Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE.

Floyd Porter is working on the Monon section. Miss Laura Phillips spent Wednesday with Bertha Cook. Mrs. Richard Foulks returned home from Logansport Monday morning. Miss Vera Lefler went to Rensselaer Monday morning. R. S. Drake came home Wednesday evening from visiting the stock show at Chicago. Mrs. J. R_ Phillips and Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson visited at Wash. Cook’s Wednesday. J. R. Phillips went over to Monticello Monday on a short business trip. y Kary McDonald, of LaCrosse, returned home Monday morning, after a few days’ visit with relatives here. Mrs. Ann Rishling went to Monticello Monday to spend the day with Mrs. Harvey Phillips. Horton & Mosley have just completed a fine big machine shed on their ranch, northeast of Lee. Jerome Harmon has moved from the McAffee farm to Rensselaer, and will move to a farm next spring. Mr. Newbolt, of Buffalo, is shredding fodder in the Osborne neighborhood this week. Chas. Wolfe shelled corn Wednesday. T}ie first shelling that has been done outside the elevators. Squire C. W. Bussell attired in his long-tailed black coat, went to Newland Wednesday to officiate at the marriage of a very popular young couple of that vicinity. Geo. Johnson announces that he is a candidate for roud supervisor in his district, and does hereby request the support of all his friends at the election on December 18th. Grover Petree came from Wisconsin Tuesday, where he has been working for James Lefler the past summer. He started on the eleven o’clock train Thursday tor his home in Heiskell, Tenn. The election date for electing road supervisors has been set for Dec. 18. Each district will hold its own election, and where it is possible the present supervisors will hold the elections except the district where the trustee resides, in which case he is required to hold the election.

Because he secured the consent of her mother without first asking her own word, Miss Grace Turnemeyer; 16 years old, refused to marry Harry Rose, 19 years old, sou of Charles Rose, of Vincennes. Rose had already obtained the license and the wedding diner was in preparation at the Rose home. Inspector Edward McCann, of Chicago, has been denied a new trial. McCann was found guilty of extorting* money from thieves and prostitutes.