Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

About half the people in this vicinity have the ague. Miss Janet Cook visited Clara Zook over Sunday. Onion pulling is all the go. Harry Gifford and Mr. Seitz will ship a car load of onions *to Cincinnati Thursday. Albert Inlow, who has been running an engine for Mr. Beck near Lafayette, returned home Saturday. Bert Cramer, who went to Minnesota some time ago to work in a saw mill returned home Friday. J Alfred Donnelly and family and Mr, Churchill of near Rensselaer spent Sunday with O. Callahan and family. Will Davis of Culum, 111., visited his father, [Jim Davis, a few days last week. |jj|The surveyors on the R. R. are as far as Sunnyside. Thev expect to get as far as the Francesville road by Saturday. It frosted hard enough Sunday night to kill tomato and potato vines and all the late corn on the muck. Early planting was too far advanced for serious injury.