Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson, of Bluffton, is visiting-relatives here. Reed McCoy and wife spent Sunday with Mr. and. Mrs. Geo. McCoy. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Hughes came home from Hammond Wednesday morning. Time of the McCoysburg Sunday school has been changed to 2 o’clock in the afternoon, one hour before church /Service. There will be a useful shower given for Mr. and Mrs. Chester Downs npxt- Saturday night at the home of the grooms parents. Reed McCoy material on the ground for his' new cellar. It will be Bxl6 feet on the inside, and the roof /Will be of arch stone < covered With cement■ ■. - • ■

Chas. Bussell made a business trip to Chicago Tuesday, and stopped off at Hammond on his way home a few hours to see his mother-in-law, Mrs. Whitaker, who is not expected to live. Chester Downs and Kate Maxwell, both popular young people of this township, were married at Rensselaer Sunday, October 3rd, by Rev. Harper, in the presence of only a few friends and relatives. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom Went to the home of the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Downs, where they will remain for a few days until arrangements can be made for housekeeping on a farm they have rented near Mt. Ayr. They have the best wishes of their many friends. M. L. Ford had some thrilling experience with a chicken thief Sunday morning about 2 o’clock. He was first aroused from his sleep by a sound like the falling of a box also by the dog being disturbed, then shortly he heard the chickens. Robed just in his night clothes he gathered his shot gun and quietly slipped out in the shadow of a big locust tree in the back yard to get u peep at the thief. But the thief’s attention was taken from the chicken roost by the dog’s whining, and he made a dash for his life around the corner of the house and through the barn yard. Mr. Ford ran to the corner of the house an d fired at the intruder at about fifty yards distance, but evidently he did not lead his game far enough, as the bulk of the load struck the corn crib. The other barrel of the gun failed to discharge or we might have found who the thief was.