Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — GILLAM ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

GILLAM ITEMS.

Wheat and oats are growing finely. Farmers are most all busy planting corn. Gifford’s ditches have the big marshes almost dry. The schools have all closed for this year. Preaching every Sunday at Independence Chapel by Rev. J. H. Wiley. Miss Katie Roger’s school has closed and she is back in old Gillam again. Fishing is all the rage in Gifford’s ditches by young and old. Some fine fish are caught. Edward and Harvey Faris and Frazier Antrim, have gone to Michigan to haul Reed’s circus this summer. Sunday School Jat West Vernon every Sunday afternoon. Preaching every alternate Sunday afternoon by Rev. Hoover. Center and Gillam schools united and an entertainment at Gillam school house on Thursday night. Although it was raining the house was crowded, and every one seemed well pleased with the exercises. There was an exhibition held at Independence school house last Tuesday evening, by the school. An interesting program was rendered and the performers did credit to themselves and the school, and everybody went away well pleased. Decoration Day will be observed by appropriate ceremonies, at Independence Chapel in the forenoon of May 30, and at Medaryville, in the afternoon, conducted by the G. A. R. boys and the S. of V. assisted by the different Sunday Schools. Politics is in a thriving condition just at present. The Populists had a meeting at Center school bouse, last Saturday night. Lewis Hubble, of Francesville, was the speaker. He eulogized Coxey’s movement, and said it was a second John Brown march, that the populists were nearing victory and that Republicanism was forever obliterated from the face of ihe earth. But he exonerated the IXmocrat'c party from all of its misdeeds and attributed all of the hard times to the Republican party and Harrison’s administration. Such speakers as he are a curse to humanity, because they mislead the most of their followers by making false statements, some of which were proved false by some of the Republican boys present that evening. Patrick.