Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

SOUTH NEWTON. Henry Gushaw spent Sunday with Nelse Hough. Fred Waling made a business trip down near Brook Friday. Sam Wagner and Joe Charles were Rensselaer goers Tuesday evening. Quite a number of people picked cherries at H. M. Shipman’s Monday. Cherry picking and canning is now the order of the day in this vicinity. Harry Dewey and wife spent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Dewey. Warner Hough and Wm. Chidester attended the ball game at Rensselaer Sunday afternoon. Philip Paulus made a drive up northwest of Mt. Ayr one day last week to look for horses to buy. Miss Sarah Holmes and Allie Francis were seen buggy riding in this locality Sunday l afternoon. Misses Sadie and Bessie Paulus visited with Misses Emma and Katherine Feldhaus Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mayhew and family of near Brook took Sunday dinner with Ernest Mayhew and wife. Chas. Weiss and children Leona and Harold, visited with the forer’s brother, John and family Monday. Abe Dewey and nieces, Alice and Edith Dewey, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Chas. Weiss and family. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek spent Sunday afternoon with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto JJengstob of Mt. Ayr. Cora Jenkison entertained a number of friends at a lawn party Sunday afternoon. Light refreshments were served. With such good corn weather the corn is looking exceedingly well. Some of the late planting isn’t very large yet, but is growing fine. Erhardt Weurthner and wife visited Saturday ni£ht and Sunday with the former’s Sister, Mrs. Ed May and husband, near Remington. G — M— of Rensselaer was seen slowly wending his way westward Sunday evening. There surely must be some attraction some place? Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Du Charme attended a surprise dinner on Noah Wenrick and son George Sunday. They are batching and don’t see as good dinner every day as they did then. Quite a number of people were present. Monday evening while Mrs. Harry Dewey was looking for a turkey that had strayed away, her three-year-old son went to the dredge ditch that runs through the pasture near the house, and fell in. He managed to get out some way and was not hurt in the least, but was quite badly scared. It was a very lucky escape as small as he was. Harry is still determined to his “bumber-chute,” and as circumstances compels him to use a span of mules, was at a loss to know what to do. He gently raises it and “Jack” raised his ears and at the same time his heels, and you can guess what happened about that time. After the remains were ail picked up Harry says "confound the luck, to th'.Dk that somebody would write such a doggoned piece about me and put it in the paper.”«

PARR. Bradley Ross of Rensselaer called on Firman Thompson Sunday. Frank Rowen and family of Rensselaer spent Sunday with his brother Charley. Wilcox & Gant have received their first car load of coal for the threshing season. Those who have cabbage'contracts are about done setting outs plants, and they are doing fine. Fred Stephenson "has the finest cabbage patch in this vicinity. He has about 20,000 plants set out. The band started with eight pieces and has now increased, to fifteen, except for one who occasionally has a very severe headache. The band boys are doing some extra practicing this week for the Fourth. They are doing well for the short time they have been organized. Roy Stephenson, Abe Aery and Sherman Renicker have taken government land in Colorado. Sherman will go in about a month and Roy and Abe will go this fall. Come, lay aside your labor and care, and spend one day of celebrating the 4th, (July 3rd) at the town, that puts up a good program and exactly as advertised. Come to Parr and you will not be disappointed. A second ball game has been matched for the fourth between the "Rensselaer Neverwlns” and the Parr Jr’s. The game .s called at 8:30 a. m., and as they are both good teams, you win want to see this game.

The Committee has been working hard arranging the seats and cleaning up the grove for the celebration and have everything in good shape. We certainly have as fine a grove as can be found in the country, tome and enjoy a day’s outing with us and you will be entertained.

EGYPT. Warm, and fine growing weather. Mabel Blake visifed Frank Welsh’s Monday. Wilbur Bower was a Remington goer Saturday. D. V. Blake and wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Eisele Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Galey were Rensselaer goers Monday. Vern Bice and Charles Gray spent Sunday with -D. V. Blake and family. Miss Florence Antcliff spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Pearl Antcliff. Miss Neva Carder from Laurel, Ind., is visiting her friend, Miss Pruett. The sack and ice cream social at the James school house was well attended and all report a fine time. Mrs. W. F. Michaels and son Ray and daughter Eva, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heuson. Several from this vicinity attended the graduating exercises and also children’s day at Mt. Hope Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Several of the men witnessed the ball game Saturday afternoon played between the Sage and Egypt teams. Score Bto 15 in favor of Egypt.

MILROY. Geo. Foulks made a trip to Mt. Ayr Monday. Albert Wood is spending sometime with his parents and friends here. Mrs. G. L. Parks has been canning cherries for her mother this week. Wm. Culp had a well drilled in his pasture north of his house last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clell Clark spent SatuYday night with I. J. Clark and family. Chas. Wilbanks bought a new organ of N. L. Sanders of Monon last week. Mrs. Ennis and Miss Ettie McCashen spent Tuesday with Chas. McCashen’s. Mrs. L. Foulks and Mrs. Effle Underwood went to Palestine Sunday evening. 'fhis busy time of the year we certainly would appreciate the advantages of a mail route. Thos. Spencer and O. A. Jacks and families and Chas. Clark took dinner Sunday with Geo. Foulks’. Mrs. D. Z. Clark and daughter Martha visited Sunday with Mrs. Mary McCashen and daughter Ettie. Several from this vicinity attended the children’s day program rendered Sunday evening at the Baptist church at Palestine, and all were delighted.

PAIR OAKS.

We still continue to have* fine growing weather. Farmer Hopkins of east of Rensselaer was in our town Wednesday. Giles Odel of Newton county is clerking for Felix Erwin nowadays. There will be several acres of buckwheat in these parts this season. Ed Kesler came home Wednesday from the Moffitt dredge, near McCoysburg. Wheat and rye are ripening up fine and will be ready to be cut In a few days. Health is good, weather bad and news scarce In our neck of the woods this week. J. R. Mallatt and family came up from Remington Thursday to spend the 4th with home folks. Frank Hart and another party of Demotte was here Wednesday talking

hay business with Walter McConnell. Mrs. Cottingham, who has been visiting her sister ta Riverside, Call., for about two months, is expected home this week. F. M. Goff, Who was at Wheatfield las\ week superintending the work of putting up a building for the National Pickle Co., was at home over Sunday, but returned Monday. Walter McConnel ' got through pressing and hauling hay up near Roselawn and returned home the first of the week. He will begin making hay on Washburn’s place in a few days. There was a large gang of telephone men struck our town the first of the week. They are putting in poles and cutting and trimming up the brush along the Jasper County Telephone Co. lines. There has been a car set in with three large tanks on for the purpose of loading pickles into to ship to their finishing plant. It is reported that they are planning to put a large building here to be used as a finishing plant and to make kraut and to can corn, tomatoes and other vegetables. Let ’er come, that’s what we want.

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PINE GROVE. John Torbet spent Sunday with William Miller. Nekton Jenkins called op<Bluford and Roy Torbet Sunday. Miss Bessie Roup was the guest of Elnora Miller Sunday afternoon. Wheat and rye look fine in this vicinity and is almost ready to cut. Chloae and Creola Torbet called on Bernice and Lucy Walker Sunday evening. Mrs. Andy Ropp and daughter Bessie called on Mrs. Nan Burgett Sunday forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Walker and family were the guests of Air. and Mrs. Elbert Hurley Sunday. Those that were guests of Elnora *nd‘ Willie Miller Sunday Harvey. Manierd and Mary Austin, Clyde Miller and Leona and Nellie Austin of Wheatfleld. s* ” ' Foley’s Honey and Tar not only stops chronic coughs that weaken the constitution and develop into consumption, but heals and strengthens the lungs. It affords comfort and relief in the worst cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma, hay fever and lung trouble. A. F. Long.

PLEASANT RIDGE. Miss May Warren is working for Mrs. John Reed. Airs. E. Potts visited her parents in Rensselaer Monday. Mrs. A. B. Lowman spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. All Lowman. Mrs. Clifford Parkison visited at Geo. Parkison's Sunday afternoon. Everett Potts has moved into the house vacated by .1. M. Pierson. Miss Ethel Parker spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Chloe Kenton. The Pleasant Ridge boys beat the Parr boys here Sunday the score being 9 to 12. The Pleasant Ridge boys will play the Parr boys the Fourth. A good game is expected. Airs. B. Lowman spent Saturday night and Sunday with her mother, Mrs. H. Griffin of Rensselaer. Alost everybody around here expects to celebrate the Fourth at Parr. The ten o'clock train will stop here and at Parr. Airs. J. AI. Pierson left Monday for Greenwood, Ark., to join her husband who went there some weeks ago. They expect to make their future home near Greenwood.

OVER THE RIVER. We are still alive. Mrs. Chris Morgenegg is on the sick list. George McElfresh was a Monon goer Monday. Steve and Shelby Comer were buying hogs Monday. ’’ 'Newt Jenkins and Vilas Price were town goers Saturday. Miss Margaret Hurley spent Sunday with Miss Marie Miller. Wnt. Florence’s children passed .through these parts Monday. 'VGeorge McElfresh was a business caiter in Rensselaer Saturday. Barney Kolhoff and daughter Gertrude were town goers Saturday. Orplia and Willie McElfresh spent Sunday with Leo and Arnold Kolhoff. Bessie, Willie and Mollie McElfresh called at Chris Morgenegg’s Monday. Mrs. B. Kolhoff and family picked cherries at Chris Morgenegg’s Monday. Mrs. Emmet Pullin and children spent Friday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Saldla. The dance at Alex Hurley’s last Friday night was well attended and all enjoyed a fine time. Several of the young folks of this vicinity were guests of Gertrude, Leo and Arnold Kolhoff Sunday.

LEG. Charley Jacks and family visited his parents a few days this week. Robert Drake shipped a car load of hogs from here last Tuesday evening. Dave Goble and family of Motion came in their auto Sunday and took dinner with Mrs. Lewis. Quite a number from here attended the Children’s day exercises at Palestine last Sunday evening. Eli Wood has sold bis farm and he and the man that now owns it were out to the place last Tuesday. Mrs. Dodd continues very poorly. Her daughter, Mrs. Ola Randle and ■on Paul, came Saturday and returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Btewart went from Sunday School last Sunday to Wm. Culp’s and took dinner, and Bpent the balance of the day. ,„h.ora and Glenn Culp went to

AlonticeUo Tuesday to visit relatives and to attend the Fourth of July celebration to be held at that place Saturday. Airs. Holeman and Orville went last Saturday to see Grandma Mellender, who is now able to go to the table for meals, but is very weak and feeble.

PARR. I wonder why C. A. Armstrong home Sunday opening. We are going to celebrate at Parr. Everybody come. Mrs. L. Warren spent Wednesday with Airs. Charley Warren. Airs. Otis Sheffer spent Tuesday was home Sunday evening? Air. and Airs. Len McCurtain spent Wednesday evening with Airs. Isabel Price. Airs. Emma Price and Rebecca Hurley spent Sunday with Miss Deva Hurley, Miss Grace Hurley spent Sunday afternoon with Air. and Mrs. Jim Hurley. Airs. Dennis Brooks and children spent Sunday with Air. and Mrs. Jim Hurley. Aliss Clara Hurley stayed a couple of nights this week with Airs. Len AlcCurtain. Xewton Jenkins and his best girl and her sister spent Sunday with Rev. Jenkins and family. Alice AlcCurtain and Flora AlcCurtain her sister, and Alice Hurley were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. The little son of Air. and Airs. Otis Sheffer is getting along nicely from the kick he got by a mule. Airs. Emma Price and her son Cleveland and Rebecca Hurley spent Sunday with Airs. Lucretia AVarren. Airs. Isabel Price and Airs. Newton Price and her daughter Grace spent Sunday with Air. and Airs. William Piatt. Air. and Airs. Dick Caldwell spent Saturday night and Sunday wtih her sister, Alyrthe Reed of Pleasant Ridge.

HIKNSTOWN. Airs. James Louis is very poorly at this writing. Mrs. C. Aiorgenegg is on the sick list at this writing. Miss Maggie Hurley visited with Marie Miller Sunday. C. Aiorgenegg has a pretty sick horse at this writing. Amos Deere spent Sunday with Willie and Albert Pullin. Mrs. Alex Hurley called on Mrs. Samuel Holmes Thursday. James Stanley commenced work for C. Aiorgenegg Monday. Airs. John Scott is spending a few days with S. H. Holmes and family. Grover Brown and Bertie Wood spent Sunday with the former's parents. Misses Lucy and Emma Aiorgenegg called Yn Gertrude Kolhoff Sunday afternoon. Mrs. A. Eib and daughters visited friends over at Alt. Ayr Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Airs. Alanley Stowers visited with Mr. and Airs. Will Searge and family Sunday. The farmers of this neighborhood have hired Ernest Pullin to do their threshing this season. Dan Hopkins took his best girl Miss Stella Brown and spent Sunday with his father Samuel Hopkins. Air. and Airs. John Hopkins and family of Carroll county came up to visit his father’s brothers and sisters Sunday. He made the trip in his fine auto. Mrs. James Pierson of Pleasant Ridge came Saturday to spend a clay or so with her sister. Airs. Chas. Reed, and Alonday started to Arkansas to join her husband, where they will make their future home.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) John Roinine was transacting business in Goodland last Thursday. Mrs. T. E. Hufty and children visited over Sunday with relatives at Rensselaer. Miss Eva Saylor of Rensselaer came Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. T. E. Hufty. Miss Lizzie Buck of Chicago came Sunday for a visit with her sister. Mrs. J. M. Miller. Miss Rose Keeney yent to Foresman Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Shindler. Joe Shindler and wife spent Sunday here with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Standish. Frank Shipman and Dave Guthrie attended the I. 0.. O. F. Decoration services at Morocco Sunday. Mrs. James Haskell, of Bluffton, Ind., came Friday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dunlap and other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Flanders came down from Wheatfleld Saturday for a short visit with the latter’a parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Roberta.

The report has Just reached here that Ortel Willey, a former Mt. Ayr boy, is very low with lung fever at his home in Spokane, Wash. E. G. Perrigo has sold his automobile to Frank Morton of Goodland. Although Gene didn’t have it very long, he had it long enough to get the fever rignt and he will likely get another in a few days, just what kind he has not yet decided upon. Geo. Clinton, son of Frank Clinton, was at work picking cherries for John Allen Alonday and upon reaching the top ot the tree the limb upon which he was standing gave away and he fell striking his side on a fence post breaking two ribs and otherwise injuring himself internally. At the latest report he was said to be getting along fairly well. J. H. Dunlap was up to Plymouth last week negotiating for the trade of his livery barn for a farm. The trade was verbally made with the ■understanding that Jim was to assume the payment of a S4OO mortgage, but when the contract was presented for his signature it read that he was to assume a SISOO mortgage, and quite naturally he refused to sign it, and came home.

FARMER’S RETREAT. Amiel Schrader was an Asphaltum goer Tuesday. Airs. Eli AVaymire called on Mrs j Hershman Alonday. Elwood and Dolie were out driving Sunday afternoon. Bill Wenrick was on the sick list Saturday and Sunday. Airs. Jesse Wilmington is quite sick at the present waiting. Ethel Hershman picked cherries at Frank Hershman's Tuesday. Carl Wilmington was an Asphaltum caller Tuesday evening. AValter Hershman picked cherries at his mother-in-law’s Saturday. Alise Edith AVenrick is visiting with relatives of near Rensselaer. Frank Hershman called at. the Callaghan home Wednesday evening. Aliss Bertha and Celia Hershman spent Friday with Airs. Alary Pulaski. Airs. August Schrieber of Tefft called on Airs. Frank Hershman Monday. Air. and Airs. Hiedenblut called on Air. and Airs. Aloritz Alonday evening John Wenrick and daughter, Miss' Katie AVenrick, went to Ohio Satur-! day. Air. and Airs. F. Hershman and son, Obal, drove to Aledaryville Saturday. Air. Alexander and family of near Gifford was sight-seeing in our vicinity Alonday. George Smith of AVheatfield called on his father-in-law, Henry Heidenblut, Saturday. George Aleyers of Rensselaer was seen on our streets Tuesday. He spent the night at Mr. Zick’s. Air. and Airs. Alva Hershman and family visited Sunday afternoon with their brother Frank Hershman and family. Mr. and Airs. Amiel Schrader and their daughters, Alma and Florence, were business callers at Aledaryville Saturday. Air. and Airs. Felix Aloritz and children spent Sunday with the latter’s parents. Air. and Mrs. Thos. Callaghan. Mrs. Julia Stalbaum and children were the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lakey of Aledaryville, Saturday and Sunday. AVe hear that the wedding bells will soon be ringing for one of our young girls. Get ready with your tin horns and old cow bells. George Nichols of Alinot, No. Dak., is visiting friends and relatives at Aledaryville and Farmer’s Retreat George used to be one of Walker tp.’s good old democrats. George AVenrick of near Rensselaer visited at the home of his sister last week. Edith returned home with him Saturday in order to be present at a party given in honor of her father.

MAPLE GROVE. Ben Ahlers is now working for Delos Pass. ' Corn plowing is the order of the day in this vicinity. Everybody is getting ready for the Fourth in this vicinity. Carl and Grover Gorbet spent Sunday with Harry Hellengreen. s Grover Gorbet spent Saturday eve with Jesse Haegle and Chuck Lowan. Carl Gorbet spent Saturday night and Sunday with his parents, Mr and Mrs. A. A. Gorbet. There were several young people from Valma visiting with Effle and Ernest Wince Sunday afternoon. Monday was the hottest day we have had this season. At the Overton farm the thermometer registered 108 at 2:30 p. m. John P. Swisher and two children, Flossie and Ada stayed a few days with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gorbet last week and this week.

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