Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1909 — HANGING GROVE; [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE;

Ed Peregrine is making sorghum this week. Russell Harmon is working for C. W. Bussell. Chas. Eib made a business trip to Illinois last week. P. B. Downs has rented a farm near Mt. Ayr for the coming season. Frank Ringeisen has gone to Minnesota for a few weeks’ sojourn. R. B. Porter and C. Howe are out in Kansas on a prospecting trip. Robt. Drake and Wash Cook made a trip down east of Monon Sunday.” Joe Lewis has the contract of putting in the tile on the Howe farm. Mrs. Chas. Sands, of Rensselaer, is visiting with A. M. Sands this week. Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy and Myrtle Lewis were in Rensselaer Monday. Sam Karr’s brother from Paxton, 111., came out Monday for a short visit. Dr. W. A. Baker and wife, of Fowler, are visiting August Tigler, this week. Miss Ethel Parker spent Saturday night and Sunday with R. L. Bussell and family. Mrs. Richard Foulks went to Logansport Monday to see a sick sister for a few days. Chas. Stultz is still nursing a very sore hand and will not be able to work for some time.

Mrs. Rebecca Jacobs, of Sanborn, Minn., is here visiting her brother, Jacob Stewart, and family. Chas. Eib is hajiling rock to make a foundation for a new barn he is planning to build this fall. Nelson Ducharm, Jr., and wife, of near Rensselaer, took dinner with F. L. Peregrine and family Sunday. Joseph Willits has rented a 320 acre farm near Mitchell, S. Dak., and will move out there next spring. Mr 3. Mary E. Lowe, Sarah Holmes and Ephriam Lefler took dinner with C. W. Bussell and family Sunday. John Clapp, of Lafayette, is making preparations for building an addition to the house where John Jordan lives. E. H. Quonen was appointed to this preaching circuit and will probably preach his first sermon Barkley Sunday. Several McCoysburg people saw the man that was killed by the Monon train No. 6 Monday afternoon.; He stopped in McCoysburg and got a drink of water. 0. S. Stewart came up from Crawfordsville Sunday morning, where he had been attending conference, for a few days’ visit with his parents. He will remain for the next pastorate year at Pence. Hanging Grove district schools began Monday with the following teachers: S. W. Noland, McCoysburg; Miss Sherry, Osborne; Chester A. Tyler, Fair View; Blanche Cook, Banta; Feme Parker, Moore. The Parker school was closed this year on account of scarcity of pupils. As there are only five pupils, they arc hauled to the Banta.