Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1908 — HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP

S. W. Noland and family visited at A. Warner's Sunday. R. S. Drake went over to Monon Monday to look after his cattle near there. < I >i<£ A few men from here attended the Taft rally at Geo. Ade’s farm Wednesday. C. M. Greenlee is taking a visit with old friends and relatives in Tennessee. Postmaster McCoy is very busy now-a-days taking care of three squealing porkers. Geo. Potts’ baby was quite sick Saturday and Sunday. Dr. Washburn was called out to see it. Noble Moulds went to Illinois Thursday of last week, to look after some business affairs. He returned home Monday evening. Wash Lowman now seems to be on the mend. He had very little or no fever Tuesday and It is hoped he will be about again soon. Seven tickets were sold at McCoysburg for Chicago Sunday. They were Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler, Mr. and MrB.~RI~~H ffulsellf G. C. Peters; Arthur Lewis and Jessie Long. Our local cattle dealers are experiencing considerable difficulty in getting water for the cattle, as the streams and dug wells are dry and scarcely any wind to run the windmills.

If the township should buy a stone crusher, a good place .to locate it would be north of the old Culp farm along the road. Hay Rishling just recently graded that road and found plenty of lime stone near the surface. The McCoysburg church and Sunday school choir met at the school house Saturday night for practice, the first time for several weeks. It is hoped that when the evenings become longer the choir practice will be regular. J. H. Montz is director. Russell Willits came home Friday evening from Larimore, N. Dak., where he went several weeks ago to wojk in the harvest. It is quite interesting to hear the boys relate some of their experience in the West. They say the nights were getting very cool out there before they left. During the fiscal year ending June 30th, the McCoysburg route brought in 263 money orders with ah aggregate amount of $1,337.32, and was not recognized as a very serenuous year for orders either. This report was brought about by the department requiring some data relative to the money order business. The four-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. DeLoss Pass took seriously sick Sunday, morning with some kind of bowel trouble, probably caused from eating too many peaches that were not quite ripe. The little fellow had two or three spasms before a doctor could be called, but is. better now, and will probably get along all right

There will be a telephone meeting Saturday night, Sept 26th, at the Banta school house, for the members of the farmer’s line and all who are interested. The line has been on the hummer for a long time and some kind of arrangements will be made for a switch board at McCoysburg and a general overhauling of the lines Many places the poles have rotted and fallen to the ground, bringing the lines in * contact with barbed wire fences, causing a short circuit