Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1909 — VISITING HERE FROM FLORIDA. [ARTICLE]

VISITING HERE FROM FLORIDA.

jKMr. and Mrs. Taylor Merritt and Miss Nan Merritt of Buena Vista, Fla,, who are visiting their brother, Turner Merritt, at Remington, came over yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. Turner Merritt to visit the families of John Merritt and Walter Forbe 'J Taylor used to live 25 years ago just over the line in Newton county from Carpenter tp., and is well known to the older residents of West Carpenter. After leaving the farm he was book-keeper for several years in the Little & Co., store at Goodland. He was then supposed to be as immune from the wiles of women as Myrt Price, who has often been pitted against him in the debating society that used to flourish in West Carpenter a quarter of a century ago. Taylor, however, after going to Florida fell a victim to the charms of one woman,and is now a happy Benedict. Miss Merritt also lived on the farm over there in those long ago days and will be happily remembered by West Carpenter residents of that period.