Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1909 — Burns Town [ARTICLE]

Burns Town

Chas. Greenlee visited with Thos. Brown and family Sunday. Frank Brown visited at Fred Anderson’s Christmas day. Ethel Holmes is staying in Rensselaer this week with her uncle and aunt, Mfr. and Mrs. Will Whitaker. Bertha Holmes is staying with her grandmother, Mrs. John Scott, this week. Stella, Lillie,? Frank and Grover Brown visited Ben Galsberry • and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes and family visited with John Scott, and wife Sunday. Miss Lucy and Katie Morgenegg are visiting friends and relatives at Wabash for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Reed spent Christmas with Mrs. Reed’s parents at Lowell. Miss Mary Jacks closed her school at Burns Town Thursday aqd returned to her home, 5 miles southeast of town, until Jan. 4th. Walter and Stella Brown are assisting Everett Greenlee about moving this week to the Makeever farm, northwest of town. Mr. and Mrs. A. Eib and daughter, Alice and Jennie, spent Christmas with their daughter and sister at Gardner, 111. Herbert tried baching while they were gone.

Mr. and Mrs. Max Sullivan and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Elkins Mr. and Mrs. John Scott and Walter and Elmer Brown took dinner with Samuel Holmes and family Christmas day. • John Scott and Milt Sutton called on Samuel Holmes Monday to get a load of hogs which he bought, paying 11c per pound. He kicked on paying the price, but he was hog hungry. Mr. John Scott is going into the thoroughbred turkey business. He traded a 150 pound hog for a 13 pound gobbler. Jie knows a good thing when 1 he sees it. With the talent he has | it is a pity that he couldn’t get a job at the union stock yards buying and selling. H. E. Agar left Princeton Tuesday for Texas, having adjusted his tangled affairs. His bondsmen consented to i his going. The action was a sur-, prise.