Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1919 — TEFFT. [ARTICLE]

TEFFT.

The only school in Kankakee township is beginning to look attractive. The painter and decorator is putting oh the ftnisQung touches and the school will be ready to;open September Bth, as all of the teachers have 'been secured, which we feel proud of, as they are as scarce >as hen’s teeth. Lots of schools in the county are minus teachers still. So ibettet get an education and get the ibig money as the salaries are still going up. Low excursion fares to South Bend fair. Consult New York Central R. R. ticket agent for particulars. Miss Goldie Hodges is visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Heil. Mamie Fitzgerald has left for Pontiac, Hl., for a visit with relatives. Ed Sands is laid up with (lumbago at’thisrwrrtrng; ’ —---- ———

Friday Fairchilds, the grain man, is running past them all now in his new Buick. Jt seems to have more pep than the old Ford. The community regrets to learn that Ed Schrader and family are seen to leave No Man’s Land to the Land of Production. When he goes we wish him luck. C. K. Brdwn gave an old time after harvest dance and sure (had some good time, but the invitations came too late to give a fellow a chance to dress up any. Don Peregrine has gone to Michi-. gan, where, he writes, the climate . is good and he is feeling fine. . Mrs. Ella Klugg, of Crown Point, formerly Ella Albin, is home visit-I ing her folks. She is feeling fine ■ and looking well and prospering on the farm, but says there’s no place like home after all.

Duggleby’s melon patch is getting popular, at least one night this week a number of melons were destroyed, seven boys eating thirtytwo melons. Cyrus Asher and Cecil Jeffries each ate five, and the tie will be pulled off this fall when the melons are no so appetizing. Watch for the returns. ' On account of the hot dry weather threshing is about all done and the farmers are loafing a spell as it is impossible to plow. Get over on the Lord’s side and let’s have some rain. Mrs. Fehslow and son, of Chicago, are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard. . Teachers do not want to forget that next Monday is preliminary institute for Wheatfield, Keener and Kankakee townships on the northeast side of the auditorium at the close of the day’s session. This is one you are looking for, a good time assured. Special fourpiece music, good coronetist with Curtin’s orchestra at Konovsky’s hall, DeMotte, Saturday evening, August 30.