Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

BARKLEY.

Road working, order of the day. * Mrs. Nathan Eldridge is on the sick list. Mr. Rusk is putting a new addition to their house. Steve Freeman and family visited at John Norman’s Sunday. Miss Ola Lang, of Surrey, is the the guest of Miss Ora Henkle. Chas. Hinkle of Valparaiso visited at J. C. Hinkle’s Monday and Tuesday last. Mrs. Jane Shaw, of Rensselaer is the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. Murray. We wish South Barkley would do as North Barkley and get some gravel roads. J. N. Sample was thrown from a horse Saturday morning and quite badly shaken up. Quite a number of our young people attended children’s day at Independance in Gillam Sunday. Mrs. S. R. Nichols is home from Danville where she has been taking treatment for a cancer. Her health is much improved. The ice cream social given by members of the Barkley M. E. church at O. Moore’s last Saturday evening was well attended. Pro. oeeds amounted to $14.75 after expenses were paid. UNION.

Wheat is very scarce. Oats will soon be ready to cut. The binders are tieing up the rye. The apple crop will be very great. There is quite a rush of corn to Parr this week. The Judy elevator will change hands next week. Charles Pullins, of Surrey buys most of our fat hogs and cows. Crops looking very good except where blown down by the storm. Cecil Alter has gone to Chicago Heights to serve as assistant engineer. The fourth quarterly conference of the M. P. church will convene at the Rose Bud church on the fourth Saturday and Sunday in July. A severe wind and rain storm passed through this section last night destroying great numbers of fruit trees, demolishing fences and sweeping the corn to the ground in many places.