Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1909 — Burns Town [ARTICLE]

Burns Town

Michael Burns was in Rensselaer Monday. Lesley Price called on L. A. Greenlee Sunday afternoon. Walter Brown returned home from Plymouth, Ind., Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. -L. A. Greenlee’s little baby is on the sick list Vilas Pried visited the -school at Burns Town Friday afternoon. z Miss Stella Brown visited with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson Sunday. John L. Nichols was out on Nubbin Ridge Tuesday, looking after his cattle. Vilas Price went over in Illinois Monday to be gone two or three weeks. Miss Mary Jacks and Ethel Holmes spent Friday night in< Rensselaer with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. Morgenegg and family visited with George Davisscn and family Sunday. C. Mdrgenegg hauled* a load of coal from Rensselaer Saturday to Burns school house. Edd Hejengreen returned home fiom Michigan, where he has been working for two or three months.

Alpha and Bessie McElfresh visited with> their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Shroer, Sunday. Mr. Davis and family, who have been living on the McElfresh farm, moved Tuesday on a farm near Surrey. Thomas Brown and wife and Chas. Greenlee and son, Berty, and bis cook visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Scott Sunday. Quite a crowd of friends and relatives gathered at Samuel Price's Sunday and helped him celebrate his 51st birthday anniversary. Charley Pullins has hire! Mantley Stowers to help him with his farm work and his wife to help Mrs. Pullins with the house work the coming season. Quite a crowd of young people attended the pie social at Center school house Friday, night Walter said pies were pretty high, but he went to eat pie because he liked them so well. 55 cents for one-half of a p ! e. Walter came home sick, but not on pie. He said if he had his money back he would go buy a half sack of flour and let mother bake him all he could eat.