Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

HANGING GROVE AND VICINITY. ' __ •• , - --- . • Roads getting bad. The Literary at the Ridge last Friday evening was largely attended, all the house Would possibly hold. Mr. and Mrs. £>. D. Redmond and Mr. Elias Hammerton are‘oh the sick list, this week. , Married. —At the residence 'of the bride’s parents in H. G. tp., last Sunday evening, at 4 o’clock, Miss Belle Bussell, of Hanging Grove and Mr. Sidney Holmes, of Tennessee. May their lives be long and pleasant is the wish of the reporter. Mr. Joel Burgess and Mr. Spencer Greenley, who have been working in this county for the last 2 years, will start for their home in Tennessee in a few days. / Reporter.

barkEey items. Mr. J. W. Cowden is erecting a new barn, which greatly improves the looks of his farm. Rev. J esse preached at the M. E. church last Sunday to a large congregation. The teacher’s institute will be held next Saturday, Dec. 18th, at Center school house. The young folks made quite an agreeable surprise for Miss Jen English last Wednesday, it being her birthday. We were visited by a little snow last Sunday, which is hurrying the young men to get their cutters ready tor the first sleigh ride. The young folks of Barkley have been devoting their time of late in making up money to pay for a new organ for the church, which was bought of O. H. Hunt, of Medaryville. It adds greatly l tb the, appearance of the church. Shiner.

11 1 DUNNWLLE AND VICINITY. Hon. I. Dunn will begin grinding feed and meal next Monday His mill does good work. The work on the C- & I. C. R. R. is progressing very rapidly. The iron is laid to Wilders. The road will soon be completed. The I. I. I. R. R. is doing a booming business sinceithas been extended to Knox. A floating saloon is froze up in the Kankakee, near the old Birch Bridge place. Mr. Frederick Wincauff, of Stark county, is trying to get up a re-, monstrance against the Hinshaw ditch petition. Anyone Wanting a soft snap had better apply for the job of steaming up the tea kettle at the Kankakee river bridge, on the C. & I. C. R. R. Six feet of fire blazing out of the top of the ’smoke stack will produce twenty pounds of steam and the pump standing

still.

K. K.

REMIND TON ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Trib by, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday last with J. H. Tribby, and family in :his place. Remember the Santa Claus Can;ata at Hall on Thursday evening, Dec, 23rd. Admission 10 cents. For the benefit of theM.E.’S. S. Mr. L. t Upson, a prominent business man of Marshalltown, lowa, accompanied by his wife, will spend a few weeks with their relatives, Mr. Wm. B. Price and family. They arrived here last Thursday. The Irene Benton dramatic troupe gave three entertainments to full houses on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of last week. They seem to be rather above the average of strolling dramatists.

Mrs. Ira C. Kingsbury ahd three children, of St Lawrence, Dakota, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Crowe and of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury formerly resided in this place and have many friends here. Mrs. Bull, wife of Mr. Amos Bull, died at her home four miles south east of town, last Thursday, after a sickness of several weeks duration. She was an estimable Christian lady and her family and many friends will long hold her in affectionate rememberance. The schools are doing excellent work this winter. Cases of absence and tardiness are very rare and everything under the able management of Prof. L. N. Fonts and his equally able corps of teachers) is moving with the reg ularity and precision of clock work. Remington is jusily proud'of her good schools.

We neglected to mention in our letter Ot last week that the Union 8. 8. would give an entertainment in Exchange Hall on Christmas eve. As the school has been ill training for the entertainment for a long time something “redmrcZte” may be expected. This also will explain why the M. E. S. S. is so early in the field., As many would like to attend both entertainments it was thought best to have them pn separate evenings. The Unionists had the hall engaged for Friday evening, hence the Methodists had to choose between Thursday rind Saturday evenings, the majority voting for the former. RemiNgtonian.

FROM WHEAT! lELD. Business of the town lively. S. C. Simpson, of Lowell, Tfid, is pressing hay in this vicinity. We are sorry to learn that Wm. Cason who has been sick for several weeks is yet very low. A spelling match at the Wheatfield school house Wednesday eve, Dec. 22. Come all and have a good time. Joint teachers’ Institute of Kankakee, Walker and Wheatfield townships will be held at Wheatfield school house, Saturday, Dec. 18th. The boys who left our vicinity through corn husking have returned home. They give fair reports of -the corn crops where they have been working. The town of Wheatfield stands on equal grounds with her sister towm, Dunville, in number of saloons. She can boast of one less one. On Friday night, Dec. 3, while Henry Smith was on his way home from town he was followed by two unknown men, but with fleet steps, Smith reached home in safety. The men followed Smith to the gate, when he Secured an ax and they checked their advance. Smith ‘had SSO on‘his person. Several of the people of Wheatfield Center made a visit to Wheatfield last Sunday to see the “lifelike, monster” steam shovel itt work m the sand cut near Wheat - field. They were struck with amazement equal perhaps to the Esquimaux who witnessed the monster ship “United States Panther” as she landed on one of their islands in the Arctic region. The first of the kind they had ever seen. Adrift. EROSI ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. Chas. Manter, of Rose Lawn, has moved to Wheatfield. Mrs. Harrison Snider and Wm. Cason, who have been sick so long, are still not better. Mr. who sold his farm to Lewis Miller, of Chicago, has moved to town. Mr. Miller has moved on the farm. The track is laid on the new railroad as far as Wilder Station. The road is fenced as far as Wheatfield, and telegraph polefe are up to the Kankakee river. * A *