Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1915 — WHEATFIELD. [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD.

James Cooper went to Monon •Wednesday. Chas. Woodward was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday. Dorothy Boyle visited friends at DeMotte Wednesday. Dr. M. B. Fyfe, wife and daughter Elisabeth went to Chicago Monday. Squire Albert VanDoozer went to Chicago to visit over Christmas at the home of his sister. Link Jenkins, of near Rensselaer, visited here Christmas with Mrs. Senia Jenkins and eons. Mr. Waldron came from the west last week for a visit with his brother, John Waldron and wife. Irene Keen went to Goodland last Friday to spend Xmas with her grandma and other relatives. Alva Melser, of South Bend, visited here Christmas with his Grandma Tilton and other relatives. Ed Ledke went Friday morning to Vernon, Ind., to help his better half spend Christmas with relatives. Anna Clager, of Lowell, came Christmas for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Clager. Leota, Edna and Carrie Williams went Friday evening for a visit over Christmas with relatives at Monon. Emma Miller returned to Kankakee Monday from a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miller.

Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Whitehead and sons went Friday to Remington to visit over Christmas with relatives. Mrs. Wm. G. Tinkham and son spent Christmas with her parents and other relatives at North Jnelson. Mrs. Lafayette Langdon and Mr. atwl Mrs. W. H. Minor visited over Christmas with relatives in Owen county. Harvey Austin went Friday to Millmine, 111., for a Christmas vipit at the home of his (brother Alpha and family. Mrs. Fred Fulle v , of Roselawn, came Tuesday for a v’sit at the home of her p; Tents, Mr rnd Mrs. George Swisher. Margaret Delehanty and Miss Gordon, of Ransom, 111., came to spend the Xmas holiday vacation at the Delehanty home. (Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Hammond and son, Maurice, of Rensselaer, came Christmas morning to spend the day with relatives here. John Williams, Mrs. Morgan L. Sterrett and son, Maynard Austin, Mr. Dooley, James Cltmans, were Rensselaer visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Jr., and children came last Friday evening for a visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams. We certainly had sL white Christmas. Last Friday evening the big white flakes fell heavily until morning, leaving aibout six inches of snow. Rumor says that ex-Congressman John B. Peterson is one of the probable candidates for the nomination for governor on the state ticket. Medaryville Giants took our high school basket iball team to an awful cleaning last Friday evening. Oh, well, Crown Point beat Chesterton 85 to 5. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bradford, of Chicago Heights, have been visiting the past week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Knapp. Mrs. R. O. Bunch and children, of Centralia, 111., came last Friday for a visit over the 'holidays with her mother, Mrs. Lottie Smith and family.

Pot a good social time with good mußict come to the Wheatfield opera house, Friday evening, Dec. 31st, and dance the old year out and go home the new year happy. Wm. McNeil, trustee Ist ward; Joseph Hickam, trustee 3rd ward; E. R. Hight, treasurer; Joseph Hilliard, clerk, and Frank Johnson, are the newly elected officers. James MacDonald, of Pittsiburg, Pa., came last Thursday for a visit over Christmas with acquaintances here. Jamie has a job picking up fares on the street car Lines. A very good program was given at the M. E. church Christmas Eve at the Xmas tree entertainment. The attendance was hot as large as expected, many being prevented from coming on account of the snow storm. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ott and family, and Dr. Salisbury and family, of Crown Point. Mrs. Berenice Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Mallie Clark were feasting at - the Marble ranch Christmas.

Roy Flores, who is taking treatment at a South Bend hospital for a dislocated hip which he received some weeks ago while driving the delivery tank wagon of the Standard Oil Co., visited here Friday, returning to the hospital in the evening. Fred Karch was taken ill Tuesday night and died suddenly Saturday evening at 5:45 oV:loek at his home in Walker township. A short funeral service will be held at the home at 12:30 p. m., funeral at the Wheatfield M. E. church at 2:30 p. m. Interment at Wheatfield cemetery. The Board of Trustees of incorporated towns are required by law to meet in special session the first Monday in January for the purpose of organising the board. The terms of all town officers elected at any regular election shall begin at noon on the first Monday of January following their election and qualification. We have a nice, dean bunting lump coal at |4jOO par ton.—D. & Grow.