Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1909 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

Ed Oliver was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Wm. Rees is working for Ed Oliver this week.

Everett Walker and Floyd Tow haulßd hay’ for Ed Oliver Tuesday. Miss Day Jordan went to Valparaiso Monday to attend school there. George Gorbet, Wm. Rees and Ed Oliver called on T. M.. Callahan. Tuesday. Quite a few young folks of Newland attended Sunday school at Gifford Sunday. Mr. Ed Kennedy called on Mr. and Mrs. John Bowen and family Saturday night. Mart Summers is able to be at work again from the injury he received a week age. Miss Leatha Rees and George Gorbet took dinner with G. A. Gorbet and family Sunday. Wonder where Sam Bowen and Frank Snider went Sunday? To see their best girls, I suppose. v Mrs. T. M. Callahan and children went to Francesville Saturday’ to spend Easter with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kemp went to Kersey’ Saturday to spend Easter with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Wm. Whitehead. Well, these rains make the grass grow, but if it keeps on very -long it will stop lots of the farmers in plowing the low lands. ,——

Charley Martin and his little brother and sister have the mumps. John Marion also has them. They seem pretty severe nowdays. Miss Leatha Rees, who is working for T. M. Callahan, spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rees. Mr. Summers, of near Remington, took dinner with Ed Oliver Saturday. Mart, his son, and him also took their cow home Sunday. Miss Day ‘Jordan’s school was out Thursday at Newland. All had a good time. Everybody that are the patrons of the school took dinner with them and made it enjoyable. Those who spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kennedy were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver and daughter Lola, Newt Bowman and sons Claude and Lloyd, Wm. Kennedy and family, Zella Bowen and Mary Rees. The afternoon was spent in music. All had a nice time.