Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — FROM DeMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

FROM DeMOTTE.

Died, on the 20th day of March, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dolson, age eleven days, Funeral services were conducted by Father Bradbury. This bud was lent, Not given; To bud on earth, And bloom in Heaven. Sweet little bud, For earth to fair, Has gone too Heaven, To blossom there. Quite a number on the sick list, but its more among the children than older people. It was given out last Sunday night at the M. E. Church, that there would be a Mush and Milk social at Mr. and Mrs. A. Halleck’s, next Thursday evening. Prizes to be given to the lady who can drive a nail through a board the quickest, to the gentleman who can thread a needle the quickest. All are invited to attend. Proceeds to go for a new organ for the M. E. Church. Next Saturday and Sunday the Free Methodists will hold their second Quarterly Meeting. Presiding Elder Loring will be present. John Kosky and family have left their farm and gone to Knox and we understand he intends to go into the saloon business. Miss Lula Spencer is on the sick list. Miss Ruth Fairchild is able to get out of doors again. It has been very near six months since she was out, as she was taken sick about the 22nd of Oct. The “Hard Time” social was a grand success. The hardest looking couple there was Nick Delaker and Ida Smithers. The prize for the boy was a pie and the girl a cake.. Old Maids.