Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

ROSEBUD VALLEY. Billy Wenrlck drove to Wheatfleld Sunday. Mr. Rhlnehart and Mr. Salrin are still buying in ties. Amlel Schrader finished carring his hay the first of the week. Misses Della Hershman and Beth Shull attended institute at Walker Center Saturday. Edith Wenrick is absent from her high school work this week on account of a bad cold. Mrs. Julia Stalhaum and sons Vincent and Paul called on Mrs. Moritz one day last week. Fred Karch and Ben Woolbrandt of Four Corners were hauling ties to our little town this week. Mr. Carr and Mr. Borntrager of Rensselaer were on our streets Tuesday serving notices for a ditch petition. Mrs. Belle Rhinehart and children Harry and Ruth, and Mrs. Felix Moritz and daughter Amelia called on Mrs. Thos. Callaghan, Monday. A Mr. Beardsley of the George Nichols place, took his last load of household goods to Wilders, Wednesday, from where he will start for Chicago, his future home, Thursday.

SOUTH NEWTON. Fred Waling was a Brook goer Tuesday. Arthur Mayhew did business in Brook Tuesday. Henry Pierson did business in Rensselaer Tuesday. Chas. Weiss made a business trip to Goodland Tuesday. Clyde Ulery and family were Rensselaer goers Monday. Philip Paulus is hauling oats to the Julian elevator this week. Frank Shipman commenced work for Oscar Stucker near Mt. Ayr thiß week. Mrs. Arthur Maynew called on Mrs. Earnest Mayhew Tuesday afternoon. Leona Weiss spent Wednesday night with her school-mate, Bessie Bessie Paulus. Bert Beaver's little girls are spending this week with their aunt, Mrs. Chas. Weiss. Mrs. Chas. Waling returned home Saturday after visiting a week with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Mayhew.

Oscar Weiss and sister Leona’' visited with their grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Dewey, Sunday. The eighth grade scholars of Newton tp., are going to take the graduate examination at Rensselaer Saturday. Ab Dewey of Jordan tp., visited Saturday night and Sunday with his brother Harry and his sister, Mrs. Chas. Weiss. Curtis Creek school has a week and three days more of school after I this week. No. 8 will be out Friday, March 26. Philip Paulus and children, Bessie and Russell, and Mr. and Mrs. John Murfett took dinner with Nelse Hough and family Sunday. Warner Hough and Mr. and Mrs. Will Hough attended the party given by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wooley Saturday night. They reported a very good time. Dr. Merry has his linemen out repairing the telephone lines in this vicinity this week, and, will no doubt have his evchange in working order in a few days. Mrs. Philip Paulus returned home Monday from Chicago, where she had been to visit her daughter, Sadie, who has been operated on for appendicitis. She reports her feeling fine and will probably be Able to return home in a week or ten days.

MILROY. G. L. Parks sawed wood Tuesday. Jean Marchand was in Monon Tuesday. 'Vern Culp was in Lee Tuesday evening. John Davis was in ' this vicinity Tuesday. Belle Southard Bpent Sunday with home folks. Branson and Jas. Clark were in Monon Tuesday. Born tq Mr. and Mrs. Branson Clark, March 16, a girl. Thos. Johnson and family spent Sunday with I. J. Clark.

Chas. Marchand began working j for James May last Monday. Jack Boon sold his hogs and delivered them in Monon Tuesday. Howard Stewart and family ate dinner Sunday with John Southard’s. Leva Grimes visited Saturday night and Sunday with Trustee j Parks’. Our teachers and Trustee attended the last institute at McCoysburg Saturday. Vern Culp and Earl Foulks attended the funeral of Ed Kaupke at Lee Sunday. Mrs. Byron Iliff and little sons of Momence, 111., is visiting with Geo. Woods and family. Jessie Southard accompanied Miss Belle to her boarding place in I Monon Sunday evening. ) While Abe Woosley was in Lee i Tuesday evening, his horse in some j way got loose from the hitch rack i and came home. » Earl Foulks remained in Monon \ Monday night to practice a play to! be given March 25 by the seniors of the Monon school. G. L. Parks, Frank May, John Southard and families and Miss Leva Grimes spent Saturday evening at Allen May’s, being entertained with music.

WHEATFIELD. Jos. Harty was here on business Monday. Otto Schrader of Tefft was here on business Monday. I H. N. Clark made a professional trip to Tefft Monday. Wm. DeArmond of Tefft did business here Wednesday. W. J. White and family visited in Tefft Saturday and Sunday. John Conner of Demotte made a business trip here Saturday. Foreman Shaff and Fred Graves were over from Tefft Thursday. Sam Payne moved to the Schatzley farm north of town Wednesday. Simon went to Rensselaer Monday to have some dental work! done. Jos. Davidson, the C. ft E. I. agent at Kniman, was here on business Tuesday. Mac Ocker was over from Me-1 daryville Monday, shaking hands) with old friends. I Mrs. Newman White visited j Thursday with her son Warren White and family. Mrs. Goldie Henry of Momence! came Monday to visit her mother,] Mrs. Walter Darner.

“Fish” Gilmore and wife returned Wednesday after a short visit with friends at Fair Oaks. Perry Hodge of Rochester, Ind., was visiting relatives and friends here the first of the- week. Louis Pinter of Crown Point visited Monday and Tuesday with his brother, John Pinter and family. Mrs. Ftiapk Austin, who has been confined ter Her bed with sciatic rheumatism, is now able to sit up. John Tilton, Sr., went to Knox Friday where he is taking a course of treatment of Dr. W. C. Schwier. The “Knights of The Junk Pile” meet regularly and initiate every .new comer that is socially inclined. Miss Myrtle Hatch returned to Lacrosse Wednesday after a week's [visit with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Van ! Doozer.

! Ine representative of the Keeney iMachinery Co.,- of Indianapolis transacted business with Joe Smith here \ Wednesday. ! Curtis Steel and Ob Brown went to Pierceton, Ind., Monday where ithey will work for Mr. Flanders, ■ the dredge man. Duke Rosenbaum and Chuck Warner were here Saturday and Monday from Lacrosse, looking after the former’s interests here. Mr. and Mrs. William Danford, who have been visiting relatives here for' a few days, returned to their home at Kankakee Monday. B. J. Gifford of Kankakee came Saturday to visit Marble, who has been at Mudlavia Springs, where he has been taking the mud baths. Mallie Clark returned to Rensselaer Thursday, he having v been called from his school work on account of his grandfather, Horace Marble’s illness.

Coroner Jennings Wright came: down from Rensselaer Saturday to attend to the inquest of Game (Warden Clem Sigler of Terre Haute, jwho was drowned Saturday. DROWING OF DEPUTY GAME WARDEN. News reached us (Saturday about 1 o’clock p. m. that Clem Sigler, a deputy game warden from Terre Haute, was drowned. The circumstances were at first considered mysterious, but apparently he had been seized with a heart attack, which, it was afterward learned, he was subject to, and had fallen backward into the water, and Coroner W. J. Wkignt, who investigated the death, sayß it is uncertain whether Sigler died from the [heart attack or from drowning, but he believes the latter to be the 1 cause. Sigler with E. H. Cadle, of Orleans, Ind., another deputy game (warden, had gone to Baum’s Bridge ;on a hunting expedition. They stopped at a hotel near the bridge In Porter county. The two. men {constructed a “blind” on a little , knoll from which they did their shooting. I About noon Cadle and Jim Coll ller. a boy from the hotel, went 'to dinner, leaving Sigler alone in

the "blind.” When they returned at 12.30 they found Mr. Sigler lying in about eighteen inches of water, dead. He had been eating lunch and his mouth was filled with bread when he was found, and considering that his lunch was eaten at twelve, death must have come to him at about that time. The body was brought here and later shippm to Terre Haute. Mr. Sigler was about forty years of age. He was a barber by trade, residing at 324 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute. He leaves several children, his wife having died some time ago.

SOUTHEAST CARPENTER. Joseph Sharkey spent Sunday with Fred Baines. Walter and Faye Irwin were in Wolcott Sunday. John Taylor is now hauling his oats off to market. Quite a number of farmers are hauling tile nowadays. Amanda Baler has been on the sick list the past few days. I The farmers are hugging their stoves nowadays, instead <of sowing oats. Fred Baler and John Taylor are having considerable tile ditching done. Mary Zehr has been staying with her aunt, Mrs. Chris Stoller, the | past week. I Will Hicks and family and John ; Taylor and family visited with Burt Courtwright Sunday. Miss Leah Baier, who has been staying with her sister at Cissna Park the past five months, returned home Tuesday. Fred Baler is building a house on the farm which he bought of Mr. Froehlick. His son Peter is going to move into tue house when completed. Arthur Hartman, who has returned home from Colorado, where he has been staying the past four years, is now staying with his brother-in-law, Harvey Zlnser. Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for sale at The Democrat office in any quantity desired. PAIR OAKS. The meetings are still in progress at Will Warren’s. Ike Kight and Grandpa Spry were at the hub Tuesday on business. Carl Wilson of Chicago Heights, was in our town Wednesday looking after his property. Sharkey Henderson of near Streeter, 111., is visiting friends and relatives here this week. ,

Several of the young people of this place went to Virgle Wednesday eve to a “shindig.” Willie Cottingham, who has been under a doctor’s care for about a week, is recovering nicely. Sherman Renicker _ and William Blankenbaker and others from Parr, were in our town Tuesday. Mrs. Allen of Davenport, la., is visiting her mother and other relatives at this place this week. M. D. Karr and two sons went to the Kankakee Monday, where they have a job of sawing a lot of lumber. Alfonda Clifton and wife went this week out on the Lawler ranch to begin work for Mr. Hamlen for the summer. , Walter McConnel has three or four men at work breaking sprouts off the stumps on A. u. Washburn’s clearing near here. Mrs. Emery Cox expects to leave here about the first of the week for Texas, where her broher lives, for the benefit of her health. The Christian minister of Lowell will preach at the Christian church here Saturday night. All are invited to come out and hear him. Ray Vandeburt of Evanston, who succeeds Rev. Evans on this charge, occupied the pulpit in the M. E. church Saturday evening. He left his appointment for two weeks at the same hour. We, got another taste of winter Monday night. About two inches of snow fell, but by Tuesday night it had about all disappeared. On Tuesday night the mercury was down near the zero mark, but Wednesday was fair. Ed Kesler’s babe, it was reported, was dying Tuesday. They telegraphed for Ed, who is at work on Bruce Moflltt’s dredge boat at McCoysburg. He come home on the evening train. The babe was some better Wednesday. F. R. Erwin, one 0,. our hustling merchants, has been in Chicago several days buying goods. We will expect something extra good when he gets his new supply on hands, as he is a good buyer and understands what the people need the worst. ;f.. . , Up to this writing we have had three drunks in about that number of days invtbe past week, but the most disgraceful drunk that has been in our town.jfor a long time took place Tuesday. It was so ridiculous we don’t feet, that we are capable of descibing its awfulness. Whether it was Roselawn booze that did it or boot-leg booze, we have not learned. (Correspondence continued on last page)