Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1897 — MILROY. [ARTICLE]

MILROY.

Health good. Zero weather. Schools progressing finely. The little folks of Center school was made glad by the. Christmas tree fruits. Winter is here, a good snow is on covering the small grain and giving clean ground to feed cattle on. The roads are in good condition for hauling. Nearly everyone hopes the present condition will hold out till the 15 of March. The Sharon blacksmith has been oblige to enlarge his shop by an addition of several feet of new roomand has added a new steam drill run by a small engine. Sell Morrow claims to have raised the largest number of potatoes to the bushel of any one in the township, but several of his neighbors doubt it, as all the potatoes were small this year.

The canal known as the Coates ! ditch is completed at last. Being : on an average of 25 feet wide and . feet deep. Henry Beaver has moved in his ; new house. John E. Brown has been visiting his father in the north Jasper and taking in the sights in Porter County. . * I Mr. Joseph Glosser is hauling his corn and hay off having sold his fine farm in Milroy. Uncle Joe is one of Milroy’s early settlers, haying come here from Fountain County and at an early day when there was only a house now and then and all was woods, marshes, and water. But now all is changed to ditches and grain fields, which Uncle Joe says he delights to see, though he is unable to farm any more. Uncle Joe moved to Remington last spring.