Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1916 — MT. AYR ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR ITEMS.

From The Tribune. Mr. John Bicknell passed through Mt. Ayr Friday on his way to Goodland, Morocco and Momence. Johnny states the real estate business is pretty lively just at present. Word was received here during the week that the tuberculosis case of Mr. Roy Wright, of Pueblo, Colo., is almost hopeless. Mr. Wright is th* son of Mr. Jasper Wright, of this place. New telephone cards will appear August Ist. They will include the Mt. Ayr and Roselawn telephone exchanges. , . Mr. and Mrs. Leo Reeve, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with Mr. Earl Bruner and family. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson and Miss Hazel Jinkerson were Rensselaer visitors Saturday evening. The Royal Neighbors of Goodland gave a reception last Thursday eve ing. The Remington, Brook and Mt. Ayr orders were the guests. Sixteen new members were taken in also. Among those who attended from here were Mrs. Ernest Nelson, Mrs. Fletcher Smith, Mr. Wm. DeLong and Mrs. Mahli Reams. All report an enjoyable time. Why can not our park be cleaned uo a little bit? Its present condition i°. an eye-sore to visitors of the town, and it is useless now, until the grass is mowed, the broken limbs remove! from the ground and a few bleachers placed under the trees. Frant Yeagei and Mearl Marlow were Rensselaer visitors Monday evening. Miss Bessie Belle, of Roselawn, is learning the switchboard of the Mt. Ayr telephone exchange. She will take the .place of Miss Florence Snow. G. W. Lynch was in Monon on business Monday. Mr. Charles Shriver returned home Monday evening after a week’s business trip to Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville. Miss Myrtle Lund came from Chicago last Saturday ,to spend two weeks’ vacation with Rev. Hoover and wife. Mr. J. Bruner, of Hebron, Ind., and Mr. A. L. Clark and ron, of Morocco, were in Mt. Ayr Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anderson and children, of Chicago, are spending their vacation with Mr. Joseph Jinkerson and family. Mrs. Elmer Kerns is reported on the sick list. Jay Makeever was a Morocco, Kjcntland and Goodland visitor Monday. Leona Kraut has secured a home near Clarence, Mich. Her sister, Marie a home near Rensselaer. It will be remembered that their mother, Mrs. Si Kraut, was accidntally shot to death by her son-in-law in her tent near Parr about two years ago. Mr. J. M. Hufty will reach his 77th birthday Wednesday, July 12. A small reunion was held at his home last Sunday in honor of the same. Those present were Mr. A. J. Hufty and family, Mr. Harry Hufty and family and Robert Yeoman and family. Mr. Hufty says he still feels very young and the Tribune joins his many friends and relatives in wishing that he may feel that way for many years to come.

Mr. Fletcher Smith and family were gues.ts at the home of Mr. Lloyd Hopkins Sunday. Eli Dugeor and father were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Miss Stella Putt, of Monon, Ind., visited Wm. Little and family Saturday. Rev. Hoover and wife, Miss Myrtle Lund, of Chicago, Mrs. Albert Smith, of Chicago, Mr. Abner Huntington and Ye Editor motored to Rensselaer Monday evening, where Mr. Smith returned to Chicago after spending the week end with Rev. Hoover and wife. Mr. Lloyd Hopkins was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday. /? Many people of this vicinity were fishing during the week, both the Iroquois and Kankakee rivers being visiAmong the fishers were Mr. Herman Ashby and family, Wm. Shindler and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ransom White, Mrs. Jennie Ashby and many others. All came home with a liberal supply of fishies. Uncle Henry Harris was over to his farm one day last week. His trips are not quite as frequent and as long as they use to be. We understand that he is or soon will be 83 years of age. This no doubt accounts for the less active interest he takes in his farm here. Mrs. Frank Doty, of Colorado, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. Ernest Schanlaub and Mr. Geo. Hopkins were in Rensselaer on business Tuesday.

Jeff Beam arrived in Rensselaer this morning after an extended trip to Indianapolis. Probably a lot of Rensselaer people do not know Jeff Beam, and in order to identify him more clearly we might mention that he is the dog belonging to W. H. Beam, the Monon station agent. Jeff is quite a wanderer and takes many trips, but he is not a side-door Pullman hobo, but travels in the very best style that the Monon affords. Jeff has been in Indianapolis for the past eighteen months, z"”"

Mrs. Bert Swain, of Morocco, sister of Mrs. M. L. Spitler, of Reksselaer, who has been here for the past two weeks, was taken to the Wesley hospital in Chicago yesterday and operated upon for gall bladder and stomach trouble,