Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — WHEATFIELD [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD

Wheatfield Review. Mrs. Wm. McNeil has been on the sick list this week. Let every citizen resolve to plant a few trees on Arbor Day. Protect your feathered friends. Man could not live if there were no birds. William Helmick has erected an additional lumber shed to his lumber yard. Mrs, Fred Thomas visited Tuesday with James Murray and family at Stoutsburg. J _ Simon Fendig and Trustee A. S. Keen transacted business at the county seat Monday. Mrs. John Allen, of Kankakee, came Friday for a visit with the family of Simon Fendig. Free package of sweet pea seeds for the ladies at Fendig’s Drug Store today, tomorrow and Saturday. Attorney Abe Halleck, wife and two sons autoed here Sunday for a look at prosperous Kankakee Valley. Trustee Albert Keen, John Biggs, Henry Wagner and John Williams were county seat visitors Thursday. Mrs. Elizabeth Massey,' aged 94, died at ner home in Porter county, where she had lived eighty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Mallie Clark visited over Sunday at Rensselaer with her parents, Mayor Chas. Spitler and wife. Mrs. Frank Trinosky and baby, of North Judson, visited here Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Joseph Hilliard and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper, of Porter county, visited here Sunday at the home of her brother, Robert Mannan and wife. Mrs. L. W. Brown went to Fort Dodge, lowa, last Thursday evening to attend the obsequies of her father, who died suddenly. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Spry and children, of Lowell, visited here over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John East.

Mrs. Charles Spitler," of ' Rensselaer, came last Thursday for a visit at Oakwood with her daughter, Mrs. Mallie Clark and hqsband. James Goin has purchased the pool room fixtures of Clifford Hamilton. Cliff will locate ih some other building with his barber shop. The ladies are invited to call today, Friday and Saturday at Fendig’s Drug Store and receive a free package of sweet pea seed. The temperance lectures at the M. E. church this week are well attended and quite a number are signing the pledge to abstain from using liquors. Albert Stembel and wife have commenced housekeeping in the Ambrose Hendrickson cottage, the last house on the right hand side of Grove street The members of Wheatfield. Camp and their families held an April fool party at the opera house last Thursday evening and a very enjoyable time was reported. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Williams, daughter, Carrie, and son, George, returned via auto Sunday evening from Rensselaer fijom a visit with relatives. The large attendance at the K. of P. Lodge here Wednesday evening of last week were there to see Gorge Byers take his third on the Pythian goat Mrs. Myrtle Ferguson received a postal shower of 94 cards April sth to. remind her of her 37th birthday. Many of the cards were handsome ones. Mrs. Ferguson desires to thank her many friends for their kindness and remembrance. Henry Tabor has taken the contract from McWilliams Bros, to clear the timber from the line along the Kankakee river for the big dredge which is digging the Powers-Marble ditch. The work of, cutting the timber through some parts is quite a big undertaking.- Mr. Tabor expects to commence the work this week. Subscribe for The Republican.