Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.„

LONELY VALLEY. E. Huber spent Thursday with his daughter at Rochester. Will and Bess Finney of Center were in our-burg Monday. Mrs. Lee and daughter Hazel and Mrs. Geo. Heil took dinner with us Thursday. L. P. Shirer, formerly a resident of L. V., was in this locality Sunday afternoon. Henry Misch, who has been working in Illinois for some time, has returned home. a E. Davis and family of Wheatfield spent Saturday evening in this neck of the woods. A goodly number attended the show in the opera house Friday and Saturday evenings. Sam Openchain and family of Gifford spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hershman. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Knapp an 4 children were Sunday guests of Henry Gulbransen and family of Wheatfield. Relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Obryne who have been visiting here for some time returned to their home in Chicago Wednesday. Henry Farrel and family moved to Wheatfield the latter part of the week, and a family from near Rochester have moved on the farm vacated by Farrel.

EGYPT. Iva Blake spent this week with Pearl Eisele. Alva McCashen was a Rensselaer goer Monday. William Washburn was out to his farm Tuesday. Miss Kate Michaels was a Rensel--aer goer Monday. ■ . Andrew Smith and family visited at Julius Huff’s Sunday. W. P. Michaels commenced making sorghum this week. D. V. Blake called on Charles Antcliff Tuesday forenoon. D. V. Blake and family spent Sunday at Wm. Michael’s. The R. A. Club met at Mrs. Claude Williams' Thursday. Willie Eisele spent a few days this week with Emery Blake. Joe Galey and James Bicknell were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Charles Antcliff and daughter. Florence spent Sunday at Foresman. Miss Florence Bullis, who has typhoid fever, is better at this writing. Frank Nessius and Will Wortley took dinner at Frank Welsh's Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson DuCharme spent Sunday with James Reed and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Antcliff called on Charles Antcltff’s Tuesday forenoon. Miss Faye Pruett of Brook spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. William Morris and family attended the reunion at Mrs. Eunice Morris’s Sunday. Charles Howe and of Fowler spent Saturday night and Sunday with Frank Welsh and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, Grandma Lowe and Misses Nellie and Hannah Welsh visited at Wm. Pruett’s Sunday. William Timmons of Elk Falls, Kan., who is visiting relatives and friends here, took dinner 'at Frank Welsh’s Tuesday. / x James Reed and William Morris assisted A. J. Keister and son Tuesday hauling their hay from the Mitchell farm. The ball game played between Egypt and the “old men” Sunday is getting worse than more of it. Score 17 to 27 in favor of Egypt.

FAIR OAKS. Abd Bringle made a business trip to Roselawn Monday. We are having a spell of very dry and sunshiny weather nowadays. Mrs. Ike Kight and Mrs. A. M. Bringle were Rensselaer goers Monday. Edgar Stewart of near Mt. Ayr, peddled peaches in our town Wednesday. Ed Kesler and Jim Clifton have got F. R. Erwin’s new barn about completed. Reason Dunn and family of near Parr visited relatives and friends here Saturday. Miss Glen Cobb of Roselawn has succeded Miss McDonnel as clerk at the pickle plant. John Kimble of Michigan and Rev. Evans were guests at Abe Bringle’s Wednesday night. Old John Barleycorn got the best of one of our reformed citizens last Saturday night. What a shame.

The pickle harvest is still on, but is weakening some. They have up to the present 8,000 bushels salted. Miss Iva Moffitt, who has been staying at Rensselaer, came up Sunday and took dinner with her uncle, A. M. Bringle. William Blair of Chicago visited his father, A. E. Blair, and sister, Mrs. C. L. Egleston, a few days the past wek. Frank Cox and the former lady pickle clerk spent Thursday at the home-coming after which she departed for phicago. C. T. Otis’ tenants begun filling their silos the first of the week. It will be three or four weeks before they have completed the work. Joe Brown and family and Mrs. J. C. Thompson visited the former’s parents near Morocco a couple days the latter part of the week. 'Jhn White and wife of Demotte were here Saturday fixing up their property. They have rented it to a party from or near Roselawn. Joe Winslow went to Kniman Wednesday te take charge of a section on the C. & E. I. Don’t know whether he wil move there or not just yet.

Mrs. Al Moore and children visited at Monticello from Saturday until Monday. The three oldest children stayed to take in the Lafayette Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Munden, formerly of this place but now of Hancock county, visited a couple of days here the latter part of the week. They came up to attend the home-coming at Rensselaer. Charles Blue of Rensselaer, who is to teach the advanced room this coming year, was here Monday cleaning up and painting his room, preparatory to beginning school in a couple of weeks. There were three more of our graduates who went to Rensselaer to begin high school this week. They are: Lawrence Halleck, Miss Mildred Gundy, and Myrtie McCoy Orvel Bringle and Ray Gundy went also. This will be their last year as they will have then completed their four "years course. A citizen of Rensselaer remarked to us a few days ago that there never was a cleaner, better time had in Rensselaer, than at the homecoming. There wasn't a drunk man nor an arrest during the time. He says this goes to show that we are better off without saloons than with them, and he thinks the saloon has gone to stay. Let ’er go.

EAST CARPENTER Kate O’Byran was a Remington goer Tuesday. John Frey’s are harvesting their clover this week. John Wagner is working for Grant Culp at present. Anna Kellner picked her ducks and geese one day last week. Lawrence Kellner is Ml ping Joe Jarbis do some tiling at this writing. Bertha Teters and Anna Hensler left Tuesday for the Indiana State Fair. Ezra Zehr and cousin called on Mr. Beach’s last Thursday afternoon. John O’Connor and family were Rensselaer goers Wednesday and Thursday. Gertrude Dickinson spent Saturday night with her cousin, Martha Dickinson. Jacob Wagner and daughter Lucy spent Sunday at Koboski's, south of Remington. Lucy Wagner stayed with her cousin at Rensselaer during the home-coming. Several from this vicinity attended the home-coming at Rensselaer a few days last week. Harmon Dickinson was a Francesville goer a few days last week, on a land prospective trip. School will open next Monday and Mr. Thomas will again take up his abode at Greene, No. 1. Emma Wagner returned home Wednesday after a few days visit with her sister at Lena and Jessie Williamson attended the teachers’ institute at Rensselaer last week. The girls are going to both teach the same schools they taught last year. Alvia Haskin and wife went to Illinois Monday where they expect to

make their home in the future. Mr. and Mrs. Will Lemmie of near Wolcott visited at their bro-ther-in-law’s, Frank Bartoo's last Sunday. . Albert Dickinson and son Earl are still at Lisbon, No. Dak. They will probably stay until the first of November.

EAST JORDAN. Mrs. Lane is on the sick list at this writing. John and Kurg Burns sowed timothy seed Friday. Dennis Marquie and John Shide were tile-ditching last week. William Rich of Remington called on the Burns brothers Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Williams and children were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Shaffer and family and Mrs. John Weast were in the city Friday. Will Timmons returned to his home in Warren county after a long visit with his brother George. Quite a number of people from these parts attended the democratic speaking at Rensselaer last Wednesday. v Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Dewey spent Saturday night and Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. George Hensler, of Remington. We had quite a frost Wednesday night of last week. It killed Mrs. Anna Shide’s beans and buckwheat and did considerable damage to late corn. Mrs. George Brown and little son and Miss Marie Plake of Plymouth have been visiting the former’s sistre, Mrs. Conrad Shaffer, for a short time. Joe Neisus, Miss Grace Templar and a number of other young persons from this vicinity attended the home-coming at Rensselaer Wednesday.

SOUTH NEWTON. Ernest Mayhew made a business trip to Brook Wednesday. Misses Lura and Ada Yeoman attended the fair at Lafayette. W. E. Leek of Rensselaer was looking after his farm Monday. Frank Story assisted W. E. Leek in his hitch barn during the homecoming. , - Everyone attended the home-com-ing la* week and all reported a good time. Mrs. Arthur Powell called on her mother, Mrs. Silas Potts, Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson DuCharme visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Reed. Leona, Harold and Alva Weiss spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Sadie Paulus. John Weiss, Sr., and grandson, Lawrence of Goodland visited with Charles Weiss Wednesday. Charles Bentley of Brook made a well for Charles Waling on his farm the latter part of last week. Mrs. Press Roberts returned home Saturday from a two months visit with her son Bee in Colorado. Miss Lizzie Getting of Kentland visited from Wednesday till Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Paulus and family. Mrs. Otto Bengston an<t’daughter. Mrs. Stella Whiting were guests of the former’s daughter, Mrs. Earl Leek Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mayhew visited Saturday night and Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall near Brook. Mrs. Philip Paulus and daughter Bessie spent Saturday night and Sunday with the brother, A. R. Bentley and family near Brook. Ab. Dewey spent Monday night with his brother Harry and then assisted his brother-in-law, Chas. Weiss a few days to stack his clover hay. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew returned home Thursday from a trip through Missouri. They reported a very fine time and liked the country well. Mr. aid Mrs. Charles Waling of Brook came Tuesday to see their daughter, Mrs. Arthur Mayhew, Mrs. Waling is canning peaches while there. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dewey spent Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Al Peters and family. Oscar Weiss visited relatives in and near Goodland Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell, Mrs. Mary Powell and Mrs. Alice Potts took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Markin east of Rensselaer. Mr. Powell went on from there to see his brother Fred near Monon and to assist him with some work.

BLUE SEA. C. Underwood was in Monon Saturday. Frank Coghill was in this vicinity this week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams were in McCoysburg Uncle Tom Johnson and daughter, were in Monon Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Beaver were in Rensselaer Friday evening. R. Foulks spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. C. Underwood. Mrs. Johns is visiting R. V. Johns and wife at McCoysburg this week. Geo. Timmons and C. Underwood can furnish good music for any kind of a social. Roy Williams and wife and Walter Britton were in Rensselaer Thursday. Mrs. Carey McDonald and daughter of Wilder were in Rensselaer Thursday. C. Underwood and wife and Geo. Foulks and wife were in Rensselaer Thursday. Mrs. C. Underwood spent Thursday night with Miss Grace Worland in Rensselaer. Mrs. Emma McKinley of Goodland attended the home-coming at Rensselaer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coghill and Mr. and Mrs. Mans Beaver were in Rensselaer Thursday. C. Underwood, and wife took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Worland in Rensselaer Friday - Misses Vesta and Elsie Beaver, Mr. and Mrs. Dump Hamilton and Jake Beaver were in Rensselaer Thursday to the Home-Coming.

HANGING GROVE. R. C. McDonald will again teach the McCoysburg school. Lora Phillips is going to and from school on the milk train. Mr. Burien of Medaryville is pressing hay for James Lefler. Miss Eva Hugh of Monon is working for Mrs. R. V. Johns. Bert Lewis is helping James Tyler with his chores on Sunday evenings now. Mr. and Mrs. Mundon visited relatives at McCoysburg the fore part of the week. P. B. Downs went, to Lafayette Tuesday evening on train 39 on a business trip. Miss Theresa Stren of Dwight, HL, has been visiting at J. J. Molitor’s for some time. Mrs. John R. Phillips has been quite sick with malarial fever, but is now able to be about again. Supervisor R. M. Jordan is hauling some more gravel and adding on to the strip of gravel hauled last year. * Two boys from St. Joseph's College passed through here Monday, enroute to Pulaski after a load of peaches. Miss Kate Maxwell visited a John Waxwell’s in Barkley Sunday. Mrs. Emma Christy of Chalmers was also there visiting. James Downs has rented a farm of John Makeever, somewhere north of Rensselaer, and will move there next spring. Chas. Ablegore and two children returned to their home near Bradley, 111., Monday after an extended visit with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Will Cox of Medaryville attended the Rensselaer homecoming and on their way home Tuesday, took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bussell. Mr.‘ Karr of Paxton, 111., who owns the farm where Geo. Bowman lives has moved into the Anderson

house near the Osborne, school until time to take possession. Monday was vacation day for the rural mail carriers. Several patrons that do not happen to think of it being Labor Day will wonder why they got no mail that day. Miss Blanche Parker of Gillam is attending high school at Rensselaer this year. She entered as a sophmore, having completed the freshman year at Francesville last year. If w© were going to mention all that were in Rensselaer last week to the home-coming, from here, just say Hanging Grove was in town last week, and just got home late Friday night. A trip out through the woods now will soon bring the thoughts of cold weather to one’s mind. The hazelnuts and hickorynuts have begun to ripen, and in fact the whole woods are looking brown and sear. Supt. Goldsberry, of the Barkley gravel road, is having another layer of gravel put on the road along Mr. Bond’s farm. The road needs it bad enough, for last spring after the frost went out, it was very badly cut up.

Hanging Grove has four students in high school this year, namely: Wilson Bussell, Ethel Parker, and Lora Phillips in Rensselaer, and Cecil Jordan at Francesville. The two former are sophmores and the two latter are freshmen.. Frank Cochran and his mother-in-law, Mrs. A. D. Pattee, are expecting to go to Stuart, lowa, soon. Mr. Cochran will quite likely look for a farm and move out there and Mrs. Pattee will join her husband who went out there early in July. Tom Walters and wife of Gillam visited at Delos Pass’ Sunday. “Uncle” Tommy has come out of the “kinks” wonderfully in his old days. He is driving a fine sorrel team to a fiery red running gear buggy. In fact it will keep most of the young lads guessing. W. R. Willits is having some papering done to his house and also expects to do considerable painting i yet this fall. Will has peaches, apples and pears, grapes, cherries and ■ appricots on his farm. He has ' seme excellent peaches, nicer even i than conies from the Michigan ' market.

Postmaster Reed McCoy has been required by the department at Washington to post a sign on his store building in a consplcious place with the wording, “McCoysburg Postoffice,” and in conformity with the request Reed has prepared a very neat sign, with "his own artistic skill. Refering to an item of last week relative to the damage done to the crops by the big frost on Wednesday night, buckwheat, some corn and considerable garden truck was quite badly damaged. Just precisely the damage done was hard to ascertain until afternoon, when the hot sun wilted the frozen leaves. James Lefler, who has lived on the Squire Moore farm for the past seven years, has decided to quit Hanging Grove and move to Marinette, Wis., where he will look after his 400 acres of fine timber land. Unless something unforeseen intervenes to prevent they expect to have a public sale soon after the corn husking. Wm. Walters of Barkley has rented the farm for three years, we understand. The work of cleaning out the Poole ditch is under way this week. Nearly a foot of sand and mud has washed in the bottom of the ditch in several places. Muskrats, too, are very annoying pests along a ditch. They perforate the banks so much as to cause them to cave in. They also carry much trash In the ditch, including weeds, cornstalks, grass, etc. As much as a bushel of corn has been found in a single muskrat den. Word was received from W. C.

Rose of Hoopeston, 111., last Wednesday that W. A. Rusk died Tuesday. Most people around here have inquired very anxiuosly, from time to time, about Mr. Rusk's condition, and no one will be surprised to hear of his death. It will be remembered by everyone here that Mr. Rusk sold out last spring to his landlord and went back to his home town in hopes of improving his failing health. Since going back to Hoopeston he has been at Chicago in a hospital for some time but nothing did him any good, so he was brought back home to die. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. During their residence here they were well respected citizens and we are sure the wife and children have the sympathy of all their neighbors.

ROSEBUD VALLEY. John Pettet of Laura was in our midst Monday. Mrs. Lillie Brown was in Wheatfield Wednesday. Thos. Callaghan attended .the county fair at Kankakee this week. Mrs. Deselms of Kouts, visited Mrs. John McElroy the first of the week. School begins here next Monday. Mrs. Felix Moritz was a Wheatfield goer Saturday. Mra. Julia Stalbaum and sons Vincent and Paul did shopping in Medaryville Saturday. John Wenrick is slowly recovering from the injuries he received in a runaway a short time ago. Noah Wenrick of near Rensselaer spent a couple of days the first of the week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wenrick. Mr. and Mrs. William Stalbaum and family went to St. Joe Sunday for the purpose of buying peaches and pears, but say the price is out of reach.

LEE. Asa Holeman went to Tipton Saturday for a few days visit with relatives. Rev. Simonson has been returned to this circuit for another conference year. Mrs. Zable’s brother and wife and little boy from Illinois have been visiting them. Mr. and Mrs. Maple and daughter Nora came Wednesday evening to visit Mrs. Ella Noland. Miss Arty Gilmore commenced her school last Monday. She is teaching 1 0 miles west of nrookston. Mrs. Leroy Noland’s sister from one of the western states came Tuesday morning to visit her. Tuesday evening Mrs. Susie Noland and little daughter Helen went to see her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Donaldson. Thursday of last week a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Worden Donaldson. Mrs. D. was formerly Miss Pearl Noland. Messrs. Spencer, Parcels and Lamport returned Monday night from their Texas trip. They seemed to be well pleased with the country. Several from here attended the Culp reunion last Wednesday at J. T. Culp's in Barkley tp. There were 120 ate dinner, and several came in the afternoon.

Ray Holeman went last Monday to the farm he has rented for another year, east of Monticello, to sow wheat. But it was too dry and he came home Tuesday. Rev. D. E. Noland has been appointed to a charge at Mt. Ayr for the next conference year, but on account of his daughter Neva having scarlet fever they cannot move yet. Her cousin from Hammond was sick with scarlet fever at their house four weeks ago and they thought maybe their children would not have the fever, and intended to move his family this week. But when he came home from, conference she was sick so they will have to wait awhile. We are sorry for the family, for they have lived here so long, and now that they are going away and are sick. People are afraid to go to see them because of the contagious character of the disease.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Mr. and Mrs. Ray Adams of Rensselaer were calling in Mt. Ayr Sunday. D. T. Nay and wife left Tuesday for Greenfield, Ind., where they will 'visit with friends and relatives for a few days. Miss Pearl Keen returned Monday from a visit of several days with relatives at Wheatfield. Nate Keen and wife visited in Foresman last Saturday, going down on the morning train and returning in the afternoon. Miss Jennie Bruck of Kentland visited the latter part of the week and the first of this week with Frank Herath and wife. . Mesdames Frank and Chas. Horsewood of Ligonier, Ind., came the first of the week for a visit with Mrs. Geo. Johnson and family. Chas. Baker and family spent Sunday with Wm. Johnson and family. Charley took his phonograph along and there was music in plenty. Miss Nora Keeney is at the home of J. J. Garrity in the capacity of a trained nurse caring for Mrs. Garrity, who has the typhoid fever. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nierengarten of Remington came Monday for a visit with Walter Blankenbaker and family and Nate Keen and family. Miss Anna Gilligan of Chicago is here for a visit with Mr. and Mrs.

H. G. Clark and the families of Frank Makeever and Mrs. Ella Carter. Miss Leona Dunlap and Earnest Proudy returned Saturday from a few days spent at the Watseka fair and visiting with friends and relatives. Dave Guthrie, who has been running a dredge boat out in lowa for the past several months, returned Tuesday evening for a visit with home folks. Lawrence Gebhart has quit buying poultry and is now taking life easy. Frank Beagley has taken up the business and will hereafter be our local produce buyer. Miss Jean Sigler departed Sunday evening for Chicago where she will reside in the future with her sister, Mrs. L. B. Haskell, and it is likely that she will enter the postoffice at that city in the near future. A postal from Frank Johnson and Wade Makeever, who are spending a few weeks in Michigan, states that they have accepted positions in Wequetonsing, and that - they desired the Pilot to be sent to them at that place.

Geo. Corbin has purchesed the property just west of the depot of Henry Lee and will move into same at once, and work in the blacksmith shop for J. M. Witham. Chas. Brown, the present tenant, has, as yet been unable to find a place to move. The John Rush store has once more changed hands and is now the property of Eugene Perrigo, a former resident of Morocco but late of Watseka. Mr. Perrigo will make some improvements in the building and replenish the stock and keep a first-class general store. Extehsive improvements are being made in town in the way of new cement walks along the east side of the park and school grounds. Some of the street crossings were built too low when the walks were first constructed some years ago and these now have to be taken up and built higher in order to make them above the streets, which have been improved since the walks were put in.