Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

GLLAM.

Namon Lugtnbeal went to Pulaski Tuesday. Mr. Chivmgton visited Yeppi Hansen and wife. i Mrs. Jerry Miller visited Mrs. Jas; Blankenship. Jerry Miller is shocking oats for Yeppi Hansen this week. Giilam has been enjoying some nice hot weather for a few days. Jas. Blankenship is shocking oats for Peter Hennansen this week. The two Misses Wagner took dinner with Sadie Glassford Sunday. Frank riwartzell of Rensselaer, visited Jerry Miller and wife Saturday and Sunday. Jas. Blankenship and wife visited J. P. Arnbrecht and wile, of near Wmarnac, Wednesday. Robert Glassford, Leslie Tilled, Ike Ren and Alfred Risher all took dinner with the Robinson brothers .Sunday. Claret.ce and Claudia Blankenship are visiting their Grandpa and -Grandma Huber at Wheattield lor a lew weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rice took their ti-year-old son Jesse to Chicago last Friday for medical treatment. • They were accompanied by l)rs. Jones of Medaryvdle, and Berkley of Rensselaer. The boy was thrown from a horse July sth, and had struck on his head, rendering lorn nnconsoiujs, m which Condition he had remained till this time.

LEE.

Ira King was buying calves here last week. Mr. and Mis. Mad son visited Simon Co< k s Sunday. Lute Jacks ai d family wt re Sunday visitors at Lee. . Iva Carrothers went to Momence to work last week. Mis. W. O. and Rose Carrothers spent Friday in Rensselaer. Hafvv Phillips of Delphi, visited bis neice Mrs. R. P R shling, one day last week. Mrs. Chas. Pape and sister-in-law called on Mis. N. P. Rishiing one day of last week. M. Lamport's grandfather Jones of Momence, 111., spent a few days last week here, returning home Friday. Mr. arid Mrs. N. I’. Rishiing, and Mrs. F. B. Rishlmg and daughter Lula, attended the funeral of John Brucker at Reynolds, Monday.

NHWLANI).

H. F. Gifford ami A. It. Dui.fee were at Wheatfit Id on business Saturday. Beit Camp and Karl Newiand went to Remington to work on the gravel road. Several people of Newiand attended the Sunday School Convention ;lt Yalmt Sunday. Mrs. Herman Alders of Francesville, . ts visiting her daughter, Mrs. T. M ’ Callahan, this week. John Holsier and Blanche Steel, Prank Holsier and Ida Caster, all of "Laura, were visitors here Sunday. Barney Newiand, who is working for Joe Chandion south of Rensselaer, visited A. B. Dutifee and family over Sunday. Onions are looking fairly well after; the flood, and we think we will h ive ! half a crop. Scarcely anv of the rye on low land will be ert at all; oats art looking well and will h»- saved with the ex ceps ion of a few very low places. John Richmond's house was struck by lightning one day last week and the « bnnney completely demolished, tearing a hole clear through the ho'use to the ground. Three girls were in the house at the time hut luckily none were hurt with the exception of a slight shock.

WHEATFIELD.

Mrs. Asa Stump is sick at this writing. Harry Gifford of Newiand, was in t< «ii Saturday on liusuiess. Myers & Myets are preparing to build a tint brick business house. Harry Re/nley says he his a "longing in his heart, to see her once again." Roy Blue of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with Miss Adelaide Phillips of this place. ft iss Mabel Larson came from Chicago Saturday evening f ir a short visit with relatives litre. J ft r .C. H llicknii i of Greencastle, can t Tuesday evening tor a short visit with friends and relatives here. ftlr. and Mrs. John Collins returned to then home in Chit ago Heights Saturday, after an extended visit witrt their daughter at this place. X A certain young man in this town likes to go courting; but could not take his iady friend to churcn on account til having Ins head shaved. '1 he Wheatfield ball team went over to San Pierre Sunday and crossed bats with the San Pierreites, and the r suit was 7 to 6 in favor of Wheattield.

DUNNVILLE.

Good weather prevails. Corn looks tine; Oats are very promising. Aaron Timmons wishes to close a contract for ninety girls to take a ride in bis i ew buggv. Messrs. Jot; Fenzil and Doc Salami of Walker, were on the veal war path in these parts last Tuesday. Miss Cora Wheeler of Wilders, called on friends here last Sunday. Cora is well pleased with her new home. Messrs. Jim Newhouse and Emmons Miller were at Chicago last Sunday. The boys, with the exception of falling over a toll gate, had a tine time. Messrs. Taylor Usborne and John Ha/eibaker, who are working on the Barnard Ranch west of town, returned to Fowler last Monday to attend the carnival. ' , The Misses Anna Behles, Maggie Bebles and Tillie Olson called on Mr. and Mrs. Ed Allen last Sunday evening. Ice creatn and singing were the features of the evening. The farmers of the west end of this tp., held an anti-threshing machine trust meeting at the Van Ration schoolhouse last Saturday evening to protest against the proposed advance in price for threshing grain. The difficulty can be settled at once by a return, on the part of the ihreshermen, 19 the price ol last year.

One of our good-natured young men while returning from the home of his sweetheart last Thursday evening, was frightened by an apparation which he imagined hung from a tree by the roadside. This is as near as I can imagine, this version of the affair as given by him: "As 1 was returning from the home of my lady friend, clothed in my best mind, I saw a few rods in advance of me an object suspended from the limb of a tree, swinging to and fro like the ,pendelutn on a clock of destiny. Immediately I stopped and called the factors of my invisible self, to a consultation meeting. After eighty billots, the proposition to run vas carried, to my great relief. Crawfishing to a safe distance I at once put the order of my individual Supreme Court into execution forthwith, yea, sconer. Panting like a wind-broken engine, I summoned five of my senior friends of I). Y ., and at once retraced my steps to the pl.-ce where my hasty exodus began and 10, nothing unseemingly was there."

PARR.

D. H, Garriott, mail clerk of Indianapolis,is home for a few days stay. Mr. Wishard and wife of Rensselaer, were out looking over their farm Tuesday. The welcome hum of the threshing machine is once more heard in our neighborhood. Mrs. H. E. Rowan of Chic,go, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Tom Brusnahan, for a few* days. A. H. Alter has just threshed, a field of wheat that threshed thirty-eight bushels per. acre. Mrs. J. L. Babcock is still confined to her bed bv rheumatism, and is some worse at this writing. Babcock \ Hopkins have had five men shoveling corn this week, moving it from the cribs to the cars. It has been a real hot job. The wheat and rye has been harvested under great disadvantages this season, and all the oats that were sown on low ground are lost. Ed Price has purchased the David Alter property and is putting in a new stock of goods with his brother, John Price, in charge. John and Charles Pettit and Joseph Salrin and family of Walker, visited S. A, Brusnahan Sunday and Monday and took in the t xcursion. Quite a number took in the excursion Sundty. All got back O. K. Sunday-ex-cept Chas, Harriott, who for some unknown cause didn’t get back until next day. Frank Shindler met with a very painful accident Tuesday, getting his arm fast in a pulley on the threshing machine and tearing the flesh from' the hone above the elbow. He will probably he laid up for three or four months. The Aix and Parr base hail teams, crossed hats Saturday, the score was in Parr’s favor, but it was so immense I shall not attempt to enumerate them. Parr team will go to Fair Oaks Saturday. This will make four games they have played this season all resulting in a victory for Parr. Now, Fair Oaks, hump yourself and beat them this time. The five cent medicine show that is being given this week furnishes quite j amusing side-splitters for the kids and ; some'of the older ones join them on the chorus. Come one and ail and buy the medicine that cures all ailments, and that makes the homely beautiful, the sad to Smile and the old to become young. This is worth having at any cost.

VALMA

Quite a number of young folks spent Sunday at Mr. Me Mann's. Jess Eldridge and Miss Clara Resh spent Sunday with Joe Leach’s. S. H Hopkins and family spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. G. B. Lewis, of Valina. There will be an ice cream supper Saturday night, July 19, at the Barkley M. E. church. Cotne, one come all. Boys, come and bring your girls and have a good time. Fred Hines has returned from Kansas. He says it is too windy out there for him. That is, he meant to say, the witul blew' him h ick here again and he was glad it d’d, for he likes Jasper the best of all pla es. The Sunday School convention held at the Christian church here Sunday proved to he the finest and best for some time. A large number were present, some from a long distance, and all enjoyed the fine program.

FAIR OAKS.

John Ligget went to Lafayette Sunday, prospecting. Bruce ftloffit went to Wisconsin the first of the week. Rev. Hall preached at the ChHstian church last Sunday. Henry Wiliam and wife called on Ed Kesler’s last Sunday. Mrs. Howell and daughter are visiting in Illinois this week. Zern Wright of Rensselaer, called on Maud last Sunday evening. The Misses Erwin of Monon, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. R. H. Zea, this week. Mrs. Newt. Waterman of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. N. Littlefield, this week. John Carter and Wilbur Dodge went to Brook this week to haul stone on the new roads, Lewis Alter of Carpenter tp., was doing some surveying in the south part of town last week, Charley Barker and Ray Brouhard are helping Ors. Halstead in the harvest field this week. James Clifton has been having a seige of rheumatism the past week. He is some better at this writing. Mrs. Reason Dunn and family of Demotte, visited her parents, Uncle Leonard Kesler’s the first of the week. Grandma Cox will quit housekeeping and live with her children, we are informed. Dick Mallatt will occupy her property. There is considerable of rye in this section of the country that can’t be cut on account of the ground being too soft to hold up a binder. Ike Thomas and wife went to Remington the first of the week to see Mrs.

James Zea, who was reported much worse. They report her some better at this writing. A Mr. Tebo of Bunkum, was here looking for a lofation for a barbershop. He drove over with a team and in half an hour after his arrival one of the horses took sick and died. Uncle William Cox died last Monday at 11 o'clock, p. m., and was buried Tuesday at 2 p, m., in Fair Oaks cemetery. Short services were held at the house, conducted ,by Rev. Labanta of Rose Bud. Hay harvest will be considerably on the drag in these parts this year, owing to there being so much water on the ground. Ike Right has 50 acres of timothy standing in water from two to twelve inches deep.

SURREY.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Parks, a daughter, July 16. Farmers are'very busy cutting grain and pryir.g out hinders. Where are those men who said this country was so well tiled that it caused a drouth last year? We hear some talk down here of the Iroquois being dredged out soon. We hope it will not turn out like the campaign gravel roads. Last Tuesday we saw at work in one oats field two binders, one mowing machine, one ditcher, and they didn’t get quite done, either. The Sunday school is gaining in interest and bids fair to he a great success in building up the work at the Va-ughn church. Everyone is invited to join in and help make the Master’s work go. .The corn that has been cultivated since. the heaviest rains is taking new life and bids fair for a good crop yet. There will probably be a good demand for double shovel plows from now on.

Turner Merritt was a Rensselaer visitor Thursday. Miss Orpha Timmons started for Denver, Coi., Saturday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Rich, July 13, a daughter. Miss Myrtle Furgeson of Wolcott, was a caller here Tuesday. Miss Frankie'Yeoman visited friends in Rensselaer this week. Sid Burton went to Elwood last week to work in a barber shop, Goodland Catholics are preparing to build a fine new church edifice. George Winters is building a new residence on North Ohio street. Mrs. James Washburn visited friends in Effner several days this week. Mrs. L' Blake of Wabash, Ind., is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Grant Tarntan. \Vlli. Phillips Irom the soldiers home, near Lafayette, is visiting relatives here. Henry Mullen has en'ered the law office <>t Lairy & Mahoney at Logansport. Miss Ida Beal is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. Dick, in Watseka since Saturday. Claude Maxwell went to Goodland Thursday to visit 1 is grandmother Maxwell, Misses Mary Peck and Mabel Lambert spent Sunday with friends in Chicago. Miss Fannie Walker was the guest of friends in Wolcott several days this week. Mrs. Dora Hart of Wolcott, was the guest of relatives here Monday and T uesday. Albert Geier of Reynolds, was the guest of his brother Will, several days this week. Mrs. Fanny Lanahan of P'rankfort, came Thursday to visit her sister, Mrs. Win. Rich. George Besse has been elected a member of the Remington school board, in place of J. D. Allman. Mrs. G. A. Chappell returned home from Indianapolis Monday after a few days visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leopold of Wolcott , were callers here Monday evening I on their way to Rensselaer. Mrs. Homer Hardy is the guest of Mrs. Nellie (Traugh) Richards in Indianapolis, since Monday. Our tormer townsman, C. G. Austin, has sold his residence property at Goodland to Barney Clark and has moved to Idaviile. " Mrs. McCabe of Watseka, 111., and Mrs. Will Parks of Rensselaer, visited thtr parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph! <>sborne, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Catmint and family re-; tu their home in Crawfordsville, Saturday after a few week’s visit with the former’s parents here. Dr. Lovett, who has had a position in the census department at Washington for the past few years, has returned with his family and again taken up his residence at Goodland.