Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — From Pinkamink. [ARTICLE]

From Pinkamink.

Protracted meetings have closed. There are four candidates for baptism Feb. 22, from Barkley Chapel. Miss Tillie Burns is soon to bid farewell to Barkley ites and Hoosierdom, arid take up her abode in the sunny clime of Kansas, but we don’t think the sunny clime has anything to do with the case, it seems to be a “sonny” youth. We understand that Mr. Stanley’s temperance work caused hundreds to take the solemn vow of abstinence from acoholic beverages; we do hope it will prove a lasting good, and be another wedge driven into the holes of dregradation and moral depravity to help busrt then asunder and destroy the evil they generate. Jack Willey has so far recovered’ from his recent illness as to be able to drive out occasionally, and if his driver has anything to do with case, a relapse now would certainly be heart disease. We have started another , milk wagon with J. M. Richmond as driver. Mr. Nolan’s family were given a surprise dinner, last Wednesday, by friends who regret their departure and send with them best wishes. Farmers have ceased perforating their farms for natural gas, as it can now be had in bulk or small lots at Moonshine. The long pending case of Brown vs. Willey has been compromised: George agrees to have a fat hen roasted and Jack is to tune his Lyre—and paralyze the man that says McGinty. Here is what we found in a school marm’s scrap book: “He kissed my brow and Ups and cheek, So enraptured was I, I could not speak; He nestled my head upon his breast. And hugged me, tiU-he busted his vest.” Chipmunk.