Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1909 — Mt. Ayr Items [ARTICLE]

Mt. Ayr Items

(From the Mt. Ayr Pilot) It is reported that a Rensselaer high school girl defined crowbar sb “one ’o them ’ere things that is used in raisin’ hay into a barn.’’ Chas. Penwright and daughter, Opal, went over near Rensselaer last Saturday for a visit with the former’s mother. The decision of Judge HanLy regarding the further construction of the Iroquois ditch, meets with the heartiest approval of many , landowners of this town and vicinity. We understand the temperance faction of this township have perfected an organization after the order of the Good Citizens League, for the purpsoe of combatting the* forces that make for evil. A permanent fund has been subscribed, which goes to show that they are in earnest and mean to carry on the work so wtll begun. There is some talk In different parts of the county of storing a petition for an election under the county option plan, but no action has been taken along that line as yet. Matilda Lamb, 90 years old, who died at Wabash Tuesday, had expresfeed a wish that she might survive to see five generations of which she would be the head, and the wish was granted. Three days after the birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Kindlesparker, which represented the fifth generation, she passed away. The temporary injunction obtained by the Pennsylvania railroad company against the C., L. S, & S. B. railroad to prevent the latter from crossing the tracks of the company at Tolleston, has been dissolved and, the permanent restraining order denied by the federal court