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

BURNS TOWN.

C. Morgenegg finished ,up sowing wheat Saturday. Michael Burns attended church at Rensselaer Sunday. Philip Durant called on John Shroer Sunday afternoon. Bessie McElfresh spent Sunday afternooit with Ethel Marlatt. Elmer Brown passed through our town Saturday evening headed north. Quite a crowd, from this locality attended the ball game at Rensselaer last Sunday. Mrs. George McElfresh and children called on Wm. Green and family Sunday afternoon. Misses Bertha and Ethel and Spencer Holmes attended church at Rensselaer Sunday. Grover Brown spent Saturday night with Ben Hopkins, and accompanied them to Flora Sunday.

George McElfresh and son, Alpha, and S. H. Holmes called on John Clouse Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Florence and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ad. Shook and family Sunday. Mrs. C. Morgenegg and children called on Mrs. Barney Kolhoff and children Sunday afternoon. Mort Shroer went to Monon Sunday to spend the day with his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gorman. Mrs. John Scott spent Thursday and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes and family, of central Nubbin Ridge. Sherman Richards and his men are painting Mr. Frazee's buildings on both farms, where S. H. Holmes and A. Garriot now live. S. H. Hopkins passed through our town Sunday morning enroute to Flora, Carroll county, to spend the day with his son, John, and family. Charles Greenlee and niece, Miss Stella Brown, arrived home Saturday from Pleasant Hill,'Tenn., where they have spent a couple of weeks visiting friends and relatives.

Green goods men have resumed sending circulars to intended victims here. They offer a liberal fortune for the small sum of SSOO in real money. It seems incredible that any one can be so simple as to be caught by these swindlers, and yet many people do fall victims to their wiles.