Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1909 — Burns Town [ARTICLE]

Burns Town

Elmer Sulenberger was in Rensselaer Saturday. Samuel Holmes was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Mrs. Elias Arnold called on Mr. and Mrs. John Leah Sunday. Chris Morgenegg attended Charley Burns’ sale west of Aix, Monday. John Price was in Rensselaer Monday. Barney Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Charley Reed was In Rensselaer Tuesday on business. Walter and Frank Brown helped Sam Holmes butcher Tuesday. Elmer Brown was a Rensselaer-go-er Tuesday. Shelby Comer and Theodore Snow set up at Mr. Cooper’s Thursday n ght. Thomas Brown is improving ve y nicely from his sick spell. Wonder who it was C. Morgenegg dug out of the snow drift Sunday. Mrs. Samuel Holmes called on Mrs. Mart Sayler Wednesday. L. A. Greenlee was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Chris Morgenegg hauled a load of coal from Rensselaer Tuesday for Burns school house. George McElfresh’s little daughter, Jennie, is pretty sick at this writing with lung fever. Lucy Morgenegg and Agnes Hurley are visiting friends and "relatives for a few days at Parr. Frank Bruner was out on Nubbin Ridge Monday looking after the interests of his telephone lines. Frank and Alma Helengreen and Emma Nelson called on Thomas Brown’s Sunday. Wesley Price’s little boy is improving very nicely from his sick spell. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sulenberger were made happy once more by the arrival of a baby. girl. Both mother and babe getting along very nicely. Charley Reed and Samuel Holmes set up at Mr. John Cooper’s Wednesday night with his son, Ollie, who ended his life Tuesday evening.