Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1900 — PARR. [ARTICLE]

PARR.

-Sunday school every Sunday at three o’clock. Mrs. Mary Greenfield has rented her farm to Wm, George and will move to Parr the Ist of March. The oil well is down 120 feet, no signs of oil but a good supply of water.

Mrs. W. L. Wood has so far recovered that she is expected to come home this week. Jim Reed has sold fiis corn and is hauling it to the elevator this week. Frank Reed has returned from his visit to Boone Co. He reports everything prosperous in Boone. Omar Pierson is teaching school for Vic Bringle at the Center school house this week. Vic is gripping we understand. John E. Alter will plant over 100 acres of corn this spring. There is being quite a good deal of cord wood, cut in this vicinity this winter. Money seems to be plenty and everybody is happy. The system of government which has given us plenty will maintain, it if we don’t get rattled again.. Elder Appleton of Rensselaer, is conducting a series of meetings at Virgie. Rye is looking well There was but very iitte wheat sown in Union tp. last fall. There will be quite a latge acreage ' of oats sown this spring Parr is becoming quite a center for the grain trade. There is some talk of continuing the dredge ditch down the Iroquois river to where the river crosses tne mile line of section 25, town 30 n, range 7. Mrs Nancy Davison will go to Chicago Heights this week to visit her brothers Ben D. and Charley McColly,