Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — WEST CARPENTER. [ARTICLE]

WEST CARPENTER.

Threshing in full blast, with a fair crop of oats. Prices good. Corn suffering for want cf rain. There is more new building going up this seeson than ever before. Wonder if the Republican administration has anything to do with it? Both of Lewis Alter’s girls are in the telephone exchange now. Miss

Bessie in DeMotte, and Minnie at Rensselaer. Carpenter tp. should do like Chicago annex everything around, as land is getting very scarce here judging by the prices paid, $66 to SIOO per acre. Miss Abbie Gray returned home Saturday evening, after several weeks visit in Benton county. A surprise social met her at her parent’s home, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray. Nearly 100 of the neighbors and friends were there to eat ice cream and cake and enjoy games until a late hour. While Ephriam Sayer’s threshing machine was threshing for J. Kelly in south edge of Jordan tp., last Thursday fire caught in the straw and entirely destroyed the stacker and injuring the separator to some extent. Only a small amount of straw and no grain was burned. Private letters from James L. Alter the veteran traveler, state that he is now in Oregon headed for Califor. nia. Expects to call on Rev. J. T. Abbott, at Ashland, Oregon, and other Jasperites. He thinks a person has seen but little of the beauties and granduer of nature in the U. S. who has not seen the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mts. Wallace’s shows are billed for Goodland. When the same show was here before it carried away the honor (?) of having more skin games than anything ever seen here, and they were run publicly inside of the tents so they were a part of the show itself. If the press would call the public attention to these facts ahead of the show, it would soon reform these thieving gangs and make the traveling shows a much more honest set,