Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Clarence Montz went to Monon Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lefler were In Rensselaer Thursday. Mrs. J. C. Ireland has been op the sick list the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Reed. McCoy and Myrtle Lewis were in Rensselaer Thursday. f Jerome Harmon’s brother, of Rugby, N. Dak., is here for a visit with relatives. Miss Ethel Parker spent Thursday night and Friday with R. L. Bussell and family. The Ladies’ Aid Society of McCoysMrs. Harvey Wood and her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. Van Wood, and two children, visited at J. R. Phillips’ Thursday. burg will serve ice cream and cake and probably strawberries also at the school house on Saturday night, June 27th, for the church at that place. Everybody invited. Geo. H. Thomas came up from La fayette Friday morning in his auto, to look over the Wetheral farms here, and expected to go back as far as Chalmers the same day. What wheat we have is looking good thus far, and Unless something unforseen overtakes it, the yield will be good. War, Lehman has about the smallest field yet, it looks about the best of aaiy. Jake Packer went to Attica Thursday to take treatment at the springs. He is Afflicted with yellow jaundice, and has tried nearly every remedy imaginable Without any lasting relief. Some doctors say Bis oase is hopeless, others say a cure is possible. It is certainly a dreadfully annoying disease, as the poor man digs himself with his finger nails almost incessantly. The eclipse of the sun Thursday evening was plain to be seen by use of a smoked glass. It has been a number of years since the total eclipse of the sun, but we are told by the older ones that it occurred about 4 p. m., and the chickens Went to roost as if it was night. As the sun is 92 million miles away, the planets are only visible when passing between us and the sun. “What is so rare as a day in June,” when strawberries are ripe and a good patron brings out a heaping dish of the big red juicy berries for the mail k man’s dinner? Such was the joyous experience of the writer a few days ago. Strawberries are a luxury that every farmer should have, and could have at a comparatively low £ost, as it doesn’t require only a small patch of ground to produce an abundance of berries if properly cultivated. The Moffitt dredge encountered solid rock Friday only about 900 feet from starting point. The specifications call for a depth of five feet and some inches where the rock is, and th6y were only able to go three feet and only have eighteen inches of water, when it-takes three feet of water to float the boat. They abandoned the work Friday afternoon awaiting the action of the. ditch superintendent, Price, as their specifications calls fqr all clear digging. It is said that the surveyor tested the depth of the rock every hundred feet through this same spot, and did not find any rock short of seven feet. If his test was true, then the rock has surely risen nearer the surface since that time. An insanity inquest was held on the person of John Tigler Thursday at the home of his son, August. The Inquest was held by Squire C. W. Bussell, Trustee Geo. Parker and Drs. Washburn, of Rensselaer, and Kelsey, of Francesville. Mr. Tigler has acted strangely for some time and it is claimed by the relatives has become dangerous and unmanageable of late. Last fall he suffered a sunstroke while in’Francesville one day and was unable to come home for several days, and, according to the testimony given, his mind has been fast failing ever since. He was adjudged Insane, and was committed to the Jail at Rensselaer the same evening, until application could be made for his acceptance at Longcliff. He is 76 years old and has two children, one son, August, with whom he has made his home, and Mrs. W. A Baker, of Fowler.