Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY GLEANINGS. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

James Hogan is visiting in New York state. F. R, Curtis ami tamily are now residing at Bluffton. D. V. Garrison was a Rensselaer caller Wednesday. M. Benedict visited his parents at Oxford the last of the week. George oego visited relatives at Kentland the latter part of the week. Howard Olmstead and family moved to their new home in Wells county last week. M rs. J. A. I.amborn and daughter Merlic were guests of Rensselaer friends Thursday. Mrs. Emma Lockwood entertained her friends at a masquerade party Friday night. The Monday Club will meet next Monday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. P. J. l'othuisje. Charlie Ulm and family moved to {ennsng’s county kst week where he as purchased a farm. Henry Mullen of Logansport came home Saturday for a few days visit with his parents and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Beal and the Misses June Bowman and Floy Beal visited in Wolcott Sunday. Marion Coover and family have again become residents of Kentland, having recently moved there from Clifton, 111. Mrs. C. W. Cooper and daughter Gertrude returned home Friday after a month's visit with relatives at Chicago. Miss Anna Glietz of Logansport, who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Dennis O’Connor for the past two months, returned home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. led ward Coover returned to their home in Kansas City, Mo., last week after an extended visit with their daughter, Mrs. W. L. Peck. Mr. and Mrs. Neen Littlefield and children who have been visiting friends and relatives here the past three weeks, went to Brook Wednesday to visit her sister. Geo. Jones has bought Charley Elmore’s residence property m the northwest part of town and the latter has moved to near Greensburg, where he has bought a 6o acre farm.

BLACKFORD. Spring has come. 8, H. Hopkins went to town Tuesday. Charley Jenkins and wife went to town Monday. Fred Schreiner was on N. R., on day last week. Say, Mark, how is your head getting along by this lime? Mrs, Harry Wideman and Miss Zoe Sayler visited Mrs. John Grey Sunday. Birton Jenkins went to town to buy a new corn plantet and a new grain seeder. Leu is going to do business with new tools this year. Charley Jenkins and wife, John Grey, lohu W. Hurlev and wife, Lincoln Jenkins arid Harry Wideman visited Sunday with George Jenkins and son Birton.

LEE. Mud is drying up and roads are getting good. Joe Clark is shucking his last year’s crop ol corn. YV, O. Carrothers visited home from Friday until Sunday. Mrs. Jane Keienbcrger of Newland, is visiting relatives near Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Lamport visited Mr. and Mrs. Brook Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sallie Drucker of Reynolds, visited hei sisters, the Mesdaines Kishling. Mrs. M. J. Johnson, daughter and little grand-daughter visited at 15. S. Phillips’ Monday. Mi. Meyers moved Monday and Rob Ternpfeton moved in the house vacated by Meyers. t tide Dick Sparrow bought property m the west end of Motion, and moved there Tuesday. Mr. arid Mrs. Wm. LaMar were called to Wolcott Tuesday hy the death of Mrs. LaMar’s aunt, who died of a cancer.

FAIR OAKS. The protracted meetings are still in progress at the M. E. church. Frank Lakinof Nubbin Ridge, peddled beef here the latter part of the week. Joe Hunts is on the sick list this week; be says it is the first time he was ever ait' Mrs. Cottingham made a business trip to Wilmington Monday, returning <*»yTbere will be a pickle factory meeting here Saturday afternoon; everybody invited. School began Tuesday at the Mofifitt school house with Miss Floy Fuller as teacher. We have had some nice warm weather this week and it started some out to making garden and planting potatoes.

The ditch viewers on the Moffitt ditch began their work of viewing the same over again Monday. l Miss Burson of near Rensselaer, was in our town the first of the week' looking after a class in music. Leander Kesler is tending* bar for his sondn-law, R, M. Dunn, at Demotte, while he is taking a hunt. Wm. Geary is shoveling coal for Oscar Hurley at the coal shutes, as Oscar is a little on the sick list. Bruce Moffitt’s little baby died last Thursday of brain fever and was buried in Fair Oaks cemetery Friday. Uncle Flnoch Spry, who went from here to Momence, 111., when the smallpox scare came, returned Tuesday. Charley Barker moved back Irom Yeddo Saturday; he will work for Dave Winslow on the C. &E. I. section this season. - Emery Cox and wife, who live on Ike Right’s farm on Gifford, came over Tuesday and brought over a load of apples for Ike. Mrs. T. W. Fry who went to Michigan City to see her daughter Mrs. Schofield, returned home Tuesday, with the report that her daughter was better. , Mrs. Ed Kesler is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Winslow, in the country fora couple of weeks, while Ed is helping Jim McColly build a barn at Morion. There were quite a number from here attended the dance and oyster supper at Harry Baxter’s, on the Otis Ranch, in honor of Charley Otis’ birthday. They reported a fine time. About 75 couples were in attendance. Music was furnished by Jack Umfres, accompanied by rattleing the bones by George Brouhard.

WHEATFIELD. Mrs. Ed Dennison is slowly recovering. The dance Tuesday night was a success in every way. Mr. Powers of Lafayette, was in town Monday on business. Willie Tinkham of North Liberty, spent the week with his mothei, Mrs. Tinkham. A goodly number of the young —people from Demotte attended the dance Tuesday night. a Miss Zelma Funk left Tuesday for Logansport, where she will be nurse in a hospital. Miss Minnie Prust of Gifford, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Prust. Mrs. Minnie Cover of Yirgie, spent Thursday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Asa Stump. Mrs. E. Jensen entertained a number of her friends Wednesday afternoon at a rag tacking. Mrs. Adams of Kankakee, 111., came Thursday for a short visit with her sister, M rs. M eyers. / Will Finney and Blanche Steele spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Steele of Laura. Misses Mary and Anna Lidka, and Caral Gilbransen attended the party at Arthur \\ hite’s given in honor of his sister Stella. The Keokuk Pickle Co., have 213 acres for pickles contracted. The officials of the company will be here the 19th to ocate the ground for their factory.

DUNNVILLE. Spring has come. Abe Gir.grich is working for Hon, John Finn. John Shirt-r, who has been very sick for the past few days, is much better. David Collins went to Grant Park last Monday to v isit his daughter, Mrs. Ross. Mrs. Sands, who has been on the sick list lor the past few weeks, is some belter at this writing, Our Hustling blacksmith, W. S. l)eArmond, who has been suffering with the toothache, has reduced the inconvenience to a pleasure. They who tender invitations to the 1). V. girls, minus the I). V. Boys, cannot expect the formers presence, is one ol the unwritten laws ot this place. The party at the home of Henry Kloars Saturday evening was a grand success. All that came were enthused with a high degree of old-fashioned joy. Miss Ella Watson, who is teaching school in the Northerh part of the county, visited at 1). V. last Sunday. She thinks Dunnville is alright. Come again. In the name of the young folks of Dunnville we give you a hearty welcome. The young people of Wheatfield and, Kankakee townships gave sister Stella White a surprise in the shape- of a surprise party last Monday evening. She was the most ‘‘suiprisedest" girl you ever saw, when the guests came filing in duck fashion. Games of all kinds were indulged in, until high noon, inonnly speaking, when a dispersal was sounded. In behalf of Miss White we wsh to thank the guests for their agreeable surprise. before we enter into the narrative proper, we wish to give, as a necessary prelude, our definition of a vision; A vision is a dream in which something of the extraordinary is the chief actor. We had a vision the other evening, in which the impossibility seemed to be the central thought, but yet if what seemtd to be could have been a reality, the chief figure or uninformed pharmatical student of the mythical or mystical drama, would have been the personification of elation. We saw, as it were, a mountain liken unto Bunyan's delectable mountain, upon whose highest peak was perched an object, which seemed to be uncomfortably embarassed at occupying so exalted a position. Being so far away, we could not tell whether the object was an eagle or a bird of Paradise, so we called to the chief of Lick’s Observatory to train his telescope upon the object, to see what it was and the mission of its being there. He complied with our request, and imagine our surprise when we discovered that the object was a man, clothed in

a coat of mail with a sunflower pinged on the lapel of his steel coat. As a reflector of his grandeur there was placed behind him a constelleation of Sun Dogs, which also served as a light. At his feet, which were clothed in the same garb that the Hon. Jerry Simpson’s feet are when his boots are off—was a book on Pharmacy and the culture of Sena. At the blast of a trumpet an orator came forth, dressed in purple alul red calico, and began his speech by lauding the virtue of Ayer’s spring tonic and flail’s whisker chmplexioner, ending his remarks by refering to the great central figure of the mythus. who was, as he said, the highest authority on the virtue of the foregoing medicine and who would, after a season of music, of which a bass viol and ahorse fiddle would be the instruments used, deliver his matchless oration in defense of their virtue, from a practical standpoint. Just then the music began by the playing of Yankee Doodle and others or the same vein, selected from the Great’s Orih- dox song book. The artists did their best, insomuch as the Great Central Figure gave them a wink of appreciation, after which the audience gave vent to a well-developed horse laugh. After the music a courier stepped furth, dressed in the toga of a war dancer and in the name of -Yyer's Almanac, of which the Great is editor, demanded silence as the Patron Saint of Medicine was about to speak a speak of unusual importance. A pin dropped, and he arose, in his press wheel chariot and said: “As a press is not complete without wheels so a home is not complete without medicine. (Applause.) “You will see by refering to the editorial columns of Ayer's Almanac, this statement: That man can not enjoy life without a hair-tonic and herbs.” (Tremendous applause.) At this juncture a banner was unfurled over bis head, upon which was inscribed these words: “This is the honorable Virgie, the chief pill-dispenser of earth, alias uncle Charlie. The moon arose, and smiled, and immediately went behind a cloud, clothed in confusion, and the stars sang for joy.

ASPHALTUH. Ed Schrader has bought a new horse. Mr. Hutchison has been on the sick list. Frank Hershrnan was at Medaryville Tuesday. Mr. Swisher and family, visited Mrs." Rouse’s Sunday. Mr. Renter was out trying to buy a horse this week. Bertha and Celia Hershrnan are on the sick list this week. Mr. Craver broke his buggy last Sunday, and came to church late. Misses Annie and Carrie Jasperson attended church here Sunday. Stellar Record was the guest "of MrsC Walter Hershrnan Wednesday evening. Don’t forget the spelling school and box social to-night, at Hershrnan school. Good-bye to the oil fields of Walker and Gillam tp. They have nearly come to an end. Mr. Hurt, one of the Wheatfield correspondent’s friends, has been attending church here. The young folks that went to Valparaiso a couple of months ago have all got the measles. Mr. Toyne came home. We had a birthday dinner on Grandpa Hershrnan last Sunday. He is seventy-two years old. All had a good time, excep one, and he took sick and did not enjoy the day with us.

CALVE'S RED PETTICOAT. Mine. Calve, the world famed opera singer, is seen at her beet a* Carmen. Tho first time sht took this part at Paris she ■irlsisWy asionislied the stage mantfsr bjf 1 wearing a gorgeous red silk petticoat during tho first act. Objections were raised, far it wws said as gypsy cigarette girl eswti dhn4 re expensive an article. *fta pitas' donna, however, confsssed itat sta | had l>ccn to Seville a*d fallowed • genuine cigarette girl to a secondhand costumer's and tliere »aw her buy a brilliant red skirt. The next day tho girl wore it and occasionally lifted her dress a little so as to show the underskirt Mmc. Calve bought it of her, and it is that identical skirt which the operatic singer now wears when playing this part. Two Bad Pirns. At a Maine educational convention Kev. Nathaniel Butler, formerly president of Colby college, but at present professor of English literature in the University of Chicago, was down for an address. As he was about to speak Hon. W. W. Stetson, state superintendent of schools, said to him: “Doctor, is your address like a cat’s tail ?” “ITow is that?" asked I>r. Butler. “Why, fur to the end," replied Mr. Stetson. Dr. Butler eanilfd appreciatively, but kept silence. He epened his address by saying: "Year superintendent just asked me if my address was to be like s cat’s tail—fur to tix« end. I assure him that it is like e dog’s tell—bound to occur.” •eat tho G.bmen. Hie eehrmw es Svtaevillt, I*4, recently farmed * eomkhre sad *4vented fckeir pHees hr tofciag * ceuple to the fheetsr from $1 to $!. This ied to tho formation of a “gum shoe” union on the part of tho society girls, who walked rether than pay the price dernended. The business of trie cabmen fell off, and they hail to go back to the old prices. The girls arc now rejoicing over their victory, to which they were helped by tho support of tho traveling men, who were affected by a corresponding increase of other rates and had arranged to ask tho city council to pass an ordinance establishing a uniform prico for cabs.