Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — FORESMAN. [ARTICLE]

FORESMAN.

lake Summers was in town Saturday. J. O. Sunderland was a Mt. Ayr goer Saturday. Orval Light and wife were Brook visitors Sunday. Frank Snow helped to move Bert Johnson Monday. Orval Light has been having some repairs made on his barn. Bruce and Mrs. Stevens took dinner with Sampson's Friday. The editor of the Mt. Ayr Pilot was in town between trains Thursday, Misses Della and Iva Johnson visited with Mr. Sampson’s this week. Leonard Toyne went to his place near Goodland to work last Saturday. Bert Johnson went to Goodland Sunday for a visit before going to Michigan. The ladies’ sewing society met at the home of Mrs. McCabe Thursday afternoon. Mr, Fullerton of Wadena was visiting his sister, Mrs. J. 8. Toyne, on Friday of last week, The birds and the frogs are trying to tell us that spring has come, and we hope they are right. Morris Thomas, who has been confined to the house for some time, is able to be out again. Mrs. Orval Light made the first garden tn town this year. She started to sow seed last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Antclifl and son John took dinner with his mother, Mrs. Antcliff, last Thursday. Mesdames George, Frank and Charles Antcliff visited Mrs. Johnson at Mrs. Mary Antcliff’s Monday. Ed Antcliff's little boy Clifford, who has keen dangerously ill for some time, is much better at this writing. Mrs, Bert Johnson is staying with her mother, Mrs. Antciiff, for a couple of weeks before she goes to her new home in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bill, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brown of Davenport, la., and Uncle Wm. Bringle visited at Stevens' last Sunday. Bert Johnson loaded his car for White Cloud, Mich., Monday and left Tuesday afternoon for that place. We wish him success in bis new home. J. S. Toyne returned from Demotte Friday evening where he has been for a couple of days on business. He says he found the country looking dryer than he expected. Mr, and Mrs, Denniston. Mr. and Mrs. Parker, P. L. Brown, Mrs. Chas. Snow, Bruce and Mrs. Stevens attended the Maud Henderson play at-Mt. Ayr Thursday night and reported a good time. t Earl McCabe was the champion in the wild duck hunt of last week. He got a dozen and ten of •them were mallards. Virg Denniston was second best He got eight. That was pretty good, boys, as scarce as game hos been. Who is to blame for the small boys who go to our stores every night to smoke, chew and use language that is not fit for anyone to hear? Take a stroll down to the stores any night and you will find boys that ought to be at home with their parents, smoking and telling stories that ought to shame the men of our town. Now do we blame the boys? No, we blame the parents of such boys. If these children were taught tbe right ways to spend their time, they wouldn't go so far in wrong-doing. The parents that will allow their children to run up and down the street with a pipe to smoke is not the kind of a father or mother that they should be to the boy. The boy of 12 or 14 years of age that the parent can't manage shows a weakness somewhere and we think if the parents were doing their duty this would not be, One among the oldest of our townsmen went out for a duck hunt the other night. He gathered up an old musket and started tor the river with blood in his eye. He intended committing murder on the first feathered creature that had nerve enough to show himself. n But the old man sti oiled up land down the river for several hours wth his eye on everything that chanced to moye and lost both caps of the gun. All of a sudden the old fellow’s eyes fell on a duck that had been dead for some time but he picked it up and kurried its feathers down and started home satisfied for he bad his long looked for happiness of coming home with a duck, even if he did find it in a condition that didn't take much skill to capture, for the old man wasn't in shape for much shooting, or rather his gun wasn't. Old man, tbe next time you go tie your caps on. Maybe ybu will get a shot and it is best to have your light burning. (Correspondence continued on last pag*>