Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

Ed Oliver finished threshing Saturday. Wesley Marion, of Ohio, visited his son, William, this week. Several of our people attended church at Gifford Sunday night. Miss Bingham, our teacher, was in Rensselaer Saturday shopping. Harry Gifford is hauling his onions to Alfred Donnelly’s near Rensselaer. Sam Bowen is working for C. J. Hobbs at Kersey as assistant civil engineer. J. S. Holladay moved to Wheatfield Monday, where he will run a hay press. Thos. Walter and family, of Pleasant ’Grove, visited friends at Newland Sunday. William Marion and George Beedy are putting up hay for Geo. Steipbel, north of Wheatfield, this week. Mr. and Mr»r- Herman Ahlers, of Francesville, spent a couple of days with relatives here this week. William Rees and William Cooper, who are working on the steam shovel at Kersey, spent Sunday with their families. T. M. Callahan shipped five cars of onions to Chicago last week, and is still loading. Onions were a good crop here this year. Mr. Folger, our trustee, is building a new wood and coal house at our school, something that we have been needing very badlV.