Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Trustee Geo. Parker attended the trustees’ meeting Monday. R. B. Porter went over to Newton, 111., Friday on a business jtrip. Robert Johns is home from Lafayette visiting his parents this week. Early oats are .ripening fast and will be ready to cut in a few days. Bob Drake shipped his car load of hogs Tuesday night of last week. A. Williamson and family attended the celebration at Medaryville Saturday. W. C. Rose shipped" a car load of cows from McCoysburg Tuesday evening. Quite a number from here attended the sane celebration at Francesville Sunday, and reported a good time. Mr. and Mrs. John Osborn returned to New Albany Sunday evening, after a visit with Mrs. Osborn’s parents here. Mrs. Chas. Crowden, of Goodland, came over Friday morning for a few days’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Hoormon. Omar Church, Oren Peregrine, Frank Peregrine and Gale Willits are working on the section at McCoysburg. They began work Monday morning. Miss Lora Phillips accompanied her uncle, Dan Robinson, to his home at Bluffton. Wells county, Monday, where she expects to .stay for a few weeks and help in the store. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams and daughter. Iris, of Milroy, went to Wheatfleld Friday via the C. & W. V., for a few days’ visit with the former’s parents, also to attend the celebration on the sth. Each year the Fourth is or should be celebrated more and more on the picnic order, instead of one continuous round of dynamite explosions that is sure to result in the loss of hands, arms, eyes and in many cases cost innocent lives. Trains Nos. 5 and 6 were stopped at McCoysburg Saturday and several people took advantage of it and went to Monticello to the celebration. Some accompanied the McCoysburg ball team to Fair Oaks where the two teams played for a $25 purse. Ambrose Blasdel, of Broad Ripple, who bought the 80 acre farm where Simon Parcels lived last year, is here now keeping bachelor’s hall and looking after his farm. He has rented the land to some neighbors this year and will not move his family here before next year, as the house will have to be thoroughly overhauled this fall. Tom Stroup and his brother-in-law, of near Wolcott, R. L. Bussell and family and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bussell and two daughters, Florence and Ella spent Monday picnicing on the Kankakee river and in fact all along the road, as the train was sent out as a picnic excursion and stopper anywhere the parties desired to stay and look awhile.