Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — McCOYSBURG. [ARTICLE]

McCOYSBURG.

Mrs. Armstrong is better. C. W. Bussell killed a wolf Tuesday. Mrs. Phillips is able to be up some n»w. Miss Mabel Houston was here Tuesday. C. A. Lefler and family were in Rensselaer last Saturday. Albert Lee and Mr. Hellengreen went to Francesville last Monday. Miss Pearl Parker speut Saturday and Sunday with her parents here. L. H. Hamilton and Trustee Stewart visited the school here Tuesday. Rev. Appleton did not fill his appointment to preach here last Sunday. Mrs. Eldridge has purchased a new loom and will weave carpets again. When you step out on the porch and leave the door open, don’t mention it, Herman Nimmshas been breaking a colt for Jim McDonald during the past week. Well, John! The next time you start after coal oil you want to take two slopbuckets. Leota, John and Fred Foster were in the vicinity of Palestine Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Albert Lee has returned home after an extended visit with relatives near Francesville. Don’t know just what was wrong, but when went to get her last Sunday she had gone away in the buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Foster, Lewis and wife, John and Clarence visited relatives south of Wolcott from Friday till Sunday. Misses Hansen and Potts accompanied by Messrs. Joe Stone, Dick and George Potts were here to Endeavor Sunday evening. Roy Bussell run a wolf all day last Saturday. When it came up to McDonald's feed-lots, Felix Parker joined in the chase and shot it, but Roy gets the praise, anyway. o'ne of our beloved Senators of Valparaiso, will probably remember the bath he took in what he understood to be the blue sea, but others knew to be a snow-drift, last Friday night. If he had been of common clay, everybody would say he was drunk. As it was, he was just so full he couldn't move until the section men moved him.