Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWB-QATHERERB.

SOUTH NEWTON. Joe Ade took dinner vrith Clarence Pruett’s Tuesday. Fred and Nell Parker spent Sunday at H. T. Feldhaus’. Trustee Ed Lane visited schools in this locality Tuesday. Irma Holmes spent Friday night with Mrs. Robert Overton. Mrs. Charles Weiss called on Mrs. Jay Lamson Friday afternoon, land 1 Elizabeth Feldhaus was the guest of Irma Holmes Sunday. Hildred Powell spent Tuesday night with her aunt, Mrs'. Alice Fotts. Charles Grant made a business trip to the Henry Shipman farm last Thursday. Miss Elizabeth Feldhaus was the land last week to work the coming summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waling spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pow'ell. Mrs. Clarence Pruett helped her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jesse Dunn to paper Wednesday. Misses Sadie, Paulus and Ruth Yeoman visited the Curtis Creek school Friday afternoon. Assessor Joe Thomas was in this vicinity last week seeing how much the farmers were worth. Misses Sadie and Bessie Paulus called on Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett Saturday evening. Bert Mayhew and wife of near Foresman were the guests of Ernest Mayhew and wife Sunday. Mrs. Alice Potts and Miss Sadie Paulus spent Sunday afternoon with Press Roberts and family. Mrs. Philip Paulus and daughter Sadie were caling on Mrs. Tay Lamson and family Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charlts Waling of Brook visited from Friday until Sunday with relatives in this vicinity. Mrs. Philip Paulus and daughter Bessie were visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew Sunday afternoon. Hildred and Lloyd Powell stayed with their grandma Powell Saturday while their mamma went to Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett visited with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sommers of Goodland, last Ihursday. \ Clarence Pruett and wife attended Sunday school at Mt. Hope in Jordan tp., Sunday and took dinner with the former’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Nelse Hough spent last Thursday with the latter’s sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Rowley of Brook. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiss and two children took dinner Sunday with the former’s brother John and family of near^Goodland. Uncle Henry Shipman spent last Thursday night with Chas. Weiss and family. He went the latter part of the week to visit with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Grant, for a few days before leaving for Dakota to spend the summer with another daughter.

FAIR OAKS. Chas. Gundy was at home again Sunday. Ik© Kight was in Indianapolis on business Saturday. Mr. Baxter on section 32 on the Otis ranch shredded corn this week. Mrs. Gottlngham returned home Monday after about a week’s visit in Illinois. Rev. Peterson filled his regular appointment in the M. E. church Saturday eve. Miss Carrie McKay went down near Kirklln Wednesday to visit relatives a couple weeks. Mrs. Will Warren and Mrs. Hannah Culp visited at Mack Comer’s near Blackford Tuesday. Mrs. Ike Kight and Mrs. A. M. Bringle gave Mrs. Otto Cedarwall an all day’s visit Wednesday. Frank Cox and Will Cottingham with their best girls attended the theater at Rensselaer Monday eve. William Linter’s children of near Morocco visited their sister, Mrs. Lambert Saturday and Sunday. Mise Hazel Helsel, who has been over at Pullman, 111., the past week, returned to Fair Oaks Monday eve. Bert Umfrees and Orval Stram left here Wednesday morning for North Dakota to work this summer. Frank Brusnahan of New Mexico with his cousin, Miss Clara of Parr, attended teachers’ institute here Saturday. The C. & E. I. bridge carpenters are here now, repairing the water

tank and making some other improvements. F. R. Erwin’s little babe is getting along fine now, but Grandma Allen and L. Stowers are not improving any. Fine weather still prevails, although we had a very high wind Monday. The sand and snowflurries were on the move all day. Homer Stanley of a few miles east of here moved-over into Newton county Wednesday, onto what is known as the Talbot farm. Born, the first of the week, to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lakin, on the old Lakin homestead, a 5 pound girl. All concerned are getting along fine. William Johnson of the Harris ranch begun sowing oats Wednes--day. There wi}l be lots of oats sown in the next two weeks if the fine weather continues.

Mr. Collins, the pickle man, has had two carload of pickles barreled and shipped away this week and is looking for another carload of barrels to be filled. He expects- to ship all of them out now. Mr. and Mrs. Munden, who live down near Charlottsville, stopped off here on their way home and visited a week with cld neighbors and friends. They had been spending a few weeks with their son John and family at Momence. There are six eighth grade scholars to go to Parr Saturday to take the examination. The ones from here are Faun Casey, Gladys Halleck, Amy Bringle, Lola Moore, Ross Wood and Flossie Gundy, and one from the Fuller school, netter Brown. Chas. Halleck received a heavy shipment of nursery stock last week and they sore are a lot of fine trees. Besides he has a very large assortment of his own raising. He and several men are very busy unpacking and repacking and shipping stock away.

Lanta Joiner and sister Georgia who have been in these parts visiting friends and relatives left here Tuesday evening for Demotte, and on the following morning started for their home in St. Cloud, Minn. The former had to go back to take up his work on a dredge tyoa.t Ikje Right returned home Wednesday from a business trip of a few days duration at Danville, 111., and w r hile there he had the pleasure of hearing that much noted evangelist, Billy Sunday, speak In a tabernacle which would hold 5,000 to 6,000 people. It was filled to its capacity and a great number were turned away. The lid blew off in Fair Oaks Saturday night. It is reported, and about 25 men of all ages got on high lonesome. A couple of old soaks got so full they got down in the street and lay there until 4 o’clock next morning, it is said. What a shame, what an outrage. It is strange that human intelligence should run so low.

PARR. Having some very fine weather these days. Everybody bring their cream to W. E. Price and get a fair test. I think the truant officer should visit this neck of the woods once in awhile. Ed Gilmore went to Rensselaer Tuesday evening to attend to some important business. Mrs. Grace Mcßryde of Chicago is visiting her parents and other relatives in these parts. Clyde Gunyon left for Minnesota Thursday morning where he will work o*ll a dredge as runner. After Mr. Gilmore gets his business in shape he Is going to travel extensively through the west. Abe Myers left for South Bend the first of the week where he'Jhas a position as runner of a dredge. Milo Miller of Mt. Ayr is spending a few days at Parr looking after some business of a very delicate nature. R. M. Hurley is preparing his truck patch by giving it a coat of good old fertilizer. That’s the dope, Roy. Neddie Barkley has moved from his property here onto the Henry Hayes farm one mile north of Blackford, in Barkley tp. Some of the farmers are buzzing up their summer’s wood, a nice thing to have for the cooks to run to through the summer season. A. D. Stephenson is hauling the gravel for the foundation for the new creamery, work on which will commence the first of the week. Mrs. Iva Pullins returned\from Chicago Heightsi where she wjra visiting her sister, Mrs. Fern McAuley, and other relatives and Mends. S. T. Comer & Son shipped a car of stock Tuesday night; $9.50 for hogs is fine dope for the producer, but how about the consumer? Fine for him, too, if he can get to it. The Bowery has changed hands once more, D. V. Comer being the late purchaser. Mr. Comer 1b going to put in a sjoek of groceries at

first, and later he will perhaps launch out into a general merchandise store. The band instructor, Otto Braun, of Lowell, was down Tuesday evening to assist the boys in a few difficult pieces. Several of the young people of Fair Oaks were down on the same occasion to hear the boys do the musical stunt. C. Frank Brusnahan left for Chicago Tuesday morning on the riiilk train where he will spend a few days with his uncle and brothers Lenna and Owen, then return to his home at Ricardo, N. M., where he is conducting a real estate and law business. Buck and John McCurtain were up to the river Tuesday, duck hunting. They hunted all day long but only got one duck, and that one came to them without hunting or shooting. We are unable to find out which one of them fell in, but they came back pretty well drenched. The Ostander musical entertainment held in the hall Monday night by blind people was well attended. They gave a good entertainment of music, declamations and songs of a good, nature. Everybody present seemed to enjoy themselves fine, and went home feeling that they had got value received for their money. They will give another entertainment here on April 2. Come out and help the blind. The Ladies’ Aid held an all day’s session Wednesday at Mrs. Flora McCurtain’s. The principal features of the day was talking and sewing carpet rags. Each one had so much work to perform before they were entitled to their dinner. So, about the eleventh hour o couple of preachers happened in, thinking they might strike some yellow legged chickens, but they got fooled. It was blue-winged goose, and they could not partake until they took a turn in the sewing circle. They got busy with their needles, working at a rapid pace, sticking their fingers about as often as they did. the rags, to get their allotted work done so they could; get at that goose. After they had painfully-worked for some time dinner was announced. The Aid, thinking they had a sufficient amount of work to entitle them to their dinner, they were admitted to the dining room, and such a goose-eating time was never witnessed before. While they were putting away goose to do them for a day or so. Upon going back to their work they found that the product of their labor had disappeared, and would not be found

anywhere. But if they had have known just where to look they could have found it in the pocket of one of the fairer sex’s pinafore. To be concluded.

FROM NORTH, DAKOTA. Lisbon, N. D., March 11. Editor Babcock: In renewing my subscription for The Democrat for the year of 1910, I hand you $1.50. Among other things I will say we are all well, and like this country fine. John Tanner will be located about three miles from me, we are expecting him here about March 14, and a bunch of us fellows intend to help move him on his new farm. The rest of the Jasper county folks are all doing well and are looking fat and sassy. This is the best place for a man to make money of any state that I ever knew of. I have all my land fall plowed and all ready to commence drilling the grain in. I think we can commence In about ten days if the weather continues like it is at present, as we are having weather that no man could ask any better. I like the winter much better out here than I do in Indiana. We had only two blizzards this winter. I will close hoping all old friends are enjoying good health, Yours truly, A. J. CHARLES.

PINE GROVE. Mrs. John Hurley spent Tuesday ewith Mrs. James Torbet. Rosa Snow called on Gusta McCleary Wednesday afternoon. Bessie Ropp spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. Arthur Ropp. Mrs. George Daniels called on Mrs. James Torbet Ihursday. Several from this'vicinity attended church at Parr Sunday evening. Mrs. Jane Hurley spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daniels left Wednesday for their future home In North Dakota. Miss Ruth Gilmore spent Saturday night and Sunday with her aunt and family, Mrs. Chas. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Art Snow and little son Bpent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Snow. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daniels and John Daniels were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daniels and daughter Mary spent Thursday night and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Walker. Ruth and Nellie Gilmore and Bernice and Lucy Walker spent. Sunday afternoon with Chloae and Creola Torbet.

BEAVER LAKE. Albert Wilson buzzed wood Tuesday. William Guthrie Is on the sick list. Will Lyons Is hauling sawlogs this week. Daniel Guthrie begun work at Chas. Elijah’s Monday. Henry Deardruff called on Bert Sullivan Wednesday evening. v Mrs. Carrie Sullivan spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. Leona Sullivan. The poultry man from Morocco has begun his rounds in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Butts were guests of Riley Hickman and family Friday. We are having fine weather for March, and it looks like gardenmaking. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith called at their uncle’s Riley Hickman’s Saturday. . Miss Nora and Willie Guthrie visited Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robinson Wednesday. James Samson called on his brother Jake of near the Kankakee river Sunday. George Wildrick of Brook visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John .Wildrick Sunday. J. B. Robinson is going to have a sale the 22d and is going to Oklahoma in the near future. Mrs. Daniel Stutzman and little son Ralph were visiting her brother John Chupp, in Arthur, 111., this week.

MILROY. Mr. and Mrs. Herman were in Monon Saturday. Chas. Wood attended I. O. O. F. lodge at Wolcott Tuesday night. Ed Herman helped John Mitchell on the new addition to his house. Mrs. Mary McCashen and daughter Ettie visited D. Z. Clark’s Wednesday. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Ettie visited Alva McCashen’s Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Holeman and daughter Kathryn called on Mrs. Bivins Wednesday. Miss Lural Anderson spent Wednesday night with Willard Johnson and family. Albert Wood of Momence, 111., is visiting his parents and friends here for a short time. Mrs. Geo. Wood and Mrs. Willard Johnson were Lee callers Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Abersol visited the George Foulks farm Wednesday, with the Intention of renting It. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lear spent Wednesday with Mrs. Johns and John Mlitchell and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Foulke attended church at Lee Sunday, and took dinner with Mrs. Ida Lewis. Mrs. Tevis, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thos. Spencer, returned to her home in Monticello Saturday. ■V LEE. John Wilkins and family visited Mr. Zable Sunday. T. P. Jacks disposed Of his two veal calves this week. The Lee school will be out on Saturday of next week. Miss Anna Zable has been sick this week with the grip. Mrs. May Jacks is slowly improving from her rheumatism. Glenn Culp was out of school this week with an attack of grip. Mr. Marion, who was living on the D. E. Noland farm, moved Monday. S. W. Noland and family went from church Sunday to Alvin Clark’s for dinner Tuesday of this week Grandma Moore was 85 years old, and her daughter and family, John Mellender’s were there. Fr©d Stjers went Monday morning to Kankakee, 111., to visit his wife, who has been staying with their daughter the past few days. Joe Clark and family, Charles Lefler and family, S. M. Jacks and family, and Alf Jacks and wife of Rensselaer were at T. P. Jacks’ Sunday. Mrs. Ann Rishling and son Hoy were called to Remington the middle of the week by the death of an infant child of her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Lewis. Mr. Jones, president of the Sunday School association at Monon, visited our Sunday School last Sunday. The S. S. convention will be held at the M. E. church in Monon next Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ostander, the blind people of this place, gave an entertainment at Parr Monday night, Rensselaer Tuesday and Monon Wednesday night. They play at McCoysburg to-night, The Lee orchestra will go with them. Everybody is invited to come and enjoy a pleasant evening.

NORTH UNION. Lena Schultz spent Sunday with her parents. Elsie Schultz spent Sunday with Lena Schultz* The farmers are beginning to talk about sowing oats. Mrs. Will Faylor went to Fair Oaks Tuesday, shopping. Mr. Stanley and family were in Fair Oaks Tuesday evening. Wm. Schultz and family spent Sunday with Otto Schultz and family. Will Faylor has been hauling oats to Fair Oaks for two or three days. Wess Faylor’s little children are on the way to recovery from the measles. August Schultz and wife spent Sunday with Mr. Wolf’s family up north of Virgie. Mrs. James Garriott and daughter attended church at Brushwood last Sunday morning. John Alter was doing some surveying in this part of the country Saturday. Joe Brown hauled a big load of lumber Monday. He is building on an addition to his residence. Mrs. Thompson of Fair Oaks visited her sister, Mrs. Joe Brown, who is on the sick list at this writing. Jack Reeder’s youngest child is on the sick list, but we did not hear whether it is anything serious or not. John Reed has been having a bad finger for the past week or ten days from blood poison, but It is on the mend now. Wess Faylor is hauling lumber from Rensselaer this week. He expects to erect a machine shed in the near future. Homer Stanley expects to move west of Fair Oaks this week. We understand he was unable to get the party to vacate his place where they expected to move. Mrs. John Gwin was called to the home of her mother, Mrs. McGowan Monday, who fell and got hurt quite badly. She returned to her school at Fair Oaks Tuesday morning. It is a wonder the way things are run nowadays "that companys are not held responsible for these contracts that are signed by their agents. How many see the work done? For our part there are others besides the officers that have families. What about this, Mr. Bader and the taxpayers all over the country? These people may continue to “examine” bridges all over this oounty and elsewhere, and they won’t find one that is up to the contract in all points as it sh Mid be. When we pay so* 1 anything we like to get all that belongs to Us.

MT. AYR. * (From The Pilot.) J. M. Miller made a business trip to Foreeraan Thursday. James Burns made a business trip to Rensselaer Monday. Chas. Baker of Oxford, was in town on business yesterday. Miss Nellie Harris' was calling on friends in Foresman Monday. County Supt, Schanlaub in town the latter part of last week. Victor Borklund is considerably improved and will soon be able to be up. Mrs. C. H. Stucker and Miss Stella Thurston were Rensselaer visitors Saturday. F. M. Doughty and family of near Fowler, have moved onto the Paxton farm, northeast of town Born Saturday, March 12, Bo Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hufty, a boy. Mother and babe are doing well. James O. Haskell of Bluffton, Ind., was here the latter part of the week visiting J. H. Dunlap and wife. J. S. Brenner went to Rensselaer Friday for a visit with his daughters, Mrs. Ray Adams and Mrs. Bruce Hardy. Dr. Gwin of Rensselaer, was over Sunday in consultation with Dr. Merry over J. H. Dunlap, whose condition is no better. Misses Hazel Perkins and Edith Bell of Goodland, came Monday for a short visit with the former’s sister, Mrs. Harry Wild. Wm. Lewis, who sold his property in the west part of town to James Davis, will move to Rensselaer some time this week. Mrs. Joseph Hilliard returned Saturday to her home in Wheatflftld after a short visit here at the home of her uncle, F. T. Huntington, .j Wm. Goodspeed, whor^went to Alaska about a year and a half ago, arrived here Monday and will spend a month or six weeks with his mother, Mrs. Arthur Ashby, and numerous friends. FOUR CORNERS. William Hershman and family visited with relatives in north Jas>per last Sunday. Geo. Stalbaum is and has been some time in a very critical condition with heart trouble. Carl Neier will finish the I. O. O. F. work on the 22d, and start for Montana the next morning. William Culin, who is working at Gibson, Ind., Sundayed with his fam-

ily at Tefft. He returned to his work Monday. Mrs. F. W. Fisher made a business trip Tuesday to Mt. Ayr, to have some dental work done, returning Wednesday. John T. Biggs sold his ..team of grays to a party from near Bass Lake, Starke county, and received in exchange |425 for them. J. Clark of north of Wheatfleld, who has -been quite sick with lung fever, is better at this writing and soon will be able to be out again. Oh, yes, Wheatfleld is a dry town but on last Saturday one could see men trying to walk on both sidewalks -and the middle of the street at the same time. Morris McCollough and wife drifted in from the far north a few days ago, and as soon as the Kankakee gets within its banks they will try and trap a carp or run down a dog fish. , It is reported that a certain man will sue Dr. Solt of San Pierre and other parties to dissolve a combination in restraint of trade. They are keeping some of the customers confined to their hous4s longer than necessary, thus injuring his trade. Oglesby, who recently moved here from lowa, now occupying and owing the Benson farm 1 mile west of Tefft, is in the city this week purchasing horses with which to do his farm work. He was unable on account of the scarcity and high prices to purchase here. F. G. Barnard and wife of Lochiel, also Frank Cones and wife of Fowler, came Saturday to celebrate the 70th birthday anniversary of their mother, Mrs. J. A. Hixson. Mrs. H. received a number of useful presents and is enjoying good health, doing all of her own housework, and in the amount of work and manner of doing it discounts a great many younger persons. May she be permitted to celebrate with her children many more birthday anniversaries, is the wish of her friends. Perhaps the ed’tor can tell why The emocrat arrives for distribution at Wheatfleld in regular days and the subscribers who receive their mail at Tefft and on rural route out of Tefft, have been disappointed in not receiving Wednesday’s paper until Thursday or Friday and the Saturday’s paper the following Monday. Our postmaster, rural carrier and the editor have received blessings without number the past two weeks, and

those interested would like to know where the fault lies. [Our packages for all the above points leave Rensselaer on the 6:02 p. m., trains Tuesday and Friday evenings* and should reach their destination the following morning in time to go out on the ruraLroutes. Editor.]