Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Ike Kight made a business trip to Ottawa, 111., the last of the week. There was quite a number took in the excursion to Lafayette last week. Chas. Barker and family went to Yeddo Tuesday for a week’s visit with relatives. Pete Wood brought in , a nice bunch of water melons the first of the week that were fine. Mrs. Mattie Dickinson of Rensselaer visited her brother, John Casey’s family over Sunday. ( Grandma McGlinn of Rensselaer, Visited her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Gundy, the first of the week. Mrs. Ike Kight spent a few days last week at Lafayette and Battle Ground at the camp meetings. Mat Karr and family attended the Seventh Day Adventists camp meetings at or near Lafayette last week. Postmaster Thompson, after being laid up a couple of days with a blllious attack, is at his post again as good as ever. Sam Thornton and wife visited at Bruce Moffitt’s Tuesday night. They will soon depart for their home in Washington State. Dr. Fyfe and wife visited in Chicago Sunday. A young lady friend from the city came home with them for a few days visit. We got a fine rain in this vicinity Wednesday evening which has been Seeded for some time and will give new life to everything. Mrs. A. M. Bringle hae been confined to her bed for several days, the result of a nervous breakdown, but is recovering at this writing. Julian Hopkins, son of Postmaster Hopkins of ML Ayr, and who has been living at Lafayette for several

years, changed cars here Wednesday on his way to visit his parents. Ed Kesler returned home from Wisconsin Friday, for a visit of a week or so with his family,after which he will go back to St. Paul or St. Cloud to begin on another dredge. Silas Bringle of Harrison Co., and Bro. W. L. Bringle of west of Rensselaer, who had been visiting the latter’s daughter, Mrs. F. L. Yeoman at Hibbard, stopped off on their way back and visited his son, Abe Bringle Monday night. Grandma Moffitt, whose sickness: we have mentioned from time to time, passed to the beyond last Thursday afternoon. She leaves a very large circle of f friends and neighbors who will miss her much. There were a large crowd of friends followed her remains to her last resting place.

EAST CARPENTER. Frank Bartoo was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Don’t forget the qpening day at Fountain Park, August 15th. Elmer Bartoo is working for Bert Courtwright at this writing. Walter Darrow and family took dinner at John O’Connor’s Sunday. Frank Bartoo and family were at Remington Wednesday afternoon. Opal Sigman called on Nellie and Irene Bartoo Sunday afternoon. Mrs. George Foulks called on Mrs. Abe Hurley Tuesday afternoon. Andy Hurley visited with his brother Abe Hurley the first of the week. J. A. Teeter and family attended the band concert at Remington Tuesday night. « Mr. and Mrs. John Teeter are talking of going to the State Fait at Indianapolis. Mary Smith and sister-in-law from Chicago are visiting at the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wagner’s. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Shafer, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jarvis and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dickinson visited at Harmon Dickinson’s Monday evening.

MILROY. Ed Herman was in Lee Monday. Willard Johnson was a Monon goer Saturday. Mrs. Thos. Spencer visited relatives near Monticello this week. Mrs. Crowder and her daughter Ella attended church Tuesday evening. Homer Templeton spent Sunday with his uncle Branson Clark and family. Ott Herbert left here for Missouri last Saturday to visit his parents. Mrs. Roy Mattox and Miss Veda Spencer of Nauvoo attended church Sunday evening. John Owens and his two sons spent Saturday night with Henry Beaver and family. The meeting spoken of in last Saturday’s paper are still continuing at this writing. Mrs. J. Willbanks and Mrs. Branson Clark called on Mrs. Wood Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Martha Strobe of Oklahoma is visiting her brother-in-law Henry Reames and family. Fred May, wife and baby took dinner with the former’s parents J. J, Clark and family. Mrs. Veda Spencer is spending the week at the home of her grandmother Mrs. L. Foulks. James Brown and Miss Laura Clark attended services at the church Tuesday evening. Rev. Reece, Colporter Houghton and Evangelist Sister Emma Belcher took dinner with E. Herman and family Wednesday. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Ettie, Geo. Foulks and family, D. Z. Clark, J. R. Clark, Creighton Clark, Frank May and their families called on Jos. Clark’s Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Wood who has been suffering with an abscess on her foot for some time, was in a serious condition one day last week when one of the blood vessels in her foot began bleeding. Dr. Clayton was called and rendered medical aid. It began bleeding again Tuesday and the Dr. was again called.

EGYPT. Philip Heuson visited home folks Sunday evening. James Bicknell visited at Harry Gallagher’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Galley were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mrs. Charles Antcliff called on Galley’s Monday afternoon. The R. A. club will meet at Mrs. Conrad Shaffer’s Thursday. Lucy Blake attended church at Mt. Hope Sunday Evening. Gilbert Antcliff is spending a few days with his Grandma Karr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Liston visited at Wm. Michaels Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mitchell visited at Charles Summers’ Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Antcliff visited at Charles Antcliff’s Sunday. Mrs. Frank Welch and daughter Nellie were Rensselaer goers Saturday. The ball game was well attended Sunday. Score 19 to 29 in favor of Egypt. Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Blake and son Walter called on C. E. Sage Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pass visited Saturday night and Sunday with their son Jasper. Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Michaels and daughter Eva called on Grandma Michaels Friday who has been sick. Mrs. Karr and son Will and daughter Ida, granddaughters Edith and Susie Payne and Roy Bowers visited at Charles Antcliff’s Sunday. ROSEBUD VALLEY. Henry Heidenblut has been on the sick list. Squire Spriggs was a Wheatfield goer Saturday. Hugh Gaffey attended church at Wheatfield Sunday. Albert Stembel of Wheatfield spent Sunday in Rosebud Valley. Mrs. Jufia Stalbaum visited Monday with relatives near Medaryville. Miss Hazel McCully spent a few days with Mrs. Ben Rouse this week. Mrs. Libby Brown and Miss Edith Wenrick did shopping in Wheatfield Saturday. Miss Mollie Nelson spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Eli Waymire and family. Quite a few people from this vicinity attended the funeral of Mrs. Linten at Medaryville Sunday. Mrs. Lackey and Miss Annie Lackey spent Sunday with their daughter and sister, Mrs. Wm. Stalbaum. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Callaghan and family spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Felix Moritz and family. Mrs. Sabria Waymire and children spent the latter part of last week with her parents near Medaryville. Mr. Bennette and family entertained a number of their friends Sunday with watermelon. All report a fine time. Lewis and Ollie Hershman and Felix Moritz departed Tuesday for Minot, North Dakota, where they will work during the harvest on Mr. Moritz's brother’s threshing machine.

SOUTH NEWTON. Miss Sadie Paulus was a Mt. Ayr goer Friday. Nelse Hough is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. Ernest Mayhew called on Mrs. Harry Dewey Tuesday. Ortel Willey of Mt. Ayr is working for Chas. Weiss this week. Misses Lura and Ada Yeoman were Rensselaer goers Friday. Lawyer Marion Pearson went to Ft. Wayne on business Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mayhew visited relatives near Mt. Ayr Sunday. Mrs. Mat Waling and hired girl visited Mrs. Arthur Mayhew Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek attended the ball game in Mt. Ayr Sunday afternoon. William Jacobs and Emmet Potts started Saturday for the Dakotas to find work. Mrs. Arthur Mayhew and Bessie Paulus were on the sick list but are better now. George Hans and Clifford Hammel of Brook called on the Paulus family Monday. Mrs. Wm. Yeoman and daughters assisted the Powell family with threshers Tuesday. Mrs. Otto Bengston of Mt. Ayr visited her daughter Mrs. Earl Leek with threshers Saturday. Bernard Hopkins and Miss Cora Seward spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek. Mrs. Nelse Hough and hired girl Mrs. Grace Bailes called ,on Mrs. Arthur Mayhew Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew visited the latter's parents Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Waling of Brook. Roy Flanders visited with his father-in-law Press Roberts and his wife Saturday night and Sunday.

Charles Weiss transacted business in Rensselaer Monday. They moved into their new house the latter part of last week. Mrs. Fred Powell who has been visiting relatives in this vicinity returned to her home near Monon Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Weiss and family of near Goodland were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weiss and family Sunday. Mrs. Mark Reed and son Ross and Thos. Lamson were at Mr. and Mrs. Nelson DuChafme’s Tuesday when they threshed. Quite a number of young folks from this vicinity attended the party given by Ortel Willey in the hall in Mt. Ayr Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson DuCharme visited Thursday with the latter’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Mark Reed. Grace Reed returned home with them for an extended visit. Joe Ade and the butcher from Kentland came up to the Ade farm and got the calves. Joe returned Monday with several men and got the cattle and part of the horses.

BLUE SEA. John Summers threshed Thursday. Dan Chatman was in Lee Saturday. Mrs. Herman has been quite sick this week. C. Underwood was in Lee Thursday evening. The meetings all this week were well attendedMrs. John Mitchell has been quite sick this week. Revival meetings will continue a week or so longer. Willard Johnson and wife were in Monon Saturday. Ludd Clark and John Oosley were in Monon Wednesday. C. Underwood and Earl Foulks stacked rye Wednesday. A. C. Robinson is in the hay business in this vicinity. John Oosley and wife of Missouri have moved back to Milroy. There seem to be a good many berry pickers in this vicinity. Roy Williams and wife were in the burg Wednesday evening. Geo. Caster and wife attended the meeting Tuesday evening. Walter Britten and Geo. Williams were in Monon Saturday evening. C. Underwood and wife spent Sunday with Chas. McCashen and wife. Roy Williams and wife and Walter Britten spent Sunday at the dredge. Roy Williams and wife and Walter Britten were in Rensselaer Thursday. They are putting in a new iron bridge in this vicinity across the dredge aitch. Mr. Slanter and wife and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Garbon and family. There were four Baptist ministers at the Baptist church Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. C. and E. are certainly good judges of ice cream. If you don’t believe it send in a barrel or so. Mrs. J. W. Williams and family spent a few days with their daughter and son R. Williams and wife. Rev. Morrow of Wolcott preached a splendid sermon at the Milroy church Tuesday evening. Everyone enjoyed it. Rev. Spitzer took dinner with C. Underwood and wife Saturday and also preached a splendid sermon Saturday evening . Sister Belcher, Geo. Foulks and wife and Earl Foulks took dinner with Grandma Foulks and C. Underwood and wife Thursday. The Democrat is the best paper in the country for news. It gives all the latest news in and all over the county. Everybody should read It.

Ludd Clark is having a well drilled. John Martin of Monon is doing the work. He has a good outfit and is a number one hand at the business. ' Miss Veda Spencer and Roy Mattox of Francesville spent Sunday with Grandma Foulks and C. Underwood and wife. Miss Veda will stay a while with Mrs. Underwood.

| The meeting at the Milroy church Saturday night was well attended. Sister Belcher of Winamac preached a splendid sermon and all who heard her can give her the highest praise for her splendid sermon and also her sermon Wednesday evening was certainly excellent. We hope sister Belcher will return to Milroy soon.

MT. AYR. (From the Pilot.) Uncle Joe Yeoman of Rensselaer visited In town the first of the week with John Rush and family. Charley Vestal and Maunie Rice left Monday for the northwest where they will remain until after harve&t. Mrs. Bert Clark of Good land came yesterday for a visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Hopkins. Miss Pearl Keen left Monday for Wheatfield for an extended visit with her cousin, Gird Hendricks and family. Miss Vada Perkins of Goodland came Tuesday for a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. Harry Wild, and family. Miss Bessie Adamson of Culver, Ind., came the latter part of last week for a visit with Spencer Greenlee and family. Miss Rose Johnson, who is spending the summer at Goodland, spent Sunday at home. She was accompanied by Miss Florence Hudson. The first run at Hufty & Yeoman’s new mill was made last Friday. The engine and grinding machinery worked to perfection. John Rush and family spent the day last Friday with friends and relatives at Rensselaer. John is like a chicken with its head off since he sold his store. Misses Jean Sigler and Leona Dunlap, Mrs. J. H. 'Crisler and daughter Leta and Miss Pauline Sayler spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. James Shindler, south of town. Mrs. J. H. Crisler and children, Leta and Hamilton, of Claypool, came the latter part of last week for. a visit with W. A. Crisler and family and other relatives in and about town. J. M. Witham went to Rensselaer Saturday evening and Sunday morning took the train for Monticello, where he spent the day with his son-in-law, who received a very severe Injury recently in falling from the roof of a building which he was shingling. He was In a very critical condition when Mr. Witham started for home Sunday evening. On last Saturday evening Ortel Willey gave a farewell party at the opera house in honor of his departure for the West the first of next week. About one hundred guests were present and the occasion was made a very merry one by indulging in various kinds of amusements, such as dancing, games, and story telling. Everybody present experienced a most delightful time and was glad of the occasion, although all regretted to lose their friend Ortel. Ice cream and cake was served and all departed bidding Ortel a fond good-bye and wishing him all manner of pleasure and prosperity while in the'West.

LEE. J. H. Culp and family visited last Sunday at David Culp’s. Will Culp and family visited his father David Culp Thursday. Mrs. Susie Noland and Helen took dinner Thursday with Mrs. J. H. Culp. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Anderson took dinner Sunday at Mr. Deardorff's. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Holeman were at his mother’s, Mrs. Kate Holeman, Sunday. Sunday evening Miss Whittaker of Hammond came to make a visit with relatives. Friday afternoon of last week Miss Lural Anderson and Miss Lora Culp went to Monon. Mrs. May Jacks and two younger children called on Mrs. Maud Noland Tuesday afternoon. Thursday Mrs. Josie Anderson went to her sister’s Mrs. Effie Deardorff's to do some sewing. Friday of last week Mrs. Susie Noland and daughters Myrtle and Helen visited at David Culp’s. y Friday afternoon of last week Mrs. Ola Parcels went to Monon to get some more records for the new phonograph. Sunday O. A. Jacks and wife and Dollie and Wallace went on the milk train -to Rensselaer to visit his sister Mrs. Woodruff. Last Saturday evening Sam Jacks and family went on the milk train to Battle Ground to visit relatives and attend camp meeting. Miss Whittlker of Hammond who came to D. E. Noland’s Sunday evening has taken sick since with scarlet fever The doctor was called Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. Williamson and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Noland went Sunday to attend the basket meeting over south but there was none when they got there. Last Friday Mr. Deardorff’s brother and wife and two children of Peru came to make them a visit. They were completely surprised as

they didn’t know they were coming. Mr. and Mrs. Worden Donaldson of Monon came last Monday and made a visit with her father and family, Will Noland, . till ‘Tuesday afternoon and her sister Myrtle njent home with them for a visit. Miss Lural Anderson went to Arthur Stewart’s last Saturday to be there when they threshed, and she also visited Mr. Jordan’s and their young people brought her home Sunday evening and attended League here. Friday of last week Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stewart went on the milk train to Battle Ground to visit their son Olen and attend camp meeting. They came home Tuesday morning and Olen and family came with them for a visit. SPIRITUAL SEANCE AT REMINGTON. Tq Whom It May Concern: During the winter of 1908, Mrs. Miller and I and daughters Maud, Bessie, Eunice and Mabel, were Invited to spend the evening with our much esteemed friends, Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan, of Remington, Ind. There were present others also, and among them Mr. C. E. Winans, who is a Medium. After a pleasant chat all were invited to an upper room in the home of Mr. Jordan, and after all had been seated in a well lighted room, to our pleasant surprise and pleasure, were greeted by manifestations whom we distinctly recognized as those whom we knew in this life, but had long since 1 passed out. Among many that appeared and conversed with those present whom we recognized was a Dr. R. V. Murray, formerly of Zanesville, Ind. My own father and other relatives, strange as it might seem to any that such things could be possible. It is nevertheless an incontestable fact, to those who were eye witnesses. REV. E. MILLER, Plymouth, Ind. We, the undersigned, were present at the above described seance and can heartily certify to the correctness of the same. i Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan, ' . Joseph Osborn, J. O. B. McDougle.

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NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE Eugene V. Debs baa declined an invitation to attend a conference of the unemployed at New York, on tbi ground of campaign engagements. Fire at Taft, Mont., nearly on the Idaho line, destroyed the AnheuserBusch hotel and twelve saloons, causing a loss of >BO,OOO. The British foreign office has announced the conclusion of a modus vivend! with the United States regarding the Newfoundland fisheries. The supreme lodge Knights of Pythias has voted that the next convention be held In Milwaukee. William Q. Hinz, aged twenty-one years, of Milwaukee, was drowned at Enterprise, Kan., while bathing in the Smoky Hill river. John A. Krumholz, of Detioft, Mich., was accidentally shot and killed at Oklahoma City, Okla., by Andrew Tarshey. Both are boys of sixteen years. The Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, in session as Youngstown. 0., has adjourned. It will meet in Chicago next year. A movement Is on foot at Havana to advance the date of the Cuban presidential election. Queen Vic. to Visit England. _ San Sebastia n. Aug. 14.—dying AL fonso and Queen Victoria have left here. The queen is going to the Isle of Wight to visit her mother, Princess Beatrice of Battenberg, but will stop over in Paris for a day incognito.