Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1885 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

FROM WHEA TFIELD CENTER. NortEern Jasper has a pfopect ot the largest corn crop for years. yhe blueberry harvest in this section vras immense this season. Flies and mosquitoes have been exceptionally scarce this summer, but the potatoe beetle reigns supreme. Willis Gordon, \ son-in-law of Mr. Sprague, arrived from Missouri with his family last week, disgusted with the West. He reports drouth and grasshoppers very bad in Missouri. The Stimson Cheese Factory is not running this year, on account of the poor health of Mrs. Stimson. Tney are .selling cream to the Hebron Creamery. Wolf Creek has become a famous “swimmin’ hole” for the neighborhood boys, to the sacrifice of their good, health and the vexation of the Mothers. Our enterprising skimmer, Mr. Brey, leaves home in the sma” hours of the night” and gets his skimming done in time to make a full hand in the hay field. ; Warren is bound to prosper. The Wheat field Cemetery is sadly in need of some energetic labor. It has been the property of the township some two or three years, we are told, and as yet the only improvement made is the fence. As i| now stands it is no credit to the township or to the people interested in it. ; ;, 'T •' Sandt .

—— HANGING GRO VE ITEMS . Mr. Chas. Perigrine thinks of starting for Valparaiso next week. Mr. and Mrs I N. M. Munden, ot Union tp., were up in Hanging Grove last week. Quite a rain since our last correspondent to the Republican, which has laid the dust considerably. The Parker boys are- threshing 7 in* Hanging Grove this week, they hawe quite a lot of work to do yet. Health, generally good,, although Mrs. J. r. Overton and Mr. Lon Pride have passed away from their families, Mrs. Overton was sick only a day or so. while-Mr. Pride has been sick for several years. Mr. Pride was hurried by the Odd Fellows, After the burning of the platform at Pleasant Ridge about two .weeks'ago, the Rev. Me Reynolds, of Rensselaer, thought then was his time to hold a revival at that place, but after a little over a week of hard working and talking declared that Pleasant Ridge was gone and that any further attempt to save it was useless. —lt seems that tbe little village of Pleasant Ridge was terribly shocked over the presence of a platform dance, but I would ask you to show me a citizen of good sound iudgment who would not consider it a far greater shock to know that one of his ne;ghbors, in this day and age of the world, was guilty of burning property belonging to some one else, and further-more'-does it not sliow a weakness in the character and moral habits of a writer who will uphold the transgre--sor who is willing to so degrade himself by such conduct, knowing that it is beneath the dignity of manly principles? And as to the ■ village being surprised over the lire, this looks rather doubtful when it was talked among the inhabitants ttn day before, that the platform was to be burned before Saturday night. * Walter Wintergkeen.

IZEMIJSOTON ITEMS. Prof. C. A. Fagan mado a short visit to I’ emiDgton las t Saturday. Miss Clara A. Brown left for Duluth, Miss., last Monday morning, where s.ie expects to teach this V.inter. Mrs. Gertie Meeker and daughter Mabel, spent Sunday with rhe cousin, Miss Minnie Spencer. Miss Annie Harper hag been Seriously sick for several weeks but ie slowly recovering. Large quantities of grain are being brought into town notwithstanding the ravages of the grasshoppers. * Workig progressing radidly on the tine new residence of Mr, Austin on his farm near town. The venerable mother of the Soh r_ mon Brothers arrived from Co’orado last Friday. She expects to spend the winter here. Miss Nettie Allison, daughter ot Judge Allision, of Madison. Ind., is visiting her uncle, O. B. Mclntyre and other relatives in this place. Miss Nellie Palmer en-route from Chataugua to her home, in Terre Haute stopped/olTfor P brief visit with her cousin Mrs. M.,. Solomon and other aunt, Mrs. William Shaw.

Prof. Rag&ti and Prof. Sa ndison, of Terre Haute, and bliss Cox. of Ken inland, were the guests of fjnperintentendent Nelson and his sister, last Saturday and Sunday. Although Prof. Talbert was so seriously injured by falling with his balloon this summer, the indefatigable managers of the approaching Fair have secured another daring and intrepid aeronaut to take his place., There will be a grand ascension tne first day of the Fair which is Tuesday next. We learn by a late Lincoln, Neb., daily paper, that Rev. W. H. Vance had been called to preach at the dedicatory services of a new church in that city. Th 6 paper spoke in highly complimentary terms of the “promising yonnfc minister.” Remingtonian. UNION ITEMS. Weather cool. Several children on the sick list. A wlecome rain has softened the ■ground. Our folks have gone to the Institule. e Farmers are preparing wheat ground. Grasshoppers will delay the sowing. Mrs. Comer |has been very low for some time past, but is now better. J. C. McColly and family have moved into Will W^rne's house. Elder Shortridge will address the people fit the picnic on the oth of Sept. Will. Pierson has returned from a harvesting tour throughout Laporte county. ' ■ ■» • A team belonging to A. H. Alter when hitched to a threshing machine separator, last Saturday, ran away. They were stopped, however, before aiiy serious damage was done. Makkied.— Oh last Sabbath, at the brid and Rhoda Hoys; also, Walter Harrington and Amber Greenfield, at the residence of John F. McColly. Justice Clark McColly officiating in both instances. They have our best wishes. RII.I. HAT. , ——V---; -I-1 —— —— Ayer’s pills cure headache by removing; obstruct ions from the system, relieving the stomach, and giving healthy action t<> the digestiue apparatus. Do you wish a beuuuiul complexion? Then use Ayer's ' Sarsapivitia. It ole inscs and 'purifies the blood,- and (.hereby Removes blotchc- and pimpleIvom the ski:’, making it smoodi and • " | clear, giving it a bright and 1- cabby appeal an to. The hast motile »1 authorities arrku'■>\vleilgti- the great value—of-Ayce’s-Cathartic Pills, and frequently prescribe their u>c with (he utmost exjfilence, welt knowing that, they air tlve li.O't cfin-.-tual remedy ever tlevised for due uses c.used by dcVungeuiems of the stomach, liver and bowe s.