Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1897 — SHARON AND MILROY ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

SHARON AND MILROY ITEMS.

Considerable sickness. Water is getting scarce for stock. The frost did considerable damage to corn. So dry fall grain is not coming up, not much sown. Too dry to plow. Most everybody has been working out their allotments on the Big Coates Ditch. Mr. Glober has leased the Coats farm. He lives near Seafield, in White countv. Rev Peter Hinds has returned from a trip to southern 111. He reports corn injured by hot weather and frost, but an immence apple crop, selling at 7 cts. a bushel. Mr. Wysong, on the Roberts place will soon move to Monticello. Frank Summers, son of John Summers has had a long seige of typhoid fever and is still very sick. Our schools will open the first Monday in October. John Harris, now living on the Coates farm, will move near Remington. Ex trustee McCashen and wife have gone to visit bis son Bet McCashen of Lebanon, Mo. Alice Clark accompanied them.