Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE

UNION ITEMS. , ■-•-• fa The Lakin ditch in nearing completion. The dredge on the main ditch is within a few days of the river. ; ■ - I. F. After is building a new barn; the* old mill is torn down. The iron bridge over the Lakin ditch at the cioss roads north of center school house is about finished. The town of Firman is flourishing. Frank Warne keeps a general store there and has a good trade. The friends and neighbors of Sylvester Greenfield met at his home to the number of about sixty, in his absence last Sunday, and when he came home he found the table loaded with a splendid dinner and the house full of friends. Then he recollected that he was 37 years old. We all had a good time. Jake.

FROM WHEATFIELD. This is the second week of school only small pupils attending. D. B. Nowels is principal of the Wheatfield schools this winter, and Miss Vaugh of Winamac is the primary teacher. Mr. Misch, south of Wheatfield, had one r leg broken and the other fractured by the lever of a hay press flying back, one day last week. Dr. Vaugh reports the break and fractures as doing well. Simon Fendig, the Wheatfield druggist, is doing a thriving business. Mr. Spencer, the inventor of the Spencer hay press, was m the city last week. The Kankakee river is slowly gaining its normal position. The new bridge over it north of DeMotte is completed, but the grading on the Jasper Co., side isnot finished. The Morris dredges along the Kankakee have been idle all summer, on account of low water, but will begin operation, we understand, as soon as hey can get enough water to float them.

Some of Wheatfield’s citizens are in Chicago taking a parting glance at the Fair. There is more noise in Wheatfield on Sunday than any other days, probably because it is Sunday and the gallant youths have nothing else to do but to make noise. Something should be done.

Yes, we have mail at Wheatfield, but the trains come and go as they will and you might about as easy tell what good the Senate is doing, as to tell when the next mail will be in.

D UN N VILLE. To late for last week. The teachers of this township held their first ‘institute at Dunnville school-house last Saturday. Miss Rilla Williams has returned from Chicago where she has been visiting friends and attending the fair. Miss Florence Wood, of North J udson, was the guest of Miss Emma Henry last week. OBITUARY. Il is with sorrow that we announce the inevitable Death, who has been reaping a harvest in the past few days from the families of our friends. Susie A. Hilliard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Hilliard, surrendered to the call of death on Monday morning, Oct. 9, 1893. Susie was Just entering upon the eighteenth year of her life’s journey and had all the bright prospects of a brilliant future before her, when the summons came for her to depart and be with Christ, which is far better for her but it seemed to us that our hearts would break as we saw her crossing the dark valley and saw the dark shades of death gathering around her. We could hardly say, ’‘not our will, but Thine, O Lord, be done.” She was loved and reqiected by all who knew her as a good, true, loving and virtuous girl. The cause of her death was typhoid fever and many friends mourn her untimely death. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church, of this place, by Rev. Moring. The remains were interred in the San Pierre cemetery. Her sorrowing parents, brother and sisters have the heartfelt sym-

pathy of a large circle of friends in their great bereavement. May faith in him who conquered dea'h, Quiet the mourners’ sobbing breath, And untoeach may grace be given, To reach the treasures now in Heaveg.

Mrs. Christopher Gilbranson died at her home m Dunnville, on Monday morning, Oct. 16, 1893, of typhoid fever. Just one month ago, Sept. 16, her aged companion passed away. Since then it has been her daily prayer that she might soon meet him in that land where death and sorrow never come. Both were born in Norway. She was ,72 years of age and he 81. They were married in Norway and came to this country a number of years ago and passed nearly fifty years of their life in happy union and by God’s mercy were separated by death, but a short time. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom survive them. We look beyond the River by faith and see their justified spirits, with Tall the redeemed who have gone befbre, in the Paradise of God, never more to suffer pain or sorrow, for God from His eternal throne in Heaven says, “Behold, I made all things new.”

OBITUARY. Kate, the youngest daughter of the late Rev. Lemuel Shortridge, and Mrs. Paulina A. Shortridge, died aft the home of her sister Mrs. R. C. Merrifield, of Boone Grove, Oct. 16, 1893. The cause of her death was typhoid fever. - The Divine Hand called her from this home to the “home beyond the sky” in the early morning of life, her age being 20 years, 7 months and#days. A mother, three brothers and four sisters mourn the earthly loss of this precious daughter and loving sbteE. We laid that youthful mortal tabernacle by the side of our father in Boon e Grove cemetery, Ind. The funeral was preached by Rev. J. V. Findley. Kate lived in Jasper county 20 years. When the death angd visits our home, we can surely say: ••There Is no death! an angel'form Walks o’er the earth with silent tread. He bears our best loved things away. And then we eall them ’dead'.”

A SISTER.