Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1909 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

—Ed Oliver went to Hammond Friday and bought .a new potato digger. W. N. Jordan worked for T. M. Callahan Thursday. A few of our farmers will begin husking corn this week. James Snider and Wm. Martin were in Wheatfield on business Thursday. Ed Walker and Newt Bowman are moving a barn for T. M. Callahan. Wm. Folger, our trustee, was seen on our streets Saturday. Mrs. Beedy, mother of Geo. Beedy, is visiting him for a few days. E. E. Kennedy was in Medaryville Saturday on business. Tillman Watson, of Pleasant Grove, was here on business Sunday. Quite few from here attended church at Gifford Saturday night. Geo. Johnson loaded three cars of hay for Geo. Stembel at Wheatfield here this week. Miss Nettie Jordan,’ of Rockford, Ill.; is visiting her parents, west of Newland, for a few days. Charles snd Victor Walker are hauling their onions to Alf Donnely’s, near Rensselaer. Thos. Smith and Silas Toombs are putting in tile for Gifford & Blitstein on the Adair farm. The steam shovel, which has been working at McCoysburg, passed through here Sunday,, going to the north end to work for a few day#. William Marion and Geo. Beedy, who have been working at Wheatfield, returned home Thursday, and are now plowing for T. M. Callahan.