Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — NEWTON TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

Farmers are sowing oat'., Mr. Keen did shopping at Rensselaer Tuesday. Mrs, Lizzie Mallatt of Fair Oaks, is working for Mrs, Ed Stahl. Clarence Blankenbaker of Mt. Ayr, visited Lee Mauck Sunday. Miss Rose Lane started for Valparaiso Monday, her school havipg closed Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Miller •pent-Sunday with the latter’s parents, near Mt. Ayr, Sunday. Miss Mamie Bells returned to her home at Brook Friday, her school having closed Thursday. The democrats held their convention Saturday. They nominated James Carr for trustee and Janies Yeoman for assessor. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Lakin, Jake Youngless and mother, Mary and Frank Brusnaham of Parr, were the guests at Jos. Lane's Sunday. Mrs. O. C. Halstead is back from the hospital at Chicago. Mr, James Yeoman has bought Charley Handley's fat cattle. Eveline and Josie Miller attended church at Mt. Ayr lust Sunday. The snow on Wednesday put a stop to farming and gardening. Claude Balden and Laura Buswell visited at F. M. Mauck's on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Hunt and two from Michigan, are visiting this'"Week at Mrs. Hunt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Miller. The surprise of last Wednesday on Mr. and Mrs. David Mauck was well attended and a good time reported, and it was a complete surprise. It was the 23d anniversary of their wedding day,

Some gypsies passed through the first of the week begging and telling fortuues. They did a great deal of begging but as far as we have learned no one seemed to want to trust their fortune lu their hands. The democrats of this township met on last Saturday at the Saylervllle schoolhouse and nominated a township tieket. James Carr for trustee, James Yeoman for assessor. We did not learn as to the rest of the ticket. Mr. F. E. Mauck of Anderson, Ind., took a trip last week to Warren, Arkansas, in the yellow pine region. He went by way of St. Louis, over the Big-4, then over the Iron Mountain Route through Little ocßk, Pine Bluff, McGehee and Deriouott to Warren. He said it was quitea change both in climate and country. He saw some large sawmills and pleuly of pine timber. He stopped in St. Louis and also in Little Rock. He went hunting down there and shot quails not far from whpre he was. They told him there were wild turkey, deer, bear, wild-cat, panthers and like game, but it was too late in spring to hunt them, winter was best for large game. He said their principal crop there was cotton, yellow pine lumber, and niggers interspersed with raaor-back swine.