Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

R. S. Drake shipped a car load of hogs Thursday night to Chicago. Jacob Parker, of Marion, is visiting relatives in Hanging Grove this week. Wm, Kenton, of Mitchell, S. Dak., called on old friends in McCoysburg Wednesday afternoon.. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Rishling visited Thursday and Friday with their son Cecil and wife, in McCoysburg. Miss Lora Phillips returned home from Hammond Thursday evening, after a short visit with Mary Wachtel. The recent big rains raised -the water in the ditches just as the carp were coming up, and many large fish were found out in fields where ditches overflowed. Harvey Saidla has poisoned his left hand in some way, supposedly by playing in the weeds, and it is giving the little fellow considerable trouble, but he is a very plucky chap and plays all the time.

The Moffitt dredge will be ready to resume work by Monday morning. When the "A” frame broke the rear end of the boat sank, but the water has been pumped out and the boat leveled up ready for business. The witnesses that went to Crown Point from McCoysburg Tuesday to testify in behalf of young George Wickizer,charged with horse stealing, were entirely too much for the state’s evidence at first sight, and as a result the judge dismissed the case and excused the prisoner. It seemed like a case of one of those grandstand plays to gain glory on the part of the officers for they were going to commit the lad immediately upon arrest, just taking for granted they had the right man, and it was only the most strenuous efforts of Jerome Dinwiddle, of Lowell, that he was saved from the penitentiary.

Mr. Gifford’s steam shovel was pulled down to McCoysburg Thursday evening, evidently to begin work on the proposed overhead crossing. The workmen were on hand early Friday morning, but had not drawn a dipper full of dirt when, unfortunately, they upset the whole outfit on the west side of the right-of-way. A temporary track was started on the west side of the track, but was not sufficient to withstand the side pressure of the heavy boom, hence the result mentioned, but nothing seemed to be much damaged outside of the wooden frame, a few little rods of minor inmportance being bent. Mr. Gifford’s views of an overhead crossing are not altogether in harmony with the sentiment about McCoysburg, as all would prefer a grade crossing.