Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS, f •

MILROY. Mrs. CAster returned to Brookston Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Wood were in Monon Monday. Geo. Foulks was on the jury at Rensselaer this week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wood were in Rensselaer Wednesday. Richard Foulks was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Foulks have moved to the house vacated by* John Woosley. Wm. Culp and family spent Sunday with his father, David Culp, south of Lee. Rev. Ellis, an Advent minister of Idaville, is giving a series of lectures at the church. Geo. Caster’s, G. L. Parks’, Frank May’s, Geo. Foulks’ and Vern Culp spent Saturday evening at John, Southard’s. Mrs. Mary McCashen and daughter Ettie were in Wolcott Monday morning and came to Frank May’s to spend the remainder of the day visiting. Read the pain formula on the box of Pink Pain Tablets. Then ask your Doctor if if there is a better one. Pain means congestion, blood pressure somewhere. Dr. Shoop’s Pink Pain Tablets check head pains, womanly pains, pain anywhere. Try one, and see! 20 for 25 cents. Sold by all dealers.

PLEASANT RIDGE. Miss Louise Martin is visiting relatives in Brookston. Mrs. C. Hildebrand visited relatives in Parr Wednesday. W. S. Lowman and family spent Sunday at A. B. Lowman’s. Mrs. Frank Kenton called on Mrs. L. Calton Tuesday afternoon. Several people from here attended the ball game at Rensselaer Sunday. Mrs. A. S. Lowman visited with Mrs. Mell Griffin of Rensselaer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James Pierson and son visited relatives at Parr Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Marshall of Fair Oaks spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Reed. Mrs. J. E. Moore, Mrs. Alf Lowman and Ralph Lowman visited with Mrs. Jane Lowman Sunday. Will Elkins had a valuable mare to die Tuesday. This makes two horses he has lost this spring. He is surely having his share of bad luck.

INDEPENDENCE. Ed Bifle went to Winamac Tuesday. T. J. Smith and son shipped hogs Tuesday. Grandpa Prevo of Medaryville is bad sick. Joe Maddox went to Repsselaer last Friday. John Antcliff hauled his hogs to town Tuesday. Making garden and cleaning house is all the go here. The prospect is good in this section for a dry county. Elmer Pullins and family visited at John Antcliff’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bifle were Medaryville goers Wednesday. Independence is having a good attendance at Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Faris visited at Otto Chasteen’s Sunday. The son and wife of John Faris are visiting here from the west. The Independence people are planning for Children’s Day in June. Rev. Bates delivered a splendid temperance sermon at Independence church Sunday morning to a good sized congregation. Charles Zulich of MeLdaryvllle started for Germany last Sunday to visit his aged mother, whom he has not seen for twenty-five years.

AIX. Mr. and Mrs.' Bowman Switzer were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mrs. Ed Casey spent Tuesday afternoon with* Mrs. Carter Garrlott. Mr. apd Mrs. Korah Potts spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilcox. Lewie Harririgton of Virgie spent Sunday at his uncle Walter Harrington's. Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman and daughter Lizzie were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Swaim and

family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shultz. Quite a number from this neighborhood attended the Odd Fellows meeting at Parr Sunday. Alva Frost of Monticello came Sunday to work for his uncle, Frank Frost, this summer. Miss Indus Wiseman and little brother Kenneth visited on the farm near Virgie from Friday eve until Sunday. After this Cecil says he will be satisfied by washing his buggy with a bucket of water instead of driving into a gravel pit. As the time is near at hand when we will know whether or not this will be a wet or dry county, we should do our best to help make it a dry one. Mrs. John Gwin had the misfortune to have her brooder house catch fire one night last week and burn several brooders, 2 or 3 hens and over 150 little chickens. Rev. Clarke of Rensselaer preached at Good Hope last Sunday, his subject being the temperance question, and his talk was very interesting. He will be at Good Hope again the 4th Sunday in May. Miss Lillie Burns is home from high school with the whooping cough. It seems as though Lillie has a hard time trying to get through high school, last spring about this time she had quite a seige of sickness.

Any lady reader of this paper will receive, on request, a clever “NoDrip” Coffee Strainer Coupon privilege, from Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. It is silver-plated, very pretty, and positively prevents all dripping of tea or coffee. The Doctor sends it, with his new free book on “Health Coffee” simply to introduce this clever substitute for real coffee. Dr. Shoop’s Health Coffee is gaining its great popularity because of: first, its exquisite taste and flavor; second, its absolute healthfulness; third, Its economy—l%lb. 25c; fourth, its convenience. No tedious 20 to 30 minutes boiling. “Made in a minute” says Dr. Shoop. Try it at your grocer’s, for a pleasant surprise. John Eger.

SOUTH NEWTON. Mrs. Chas. Weiss was a Foresman goer Wednesday. Marshall Pruett visited with Harry Dewey Sunday afternoon. Nelse Hough made a busniess trip to Rensselaer Wednesday. Earl Leek and wife spent Sunday afternoon with relatives in Mt. Ayr. George Bentley of near Brook spent Sunday with the Paulus family. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek were Mt. Ayr goers last Thursday afternoon. Joe Ade was looking after his fann interests at Harry Dewey’s Sunday. Wm. Hough assisted his father to finish putting in his oats last Friday. -- Miss Sadie Paulus visited with relatives in Brook last Thursday and, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson DuCharme took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Reed. George Markin of Rensselaer was out in this vicinity Sunday to see one of our fair ladles. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Mat Waling near Brook. Lyman Raymond and wife visited with their daughter, Mrs. Harvey Piefson and husband, Monday. Nelse Hough and wife entertained their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Shanlaub, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mayhew visited with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, near Brook Sunday. Mrs. Alice Potts assisted Mrs. Earl Leek to hang paper Tuesday, and helped Mrs. Press Roberts Wednesday. Trustee Ed Lane was in this vicinity last Thursday taking the and took dinner with Chas. Weiss.

Chas. Waling and daughter Eni'ma of Brook visited Thursday and Friday with the families of -Fred Waling and Arthur Mayhew. Mrs. Silas Potts and son Emmet ahd Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell were guests of the former’s daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waling. Mrs. Harry Dewey spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Peters. She was accompanied home by her grandmother who will visit for a few days. The young folks of this vicinity enjoyed a very pleasant time Saturday evening at R. J. Yeoman’s, it being their son Hugh’s 19th birthday anniversary. About 25 guests were present. Light refreshments were served, after which they all departed having spent a very pleasant evening. During the spring every one would be benefited by taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy. It furnishes a needed tonic to the kidneys after the extra strain of winter, and It purifies the blood by stimulating the kidneys, and causing them to eliminate the impurities from It. Foley’s Kidney Remedy imparts new life and vigor. Pleasant to take. A. F. Long.

NORTHEAST BARKLEY. Ed Oliver was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Lola Oliver called on Ethel Walker Sunday. Please send us a little more warm weather this way. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver were in Wheatfield Monday. Wm. Jordan did business in the south end Wednesday. Adam Flesher has been hauling hay from Wm. Jordan’s. Ed Oliver lost a fine cow, by her drowning in the dredge ditch. Mrs. I. D. Walker visited her son Ed Walker and family Sunday. Mrs. Aaron Vora and Mrs. Ethel Brown did shopping in Rensselaer Friday. Harry Gifford did some driving through our part of the country Tuesday. Floyd Tow and Everett Walker, spent Saturday evening with the latter’s parents. John Newcomb and Maude Demoss, Frank Hellengreen and Eva Gorbet called on George Gorbet and Letha Reese at the latter’s home Sunday eve. Squire Spriggs of near Wheatfield came down to buy some cows of Ed Oliver Monday, but after looking them over found nothing that suited him so he did not buy any.

FOUR CORNERS. J. A. Hixson and wife started for Lafayette Thursday, via Goodland. Miss Maud Noland of near Lee is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. W. Fisher this week. Wesner Bros, purchased some stock cattle from Thos. F. Maloney the last of the week. The Wheatfield school closes May 5. The high school team plays San Pierre on that date. Burl Asher returned from Oklahoma Saturday. He came in the evening to call on “near” friends. Ask Effie. » The dredge on the Smith ditch is making fine progress. They will cross the road south of the Pat Smith farm this week. The game of ball between Medaryville and Wheatfield high schools resulted in a victory for the visiting team. Score 3to 2—lo innings. F. W. Fisher, wife and daughter Effie, called on Mr. and Mrs. John Mannan Sunday. Mrs. Mannan is improving again. We trust it will be permanent. Mrs. Frank Hight, Otto Schrader Lon Hilliard and W. S. DeArmond took the examination at Wheatfield Saturday for the appointment of postmaster at Tefft. Lon Nees, with the nelp of six or seven neighbors, was busy Sunday breaking the three bronchoes to ride and drive which he recently purchased from Dick Dunn. The order and morality band who have put the lid on at Wheatfield should search for the blind tiger and a few gambling dens which are said to be doing a thriving business.

Lambert Collins is some better at this time. He has had a bad attack of lung trouble and has been unable to complete his w’Ork as assessor. We trust he will soon be out again. The cold, wet weather has caused some of the farmers to re-sow their oats. Others have given up sowing at all. Grass Is short and the farmers are not yet able to tiirn out their stock. If, after leaving your own party, and the one you attach yourself to can’t trust you even with a nomination, ask for some fourth class government position. You surely are entitled to something. Mrs. Mack Rockwell presented her husband with a republican boy a few days ago. Too bad that Mack is compelled to give up the postoffice after working so hard to increase the republican vote in Kankakee tp., but such is life, and political parties are very unthankful for •our efforts.

FAIR OAKS. Mr. Eggleston lost a fine colt last wegk. Mr. Llntner will occupy the house Al Moore vacates. Mrs. Kight finished up taking the enumeration Monday. News is very scarce in our neck pf the woods this week. Al Moore’s expect to move into their new house this week. Chas. Halleck was so unfortunate one day last week as to lose $25 out of his pocket. Miss Lizzie Harriman of west of town was in Lafayette this week attending the Circus. 4 .Mrs. Fannie Bringle and Mrs. Kight visited with Mrs. G. H. Hillis on the ranch Tuesday. Al Helsel has moved into town and now occupies one of his properties in the north part of town. , G. I. Thomas of Remington was in our town Tuesday looking after business and shaking hands with old friends.

Mrs. C. A. Gundy and children of Rensselaer came up Thursday, and cleaned up their house and visited until Sunday eve. Jim Gillispie of Roselawn has a job of building several miles of wire fence for Jack Lawler, along the new roads through his ranch. Miss Hattie Rice, who' has been visiting her uncle Chas. Baker the past six weeks, returned to her home at Kates, hear Yeddo, Monday. Rev. Fandibust delivered a splendid temperance sermon at the M. E. church Saturday eve to a good sized audience. He held the full attention to the entire audience for an hour. Fred Callahan and wife of Salem, Ind., came up the later part of the week to visit the latter’s mother, Mrs. Baxter on the Otis ranch near here, who is laid up with a very severe attack of rheumatism. Grandma Hall, who lately sold her property to Al Helsel, will move into her daughter’s Mrs. Will Warren’s tenant house, to keep house. She will be close to her and can look after her as she is getting quite old and feeble. Trustee Kight and Supervisor Mallatt had two large sewer pipes put in across the street at the Kesler property of the week, which has been needed so long. The ' railroad company will now have to put down their sewers under their grades in order to let the standing water out of the ditches in town. One of Mrs. E. O. Hooper’s little boys happened with a very serious •accident one day last week. The two boys about 5 and 7 years old, were playing in the wood yard with the ax, when the smallest one held a stick on the chop block while his brother cut it. The ax went wide of its mark, and struck across the first knuckles of his hand and thumb almost severing the thumb. It was a very dull ax or doubtless it would have cut the fingers all off but the small one. Dr. Rice of Roselawn was called to dress the wounded parts. He found that it was necessary to take the thumb entirely off: The boy is now getting along nicely. Mrs. Hooper took him to Roselawn Tuesday to have the hand dressed again. Saturday the people of Jasper will decide by our vote whether or not we want saloons. Every man in the county should quit his work and go to the polls and help stamp out the curse that causes fathers to become wrecks and fill a drunkard’s grave, when they will be rorever and eternally lost. And the same which makes «laves and causes untold suffering and sorrow for the wives and mothers of our many homes, and which niakes beggars and outcasts of our boys and girls, the pride of our heart. Oh, brother, will you not, as you go into the booth, think about which you should do—help to make our country better by keeping the liquor out of our community, or vote for it, which means so much trouble. Vote for God, Home and Country and you will certainly be rewarded, for the bible says: “Woe to the man that putteth the bottle to his neighbor’s lips," which you will do if you vote wet.

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 't correctly. Each inside organ has its controlling or inside nerve. When these nerves fall, 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.