Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

HANGIKQ QROVE A fine boy .at L. H. Potts. H. P. Overton’s school closed at Brushwood last week, after which he made a visit to Chicago, but is now at home. v Will Stiers and Alf Randle have gone to Illinois to work. Belle Parker and family have moved back on their farm in Hanging Grove. The Parker and Osborne schools closed last week. A spelling school at Parker, Thursday night, Miss Laura B. Kenton being the champion speller. “Ten nights in a bar room” was successfully played at Osborne school house Saturday evening by some of Hanging * Grove’s - young amatuers. An exhibition at Banta next Saturday night. Everybody come? Old Joe. ”TWe have no trouble about gas here. v»-F" Wheat looks well, considering the bad start it got. We will -say nothing about Ihe roads for fear they may get worse. Jay Williams came out last week and chalked 104 cords of •wood which ho had chopped west of here. Prairie farmers don’t wink .back-woods' hay such poor feed, ‘his- winter, as .they du When tume hay yields 2 tons [.’er acre. A son was born nt Levi Chupps on th e tod. The chi Id is dead tva d the mother in n critical condition. Some members of Mr. C:nip;.'’s hr<-i;;-?T Simon’sWamilv are .'rick al o, , • The team ofFred J. Lang got away, by him falling out, as lie was reluming from Rensselaer one evening, last week, and did some damage to bis wagon. •—"'to/ Surrey th. Hoy.-ard Bl.ic-k and Miss Alice Noland were ’ mwried on Friday ©veiling last by Justice J. I). M.:son.

Mrs.- W. White and her daughter Isabel, are vUiting rehei \w and i’ri6.li Is in .this pl ;(•■?. ?-rWhite was formerly Mi-.s Juiiclie Nelson. A spirit of lawlessness seems to prevail aniong a certain number or class of the young men and boys of Remington. It culminatod -ftist ■ 1.- In«iedrty m tli e four of them .for disturbing a religious meeting, and- later in the day another was arrested for a crime against public morals. Me. withhold the names out of sympathy for the parents and friegds of tiie offenders. Boys, it surely doesn't pay to act the buffoon. Mr. J. E. Green, better known as Father Green, conducted die acrvices at the M. E. churchy last Sunday morning, in an able and feeling manner. Mr. Green has spent a lOTfgdifrh'in the Master’s service and knows : . wfiei-eox he speaks. ’ I). M. Nelson, is still in town and his many friends hope that he will postpone his return to the west, indefinitely. The Presbyterian social at Mrs. G. K. Smith’s netted over sl3. The play, A IVOman’s Devotion,” was played Saturday and Monday evenings, to huge and well pleased audiences. Remingtonian.

F 22 OM WILE ATP IE LB. James Hue lon moved to Barkley tp., Saturday last. . Dr. Ellis will occupy the" liouse vacated by Huestun. S. D. Clark has his house nearly completed, and will begin housekeeping in a few days. Charles Meyers has purchased a lot in White’s addition on which he contemplates building, and .keepings' general store. N. W. Root has built and moved into a new house on the land he purchased of Drank Foltz. Ward Hamilton is making preperations to build a dwelling house in Northern Wheatfield. A-v Christian Church will be built at this place as soon as the weather will permit. James Spikens will sell his personal property at public auction on March 17. He will move soon after to Valparaiso. James Austin has a very badly scalded foot, caused by the upsetting of a vessel of boiling tea. Ashore. FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.* Mollie Melser joined hands

Saturday night with James Rodgers in the bonds of holy matrimony. Wheatfield is still booming. AlexL Hamilton is, preparing to build an addition to his house* also, is 8. W. Hamilton preparing to build quite a residence. Literary is prospering finely at •Wheatfield school house. Literary every two weeks. Rev. Moor the Methodist preacher of DeMotte delivered a very able sermon Suuday. Will preach again in three weeks. Rev. Pearson of Union tp., will preach at the Wheatfield school house in two weeks from last Sunday. Harman Melser took his departure from Wheatfield the other day, for some untnowu country. Wm. Dahncke has rented his place and is going to retire from hard work. He is thinking of coming to Wheatfield to live. We .hopeu. he,„,wilL for he is a good neighbor and a strong Republican.

SLIM JIM.