Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — Page 15

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Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

SOUTH NEWTON.

Walter Jenklson was a Mt. Ayr goer Tuesday. Wm. Hough made a business trip to Brook Monday. Fred Waling made a business trip up near Parr Monday. Harvey Pearson dpent Sunday afternoon with home folks. Wm. Hough shipped a barrel of rabbits from Mt. Ayr Tuesday. Ernest Mayhew made a business trip down near Brook Monday. Philip Paulus and Arthur Powell were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mrs. Fred Waling called on her sister, Mrs. Arthur Powell, Friday. Chas. Weiss helped Harry Dewey haul turkeys to Rensselaer Saturday. Joe Charles and Warner Hough spent Saturday evening in Rensselaer. Ben Wooley gathered up poultry in this locality several days this week. < Nelse Hough hauled a load of corn for Henry Harris Wednesday afternoon.

Harry Dewey and Fred Waling transacted business down near Brook Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hough and Mrs. Wooley were shopping In Rensselaer Wednesday. Joe Charles and Warner Hough took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hough. One of Ade’s valuable cows died Monday morning on their farm occupied by Harry Dewey. Nelse Hough made a business trip to the Harris farm near Mt. Ayr last Fr'day and attended the Sanderson sale. Albert Harris took a herd of cattle to Nelse Hough’s stock pasture Tuesday and remained over night with Mr. Hough. Warner Hough was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. He came home by way of Mt. Ayr and attended lodge there in the evening. Mrs. Henry Pearson has been quite sick with nervous prostration for about two weeks and hasn’t improved any at this writing. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pearson were Foresman goers Tuesday. They had the misfortune to break a buggy wheel while returning home. Harry Dewey had a runaway Saturday while returning home from Rensselaer which might have resulted in quite an accident. He stopped at Sidney Holmes* to leave some groceries and laying the lines down to pick up the groceries from the bottom of the wagon, the horses became frightened and ranaway. The lines got dragged to. the ground be- ' fore Harry could reach them so he

Jumped out and let them go. They dragged the wagon into the ditch once but reached Harry’s gate without any Injury.

Foley's Honey and Tar is the best and safest cough remedy for children. At the first symptoms of a cold give as directed, and ward off danger of croup, bronchitis, sore throat, cold in the head, and stuffy breathing. It brings comfort and ease to the little ones. Contains no opiates or other harmful drugs. Keep always on hand, and refuse substitutes. A. F. Long.

FAIR OAKS.

Our schools are preparing to have Christmas exercises. Lou Stowers is quite poorly and is slowly growing worse. Bert Warren and wife returned Monday from Hoopeston, 111. Dr. Laws of Rensselaer was up here Wednesday to see Miss Edith Moffitt.

Grandma Hall bought Eli Hooper’s property and moved into same this week. Bert Warren moved into his mother’s house , vacated by his grandmother Hall. We have been having all kinds of weather the past week and the roads are very bad. Wm. Geary went to Indianapolis Monday to see his brother, who Is very seriously sick.

Sam Crawford and Clarence Goff who left here last spring for some other parts, came back Saturday. The milk train gave un an April fool Wednesday morning as the mail clerk failed to throw us off any mall. Uncle Dave Winslow went down near Greenfield the first of the week to visit his brother for an indefinite time. Wm. Blair, who has been- out in lowa working on a dredge the past season, came home the first of the week. Mrs. F. E. Husted, while In Chicago last week was married to John Thorn of JoHlet. They will begin housekeeping In a week or ten days at Joliet. Joe Winslow moved into Al Helsel’s property this week. He worked at shoveling coal at the coal shute while Wm. Geary was visiting his brother at Indianapolis. Roy Gundy, who has a position as collector for a telephone company In Gary, was at home over Sunday. He says they talk of moving to Hammond, so he and his father can board at home. Grandpa Erwin, who came back from Dakota a couple of weeks ago,

underwent a very severe operation last week, by a physician of Rensselaer. There was a large blood tumor on one of his shoulders, and he had it removed and it appeared to be a success. It is hoped he will get along all right from now on. Some time ago one or our rabbit hunters got a tip on catching rabbits, so he equipped himself with the necessary outfit and started out. The plan was to take a rubber hose, and when they came to a hole in the ground or a hollow log they should run the hose in and call out: “Come out of there, Uncle Billy!” He followed the directions, but Uncle Billy didn’t come. He doesn’t say much about his success, not even to his wife.

Rich Men’s Gifts Are Poor besides this: “I want to go on record as saying that I regard Electric Bitters as one of the greatest gifts that God has made to woman,” writes Mrs. O. Rhine-vault, of Vestal Center, N. Y., “I can never forget what it has done for me.” This glorious medicine gives a woman buoyant spirits, vigor of body and Jubilant health. It quickly cures Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Headache, Backache, Fainting and Dizzy Spells; soon builds up the weak, ailing and sickly. Try them. 50c. at A. F. Long’s.

FOUR CORNERS.

Winter, In all Its glory, holds this sectton within Its grasp. Mrs. John Mannan, who has been In poor health for the past year, is improving R. S. Davis is on the sick list, likewise F. W. Fisher, who Is sick with rheumatism and the grip. Mrs. Lee Noland, after a visit with her daughter Mrs. F. W. Fisher, returned to her home Monday. Henry Hunsicker and wife are making preparations for a short visit with relatives In the south part of the state. Chas. Meyers and wife will soon take up their abode in Florida. They expect to start Immediately after Christmas. Ed Wesher shipped his turkeys to Chicago Tuesday. They are selling for 25 cents per pound now, and in good demand. F. W. Fisher and wife attended the Stock Show in Chicago last week and visited friends and relatives In Chicago and Hammond. George Stalbaum of North Kankakee township, who has been dangerously sick for several weeks, is reported better at this writing. Weener Bros, and Grover Smith are shipping in. tile and expect to place them where they will do the most good as fast as the weather will permit. Saturday Is election for supervisors. The taxpayers should see tUt the best material possible is elected to superintend the working of the roads.

Misses Effie Fisher and Bessie Biggs returned to Valparaiso Tuesday afternoon to resume their business course, after spending a few days with home folks. Quite a spirited contest in the corn exhibit at Wheatfield Tuesday. First prize went to William Delehanty, and second to Ernest Asher for the best 10 ears of corn. The Clager brothers and Otto Miller, who have been sojourning in the northwest the past summer, returned home a few days ago to spend the winter with relatives here. The farmers here would like for the owner of a corn shredder to pull his machine here and go to work. A great amount of corn remains in the shock, and the farmers need the feed for their stock. FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. The subject which was to have been presented on the last day of the Farmers’ Institute, showing the relation between the railroad and the farmer, did not materialize. A few who expressed poultry about Thanksgiving and had a part of the shipment “lifted” would have been pleased to have had the subject discussed, with the express company included. D. S. Clark was elected president and A. S. Keen, secretary. The subject presented by R. L. Thompson was well received, also John E. Alter proved as usual a drawing card. The subjects of Prof. Sterrett and wife were pronounced good by all who were fortunate enough to be present. On account of the snow and weather few came from the country.

Preventics, the new Candy Cold Cure Tablets, are said by druggists to have four special specific advantages over all other remedies for a cold. First —They contain no Quinine, nothing harsh or sickening. Second— They give almost Instant relief. Third—Pleasant to the taste, like candy. Fourth —A large box— 4B Preventics—at 25 cents. Also fine for feverish children. Sold by all dealers. Your girl friend would like a Phoenix muffler, sweater coat, or gloves for Xmas, and you will find a fine line at my storeC. EARL DUVALL. Stung For 15 Years by Indigestion’s pangs—trying many doctors and $200.00 worth of medicine in vain, B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside, N. C., at last used Dr. King's New Life Pills, and writes they wholly cured him. They cure Constipation, Bllllousness, Sick Headache, Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles, 25c at A. F. Long’s.

Russian Christmas Customs.

At Christmas time in the Russian provinces, as at Halloween in other countries, popular superstition holds that it is very easy to read the future. The girls read the future by breaking an egg In a glass of water and deducing their fate from the shape it takes, first leaving it before the shrine of some saint, or by pouring melted wax into cold water. The final test of fate is to put a ring of each guest into a large pan, covered with a cloth, being careful to place three bits of charcoal and small pieces of bread and salt at the psychic angle of the pan. The rings are all turned with a spoon, while the girls sing songs. At the end of each song, says the Travel Magazine, a ring is pulled out and the song that has been sung is known to foretell the future of the owner of the ring.

Turkeys In Olden Times.

In the early days of our country wild turkeys were caught in turkey pens. These were inclosures made of poles twenty feet long, laid one above the other, forming a solid wall ten feet high. This was covered with a close roof of poles and brush. A ditch was dug beginning fifty feet distant from the pen, sloping down, carried under one side of the pen and opening up into it througb a board with a hole just large enough to let a turkey pass. Corn was strewn the whole, length of the ditch. The turkeys followed the ditch and the corn up through the hole into the pen, holding their beads too high ever to find their way out again. Often fifty captives would be found in the morning.

Christmas In Poland. A pretty custom in the Polish provinces is to spread straw under the table at the Christmas feast, so that no one shall forget In the midst of their merriment that the Lord of all was born tn a manger.

Christmas Riddles. Gifts we brought, so rich and rare. Placed them as an offering there. Answer.—Wise men. I carried the mother and Baby dear Awaj’ from the king, whom all did fear. Answer.—Donkey. In your homes I sometimes stand. Trimmed with lights and fairies grand. Answer.—Christmas tree. Made of sugar, colored bright. Children beg for “just a bite.” Answer.—Candy.

An Old Christmas Carol. Oh, wake ye. little children. And bo of goodlie cheer! Ton sun so high along the sky Hath shone two thousand year, And onoe it saw a little child In manger lying, undefiled. And all about the cattle mild Did lovingly draw near. 00 wake ye. little children. And be of goodlie cheer. Ob, wake ye, little children. And let each heart be gay. Good will to mon they caroled then. And why should ye delayT Awake, wake and rise and sing And greet ye every living thing. For man and boast did greet your Kina On that first Christmas day.

A CHRISTMAS CONSERVE.

By ELLA STEPHENS.

[Copyright, 1909, by American Press Aaao- \ elation.] Take oranges and lemons, too; Remove the juice and pulp And add the rinds, grated most fine Or by machine ground up.

Next put through the grinding machine Or chop in wooden bowl The walnuts and the raisins good And almonds, blanched when whole. Dissolve the sugar in a pint Of excellent grape juice; Then add to it the other things And gradually reduce

By simmering all quite slowly down Till like a marmalade. Put into glasses, seal and place Within the pantry’s shade.

With Christmas roast or toothsome game This conserve is delicious, Or thinly spread on buttered bread At tea time proves propitious.

Christmas Firecrackers.

In many parts of the south for years after the <*Ml war it was Christmas Instead of the Fourth of July that was the season for firecrackers. Every Christmas the storekeepers laid in large supplies of firecrackers, and the small boy of that period felt sadly slighted by Santa Claus unless he found at least one of his stockings stuffed with bunches of the little red explosives. In these districts such a thing as a firecracker on the Fourth of July was unknown. Of late years, however, the firecracker has been restored to its proper date in nearly every community, and Christmas noise Is confined chiefly to the blowing of horns and the beating of toy drums.

Luella's Christinas Gift.

By ROBERT DONNELL

**WT was the funniest thing ever," I? said the bachelor boarder. ■ “You see. Miss Luella and I are going to be married, so J can tell it. Miss Luella took a sudden fancy to hang up her stocking Christmas eve. just for the fun of it. She bung it below the mantel, setting « mouse trap on the turned over edge

“I FOUND NO INTRUDER.”

to hold it there. When she got up in the morning she ran to see If St. Nick had remembered her—and he had. “When she shrieked 1 grabbed one of my Indian exercise clubs, wrapped a quilt around me and rushed Into her room to kill the burly burglar. She was still shrieking. I looked under the bed. in the clothes closet, every-

A REAL, LIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

where, but found no intruder. I found him Id the stocking. **T drowned him—-in the washbowl. Then I took advantage of the occasion <o tell Miss Luella that if oho actually, wanted a real live Christiana preaent she could have maSubscribe for The Democrat

A Grand Treat For The Children The week of December. 25th’09 The 99c Racket Store has made arrangements with Mr. Fred Phillips, Proprietor of the Princess Theater, whereby every Boy and Girl from two years up to ten years of age will receive a FREE TICKET to see Santa Claus in all his glory. The Ticets can be had at The 99c Racket tore Proper. The Entertainment will take place December 23d and 24th, in the afternoon without fail. This is chance of a lifetime for the little ones, especially those from the country, as it gives them a chance to see Santa Claus and visit with him and have a grand time in the afternoon. Adults will be charged the small sum of 5 cents each and can buy their tickets right at the theater Yours for a good time, E. V. RANSFORD, Proprietor, The 99c Racket Store.

M n tai He. [Under this head notices win be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first insertion, %-cent per word for each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Ns notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage wiU be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.) For Sale—One hard coal burner. L. STRONG. Phone 173. For Sale—-3 good work horses, worth the money.—FRANK WEBBER, Phone 535-B, R-3. Wyandotte Cockerels—We have a few Wyandott Cockerels for sale.— GRANT CULP, Remington, Ind., R-4 Farm Loans—Money to loan ok farm property in any sums up to 310,000. E. P. HONAN. For Sale—27 Durnam Feeders, 40 tons of timothy hay, 1 road horse, lady driver.—J. KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind- ’Phone 8-K, Mt. Ayr. For Sale—Tbreslng outfit, Case separator 32-50 Russell 12-horse power, water tank, t.ll in good running order.—E- P. LANE, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3. For Sale—A few good milk cows and heifers for sale on the usual sale terms of one year without interest, if paid when due.—ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent Interest with no commission bat office charges. Write him. ts To Rent—About two acres of rich ground in Rensselaer, suitable for onions, potatoes, etc. Want to rent it on shares—Enquire at Democrat office. \ For Sale or Trade—Two lots In desirable location In Rensselaer, each 67x150, shade and fruit trees. Wilf sell for part cash or trade for cheap rental propei-ty in city- Enquire at Democrat office. For Sale or Rent—l3s acres improved farm 3ft miles northeast of Remington.—THOMAS SHELLY, Remington, Ind. Typecases For Sale—Eight or ten Italic Job Cases, full else and almost good as new, 50 cents each; 1 twothirds case, good as new, 50c.-—THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. Lost—Scotch Collie male dog, one toe gone on left hind foot and carries this foot up when he walks. Color yellow with white on neck. Two dollars reward for his return.— HARRY DEWEY, Rensselaer. Ind. Phone 13-C, Mt- Ayr exchange.