Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — BURNS TOWN. [ARTICLE]

BURNS TOWN.

Threshing- is the order of the day. Mrs. Samuel Holmes and Bertha were in Rensselaer Saturday. James Stanley visited with Walter and Elmer Brown Sunday. .Johnny Williams visited with his grandmother, Mrs. Price, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Reed called on Mr. and Mrs. John Marlatt Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sulenberger called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ropp Sunday evening. * Philip Durant and Emmett Pullins commenced threshing Monday noon on the ring. Miss Laura Beergard, of Chicago, is visiting with Miss Agnes and Maggie Hurley for a week or two. Misses Lucy and Katie Morgenegg and Ethel and Bertha Holmes called on Misses Agnes and Maggie Hurley Sunday. / Mrs. Chris Morgenegg, Jr., and children returned home to Illinois Sunday, after spending a few weeks here with friends and relatives. C. A. Reed is in the lead so far for th 6 largest yield of oats per acre. His averaged 63 bushels, and Emmett Pullins' wheat averaged 37 bushels. Herman Anderson started to Dakota Monday, where ’lje is going to remain until Christmas and go from there to New Mexico, where his mother now lives. Lester Shriner came down from Chicago Thursday where he had beeti at the bedside of his aged father. He had only been here a little while when the sad news came that he had passed away. Mrs. George McElfresh returned with Lester Saturday to attend the funeral. The ball game between Possom Run and Pleasant Ridge resulted in a score of 47 to 6 in favor of Pleasant Ridge. Ye scribe has decided to keep that measley five. The Possom Run boys say it they can’t do better than that next time they are going to* give their ball suits away and come home after night.