Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1908 — Hanging Grove Township [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove Township

Roy Bussell and wife took dinner with Postmaster Mrs. Reed McCoy Sunday. Ed Peregrine’s molasses factory is running full force this week and they make excellent sorghum too. Ed Downs and family of Indianapolis are here for a few days visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. B Downs. Mrs. Reed McCoy, Mrs. R. L. Bussell/and Miss Kate Maxwell visited Ed /Peregrine’s molasses factory Tuesday afternoon. /in an item of Tuesday, relative to (Marry Willits moving to Culver and his vocation it should have read janitor instead of painter. Mrs. A. W. Warner and Mrs. Simon Cook went to Chicago Sunday mornin for a few days* visit with a sister they have living there. Supervisor Geo. Parker, also the republican nominee for trustee, is lining up some of the bad road, with gravel from the river bed west of Jim Lefler’s. Mr. and Mrs. Brand, of near Monon, came to John Montz’s Saturday for a visit over Sunday. Their little son Dale will remain here with his grandparents this winter to be near school.

The dense smoke that hung over this country Sunday and Monday was due largely to the marsh fires and probably candidate cigars had something to do with the distasteful atmosphere. ’

Speaking of flower gardens,well Mrs. Nellie Lefler certainly holds the banner. She has fall roses till you can’t rest and many other species of fall flowers, that are certainly lovely to look at. Trustee Wash Cook lost another horse, last week, and still has another sick. He had two veterinaries to see the sick horses and it seems they are unable to determine the exact cause of their death.

Just before school was to begin Clarence Montz changed his mind and instead of going to Monon as was stated in Tuesday’s issue, he went to Monticello to attend high school, where he has a sister living, Mrs. Harvey Brannen.

Wash Lowman lies seriously sick at his home. Two doctors we. e here to see him Monday and believe he has typhoid fever. Wash is an excellent citizen and a good republican and we regret very much that he is unable to enjoy good health.

The work of getting carpet rags for Mrs. Knopinski’s carpet has went on nicely, so far, many have contributed with two and three pounds of rags and 10 or 15 cents to pay for chain. But a few more will be necessary before it can be completed.

The Hanging Grove public schools opened Monday with a full force of teachers and the line up is as follows: R. C. McDonald, McCoysburg; Miss Hayes Gwin, Osborne; Miss Hemphill, Banta; Miss Mabie Ward, Parker, Miss Lural Anderson, Fair View; and Miss Ferne Parker at Moore.

A young man by the name of Stump was badly injured Monday by a hay press power falling on his side and hip. The men were pressing hay for James Lefler and had propped the power up, preparatory to moving to another stack when the accident occurred. That smokers should be very careful with matches, seems to bear re- ' peating often, for just recently a fire was started on the east side evidently from a smoker’s match burned over some meadow destroying two ricks of hay for John Johnson and James Stewart. - Floyd Porter and Ray McDonald came home Tuesday evening from N. Dak., where they went a month ago to work in the harvest Ray would probably have stayed longer but he came home to take charge of his brother’s store, as the latter la engaged at school teaching now. Mrs. W. R. Willits went to Rensselaer Monday morning to see Mrs. • King, who got so badly hurt in the runaway accident Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. King had been visiting Willits* that day and it was on the return trip home that the dreadful accident occurred. We are informed that the authorities put the lid on the Sunday business at Medaryville some time ago, and the result is most satisfactory, they say. When such large places are brought under such joyous control, seems that very little difficulty should be experienced in apprehending the law breakers of a small place. Failure to do so, is just the simple cause that the matter has been overlooked.

Squire Bussell dealt out justice Monday afternoon to a couple of fellows and atached fines according to the gravity of the case. John Akers of Gillam and Clarence Wilson of Hanging Grove had been engaged in a scrap at the former's place last Sunday over soime domestic trouble of some kind which resnltedd in, both men’s arrest. Akers Was fined 31-00 and costs amounting to 332.75 and Wilson was fined 33.00 and costs or 39.00. The tact of our wlll-be constable, Andrew Knopinski, was fully revealed in this case, so he will surely get every vote in the township this fall.

The big drain tile through the Poole marsh, is choked up entirely at several points where willows are located. The long rootlets seek entrance at the joints of the tile and soon begin a growth of fibres or tiny roots that simply mat together and for a complete clog for several feet, sometimes two and three rods. The water standing so long on the fields last spring resulted in a search tor the defective tile. R. 8. Drake has been engaged the fore part of the week clearing the tile of this obstruction. Just the exact cause of this fiberous growth in the tile, would probably take a science teacher to determine, but it is generally supposed and seems quite logical too, that the motion of the water has something to do with it. Two small specimens of the fibre are on exhibition at McCoy’s store.