Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP

Rev. Simons was re-appointed to the Barkley charge. Mrs. Kate Bowman is visiting relatives at Frankfort. John Johnson attended the state fair one day last week. Misses Mary and Myrtle Peregrine visited Mrs. Anna Warner Friday. Mrs. John K. Smith entertained company from Rensselaer Friday. W. C. Rose, of- Hoopeston, 111., came out to his farm Thursday evening. ■■■/ • ..7A__ Clarence Montz is a high school student this year, and entered Monon high school yesterday. Brook Sneideker fnoved the saw mill from M. Ringeisen’s to his father’s farm in Barkley. Clarence Montz managed the R. C. McDonald store Friday, while the latter attended the state fair. Quite likely some of our fine poultry raisers will have some stock to exhibit at the Francesville fair. Harry Willits packed his goods and moved to Culver, Marshall county, where he has secured a position as painter at the Culver academy. The Ringeisen ditch was sold to Bruce Moss it, but the work on the ditch will be delayed until enough ■water falls to float the dredge boat. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Warner and son Paul expect to leave here for Mexico early in the spring for the benefit of Mrs. Warner’s health. Mr. Warner has rented his farm to some man near Francesville.

R. J. Stewart and Orville Burris are working on the Gilmore dredge. Ira Blackman is cooking for the dredge men, and the boys say he put up a good meal. This position came as a promotion from fireman

Chas. Erb, one of Hanging Grove’s very progressive farmers, is building a fine big cellar. The old kitchen was torn away and the cellar is being built there. After its completion, he will build a new kitchen over it, with all the improvements to make a comfortable home.

P. B, Downs returned home Saturday morning from * a short business trip to Lafayette. He says they are badly in need of rain in that locality, - but .most of the farmers have concluded that since a rain would not benefit the corn any, that the dry weather will hasten it from frosts.

It is the old time theory of most bee raisers that a swarm of bees in July “let ’em fly’’, but now comes one Geo. Stalker with an entirely different story. Two years ago last July a swarm of bees settled near his houso, it was such a large swarm that he hived them in a salt barrel, since that time Mr. Stalker has saved four fine swarms. On transfering them from the salt barrel this last August, he got ten gallons of nicely packed honey. Can anyone beat it?

A letter from Gaylord Parker at Mitchell, S. Dak., states that he and Chester Downs have worked every day since their arrival there. They got a job with Jim Kenton and Reed Banta’s threshing machine hauling water and running a bundle wagon respectively. The boys like the country very well and will probably stay till corn husking or maybe longer. It seems quite likely that Conrad Maxwell may coMe ‘ nomb witß / the boys. He probably can’t find a little house on the sand out there that looks as good to him as the one in Hanging Grove.

Several patrons on the route who are subscribers of the Chicago Daily Journal have lately been annoyed quite a little by receiving notices that they were or soon would be delinquent on the subscription, when really they hold receipts for one year in advance. Just exacly the cause of this is a little hard to comprehend, but it is quite likely, however, that the fault lies with the bookkeepers. Subscribers need not be alarmed though, for a receipt will prove itself. D. E. Noland, of Lee, was appointed to Mt. Ayr by the conference and bad intended to move to that place last week but his oldest daughter, Neva, took the scarlet fever and he may be detained here for a month or more.