Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEW^-GATHERERS.

THE PALACE. Eggs 19c; butter 16, at Medaryville Mr. Lafevler and wife went to Winamac Saturday. We are getting quite a number of showers this week. Mrs. Julia Stalbaum and Mrs. McElroy were at Medaryville Saturday. Anybody wanting a few bushels of fine yellow corn at sl.sft« go to Walter Hershman's. " Mr. Bennet was out here taking a buggy ride and watching the farmers pLant corn. Since the court inquiry about Mr. Blaze’s boys he has left this part of the country. If you all want to have a jolly good time come out and hear the little one preach one week from Sunday. A great many of the early planted potatoes are reported rottening. Most farmers who planted water melons are planting over again.

INDEPENDENCE. Ed Bifle was a Winamac visitor Monday. We were visited with a splendid rain Tuesday. Born, to Mr; and Mrs. Herbert Faris, May 18, a boy. Salem Long has well men working at his place this week. Most of the people are nearly through planting corn. Otto Grieger and family spent Sunday at Otto Chasteen’s. John Antcllff and ramlly visited with Medaryville folks Sunday. Theodore Phillips and Joe Maddox were Medaryville goers Monday. Automobiles are as thick as bees at Medaryville, about 15 in number. Otto Chasteen was kicked by a horse Saturday, but not hurt badly. Pearl and Bessie Smith called at John Antcliff’s Saturday evening. Mrs. Peter Owen’s aged mother was burled at Independence Monday afternoon. They are planning tor children’s day the first Sunday in June, at Independence. Rev. Bates delivered a splendid memorial service at Medaryville Sunday morning. Algla Coffman and wife and Mrs. George Logan were Medaryville goers Saturday afternoon.

NORTHEAST BARKLEY. Sheriff Shirer went thiough our vicinity Wednesday. Claude Bowman spent Sunday evening with Everett Walker. Everett Walker made a flying trip to Rensselaer Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver made a business trip to Medaryville Monday. Ethel Walker spent Saturday night and Sunday with Viola Reed at Rensselaer. Frank Turner returned home Sunday after making a business trip to Remington. John L. Nichols and Aaron Vore made a business trip over to Dave Spriggs’ Tuesday. Mrs. Lon Daniels has been keeping house for her brother Vick Walker a few days this week. Ed Oliver sold S. R. Nichols a load of fat hogs, Floyd Tow delivering them at McCoysburg Wednesday. Miss Belle Tow of Wolcott returned to her home Monday after a week’s visit with Miss Lola Oliver. Harry Reid came out from Rensselaer Monday and got three head of cattle of Ed Oliver for Roth Brothers butcher shop. Mrs. Vick Walker returned home Wednesday after a few days visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R Hardesty at Indiana Harbor. Tom Kennedy is going to plant corn now, Baw him going down the road with a corn planter. If he will wait a little while he can plant corn with the rest of the farmers next spring. Since Letha has been working at Newland, it seems like Ed has a hard time to keep Floyd at work. He keeps his head turned toward Newland, with his creamy eyes lifted to the sky, as if he thought she would come down from above. Never mind Floyd, there Is a sweet time a-comin’.

PINE GROVE. Seth Walker spent Monday afternoon with Charley Torbet. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wiles spent Sunday near Pleasant Grove. A. Elb put some cattle on pasture at James Torbet’s Wednesday. Wm. Hayes of Summit, Ind., Bpent Friday with Samuel Wiles. .

Verna and Elmer Shroyer were Rensselaer callers Sunday forenoon. Miss Nellie Gilmore took dinner with Bernice and Lucy Walker Sunday. Miss Bertha Cooper called on Miss Gusta McCleary Sunday afternoon. The rain Wednesday was a great help to the farmer and also for the crops. Bernice and Lucy Walker and Nellie Gilmore spent Sunday with Nile Britt. Mr. and Mrs. John Hurley were the guests of Mrs. Sarah McCleary and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Snow and family visited with. Isaac Miller and family Sunday. Elmer Daniels of Rensselaer spent Saturday night and Sunday with his cousin, John Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daniela and daughter broke bread with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ropp and daughter Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Ell Merle spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Zimmerman. Several of the people of this vicinity attended church at Good Hope Sunday afternoon and at Rosebud Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Art Snow and little son spent Saturday aud Saturday night with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Snow and family. Say, Bluford, the next time you start to see your girl, don’t get bluffed out, but go on and see for yourself whether she is at home, and don’t turn around so much. Those that took dinner with J. M. Torbet and family Sunday were: Rev. Jenkins of Parr, Simon Cooper, Ben Hopkins, Willie Miller, Nellie Austin, Bessie Ropp, Lucy and Katie Morganegg. Those that were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nuss and family Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Openchain of near Gifford, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Barker and Mr. and Mrs. Nuss, Jr., of near Valma. Rev. Jenkins preached to a large congregation last Sunday at the Independence schoolhouse. He will preach again in two weeks from that date at the same place, Sunday afternoon, June 6, at three o’clock. Everybody welcome.

FAIR OAKS. Frank Hooper— has just got through painting F. R. Erwin’s barn. Oske Atwood and wife visited with Ed Hall’s from Saturday to Sunday at Roselawn. Mrs. Hooper, who has been over on Nubbin Ridge for a couple of weeks, came home Wednesday. Abe Bringle, wife and daughter and neice, Leola Moore, attended commencement exercises at Rensselaer Wednesday eve. Mrs. W. J. Kilgour, who came here to attend her brother James Fay’s funeral, returned to her home at Baileyville, 111., on Tuesday. Ed Kesler, who has been working on Bruce Moflltt’s dredge is all ready for operation, waiting for coal, which they look for at any time. Mr. and Mrs. Jamees Clifton came home the latter part of the week from their visit with her mother, Mrs. J. A. Powell, west of Rensselaer. We got a fine rain Tuesday which helped greatly in bringing the crops along. Wheat and rye looks fine, oats never looked better, corn is coming along nicely, meadows are looking fairly well. We had begun to feel the need of rain and it will greatly benefit the meadows especially. Ike Kight and John Zellers returned from their prospecting trip Saturday eve. Mr. Kight traded his 240 acre farm, a couple of miles east of here, (80 acres of it is of the Dan Mallow and Mat Petty farms) for a 900 acre tract of timber land in Arkansas. Mr. Zellers will go out there and put in a sawmill and go to work cutting the timber Into lumoer for various uses. The timber is very heavy and tall, all hard wood. The Fair Oaks and Parr ball teams had a contest here Sunday, resulting in a defeat for Parr. One would have thought it was a 4th of July, judging by the crowd. Buggies and automobiles came loaded and the howling that was kept up was equal to a 4th of July celebration. It looks more like a heathen country than a Christian nation. People are living too fast now-a-days. Twenty-five years ago, Sunday base ball was unknown. People always had time to take Saturday afternoon for the game and on Sunday everybody had time to go to Sunday school and church. But now lots of the professed Christians will go from services to the ball game, and lots of them will miss services entirely. The bible says: ‘‘the way of the transgressor is hard. It looks very plain that there is but few Christian men at the head of our government or we would have different laws on this subject.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Misses Pauline Sayler and Ha*el Warner visited with Florence Huntington. Sunday. H. Q. Clark made a business trip up to Leesburg Kosciusko county, last Monday. Mrs. Maud Noland and children left Saturday afternoon for a week’s visit with her parents, relatives and friends at Brookston. From, ■' K.' • •

[there they will go to their former 'home at Lee, where they will spend I another week before returning home. I Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wortley came to see Mrs. Worley’s father, Mr. Henry Rimers, who continues very poorly. Miss Pearl Rimer is the proud owner of a new piano purchased for her by her mother, Tuesday of this week. Ed Long had the misfortune to lose a very valuable colt' last Tuesday morning. The colt ran into a snag tearing its body so badly as to produce death. Joseph Kosta met with a serious accident Monday. In working with a hay hook he in some way caught his hand tearing it badly. Dri Martin dressed the wound. Word has just been received that Mr. A. B. Miller will not have to undergo the operation which he expected. W. W. Miller, his brother, writes that he is some better.