Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

HANGING GROVE AND VICINITY. I-Fealtit very good with exoep- ; tioi. of Colds. Mr. Simon Ccok has just moved from the.L tier place to Wm. Rine- ; liHt’fs plaid. n: ar Francesville. It fieems as if Hanging Grove is ! taking a general move this spring. ' Charley^Bussell will move to Moi non, Jhuce Banta will occupy the : place vacated by Bussell, Orlando -McDonald, of Milroy, will occupy {.the place vacated by Banta., Mr. ■ Fred Stires will occupy the place i’vacatetl by .McDonald and George Robinson will occupy the place va -ated by Siires, while John Osborne will-leave t-Lis place entireKeporteil FROM TEFFT. The Kankakee is si ill out of her ban' . organiizedat South Grade last Sunday. Loi- Jones started for Hutchin- . son, Kansas, last Monday. Sirs. Harry Small is. convalescent. Carrie Dunn is visiting friends in Indianapolis. - On account of Jiigh waters Mrs. J. E. Dunn was the only teacher frour our township at the institute in wheatfidld, Feb; 19. Mr. Lee Gillespie, in the the past week, has lost a number of cattle from, the effects of being shot by some unknown person. Bell Chestnut. GILLAM ITEMS. The joint institute at Medaryville, on last Saturday, was a success. Hess & Robinson brought 114 head of cattle from the eastern counties, during last week. idessrs. George and James Antrim, i-.f Rensselaer, . spent last Sunday with friends in Gillam. Last week Robert Wilson and Susan Nash were married by the venerable Judge of Medaryville. G.’W. C. T. Miller,'of Mishawaka, Ind., visited the G. T. Lodge, No. 36, a t Independence, last Saturday night and lectured in the interest of the <;>? der at the the church on Monday night. On last Saturday night the poultry establishment in White' Post Id., in Pulaski county, belonging to John Meeks, took fire and the entire building, with a §6OO incubator, SSOO worth of brooders, household and kitchen furniture and considerable poultry, were consumed. The insurance is sl, 100 but will not nearly cover the loss. “ • i U See. WEST JORDAN ITEMS. " No. 4 school will close March 13th. James Wenrick is moving to. Starke county. Mrs. E. R. Burr is very feeble, but improving slowly. Mr. Archie Page has rented Pe.ter..Back’£jLrni. ,Hi.s-mother--will-keep house for him. Mr. McFarland has moved into the Mansur property, vacated by J. W. Ward, who went to Kansas. Trustee Welsh and Win. Washbum have just returned from the north with a nice bunch of cattle. The school at No. 5 will close about tlie 15th of -April, for two weeks, then G. W. Ingram will teach a May term. Union school district, in Jordan, is a very lively place. Sabbath school-every Sunday morning,' preaching every Sunday evening, prayer meeting every Welmesday and Saturday nights, literary every two weeks, on Friday, evening and temperance meetings often. A number of farmers from Jordan and Carpenter townships met with a number df Newton county farmers, at Goodland, on the 19th inst, and organized a farmers’ alto be known as the Goodland Farmers’ Alliance. Jordan and Carpenter alliances will be reorganized and s.n effort made to : organize the farmers everywhere.' Tattler. t. . .«»■ . T—; r—7- —- T - A large assortment of drunks just arrived at N. Fendig’s. Try our roasted coffees. _. They, can’t be beat for the money. Laßue Bros. —* Antrim, the enterprising restau i rant man, has a thoroughly com- ■ petent baker, and is prepared to ; furnish the people of Rensselaer I with the best of goods in his