Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — MILROY TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

MILROY TOWNSHIP.

Bye, oats, wheat and grass doing fine. Rye and wheat extra &ood. Rye heading out good. Prospect for a big fruit crop. Our schools will run till June Ist. Stirl some new houses being built. Wild Meadow is a thing of the past. Com and oats took its place. Jack Harris will put in 140 acres of the old Hicks prairie m corn, and ,Chas. Sumers 50 acres. John Brown is breaking hp the last of the Wild meadow on his new farm and putting up a new fence. John is a hostler. Jo Glosser has done up 75 acres of his brush land, cutting and grabbing everything clean. He says cattle have quit eating brush. Our colored people have been clearing and grubbing all winter and the farm don’t look like it ever belonged to South America. Rev. D. J. Huston is repairing the house on his lately purchased farm and will soon move on to it. He has been in Goodland for some time. Our Sunday Schools have gone into a township organization, with Rev. Hinds as President; Maggie Foulks, Annie Short and Lewis Cory compose the board. G. W. Foulks is treasurer. Rev. Hinds has been preaching excellent sermons of Sunday evenings. Cary Huston has purchased the McDonald farm and moved on it. Since our township has fallen into the handa of agriculturists, pasture is scarce and prices are high. Since our population has increased so fast for the last two yearn our school houses are too small to aocomodate our Sunday Schools. Many older people remain out side. Uncle Ptter Foulks and his good wife are able to come out to our Sunday School and Cbnrch again. Mrs. Richard Foulks is no better. The “house to honst” canvass in Milroy township, in the interest of the Sunday School work shows the township to be about all Methodists in religions inclinations.