Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

Charles Castor is visiting in Delphi. Otis Beedy attended the dance at Wheatfield Saturday night, Tent Merrie moved in with Will Coopers this week.

day night was not very well attended owing to the intense cold. Canada school began Monday after a vacation of three weeks. Frank Parker the teacher having sufficiently recovered from the grip to teach. Will Guthrie expects to go to Chicago Thursday, whSre he will visit friends and relatives a few weeks. Billie Bodell and George Meckling will leave for Ada, Ohio, this week for a few weeks’ visit. Jim Kight and Bill Collins wil work on the Hydraulic dredge boat this summer. Charles Beck went to Monticello Monday to attend the trial of Albert Inlow. He having stolen Beck’s engine. B. J. Gifford wants fifteen gangs of carpenters to go to work immediately building store rooms and dwelling houses.