Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1920 — COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE [ARTICLE]

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE

NORTHERN JASPER. Elmer Davis and wife were Lacrosse goers Sunday. Rev. Abel spent Saturday at Stoutsburg making calls. * Every lady should come to the meeting at Tefft Friday p. m. if they want to learn how to vote. Hello, everybody. Northern Jasper still remains on the map, even if we have 'had some awful strong winds. Threshing seems to be the order 'of the day at present and most every one has a poor yield in Mrs. James Stonebraker and baby of Hammond, came Saturday for a , few days' visit with her mother, Mrs. Reddin. Several corn fields southeast of . Wheatfield were badly damaged by 'hail which came with our much r. needed rain laet Friday evening.

GILLAM. Mrs. John Guild is on the sick list this week. ■ , , x . Miss Zora Tillett visited with friends at Monticello for the past week. MiSe Marquerite Wacknitz spent a few <ys With her brother this Week. Mr, John Hoover of Elwood, Ind., is visiting 'her sister, Mrs. Alice Pogue this week. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Young and sons of Gary spent Saturday and Sunday with the John Guild family. Little Miss Viola, who has been , there with relatives for the past riionth, returned home with them. “TMm/ Ivan Coppess Fridas'from Chicago where she had spent tWo weeks with her parents. - Mr. and Mrs. Hank Timmons and 'clittdren of near Rensselaer spent Sunday with the John Bush family. ’ MT. and Mrs. Ermal Hoover and daughter, Alice, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stumke and family:Mr. Kenton Parkison and sons, Bob and Tom of Barkley called at the James Rodgers home Saturday evening; r Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Vjullmahn and two children of Gary visited at the Meade Rayburn home from Saturday until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Conder of Wolcott ‘ and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kuntz of Francesville, spent Sunday afternoon at the A. B. Schoonover home. „ Mfs. Jack Turner and son, Chas, and Orval, and daughter. Pearl, motored to South Bend Wednesday to -spend the rest of the week with relatives • and friends. x Mr. Wm. Freshour L returned from Kansas where he had spent the summer. He and his brother, Arthur. are spending their vacation Mate Coppess home. . Miss Grace Schoonover and Mr. H. ; Esenis of Indianapolis were liniteFin marriage last Wednesday afternoon. This was a great surprise to Miss Grace’s many fnends as she has taught several successful terms of school both in Jasper and Pulaski counties. We all join m wishing them a happy and prosperous future.

BARKLEY. The Judd Adama family motored to Valparaiso Sunday afternoon. Mr, and Mrs. I. B. Marion were guests "it’ the Earl Barkley home over Sunday. „ . j x The Joe Moore family motored to LaPorte Saturday to visit Mirs. Moore’s pawshts. The Busy Bee class of the Barkley Sunday school enjoyed a picnic Tuesday in the Randle woods. The Gerry Snedeker family, with the exception of William went to Buchanon, Mich., Monday morning to visit Mrs. Snedeker’s parents 'Arid to look after matters pertaining to their farm there. Next Wednesday the Ladies Aid of Barkley church will meet at the home of Mrs. Charles Grant. It is threshing time and this section has to prepare for a large crowd and maybe they are there and maybe not. Let the ladies make an effort to come, and surprise them. / Another good attendance at Sunday school last Sunday. The average attendance at the services has been steadily growing each quarter -’andso far this quarter it looks as though we were going way ahead of last. Let’s all pull together for that goal. It is encouraging to those most interested in the school and churAh to see folks coming to the services and leaving their auto trips for after services. Next Sunday the preaching service will be in the morning. Come early and to Sunday school at ten o’clock, then the other service can be started promptly at eleven.

PLAINVIEW. John Grugle helped Loyal Snyder Thursday. • Wm. Demoss called on Mr. Wells Monday evening. Mrs. Towe’s sister of Cedar Lake visited her last week. ' Wm. Demoss helped B. McDonald make hay Thursday. Mrs. Chas. Wood visited Mrs. Bess Chapman Thursday. Ivan Blankenship of Cicero spent Sunday with home folks. Mrs. Lloyd Towe has been on the sick list for several days. Fay Lear and wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Saltwell Sunday. Rosa Johnson called on Mrs. T. Johnson Monday afternoon. John Williams spent last week with his mother at Rensselaer. Frank Sommers was the guest of Miss Bertha Sutton Sunday. Lillian Fisher and mother were shopping in Wolcott last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. E. Piatt took dinner with Ed Kendall and-wife Sunday. Loyal Snyder and wife entertained the threshers Thursday and Friday. , ■ _ , , Lon Chapman and wife. Pearl and Grandma Chapman went to MonOn Monday. _ Jim Wood and Roy Williams were guests of Walter Chapman Saturda Miss g Effie Wesner of Wheatfield visited several days last week with Mrs. Wm. Chapman. Mrs. Claude Spencer and Mrs. Everett Clark helped Mrs. Loy®* Snyder cook for threshers Friday. Mrs. George and Mrs. Earl, Foulks assisted Mrs. Roy Culp with her cooking for threshers Monday. Mrs. Lon Wood visited her sister Tuesday and took Miss Wesner home with her for a few days visit. Charlie Johnson and wife took dinner with home folks Sunday. Charlie still enjoys mothers cookbeen spending several weeks m Hartford city, came home wednesChapman and wife visited Lon Wood and wife Tuesday and took some physical exercise by helpinsf thresh. ~ Walter Chapman is working on the threshing machine in Barkley, hauling water. He is known as the Wa Wm. m Chapman and wife, Johnson and wife, and and wife spent Sunday afternoon with Dan and Pearl Chapman. Everett was seen driving his Mitchell home the behind a team of horses. What seemed to be the trouble Everett, we are wondering why Roy comes all the way from Barkley to get a girl. Is it because aren’t any girls in Barkley, Boy. How beautiful are those who by smiles or words of cheer dispel gloom and care from the hearts of those who are sad. Let- us keep ’“a ”certain young man cinity intended to go to Monon to get a girl Saturday evening but one wheel on his car was loose and he was afraid to drive it. He said he didn’t suppose it would do him anv good to go anyway. Well, Jm. if at once you don’t succeed, try try again. * date girls Sunday evening and didnt want but one, so called one up and told her he was sick and * come and recovered so astotake the other girl for an automobile ride, and while he was Biding swiftly along thinking how pleasant life was, whom should he meet but the other girl’s pa and ma. Well, Mike, take another road next up is not a mere matter of wearing a surface smile or of dispelling the gloom of our friends. It is not just putting: on a cheerful appearance for the sake of brightening the way .for othera, an object good enough m itself, to wear “the smile that won’t come off.” We must have one that is more than skin deep. The good feeling must come from the heart 'center if it is to last, and one must really’feel good .in order to express good feeling. Then let us cheer up, let the sigh give place to a smile, let happiness radiate from us. It will do us good and will be a blessing to others. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dneth ‘the bones. Prov. 17:22.