Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1908 — Page 8

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY. BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

EAST JORDAN. Leonard Bice called on home folks Sunday. Mrs. John Weast was on the sick list Saturday. The Watkins remedy man is in this vicinity again. Will Shaffer spent Sunday with bis brother Conrad. John and Kurg Burns went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Bice called on the former’s, parents Wednesday. William Wortley called on his brother-in-law, Willjam Keene, Sunday. Mrs. Harry Maxwell spent Sum 'day with her sister Mrs. Frank Melrose. Miss Aria Lyons of Remington visited Mrs. John Weast a few days last week. Mrs. Lucas and daughter Lora were Rensselaer goers one day last week. Wm. Rich was out to his farm looking at his corn crop the first of the week. Harry Cook was seen going north Monday morning. Where was he going, Grace? Misses Mary and Katie Shide called on Miss Aria Lyons Saturday afternoon. Misses Alice and Edna Dewey attended Sunday school at James school last Sunday. Mrs. George Wortley and Miss Rose Johnson canned cherries for Wm. Wortley Monday. Mrs. George Wortley and son William were Rensselaer goers Monday. The former purchased a new buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Durbin and little daughter Verne took sup. per with Jacob Dewey and family Sunday evening.

He Got What He Needed. "Nine years ago it looked as if my time had come,” says Mr. C. Farthing, of Mill Creek. Ind. Ter. *’l was so run down that life hnng on a very slender thread, it was then my druggist recommended Electric Bitters. I bought a bottle and I got what I needed—strength. I had one foot in the grave, but Electric Bitters put it back on the turf again, and I’ve been well ever since.” Sold under guarantee at A. F. Long’s drug store. 50c.

LONELY VALLEY.

Fine weather at this writing. Charles Cline visited with friends at Rochester Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hickson of Four Corners drove through our midst Monday. E. Huber and wife visited Sunday with his daughter south of Kniman. James Clark and family were dinner guests at the Hunsicker home Sunday. Bessie Lockwood returned home Sunday from a visit with friends at Lake Village. Rev. Mannon of Quincy will preach at the Christian church Saturday and Sunday evenings. Relatives from Chicago Heights visited a few days during the week with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Knapp. • We wonder If won’t be glad when she finds out we arrived home all O. K. in time to send our items n? Eunice Hancock has returned to •er home In South Chicago after lending a few days with relatives Xe. Ernest Biggs and wife, who have •n visiting here with relatives, turned to their home in Depue, « Monday. Jenry Karch of Valpo. spent of days during the week home folks, and also called on ppest girl. agdte a number from here atflgid the funeral of Martin Jenute/hlch was held in the M. E. ~ a Monday afternoon. nm jack AIX. In and Mrs. Jessie Swain called wo latter’s parents Sunday evenpass get purj Clarence Hurley and chlldXl?ent Wednesday with Mrs. the t cheeknd Mrs. Weelie Henkle vlstton and Mrs. Clarence Sunday day. n . ter n < aiM j dttle shower we had Saturbrought quite a smile d OU armers’ faces. But t, rle williams spent Sunonce. Iw W ith hlB grandparents, criminals Jameß Kn ighL coon after i if Philip d 9 Hurley, Miss Iva should be st, Reese called on Mrs. to him. afternoon, teep the stor o f Rensselaer spent The arrivaFj firat of the wee g hour created household. B KMHXpltf* ~ ' * -•--

with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Knight. James Knight spent a few days this week in Rensselaer. He is in very poor health, suffering from a cancer on hla breast. Mrs. Frank Vest returned home Thursday after a few days visit with her mother vzho has been sick but is better at this writing. The commencement exercises held at the Barkley M. E. church Saturday evening was well attended. There were sixteen graduates but only fifteen were present.

VIRGIE. Mr. Merril is some better at this writing. Harvey Aery visited Mr. Merrill Sunday evening. Anna Weiss called on Frances Petty last Wednesday. Endeavor at Virgie school house at 8:30. Everybody come. Miss Katie Lodwig from Chicago is out visiting relatives near Virgie. Mrs. Bertha Florence returned home frpm Foresman Sunday evening. Mattie Cooper and Tessona Newberry called on Mrs. Merril Wednesday. Hattie Newberry called upon her sister, Mrs. Nellie Theiss, a few days last week. Mrs. George Cover, who has been sick all spring, has improved some in the past vfeek. Mrs. Theiss and Mrs. Reed started for Remington Saturday morning for a few days visit. Peter Theiss and wife and Bert Long and wife called on William Newberry and family Sunday evening.

HEDGE GROVE. Mere Ritchey was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mrs. H. Hendricks was a Rensselaer goer Monday. James Hill spent Saturday evening with George Williams. Miss Helen Kessinger spent Wednesday afternoon with Ada Huff. Mr. and Mrs. John Lucy did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday evening. Miss Blanche Kessinger is spending this week with her cousin, Annie Reed. Mrs. Chas. Kessinger and children spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. O. Ritchey. Mrs.. J. A. Williams and daughter Carrie spent Tuesday with Mrs. Claude Williams. The “Hedge Grove Sod Busters” beat the South Newton team Sunday by a score of 28 to 8. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Williams and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams. The graduates practiced at Chas. Kessinger’s Wednesday afternoon, their teacher, Flora Kahler, helping them. George Wenrick, Charles Porter, Herman Ames and James Hill spent Wednesday evening with George Williams. Reece Hill of Brook came over Wednesday afternoon in his automobile and took his brother Charles home with him. Charley will go from there to Canada to superintend the building of a large barn on Reece’s farm.

LEE. Roy Wall is sick with malaria fever. Several from here attended Mr. McCashen’s funeral Wednesday. Harry Cook is hauling and carring hay here. He is boarding with Roy Holeman. Miss Lural Anderson and Miss Lora Culp went to Monon Thursday afternoon. Frank Overton is helping his uncle Will Gray of near Monon in his clover field. J. H. Culp is improving the looks of his farm house by painting. He is going to paint all of his farm buildings. Arthur Parcels and Sam Jacks went to Remington Thursday to see their Uncle Edward Culp, who is sick, returning Friday. T. P. Jacks and wife and Sam Jacks and family attended church Sunday and then took dinner with Arthur Parcels and family. The children are very busy preparing their exercises for children’s day, to be held here next Sunday. An all day program is to be given. Come to Lee to celebrate the glorious Fourth. We are planning for a grand time. There will be speaking, good music, games of all kinds, ball game, a balloon ascension and fire works in the evening. There will be refreshments on the ground. Come one and all.

Tuesday evening an automobile with five men in from West Lebanon came to our village and their machine went back on them and they hired a team and carriage and four of them went on their way to look at the old McCoy farm, and the fifth one stayed and had the maching in running order when they got back.

FOUR CORNERS. ' A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs: Chas. White of Tefft Monday morning. The Kouts band and Glee Club will furnish the music at Dunn’s Bridge the 4ttj. W. S. DeArmond is repairing his launch so as to have it in No. 1 order on the 4th. ‘ Robt. Timmons of Stoutsburg was in Wheatfield Wednesday purchasing buckwheat. He expects to sow a large acreage. Louis Jensen returned to Oxford Friday, Laura returned to* Valpo. Tuesday and Tom will return to his work Monday. Wm. Lawrence of Porter, formerly of Wheatfield tp., was in the city Wednesday. He informs us the corn in his section is doing fine. Mrs. Joe Deveraux was buried at the Wheatfield cemetery Wednesday. Her death was caused by childbirth, and before medical aid could reach her. Undertaker from Kouts had charge of the funeral.

PINE GROVE. Bertha Cooper spent Sunday with Stella Nuss. Chloae Torbet called on Bessie Ropp Wednesday afternoon. Newton Jenkins spent Sunday with Bluford and Roy Torbet. Lon Daniels and Wm. Cooper called on Chas. Walker Friday. Horace Daniels of Rensselaer called on Chas. Shroyer Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Andy Ropp and mother spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Henry Ropp. Mrs. James Torbet and daughter Chloae spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Ike Walker. Quite a number from around here attended the commencement at the Barkley church Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Nuss and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Barker spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jess Nuss and family of Newland. Charley Britt and John Daniels attended the Union township Sunday school convention Sunday which was held at Fair Oaks. The election of new officers will be Sunday for another quarter at the Independence Sunday school, and would like to have a large crowd. Mrs. Maude Duffy and. children of Wabash and Mrs. Chas; Shroyer and Gusta McCleary spent Wednesday with Mrs. Chas. Walker and family.

FAIR OAKS. Mrs. Dodge is visiting relatives at Streator, 111., this week. Mrs. Geo. Lambert and children visited relatives near Morocco last week. There was quite a stir up among the fair sex Saturday, in the north part of town. Dr. Littlejohn of Chicago came down Sunday to see Grandma Mof j fitt. He still gives her encouragement. Ora Sellers and sister of the Gaff ranch in Newton county visited at ’Bruce Moffitt’s Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. Cottingham arrived home Monday from Louisville, Ky., where she had been attending the National Sunday school convention. There was quite an Interesting time on the Lawler ranch about a week ago, when Foreman Helsel discharged a half-dozen or more hands. Ben Zellers bought the Jim Cox property on Front street last week, in which Frank Goff lived. Frank moved Monday into Emma Williams’ property. Mrs. Estella Sheier of Lafayette, who has been visiting her parents the past few days, with her mother, Mrs. Kight, went to Chicago Tuesday, returning Wednesday. Clover hay making has begun this week, which is a pretty good crop in some places. Rye is ripening up fast and will be ready to harvest in about a week. Oats are heading but will be a short crop. Ray McKean and mother and Geo. Brubeck of Chicago visited F. R. Erwin’s a few days this week. Chas. Gundy, who has been sick for about ten days, is making a slight improvement at this writing. Sharps Hanley received a telegram Wednesday from, Kentucky that his mother had died. He left immediately for Rensselaer on the local where he could catch the 2 o’clock fast train going south, for Kentucky. The weather has been very warm the past week with an occasional shower, which makes crops advance right along. We got quite a heavy dash of wind and rain Tuesday,

which blew down a number of trees. There was considerable electricity with it. ' It 4s rumored about town that a certain man of this place got an overdose of that fighting fluid Sunday evening and wanted to fight. He went home and was going to whip the women, when one took to flight and the other told him a few things. So he left and went clown town and Jumped onto his Mog with all fours and took out his vengeance on the poor diimb brute, which came out pretty well bruised and with a chewed ear. Remember this took place in a good, moral, civilized community. The Sunday school convention here Sunday was not very well attended in the forenoon, which was mostly devoted to the Sunday school lesson. We are sorry to say there was hardly any of our two Sunday school people out in the forenoon. The other schools from over the township were on hands in good numbers, which we were very glad to see. We thank them for their attendance and extend a cordial invitation to come again. We feel that Union township has a good lot of earnest Sunday school workers. The afternoon session was well attended, taking into consideration the ball game that was going on in the park which attracted a large crowd. MT. AYR. ' (From the Pilot.) Uncle Joe Yeoman of Rensselaer visited the first of the week with John Rush and family. Seymour Hickman, our genial land agent, was transacting business at Medaryville thß latter part of last week and the first of this. He returned home Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ponsler entertained the following guests last Sunday: Luther Strong and wife and Elbert Harris and wife of Rensselaer, and W. W. Miller and wife and Mrs. R. F. Flanders. Henry Yoder of southwest of here was in town Monday for a few hours and during a talk with us said that the cut-worms were affecting the corn more this year than any year within his memory. On Saturday, June 20th, just two weeks from the date of Wm. Smith’s death, J.. T. Martin, clerk of the Modern Woodmen of America at this place, received a draft for $2,000, payable to Mrs. Smith. This is the amount of the policy carried by Mr. Smith, and shbws how promptly the M. W. A. pays its claims.

While in Rensselaer one day last week the editor paid a visit to the office of the Jasper County Democrat to look over its new mechanical equipment and their type setting machine was about the nicest thing fre have seen in a long time, and if the time ever comes when we are able to do so, we will not hesitate to get one just like it. It certainly does make an editor of a paper like this feel quite small and insignificant when he steps into an office so well equipped as the Democrat office. However we are not going to despair but will keep right on striving and the time may come when we will be in an equal position. The first of the week Chas. Penwright finished the carpenter work on the band stand and turned it over to Messrs. Standish & Miller for painting. We now have one of the nicest band stands in the country and one of which the town and whole surrounding community should be proud. With the return of Wm. Shindler the band is made complete and concerts will ge given every Thursday evening, the weather permitting. The first one will be given this evening and we hope to see a tremenduous crowd here. There is nothing which livens up a town on a summer evening so much as a band playing good music. The Mt. Ayr band is as good as any band in this section of the state -and the best way for us to prove this assertion is by requesting you to come out each Thursday evening and listen to some of the swell music delivered by ft.

About 5 o’clock Saturday evening a Polock who was working on the Lawler ranch a few miles north of Morocco started to town, on foot down the railroad track. He was last seen that evening at about 15 minutes past 5, and Sunday evening he was found lying upon the side of the track dead. An inquest was held Monday evening and it was concluded that death came as a result of paralysis or sun stroke, there being no signs of murder, as was first suspicioned. Four of his comrads seem to have found him early Sunday and turned him over and left the body where they found it without reporting it to the authorities. These comrads were present at the inquest Monday but were of little value as they could neither speak nor understand English. It is quite likely that the unfortunate will be burled in the paupers graveyard and that cause of his death will always remain a mystery.

Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts "~For Sale: —Pure bred Shorthorn Bull, yearling, eligible to register. A good one. JOHN J. ECK, Phone 161-A. Goodland, Ind.

SOUTH DAKOTA HAS ITS DRAWBACKS, TOO.

Mt. Vernon, 8. Dak., June 21. Editor Democrat: As I am taking your paper and it seems I couldn’t do without it, os it furnishes so much home news, I will write you a letter and you can insert it in The Democrat if you like. We are having all kinds of rain here, and the farmers are getting the blues pretty bad. The last two days have been all O. K., and if it should stop raining now there would be a fairly good crop yet. But the corn looks bad to be sure. It looks as though it might have had the Yellow fever and just getting over it, but not out of danger yet. Wheat and oats look pretty good, but the wet weather has damaged them more or less, especially on all the low ground. One thing that makes this state look years behind old Indiana is our public roads. A gravel road here in this country would be just as much a z curiosity as the sun shining at night out there. It makes a man that is used to gravel roads feel like “thirty cents,*’ and the most of that spent, to go out on our roads, especially when they are in the shape that they are now. Farmers that have money to “throw at the birds” have their farms pretty well fenced, but those who have not, and there are lots of them in this "boat”—l will tell you how their farms are fenced: Posts are just about as fan apart as telephone poles are out there, and they have from one to two wires on. Now if you don’t catch the reason of this, I will tell you. Good posts are about 35 cents apiece. See?

And as to living here it costs quite a little more than it does in Indiana. And if a man hasn’t his stomach lined with a little bit of gold the prices of some things will be apt to turn it. But it is not as hard on some as others, for they say if it does turn their stomachs that the other side is just as good or a little better than the first, so you see those kinds of fellows have the bulge on me. ) I will give you just a few prices on articles and you can see that I am right: Coal that sells from $3.50 to $4.00 a ton with you sells at $8.50 here: cord wood sawed up in stove lengths will cost you between sl6 and $lB a cord. Salt that sells for 75 and 90 cents a barrel out there sells at $1.75 here. A suit of. clothes that would cost you $lO there would cost S2O or $25 here.

Now I hav© told youLgome of the bad things aboiit South Dakota. I will say this to the good. 1 believe the soil here is much better on an average than the soil in and if a man has a full pocketbook when he lands here and wants to farim I believe he can make more money farming here than out there, as the soil will produce a heavier yield per acre if the season is good, but this year it looks like the crops would be rather light. I landed here this spring and was fortunate enough to get a job clerking in a grocery store. lam drawing a fairly, good salary; If I was not I expect I would have been at the county farm by this time. Now I will say, those who wish to come to South Dakota, why, come along. We will be glad to have you come, and those who wish to stay in Old Indiana, we will be glad to have you stay. Your friend, JOHN N. PRICE.

NEARLY 1,000 PIANOS AT A BARGAIN.

Lyon & Healy of Chicago, known everywhere as the world’s largest music house, have just done a remarkable thing. They have bought for cash the entire stocks of three large Chicago piano houses, i. e., The Thompson Music Co., the Healy Music Co., and the big F. G. Thearle Piano Co. In these stocks are fine new pianos of the highest quality, including such well and favorably known pianos as the Henry F. Miller, Hardman, Ivers & Pond, Smith & Nixon, etc. Lyon & Healy secured all these pianos on such extraordinary terms that they are able to turn around and offer them to the public at 20 to 40 per cent discount. So here is a chance to get a much better piano for any sum you have in mind than you could ordinarily obtain. Write to-day for the list of pianos in this great triple piano sale, which is an event entirely unprecedented in the history of piano-selling. Address Lyon & Healy, 77 Adams street, Chicago. Four distinct plans of easy payments for those who do not wish to pay all cash.

TAKE IT AWAY.

Binder twine, 9 cents per pound for cash, or 9% cents payable Sept 1. SCOTT BROS.

CLEARANCE SALE. From this date a good reduction on all trimmed goods, bargains while they last. Orders for summer millinery carefully and promptly filled at reasonable prices. MRS. H. PURCUPILE. MONEY TO LOAN IMMEDIATELY. I have 1500.00 to place at once on real estate. Any one wanting >500.00, call and get terms. B. F. FERGUSON.

WINONA SCHOOLS

Special Instruction Is Given During i the Summer Along Educational and Religious Lines. I SEASON FOR INSTITUTES .' ' ■ Mission Workers, Public and Sunday School Teachers, Bible and Nature Students, and Others Provided For. '• —Schools Are for Young and Old.— ! Some of the Instructors.

I Eight summer training schools and institutes, all of them giving special instruction along religious and educational lines, will be in session at Winona Lake during the coming season. These schools, some of them conduct ed under the direction of the Winona management, but most of them independent organisations which meet at Winona Lake because ot the facilities and social diversions, have been increasing in number year after year. The first of these schools, and one of the oldest, is that for mission workers, conducted by the wojnen of seven church organisations, who make headquarters in Chicago. For several years the mission workers gave their attention to the foreign cause, but when the school opens on June 22 for a week’s session one division of it will be devoted to the study of home mission methods. The foreign mission branch will study a text-book on “Missions in Mohammedan Lands," apd a series of lectures will bejgiven on dt by Mrs. Helen Montgomery of Rochester, N. Y. The text-book which the home mission workers will use is “The Frontier,” by Miss Katherine R. Crowell, and general lectures will be given by Miss Lydia A. Finger, general secretary of the Home Mission Union of the Congregational Church. i The Winona Normal School, which gives much of its attention to training teachers for -&y.blic school service, opened on June 1 with a generous enrollment, and its summer term of six weeks begins on July 13. The Normal has been organized under the provisions of the Indiana state law, and in September will open its regular year for at least thirty-six weeks. The president is Jonathan Rigdon, for years president of the Central Normal College at Danville, Ind., and he has a corps of over thirty teachers who have been obtained from colleges and universities over the country. The Winona Bible School, which is annually attended by hundreds of students of the Scriptures, including many teachers of Bible classes, Sunday School workers and ministers, will be in session from July 6 to'Aug. 6, under the direction of Dr. Frank N. Palmer. He spent four months tn the Holy Land this spring gathering information first hand for the students of his school. He will also conduct the II o’clock Bible hour in the Winona auditorium. * The Sunday School Associations of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky have for years held a training school for Sabbath School workers at Winona Lake, under the direction of Rev. E. W. Halpenny of Indianapolis. The school will this summer be in session for a week, beginning Aug. 7, and its teaching force has been reorganized. The faculty now includes Miss Margaret Slatterly, professor of psychology of the State Normal at Fitchburg, Mass.; Marion Lawrence, general secretary of the International Sunday School Union; Rev. Herbert Moninger, of Cincinnati; Mrs. J. Woodbridge Barnes, Newark, N. J.; Ralph E. Diffendorfer, Sunday School secretary of the Young People’s Missionary Movement, New York; W. C. Pearce, of the International Sunday School Association, Chicago, and Mrs. M. J. Baldwin, of Indianapolis. Considerable Institute work will also be done at Winona Lake during the summer. The young people’s department of the Presbyterian Board of v Home Missions will open an institute on July 6 for a week, under the direction of Rev. Willis L. Gelston, of Philadelphia, superintendent of this department of the Presbyterian church. The purpose ot the institute will be to train leaders in local church work. Ono of the speakers will be Amos R. Wells, editor of the Christian Endeavor World; another Is Von Ogden Vogt, secretary of the Presbyterian young people’s work, and a third is B. Carter MUlikln, assistant educational secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Robert Speer, John Willis Baer and other noted workers among Presbyterian young people are on the list of speakers. From August 6 to. 13 the National Reform AseoMatton will hold a dtiseashlp institute at Winona Lake, the chief speakers to be Dr. W. I. Wishart of Allegheny, Pa., and Rev. William \ Parsons of Beaver Falls, Pa. On Aug. 12 the association will begin a three days’ conference following up the lines of its institute, and a long list of wellknown reform workers will be .heard. A new Winona feature will be meetings for business men, the purpose of which will be to point out how religious activity and Christian efforts generally may be applied to commercial life. E. A. K. Hackett, editor of the Fort Wayne Sentinel, will be one of the leaders of these meetings, another will be John H. Converse, president of the BaMwta Locomotive Works, of PhtiadelfMa, and a third is E. Y. Yarneße, a Fort Wayne iron merchant, and others wifi be heard.