Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1900 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

Hurrah fot* Dr. Schwier! Supervisor Cooper is working the roads now. Stocks and Cummings are pressing hay for Mr. Allen.

Miss Mattie Witt is working for Mrs. M. A. Jones. ' Mr. Buck DeArmond lost a valuable horse last Sunday. Oats are fine. An abundant harvest this fall is evident. L. B. Collins is pressing hay in Porter Co., at this writing. Rev. Thorpe preached a fine sermon at D. V. Sunday evening. Davis and Niece have begun haying. They report a light crop. Mrs. Luther Albin, who has been quite sick, is reported better at this writing. Mrs. Coffin departed for Richmond last Tuesday for a fe.v w’eeks recreation. We understand that Emmons Miller is a No, 1 dish-washer. Girls, don't forget. Mr. Otto Schrader and Miss Netta Collins attended lodge at San Pierre Saturday even- 1 ing. Watch out. Joe Hilliard, or that Walker ' boy will exterminate your matrimonial possibility. Oscar Graves has got the mumps: the oldfashioned anti-vinegar kind. He is getting along nicely. Mr. Hendricks, w ho lately moved here from 111., is erecting a house. Mr. Hilliard is doing the carpenter work. Mr. John Finn called on editor Robertson I last Tuesday. They smoked together and had a political head bumping. Mr. Johnnie Gramp of Porter Co., was the ' guest of the Misses Lou Hilliurd and Cora j Wheeler last Sunday evening. They say that Johnnie and Phillip White are 0. K. boys. MissesTena Cleveland and Emily Crawford of San Pierre, were extracting berries of the raspberry tribe at Mr. John Wynant’s farm last Wednesday. Does Johnnie and Tug like berries. Sir John Payne and Miss Crawford of San Pierre, were the pie-plant eating guests of Mr. and Mrs. Slap-Jack White last Sunday, The San Pierre cor. was misinformed w hen she declared that Johnnie had no affinity. Rev. W. H. Hickman, chancelor of Depauw University, will preach the dedicatory sermon nt the dedication of the West Vernon M. E. church next Sunday. Come with baskets full of the good things of life. Rev. Hickman and wife and cousin and Mr. D. V.. were the milk drinking guests of Mr. and Mrs, Wilmington last Sunday. Our pustor proved by his oft repeated phrase: "Please pass the milk," that he is opposed to the butter-making industry. Mr. Bill Wilmington, our D. V, soldier in the Philippines, informs me that he receives Thb Democrat in his fur offhom n . He says it is warm there, with heavy rains. He has been in a battle and knows how a person feelawhen bullets, like friends, are buzzing around him. . The Childrens' day exercises which were held at the M. E. church last Sunday was well attended. An elaborate program was prepared and rendered to the satisfaction of all present. At the close of the exercises Rev. Hickman gave a short address on "The Power of Christian Colleges Upon Our Civilization,” Mr. George N. Dunn and Miss Mary Moody of Rensselaer, were united Ln the mystical bond of wedlock last Wednesday at the home of the bride's parents. George, us he is popularly known. was a typical D. V., boy until the West adopted him. The bride Is a popular young lady of Rensselaer. They intend to carve their fortune out of the treasures of

the great West. May happiness be their lot until the summons to go hence is formulated. A spirited battle was waged against house rats by Messrs. John Cooper, George Ketchmark, August Breitenban and Clarence Sands at the latter's farm a few days ago. Like Joshua and his followers of old. they marched around the modern Jericho or residence of the rats seven times but the walls did not fall down, so they with patience razed the corn crib to the ground and with drawn sabers and the playing of music they began the work of carnage Above the noise of battle was the cries of the victims who were being stayed without mercy : Surrender without being killed was out of order. No white flag could veto the eternal edict of complete annihilation. When the cloud of battle passed away and they were clearing up the arena of war. it w as found that 575 ruts had given their lives for their country. Our heroes were more than conquerors. Grandpa Sands, the veteran rat fighter, said it was a poor rat day, too. "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained knowledge.” saith the Bible. A-forgot-to-die. of the Devonian age, a yellow-hammer of Mark Hanna, a mouthpiece of the court house ring in an extended article in the Wheatfield Telephone attacked three of our good democrats namely, Honan, Douthit. and Finn. He talked like he was a sage or a sooth-sayer but we think he is simply a thinker of a meager calibre—perhaps twenty-two short. We wish to inform his Satanic majesty that Mr. Finn never did declare that he would accept the nomination of sheriff if tendered him but rather refrained from making the race on account of private reasons. His friends and they alone managed the political business. Again, any sane, unprejudiced person with the political mote picked out of his eye. could see that nominations for county office were freely made by the delegates who were not members of a committee. Now this Mr. Sand-lapper whoever he is, is either bald headed or wears specs, for there must be some external mark to classify him from the rank of sane people; otherwise he would not have written an article which was such a misrepresentation of truth.