Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1917 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. J. Wright was transacting business in Lafayette today. John Robinson and children and Mrs. Wilson Bussell, of McCoysburg, were in Rensselaer today. Sheriff B. D. McColly has returned from Martinsville, Ind., and seems to be much improved in health. Kenton Parkison, Granville Moody, Sr., Granville Moody, Jr., and Samuel Roth went to Chicago today to buy cattle. Mrs. T. J. Baxter, who had been visiting with the family of Walter Lee, at Mt. Ayr, returned to her home at Bluffton, Ind., today. Mrs. Elizabeth Young, who had been visiting with rMs. Alice Hopkins, of Mt. Ayr, returned to her home in Mariqn, Ind., this forenoon. S. L. Johnson, of Monon, was in Rensselaer today. He reports that William Loufferat, an old resident of that city, died suddenly this Monday morning.

The regular Pocohontas 10c social will be held Thursday evening, November 1. All members are urged to be present. Mrs. Everett Warne, of Laurens, lowa, is visiting heruhfisband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Warne, of Parr. Her husband, who is now on business in Ohio, will join her here in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Daugherty were also guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Warne Sunday. Mrs. Daugherty is a sister of Mrs. Warne. The Hammond football team defeated the Wabash A. A. Sunday by a score of 20 to 0. The Pine Village team defeated the Wabash club by a score of 2 to 0 and now Hammond feels that they will be revenged for last year’s defeat at the hands of the Villagers when Dick King booted a field goal in the closing minutes of play. ~ Declaring that $50,000,000 was taken out of the pockets of the Kansas farmers in twenty-four hours when the government fixed the price of the 1917 wheat crop. Governor Capper, in a letter to Food Administrator Hoover, made public Sunday, declares that “sacrifice aptly has been made in vain, because the millers, the bakers and the retailers have not reduced their prices accordingly and they show no disposition to reduce them.” Mrs. Wilbur Ritchie, residing on the Thompson ranch, east of Parr, was struck by lightning last Friday, but luckily escaped serious injury. Mrs. Ritchie had prepared to start for town and had gone to the barn to get the horse and buggy. Just as she was ready to start, it started raining. She got out of the buggy and stood in the barn door, waiting for the rain to cease falling when the lightning struck her. She was knocked down, as was the horse, which was hitched to the buggy nearby.

Alfred Thompson has written his parents that he underwent a physical test, given by American officers recently, and was found to be physically unfit and that he would be discharged from the Ambulance Field service about October 25. Alfred left the United States last June, enlisting as an ambulance driver in the French service. Recently all Americans in that service were taken over by the United States government, but were allowed to remain in the French service; that is, they were allowed the pay of an American soldier and were subject to the orders of this nation. When the transfer was made each driver from this country was required to undergo another physical examination. Thompson was found to be under weight. He states that he will go to Paris as soon as discharged and try to get in the service in some other branch and hopes that he may be permitted to join the Italians on the Italian front. H. V. Childers, one of the pioneers of Jasper county, but who moved to near Delphi about 25 years ago, passed his 90th birthday Oct. 28th, 1917, with the help of his children,- grandchildren and old friends, celebrated Sunday, Oct. 28th, at his V ome in Delphi: Those present :Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Childers, of near Delphi; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers, of Conrad, Ind.; Mr. J. I. Childers and daughter, Florence, of near Hopkins Park, 111., and Mrs. Cecelia Mahanna, son William and daughter Ella, of Greencastle. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wikstrom and son, William, of (Rensselaer; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Harsfta and daughters, May, Ruth and Alice, of Lafayette; Mrs. Maud Gish, of Roachdale; Mr. _ and Mrs. Will Shaw and son, Cecil, of Mt. Ayr, and Aunt Fanny Parkinson, of Bucklin, Kansas, and Mrs. Welker, of Delphi. At noon all partook heartily of a sumptuous basket dinner of all kinds of good things which farmers raise. Late in the evening the guests departed wishing Uncle Henry many more happy birthdays. Uncle Henry, who has always been hale and hearty until last winter, when he suffered a stroke of paralysis which left him rather feeble, gets around rather spry for one of his age. He has four children living and one dead, 19 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Contributed.

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