Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — From Whealfield. [ARTICLE]

From Whealfield.

Roads are getting bad. Business is very dull. Cornhusking is a thing of the past. Geo. Sprague and family have moved to Lowell Dr. Ellis sold his household goods at auction on last Thursday. Mr. Ellis and family will spend with friends in Lake county. Not much hay is being shipped from this place this fall, owing to the fact that shippers cannot get cars. Sell & Bullock have their steam dredge completed and will commence ditching at once. Mr. Dennis Dunn and wife, of Gillam township, came over off Sunday last to visit relatives in this place. Soon after their arrival Mr. Dunn was struck with paralysis and at this writing is thought to be in a dangerous condition. FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. New Life! A bright star has appeared at the horizon of Wheatfield, which will spread its bright rays radiantly into the surrounding country. The I. I. & I. Ry. has leased the tracks of tbeC. & I. C. R. R. between here and La Crosse for five years, and will run a night train to New Buffalo, Mich. The linemen |of the 1. L & I. Ry. Co. have connected the wire of that company with that of the ,C. <fc I. C., and now the agent of the I three I. Co. Chas. Vogel, is always I soen with , a broad smile on his face. Mra Chas Meyers has been seriously ill for several days, but we learn that she is slowly recovering. . : : Dr. Egnew was here on professional duties. He stopped at the leading hotel kept by John Gravea The man of medicine found the management of the hotel to be greatly improved, and thinks of patronising it whenever he stops at Wheatfield.

Last Saturday Mr. Ed. Musler left the pattern of his fine overcoat in the mud close by Johnie Welsh’s hotel. He was also successful in a second performance near the L I. & I. depot where he plowed the streets with the tongue of his wagon. His horses ran a quarter of a mile and then stopped.