Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

Msk Nt rm an bow Sarah is? Irvin Davis is on the sick list. D. V. I a 1 a lecturer last Monday evenThe campaign heat has affected our •<Jimate. Walter Smith is boring for oil on Mr. yßogers’ farm. Mac Rockwell, who has been quite flick, is better at this writing. Grant Hill spent election day at D. V., fltheguest of your correspondent. J. N. White and daughter Stella, virated at Medaryville last Sunday. So Harry Remley is a candidate for >«natrimony. Write to me, Harry. Election passed off quietly. It re--suited in a local democratic victory. Mr. Mashed Potato Rennewanz and Mm* Zabel plus Miss Rennewanz and Miss Lydia Sands attended church at D. V. last Sunday evening.

Poor San Pierre; he must be dead. I ; will plant sand-burrs on his mound. Mr. and Mrs. Claspel of San Pierre, I visited at Papa Albin s last Sunday. White and Reddin, our full-fledged tile inserters, are running a rtth ing business now. Messrs. Finn and Vandercarr dinnered with Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Maloney last Stfhday. Mr. and Mrs. Othias Gross were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. VVin. Cullen last Sunday. —‘l oyerihe satoon whs rhnttcated to the god of pleasure, with a social dance last Saturday evening. Mrs. En tna Ocker was a D. V. caller, election day. She is a republican yesterday, to-day, an’d forever. Mi. and Mrs. Claspel, of the province of San Pierre, visited with Tiis papa-in-law last Sunday and Monday. Howard Schock is erecting a house north of his co-partnership livery barn. Stella says that it is rather small. Mr. Howard Schock and the Misses Winnie Frazier and Ivy DeArmond attended church at D. V. Sunday evening. Say, did you evi r see Miss Tena Cleveland's new hand polished cap? Ft is patterned after those worn in the days of Paul. We aie very glad to hear that our South Walker correspondent is well pleased with our editorial language. Say, are you married or single? W. S. DeArmond, our justice of the peace-elect, will open up a matrimonial enterprise in a few days. After you are married, he will sell you a -good stove very reasonable. Mrs. Dunn of Normal, HL, and Mrs. Scott of Leroy, 111., are visiting their parents, Mr.and Mrs. H. G. Hendrix. They are favorably impressed with the country and its oil prospects. ■ ■ ■ ■ - - Miss Mattie Witt is getting to be an ideal coon hunter. She plucked a coon out of a tree the other day, with a shootingstick. The coon, in convention assembled, has declared for debarkment. Messrs. Lewie Paulsen and Misses Graves, Henry, Gilbransen and Barlow were seen on our roads last Sunday. Their buggies shone like blazes of hard coal, in cold weather. They all were as happy as a rabbit in a hollow tree. Joe Hilliard, our noted student of pedagogy and camiTrlaTe for ta attacked the contents of my 1 nil dinner pail last Friday morning. Not being aware that I was the interested party in the full pail policy, he very courteously invited me to engage in the annihilating and debustilication scheme. GHOSTS. The ghost theory used to be the prevailing belief but time and' rust has •-rased t-verv vestige of this fallacy and reason, with the help of education, has fortified the intelligence of modern people against the encroachment of any kindred belief, A few nights ago the Messrs. Walter Smith, < f oil fame, and Mi. Philip White, armed and abetted with a table cloth and a bed sheet, respectively, almost frightened the Misses Fannie McCarthy and Netta Collins into a state of lunrrahzation. During the occurrence, the boys emitted strange grunts which sounded like the voice of monsters that our fore-parents used to talk about. Fora scale cure the girls ate pulverized rabbit feet. : • m'coky and the bkvan calf. Mr. Torn McCory has a calf which sails under the dignified title of a Bryan calf, 1.-. st Sunday this calf, who bv his actions believes in the full dinner-pail ' pulley, got into the rye, thus making him- . seif a candidate for forcible yet genI th-extraction. Mr. McCory, seeing the < all in a state of prosperity, got himself lup amt girding his loins with the gar- ‘ ments of awfulness, grabbed up a pushpaddle and began to punch the breeze in the direction of the calf. Thecalf.divini ins bis austere intention, got himself 1 hence, with Tom -is rear guard. He strut k at the calf and hit a piece of atmosphtre, thus bteaking the paddle. But finally, after arguing the point with said calf, he, the calf, withdrew himself to other feeding places.