Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — In Gillam Township. [ARTICLE]

In Gillam Township.

Special Correepondonee of Th* Three protracted meetings have been held in Gillam township winter Uy »be Methodists, but without the snecees that attended the labor# of last winter. In this township reside seven preachers aDd seveeteen school teachers. Why should thetrabw ignorance in the land ofitlMracWVSf W school teachers had a lively debate on the evening of the Bth instant, which resulted in a decision for the nffirnmtive, The eah* jeet was stated: "Resolved, That the ausflod of having pupils In schools answer to their standing in regard to whispering, and for the teachers to take ante* of * u mcanons and settle the same at a time whet* the teacher Is not engaged in imparting in-' struction, is a good thing; and that t* should be indulged In more in the ftoturw than it has in the p-L” A U.ernvy**iety is being conducted at Pleasant Ridge acboel house, by the young people, with ' success. There-)»ai keen some akkneaa i» our neighborhood this winter. Cyrue Prevo lost a bright and promising child, little Janies, eighteen months old, of dipk' therin; Malachl Powell lost a| hoy, toM, years old, of brain fever} John Quarry aidt Jamea Cooper heve been da*# 1 tfttfelg* fever but are oonvaleeoing. Mr. Qherry has been in poor health for|same months} he contemplates going Emerj Low, living in the »!*• of Rulasltl county, • losthinhouM, furnituye and |l»»itt money by fire n I iff. week* ago; hi insurance, i A Cllumil.