Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

NEWS FROM NFWTON, Times d,ull. Weather hot. Oats harvest nearly through, the crop is generally gobd. Blackberry hunters are seen quite frequently. There will be a basket meeking and Sunday school picnic near No. 6 school house, on August Ist. The Bev. David Handley conducted services at Saylorville last Sabbath in father Haven’s stead. A neck-tie party at J. T. Saylor’s last Saturday night; the boys all sport new ties. Miss Mattie Suylor will have a quilting Thursday, July 30th, and a birthday party in the evening. Tame hay is nearly all in stack. Corn crops promise a splendid yield: recent rains have done corn a great deal of good. Several of Newton’s young pedagogues intend to attend the Summer Normal to brighten up their intellects. H. C.

GIL LAM ITEMS. Farmers are busy haying. We notice that Huckleberry town still has a thriving trade with the addition of good blackberry traffic. Anyone wishing to trade, barter, or give away any horse, mule or other work animal, may call on our friend R. L. P. who is freezing to death for a change of that class. On last Thursday night a meeting was held at the Gillam school house for the purpose of discussing the political phase of the temperance question. There are several Prohibitionists in the tp. It is generally understood that Mr. Charles Querry has lately paid his annual visit to Mr. Itatlifons’ and we believe his habiiities of that class are now settled arid he will be a happy man for the ensuing year. Stevens, Logan & Co. have purchased a new twine binder, and Jim thinks it does excellent work in tieing the knot on a sheaf, but the next machine for the purpose of tieing a knot, we understand, he intends getting from the Meduryville parsonage. Rob Roy.

EEMIEOTOE ITEMS. Mrs. O. "W. Church has been on the sick list for several days past. Mrs. J. S. Irwin started for Dakota last Tuesday after a short but pleasant visit with friends in this place. . . Miss Myra Trice returned on ffhf.m-dftv evening last from Marion, Alabama, having spent part’ of her vacation with friends in Grassy Cove, Tenn. Miss Lily Garret, of Hanover, is the guest of her uncle, Rev.. J. B. Grower She read an interestb j and well prepared paper on Si'i.day evening, concerning the v. o 'Ling of the Scotia school for xeedwqmen. Mrs. Samuel Bowman and Miss Stella Griffin spent part of last week with friends in Lafayette. The combined attractions of the Encampment and Barnum’s Show will take mauy more of our citizens to the Star City this week. The Kerning tun News in its usual impartial manner givealan interesting biographical sketch of both “candidates for the senatorship from this district. We repeat what we said in a previous letter that each candidate will find the other “a foeman worth of his steel.” Miss M. P. Bolles gave a very interesting account of her work at Crockett, Texas, Sunday evening last at the Presbyterian church. She pictured the degraded and impoverished condition ok the freedmen very graphically. If all the workers in the Master’s vineyard were as good and as intelligent as Mies Bolles. the millenium will surely soon be here. John H. Miller, better known as Squire Miller, died at the home of his son-in-law Mr. John Y. May, last Saturday evening, of dropsy. He was an old settler, having lived here since, our thriving town was nothing but a very small hamlet. His funeral took place last Monday at the Christian church, Rev. J. B. Crowe officiating, and was attended by a large number of relatives, friends and neighbors, Remingtonian.