Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

FROM WMEATFIELD^'cENTiTr. (Intended for last week, but received too lttle.) Mr. and Airs. Sprague are very feeble. Miss Sexton and Eda King are on the sick list. Mrs. C. C. Sigler, of Rensselaer, visitedover Sunday in this place. Miss Mary Sigler, of Hebron, visited at Mr. Adams’ last week. Mr. Moreau and family started for the West this week. Mr. Humphrey’s mother, from Midi., has been visiting him at the ranch. Mr. Hildreth, of Hebron, bought some butcher’s stoekm Wheatfield, last week. The Meyers boys have gone west on a hunt, to be gone a month or more. Miss Tillie Cason has been visiting in and near Rensselaer since the Norm.al. Wheatfield was quite excited over the arrest of the two DeMotte men, on the charge of passing counterfeit money. Martin Andulman has sold all his worldly possessions, farm, stock, and household goods, to Mr. Hodges. Madames Adams, Shaffner and Bouglier, attended the temperance meeting in Hebron, last Friday evening. Auditor Marble, of Crown Point, was in this neighborhood last week, on business connected with his farms here.

Sandy.

PLEASANT RIDGE ITEMS. Farmers aro busy sowing wheat and rye. Aunt Betsy McGrue, an old lady living at R. B. Porter’s, is very sick. Not much hopes of her recovery. Mrs. Emma Sayers and little daughter, of DeMotte, are visiting relatives apd friends at Pleasant Ridge. Mr. W. V. Porter starts for Kansas next Tuesday. He will visit Greensburg, and relatives in Pratt county. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wishard, of Newton county, visited Mrs, Wishard’s mother,JMrs. Lucinda Porter, last week, and also attended the fair. Mr. J F. Bruner Has a new telephone from his dwelling to the store. ■ He also has a new top buggy, just from the shop at Indianapolis. All kinds of grain is coming in at a lively rate novv. J. r Y. Parkinson, dealer iu such, shipped 1000 bushels of oats last week, and has another 1000 on hands at present. Stranger. HANGING GRO VE ITEMS . Weather warmer since the rain Saturday night. Miss Eita tdfler is still visiting friends at Winamac. Quite a number of young folks of 11. G. attended the fair last week. Mr. George Paris of Monon visited friends at Hanging Grove last week. Mr Hilton and family are expecting to move to P. Ridge next week. Mr. T .'Smith’s new house will soon be ready to move in to. Jim Overton and Fred Stiers will l>e-

The train killed seven head of cow's for Mr. Ed Wood week. Beef is cheap at the city of Lee now. Cbas. 11. Lcflcr, whose health has been very bad for some time lias gone to Nebraska 1o see if it would get belter. There was to have been a dance at L. 11. Potts Saturday night but ou account of bad weather there was 25 boys and no girls. Parker Overton returned to Ladoga Sunday evening after giving his friends in this township a short call Saturday atid Sunday. Charley Lowe’s house sas burned Saturday night; by the neighbors help they suceeded in saving the household furnitfue excepting two stoves and some meat arid flour. 11. E.. "Parkinson' is preparing to build a new barn. J. B. Lefler am! F. »Kisbling are tbe carpenters, employed. I made a mistake in last weeks items Instead of Ella Overton, it was ..Miss Ella Peregrine, who departed this life. W.vyrEu Win'i;i;iwk£en..

GIJ.LAM ITEMS. Miss Mulissa Mitchell is visiting friends at Huntington. Ex-Sqtnre Bishir's phropheay that we would have seven days’ rain, has been fulfilled. The Rathfon Bros., are attending the Ft. Wayne Fair, -and visiting friends in that viyinity. Mr. D. B. Coppess, who for tiie last two years has been a teacher in our township, goes to Barkley, this winter. The Trustee of Gillarn has secured about all of Ms teachers'for the winter term. Three of them are ,students of tfie State Normal, hence a good winter’s work is being looked for. ; Farmers are bpsy getting their fall

wheat ground ready for seeding, and stripping their cano, may have plenty of sorghum with their buckwheat; there being an enormous crop, both of corn and buckwheat. Miss Anna DesElmS in company with Prof. Thomas Mason, of Philander Smith College, left for Little Rock, Ark. on Monday, Septrllth, where they expect to do school work the ensuing year. Miss Anna’s departure is regretted by all, and especially by onp or two ycuug men of Gillam.

TIM KRAEP.