Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

EAST CARPENTER. William Banes hauled cobs Monday. i Jacob and Henry .Vagner shelled corn Monday. John Wagner was a Remington goer Wednesday. Fred Banes and Joe Sharkie went rabbit hunting Monday. Pete Wbods of Fair Oaks Is thinking of moving In this neighborhood the first of March. Fred Wagner and Miss Bartoo attended the dance at Jack Hemphill's Monday night. Miss Georgia Dickinson and his cousin, Bell attended Sunday school at Black Oak Sunday. Mrs. Jacob Wagner and her daughter, Anna Cummons, were Rensselaer goers Monday. Harmon R. Dickinson is still pretty lame from the injury he received while loading a hog recently. ' Ed May and scholars had a fine Christmas tree at their school, known as the Blake school, Christmas eve. Charley Wordan and Hank and Katie were in our midst Tuesday. Although Charley is 63 years old he hasn't a grey hair in his head. James A. May and son’s sale, held last Tuesday, was attended by a large crowd of anxious buyers, and horses and* cattle sold at good figures. Leonard Dickinson of lowa is visiting with his parents this winter. This makes the second year he has been in lowa, and he thinks of locating there permanently. Thomas Shew called on Albert . Dickinson Wednesday, and by the way “Tommy” is a Jolly fellow. He is thinking of locating in North Dakota after this coming year. James Bogan had a narrow escape Wednesday. His team came in contact with a mail box and upset the buggy, but as providence had planted a tree by the roadside, toe team was instantly stoppeu without doing much damage.

FAIR OAKS. We are having fine winter weather yet. Our schools are preparing to have exercises Thursday eve. There is quite a bit of corn being marketed here this week. Mrs. Jessie Cedarwall did shopping in Rensselaer Friday. Emery Cox rented and moved into the Cottingham house the first of the week. Hillis & Tolen got in another carload of stock cattle the latter part of the week. Mrs. Ed. Kesler went down to Parr Wednesday eve to take the school picture. The meetings that have been going on at Will Warren’s the past two weeks, came to a close Sunday eve. F. R. Erwin received another carload of coal this week. Ed Lakin and Chas. Warren unloaded it for him. It is reported that uncle James Blake was attacked with a sinking spell Monday and has been in bad shape ever since. Lawrence Halleck, who is attending school at Rensselaer, came home Tuesday on account of his being on the sick list for a few days. Three of the Kessick children left here Sunday eve for Minnesota, with their aunt They will make their home out there among relatives. ’Abe Bringle went down to Jordan township Sunday and visited his brother William and his father, who is very seriously ill, returning home Monday. His wife went down Tuesday to spend a day or so with them. The system of gravel roads that is being petitioned for in Newton county, connecting the one near here, is meeting with good success. They haven’t met with any objections yet. It is thirty miles in all. Joe Brown is preparing to move down about Olney, 111., in the spring, onto a farm. The farm he lives on has been sold. He will still have the same landlord. Mr. Shuck of Illinois.

BAUM'S BRIDGE. . Desilver Lyons is busy pressing hay. '"i Orange Brewer was in these parts Sunday. Miss Lola Lyons called on Miss Opal Akers Sunday. Cannon says: “They use babies pretty rough in Jasper.” C. D. Shook was perambulating in these parts last Sunday.

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

Chester Lyons and his sister Lola were Valpo. goers last Friday. Messrs. Mike Hahn and Everett Finney were Wheatfield goers last Saturday. Lee V. Cannon of Crown Point, visited relatives and friends in these parts'last week. . Wm. Muffley, who has been quite sick, is out again and able to sing like a meadow lark. Col. ’A. J. Bush was a D. V. goer last Monday. While at D- V. he called on Col. Hall. Mr. Anderson, a farmer living northwest of Baum’s Bridge, died at his home last Friday. Mrs. James Smith, who has been confined to her bed for the past few weeks, is still very sick. Yes, we believe that Lee Cannon of Crown Point is casing matrimonial glances at the maidens in these parts. We won't tell his Crown Point girl.

EGYPT. J. F. Mitchell hauled his hogs to Rensselaer Tuesday. Miss Lucy Blake spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents. Mrs. Wash Timmons of Kankakee, 111., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Michaels. Grandma Michaels, who has been sick, is now much better and is able to be up. Mr.- Z and Mrs. Jasper Pass spent Monday night with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Antcliff. Most everybody from this vicinity attended church at Prairie Chapel Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Antcliff and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Antcliff Sunday. Joseph Gailey and daughter Grace and D. V. Blake were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Miss Florence Antcliff spent Saturday night and Sunday with George Antcliff and family. Grandpa Michaels and Mrs. W. F. Michaels visited Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heuson Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pruett -and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Clinton visited Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dunn and family Sunday. The old fashioned way of dosing a weak stomach, or stimulating the Heart or Kidneys is all wrong. Dr. Shoop first pointed out this error. This is why his prescription—Dr. Shoop’s Restorative—is directed entirely to the cause .of these ailments—the weak inside or controlling nerves. It isn’t so difficult, says Dr. Shoop, to strengthen a weak Stomach, Heart, or Kidneys, if one goes at it correctly. Each inside organ has its controlling or inside nerve. When these nerves fail, then those organs must surely falter. These vital truths are leading druggists everywhere to. dispense and recommend Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. Test it a few days, and see! Improvement will promptly and surely follow. Sold by all dealers. LEE. Ann Zable went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Mike Peregrine’s are having a new well drilled. ’ Arthur Parcels spent Sunday with Elzie Webb near Monon. Ward Lewis spent Christmas with his parents at Remington. Cal Anderson sent a Christmas box by express to Danville, 111.

Christmas day T. P. Jacks’ cW|dwere home and enjoyed a turkey dlnney. L. M. Jacks and family went to Rensselaer Monday to see their new grandson. Monday David Culp’s moved to their new home, where Dave Noland used to live. Mrs. Kate Parcels got some new chairs. They were shipped on the train Tuesday. Word was received here Tuesday that Grandma Mellender was under the doctor’s care, and., was teal poorly. Last Sunday there was quite a crowd at Mr. Zable’s, "and they had their German minister and held meeting. Christmas day Mrs. Holman’s children met at her home and enjoyed a Christmas turkey and other good things. Last Sunday the Sunday school had a surprise on Cal Anderson, the superintendent. They presented him with a nice large print Teacher's Bible. Next Friday evening there will be a social at the hall, a good sapper and entertainment. Everybody invited to come and have a good social time, on the first night Of the New Year. Mr. Cowger, the teacher of our school, gave a nice treat to his pupils for Christmas, and they had a good entertainment and quite a few visitors were present. The pupils surprised him with a nice book of Carleton’s works, which he appreciated very much. Arthur Parcels loaded his car Wednesday and Thursday, and Roy Stiers went with the car Thursday on its trip to Texas. They are expecting it to be a week or more on the road. The family will not go till Monday or Tuesday. They stayed Wednesday at J. H. Culp’s and Thursday night at Frank Overton's.

CONNECTICUT COMPLACENCE.

Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas —all those very self-complacent prairie giants out there with cornfields so big that a man can get lost In them—will kindly take back seats and keep quiet while we present to the z American public N. Howard Brewer, of Hockanum, Conn., age twenty years, who brought away from the great corn exhibition at Omaha the “world’s prize” for the largest number of bushels grown on a single acre, and the prize for the best flint corn grown anywhere this side of the Mississippi. Yet plenty of people out West have a belief that the soil here in our Connecticut valley is hardly visible for the stones and all worn out at that. We inform thorn that the Connecticut farm containing the acre from which young Brewer got his 133 bushels of corn and his world-behting record has been in the Brewer family and under cultivation for 250 years. Any of them who happen this way should take a look at it. Hockanum is accessible by trolley from Hartford, and the cars cross Hartford bridge—which is worth looking at, too. They don’t have bridges like that in the West.—Hartford Courant

A GREAT INSTITUTION.

The Indiana Business College, with schools at Lafayette, Logansport, Marlon, Muncie, Kokomo, Anderson, Richmond, Columbus and Indianapolis, with its specially trained teachers, employment department, and up-to-date features, is the greatest school of practical education In the state. Mid-winter term begins Jan. 4th. Full information furnished by the secretary, W. H. Carrier, Lafayette, Ind.

SOUTH NEWTON. We are having ideal winter weather at this writing. Philip Paulus is putting in some tile on his farm. Sadie Paulus was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. ,W. B. Yoeman did bls winter butchering Tuesday. Earl Leek and wife did shopping In Rensselaer Tuesday. Mrs. Fred Waling called on Mrs. Bari Leek Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waling Sunday. Several from this vicinity attended the lecture at Prairie Chapel Sunday evening. Chas. Waling and Wm. Eaton of Brook are building a sheep shed for Fred Waling. Arthur Mayhew and wife accepted an Invitation to dinner Sunday at Harry Dewey’s. Mrs. Alice Potts visited Thursday night and Friday with her sister, Mrs. Fred Markin. Mr. and Mrs. Nelse Hough assisted Steve Protzman’s to dress poultry for shipment Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Yeoman and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weiss Sunday. Miss Sadie Paulus spent Thursday night and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gebhart at Mt. Ayr. We wonder what Nelse did with the ladies’ bat which he found in W’s. buggy Monday morning. Ernest Mayhew and wife visited the former’s cousins, Bert Mayhew and family near Brook, Sunday. We hope everybody had a Merry Christmas, and we extend our best wishes for a Happy New Year. Joe Ade brought some fine cows up from Brook Wednesday and left them on their Jasper county farm. Nelse Hough and son. Will made a business trip to Wm. Bringle's in Jordan township, Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell visited the families of George Potts and Fred Markin Wednesday and Thursday.

HANGING GROVE. Lan McDonald and son Lawrence are on the sick list. Wm. Zable of near Lee is reported sick at present writing. Mrs. Floyd Porter was shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. The box social at Banta was well attended and all report a good time. Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler are spending the week with R. L. Bussel’s. James Down’s moved Friday to the farm he rented of Mr. Makeever, north of Rensselaer. Ed Becker and family of near Remington spent Sunday with Chas. Saldla’s of McCoysburg. Mrs. Nels Christenson returned to her home in Chicago after an extended visit with the families of Albert Warner and Ed. Peregrine, and Sam Noland’s of near Lee. C. E. Peregrine who has been working at Larimore, N. D., and Mitchell, S. D., returned to McCoysburg Monday evening. He likes the country fine and thinks of returning there in the spring. Our mail carrier has equipped his mail wagon with a little heating stove. It’s certainly a fine investment and we hope he will be comfortable now and enjoy his trips better during the cold weather. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong left Thursday to spend the holidays with the former's parents at Michigan City. Mrs. Armstrong will visit her brothers Frank Peregrine and family at Valparaiso, and Charley Peregrine at Dunnvllle before returning home. Porter & Howe took their engine out to where Mr. Gilmore’s dredge is, to pump the water out of the ditch so they can raise the dredge, Wliich has been sunk for the past week. They dammed the ditch up and can probably pump the water out in a couple of days.

MT. AYR. From the Pilot. The schools will close this (Thursday) evening until after the holidays, or Monday, January 4th. Mrs. Wm. Peck and son Arthur, of Wadena, came the last of last week for a visit with friends and relatives. Wm. Wilson and wife and Miss Ethel, of Winamac, came Monday for a few days* visit with friends and relatives at and near this place. Clarence Blankenbaker will move onto the Spitler farm northwest of here, which will be vacated some

‘time in February by Spencer Greenlee. John Rush, our retired merchant and ex-politician, has embarked into the well-making business and with an assistant from Chicago is now oundlng away for water at the home of Arthur Herriman. Last Sunday was Postmaster C. J. Hopkins 48th birthday and he was agreeably surprised along about noon by about 50 of his best friends and relatives calling upon him. There were a number of good cooks present and in a very short time the table waq made to groan by the many good things placed upon It. The occasion was very enjoyable and one that will be long remembered. The guests all departed arter wishing Mr. Hopkins many happy returns of the day. Ben B. Miller recently made an observation tour through Texas and since his return it is with an effort that he talks of anything else. Ben was very much pleased with the Lone Star State and says that if he could sell his possessions here he would move there just as an experiment. Uncle Phillip Brown was in town Monday and by the aid of a cane was permitted to get around quite a little. For many months he has been laid up, practically, with a lame foot which he says is now “on the mend.” The large toe will have to be removeed before a complete cure can be perfected.