Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

J, W. Thomas returned from Arkansas last week. Editor Griffin and family spent Sunday at Goodiand. Miss Leona Schwerdsman is on the sick list this week. Curtis jolly of Wolcott, was a Remington caller Thursday. Wellington Morris went to Rensselaer Friday for a short visit. Mrs. Andy Hawn of Goodiand, was in town between trains Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Rich and children spent Sunday at Oxford. Mrs. W. H. Coover and son Clyde, of Rensselaer, were Remington callers Monday. Mrs. Chauncy Landonof Chicago came Friday for a month's visit with Dr. Landon and family. Mrs. F. E. Babcock and Mrs. H. J. Bartoo of Rensselaer, were Remington guests Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Major and son Wilfred, of Rensselaer, wsre Remington callers Friday. Miss Virginia Dobbins of Chicago Heights, came Monday for a short visit with Ellen Mullen. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rich of Brook, were the guests of the former's parents a few days last week. Quite a number of Remington people have been over to the hub on business with the tax-ferrets this week. Mrs. James Gibson, who has been in California for some time for the benefit of her health, died there July J. Miss Orpha Timmons went to Elreno, Okla., Tuesday for a three weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. Fred Penwright. The Jacob Ropp farm of no acres several miles northwest of town, has been purchased by Charles Weise at SSO per acre. Henry Vincent has sold his 163-acre farm 2*4 miles southwest of town to a gentleman from Strawn, 111., for $82.50 per acre. T. J. Harrington, of the grain firm of Rich & Harrington, moved his family here from Wadena last week. They occupy G. B. Clark’s tenant house on South Illinois street. Z. F. Little and M. G. I'raugh will leave next Tuesday for the Big Horn valley in Wyoming to inspect the country and fish for trout in the mountan streams. —Goodiand Herald. An ice cream social was given by the Epworth League Monday night in the City Park. Ihe band furnished splendid music and a fine time was reported. The proceeds were about sls. Miss Hattie Puckett and Mr. Lyle Fisher were quietly married last Sunday at Rensselaer, at the home of the latter’s uncle, lerome Harmon. They will make their home on North Illinois street. „ Mrs. Grace Dingman and infant son returned to their home in Ft. Wayne Thursday, after a month's visit with her father, Jasper Guy. Her sister Matie, accompanied her home for an extended visit. The new Catholic church will be dedicated to-morrow (Sunday). Excursion trains will run between Logansport and Effner. Dinner will lie served in the old church. A large crowd is expected to be in attendance.

NORTH BARKLEY. Chess Caster is sick this week with stomach trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Zook visited Louis Shell and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wni. Shetland are visiting at Starr City this week. Mrs. Sarah Toombs is on the sick list. Dr. English is attending her. The C. iV VV. V. will run an excursion to St. loe Mich., next Sunday Miss Blanche Blake visited her parents at Newland over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Callahan visited friends at Francesville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Tarbett Sunday. J. H. McNeese and Keece Roby were in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. Mrs. Carrie Boute of Kankakee, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry Gifford, of Newland, thL week. Germaine & Omeara finished painting coach No. i, on the C. & VV. V. Ry„ Saturdav. Thurman Smith took his steam engine to Wiuamac Saturday where he will thresh wheat for a couple of weeks and then come back here to thresh oats. DUNNVILLE. D. V. is the capital of Eden. Charles Andrews is working for John Shper. Miss Irene Frazier is halting goose berry pies tor Mrs. Shirer. We are enjoying a seas m of hotness. A little rain would be a boon. The children of Henry Hoars are afflicted with the whooping cough. Mr. and Mrs. Warren White were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. White last Sabbath. Mr. Lemmon killed a blacksnake, u>s feet long, the other day. Mr. Lemmon is a hero. Irene is blessed above all girls. She rides in a horseless buggy drawn by mules. Omer does the driving. Messrs. Irvin Davis. Charles Andrews and Mr. and Mrs. Coleman were the guests of Mrs. Shirer, last Sunday. Haying is in full blast. The hay is not very heavy but the extra good quality will more than counterbalance the quantity of past years. Messrs. Charles Behles, Will Jefferies

and the Misses Maggie Bebles and Tillte Olson were the guests of Grace and Lu Hilliard last Sunday. The party at Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Knapp’s Saturday evening was a riproaring success. It was given in honor of their son, John's birthday. If Virgie and his whiskers would come up in the land of civilization and enlightenment and see a contented people, supplemented by fine crops and fine roads, he would go home and shave his head and sprinkle ashes in his |whiskers for thirty days. He would also substitute sack cloth for his coat. Like queen Sheba, he would declare that the regal splendor of Kankakee tp., "had never been half told.” My good friend of Virgie may be an apostle of truth but he follows it like a Dago follows a wheelbarrow. He pusheth it wherever he wist. He seems to think that D. V. and vicinity is a duplicate of-his mind, that is, a series of lagoons and logs for bullfrog seats. We wish to inform him and his tribe that Hon. J, E. Wilson not only found us but declared in an eloquent speech that we were the inhabitants of a veritable Eden. Just because your crops are cast upon the mud and water, is no sign that you will find them in a multiplied state. Come to D. V.; don't starve in the city of Jericho. Last Friday being a fine day for great deeds and the exercise of heroism, Mrs. Grover Smith and sister, Winnie Frazier, started out for the huckleberry marshes for the purpose of finding huckleberries and getting lost. They succeeded in both lines of this program, to their great satisfaction. While they were in a state of consternation, their dinner which had been deposited by a jack-oak tree, had been pillaged by a company of small calves. They ate every thing but the onions and pickles. The next time that they go they should take a compass and a dinner bell.

LEE. A. B. Lewis and wife went to Remington Saturday. Jessie Allen and family spent Sunday at J. E. Donalson's. D. E. Noland and Sam Jacks wjll build a new corn crib in Lee. Twenty-five from here went to Michigan City on the excursion Sunday. Mrs. C. A. Holeman, children and mother spent Sunday near Wolcott. A Mr. Martin and family from Ohio, were visiting relatives here last week. Mr. Madison, who has been sick for some time, is better at present writing. W. O. Carrothers intends building an addition to his house in the near future. Clarence Carrothers returned to Kentland Monday evening, where he will work. From reports heard from Saturday night, L>r. Elmer Johnson is still among the living. Ida Jacks and Joe Clark spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank May and attended C. ¥,. at McCoy sburg in the ingThe Misses Helen, Lizzie and Marguerite Gotkee and Miss Della Davis spent Thursday afternoon with Sattie M. Johnson. A certain young fellow near here walked 4 miles, carried home a buggy wheel, worked ail dav for the use of a horse, and drove seven miles 0/ see a girl and then got.it “in the neck." He was afterwards seen buggy riding with an old‘widower. That’s all right, sonny, they are much better than girls, anyway. VIROIE. A sister of Joseph Theis came to visit him from Illinois. Miss Mary l’lummer of Goodland, is visiting her brother Peter. Hon. Abraham Haile .k of DeMotte, was in our place Monday, repairing telephones. Carl Hamacher and wife visited his brother-in-law, John Marshall, near Lake V illage over Sunday. Frank Gant, whose serious condition we have noted on several occasions, is now thought to be slowly recovering. Willis Nearhoof, who has been abseut for several weeks, has returned to Virgie and is engaged in running a threshing machine. Jay W. Williams and wife of Rensselaer, spent Friday in and around Virgie. Jav says he and Mrs. W. hold a picnic all by themselves annually in and around our place. The people of Union tp., are blessed in regard to religious and educational advantages as we have eleven schools and six churches all ready completed, and another one under construction. Union tp.. is fortunate in regard to its railroad facilities. It has live stations within its norders with stores, elevators, etc., and yet people who live in remote parts of the county and who never hear the gospel except from an occasional good old wandering Methodist preacher, persist in speaking of cur locality as the wilds oi Virgie. “Oh! consistency, thou art a jewel.' Prof. E. E. Pierson, like a sensible man, came home from Chicago Heights where he is now earning his bread by the sweat of his brow, to celebrate the jth of July with his friends. We are glad to note that he is still hale and hearty and should anything happen that our republican friends run short of presidential timber in 1904, we would take trreat pleaure in helping launch a presidential boom for friend Estel. Sunday morning, long before the great king of day had bathed the east with his golden beams, F.lder S. R. Shrieves of DeMotte, was snatched from the arm* of old Morpheus by a loud knock on his door. Hastily arising and responding to the call, he was soiiH-what surprised to he Confronted by a company of six or eight persons. It did nor take long for them to explain th£ object of their mission, which was to see two of their number, Matthew M. Freel and Eodenia P. Burns, launched on the stortpy sea of matrimony. It is needless to add that the Elder, ever leady to accomodate, performed his part in a manner eminently pleasing and satisfactory to the contracting parties and their friends.

PARR. F. W. Kight was seen in our town Tuesday. AlfiedJSee will open a meat market in our town. Joe Conway :was in Rensselaer Wednesday. Mrs. A. E. Kirk is visiting friends in Rensselaer. The building of the new F. W. B. church is progressing nicely. Ed Leach thrashed Tuesday,' being the first in the neighborhood. Mr. Reed, the Gifford merchant, was in our town Monday on business. T. F. Wood, who has been employed by Chicago Heights Lumber Co., is now home, working for Judy & Wood. BLACKFORD. Will Wray went to the hub Thursday. Everybody making hay and cutting oats. Frank Steele worked for Charles Reed Wednesday. Earl Galbreath helped Wnp Green put up hay Wednesday. Ed Jenkins cut hay for Charles Jenkins Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Ora Bushong is reported to be very much worse again with lung fever. Anderson Jenkins, who has been sick for the last three weeks, is able to be up again. Miss Katie Gilmore and little sister from near Surrey, spent Tuesday at Anderson Jenkins. Believe half what you see and none that you hear, but take The Democrat and get ALL the news. Fred Schriener, Jr., of Chicago, spent the last two weeks at his uncle's, George Schriener’s, near Blackford. CEDAR RlDdk Corn plowing is a thing of the past. Abe Hendryx has been herding snakes : the past week. Ray Thojnpson of Rensselaer was in these parts Tuesday ori business. Marion Albm is putting up hay on Mr. Armstrong's land, south of this place. Mr. James Newhouse has sold his horse so he will have to walk ’em home. Mr. Harrison of Bloomington, 111., was in these parts Tuesday and Wednesday. A. G. Hendryx has returned from Illinois bringing his little grandson with him. Mr. Miles of Wolcott, was in this berg Tuesday and Wednesday looking after his cattle. Miss Lyda Sands of the distant land of Dunnville; visited her cousin, Miss Nettie Miller, of this place. Why would the Cedar Ridge girls make good soldiers? Because they are not afraid to face powder. Miss Vera Price of Bucyrus, Ohio, who is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hart, thinks the Hoosier’s are all O. K. Howard Hoffacker, the Kodak fiend, is in the country. He reminds you of a ; man looking through a knot-hole in a j barn door at a hornet’s nest when fixjng for an exposure. J. C. Thrawls, our good old deputy surveyor, is in these parts surveying a road and ditch, to begin one mile south of Mr. Hendryx’s place and run three miles south from starting place, both side by side. Wm. Daniels, L. Strong and Frank Parker were the viewers, all three are from Rensselaer.

INDEPENDENCE.

Harry Arnold is working for Dannie Lesh. Bessie Brubaker is working for Dan Lesh. Roy Daniels is working for Charley Jenkins. Dry weather is at hand. Everything needs rain. Dan Lesh and family called on Elias Arnold Sunday. M iss Myrtle Barkley was home Sunday on a v isit. Will Wray drove to Rensselaer Thursday on business. Leonaid Haves is working for Sarah Arnold this week. Frank Hayes and daughter spent Tuesday in Rensselaer. Guy Daniels of Rensselaer, is work ing on the farm this week. Jessie Jenkins and family Sundayed with Miss Nancy Hufford. Misses Bertha and James Hopkms drove to Rensselaer Tuesday. George Ott and son Rex, are making h* on their property at the edge of town this week. Charley Wray and wife spent Saturday and Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. L. S. Renicker. A birthday dinner was got up last Sunday on Mr. James Tarbit, it being his 50th birthday. A large number were present and he was greatly surprised when they drove up and begun to carry in their well prepared baskets. The tables were <pnckly spread and loaded with pies, cakes, chicken, vegetables and many other goixhes. A line time was had bv everybody. OILLAM. Corn looks fine. Farmers are cutting oats. Chance Wilson worked for Mrs. Geo. McDaniel last week. Losse Basse ate supper with Millie Walters Sunday evening. Tom Logan is to be envied, he has the finest piece of corn in Gillum. Grade Goldsberry was the guest of Mrs. Levi MiLer .Saturday night. Sain and Joe Arinbrecht took supper with J. Blankenship Wednesday. Mrs. Levi Miller and Mrs. P. Rhoades called on Mrs, Bernie Goldsberry Monday. Jacob Arnbrecht and August Clester have gone to Berrien Springs, Michigan, to attend the summer high school.

ncCOYSBURCJ. A McCoy was here Sunday, Farmers are busy Cutting oats. Rev, Chivington will preach here tonight. Preaching was held here Sunday by Rev, J. L. Brady. Chaunce Foster, Otto Nims and Mr. Huston were in Monon Sunday. Lulu Rishling, Edna and Vera Lefler called on Mabel McDonald Sunday. Several of the young people of this place went to Michigan City Sunday. Mrs. Hoy and mother departed for their home in Illinois last Wednesday. Subscribe for The Democrat, as it is the only paper in the county that can tell the truth. Cliff Robinson, who formerly worked for Mr. Derby, east of here, returned Tuesday where he will remain and work for Henry Meyers the coming season. Some of Rensselaer’s and McCoysburg’s prize fighters met at Michigan City Sunday and almost had a scrap. All the Rensselaer boys would have had to done was to stop, and the burg boys would have done the rest. Just because McCovsburg is a small place is no sign those from larger towns can run over it.