Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

MILROY. Trustee Parks was in our vicinity Friday. Willard Johnson and wife were In Lee Saturday. Ed Herman was in Rensselaer on business Saturday. Mrs. Chas. Willbanks is sick with a cold on her lungs. Madge Wolf spent Saturday apd Sunday with home friends. A. J. Harmon of Rensselaer ate dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Herman Friday. Earl Foulks attended the Valentine party at Robt. Drake’s last Saturday night. Albert Wood of Momence, 111., is home for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams visited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Williams the first of the week.

SOUTH UNION’. Mrs. Bundy Is on the sick list. The debate at Parr Wednesday evening was well attended. Fred Schultz and Ernest Comer attended Maines’ sale last Thursday. iMlsses Lesta and Flossie Harrlhgton visited with their parents Sunday. Miss Lora Philips spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Marie Comer. Bertie Wyncoop of Minnesota is visiting the family of Wm. Smith a few days this week. Owing to bad weather Sunday there .was no Sunday School at Rose Hud or Good Hope. Henry Hordeman of South of Rensselaer has been helping his brother Pete haul wood the past week. Henry Wilson and family left Saturday for Chicago Heights. From there they will go to Mitchell, So. Dakota, next Tuesday. J. W. Smith has moved into the house vacated by Henry Wilson, and Dave Yeoman, Jr. will occupy the house vacated by Mr. Smlthi Rev. Bundy returned Monday from Mt. Hope, where he has been holding meetings for the past two weeks. He will also preach there Sunday.

SOUTH NEWTON. Chas. Grant had the hot lunch at Frank Erwin’s sale Tuesday. Harry Dewey called on Chas. Weiss and family Monday afternoon. Bessie Paulus visited with Ernest Mayhew: and wife Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Fred Waling assisted her sister Mrs. Arthur Powell Monday with some work. A number of men from this vicinity attended the sale at Frank Erwin’s Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waling visited relatives in and near Brook Saturday night and Sunday. News Is scarce this week. The roads and weather are so bad that people can’t go visiting. Arthur and Ernest Mayhew and Fred Waling attended the Frank Borntragdr sale Monday. Warner Hough attended the box social at the Lane school house last Friday evening and the masquerade dance at Nate Keen’s Saturday evening. The funeral of Mrs. Lois Penwrlght, the aged lady who was burned to death, took place at the Powell cemetary last Friday amid a number of friends and relatives. The telephone lines are broken up so badly that It may be quite a while before they are repaired and in good working order. The sleet caused considerable damage all over the country.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell have moved on the place recently vacated by W. B. Yeoman. Mrs. Mary Powell and daughter Mrs. Alice Potts will live alone next year, but Arthur will farm the land.

ROSEBUD VALLEY. Little Vincent Stalbaum is quite ill with malaria at this writing. E. Green and family will occupy the Shepard property the coming yfear. Aunt Ellen Hershman called on her nephew Elva, one day last week. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Laban Peck. February 15, an eight pound daughter. Thos. Callaghan was seen driving cattle through our streets Thursday. Boys, where are your sleighbells This may be our last sleighing this winter. Tom Woolever, who has been on the sick list for a few weeks, is back at work again. Laban Peck and Mr. Shepard are to have a sale the 26 th. Both gentlemen are Intending moving to their old home in Illinois.

Mr. Merril, who has been crippled with rheumatism for the last two weeks, is somewhat better. Mr. Scott’s are going to move in our midst, occupying the property which Mr. Waymire vacates. Joe Salrin and Amiel Schrader have been visiting our little burg quite often lately, bringing ties for Gifford. ' We understand Mr. Wilmington has begun moving his machinery on the farm soon to be vacated by Mr. Moritz. Dr. Hackley was called in attendance on Mrs. Moritz Friday, who was very low, but is soinewhat ’better at present writing. Mr. Waymire’s are intending moving to the Rhinehart property in the near future. We are sorry to lose such good neighbors. We are informed that as soon as the weather settles, the Crescent Oil Co., people are intending to erect several large buildings on their property.

A five line local ad In The Democrat costs but 25 cents for one time and is read by nearly 10,000 people, on the usual estimate of five readers to each paper. Moral: If you have anything to sell, lease or trade, want to buy, rent or hire, it will pay you to insert an ad in this paper and have people come to you Instead of wasting your time in trying to let them know about your wants in the feeble and old fashioned word-of-mouth way.

FERTILIZER. We want to see you fertilize for your corn crop. As we handle grain we are directly interested in big crops. We handle the American Agricultural Chemical Co.’s goods through the Bowker Agency. Everything you buy of us is tested by the chemist of Purdue University. We can give you any ingredients you want for different soils. See us before buying.

COEN & BRADY.

FAIR OAKS. Thomas Mallatt was a Rensselaer visitor Thursday. Ex-trustee Davisson was a caller in our burg Wednesday. Three or four of Parr’s wolf hunters were in these parts Tuesday, but they didn’t even have a track. There is a great number of people in our town, who are down with the whooping cough, colds and pneumonia. Chas. Penwright of Mt. Ayr and his three brothers from Oklahoma were in our town Tuesday morning on their way to Mt. Ayr. Postmaster Thompson attended the G. A. R. meeting at Rensselaer Friday night, the occasion being in honor of Lincoln's birthday. Mr. Will Warren, who has been four weeks assisting in a series of meetings at Hoopeston, 111., the past three or four weeks, returned home Monday. Mrs. Ike Kight received the sad news Tuesday that her uncle, Martin Burton of near Momence, who had been so poorly for sometime, had passed away Monday. She and Mr. Kight left for there Wednesday morning to attend the funeral. Mark Reed, who lives a couple of miles east of here, lost their little babe Saturday night. It had pneumonia. Interment was made in the Fair Uaks cemetery Monday. They have two or three more children quite sick with the same disease. , It continued to rain all day Sunday and the ground and trees were . covered with a heavy coat if ice, the heaviest sleet we have had for 26 years. The damagn to timber and fruit trees is Immense. Monday and Tuesday were very stormy days and \there was about four or five inches snowfall. Clayton and Iva Moffitt had a very thrilling experience during the storm Saturday night. They came to town in the evening in a buggy to attend a party at Al Moore’s. They started home about midnight and it was raining quite hard and was very dark. They got a little ways from town and it got so dark they could not see anything, not even each other, so thejr just let the horse, which was a very trusty one, have his own way. When they got about 1 % miles from town, in crossing a bridge, the horse got too close to the side and the bridge being icy from the sleet, the wind, it is thought, blew the buggy oft the bridge into the ditch. The buggy landed on its side and the occupants landed in the ditch, but luckily there was only about 18 Inches to two feet of water in it. They stood there for about an hour waiting for it to get light enough to see which way to go. Finally they got the horse loose from the buggy and came back to town and were guests of their uncle, A. M. Bringle, the balance o£ the night.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Geo. Corbin, who has been working in Witham’s blacksmith shop, has moved to Phillip, Stacker’s farm, where he will live this year. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ashby and daughter Dollle returned last Friday from a few days visit with friends and relatives at KanKakee, 111. Mrs. W. S. Greenlee has a Very sore arm caused by running a nail into her hand. The last report from her was that she was better. August Bengston, of Remington, came Saturday afternoon for a visit with his brother Otto and family and numerous friends at this place. Frank Clinton, the blacksmith, has been very sick for the past week with lung fever, but at this time is reported to be slowly Improving. John Smith, of near McCoysburg, visited Saturday night with Frank Herath and family. He was here after a car load of cattle that had been shipped to him at this place.

LEE. Mrs. Mike Peregrine is sick. Dr. Clayton is attending her. Frank Eldridge was sick the first of the week. Mr. Gilmore has purchased himself a new horse. The Ladies’ Aid Society are going to serve lunch at Mrs. Lewis’ sale next Monday, 2 miles northeast Of Lee. Mrs. Arthur Williamson and baby went last Saturday evening to Medaryville to visit relatives for a few days. Saturday and Sunday Mrs. Hoy Rishling and children visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Osborne, near' Rensselaer. Saturday night several young people from here attended the valentine party given at Robert Drake’s and they had a very sleety time to get home. Mrs. Donaldson is up at Ham-

mond where her daughter Mary lives, and word has been received here that a daughter has been born to the latter. Saturday night relatives and friends, went into the home of Will Noland’s with well fllled baskets and made an enjoyable surprise on them. There were 36 in number that ate supper, and they were entertained with music and selections were recited. Mr. Noland has sold his property here and Tuesday he started for Tennessee, on a prospecting trip, to look for a new home.

EGYPT. ( Charles Gray called on Lucy Blake Friday. Miss Lucy Blake called on Wilma Pruett Friday. D. V. Blake and son Emery were Rensselaer goers Friday. Miss Grace Gaily and Harry Cook were Rensselaer goers - Tuesday. William Washburn took a sleigh rld,e out to his farm Wednesday. D. V. Blake’s children, who have been sick, are better at this writing. Ray Michaels spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives at Goodland. Charles and George Antcliff were in Rensselaer on business Saturday. Mrs. Pruett and daughter Wilma called on W. F. Michaels’ Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dunn and family visited at McCashin’s Sunday. Harry Cook and Mrs. Grace Galey visited at Alva McCashen’s Sunday afternoon. Charles Antcliff and Frank Welsh called on George Kennedy Sunday afternoon. Miss Eva Michaels spent Friday night and Saturday with Miss Florence Antcliff. Several from this locality attended Williams' sale Wednesday. Things sold well. George Kennedy, who was thrown from a wagon in a runaway last Thursday, is getting along as well as could be expected. Miss Ruth Pruett, who attends school at Brook, has been sick for the past week with the sore throat. The heavy sleet Saturday night did considerable damage, breaking down hundreds of forest and fruit trees and putting telephone lines out of use. Charles Antcliff and Frank Welsh, who are always taking in bargains, attended the sale at Max Weller’s Monday. Frank investing in a four dollar corn planter and Charles in a three dollar set of harness.