeman and son, of Watseka, 111., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stiller, y J. H. Tribby and family returned from a protracted Visit in Cincinnati, last week. • - ' . . Miss Agnes Nelson and Mrs. Will White left for Braceville, 111., the home of Mrs. White, last Friday morning. Miss Lizzie Watts, of Indianapolis, and Miss Frankie Irwin, of Rensselaer, are the guests of their grandmother, Mrs. S. Irwin. William Rich and family are comfortably settled in their handsome new house on the farm just on the the edge o£ the village. . _ ■ Another fisticuff on the streets, last week, between two young bloods, but the belligerents were separated before any serious damage was done. Mrs. John K. Shaw, and sons, who have been visiting relatives and friends in this place for several weeks, loft for their home in Duluth, Minn., last Saturday. Mrs. (). W. Church will open her beautiful and. commodious house and grounds for the benefit of the Presbyterian church, on Tuesday (to-morrow) evening. The ladies will ha cream cake and fruit for sale, and, as the proceeds are to aid in building and furnishing a new house of worship,.it is to be hoped that our citizens will bo liberal: Remington* an.

UNION ITNMS. Oats andjiorn look well. Wheat harvest over, the crop was fair. Tlie huckleberry harvest is giving a good yield. J. V. Alter has rented li is far in to big son I. F. Alter, for a term of four years. The Sunday School Jubilee at Morning Star was well attended and nicely conducted. ' J. C. McColiy and Miss lAllie Hall jvere married at the residence of the | groom on the 7th, by A. E. Pierson. The Fourth was celebrated in gdod style at shultz’s, Grove. We have had l a couple of small “blows” this month. A basket meeting will be held near Alter’s mill on -the-fourth Sabbath in July. Father Bloomer will preside, all are invited. ' ■ « A corp of engineers are now threading the marches of northern Union in the capacity of .“path-finder” for the Great Southern, with a view to extending their line Northeast. The Sabbath Schools of this town- ■ ship",'’"together- with one or two other ! schools wilfhold a Jubilee near Alter’s mill on the second Saturday in August,’ all are invited. Would like to have Sunday School workers of Rensselaer to come Qut and witness our modusoperand!, They may b.e interested if not edified. - ■ Three gentlemen, one living in Grand Rapids, Mich., the other two in Chicago, own the wedge of land in Keener township lying between the Three I R. R. and-Kankakee River and. French I. and Thayer’s landing, comprising several hundred acres, have had gineers locating and making estimates

for a complete system {of small ea nals through the river marsh for the purpose of running hunting and pleasure boasts. Thiey have also in process of construction and nearing its completion a fine club house second to no frame house in our county.

BILL BAT.