Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1915 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

Wheatfield Review. *,S E. Coffey was a business visitor at the county seat Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hight visited friends at Tefft lapt Sunday. Mrs. Emma Anderson has been on the sick list the past week. The Wheatfield school board held a business meeting Monday evening. J. W. Ott and family, of Crown Point, visited relatives here Sunday. John Allen, of Kankakee, visited here Monday evening with his mother. - Mrs. W. C. Schwier and daughter, of Knox, visited relatives and , attended Memorial day service.. . Mr. and Mrs. Grover Smith visited over Sunday at South Bend with Mr. and Mrs. John Jessup. June Jessup, Della Knapp and Leota Williams are taking a course of study at the Valparaiso University.

Otto Braun, of Rensselder, was a business visitor here Wednesday. Otto is sure one German. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ingram, of Chicago, visited here Memorial Day with Mr. and Mrs., Warren Boyle. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Whitehead and family went Saturday to Remington for a visit over Sunday with relatives. Word was received here last week that Mrs. Frank W. Johnson, formerly of this place, died in Chicago May 11th. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Rockwell autoed Sunday to visit at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Clarence Sands, east of Tefft. George Marr and Paul Halleck, of DeMotte, were given their third ride on the Masonic goat here last Thursday evening.

There is a wedding in sight. Don’t say anything about it until after they come back from the Chicago automobile races. Herman Langdon, George Hoehn, Carl J. Geffert and Warren J. White attended a Masonic meeting and banquet at Roselawn last Friday. The Wheatfield Regulars held a practice game here last in order that Manager McNeil could line up the boys for the season. The heavy continuous rain for the past ten days has certainly made the soil very wet. Many acres of corn have been drowned out and the planting of crops has been delayed. The young sports who'took a hike to see the auto races at the state capitol that didn’t come off until after they came ba<s home, say it is no joke.

Mr. John Ludwig, of Crown Point, and his bride came here alst Thursday on their honeymoon trip and visited with his sister, Mrs. John Pinter and family,

It is reported that Grandpa, the genial brakeman oir the yowie Special, is ace high when escorting good looking lady passengers across th# stringers of the KsJhkakee river bridge. ’**■

The thirteenth birthday of Deborah Bowie was remembered by a number Of her school chums calling and spending the afternoon of Tuesday. Refreshments and good things'to eat were served and a very enjoyable time reported.

The Bowie Special has been laying over night, here for the last week on account of the big dredge which is digging the new channel for the Kankakee river and just went through the right-of-way of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, necessitating the building of a new bridge of one hundred feefr-in length. Engineer McCann, who formerly worked with Ye Editor in-the railway service for many years, spent Sunday visiting the editor and family.