Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — Page 2

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE

KNIMAN. George Sandero went to Lafayette Tuesday morning. Church next Sunday morning at 11 a. m. Everybody come. Mrs. Ellen Cooper was in Kniman Monday looking after her property here. A son was born Wednesday, July 28, to Wm. Nuss and wife. Dr. Norby attended. Born. July 31, a son to Harry Odle and wife. Dr. Norby was the attending physician. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Hansen are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Armstrong. Wm. and Alfred Ott from Chicago spent the week end with their parents, Nick Ott and wife. Mrs. Herbert Russell and little son came Saturday night from Monticello for a visit with her mother. Mrs. Tom Davis. . Mrs. Elmo Rice and sister. Miss Marie Hart, came from Hammond Friday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Rice. Mrs. H. S. Partlow returned to her home in Lafayette Sunday after a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corn. Threshing is in full blast. Wheat is much better' than expected. Ambra Brown’s wheat on the Al Kanne farm made 15 bushels to the acre, and his Rosen rye 20 bushels to the aere. , _ , _, Willard Abbett and Frank Meyers made their usual trip home Sunday from Indiana Harbor. Mrs. Abbett and two son accompanied them back Monday for an indefinite stay. TEFFT. Mrs. Learner of Chicago is here for the summer. Miss Bertha Ribbands returned to her home in Streator. Threshing is in full swing in the vicinity. Five machines in the township. The wheat is making all the way from 5 to 12 bushels to the acre in this township. Mrs. John Dunn’s daughter and husband from W. Virginia, are home on a visit Mr. James Greer, of Chicago, who was here visiting friends, returned to his home in Chicago. Mrs. Reddin’s daughter and children were home on a visit last week. Gladys*and Eunice and the two children. The Badenhoop family of six visited Duggleby’s Sunday afternoon and seemed to be getting around more since getting the new car. Martha Swing, who has accepted a position at Hammond in a music store, is making good, as Martha is musical herself. She will make good. There will be another meeting of the women to organize a league of women voters. No matter what your policies, come to this meeting. It is important. Paul W. Ashby, our former principal, landed in Tefft to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jones for a week. Paul looks fine but Says he is not married just yet, but soon. Wm. Jefferies, who was confronted with a gypsy woman the other day, found he had been touched, after bidding her good day. Be kind a careful Bill with those birds. John Robbins, who is going to leave us, has purchased a 320 acre farm from Mr. Lawler, near Roselawn. John is a good farmer.'We are sorry to lose him. Wish him luck. Nona White from Chicago is having a week’s vacation and Nona says this fresh country air is some fine, but it won’t be so lonesome as Charles promised to come out to spend the week end. Trustee Duggleby and Chas. Stalhaam, Clarence and family, Harry and family and Bill with no family all had a picnic dinner on the court house lawn where the and the good eats disappeared in fine shape. I If you want to hear a Reader and Entertainer of rare ability attend the program given by Professor Rollo Anson Talicott at the Primo Theatre, Wheatfield, Friday evening, Aug. 6. The entertainment for the benefit of the M. E. church. Don’t forget the Sunday School social Saturday night, Aug. 7. It is free to the enrolled members who have been attending regularly, but to the others there will be a small charge to cover expenses. Come and have a good time. Saturday evening, Aug. 7, 1920, DeMotte, Ind., Konovsky’s hall, dancing, 2 p. m. to 1:00 a. m. Music. Curtin’s three-piece orchestra—violin, piano and traps. Come where the crowd does. Admission, SI.OO. Spectators, 25 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Albin returned home last Thursday from a two weeks’ visit at the home of their son, Ira Albin and family, at Girard, Mont., where their son went jabout twelve years ago. They re-

J V ’ port their son engaged in farming land doing well. They- report that I Ira has among other big acreage of {crops 220 acres of fine wheat, j DEMOTTE. “Eddie’’ Halleck had company Sunday from—Roselawn, we think. ■ Don Irwin of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Erwin this week. Quite a few from here attended the dance at Shelby last Saturday evening. j Edna Erwin went to Chicago Monday for a week’s visit with her brothers, who work in the city. । The first car of grain this season was shipped Wednesday, car of wheat from the Davis farm. I Mrs. L. 80l and children of Chicago, came Monday to spend the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bunning. ■ Mrs. A. Konovsky and two sons, of Chicago, who spent the week here with Mr. and Mrs. Al Konovsky, returned to their home Monday । morning. ' Neal Swart and Meri Curtin went to Valparaiso Sunday and ‘drove part way home—being pulled ,in from near Kouts, Ind. Something went wrong with the jitney. Married. Mr. Geo. Hockney and ;Mrs. Lizzie Feldmann, Sunday, July 31, 1920, at Crown Point, Ind., at the home of Mrs. Hockneys daughter, Mrs. A. B. Frame. Congratulations. New Fall clothing samples just in . I —prices lowest of any in past two years. Call on C. P. Curtin and see them. We meet any one’s prices, material and workmanship considered. Monday evening the old-—town seemed as if the war had just broken out. The old band of 15 nieces, horns battered but good and loud and every other kind of a noisemaking machine ever known to mankind, did it up and down and Mr. and Mrs. George Hockney’s—cigars and candy and—well everything in that line was served and every one departed wishing them a long and happy life. WHEATFIELD E. Jensen and brother went to Chicago Saturday. Born, on Wednesday, July 28, a girl to Ray Cooper and wife. Noah Jenkins has been off duty last week with a case of pleurisy. Walter Darner returned from Harvey, 111., last Friday evening. Charlie Marine has bought a jitney honk konk and away she goes. Jean Bowie went Saturday to Shelby where she will visit with re l&t«i v*e s« The 1920-1921 school term will begin in Jasper county Monday, Sept. 6th. Robt. Manz came from Kankakee Friday evening for a visit with his best half. Deborah Bowie visited last Thursday and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Presley Clark at Kersey. The teachers’ institute of Jasper county will be hold at Rensselaer August 30 to September 3rd. f Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dean of Gary came Saturday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Clark. ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dean came Saturday for a visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Clark. Just received a car load of bar? rel salt, sack salt, and block salt, at Hoehn’s meat, grocery and pro-, duce market. H. W. Marble, Robt. Mannan, A. S. Keen, John T. Biggs, Philip R. Blue, Wm. Harrod were county seat visitors Monday. * The Misses Pauline and Virginia Smith of Alpena, Mich., are here visiting their Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Bucher. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hilliard fend children .and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Gorman motored to Valparaiso Saturday on business. The Bank building, Fendig’s drug store, and the telephone exchange have been treated to a good job of painting the week. Russel Hipkam visited his mother at Lafayette several days last’ week and he reports considerable improvement in her health. S Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Smith and two children, Albert and Ruth and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hoyt, of Chicago spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw. Last Friday evening a heavy rain and hail storm passed over the northern part of Walker , township | doing considerable damage to crops. Charlie wife and baby of Michigan City, have been visiting relatives and friends at Kersey the past week. Charlie is employed by the Monon Route in the yard service. • , ; . The work of erection of a new modern garage and Ford service station has commenced by W. B. McNeil, the location is on east side of Main street near the electric

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light plant. The building will be cement and stone. Charlie Duggleby and Bill Jasperson have bought Minor Bros’ garage and business here and they expect to take charge shortly after harvest. Charlie will no doubt handle the gas and be the general information bureau to the tourists and Bill will look after the mechanical department. Ruth Smith of Chicago danced to a very large and appreciative audience at the Primo, Saturday night. Her character dancing is fine, and her costumes beautiful. She has remarkable talent, and has had excellent training. The people of the community are highly gratified to have had the privilege of seeing her. Quite a number from this vicinity are contemplating a visit to Winona Lake, Ind., Monday, August 9, to hear the joint debate; subject, “The League of Nations.” Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock will uphold the Democratic end and his opponent will be some prominent. republican to be picked by party managers. Harry Mitchell went to Rensselaer

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to get some dental work done and when Harry arrived at the county seat he yisited all the dentists and then told our reporter he didn’t like the looks of a damn one of them, then the firp whistle blew and ojut came the fire department and Harry went to the fire and forgdt all about his tooth hurting.' If Lain had stayed here a month longer, he and Doty were going to try and make an ascension with their motorcycle- They had it tuned so it sounded exactly like an airplane so the next step would be to make it climb up in the air. A flight above the clouds on a motorcycle would surely put the Wrights and the flying Frenchmen out of business. Those gypsies did a general waking lip in Wheatfield. It does a people good to be shaken up by the unusual. Click, who was somewhat mixed up by their visitation, got so bamgasted and frustrated that he shaved a tough bearded Democrat without lathering him. We don’t vouch for the truth of the. above, altho it may be so. F. W. FiShey is driving around a brand new Studebaker Six which he bought expressly to do campaign work for Cox and Roosevelt. He is going to keep his Ford, however, for use on rainy days? '

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THAYER. Chas. Amstein autoed to Chicago j Monday. Thomas Swart of Chicago was in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert DeFries of Gary was here Sunday. John and Esther DeFries visited . Sunday with Anna DeFries. I Francis Cyphers autoed to Hebron Friday and visited the dentist Helen Kepperling of Chicago visited with her father Saturday and 1 Sunday. Mrs. Perrine returned Monday afterspending a week visiting in Royal Center. . Mr. and Mrs. Habberman and Mrs» Henry Boswinkle of Hammond spent Sunday here with relatives. Bofn, July 26, 1920, a boy to Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Zook. Dr. W. W. Tate was the attending physician. Born, July 26, 1920, a girl to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Couse. Dr. W. W. Tate was the attending physician. i ————— A French statistician demonstrates to his own Satisfaction that the blond type will be extinct in 300 years. Since 1914, certainly, the blond races have been doing all . they could toward self-extermination.— Springfield Republican.

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Those who urge Johnson to run on a third ticket may be Progressives. And then again they may be Democrats.—Muskegon Chronicle.

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