Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — SHELBY [ARTICLE]

SHELBY

The Brown ranch has purchased a large factor ditrit. which will Je used the coming spring to plow about 1000 acres of pasture land; the breaking up of this large tract for the first time is made possible by the additional drainage, it is thought that after the Marble’ ditch is completed and the Williams ditch to near Momence that nearly all this part of the Kankakee Valley will be used in theQaising of corn, oats, rye, and small grain, instead of pasturing large tracts. Wm. Sheets, of Lowell, was a business visitor here Monday. Jean Bowie, of Wheatfield A was here visiting her grandpa Richard Fuller Saturday. Chas Reed is at'the bedside of Uncle Joe Sanger, who is very ill at Lowell. \ Dutch Doty, of Hammond, was in town over Sunday visiting his parents. Mrs. Wesley Braskett went to Greensburg, Ind., Saturday for a visit over Sunday with relatives.

Mrs. Thompson, of Fair Oaks, visited here Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. M. R. Clifton: A community meeting will be held at Shelby school house Friday evening, January 25. An address by speaker from Purdue University. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Loesch entertained at dinner last Sunday: Mr. Adam Dorsch, of Hammond. Misses Louise Dorsch and Mabelle Sirois, ,of Shelby. Miss Mabelle Sirois entertained Saturday evening with a sled party, after the ride the hostess served a dainty luncheon to Miss Lily D. Meyers, Mr. Ernest Larson, Miss Louise Dorsch, Mr. Dillwyn Nichols, Miss Emma Dorsch, Mr. Ernest Sirois, Mr. Adam Dorsch.