Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1919 — NORTHERN JASPER. [ARTICLE]

NORTHERN JASPER.

[Too Late for Friday Issue.] News is as scarce as frog hair this week Quite a number from around here attended the Chenoweth sale near DeMotte Tuesday.---Jasperson brothers have‘been quite busy the last week shredding and still have several days of it yet to doMr. Meyers and family were the Sunday guests of his brother, Dan, and family Hugh Mize is under the care of Dr. Bucher at presentA sad accident, which might easily have proved fatal, occurred at Tefft Saturday evening when three young lads from Detroit, Mich., who had been bumming their way on trains, stopped off at that place for lunch and in trying to jump a moving freight train one of them slipped and fell, suffering the loss of one of his feet, which was crushed off beneath the wheels and the flesh on his limb was so badly lacerated that it had to be amputated near the knee. The injured lad was taken to the Jones residence where he will remain until he . s able to be moved to his home. His father was sent for and arrived on Monday. The father feels very sad over his son’s misfortune, which is a warning to others and whica proved to be a sad runaway for the boy Elmer Davis and wife called on Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Davis Sunday afternoon Next Sunday will be the last dance of the season at Dunn’s Bridge and a large crowd is expectedWe understand that William Helmick, of the lumber dealers of Wheatfield, has sold out to Long & Thompson and intends to go to Florida with the intention of making that state his home.—. - There was a time when beauty was skin deep, but nowadays a lot of it rubs off if you even touch H—---Mr. and Mrs. Meyers, of Gifford, called on their son, Luther, and wife Friday—The best thing that can be said for winter is that it covers a multitude of dirty looking elbows. .Charles Meyers has purchased a corn shredder from Jasperson brothers and expects to make the corn fodder fly the next few days. Too much good money is spent buying sugar to try to make cranberries taste like something to eat Our Bank of Wheatfield was the latest victim of robbers. The bank was broken into Monday night and the robbers succeeded in blowing the door off the safety deposit vault and emptying several of the deposit boxes, taking time to sort papers and keeping the bonds and moneythat the boxes contained. Several thousand dollars worth of bonds were taken, besides the large amount of money which several families had placed in there. No clue to the robbers has yet been found, as no sound was heard and nothing ®f the robbery was known until the opening of the bank next morning. Mr. and Mrs. John DeArmond were the guests of Pa and Ma Lackey, of Medaryville, Sunday—---Guy Minor, one of the owners of Wheatfield’s garage, looks quite chic behind the gas station asking “how many, please?” and he can’t understand why it is that there isn’t more girls around here learning to run their fathers’ cars.