Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1901 — Belief Corps Visits Mt. Ayr. [ARTICLE]

Belief Corps Visits Mt. Ayr.

A goodly party, some 20 or 25 of members of Rensselaer Relief Corps went over to Mt. Ayr, Thursday, to visit Mrs. Dr. Merry and other old friends. They took big baskets of fine eatables with them, which they and their Mt. Ayr friends disposed of at the proper time. Among the old friends they met at Dr. Merry’s were Mrs. Mattie flarding, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sigler and Mr. Thomas Willey* They also met, and bid good-bye to, Mrs. Dr. Caldwell, who is about to leave for Spencer, lowa, to spend the winter with her daughter, Mies Grace Caldwell. A year ago about the same party from here visited Mrs. Caldwell. On the road over and back the ladies were much pleased at the sight of a fine field of wheat on James Yeoman’s farm. But neither the beautiful wheat, nor their pleasant day in Mt. Ayr could prevent them coming home pretty mad about two school houses they passed on the«vway. These, they say, should properly be called cells. They have no windows at all in their south or east sides, and hence no light or air from either of those directions. That is, or recently was, a fad in school house building. It may be all right, but the Corps ladies don’t think so, a little bit, and The Republican is much disposed to take the same view.