Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — NORTH BARKLEY. [ARTICLE]

NORTH BARKLEY.

Oasts about all cut. Grasshoppers eating the onions. Mr. Schofield has moved back to Fair Oaks. Willis McMurray will start for N. Dakota one day this week. Frank Halladay, of Rensselaer, is working for T. M. Callahan. Mrs. Hendricks of near Pleasant Ridge was in this vicinity Sunday. Wm. Washburn, of Rensselaer was in this vicinity buying hogs last week. Sayler and Perkins of Rensselaer, was in and around Comer last week hiring help for Northern lowa. Miss Kittie Callahan and cousin, Miss Mary Callahan, are visiting friends in Wheatfield this week. Mrs. L. J. Beedy and daughter, Mrs. G. W. Fanson, called on friends in this vicinity Thursday and Friday. Quite a number of hands are putting up hay for H. Gifford. He is having it pressed and shipped to Chicago. Wild hay brings a very good price this year. Had quite a wind storm here Sunday evening, blew the corn down, flattened all the oats, ble v down the shocks and scattered them over the fields, blew down trees and had a regular blow. No serious damage done.