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

BURNS TOWN.

Samuel Holmes sold some fat hogs Wednesday. * ’ Elias Arnold hauled a load of hogs to market Friday. Frank Brown is working for Chas. Greenlee at present. Mr. and Mrs. E. Meyers'visited at Charley Reeds' Sunday. Johnny Williams is working for Mark Schroer at present. Miss Alice and Jennie Eib were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Mrs. Ed Fauley is visiting for a few days with her sister, Mrs. Samuel Price. Earl Gorbet, Jim Stanley, Frank and Grover Brown called on S. Holmes Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Arnold and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. A. Eib and family Sunday. Quite a crowd of young folks gathered in at Thos. Brown’s Sunday, and all enjoyed a good time. John Scott has learned a new way to catch fish, he has been experimenting. He says it’s all O. K. Misses Katie and Eva Morgenegg visited with Miss Bessie McElfresh Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Ethel Holmes visited her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Will Whittaker, of Rensselaer, Wednesday. John Scott and wife passed through our town Sunday, going to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson. Thos. Brown took his little boy, Albert, to town Tuesday to consult a doctor. He has a breaking out of pimples. Rollin Eib returned home Thursday from Indianapolis, where he has been attending business college for the past four months. John Scott sold a load of corn to buy him a buggy whip he said. Instead of going four miles an hour it took him four hours to go a mile. Mrs. George McElfresh was called to Sheridan, 111., Saturday to attend the funeral of her aged mother, Mrs. George Shriener.. Mr. and Mrs. Shriener moved from this locality two years ago, and left a host of friends and neighbors to mourn her departure.