Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Arthur of .Chicago, is vis-, .iting \ytth ;E. K. Godshall this week. (Jrandihother Zabel is reported quite sick. She is quite an aged lady. T. E. Johnson and family visited at Charley Stultzs’ Friday. Miss Elsie Smith went up to Mt. Ayr Thursday to help her aunt during the hay making. Oveta Ireland, of Rensselaer, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ireland, near Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Eldridge, of Monon, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Eldridge, of Nauvoo, visited with Nate Eldridge Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hooker and son Cecil went to Monon Saturday evening for a visit over Sunday with Ed Rogers and family. Mrs. Wash Lowman’s mother, Mrs. Lucy Cronour, is quite sick at the the home of the former, her sickness is caused by cancer. Mr. and Mrs. John Marnitz and Mrs. Geo. Evans and two sons from south of Pleasant Ridge, visited at P. B. Down’s Sunday. Ray Parker, of Marion, is here visiting relatives for a while and would probably remain for a month or two should he be able to find work. There will be an ice cream social at P. B. Downs Saturday night, July 24th, for benefit of church fund. Plenty of cream. All are invited. Reed McCoy and wife and Vira Lefller were in Chicago Thursday, that same morning the milk train was nearly two hours late, hence their time was quite limited in the city. C. W. Bussell is installing a new pair of Fairbanks-Morse wagon scales at the railroad to take the place of the old ones. They are all steel beams and will be erected on a solid foundation. There were nineteen in attendance at Parker Sunday, more than double the attendance of the Sunday before, and it is hoped more will avail themselves of the opportunity of helping the Sunday school work by Coming out next Sunday, and encouraging the young officers that have been installed, which were as follows: Wilson Bussell, superintendent; Grace Cochran, secretary; Zera Smith, treasurer; Elsie Smith, organist. Mr. Cochran was elected to serve as assistant superintendent and Grace Cochran as assistant organist.