Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

MAPLE GROVE. Trustee Parker was a Rensselaer goer Thursday. Grover Gorbet is helping thresh In the south ring. Miss Ethel Parker •was seen in our parts Thursday. Mr. Gorbet was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Swisher and two children have moved to Kersey. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Downs were out riding in these parts Wednesday. Gaylord Parker and Chet Downs were Pleasant Ridge goers Sunday afternoon. We had another big rain Wednesday evening which stopped threshing for a while. News is scarce this week. I guess the people don't have time to run around now as threshing is on hand.

PINE GROVE. Miss Gusta McCleary spent Sunday at home. Charley Britt spent Sunday with Simon Cooper. Chloae Torbet called on Gusta McCleary Wednesday afternoon. Seth and Martha Walker spent Wednesday afternoon wtih- Charles Torbet. Leatha Rees and Bertha Cooper called on Gusta McCleary Sunday evening. Leatha Rees of Newlan-d was the guest of Bertha Cooper Saturday night and Sunday . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Zimmerman called on Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ropp Sunday afternoon. Misses Gusta McCleary and Chloae Torbet called on Mrs. Walter Daniels Sunday afternoon. William Zimmerman and daughter of Ohio are visiting the former’s son, Arthur Zimmerman. Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family and Mrs. Belle Dickey spent Sunday with Mrs. Sarah McCleary and family. Mrs. Lizzie Jenkins of Rensselaer and Mrs. Joe Williams and daugher Bertha spent Sunday with Mrs. Chas. Shroyer and family. John Daniels of near here and Elmer Daniels of Rensselaer, left Tuesday for South Dakota, where they will work in the harvest fields.

McCOYKBCRG. Geo. Parker was in Rensselaer Thursday. Miss Jessie Stultz is visiting in Barkley tp. O. M. Peregrine is visiting friends in Wolcott this week. R. V. Johns and family attended the picnic in Milroy Sunday. R. L. Bussel and family visited his parents Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Howe were in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Mrs. Cecil Rishling spent Thursday with her aunt Mrs. Wm. Willetts. Earl Crowder visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Crowder, Wednesday. Frank Crowder of Indianapolis is visiting relatives in this vicinity for a few days. Misses Ethel Parker and Gertie Downs spent Wednesday with the former’s sister, Mrs. R. L. Bussel. Mr. and Mrs. J. Becker spent Thursday evening with their dausrhters. Mrs. Chas. Saidla and Mrs. Nathan Eldredge. Mrs. R. L. Bussel and baby, Miss Ethel Parker, Mr. and Mrs C. A. Armstrong and Mrs. Floyd Porter and baby spent Thursday at Ed Peregrine’s. Mr- and Mrs. F. L. Peregrine and little sons Wallace and Calvin returned from Wolcott Monday where they had been visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson DuCharme. The latter’s little daughter Edna accompanied them home to spend the remainder of the summer.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Miss Mary Johnson spent the day last Saturday with Mrs. Orville Putt, northwest of here. Mrs. A. J. Hufty and son John went to Indianapolis Tuesday for a week’s visit with relatives. Mrs. Harry Wild and children returned Monday afternoon from a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Perkins, at Goodl&nd. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harris visited over Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Coovert, at Argos. Ind- They returned home Monday. DAve Guthrie was home over Sunday and Monday morning was ac-

companied back to the dredge by his wife, who will cook for the boatmen. Miss Orphio Barton left Thursday for Terre Haute, where she will remain with her mother, who is attending school there, until the latter's return home. Miss Blanche Merry, who is an instructor in the City Training Department of the Marion Normal School, came home last Friday to spend a month's vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Merry. F. H. Robertson, at one time editor of the Brook Reporter and an old time printer, was in town on business one day last week. Mr. Robertson has a notion to again go into the newspaper business and is at present looking for a suitable location. A number of young married couples went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Martin last Sunday and took them by surprise, the event being in honor of Mr. Martin's birthday. Provisions for a very enjoyable dinner had been provided before hand and all proceeded to make the occasion a very merry one. The Mt. Ayr and Jackson township schools will open on Monday, Sept. 6th, and with two or three exceptions the teachers wilLȣe the same as last year. The town school will again be in charge of A. M. Winklepleck and for his assistant he will have Miss Stella Thurston, a graduate of the Terre Haute Normal. The second room will again be taught by Miss Fairy Deardurff and Miss Flora Parke will once more have charge of the primary room. The district teachers are as follows: No. 1, Claude Seward; No. 2, Gertrude Deardurff; No. 6, John Biesicker, and No. , Miss Fannie Smart.

EGYPT. Tom Huston is working for Jasper Pass. W. F. Michael attended church at Rensselaer Sunday. Frank Welsh hauled cord wood to Remington Monday. Wilbur Bowers attended the party at home Friday night. Ray Michael spent Saturday night and Sunday at Goodland. Wilbur Bowers attended church at Jit. Hope Sunday evening. Mrs. W. F. Michaels called on

Mrs. Joseph Galey Thursday. Mrs. D. V. Blake called on Mrs. Antcliff Saturday afternoon. Wilbur Bowers attended band concert at Remington Tuesday nightMrs. Jesse Dunn and children visited Mrs. Willard Pruett Wednesday. Misses Ida Karr and Edith and Susie Payne visited Charles Antcllff’s Thursday. Frank Welsh and W. H. Wortley attended the ball game at Foresman Sunday afternoon. Jack Montgomery and Tom Hoyes of Rensselaer were seen in this locality Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dunn and children visited Clarence Pruett and wife of Goodland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sampson and family and Miss Hattie Hartong of Joliet, 111., visited Charles Antcliff and family Sunday. Mrs. W. F. Michael and daughter Eva spent Wednesday night with Mrs. James Bullis and family, before Nettie and Ara departed for Larimore X. D.

Li.~. Dr. Clayton was called to Mr. Zable's Thursday. Will Culp and family visited his brother, J. H. Culp, Wednesday. The Missionary ladies met last Tuesday with Mrs. Ella Noland. Jess Morris has moved from Monon to the D. E. Noland farm, east of here. Mr. Middlestadt, the trustee of Monon tp., was in our village Tuesday on business. Grandma Mellender has been sick the past week with malaria fever. Dr. Clayton is waiting on her. Mrs. H. C. Anderson went last Saturday to Frankfort to be at the bedside of her mother, who is in very poor health. There was a large crowd from Lee and vicinity that attended the basket meeting in Milroy tp., last Sunday. The Lee orchestra played for them. The funeral of Mrs. Denton was held at the church at this place by Rev. Northrop of Monon and interment made in the Osborne cemetery. George Holeman and wife and baby of Monticello spent Saturday night and Sunday at Mrs. Holeman’s. Elzie Webb’s were also there Sunday.

NORTHEAST BARKLEY. Mrs. Lon Daniels visited her brother, Ed Walker, Tuesday. Elbert Hurley took a load of pickles to Gifford Tuesday. Newt Bowman made a business trip to Rensselaer Monday. Ed Walker is building a grainery for his father, I. D. Walker. Miss Goldie Bowman came Thursday to keep house for her fatherThe welcome rain .of Wednesday night gladened the hearts of all the farmers hereabouts. John Daniels took his departure for No. Dak., Monday to visit bis brother Ray, also to work in the harvest fields. Miss Lola Oliver, Floyd Towe and Miss Ethel and Everett Walker spent Sunday in Hanging Grove tp., at the Sunday School picnic.

FAIR OAKS. Milt Gundy made a business trip to LaCrosse Tuesday eve. All is'well in our neck of the woods and everybody feels fine. Frank Cox is taking a week off and is visiting relatives at ForesmanLittle Bofcf Stein of Lafayette is visiting his grandpa Right this week. Mrs. Right and Mrs. Bringle visited Mrs. Otto Cedarwall Wednesday atternoon. Ed Kesler left here Tuesday morning for Dakota where he had a job working on a dredge. Mr. Lowe, our night operator was visited by his wife and babe from Westfield, the first of the week. Ed Lakin returned home Sunday after an absence of three or four weeks with the Ripples’ Shows. James McColly, with a gang of men are building an addition of two rooms onto Mrs. Cottingham’s house. Rev. Dunkleberger delivered a very entertaining and powerful sermon at the Chgistian church Saturday eve. It is reported that James Wildrick of Kouts, has rented and will move into John White’s property in a short time. Mrs. Ike Right attended the picnic at Water Valley Saturday and with her husband visited relatives at Thayer Sunday. The Pickle Co. are taking in pickles by the wagon load nowadays. They have taken in up to the present about 1500 bushels. Christ Gundy and family of Monon and Grandma McGlinn of Rensselaer visited relatives here in Fair Oaks, the first of the week. We were visited with the heaviest

had for a long time, accompanied with quite a bit of wind and electricity. , Blanche Brasket left here Wednesday morning for Davenport, lowa, It is said she will be married upon her arrival there to a young man of that place. Our best wishes go with her. ♦ Pete Wood and little daughter Edna, and Dave Winston, left here for Lisbon, North Dakota Wednesday, the former will run a threshing machine while the latter will visit and work some in the harvest field. It is reported that Mrs. Joe Brown who moved from these parts down near Olney, 111,, last spring, owing to ill health, will come back to old Jasper, the place of health, wealth and prosperity. It is said Joe has a fine crop down there, but Mrs. Brown has been having a time with the old-fashioned chills and fever, the kind our old settlers used to have. There was quite a crowd from here to Water Valley Saturday to attend the picnic. Our band boys furnished the music for them. It is said that several of them got an overdose of Barley Corn. They also furnished band music for the dance at Virgie Saturday night. They report it the biggest gathering of the kind witnessed in the vicinity for a long time.