Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]
JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
I g, INDEPENDENCE. I | Jokn Nichols bought a horse Monday, f gPHor* began on the new gravel road TuesR' | ■Mpk"Daniels lost a fine SIOO horse Tuesday Hjpmin*- - S KlGhariey Hopkins is cutting corn for Levi 1 ill*- Tarbit and family called on Frank Hayes I p Ifatace Daniels sold some young sheep to ■McCoy Monday. • Wray and wife went over to WheatBjtekl last Sunday. E Edward Miller sold some cattle to the CathHhc college men Tuesday. ■pMhoMid that James and Miss Alice didn't Rro buggy riding last Sunday ? llijoho Hayes took advantage of the excurKplott rates to Chicago last Sunday. K'.-Mmnk and Charley Snyder cut corn for John HlllcboU Tuesday and Wednesday. Hjlohn Hurley is digging his onions. He Rjlauled a load to Comer Monday. ■pld. Shuck of Valma. was in this vicinity last llweek looking for hands to cut up corn. j Charley Jenkins and wife went over to I Wbeatfield last Saturday,returning Sunday. R Messrs. Porter and Janies of near Goodland, ■bought some sheep of Wm. Daniels Monday. WUI Hayes has returned from the South and i'ti now working at his old home, .Smith New- | el's of Valma. % Con Daniels and Jess Nuss have returned pjrom lowa, where they were working for a Kpalary of <1.75 a day. rain last week made happy farmers in gDtis locality, hut the hail did considerable ■damage to the fodder h The German Baptists or Dtinkards, will hold pheir communion meeting north of Blackford k.‘oo the 18th and 14th of Octotier. L Fted Renicker and John Hopkins visited Ipjtiettds in Giltain tp. They took dinner with Kflunes Blankenship. James is a member of Bph« string band <d that place. t Will and Joel Wray went over to Rensselaer I'laat Sunday to take the excursion to Cnicago, prat when they saw that great monster of a maj? chine pull up to the depot they started back Ptmme and said they'd walk to Chicago before Ktbey would ride on such a vehicle.
NORTH BARKLEY.
I We have a new postoffice at Gifford Station, ft?Mahlon Layton is visiting friends in Lafay- | JohnG. Cusson is visiting in Kankakee this I George Beedy visited friends in this vicinl By Friday. ? Gin Suager is visiting friends in the north Bpnt of the state. Painters began work on tlie new buildings pit Gtfford Monday. K Herman Aiders did business in Lafayette a Flew davs last week. | Miss Ella Callahan returned home Friday pfrom her visit to Kankakee. i. Quite a number from this vicinity took in nbe excursion to Chicago Sunday. PiComer played Pleasant Ridge a game of hall ■■■nday. score 11 to 17 in favor of Comer.
GILEAD.
I Mrs. P. Hermansen is on the sick list, i Molasses making is in full blast at Jno. WatBkm'u. p; Frank Pass of Illinois, is visiting his brother | Bam this week. |; Jus Stevens and family are going to attend pthe Motion fair Friday. t A. C. Robinson of Motion, visited Harve L Robinson and wife Sunday. c Mira Logan and Cecil Culp attended the | «treet fair at Motion, Thursday. s Arthur Watson is going to Brook to work, fttmuling stone for tlie new bridge. s Fred Renicker and Jno. Hopkins took dinEpgterwith Jas. Blankenship Sunday. & Mrs. Rathbone still continues the, same as |«he has been quite low for some time. I' Jas. Wren and Jennie Logan attended | Church at Glendale Wednesday evening. fT-ClMurlie will haveto change his 20 mile drive ' from Gillam to Gifford, as Miss Bessie is goI Ada there to work. Jerry Miller has gone to Elwood on a "dear chant.” He is thinking of bringing her back | With him. Grandma Odent accompanied him. £ The mother of Sain Pass was buried at the cemetery Sunday. The funeral [ was largely attended. She died in Bartholomew county, where she made her home with | her son William. The Pass brothers. Frank of Illinois, William | : Mld Martin of Bartholomew Co., and Sam of t’ GUUm went to Rensselaer Monday and had their pictures taken. It was the first time they I- had Ml been together for 25 years.
BLACKFORD.
* Hurrah for D. V’» Dewey. Thomas Price is do better at this writing. ; We had a splendid rain onN.R. last week. | g Oorn cutting and plowing for wheat is all * the so on N. K. & Mias Lora Steele is working for Charley F Hurley of DeHotte. | John Casev of Fair Oaks, was seen in this g vicinity a few days ago. Several of our young people attended the at Mr. Rair’s south of the tile mill. John Hurley is pulling his onions. He 1 thinks he will have 200 or 300 bushels of them. RFred Flaher and Miss Stella Stanley attended |ifce Sunday school at Burnstown last Sunday. B. John W. Hurley and wife and Burton Jenifcins visited friends and attended the street [Mr at Monou this week. | Charley Campbell, who sold his farm a short |tiroe ago. is looking around for another farm, gs Who has a farm for sale? *£-■ JEraestFrazee attended Burnstown Sunday pUchool last Sunday. He would be more wel|Me If he came oftener. gflome of the people who have bought those nHeatern hones have found that they are not fit** they are cracked up to be. I Several people of this locality attended the old settlers meeting at Rensselaer. They Spwd some very able speakers and then plWel the ok! relics. When they saw the HM4ashkx>ed articles they said, "that is like K wed to be when I was a boy.”
DUNNVILLE.
Pharr 11 rosier is erecting a barn. Iph. Wuakly went to Shelby last Thursday. Kthaua Billiard spent last Sunday at W alker- || A. E. Cooper and wife were D. V, visitors
Rev. Pritta of Ransaelaer, la holding mootings at D. V. • Percy Stock* departed for Chicago, a week ago last Friday. O. D, Brooke of Mb Ayr, la visiting friends in this vicinity. Vandercar and son are molaasifylng the surrounding country. Harvey Stanley went to South Bend last Sunday to visit his sister. Rev. Thorpe preached two very able sermons at D. V. last Sunday. Road supervisor Cooper finished his township ditching a few days ago. Russel Jones is visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Jonea. He expects to stays while. Mrs. Mary White is on the sick list. Miss Mertie DeArmond is doing her work. Mr. George Gross has got a new buggy. A Baum's bridge lady will have a visitor. The dance at Mrs. Hughes' last week was weU attended, A good time is reported. A number of the Wheatfield young people attended church at D. V. last Tuesday evening. Misses Netta Collins and Emma Henry visited friends at and near San Pierre last Saturday. The farmers are plowing for wheat and rye. Some places it is almost too hard to plow. Conference returned Rev. Hickman for another year. Everybody, almost to a unit, are well satisfied. Warren White called on Miss Brown at San Pierre last Monday evening. He believes in protracted courtship. A number of the Wheatfield boys including Mr. Wheatfield. passed through D. V. last Sunday enroute for Judson. Aaron Claspel has rented a house in D. V. He is his own house keeper now but the Question is how long will he live incelebrity? Sheriff Fiun is well, He will not speak for publication, His silence is like the calm that precedes u tornado or the eruption of a volcano, Mr. Gerber was the guest of Miss Jessie Francis White last Sunday evening. He was just a-head of the rising sun when he went home. William Wilmington, went to Fort Sheridan to join the regular army, passed the examination and is now a full-fledged regular, or will be. We understand Howard Wyuaut appreciated Mrs. Bohemian's last Saturday night speech very much. I thought he didn't blush for nothing. Miss Melzie Schrieber was talking to a certain fellow the other day. Upon being repri manded for so doing, by a friend, she replied "He's my brother-in-law.’’ The ancients idea of a perfect country was one that abounded in milk and honey. My idea of au ideal country is one that flows with corn-bread and milk. Mr. Wheatfield likes mush. Gen. Otis can truthfully say that, “my kingdom is not of this world (new world)" hut it Is in the Philippine Islands. Politically speaking, Otis has no pluce in the U. S. to rest his heud. Hoys und musculineites, get yourcow-bells, | your old rusty muskets, with cobwebs on, and your tin puns in good repuir, for somebody and Miss So-uud-So are going to jump the mystical broom-stick. Mr. Gillam said I Battered him when I said [ that he had u smile like his buggy's dash- I board. Now that isn't flattery, that is truth. If X had said that his mustuche was as nice us •nine, that would have been flattery or a semi-falsehood. Mr, and Mrs. Wilson Miser are putting on metropolitan uirs. They have erected in front of their residence, a fine fence. They believe in improving the town, for well ordered residences invites population. Gentlemen, elect Mr. Miser mayor of I). V.
“ D. V• boys, the next time you take a buggy ride with your girls, don’t carry their specs in your vest pockets. One young man called on Dr. Weakly last Monday to have a pair repaired. fl would suggest to tlie young ladies who wear glusses, that they might use a little more discretion in the matter by placiug the specs in the young gentlemens "off" pocket. Typo.] The schools in Kankakee tp., begun last Monday. Trustee Knupke has secured a very aide corps of teachers. The following are the names of the teachers and their respective schools. Prof, R. A. Manuan, principal, holds the fort at D. V., Mrs. Birdie Miser, D. V. Primary.; Miss Jessie White, Oak Grove; Miss Netta Collins, Van Patton; Wilson Miser, Cedar Ridge; Mr. Charlie Sands, Dahncke. They are ail followers of Socrates and Plato and they expect to divulge the secrets of the Sooratic method to the pupils of our tp.
WHEATFIELD.
Charley Austin and family of this place, are moving to Momence. 111. Cyril Steele of Barkley tp., made a business trip to Kankakee last week. Several of the people at this place attended the old settlers' meeting «t Rensselaer last Saturday. Albert Keen took his little boy who lately lost his hearing to an ear specialist at Chicago last week. He claims that the boy can be helped but cannot be cured. The little red wheeled peanut roaster that Anderson received last Saturday seemed to attract more attention than any other little machine of this kind that had struck the town for some time. In fact, it was a warm article, especially when the gas was turned on. The extra strain that Rev. Hickman put on his voice last Sunday evening was unnecessary because he thought that that would be his last sermon at this place, but we are pleased to know that he will preach the Gospel on the circuit of Dunnville, San Pierre, West Vernon and this place for another year. We happened to stop at a little "hoe-down” east of town last Friday evening und what do you think we saw but Mr. D. V. doing what we supposed to be the "cake walk” on the dancing floor. He was assisted by several others, and seemed to be getting along very nicely. But why not? Because there stood a man off to one side telling him what to do and how to do it. Thereaaon we took it to be a cake walk was because we bad seen nothing like it before.
KNIMAN.
Mrs. Meyers’ sister from Illinois Is visiting her. ‘: { Wear# having flue weather now for farm work. Miss Gulbranson was in our midst Sunday evening. The dance at Hassalbrtng’swasa hot time Saturday eve.
WiUtam Skiers was a guest at the Williams Ord Hanley has gone to Rensselaer to attend Ugh school. Mrs. W. Barker has returned from Chicago, after a week’s visit. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. G. Hannah, last Wednesday, a big girl. Blsa Grow was in town last Sunday and part of the night, it is rumored. Jessie Dennlston, Nellie O'Conner and Raymond Poyer have the measels, but are doing well. Mr. Ira Brown has purchased a new buggy. He took his best girl, of course, to the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Enos Timmons of near Rensselaer, were visiting at Mr. Denniston’a last week. Next Sunday evening there will be a meeting of the League for the old people. Everybody is invited to attend. Mr. Meßwen leader. There was seen among the guests at Mr. Denniston’s Monday eve, a young fellow by the name of Loucy. How about it M, Me., did you see him? Henry Schmidt, it is reported, will be married soon. His father has given Mr; Denuiston notice to vacate the house. Keep the good work going, Hennie.
REMINGTON.
Mrs. J. S. Moorehead is very sick. Carpenter tp„ schools began Monday. Jacob Klouse has opened a tailor shop here. A flue boy at Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bailey's ast Monday. B. E. Coover left for his home in Wilson, Kan., last week. James Hogan uttended the national G. A. R. encampment at Philadelphia. The Wolcott band will furnish music for the Fowler street fair, Sept. 26 to 29. Geo. H, Allman and Miss Mamie Sloan were married at the home of the bride in ludianupolis, Tuesday. Bert Blood went to Van Wert. Ohio, last week to participate in this week's races with his trotter, Vibrator. The raiu last Friday was accompanied by considerable hail and wind, and the corn in some neighborhoods about here was badly blown down. Our people are quite well pleased w ith the work of the county council, but would like to see an investigation of county affairs just thesame, to find out what has been going on in the pasV. The town board has fixed the tax levy for 1899 as follows: Roads and bridges 20 cents; miscellaneous purposes, 40 cents; waterworks, 40cents; poll 25 cents; special school, 50 cents and $1 on each poll; tuition, 35 cents and 25 cents on each poll. Mark McNlchol, Lou Walker, Joe Meehan, Henry Mullen, Homer Hardy, Charley McColly and a few others visited the hub Thursday. It is said that a majority of them went at request of the grand jury, to see wbat they knew about violations of the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana, but of course, we will not vouch for this.
FAIR OAKS.
Miss Mary Arnold is clerking for Con Manderville, Miss Iva Alter of Rose Bud. was in town Wednesday. McCoy & Porter were in town on business one day this week. Rev. J. L. Brady preached at the Christian church last Sunday. Sum Clifton's of Gifford, visited at T. J, Mulliitt's Saturday, Mr. Zimmerman the night operator, is taking a 10 days vacation. Mrs. Charlie Holley of Beaver City, is visiting relatives in town. Mrs. Louisa Thornton and son Vernon of Surrey, visited in town Sunday. Miss Lulu Clifton is visiting at her grandfuther Powell's in Newton tp.. this week. R, W. Sohoiield and S. B. Thornton’s attended Holiness meeting near Foresmun Saturday and Sunday. S. B. Moffitt lias 200 acres of hay to mow yet, und has 200 or 300 tons on the ground in the swath and shock, Mr. J, Kimble and daughter Miss Bessie, from Gifford, came over Sunduy morning and went to Chicago on the excursion. Mrs. Belk and daughter, Miss Mnrgerie of Brook, visited at Mr. Listen’s east of towu Tuesday and called on Mrs. Abe Bringle. Wednesday. Miss Belk came to contract with Trustee Kight for a school. She will teach the school 5 miles southwest of Fair Oaks. Mrs. Shoup, who has been sick for about two weeks, died lan Monday about 2 a, m. She leaves a husband and eleven children, and four have preceeded her to the better land. The funeral was held at the M. E. church Tuesday p. m., conducted by Rev. Sherrill of Aix. Interment was made in Fair Oaks cemetery. Some of our people took in the excursion last Sunday, among whom were S. B. Moffit. Dr. Proudly and Miss Alice. Alice visited until Wednesday in the city, and then went to Washington, D. C., where she will attend school for the fall and winter. The ycung girl’s friends regret to have her absent such an extended time. May success g a with her.