Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

—| ' Hoy Rishling was at Michigan City Sunday. Oren Peregrine went to Wolcott Monday. Wm. Stiller called on his brother, Peter, Sunday. Arthur Miller lost a good three year old colt Thursday. Miss Josie Stultz is visiting friends (/■ in Barkley, this week. . Clyde Fulk add mother visited at Geo. Johnson’s Sunday. C. W. Bussell made a business trip to Monon Monday evening. Mrs. R. L. Bussell spent Friday with Mrs. C. W. Bussell. Charlie Middlestadt, of Monon, is visiting at Bob Drakes this week. J. N. Tyler and family attended the basket dinner in Milroy Sunday. John Johnson attended camp meeting at Battle Ground Sunday. Three of Brook Snedekers’ children have been quite sick, but are better now. Misses Carrie and Feme Parker entertained company from Chicago over Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Johnson and Mrs. Fulk were shopping at the county seat Monday. Orb Brown returned to Tefft Sunday, after working the past season for Marion Sands. == Reed McCoy had some new weatherboarding put on the front of his store building Tuesday. Frank Crowder came up from Indianapolis Wednesday morning for a few days’ visit with his parents. Geo. Johnson has had the toothache for two days so bad that his face has become almost equally as long. * Carl Willmington returned to his home at Tefft Sunday, after a few weeks’ work for Geo. Johnson and son. F. L. Peregrine and family came home from Wolcott Monday morning,after a week’s visit with Nelson Ducharmes’. Miss Ollie Vandervort, who has been helping Mrs. Hoy Rishling with her house work, returned to, her home east of Monon Saturday. About twenty invited couples attended the party given by the Jordan girls Friday evening, in honor of their cousin from Crawfordsville. Mrs. Henry Brannon and baby, of Monticello, came to McCoysburg Monday for a few days’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Montz. The Sells show train passed through McCoysburg a little after 5 o’clock Wednesday morning enroute to Monticello. They had about 60 cars. Mr. and Mrs. James Downs and son, Cecil, Mr. and Mrs. John Marnitz and Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, the latter of Indianapolis, visited at P. B. Downs’ Sunday.

Geo. H. Thomas came up from Lafayette Monday morning on a short business trip. He intends to take his wife and spend h>s annual vacation in Michigan in a Tew days. Noble Moulds and son, Winfield, of Eylar, and John Richardson, of Pontiac, 111., came out to Hanging Grove Thursday on a short business trip. They returned home Saturday morning. Tom Becker, who has been working for Ed Randle this suminer, has gone home for a few days to take care of his father and mother in Milroy. They are nearly frantic over the sad misfortune of their son, William. A sanity inquest was held on the person of Wm. Becker, of Milroy Sunday at McCoysburg by Drs. Kvesle.and English, of Rensselaer, and Justice C. W. Bussell. He was adjudged insane and was taken to jail the same evening. Mrs. C. A. Lefler cut an ugly gash in her little finger of the left hand Sunday, while washing the dinner dishes. The blood was very hard to stop, and the finger was still bleeding Monday when she was taken to the doctor. ’ r he basket dinner over ia Milroy was a grand success throughout, and Freeman Wood, of Rensselaer, coucluded the program by ' eating two whole fried chickens, and some doubled if he would be able to resume his duty at the shop Monday morning. Squire Bussell held court at hiß home Friday afternoon, the parties in litigation were.from Gillam and the trouble arose over some fence and a bridge. Evidence waß found sufficient to stick one fellow for SI.OO and costs, amounting to $7.50, which he paid. Lute Jacks, a supervisor of Monon township, White county, is out doing his road work for this Beason. and has five or six teams busy on the road past Mr. Zabels. It is a mean low grade, and gets almost Impassable in the muddy season of the year, but Lute has a nice outlet plowed for the