Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1909 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

Warner Elmore and H. W- Milner ■were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. W. E. Rich of Kankakee, 111., Visited relatives here last week. Mrs. Sam Thompson of Monticello Is visiting her mother here, Mrs. Rowlings. Charlie Galbraith went to Stuttgart, Ark., last week to look after his rice farm. Mrs. Dr. Recher of Morocco visited Mr. and Mrs. Turner Merritt a few day’s last week. A new asbestos curtain and steel stairway is to be placed in the Remington opera house. William Corah and daughter Grace, went to Chicago Thursday to visit his son Walter Corah. The Presbyterian ladies will give b shadow social at the home of Mrs. J. H. Gilbert next rrlday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Mid Sharkey and two children of Chicago are visiting relatives here at present writing. M. A. Gray has traded his ice business here for a half section of land in North Dakota, near Devil's Lake.

S. O. Lucas has bought a quarter section of land near Redfield, So. Dak., and will move there next spring. Ed O’Connor, who holds a position as mail clerk on the Rock Island railroad, was visiting relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Glass returned to their home at Milford, 111., last Tuesday after a visit with their son Ben north of town. W. H. Marquess of Lafayette, a former well known resident of Remington, is reported in a critical condition from heart trouble. A. E. Malsbury, who recently purchased the property occupied by Harry Hartley, moved here last week, and Harry has moved into the Pettit property on Ohio street. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Fell and Mrs. Brown of Auborn visited A. A. Fell and C. A. Bonner a few days last week, coming over in Mr. Fell’s auto. Mr. and Mrs. Z T. Merritt and Miss Nan Merritt of Miami, Fla., visited the family of his brother, Turner Merritt, here several days last week. All went to Rensselaer Friday to visit John Merritt and Mrs. Walter Forbes. Goodland Herald: Tuesday morning Mose> Sigo and F -ank Clouse, of Remington, and John Phelps, Ed Becker and John Kelley, of near Goodland left for Larimore, N. Da., and Mitchell, S. Da., where they will spend about ten days on a land viewing tour. Thursday the Goodland Bachelor Girls boarded the 11:14 train for Remington and were the guests of Mrs. Lola Robinson during the afternoon. The hostess prepared a sumptuous dinner for the occasion and we are safe in stating that the young ladies of this place did justice to the many good things to eat- Those who went over were the Mrs. Chas. Humston and Mrs. M. P. Avery and the Misses Bethel and Leia Banes, Lottie Kitt, Marion Jakway, Grace Davidson, Maude Harrington, Eleanor Robinson, Verna Wickwire, and Olive Burgess.—Goodland Herald.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Jasper Wright has been quite sick for the past week. Miss Jean Sigler ctme down from Chicago Thursday for a visit with friends and relatives here. Mrs. M. J. Deaver of Indianapolis, came Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence BlankenbakerMrs. Ida Shuey of Williamsport, Jnd., is here for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Oscar Schanlaub and family. J. V- Gildenropf and Alfred Zoborosky, who recently went to North Dakota, purchased a half section of land each. Dave Guthrie and Clare Vestal, who have been working on a dredge boat near Lake Village, returned home Friday, having completed the ditch. Joiin Pasdach and wife of Custer City, Okla., are here for a visit with Mrs. Pasdach's brother, Frank Clinton and family and Geo. Lynch and family. Mesdames Wm. Barbour and Albert Worth of Roselawn, spent Saturday and Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. David Mauck and family, north of here. Mrs. Geo. W. Miller and two daughters, of Byron, Okla., came Sunday for a visit with W. W. Miller and family, and the editor and mother and sister. Conday and Oscar Stucker have

purchased the Doty farm east of town consisting of 80 acres, the former taking the 40 on the north side of the road at slls per acre and the latter the 40 on the south at SBS. Kinder Kennedy's little boy Leo, is at a Chicago hospital having some shot removed from his hand and hip that were overlooked by the attending physicians at the time he was accidently shot by his younger brother.