Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — BURNS TOWN. [ARTICLE]

BURNS TOWN.

Herbert Elb was in Rensselaer Monday. T. S. Brown was in Rensselaer Tuesday. • Mrs. Samuel Holmes is slowly improving from her recent sickness. Samuel Holmes and C. Morgenegg commenced making hay Tuesday. --- Corn plowing is almost a thing of the past. Crops in general are looking fine. Samuel Holmes and Hertha and Spencer were Rensselaer goers Sat4 - urday. Mrs. William Gratner and Floyd and Ethel were in Rensselaer Saturday. Miss Katie Arnold got badly burned Tuesday while lighting a gasoline stove. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Daugherty and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. A. Eib and family Sunday. _ ' Mrs. John Scott returned home Thursday, after spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. S. Holmes. Misses Alice and Jennie Eib went away Monday to Winona to enter school for the rest of the summer. The trustee is having the Burns school house painted and out building also. Mr. Wm. Hefferline is doing the work. Mrs. Lester Shriener and children, of Sheridan, 111., are visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Morgenegg, and family for a few weeks. C. A. Reed passed through our town Sunday, breaking a young horse single. Charley had him fixed so he couldn’t shake his feet in his face. The ball game between Possum Run and Aix was well attended Sunday. The score was 22 to 2 in favor of Possum Run. The same teams play next Sunday at Aix. Everybody come out and see our boys get it laid across them. Wonder if Pleasant Ridge is dead, ye scribe still has that measley five.