Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — FROM WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

FROM WHEATFIELD.

Wheatfield is on a boom. Whealfield township has five more weeks of school. Laah Beeehler has gone to Carroll county to sell nursery goods. Last week there was an auction store in town, but they have gone hence, and no one mourns. Several lots are being sold in McLaughlin’s addition to Wheatfield north of the railroad. Ills a sure thing now. The dredge begun work last Monday on the channel to be cut toward Wheatfield, following Wolf creek. Ward Hamilton is starting a hardware store in the building lately occupied by the auction store. He has an eye to business and we think he will succeed.

Even Wheatfield feels the necessity of gravel roads and has already two excellent roadways, one from the post-office to Simon Fendig’s drug store, and one from there across the road to the north.

Geese and ducks have begun to squawk in the Kankakee marshes. There is not as much water in the swamps as usual at this time of year. Yet the water-fowl have plenty room to go bathiDg. The people of Wheatfleld tp., are looking around for their next trustee. Lewis Shirer, the trustee before S. D. Clark, is a candidate, we understand, He was very successful and won many friends daring his previous term. The railroads reduced their rates for hauling hay as was expected. Still there is something wrong. The Buyers only buy a lUtle. ah(Ldoiilt want any. They claim they can’t sell only at a very low price. Democracy is the robber fiend who is the cause of it all. When the people of Wheatfleld tp., can’t dispose of their hay, then comes hard times. Hay is the only crop, that can be depended upon.