Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1908 — Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

Rev. Lookablll visited bis parents at Crawfordsvllle last week. Remember the Farmer’s Institute at Austin Hall, Dec. 18 and 19. Attorney Guy was looking after abstract business at the hub Tuesr day. Blanchard Elmore has opened a cigar factory in rooms over the O’Connor pool hall. Mrs. Johnson End son John went to Boswell last week to spend the winter with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Harley Anderson. D. 6 V. McGlynn went to Notawa, Texas, last week* where he expects to work at diis trade of carpentering through the winter. The young people of Sacred Heart Catholic church gave a highly pleasing entertainment at the opera house last Friday evening, which was well attended. Miss Floy Beal, who is to be married soon to Mr. Louis Raymond of St. Ann, 111., was given a kitchen shower by her young friends last Thursday evening, As the result of being thrown from a buggy on Wednesday of last week by the horse becoming scared at an auto, Miss Elsie Gilkerson received a broken arm.

J. J. Porter and daughter Miss Dollie, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Renk and H. E. Hartley were among the Remlngtonians who attended the aft stock show In Chicago last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Dye gave a reception to the Fortnightly Club at their elegant home no North Ohio street on last Wednesday evening that was enjoyed very much by those present. -w The Masons, who recently lost their building by fire, have let the contract for a new building to be built on the same site. A. P. Hawn, a local contractor, will handle the Job... .Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cain on Tuesday of last week, a son.—Goodland Herald. David Hebert, a former resident of near Remington but who moved to near Vincennes some two years ago, died at his homs there recently from paralysis. He leaves a family of fourteen children. His two son-in-laws, Napoleon Marcotte and Alexander Beaupere of near Remington and their families were in attendance at the funeral and burial which took place at Vincennes.

MILIiOY. Jacob Beaver was in Monon Saturday. Thos. Spencer shipped a car load of hogs last Tuesday. Ahe' Woosley spent several days in Lafayette last week. Chas. Beaver was on the jury at Rensselaer last week. I. J. Clark and wife spent Sunday eve with Geo. Foulks and family. Mrs. D. R. Benson and Mrs. Wm. McDonald attended church here Sunday. Rev. Belcher and Mr. Mattox took supper with Geo. Foulks Sunday evening. Jacks & Clark are buying turkeys in this vicinity for the Xmas market. Thos. Johnson, Jr., and family visited Dan Williams and wife Friday night. Earl Foulks attended the box social in Monon for the benefit of the band. Mrs. Geo. Wood and Mrs. Wm. Johnson were in Monon Saturday afternoon. * Albert and Chas. Wood have returned home irom Illinois where they have been husking corn. Rev. Belcher preached an excellen sermon on Charity last Sunday. Preaching Dec. 20, at 3:30 p. m. Clyde Clark and Earle Foulks attended the tin shower given Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Culp, Jr., Saturday night. * Mrs. D. R. Benson and daughter, Mrs. Wm. McDonald near Lacross, visited relatives and friends here the first of the week. Roy Mattox and Veda Spencer spent a few days with the latter’s grandmother, Mrs. L. Foulks and other relatives.

HANGING GROVE. Frank Peregrine is building a new kitchen for Mr. Eib’s in Barkley. John Monartz, who has been visiting friends in Inaianapolis, returned home last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong and Geo. Parker's visited at Ed Peregrine's Sunday. • Ross Peregrine and Leon Porter attended the Farmers Institute at Rensselaer Tuesday. Joseph Willits has rented the

Lutz farm and has l;egun moving his farming tools there. We understand that Chas. Saidla has again purchased the barber shop in McCoysburg and now has possession of same. Robt. McDonald was in Indianapolis and Lafayette Saturday purchasing all kinds of Caristmas goods. He says he has the finest lot of candy ever in i.lcCoysburg, and all those expecting to buy candy s will do well by buying it there. He also has a full line of ammunition and shot-gun shells, and now, boys, you can shoot rabbits to beat the band.

SOUTH NEWTON. Philip Paulus hauled hogs to Rensselaer Wednesday. Fred Waling hauled hogs from Ben Wousley’s Tuesday. Mrs. Alice Potts visited Mrs. Press Roberts Thursday. Trustee Yeoman visited Curtis Creek school Wednesday. Arthur Powell made a business trip to Mt. Ayr Wednesday. Fred Waling transacted .business at Brook Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew did shopping in Rensselaer Friday. Chas. Weiss and son Oscar made a business trip to Goodland Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dewey visited with Mr. and Mrs. M. Besse Sunday. f Joe Ade took part of the sheep from Harry Dewey’s to Brook Monday. Ed Waling of near Brook transacted business at Arthur Mayhew’s Saturday. Joe Charles is back to this neighborhood again. He is husking corn for Fred Taidtey. Mrs. Arthur Powell spent Thursday niiht and Friday with her sister, Mrs. Fred Waling. Miss Jennie Parkison was the guest of Misses Sadie and Bessie Paulus Wednesday night. The hunters are taking advantage of the snow that fell. Guns are heard in every direction. Quite a number from this vicinity attended Farmer’s Institute at Rensselaer Monday and Tuesday. Harve Pearson 'and wife visited the latter’B parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Raymond in Jordan tp., Sunday. Mrs. Philip Paulus and son Russell visited the former’s daughter, Mrs. Jas. Reed, Wednesday and Thursday, Mrs. *Morris of Watseka. 111., is here assisting Bert Warren with revival meeting. The attendance is larger htis week than last. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Markin of near Pleasant Ridge visited the latter’s mother, Mrs. Mary Powell, Sunday and attended church. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek went to Rensselaer Wednesday. They were accompanied by Florence Rymer, who has been visiting them and who took the train there for her home. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew spent Sunday night with relatives in Brook. The former went to Ade Monday morning to meet his broth®r B f rt ' wbo 1,88 been staying in Illinois, and will make an extended visit with his brother Arthur and Ernest and relatives in Brook.

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SOUTHEAST CARPENTER. John Williams and wife dressed their poultry Tuesday. Jacob Wagner visited the “Farmers Friend" in town Saturday. John Wagner called on his neighbor, Lawrence Gillespie, Sunday. Henry Wagner and family took dinner with Asa Courtright and family Sunday. Master Earl Dickinson called on Mrs. J. B. Thompson. Tuesday and exchanged with her 31 rabbits for $1.70. Mike Kuboski and family ate dinner Sunday with his father, Frank Kuboski, south of Remington. Fred Wagner returned Sunday, from the fat stock show, and he reported a fine time. He said he had never saw so jnany cattle and horses before in his life, and such fines ones, too. Joe Wagner and his Chicago friend done some tall tramping Wednesday to get a rabbit, and it was lucky for them that they had a dog along or they would have went home empty-handed.

I Mr. Sigman is very anxious to get his patch of wood cut that he bought of A. Dickinson. Uncle Joe said he hadn’t killed but three : rabbits thiß winter, and it is hard to cut wood among so many rabbit tracks.

NEVER FAIL. Snow is the order of the day. Harvey Maxwell visited pryant Hammond Wednesday. Kurg and John Burns were Remington goers Saturday. Mrs. Bud Bice spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Islah Bice. John Weast and John Burns took dinner with William Wortley Wednesday. John Weast and W. H. Wortley shipped their guineas to Chicago last week. Dennis Marquis and Jacob Dewey called on William Wortley Tuesday forenoon. Mrs. E. Fleming of Rensselaer visited her son Jap and family a few days last week. Miss Rebecca Hammond and Mrs. Charley Durbin did shopping in Remintgon Wednesday. Most of the men in this locality are hauling their winter wood and preparing for colder weather.

ROSEBUD VALLEY. Mrs. Henry Heidenblut called on Mrs. Tom Callaghan Tuesday. Wm. Hershman and family called on Frank Hershman and family Sunday afternoon. Miss Cooper of Kniman is the guest of her grandparents, Mr., and Mrs. John Wenrick. Felix Moritz, who has been quite ill for some days, is somewhat better at this writing. Friends of Mrs. Frank Dunn, of near Gillam, received the sad intelligence of her sudden death Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lafever and the latter’s father, Mr. Toyne, took dinner with Frank Hershman’s Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Shull and Cecelia Hershman took in the sights of Medaryville and did shopping there Saturday. Quite a few new tenants in the oil fields now, Frank Clark and sister in the Ben Rouse house, A 1 Reede in the Ben Rouse cottage, and Mr. Archer in the house left vacant by Mr. Moritz.

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Joe Gailey butchered hogs Monday. Mrs. D. V. Blake-is on the sick list. . Jasper Pass shelled corn Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. J. F. Michell did shopping in Rensselaer Tuesday. Mrs. Jesse Dunn returned home from Chicago Saturday. *" Grace Gailey called on D. V. Blake’s Sunday afternoon. D. V. Blake and Maurice Besse were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Miss Lilly Bowers spent several days last week w»ta Phoebe Haag. Warren Dwire visited Saturday night and Sunday at Frank Welsh’s. Claude Welsh attended church at Prairie Chapel Sunday evening. Mort Ritchey helped William Pruett haul hogs to Foresman Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alva McCashen visited Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy Sunday. - >

Mrs. M. A. Dewey and son Abb and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dewey visited Maurice Besse and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George AntcHff called on Charles Antcliff and family Sunday. A fair crowd attended J. A. Keister’s sale Tuesday and everything sold well. Mr. * and Mrs. Philip Heuson are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Michaelst Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Galley and daughter Grace visited Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Michael Tuesday. Grandma Michael fell one day last week and broke her hip, and is in a very serious condition. Jesse McGinnis, who has returned from the west, is visiting his uncle, Julius Huff and family. Mrs. W. F. Michael and neice, Mrs. Hattie Sage, took dinner with Joseph Gailey and family Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Kennedy and daughter Velma took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Riley Tullis Sunday.

FAIR OAKS. We are having a fine spell of weather nowadays. Tom Mallatt lost one of his driving horses a few days ago. Mrs. Fannie Bringle transacted business in Rensselaer Saturday. Frank Cox went to Chicago Sunday to spend a few days at the fat stock show. Louey Moffitt and sister Iva visited Alex Sellers over on the Gaff ranch the latter part of the week. Clayton Moffitt, who has been up in North Dakota the past three months, came home Sunday eve. J. G. Liggett, who has been laid up so long with the grip, has so far recovered that he is able to come down town. Mrs. Ike Kight went to Lacross Saturday to help her son Jasper to pack up his household goods to move to Wheatfield this week where he has a meat market. Bark Crawford and George Brouhard and son Ray went up on the Kankakee river the first of the week to help the farmers haul sawlogs and the latter two to cut them. F. R. Erwin bought and took possession of Dr. Fyfe’s stock of goods except the drugs Monday morning. The Dr. and his wife took the Coal road train Tuesday eve for Wheatfield on business. Henry C. Goff and wife of Wisconsin, came last week to see her mother, Grandma Hurley, and brother Perry, the blind boy. They packed up their household effects and shipped them out where Henry lives and left Tuesday morning to make Wisconsin their future home. There is a petition being circulated to build a gravel road from Fair Oaks to the county line, a distance of one mile, and one to build a gravel road on the county line beginning two miles south or opposite the old Kent ranch house, and extend two miles north or to the milk station on the Monon, a distance of 4 miles and it is reported that there is a petition for quite a lot more gravel or stone roads over in Newton county, which will intersect with ours to run from here west and on the county line. Let the good work go on. It is said that J. J. Lawler is behind the proposition. There was a very exciting time at Tom Mallatt's Sunday eve when his daughter’s, Mrs. Warren Zeller’s babe, swallowed an open safety pin. They called Dr. Fyfe and all was done that could be to extract the pin, but they could not get it. So Mr. and Mrs. Zellers in company with the doctor took the 4:50 a. m.’, train for Chicago and after searching for some time with the use df the X-Ray they located it in the side of the throat. The Dr. took a pair or forceps and gently picked the pin out, which was a great relief to all concerned, as they feared the knife would have to be used to get it. A very sad affair took place in our town Monday eve when Mrs. Simon Kessick died very suddenly about 8 o’clock. She had done a large washing, besides scrubbing and baking at Frank Husted’s (the agent’s) in the south part of town and had about got through with her day’s labor at about 5 o’clock when she took a very voilent spell of twitching, drawing up of the muscles and staggering, and finally fell to the floor. She lay on the floor all drawn up and never spoke a word after she had the attack. She was a very large woman and could not be easily lifted to a bed. Her husband preceded her to the unknown about two years ago. She leaves four children ranging from 3 to about 16 years, a father, Joseph Gaines, who resides in Virginia, a brother and several sisters in Minnesota. Her father arrived here Wednesday morning and one sister and oldest daughter arrived in the evening. She was a member of the M. E. church, having become so last summer during a revival held here. The funeral was held Thursday at the Methodist church and interment made in the Fair Oaks cemetery. She also leaves a host of friends* and another sister, Mrs. A 1 Helsel who lives near. This is a very sad affair and the bereaved ones have the full sympathy of the entire community.

IROQUOIS VALLEY. Clarence Green Is on the sick list. The chicken-pox is in this locality. L. P. Shirer went to the hub Tuesday. Mrs. Charley Pullins Is on the sick list. George McElfresh went to Rensselaer Tuesday. Merrlmon Tudor took some hogs to market Monday. Joe Pullins and wife attended the Farmers Institute Tuesday. Mrs. Mollie Vance has gone to Rensselaer to work in the Makeever hotel. Vilas and Bennie Price are cutting cord wood for Wm. McElfresh. Katie Morgenegg will spend the holidays with relatives in Remington. John Marlatt and George McElfresh attended the sale near Fair Oaks Monday. Several people from this vicinity attended the stock show at Chicago last week. Mrs. Merimon Tudor and little son visited her father, .Tames Newcomb, Monday. Stephen Comer and son Shelby were in these parts last week buying fat stock. Wm. Green and daughters will spend the. holidays in Shannondale, Boone county. Several young girls from here took bread to the contest Tuesday. Wish you luck, little ones. Richard Schriner and W. N.. Jenkins attended the box social at Burnstown Saturday night. Several took advantage of the nice weather and good snow and brought in some full bags of game. I pity the men who can not control themselves in a crowd, especially when two or three bottles are around. Hiram Davis, it is understood, will not farm for himself, but is thinking of moving to Illinois and working by the month. We are sorry to state that we will lose another one of our good citizens and neighbors, as Cyril Steele will move to Wheatfield in the near future. The Democrat stated that the old hens have gone on a strike. It may be so with a few exceptions, but Mrs. Geo. McElfresh sent 12 dozens to market this week and got 30 cents per dozen, too. W. N. Jenkins has sold his driving mare “Bess” and now stays at home like a boy who has lost his best friend. He says he is sorry but it can’t be helped, and you know he won’t walk, poor Newt.

PINE GROVE. James Torbet is hauling clover hay this week to Rensselaer. Bertha Cooper spent Saturday evening with Verna Shroyer. Walter Lutz was the guest of Herbert and Roland Eib Sunday. Miss Stella Nuss visited the Indepenedence school Wednesday afternoon. John Daniels returned home Saturday from the fat stock show at Chicago. Wm. Jordan of near Newland took dinner with James Torbet Wednesday. Bluford, Roy and John Torbet called on Everett Parker’s Sunday afternoon. Charles Britt spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Britt! Several from around here attended the Farmers Institute, at Rensselaer Monday and Tuesday. John Torbet and Carrie Pierce spent Wednesday evening with Everett, Bertha and Orpha Parker. Quite a nutnber from here attended the box social at the Burnstown school house Saturday night. The Literary at the Independence school house Friday night was well attended. Another program will be rendered Friday evening, Dec. 18. Everybody invited to attend.

LEE. Saturday T. P. Jacks and wife were in Rensselaer. Lute Jacks and family were at Mort Deardorff’s Sunday. J. H. Culp has been in Montlcello all week on the Jury. Dr. Clayton was called to see Mrs. William Gray Monday. The Ladies’ Home Missionary society met at Mrs. -Eldridge’s Tuesday. Charley McCashen and wife visited Sunday at her parents, Alvin Clark’s. Orville Holeman and Miss Carrie Cadwalder called at J. H. Culp’s Sunday evening. Mrs. Arthur Parcels, Asa Holeman and Tommie Clark went on the milk train to Rensselaer Tuesday. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Henrjl Sparling of Demotte and Mr. ana Mrs. Lewis took dinner with O. A. Jacks and family. There was a kitchen shower at George Culp’s Sr., Saturday night for the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. George Culp, Jr. Last Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stiers went to Kankakee, 111., to visit their two daughters, and returned Saturday. Last Thursday thirteen ladies spent the day at Mrs. Gilmore’s quilting. She had two quilts in. All enjoyed the dinner and day of sociability very much. Arthur Parcels went to Indianapolis Monday to see about some business in connection with his moving to Texas. He came home Wednesday and is going to go as soon as he can order and get a car and get it loaded. Tuesday, while they were trying to back the Gilmore dredge to clean out a space, it sprung a leak, and sunk. Whiter Jordan was at the front, handling the machinery, and he noticed the water filling in and he worked hard to stop the leak, but could not, and the back part of it went down. The dredge has been working right along and is west and south of Harry Wood’s. Last Wednesday Mr. LaMar and his son Paul went to Chicago to the Mary Thompson Hospital. Paul has been afflicted since last February, starting with a tooth bothering him. It gathered and the doctor here lanced it but it still kept getting worse, and was lanced in several places. The tooth was finally pulled, but still there were running sores on his face. His father took him to Chicago and Friday following he was operated on. The trouble seemed to be in the cheek bone and not the jaw bone. He is getting along nicely now and they expect him home in a few days.