Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1903 — McCoysburg. [ARTICLE]

McCoysburg.

Threshing is well under headway around our village. The business men of the town are talking new sidewalks. It is a muoh needed improvement, and should not fai to go. 1 Mr. Stewart, the trustee is preparing to give our sohocl building a new ooat of paint, before sohool begins. Lee & Poole are buying grain for Baboock & Bopkins. The maohinery in their new . elevator works very smoothly. W. 8. wants of south of town, has moved his house out nearer the road and is building quite an ad. dition to it. Chaa. Lefler of southeast of town, is hauling siding and shingles for a new barn, whioh is now under construction, Mrs. W. K. Lee and sister Irene Lutz visited Miss Mary Goets of west of Rensselaer, one day last week. W. E. Poole’s little girl who has been quite dangerously sick, is now nearly reoovered. Will Arnott went to Chicago FrL 'day of last week to resume his duties as mail clerk on the P, C. C. &. St. L. after his usual week’s vacation. R. V. Johns, our genial blacksmith, Sundayed with his brother-in-law, Tom Lear, of near Seafield. J Van Wood is painting the Milroy Baptist ohurch this week. Scott Robinson who has been run. ning a threshing engine near Indianapolis through the wheat harvest, was home over Sunday, enroute for the harvest fields of North Dakota