Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

KANKAKEE ITEMS. ' (For last week but received too late.te D. A. Collins caught four Minks the other day. I. D. Dunn is away on a business tour this week. L. Gillbronson went to Chicago on business this week.. E. Jensen is enlarging his blacksmith shop at Dnnnville., Wi<Jow Jones and family started for Kansas last week where she intends locating on a soldier claim. * K. K. UNION HEMS. A. nice snow this the Ist day of December. The schools in Union are progressing finely. Mrs. Frank Warren is quite sick and is not likely to get well. Laura Hodshire, of Rensselaer, is teaching at Morning Star school house. Miss Alfie Cover took the train this morning for Lowell, to visit acquaintances of that place. Mrs. Churhh, of Bluffton, Ind,, is now at the bedside of her sick mother, Mrs. Gerard. Mrs. Gerard is confined to her bodwitlr erysipelas -and-is-mot likely to recoven She is 73 years old. \ George Fayler,\the man of Union that'was so badly hurt in the i wreck at Ceder laite is now at home, but improving slowlvv \ Unionite. Schools aii iii booming order, - Turkeys are rather Scarce since i hanksgiving. Im Glide will be held at Independence, on Saturday. Gillam township has 18 teachers in actual wojrk this winter, and ll persons attending school; 9 of whom are at the State Normal, I at DePauw, and I at Wabash College. A. C. Robinson won another race- the other day, taking the laurels over the brag runner of Medaryville. Robinson is a solid young chap, but says he is not fool enough to make a professional racer of himself. A Thanksgiving and Birthday dinner was given for the venerable old couple; William and Mary Robinson, of Hays'City, Kan. The old folks were much surprised; the dinner being attended by about sixty persons, nearly all <>f whqm were relatives of the old folks. Dinner was at T. H. McCullough’s. Mary Gilbert.

HA NG ING GliO\ T E AND VICINITY. Health good in this township with aTew exceptions. Mrs. T. A. Knox is still on the sick list. Schools alh doing well. Miss Effie Yeoman will begin at Banta next Monday. The teachers of Hanging Grove will hold their second institute at Banta school house, next Saturday. A new bridge is being built across the riyer just north of Pleasant Ridge, 1| miles. Mr. J. V. Parkinson’s family have moved into their new dwelling house, which is a very’ fine one.We noticed in the Republican some time ago a mention of a man, 6 sons and 4 sons-in-1 aw all voting the Republican ticket. Mr. J. M. Gwin, of Hanging Grove tp. is 68 years old. Himself, 4 sons and 6 sons-in law and one grandson all vote the straight Republican ticket. Married.—At the residence of the bride’s parents in H. G. last Thursday (Thanksgiving) Miss Nora Randle and Mr. Geo. Phi lips. Rev. Father Melenddre officiating. Everything went off nicely, except the crowd were a little disappointed after staying up till 2 o’clock to wait for the belters and then, they did not coine.

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