Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Miss Bertha Cook spent Thursday night with her uncle, Sam Noland, and family. Mrs. J. W. Rishling and Miss Anna Zable visited the former’s parents, west of McCoysburg, Wednesday. Floyd and Arthur Miller have rented the Wetheral farm, where P. B. Downs has lived for the past few years.

The first regular teachers’ institute of the school year will be held at McCoysburg next Saturday, Sept. 25th. Milroy tqtwnship will join with Hanging Grove in this work, as has been the custom for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Eldridge came home Friday morning from Monon, where Nate has been doing some carpenter w'ork for his father the past three weeks. He and Jim Nixon will do some ditching this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robinson will, on the sth of October, celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, and all of the relatives and friends are invited to attend. On that date they will have been married 50 years, and have lived practically all of that time in Jasper county, and a large portion of it in Hanging Grove township. Uncle George and Aunt “Becca” are widely known in Jasper county, and have always been kind and thoughtful neighbors.

Two Mormon preachers landed in McCoysburg late Wednesday evening, and each of them hustled around from house to house announcing a gospel meeting in front of Reed McCoy’s store, but as the evening was quite cool the school director allowed them to use the school house. The two of them propounded the scripture as they see it for more than an hour. While no one has any reason to doubt their sincerity in the Lord, most people seem to think they are just fooling away their time, as they only pick passages of scripture here and there and do not stay In any one place long enough to do any real good. They also have with them books and pamphlets of Mormon literature for sale, hut received no patronage here whatever. Their itinerary from here included Monon, Reynolds, Idaville and Delphi.