Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. J. R. Phillips has been on the sick list for the past few days. Engineer Stroup and wife visited with relatives at Kersey Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Bond and son, George, are visiting relatives at Oxford this week. Remember the ice cream social, Saturday night, August 21st, at McCoysburg. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Nitzschke visited his parents at Winamac over Sunday. Mrs. M. L. Ford and son, Kenneth, left Wednesday morning for a two or three weeks’ visit with her parents at Oakland, 111. \ Squire Bussell went to Rensselaer Tnesdrr. morning and joined Sheriff Shiier >’n taking Wm. Becker to Longcliffe. They got him over with out any trouble to speak of. Friends and relatives got up a neat little surprise diner party for Bertha Cook last Sunday, for her 18th birthday. Ice cream was served to about twenty-five guests. J. D. and Floyd Miller and families attended the funeral of Mrs. Will Miller, of Barkley, Thursday. J. D. Miller is a' brother of the deceased’s husband. M. L. Ford returned home Tuesday night from his Ohio trip, and Mr. and Mrs. Drake came home Wednesday, they having stopped over enroute home to call on some relatives. The three-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Nate Eldridge, Jr., was buried at the Nauvoo cemetery Wednesday, August 18th, at 2:30 p. m. Short funeral services were held at the home of its grandparents in Monon. Word reached McCoysburg Wednesday miming that Nate Eldridge’s baby had died at the home of his parents in Monon Tuesday night. They had just gone down to Monon on Sunday before, as was mentioned in Tuesday’s Mr. Gardner and son, of Rossville, are the proprietors of the new threshing outfit that was unloaded at Monon a few days ago, that will thresh the Osborne and McCoysburg neighborhoods. It is said to be a fine rig and the owners are competent machinists.

C. C. Randle and “Doc” Nichols shipped three loads of catle Tuesday. M)r. Randle had the finest bunch of cattle that has been put out of Hanging Grove for a number of years. The smallest steer weighed 1,350 pounds, while the largest one tipped the scales at 1,750 pounds.

John K. Smith has moved his family to Renselaer from the Rose farm. John has been working by the month for Mr. Rose for the past year, but feels a decline In health and thinks a change of climate might benefit him some, aftd will probably try the northwest. Mr. Rose moved onto the farm immediately and will now be a full fledged citizen of Hanging Grove.

Dr. E. B. Bryan, president of Franklin college, has been asked to take the presidency of Colgate university at Hamilton, N. Y., at a salary of $6,000 a year. It is probable he will accept, and If he does will leave Franklin before the beginning 'of the coming school year. Colgate is one of the most heavily endowed schools in the east.

Considerate safe crackers, who failed with one charge of nitroglycerin to open the safe in the office of the Bapner steam laundry in Eort Wayne Sunday night and who dropped another charge, which they couldn't explode through a hole in the steel, pasted a sign on the front of the safe, “Be careful; explosives in here,” before they departed. Their first attempt to blow open the safe started a fire which they smothered before leaving.