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

HANGING GROVE.

J. D. Miller lost a good horse last week. Mrs. A. A. Rusk and daughter, Ethel, returned home Tuesday morning from Lebanon, Mo., where they have been visiting relatives. R. B. Porter went over to Newton, 111., Monday morning to see their land interests, also the elevator at that place. Chas. P. Saidla butchered a beef Tuesday afternoon, and sold it out Wednesday to' his former fish customers.

Mrs.»*J. W. Kelley, of Marion, returned home today, after a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McCoy. rJohn Tomilson, of Monon, pressed hay for P. B. Downs this week. A hay-rack load of young people from McCoysburg went up to J. C. Maxwells, in Barkley, Tuesday night, armed with tin pans and shot guns and “belled” the bride and groom. It was about eleven o’clock, but they made the family get up and let them in, after which the party soon left for home, getting in at the short hours of the morning. The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robinson Tuesday was attended by forty-six of their friends and relatives. A fine big dinner was served and the day spent in social chats. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson received a nice little sum of money and several handsome presents. - Richard Foulks made a trip on the C. & W. V. Ry Tuesday to buy cabbage and onions«for his own use.

A young man by the name of Abler, living on the Kunes place, was probably fataly injured in a runaway Sunday, near Monticello. He was on his way to Monticello to haul gravel, and had some hay on his wagon, the team took fright and in his efforts to hold them he slid off the load behind the horses and was kicked twice in the breast. He may die any moment. Supervisor Hoy Rishling is doing some of his road work this week. Speaking of having things handy on the farm, Brook Snedeker is coming to the front along that line. He has a oew gasoline engine that pumps the water, slops the hogs, churns, paddles the butter, runs the washingmachine, and will soon have an attachment to paddle the children. Brook says it beats a windwill ten to one. Mrs. S. L. Karr is visiting relatives at Paxton, lU.

There arg 40,131 persons, big and little, officers and scholars, identified with the Sunday schools in Marion county. This figure is announced by the Marion county Sunday schools association, and the information is one of the by-products of the associated Sunday school movement, which crystallizes in the county association. Geo. Carver has filed suit for $15,000 damages against the Pennsylvania railway company in the Bartholomew circuit court for personal injuries. He alleges that while working at one of the company’s turntables a rope broke and he was thrown a distance of twenty-five feet and so severely injured that paralysis followed, rendering him helpless.

Williard J. Shawcross, 10-year-old son of Mrs. Emma Shawcross, of Anderson, was electrocuted by picking up a fallen telephone wire which lay in an alley back of his home. The wire crossed a high voltage electric light wire and had been lying on the ground for ten days since a storm. The boy suffered the amputation of his right leg two years ago.

An Irish tramp one day wandered into a country churchyard, and seating himself on a new mound, deciphered the following old inscription: “Dear friends, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I; as I am now, you’ll surely be, so prepare for death and follow me." The Irishman scratched his head and fishing out an old stub pencil from his pocket, wrote underneath: “To follow ye I’ll not cinsint, ’till I know which way ye wint.”

Announcement has been made that Immediate steps will be taken, with assurance of success, in enlisting eastern capital in the building of an interurban system giving Chicago connection with Winona Lake. The men interested in the project plan to begin construction of the road early In 1910.

Chas. Pinckney, second baseman on the Dayton baseball team, who was hit on the head with a pitched ball in Tuesday’s game with Grand Rapids, died in the hospital at Dayton Wednesday noon. He suffered a fracture of the skull.