Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — McCOYSBURG. [ARTICLE]

McCOYSBURG.

"William Arnott who is teaching at Stoutsburg spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives and friends at this place, Bruce White is doing well-work for Mr. McCoy. Mr. Lee, Mr. Robinson and others visited our Institute last Saturday. Robt. Drake received a car-load of sewer last Saturday, Cooler weather since the recent showers Mrs. Reed Banta is very dangerously siok of typhoid fever. She has been in an unconscious state of mind for two days. Dr. Clayton is the attending physician. He reports a very dangerous case of diphtheria in *

Mr. Gilmore’s family, also a couple more in Lee. Caster, and Sweeney just completed a wellfor Jno, Phillips. They worked hut a day and a half and found water in abundance at a depth of 27 feet. Scott Robinson left for Blackford Wednesday morning to work with a sawmill. Lloyd Burns is on the sick list.