Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Marion Sands was in Rensselaer Sunday. Miss Vera Lefler is taking a week’s vacation. Chas. Stultz is layed up from work with a bruised hand. Jos. Willits is out in South Dakota on a prospecting trip. Miss Cora Tyler helped Mrs. Ford last week'with her work. Sheriff Shirer, of Rensselaer, called on Geo. Johnson Wednesday. George Johnson and wife called on Clyde Fulk and mother Sunday. Joseph Willits’ are entertaining company from Lafayette this week. John Seifers, of Mt. Carmel, visited his sister, Mrs. James Tyler., Thursday.

Miss Kate Maxwell visited friends in Hanging Grove Monday and Tuesday.

Misses Hazel Drake and Lizzie Hooker took dinner with Mrs. Mary E. Lowe Tuesday. C. W. Bussell and family visited with S. B. Holmes and family, west of

Rensselaer, Sunday. Mrs. Etta Jennings, of Oxford, came home with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Bond, for a few days’ visit. Geo. Johnson began to go lame early Tuesday. On Monday he had bad luck; traded horses. Miss Sarah Holmes, of Rensselaer, assisted Mrs. C. W. Bussell in cooking for threshers last week. Misses Bertha and Francis Lowe, of spent Saturday night and Sunday with Robert Drake and family. Mrs. James Dean and son, of Indianapolis, are visiting with her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Karr, and family. Mr. and Mbs. R. L. Bussell and daughter, Lucile, visited with Wm. R. Whittaker and family, of Rensselaer, Sunday. A While threshing rye a few days ago Hoy Rishling got a beard in his eye, and it was necessary to have the doctor remove it.

Joseph Stewart and wife went to Paulding county, Ohio, to attend a reunion of the Stewart family. • They will be gone a week. J. E. Tillet, of Francesville, a brother of Mrs. Mary Parker and Mrs. P. T. Robinson, died Monday night, after a long sickness. R. O. Johns went to Kersey‘Wednesday morning to do some repair work on one of the railroad engines. Oren Peregrine worked in the shop during his absence. James Tyler rounded up nine rattlesnakes in an oats field last Friday, on the old Stiers farm, and without anything about him to cure a bite. He went after them with a pitch fork and came out first best. Jim hofds.the banner thus far for rattlesnake killing, but he didn’t save the rattles. If you see a rattlesnake in your summer peregrinations do not run to the faithful flask. Modern science declares that those who recovered through its agency in the past must have owed their lives to a lively imagination, as the remedy is without merit. What will be the next excuse for us to keep a little flask.

By order of the mayor Fort Wayne was dry Sunday. The effort to make saloon keepers there obey the law and their determination to break it, shows the poor regard bar keepers have for the promises so fulsomely made a few inonthß ago when there was prospect of altogether driving them out of business. A broken mirror was cut in a small square, and cardboard placed back of it. The edges were finished with red passe-partout and it made a hqpdy sharing mirror.