Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1916 — Mt. Ayr Items From the Tribune. [ARTICLE]

Mt. Ayr Items From the Tribune.

Amish church was held Sunday at Davey Miller’s. * An onion goes anywhere without losing its identity. M. Blunk, of Rensselaer, was a visitor here Wednesday. Mrs. W. A. Shindler was a Rensselaer visitor Friday. Ben Goa tne y was in Rensselaer Friday. Miss Florence Huntington was d Rensselaer visitor Friday. Mrs. Bryan, of Goodland, visited her brother, G. W. Lunch, Friday. Villa is reported to have slain two more Americans and a British subject. Joe Yoder and family left for their future home in Marshall county Friday. „ \ Ira Chupp went through with Joe Yoder’s emigrant car to Marshall county last week. Joe Jinkerson visited from Monday until Friday with his son, John, at Rensselaer. Charley Armold and son, Harry, were at the corn and poultry show at Goodland Friday. G. W. Lynch and wife went to Indianapolis Sunday to consult an eye specialist for Mrs. Lynch. Dr. Martin reports a boy at J. M. Miller’s. It arrived last Thursday. It is the second child, both boys. A Philadelphia concern is offering a bonus to employes who do not drink. King Alcohol is being dethroned in various ways. Dave Garrick, Samuel and Peter Eicher, of Fort Wayne, came Saturday for several days’ visit among friends here. Geo. Brown and son, Gilbert, Mrs. Ed Long and son, Kenneth, were business visitors at Jasper’s hub Saturday.

Carl Swanson, who is to move to Benton county in the spring, took a load of machinery to the farm he had rented there, Monday. Charles Fleming reports having made a good sale or two as a result of having his Bronze turkeys in the Chicago show ring. D. L. Halstead, who is always in the front ranks in the farming business, has a new straw spreader. Little Evyln Anderson visited her grandmother, Mrs. Ben Reaves, in Fair Oaks for a week. She returned Saturday. Henry Lee and Charles Battleday are two more that will receive the Tribune the coming year, beginning with this, the Christmas number. Chas. Flemming attended the Goodland Poultry Show Tuesday of last week and Wednesday attended a poultry show in Chicago. The bigger papers are heralding peace prospects in the old world, which may soon cut some figure in the business hemisphere. Mrs. Gilbert Stucker’s cousin, Miss Brown, who has been visiting her for a couple of weeks, returned to her home in Parr Saturday. Mrs. Doctor Warner and baby came Tuesday for a visit with the doctor's mother, Mrs. C. C. Shue. The doctor is working in Joliet, 111., but Mrs. Warner expects him home for the holidays. We are indebted to Mrs. Geo. S. Arnold for a subscription for her husband to the Tribune beginning with this Christmas number, and in another place print heir letter. The Yeoman sale east of town was well attended by Mt. Ayr people as well as others and things brought fancy prices in many instances. The Ladies’ Aid did splendidly with their lunch stand. Poultry prices that took the usual after Thanksgiving slump, have regained much of the loss and are selling at what looks to be fancy prices, though not quite so high as at Thanksgiving time. John Fyre returned x'lom a visit with friends and relatives at Sugar Creek, Ohio, bringing with him a subscription to the Tribune to start with this, the Christmas number. Thanks, John, make these visits frequently.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeris Harlowe left for their new home at Constantine, Mich., last Tuesday. Mr. Harlow went with the car, Which he loaded at Parr. Mrs. Harlow left by the way of Rensselaer, going by the way of Hammond. Hobart, Ind., Dec. 11, 1916. Mr. W. R. Lee, Dear Sir—Mrs. W. W. Miller, of Colorado, sent us some copies of the Tribune and it made homesick for Mt. Ayr news. Enclosed please find dollar bill for a year’s subscription for my husband’3 Christmas gift- T&>urs very truly, Mrs. Geo. S. Arnold, Hobart, Ind., R. F. D. No. 3 Please address it to Geo. S. Arnold. Homer Stanley is driving a Ford. Mrs. J. W. Phares went to Parr Monday for several days’ visit. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stanley were Rensselaer shoppers Monday. Pfrimxner Hopkins is in Kankakee, 111., for a ten days’ visit. Mannie Rice and family spent Sunday with Mr. Rice’s father here. Mrs. A. J. Hufty visited in Stone Bluff Wednesday. Floyd Sampson’s sister from Fowler came Monday for a holiday’s visit with him. Bernard Hopkins, of Dyer, visited his father and mother here over Sunday. ... - i Edgar Steward accompanied Kev. Cragun to Kerttland to attend the group meeting Tuesday. . l Mrs. Rimer and daughter, Miss Lizzie Brown, visited in the home of , Otto Berigsten Thursday. --*v* —• - ■ - t