Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1920 — PLAIN VIEW. [ARTICLE]

PLAIN VIEW.

Mrs. Elmer Johnson visited Mrs. Chapman Thursday. Sophia Clark visited Mrs. Wm. Chapman Wednesday. Lud Clark helped Wm. Chapman plant corn Wednesday. Louis Fry had a sick horse Tuesday and had to quit work. Oscar Kendall and. wife took dinner with his parents Monday. Mrs. L. Snyder’s sister, Gladys, of Lafayette visited her Sunday. Albert and Jim Wood took in the show at Monon Monday night. Miss Edith Clark is working at Monon and likes her work fine. Make this fife as perfect as possible. We pass this way but once. Hamar Kendall, who visited his cousin, Ed Kendall returned home Sunday. Every one is so busy that those that have tractors are running them at night. „.> . , ... Wm. Chapman finished planting corn Monday. Bill thinks it is too late to plant corn now. Wm. Chapman and wife and Miss Beryl attended the funeral of Dewey Biggs at Rensselaer Sunday. Russel Wood of Barkley visited cousin, Walter Chapman Saturday night as usual. He is all “smiles.” Dan and Floyd were seen going down the dredge ditch the other day. The little fellows must have been fishing for each had a fish line. . x ... Walter says he is going to raise ducks this summer to drink up the water that stands in the fields, but we think he is going to make pillows of the feathers. Mts. Homer Slaughter and Beulah Bowen of Elkhart visited the family of James Blankenship a few days last week, Mts. Slaughter being Mr. Blankenship’s sister. Everett Blankenship had an accident which might have been a serious one. ■ On going from one field to another he had to cross a bridge which spanned the dredge ditah. The bridge broke through letting horses, disc and boy all down in about 5 feet of mud and water. One horse fell on the other two and the bridge plank was on him and being together and hitched to the disc made it rather difficult for getting the horses out. However, both boy and horses were rescued without being hurt, ’but were badly frightened. •It seems that old people jokes as well as the young. The other day Mrs. —*—— killed a large blue racer and knowing her husband was just a little afraid of snakes, she takes the dead snake and places its head under the feed entry door as if it was crawling under the barn and about the time for hubby to come from work she watches from the window to see what would happen next. Hubby, seeing the racer, slips around easy like so as not to frighten Mr. Snake • away, gets a club and gives it a whack and then another. On discovering it was dead, began looking around to see if any one was looking. Seeing his wife’s smiling face in the window he knew the joke was on him. Well, I guess we all enjoy a good joke if its on the other fellow.