Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Chas. Erb began work on his new barn Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Drake visited relatives at Monon Sunday. Sam Karr’s mother, of Paxton, 111., spent a week visiting here. Wm. E. Jacks qnd family visited with his father and mother at Lee Sunday. Arthur Miller went over to .his brother, Elzie’s, Monday to work for a few days. Clarence Montz went to Monticello Saturday evening for a short visit with relatives. „ ’ Miss Carrie Parker came home from Brook Wednesday, where she- had been visitirig her sister and family for a few days. We are listening for the wedding bells tp sound over dn the east side. There are, at least. tWq prospective couples over there/T • The farmers are now pretty generally busy working out their road tax, and as soon as the work is completed corn husking will begin. Charley Wolfe and Wm. Bachtold have each bought a new corn dump for farm use, and have got them attached to their cribs ready for corn husking. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Downs will not move into their new house at present, as was first contemplated, but will remain with her parents in Hanging Grove until after corn husking at least. Mr. and Mrs. Honar Rogers and children, of Wolcott, spent Saturday night with C. A. Lefler and family, and attended the birthday dinner at Tom Jack’s, near Lee, on Sunday. Brook Snedeker took the prize for the tallest man, and by mistake the paper stated he was from Barkley, when it should have said Hanging Grove. Brook has been a resident of our township for the past two years. The first box social of tie season will be at Banta school house Saturday night, Oct. 30th. Blanch Cook, is the teacher, and they are arranging a very nice program that deserves the patronage of all the neighbors. Ladies should all bring boxes. • The heavy rainfall Friday night, following the strong wind the day before, did considerable damage to the corn, as lots Of it is lying on the ground. If it should stay rainy for a week or ten days, many of the ears touching the ground will be spoiled. Miss Eva Johns celebrated her 10th birthday Saturday afternoon by inviting several of her playmates to her home and spending about two or three hours at games. Eva has taken a course of lessons on the organ the past summer. Albert Warner came home Thursday from Illinois, where he has been for a couple of weeks, since returning from his big western trip. Mrs. Warner came home the first of September, to send their son, Paul, to school here. Albert has made arrangements to locate at Thomasboro, 111., for the present, and will move his family Out there soon. Mr. Gifford’s big dry land dredge is now doing grade work at McCoysburg on the over-head crossing. They are running a night and day crew and are pushing the work along quite rapidly. Those that have never seen a machine like this one work, should spare a few moments and see how it does the work. This machine is capable of doing any kind of grade work, and is a great labor saving device, for it does away with, the old fashioned way of team and scraper construction.