Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1909 — Burns Town [ARTICLE]

Burns Town

Michael Burns was in Rensselaer Monday. Mrs. Isaac Walker is very sick at this writing. Cleveland Price visited with home folks Sunday. Phillip Durant is about well again from his sick spell. Wealyy Price called on S. A. Greenlee Sunday afternoon. Winfred Pullins is buying wood in this neighborhood this week. Clarence Green moved to the Abe Miller farm, north of Blackford, last week. Wm. Holmes called on his brother, Samuel, of Central Nubbin Ridge, Monday. Spencer and Esta Holmes spent Friday night with Elmer and David Greenlee. Mrs. Emmet Pullins and children called on Theodore Snow and family Saturday. Mart Saylor, who has been living

on the Tuteur term, moved south of town Monday. . Roy Scott returned home Monday, after visiting with S. H. Holmes for a couple of days. Lillie, Hollis and George Brown visited with Elmer, David and Alta Greenlee Sunday. Elmer Sulenberger moved from the Victor Yeoman farm Monday to the George Shriner farm. Mrs. S. H. Holmes and little eon called on Mr. and Mrs. Will Whitaker, of Rensselaer, Monday. Mrs. C. Morgenegg and children called on Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Pullins Sunday afternoon. George Gorbet and family moved to the James Overton farm, near Pleasant Ridge, Monday. Barney Colhoff, George McElfresh and Samuel Holmes helped C. Morgenegg buzz wood Tuesday. Theodore Snow's aged father Is suffering from a stroke of paralysis and is very low at this writing. Elmer Jacks was out on Nubbin

Ridge Friday after fiis sls’er, Mary, who is teaching at Burns Town. Miss Agnes and Maggie and George Hurley called on Bertha, Ethel and Spencer Holmes Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Davis visited with his father and mother, who live on the McElfresh farm, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes and family and Miss Mary Jacks called on ,Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown and family Wednesday evening. The minister who preaches against Sunday trains and then calls around at the poetoffice on Sunday evening to get his mall, is evidently a twin brother to the democrat who went out last fall and voted for Bryan and then prayed all the way home that Taft might be elected.