Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

Mr, and Mrs. David Black did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. T. M. Callahan visited at J. E. Walter's near Surrey, Saturday and Sunday. Frank Lewis of Dredge No. 2 has gone to work on the new rail road. Miss Mollie Rayburn, of Medaryville, is working for Mrs. George Fanson. Johnnie Fanson transacted business in Wheatfield Saturday. Mr. Reed, of Medaryville, was in this vicinity Sunday buying onions. Gasper Brown, of Kankakee, 111,, is visiting his brother, Lewis Brown, this week. L. B. Hewitt shipped a car load of onions to Louisville, Ky., Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Yaste, of Williamsport, are visiting A. L. Bowlus and family this week. Canada school began Monday. Frank Parker is teacher, he has 7 twenty-three scholars. Adna BeedV, of Blue Island, 111., and Mrs. Robert Ship, of Manteno, visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Beedy, four days last week. Ed Trahun and Will Ponton returned from Minnesota last week, they are both in bed with typhoid fever, it seems as though the far north did not agree with them.