Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1919 — WHEATFIELD [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD

I MUs Grace Knapp is teaching the . fifth and sixth grades in the DeMotte schools. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Saylor, of Walker township, were business callers at Wheatfield last Saturday. | Again northern Jasper comes to the front with pumpkins of the, Goliath type; pumpkins that wil surely weigh one hundred pounds or more apiece. Next wbek we expect to be able to tell the exact weight of each one of these monsters and also who raised them. We will say right now that they can’t be beatjen outside of northern Jasper. • I —j. C. Asher and sonwere Chicago visitors last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sox Meyers and Miss Jensen were auto riding in Porter county last Sunday. Charles Hewett and William Knapp visited friends at Heights last Sunday. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Rosa Ropp and family autoed to Aix last Sunday and visited at the home of the former’s

In reply to the question, “What to do in case of a skunk bite,” wish to say off-handed, to fumigate the affected part with limburger cheese and asafetida and then go to bed in 'a tight, unventilated room and stay there ten days. Mr. Hew’ett gave us a short 2all last Sunday. The Tefft and Wheatfield schools are developing some fine - basketball players who are just as good as the best in the county. All that they need, and they are getting that now, is learning to play together, that is team-work. Individual players may be ever so good, but if they do not know the secret of working together with each player at the place for which he is best qualified, there can be no winning team. The training that the boys are getting now will surely result in a very successful yean Mrs. Elizabeth yandercar and daughter, Ada, of : Elwood, Indiana, visited, with -y our correspondent last Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Hamner, of Chicago, were dinner guests at the A. J. Bush home .last Sunday, Mrs. Ross Ropp visited her sister, Mrs. Clifford. Hamilton, last Thursday. We have been having a few frosty mornings and they surely put vim and energy into everyone. We have a young man in town who proved by higher mathematics that no matter how different in size eggs may be, they all weigh the same. Oh, Euclid, fjiy greatness has departed! The wheat in these parts looks fine. ' Corn will make more per acre than we thought a few weeks ago and the quality will be much better Read Editor Hamilton’s opinion of the advancement that has been made recently in the Kankakee valley. George C. Cook, of LaCrosse, was a business visitor here Saturday. W. C. Luse and sister, Susie, of Chicago, came Saturday for a visit over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Luse, Mrs. Allen and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig. Mrs. Dr. Bucher left Tuesday for a month’s stay with their daughter at Alpena, Mich. Notice.

During my wife’s absence I can be found at my office both day and night (unless professionally out.) DR. BUCHER. Oct23-2t. Willie Black, Otto Strause, of Lowell and Neal Sirois, of Shelby, Ind., were visitors here Monday. George Millikin and wife, of Ottawa, 111., are here visiting with their friends, M. J. Delehanty and family. Dr. Fyfe and family moved last Friday to their new home at Valparaiso and Dr. Bucher, and wife have moved into the Fyfe residence, which Quite a number from this vicinity attended the stock show at Rensse-aer-last week. Charles Deming has at last got in the swim and is driving a Ford roadster. Russell Hickam returned to rort Sheridan Sunday after spending a 30-day furlough here. The House Keepers of Crown Point, a club of twenty ladies, were entertained at luncheon last Saturday by Mrs. Berenice Clark. We have the best pasture here now that we have had all summer and we often think how nice it

hearsal of the summer monttis. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bush and family have decided to move to Idaho on or aboutt the middle of January. An uncle of Mr. Bush, who owns a farm there and who yisited in these parts a few weeks ago, made him an offer which he accepted. The reception given to the soldiers and sailors at the Primo in Wheatfield last Tuesday evening by the war mothers and their friends of northern Jasper was one of the most brilliant affairs ever staged in these parts. Not a singe thing happened to mar the perfect harmony of the occasion or the happiness of the sixty uniformed boys, many of whom were veterans of the world war. A large crowd from far and near was in attendance to pay its respects to the boys and all took part in the great love feast of cake and ice cream. On the tables there was the largest array of cake we ever saw, which was donated by the ladies everywhere for the occasion, so all present had a chance to eat. Let us suggest that the war mothers make this an annual affair.