Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — Independence. [ARTICLE]

Independence.

Ed Oliver went to Roselawn Sunday. ___ T? ' ur p it Th Xlff f • Wednesday for & load of hogs. Mrs. Annie Rees and children were the , guests of Mrs. Sarah McCleary Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Watson and little son, Ora, spent Sunday with Wm. Rees and family. George Daniels is having a new well dr< ve, his old one having gone dry during the dry weather. We had a nice rain here last Sunday night, and now it has turned cold and makes people shiver around the stove to what it has been. Misses Lena and Lizie Ailher, who have been working in Rensselaer, spent Saturday night and until Monday noon with their mother and brother near Newland. Wm. Rees and George Daniels have the finest onion field in this part of the county. Some of the onion* measure twelve and one half inch** around. They think they will have over a thousand bushels, and there is over three acres in the patch.