Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Geo. Infield was in McCoysburg a short time Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong visited Ed Peregrine and family Sunday. Misses Blanche Cook and Laura Phillips took diniier with Mary McDonald Sunday. C. W. Bussell and family took dinner with Roy Bussell’s at McCoysburg Sunday. W. C. Rose is now building a big double corn crib, having just completed his fine big barn. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart went over to Pence last week for a few days’ visit with their son, Olin, and family’ Mrs. B. D. Hall returned to her home at Royal, 111., Thursday, after a week’s visit with Millard Fross and family. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker took dinner with the latter’s brother, Jas. Downs, and family, north of Rensselaer, Sunday. The teacher and pupils at Osborne were completely smoked out Tuesday on account of the flue clogging up with coal soot. Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson went to Morocco Tuesday morning for a couple of weeks’ visit with her son, Sam Robinson, and family. J. W. Hitchings and son, Orville, returned to their homes Wednesday, after hauling out eleven car loads of tile on their farm and doing some other fall work. Ray McDonald and Bert Wood are going over to Foresmati to husk corn for J. W. Hitching, who is here doing considerable fall work on the Howe farm, which he recently bought. H. M. Hurd and family, of Rensselaer, visited R. B. Porter and family Sunday. Mr. Hurd will move to St. Joseph, Mo., in a few days, where he has secured employment as a steam fitter. John L. Osborne, of Rensselaer, was out in Hanging Grove a few hours Monday, having come out to get a nice calf he bought of Geo. Johnson. We will be glad when we can number John L. again aB one of our citizens. Miss Mabel Bessel, of Britton, S. Dak., is here visiting friends for a few weeks. She came to Rensselaer Saturday. She will go from here to Danville to remain until spring and probably all next summer unless she is lucky enough to draw a winning number on some land, for which she registered only a few days before leaving Dakota. The apple crop was no big thing the past season, but several fanners' raised enougfi for their own use. That is, those that keep their orchards well cultivated. Orchards now a days are

too badly badly neglected, as a whole, many are allowed ,to grow up in weeds and become sod bound or else the limbs and twigs become so dense that sunshine cannot penetrate to all parts of the tree. Iris Williams, little granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foulks, has been suffering considerable the past week with a severe case of tonsilitis, but was some better at this writing. Extra good care will keep her from any danger and as soon as warm weather comes again it is thought her tonsils will necessarily have to be removed to prevent a recurrence of the trouble.