Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1899 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

Harry Gifford transacted business in Franoesville Saturday. There was a party at Pontons Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Collins did shopping in Rensselaer Monday. Lewis Brown visited J. N. Baker Sunday. John Fanson and T. M. Callahan attended the show in Rensselaer Monday night. B. J. Gifford started his hydraulic dredge Monday. Dave Black and Sam Scott left for Missouri Tuesday morning on a prospecting tour. George and Otis Beedy and Mrs. G. W. Fanson were called to the bedside of their father in Manteno, 111., who is dangerously ill. Will Coppers baby is on the sick list. While loading an old revolver Nelson Griggs had the misfortune to explode a cartridge shooting the top off his fore finger.