Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1908 — Jasper County Gleanings NEWS PROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS PROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

Fountain Park Assembly opens Saturday. J. M. Ott Is now the owner of a handsome new (2,000 Cadillac auto. Qoodland has twenty automobiles within her borders, says the Herald. John Kettering went to Pullman, Wash., last week to look after his farm. Arthur Vincent was in Wabash county last week looking after bis farm. Misses Gertrude and Kathrine Besse visited in Indianapolis last week. Oats threshing is almost entirely over with, only a scattering job now and then remaining. Ira W. Yeoman has been ip a serious condition for some weeks now with his old cancer trouble. ~Sloan Dobbins and daughter Cbloe and son Everett are here from Elwood for a few weekS visit. twenty-five people from Remington and vicinity attended the Ringling circus at Logansport last Tuesday. John W. Kern, democratic candidate for vice-president, will also be in attendance at Fountain Park on Democratic Day, Thursday, August 27. Mrs. Chas. Goss and daughter Florence and Misses Claire Broadie and Ethel Greene left last Tuesday for a trip to Niagara Falls and other points of interest. Mrs. Joe Turner died at her home in Remington Tuesday, August 4, and was buried in the Remington cemetery Wednesday afternoon. She was aged about 50 years, and leaves a husband and six children.

! DEMOTTE. Mrs. C. O. Spencer is visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. Luse, at Englewood, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sparling visited their son John near Hebron last Wednesday and Thursday. Lew Swartz has been very sick for several days past, hut is now some better. Some acute kidney disorder. Everett Call moved over from Hebron laßt week with his “last” and is now busy fixing up people who have loßt their soles. Some of us got our pickles wet twice last week. We hope we will be able to get them well soaked two or three times this week. The threshing machines 'are having a hard time of it at present. The amount of straw and dust that they separate is remarkable. One field of oats made the remarkable yield of 2 bushels per acre. Oh how nice it will be when Congressman Crumpacker comes around again and tells us how well crops are growing and how happy we are!

Saturday while Nipp Fairchild was busy in his pickle patch Bert DeMoss slipped out and caught a fine string of bass and pickerel. This somewhat surpasses Nlpp, whose catch was mentioned last week. It is only fair to Btate that Bert was assisted by Uncle Henry Sparling who was with him. Ere the close of the week Nipp means to let the pickle patch rest until he gets to the front again. During the recent warm weather some of the up-to-date people who believe in having things as near sanitary as possible have arrayed themselves in those semi-spiritual cheese-cloth garments, the name of which is “Come Anna.’’ Some people who are not very well informed have mistaken Come Annas for night dresses. Now the latter is an all season garment intended to be worn during the nours of sleep. The Come Anna is more of a dog day garment and is worn only on yawning occasions.

SHOT DOWH A MOUNTAIN Man Who Was Found Wounded Take* a Ride _ oat Saves His Life. Seattle, Aug. 11.—With his leg broken In two places John Anderson, of Falls, Ore., was found on Mount St. Helena's in Washington, last Wednesday by a Seattle party of tbe Mazamas, a club of mountain climbers, who to save bis life carried him to the summit of the mountain at imminent risk to themselves, and in an improvised stretcher made out of a sleeping bag, slid him down the north aldeof the great peak for 4,000 feet to tbe Mazamas* comp where medical attention was given him. Tlje injured man was shot down the mountain side at almost lightning speed tied to his rescuers with ropes, and physicians say that had not this expedient been followed. Anderson would have died from injuries.

HARRIED IN A SICK BED Olrl Just Recovering From Typhoid Fever Made a Wife in Bed in the Hospital. Des Moines, la., Aug. 11* —Miss Mayme Hulen, of Lancaster, Mo., who has been critically ill with typhoid here the last three weeks, has been married to F. C. Hooyer, of Memphis, Mo. In a dim light and death-like silence all around the minister spoke a few brief words that made the two man and wife. During the ceremony the nurse raised the girl in her bed so that she could participate In the active part of the ceremony. The wedding was performed in the presence of the girl’s physician, s nurse, and Dr. G. G. Mendenhall, the inioißter. After it was all over she was left alone to remulh for at least a week before she will be able to leave the hospital. *