Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1886 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

HANGING GROVE AH D VICINITY. Schools progressing finely, ‘ We uiidtrstanii that Mr. Arthur Lefler is on the sick list. Literary at Pleasant Ilidge every Thursday night at 7 o’clock. Most of the fanners are gathering their corn before cokt weather sets in. ,7'.“7 .777. 7. Mr. A ilishling, of Lee, is talking of moving to Rensselaer s.mie time in the near future. Will Moore visits Mr. Kenton’s once or twice a M eek. We wonder it he is taking music lessons. Mr. Robert Porter, of Rensselaer, was visiting the schools of Miss Lottie Peacock and Mr. P. H. Overton last week and reports them progressing finely. Church at the Ridge school house last Sunday at 10:30 a. m. and at the Barkley church at 3 p. 'm. Rev. W. Jessee conducting , the services. Church at the Os--1 borne school house every two 1 weeks at 3 p. m. Everybody invited to attend. Reporter. FROM WHEATFIELD. Corn husking about half done. Best prairie hay two dollars a ton. The Clark Brothers have com-i menced pressing hay Harman Clark and Geo. Hershman have bought the Austin Way saw mill and expect to begin sawing soon. Wheatfield is soon to have a blacksmith shop. Mr. Brooke, of DeMotte, has bought a lot and will commence building his shop soon. Douglas Clark, our postmaster, has purchased the Joe Fitz’s saloon building and will have it moved and fitted up for the postoffice. Wc were at the Kankakee river last Sunday to see the new railroad bridge. The pilings are all driven and about half of the bridge ready for the iron. AV hen done there will be 91 bents, resting on 368 piles. Some thief of thieves entered the house of John Hollett, on Tuesday evening last, and took from his pocket $65. They then unlocked tile store arid took a box I of cigars and some tobacco, while i all were sleeping, they then bid the town adieu. * A * GN lON ITEMS. Miss Francena Gant is on the sick list. 'v Rev. Miller preached at the Harrington school house on last Sunday. i Mr. Bruce Moffit is quite a happy man; first son, born on the 19th u 11, a’ nine pounder. Mr. Wifi A. Coover has sold his fine span of sorrels. Mr. Wm. A. Rinehart, of Rensselaer, being the purchast*r.» In Union they are still marrying and giving in marriage as they were when the floods came and washed them all away. Elder Shortridge passed through Union on last Saturday, a week, on his way to Morocco, where he posedhokliuguprotracted.meeting- ’ 7 7 ; Married. —On the 23rd inst, : »n Rensselaer, Mr. A. T. Wiseman and Miss Lillie Cooper, both of Union, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. May they live long and happily. The track-layers on the new road are not progressing veiry fast but are doing their wor£ well as they go along. At the present writing the road is completed nearly as far as Hogan’s school house. «• We would advise the merchants (if Rensselaer, when they come up into Union, pleasure riding, to examine their bottles before starting, least they make a mistake and get their wives’ catsup bottles. Unionite.