Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP

Reed McCoy has invested in a new hard coal heating stove. Its a swell looker and a good heater. Mrs. Susie Lewis, of near Mitchell, S. Dak., is here for a visit with friends and relatives, having first visited her father in Marshall coun- - ty before coming here. Wilson Bussell spent his school vacation husking corn at home. M. L. Ford shredded fodder Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Noble Moulds and sons, Winfield, and Howard, and Miss Mabel Ward took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell Sunday, after attending the McCoysburg Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. John Braund, of * Monon, visited the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Montz, Saturday and Sunday. James Lefler, Mrs. Mary E. LOwe and Mrs. Chas. Bussell went to Marinette, Wis., Monday evening. They expect to be gone for three or four days. W. H. Timmons and family, of Rensselaer, took supper Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker. The party had come- from Rensselaer in the afternoon for a pleasure trip, and when only a short distance from Mr, Parker’s, a tire blew out, which detained them for awhile. Wash Lowman’s family sure’y are having their share of sickness this fall. Mr. Lowman is just getting

about after a long sickness, and Saturday Leslie took sick with a severe sore throat, which was feered at first might, be diphtheria, but was called tonsilitis by the attending physician. One of Phillips & McDonald’s steers mired in the dredge ditch Monday. The quicksand was so deep that it was with considerable difficulty that the animal was released from bls muddy grave. (