Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — SOUTH UNION. [ARTICLE]

SOUTH UNION.

B. D. Comer shredded fodder Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Mayme Smith spent Thanksgiving with Miss Goldie Bunda. Victor Yeoman’s family are reported to have the whooping cough. Mrs. Ferae McAuley and husband of Chicago visited the latter’s parents Thanksgiving. Fred Stevenson and best girl took in the sights at the County Capital one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman visited the latter’s brother Walter, of near Wheatfield, over Sunday.

Rev. Bunda will fill his regular appointment Sunday at Rosebud. Everybody cordially Invited to attend. Al Witham is further improving his farm by building a new cow barn. He will move there in the near future. - Mrs. Wm. Wilcox and daughter Cresle took a flying trip to Chicago Friday, returning Saturday evening on the milk train. The recent rains which we have been having, are doing the wheat lots of good in this locality. Wheat is looking fine this fall, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Smith and family, Mrs. Mauck and family took £ Thanksgiving dinner with James Burns and family.

Mrs. Mabie Gunyon, Mrs. Daisy Payne and Miss Blanche McClannahan spent Thanksgiving with their sister of Patton Station, near Monticello. Esta Keener returned from lowa Wednesday where he has been shucking corn. The last he saw of Ray Burns, his partner, he was on his way to Florida. Henry Wilson and Geo. Casey went to Chicago Tuesday and took in the stock show. Mr. Wilson will visit his brother Charles of Chicago Heights before returning home. Eli Gerber and son Guy passed through this locality last Monday enroute to their farm near Roselawn, where they are ditching and otherwise making improvements on same.

Walter Harrington returned from Nonth Dakota Saturday evening. He is well impressed with the country, but did not purchase land there, for he says the land out there Is very high in price. The friends of George Casey got together last Saturday evening and reminded him of his twentieth birthday. The evening was spent in playing games. Light refreshments were served, and the young folks departed wishing George many more such birthdays.