Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Newland. [ARTICLE]

Newland.

The shooting match at Lewiston was not very well attended Friday; too much rain. Several parties here from Illinois this week looking for farms to rent. John Kimble and Chas. Smith were in Chicago this week buying a stock of groceries for their new store at Gifford.] Guy Beebe has rented the saloon building and will move the postoffice there and keep a stock of cigars, tobaccos and candy,

"Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gifford, Friday Dec. 13, a baby boy. Harry is all smiles and all the boys are smoking cigars. He will soon have boys enough to raise onions without hiring any help. The C. & W. V. must have froze up Saturday as we didn’t have any train, Reece Roby was at Rensselaer on business Friday. Charley Page’s little boy about 4 months old, died Tuesday of lung fever. Frank Archer’s infant boy of a couple of weeks died Saturday morning of some throat disease.