Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1888 — FROM WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

FROM WHEATFIELD.

Ah there! Compliments of the Season. Christmas tree at Wneatfield. Billie Morrisey is able to be out. Wheatfield is a tough little burg. Two new hay barns on the C. 1 C. built by Halleck Bros, and S. Phelps, of Lowell. John Biggs had lively run-a-way, me day last week, but no damage one. The Lutherans will have a Christmas tree in their church text Saturday eve. ' Chas. Myers made a flying trip o Chicago for goods last Friday. )ur merchants report business ively. * John Powell’s familiar face orlamented our streets one cold day ast week. Everett Finney has had a tussel nth the typhoid tever and came ff badly used up, but victorious. ('barley and Eliza Sprague are 10th in very poor health. Dr. IcKee, ofi Kouts, pronounces it onsumption. Mrs. Ruth Thornton was called way Saturday by the death of a lister. The Three I. Ry. Co. have laid > side track at Stoutsburg, three niles west of Wheatfield. Halleck Jr os., H. Marble and Geo.. W. Stout will each build a hay barn here. Matrimony has struck this “neck if woods”.in an epidemic form. Lmong the victims are Jim Clark ,nd Laura Davis, John V. Myers md Dorcas Adams and - Ward lamilton and Veda Sanders. Jeveral more have quite alarming ymptoms. « N. G.