Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1901 — Hanging Grove. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove.

Christmas i will soon be here, We can already hear the “Bass” beginning to croak a Christmas anthem. Many of our neighbors and friends were in Rensselaer {Saturday leaving orders (with [Santa Clans. Miss Lnral Anderson was in town Saturday. Maiers and Warner shipped a carload of fat hogs from LeejTuesday night. Frank Peregrine helped John Gwin dress a fine lot of poultry for market last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peregrine are getting ready for a weeks visit in Chicago during the holidays, Mrs. Ail has been very sick for several days. Once again the people ofgthis community have been brought together to attend the burial services of one of its old settlers. Wm. Bussell of Rensselaer {was at Osborn oemetry Monday after-j noon Deo. 9th. Uncle Billy was| for many years a resident of this township, and is well remembered as a kind friend, and good neighbor, and we, as a people, extend to his bereaved family, our heartfelt sympathy.