Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPB OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

Arthur Turner has bought W. A. Gillam's barber shop. A. H. Dickinson of East Carpenter was a Rensselaer goer Monday. C, A. Balcom attended the Masonic grand lodge at Indianapolis last week. Charles Galbraith, who has been visiting In Stuttgart, Ark., returned home Thursday, j F. C. Tedford, now of St. Louis, visited his sister, Mrs. F. L. Peck, “here a few days last week. Miss Fleta Hartley of West Lebanon is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Kate Moorhead, at present writing. V. D. Hodshire of Watseka, 111., was visiting his neices, Mrs. Rawlings and Mrs. Banes last week. Mrs. Perry Dirham of Milwaukee, Wiß., Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hawkins at present. - Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin were here Monday looking after his business property, the old Durand block. Mrs. August Walter came out from Logansport last week to visit her sons aTid other relatives and friends. Mrs. John Swan and daughter and Robert Swan were called to Fulton last Thursday by the death of her father. Mrs. Lloyd Cummons and baby left last week for Lawton, Okla., iwhere Lloyd is now located, and they will make their home there. John Phelps went to Aberdeen, So. Dak., last week with a party of land seekers composed of C. R. Weiss and Ab Dewey oi near Rensselaer. Mrs. Mort Dawson and baby of Soarcy, Ark., came last week to visit her father, Charles Bartholomew and her brother, Alexander who is critically ill. Mrs., Dingle and baby and her sister, Miss Fannie Walker, came last week from Winnipeg, Manitobia, to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walker, for some time. Mrs. W,. E. Rich and daughter and Mrs. Bert Rich and baby of Kankakee, 111., and Mrs Frank Rich of Goodland, visited Mrs. W. L. Rich here one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hicks returned home from their wedding trip to Chicago the latter part of the week and will begin housekeeping in the Mrs. Emery cottage on Division street. We extend congratulations. Goodland Herald: Miss Daisy McFall of Remington, visited here this week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Lemman....W. L. Watson left for Stuttgart, Ark., Tuesday morning for an extended visit with his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Bruce and family. Mr. Watson visited at Watseka, jll., on the way.

LEE. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart took dinner at H. C. Anderson’s Sunday. Mr. Shultz’s son and family visited with them Saturday and Sunday. Will Rishllng and wife attended decoration services at Rensselaer Sunday. Mrs. Lewis and daughters, Ethel and Myrtle spent Sunday after church at J. C. Culp’s. Mlbs Lural Anderson took the teachers’ examination at Rensselaer last Saturday. Thursday of last week relatives of Mrs. 0. A. Jacks from Lafayette visited at their home. Monday morning Mrs. D. E. Noland and children of Mt. Ayr came to visit relatives and friends for a few days. The Lee orchestra furnished the music at the commencement exercises at McCoysburg last Saturday evening, quite a crowd irom here were also in attendance. The Epworth League is going to give an ice cream social at the Lee hall next Friday evening. The Lee orchestra will furnish music. Everybody come and enjoy a good sociable time. Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs True Woodworth and son came to O. A. Jacks’ to go to the Osborne cemetery on Sunday to decorate, and several from here attended decoration at that place.

LETTTER TO JUDGE EDEN. Dr. J. Y. Hitt who now lives at Greensburg, Indiana, was one of the early settlers in Sullivan and will be remembered by some of our oldest citizens. Judge Joseph E. Eden hands us the following 'letter received from him under date of May 5: “I have been contemplating scratching you a line or two for some weeks. It seems the more advanced we get in age the greater the worry to write and my fingers are so badly crippled, it is no pleasure to scribble a few lines as formerly. There was a period in my life ~ when I liked to write. Your letters are always Interesting to me and the Sullivan papers also as I see in the papers now and then the name of some old former friend. But alas, the major portion of those whom I knew in Sullivan and Moultrie counties have nearly all of them passed in their checks. We have had rather a backward spring. You ho doubt have noticed that our county voted a few weeks ago “DRY” by nearly 2,000. “Let ‘er rip.” It is a little difficult to tell whether the result will be for weal or woe. I had thought that higher license with more stringent laws and saloons in proportion to popu Lation, say one to twelve hundred population and squelch him on first violation—take away his license —never again to get them. Every one to own his saloon property. Judge I was over in old Kentucky a week ago. I was at the old stamping ground. During the war they burned my father’s house, stole all his stock, yes, and run the negroes off. They had serious times over there. I have a sister living not far from my father's house. Old Kentucky is yet a bully place to go. With all her faults, I love her still. Will I will say finis. Love to J. R. Eden and all others who might inquire.”—Sullivan, (Ill.) Progress. Judge Eden is an uncle of Mrs. W. E. Jacks of south of town, and is 88 years old.