Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

EGYPT. Lucy Blake Is on the sick list. Jasper Pass was in Rensselaer Tuesday. Jesse Dunn was a Rensselaer goer Monday. W. D. Bringle was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. D. V. Blake helped Emmet Fidler butcher Tuesday. Geo. Kennedy hauled corn Tuesday to Foresman. Say. Kh'ls. Merve Welsh hasn’t his mules broke yet. D. V. Blake is going to run a sheep dairy this year. Miss Ruth Pruett spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Besse visited at Geo. Hiff's Sunday. Ray and John Michaels Bpent Sunday at Frank Welsh’s. W. T. Michaels and son John, were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Harry Cook and Miss Grace Galey were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mr. and jlta. Jasper Pass visited at W. F. Michaels’ Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Michaels nnd family visited at Charles Antcliff's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dunn and family visited at Willard Pruett’s Tuesday. Ed Bullis says that North Dakota Is all right, because there are lots of widows there. Harry Brett of Sheffield, England, visited a few days last week at Charles Antcliff's. Mr. and Mrs. Bassett Dewey and children visited a few days at Maurice Besse's last week.

WEST CARPENTER. Chas. Welsh butchered Tuesday. Fred Dennis visited Willie Bowdy Sunday. Charlie Cain called at Frank Eck’s Sunday. John Jay put straw in his barn Tuesday. Wm. Keen was a Goodland goer Saturday. Mrs. Chas. Cain called on' Mrs. Will' Cain Thursday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Fruiech Sunday. John Jensen helped D. Augspurger shell corn .Monday. Miss Amelia Hoffman returned from Logansport AVednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Cory called at J. Dennis' Sunday evening. Mrs. Chas. Sage, who has been visiting in Oklahoma returned home Saturday. Mrs. John Eck attended the sale at Z. F. Little & Co's., of Goodland Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Keen and Air. and Mrs. Will Patrick visited at Elmer Cooper’s Sunday. Jesse Deweese of Brook, visited at J. Dennis' AVednesday and attended Henry Simonin’s sale Thursday.

SOUTH NEWTON. Elbert Potts visited his sister Airs. Fred AA'aling and husband Sunday. Miss Sadie Paulus went Thursday to Rensselaer to visit with Airs. Allie Porter and Airs. Bert Brenner. Air. and Airs. Fred AA’aling helped the latter's parents, Air. and Airs. Silas Potts, to move the first of the week onto a farm about 1 % miles north of Brook. Airs. Fred Aiarkin visited her mother. Mrs. Alary Powell, Thursday. She was accompanied home by her niece, Miss Ada Yeoman, who returned home Tuesday. Air. and Mrs. Willis Kessinger of Wabash, and Airs. Chas. Kessinger of Jordan township, visited the for•mer's niece, Airs. Nelson DuCharme and husband last Thursday. James Clifton oi Fair Oaks came last Wednesday to attend the Yeoman sale and to visit with them and the Powell family. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell took him to Rensselaer AA’ednesday when he returned home. Mr. and Airs. Bassett Dewey and family and Ab Dewey visited from Monday until Wednesday with the families of Harry Dewey and Chas. Weiss. The former is here on a visit with relatives, having formerly lived in Nebraska, but will go to South Dakota on their departure, where they have bought a new home. About forty neighbors and friends of W. B. Yeoman worked a surprise on them Wednesday evening at their

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home; the occasion being a farewell to them before they left for their future home in Whitley county. The crowd met at the home of Chas. Grant, and the reien had brought oysters and the women baked cakes and made other preparations for a fine feast. The evening was very pleasantly spent.

DEMOTTE. Paul Halleck’s school days are over. Ted White is getting ready to farm this year. Henry Frame and his father were out driving Sunday. The dredge for the Tyler ditch is being unloaded here. Mr. Dutcher and son Robert, were Rensselaer goers Friday. We were visited with a very bad storm Friday and Saturday. W. M. Wells is preparing to take charge of the postofflce this week. The dance here Saturday evening was a failure on account of the weather. Mrs. F. M. Hart visited with her daughter, Mrs, A. Fairchild of Kankakee, 111. J. Summers and family spent last Thursday evening with W. H. Tyler and family. B. W. Sigler is able®to be out on the street again after a few T weeks of sickness. Chas. Harrington is moving into the Gleason property, having sold his farm west of tow'n. Mr. Dutcher and daughter Mary, have been on the sick list, but are better at this writing.

LEE. Aliss Arty Gilmore came home Saturday. Alvin Clark made a business trip to Rensselaer Monday. Lora Culp missed school this week on account of being sick. H. C. Anderson and wife helped Alart Deardoff butcher Tuesday. Orville Hoieman worked a few days this week for Mr. Wall on the Horton and Mosely farm. Joe Clark and family attended church last Sunday and then took dinner with T. P. Jacks and wifft. There w r as no school Friday on account of teachers' Association meeting at Alonticello Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Anna AVarner and son Paul, are staying with her sister, Mrs, Sam Noland, since they had their sale last week. Rev. Simonson came to his appointment last Sunday, and the roads in places were so blocked with snow that he could scarcely get through. * This week J. H. Culp helped his father David Culp, haul his hay from the AVootls farm where he lived last summer, to his home where he lives now. AVill Noland has sold his property to the widow Lewis north of here, and she will take possession in the spring. AVill is undecided as yet where he will go. Mr. AA’arner has rented his farm north of here and is going to New Mexico for a prospecting trip. Mrs. AA'arner accidentally broke her arm last fall and is not able to take the trip and will stay with her sister for a while. Paul has started to school here.

HANGING GROVE. C. A. Armstrong butchered two fine hogs Wednesday. Albert AA’arner spent Tuesday night at Ed Peregrine’s. Ed Randle of Barkley was in this vicinity on business Monday. AVill Webb will occupy the Warner farm for this coming season.

Marlon Robinson of west of Rensselaer was in this vicinity Tuesday. Several people of this locality seem to have bad colds at this writing. The new steel bridge south of McCoysburg was completed last ■fteek. Temple Hammerton or Rensselaer is taking care of John Culp’s horses this week. •- Sam and Reese Cavlnder are cutting wood for George McCoy this week. Quite a number of people of this neighborhood attended the Michael sale Tuesday. There was a very large crowd at Albert Warner's sale. Horses selling from $125 to $242 per head, cows from $35 to $67. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong and Ed PeVegrlne and daughter I Myrtle, visited F. L. Peregrine and I family Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Eib of Barkley, spent Tuesday night with Mr, and 'Mrs. Geo. Stalker’s and attended |the Warner sale Wednesday. As the snow has all disappeared I we hope that those snow idols will be of no further annoyance to those timid horses or their nervous drivers of this locality. The Ladies of the Parker M. E. Church sold everything they brought to A. Warner's sale, the proceeds being $23.50. They will have another stand at Mr. Stalker’s sale.

MILROY Cady Underwood was in Monon Monday. Albert Whillow called on Ed Herman Monday. G. L. Parks was in Rensselaer | Monday on business. J. J. Clark and son Branson, were in Monticello Monday. Mr. Herman lost a good threeyear old colt Monday. I. J. Clark spent Wednesday in Rensselaer on business. Earl Foulks visited Jno. Southard land family over Sunday. John R. Clark spent Monday night with Uncle Thos. Johnson. Miss Madge Wolf spent Tuesday night with Chas. Smith and family. D. Z. Clark and wife ate dinner Tuesday with Geo. Foulks and family. Mrs. Frank Coghill and Mrs. Manse Beaver visited Mrs. Fred May Monday. Mason Barlow visited his parents, W. H. Barlow and family of Otterbein over Sunday. Uncle Thos. Johnson who has been very seriously sick for the 'past few weeks, is getting better at present!

' FAIR OAKS. . Whooping cough is still on the boom here. F. R. Erwin vacated T. J. Alallatt’s stored room Monday. James Clifton is visiting relatives down west of Rensselaer this week. Miss Bertha Conrad of Lacross was a caller in our town Tuesday. Mrs. John Casey is again confined to her bed with her same old troubles. Mat Karr has a job of sawing, up on the Kankakee river, west of Shelby. Ora Burns spent a few days at Roselawn last week, with one of Roselawn’s fair sex. Mrs. Emery Cox returned home Saturday after a short visit with relatives at Kniman. Grandma .McGlinn of Rensselaer is visiting her daughter, Airs. Cox, of this place this week. AA’ill Geary has bought one of Bruce Aloffitt's mule teams for his boys to farm with this season. The moving time bf the year is at hand again, and we can see wagons loaded with goods almost every day. Rev. Evans will preach his last sermon here next Saturday eve. Owing to his health he has to give up the charge. Mrs. Wm. D. Bringle, of Jordan township, visited with relatives in and near Fair Oaks, from Monday until Thursday. Our cold spell came to an end the first of the weeK, and Tuesday was quite warm and the snow disappeared rapidly. J. L. Myers will move from near Parr Monday to the Hutchison farm, northeast of here. We are glad to welcome them back into our neighborhood. Mrs. Lintner is staying with her daughter Mrs. Henry Wilean. She will be there until they leave for North Dakota, which will be. in about ten days. The cottage prayer meeting was held at Abe Brlngle's Wednesday eve. There was a good turnout and all enjoyed a sllort time in prayer and songs. If the ground hog didn’t see his shadow this time it was because he ! forgot to wake up and crawl out ; of his den, as the sun shone all day and the moon all night. Mrs. J. C. Thompson who has been with her sister at Freeport, 111., the past week, returned Monday. She says her sister is rapidly recovering from the operation she underwent. Marion Cooper of South Dakota, arrived here Monday. He left i home last week to come here to attend his brother’s funeral, but i got snowbound and did not get here until Monday. It is reported that Harry Baxter, who has lived on the Otis ranch, near Roselawn for the past 18 or 20 years, will move soon onto section 32 on the same ranch, one mile north of Fair Oaks.

ROSEBUD VALLEY. Amiel Schrader wad seqn on our streets Tuesday. John Hershman called on Frank Hershman Wednesday. Miss Celia Hershman was a Medaryville goer Tuesday. Mr. Stolbone and son Fred visited at Tom Callaghan’s Wednesday. Bill Hershman went 'to Indianapolis with his fine chickens Monday. Frank Hershman and family were enjoying themselves with a sled ride Sunday evening. . Quite a number of our people attended the chivarl at the Britenbach home Monday eve. Felix Moritz was a Medaryville goer Tuesday. His little daughter is quite sick at this writing. Wm. Stalbaum had his little son Vincent, to the doctor Monday. The little chap Is some better at this writing. The roads are getting somewhat better than they were. They were Impassable In some places Saturday and Sunday causing the people to miss their mail Saturday. Mr. Thomas Callaghan accompanied his daughter Margaret, to the St. Elizabeth hospital last Friday, where she underwent a very dangerous operation for an abcess Monday.