Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. A. A. Rusk is visiting relatives in Missouri. _ Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker took dinner with Patrick Halligan’s Sunday. Edward Downs and family, of Indianapolis, are here visiting relatives. Miss Lucy Beasley visited Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ford Saturday and Sunday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac McCurtain, Sunday, Sept. 26th, a ten pound daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Porter spent Saturday and Sunday at Rensselaer with relatives. J. D. Miller will not, as at first contemplated, visit the north pole this fall, for fear strangers might receive a cold shoulder. ' R. L. Bussell went to Hammond Sunday to see his aged grandmother, Mrs. Nancy Whitaker, who is very sick with typhoid fever. Harry Gwin was laid up from work the most of last week by a swollen jaw, the result of three or four days toothache. E. Gilmore and J. P. Gwin went'out to the former’s dredge Friday morning to begin dismantling it. It will be taken out of the ditch for the present.

Rollie Stewart was employed seven nights last week to watch Ott Hookers’ melon patch. Ott was fortunate to secure a person so well acquainted with the surroundings. A surprise party was given in honor of Ethel Parkinson’s sevefitieentE birthday at Roy Bussell’s Friday night. It failed to be a complete surprise,- however, as the news mysteriously leaked out. About thirty guests assembled and spent the evening at games and music.

Miss Eva Hughes, daughter of the section foreman, was seized with an attack of heart failure about seven o’clock Friday evening while in the yard, and when first, noticed by her brother life was thought to be extinct. Help was called’ in and she was soon brought back to a conscious condition.

C. W. Bussell got his new wheat drill last Thursday. It has been over three weeks comipg from Peoria, 111. It is one of the latest patents, having both fertilizer and grass seed attachments, and is of the disc pattern instead of the old fashioned hoes. Several of the neighbors intend to use it also. -

Section -foreman, Smith Hughes, circulated a subscription paper the forepart of last week for the benefit of the Chas. Stultz family, who have been put in bad straits financially on account of Charley’s disablement from work, which has been mentioned heretofore. Something like sl4 or sls was raised, part groceries and part cash, and Thursday night all the articles contributed were loaded on a cart and taken to the family. It was indeed a very pleasant surprise and the writer was asked to thank each contributor through these columns for their thoughfulness in time of need.