Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Joshua Ross and family spent Sunday and ate ice cream with J. F. Cochran and family. .* Mrs. J. H. Montz went to Monticello Monday evening to help her daughter take care of a large cherry crop. B. J, Gifford was in McCoysburg for a few moments Monday morning. He came in on the milk train and was quickly transfered to his own train by Frank Peregrine. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips attended the auto race Saturday. Only a very few people went from this immediate locality, as the farmers were extremely busy plowing corn. Mrs. P. B. Downs spent a few days the fore part of the week with her son, James Downs, and family, north of Rensselaer, helping take care of her little grandson, who was qtiite sick for a few days. * R. S. Drake is preparing to ship another load of hogs to the Chicago market this week. The price has been soaring a little above 8 cents for several days, the highest price for perhaps nine or ten years. Mrs. Wallace Parkison and daughter, Ardis, returned home Monday afternoon, after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Parker. Her father took them overland in a buggy and intended to return home Tuesday. Charles Sands, of Rensselaer, also a brother living near Tefft, were down to visit their brother, Marion Sands, living on the old Peterson farm, Sunday. The brother from .Tefft bought a pair of wild geese of C. W. Bussell. Gertrude Downs went over to her brother Jim’s Tuesday to help care for their baby, whose sickness is mentioned elsewhere. This is an extremely bad season of the year for a young baby- to get sick, as the next two months are generally conceded to be the hardest part of the year even for well babies, as it gets so very warm.

Several people attended Children’s Day at Lee Sunday, but a number also stayed at home, as it was reported that the whooping cough was in lots of the homes there. Whooping cough is regarded by some as not dangerous nor very serious at this season of the year, but no one cares to run into a disease with children if the fact is known before hand. Otto Hooker recently sold his black driving horse to John Culp, of Barkley township, B and Monday morning he brought home a-fine chestnut sorrel nag, 3 years old, that he purchased over near Francesville. It is a nice looking animal and makes three sorrel colts he now owns, which are all more or less on the draft order, which would indicate that Ott does not intend to work in the capacity of a hired hand much longer, however, the latter is just a mere supposition. .Geo. W. Bond, E. J. Randle and John Culp went up to the Lowell-Crown Point auto course Friday to view the racers. The party went via the auto route, in a machine from Francesville, but when they reached Watervalley all the cylinders were dry and they were compelled to take on a supply of lubricating oil before the journey could be continued. They arrived home in reasonable good time Friday night, but slept most of the next day, and quite often they could be heard say, Oh, Watervalley.

One of the foreigners that works on the section at Gifford was down to visit five or six people of the same class at the boarding cars near McCoysburg Sunday, and on his way home he broke the lock on Chas. Bussell’s speeder that was setting along Bide the track. But, of course, sucb things never escape the squire’s notice, and just as the fellow was in the act of putting the car on the track, the squire confronted him with a whole string of law and justice. The poor fellow plead for mercy and the squire released him on the promise of good behavior hereafter.. The Parker Sunday school has gradually faded away during the past three years, since so many of her ardent supporters have moved away, and unless stronger interest is manifested soon, that point as a Sunday school center will be a blank. So it baa been arranged to make next Sunday a sort of special Sunday school day and everyone is invited to be present at two o’clock in the afternoon and help decide what course shall be pursued. There is no logical reason why a good Sunday school cannot be kept up at Parker, so make your plans right away to be on hand for Sunday school next Sunday at 2 o’clock. Fendig’s Xclusive Shoe Store gives yon standard goods below so-called sale prices.