Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF

McCOYSBURG. Mrs. Chas. Stultz, and son Hallie, "were in Rensselaer Thursday. Miss Rae Haniford of this place, spent Sunday- with her parents at. Gifford. J Chas. Stultz spent Sunday in Rensselaer the .guest of Patrick Uallagan. ' Ed Peregrine and daughters, Mary and Myrtle spent Sunday frith F. H. Porter and family. Ed Cook and sister Bertha, spent Sunday evening with the Misses Edna and Delena Lefler. , Mrs. Chas. Saidla’s son Harvey and Miss Eva Hughes, were Rensselaer shoppers Tuesday. Ella and Florence Bussel spent Saturday and Sunday with their brother, R. L. and family. R. .V Johns’ son Robert, and Ray and Ernest Herr went to Kersey Sunday via auto route. Mrs. Van Woods and little sons Jay and John visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Phillips a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lefler and daughter, Francis' spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Estel Osbornq of northwest of Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams and little daughter Iris, returned from Wheatfield Wednesday evening after a week’s visit with his parents. Mrs. Arthur Meadows and .little sons, Herbert and Fred of Monon came Sunday morning to spend the day with her husband’s sister, Mrs. R. V. Johns and family, returning in the evening. .

NORTH UNION. Mr. McGowin was in Parr Tuesday. Frank Lakin spent Tuesday, with Will Faylor. Wm. Schultz was in Rensselaer Monday on business. Otto Schultz was in Rensselaer Tuesday on business. Mrs. F. Meader was a Rensselaer •’ goer the last of the week. Mr and Mrs. Shelby Comer were in Rensselaer last Friday shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harrington attended church at Good Hope last SundayMr. and Mrs. J. W. Faylor spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. M. Davisson near Aix. Jack Reeder was seen taking a binder home Wednesday. What is your hurry, Jack? Gertrude, Raymond and Bessie Faylor spent part of Sunday with Wm. Reed’s, children. . H. Dexter was in Rensselaer last Friday and his daughter Josie came home with him and spent Sunday. Mrs. 'J. W. Faylor and three girls and Mrs. Will Faylor and mother, Mrs,. M. Dodge, were in town shopping Friday.NPr. and Mrs. J. W. Faylor and Mrs. James Garriott and Mrs. Will Faylor attended the quarterly meeting last Sunday. Mrs. M. .Dodge of Fair Oaks, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Will Faylor for about a week, returned home Wednesday. We had a hard rain Friday and bad weather for three or four days, freezing so hard that the leaves oh the trees were frozen stiff. Wess Faylor, August Schultz, Rinhart Eiles, Paul L. Schultz were all in town Saturday hunting up a ditch, and all you can hear now is ditch talk. '’We understand more.of our farmer's have the auto fever. Will Faylor and August Schultz are on the fence, and that Paul L. Schultz has bargained with Farmer Hopkins for a five passenger car which we understand will cost in the neigh- ■ borhood of $2,000, to arrive some time in May, .

FOUR CORNERS. The farmers have concluded that May is a better time to plant corn in Indiana ' than April. Orville Fisher made a trip to Illinois Saturday to visit his brother Homer, and purchase seed corn. The farmers there are unable to work on account of wet weather. T. F. Maloney was down tp Wheatfield Monday to pay the penalty for living in Jasper county and to give his share of the county’s donation to the Winamac Bridge Co. ° . f Mrs. Wm. Davis, who was opsyj ated on last Wednesday ..for a turner, is improving hicely and is now able to sit up a greater part of the time. Dr. Fyfe was the physician in charge. After the R. S. Davis ditch is completed, we understand that two of Kaqkakee township taxpayers will have a few sewers to sell to the farmers to •be uspd for gatepost holes. Wheatfield is a wet town and a goodly number were wet inside and out- last Saturday night. It> took until Sunday noon for some", or

them to dry out sufficiently to be able to walk, we are informed. The Ostander Concert Co., played to a reasonably well filled house Monday night at Wheatfield. Had the freather permitted, the people from the country would have, at tend-' ed in larger numbers. Weather conditions being favora’vble they will be greeted with a full house on their return. Gerald Maloney, who has been dangerously sick with pneumonia for the passed two or three weeks, is now slowly improving. Soon after the trained nurse took charge of him there was a change for the better. Should there be no complications set in he will be out in two or three weeks. "• ♦ Ohr friend Bert Vandercar we see, has a place on the Democrat county ticket. The taxpayers of Jasper county can do no better than to elect him. While, township assessor he filled the place well, a credit to himself and an honor to hi® party. Kankakee township never had a better assessor than Bert and the same will be said of him after his term of office has expired if the voters will elect him county assessor In November. We are in receipt of a communication showing how much more desirable it is in the writer’s opinion to raise a boy in a saloon than in a great many places in the country. She stated she had visited Burrow’s saloon quite often (which we do not doubt for she trots ih « that class) and had heard no swearing worth mentioning. Now we suggest, that she take some of her family with her on her next trip, to do her swearing for her, for a visit to a saloon where is ne swearing is out of date and we want her tq have the full benefit of a saloon visit. She says one boy from the country swore over the telephone shocking. When one considers the building and the inmates who occupy it, where this particular telephone is located, where the siding is warped and the nails bent with the weight of profanity and vulgarity which has clung to it for years, we shall note the advantage of Cy, and disadvantages of country life as set forth, and if her system of training stands the test, her name shall be handed down to the unborn millions written in letters of gold. >

NUBBIN RIDGE. Wanted—a little sunshine. . Will Markin and family visited' Wesley Price’s Sunday. George and Ben Hopkins wereRensselaer goers Tuesday. Rev. Jenkins of Parr, will preach at Aix Sunday at 10 a. m. Will Whitaker and family visited Mi 7 . and Mrs. John Scott’s, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Baker visited the latter’s mother, Mrs. J. Price, Sunday. John Williams of McCoysburg, visited home folks on Nubbin Ridge, Sunday. John Frazee of Peru came Monday to look after his farm on Nubbin Ridge. t Irvin Lewis is moving on his father’s farm in Barkley township, this .week. Alex Hurley and family visited their daughter, Mrs-. Addie Warne at Parr Sunday. Vilas Price and Ben Hopkins went to Rensselaer Saturday. What is the attraction, boys?’ Leota Hurley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley, died Tuesday night of stomach trouble, being Sick but a few days. Lincoln Jenkiifs of near McCoysburg, visited his sisters, Mrs. Samuel Price and Mrs. J. W. Hurley, Saturday night and Sunday. Farmer Hopkins has a new invention on automobiles and guarantees! it to move the most difficult case of balking. Say, Farmer, your mule team is all right. Mrs. James Meyers and daughter, Mrs. Charles Reed,, were „ called to the bedside of Mrs. Reed’s sister, Mrs. James Pierson,, who is seriously sick at Muskeego, Okla. Sunday school’ was organized at Biirnstown last Sunday by electing Manuel Williams, superintendent Charles Campbell, assistant superintendent; Katie Arnold, secretary and treasurer.: Everybody is cordially invited to come out and help' make it a success. ' i

FAIR OAKS. James Clifton, wife and boy are at Demotte staying with relatives. The bad weather has made the gravel road grading a drag this week. G. H. Hillis and Chas. Lorane unloaded a car of fertilizer here this week. ' f John Kight shipped his household goods from Wheatfield to Fair Oaks last week. Edgar Stewart of Mt. Ayr and a_ tumbs.tone agept of Oxford were in our town Tuesday, • C. T. Otie of Chicago was in these

parts Wednesday, looking after ranch affairs. Jap Wright made another trip to our town Tuesday, but he didn’t find his runaways this time. Enos ; Moffitt left here Thursday morning for North Dakota where he expects to remain for an indefinite time. Carrie and Mattie McCoy, who have been visiting relatives at Kirlfclin for some time, returned home Sunday evening. Floyd Cox went to Chicago Monday, where he met Fred McCoy and together they left for Montana to take up a claim. Frank Goff been putting a new curb in the town well and putting it in repair after tfro years of idleness. • The Ostander Cohort Co., of Lee gave an entertainment to a fair sized audience at the M. E. church Wednesday evening. Postmaster Thompson has made a little improvement in the past few days and is able to do office work again but he still suffers considerably with his. back. There is a move on foot to change the mail route out of here so as to make more territory for a route out of Mt. Ayr, so we have been informed. Whether it will be a go is yet to be seen. , Rev. Peterson filled his regular appointment at the M. E. churcn Saturday night. He is contemplating beginning a four weeks meetings, here to be held in a tent in the park shortly. Mrs. Cox and sister, Mrs. C. A. Gundy, accompanied the former’s daughter to the hospital in Chicago Wednesday tp have an operation performed, which it w T as thought to have been successful. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Wess Thorn of Joliet, 111., came up last Saturday to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Allen. They will remain here with her parents, Chas. Halleck’s, for an indefinite time. Minnje Cox was taken yery seriously sick Friday and Dr. Rice of Roselawn was called and diagnoses her case as appendicitis. They took her to Chicago Wednesday evening for an operation. We surely have been having some awful rough weather the past week. The cold and snow have completely kiljed all of the young oak leaves which were getting to be of good size. Now they are all brown and look fearfully bad.

PINE GROVE. Mrs. James Torbet called on Mrs. Wm. Jordan Wednesday afternoon.

Miss Caarrie Garriott took dinner With Miss Bernice Walter Sunday, : ■. ■ Miss Gusta McCleary is working for Mrs. Jay Stockton, west of Rensselaer. Misses Cloae Torbet and Bertha Cooper were the guests of Lillie Williams Sunday. Mrs. Chas. W’alker and three children called on Mre. Monday afternoon. W Mr. and Mr®. Wm. Openchain and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell. Mrs. Lizzie Cooler and Mrs. Sarah McCleary attended church at Good Hope Sunday afternoon. Simon Cooper got quite bruised up and one of his ankles twisted out of place Saturday while breaking a colt to drive. Everett Walker and Miss Carrie Garriott spent Sunday evening with the former’s sister, Miss Ethel Walker, of near Newland. Several of this vicinity attended the funeral of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. West Walker Wednesiday. Interment was made in the Barkley cemetery.

SOUTH NEWTON. Oscar Weiss visited with the Holmes boys Sunday. Mrs. Alice Potts did shopping in Rensselaer Wednesday. Earl Leek, sold a fat hog to Lyons & Bicknell at Mt, Ayr Tuesday. Marshall Pruett spent Tuesday with his brother Clarence and wife. Thos. Lamison of Rensselaer was out seeing after his farm Thursday. Mrs. Levi Critser and .children spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Charles Weiss. Most of the farmers in this locality hauled fertilizer from Rensselaer last Friday. Miss Ruth Marsh returned to her home Sunday having finished work for Mrs. Charles Weiss. Clarence Pruett and wife spent Sunday evening with Amiel Somffiers and wife near Foresman. Mrs. Fred Waling visited last .Thursday w’ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Potts near Brook. Fred Standish of Mt. Ayr was out on the 29 line fixing the telephones Wednesday forenoon. Trustee Ed Lane was taking enumeration in this locality Wednesday and took dinner with C. R. Weiss. Mrs. Fred. Waling, was called to Brook ‘Wednesday by the sudden illness of her mother, Mrs. Silas Potts. Mrs. Mary Powell and daughter,

Mrs. Alice Potts were the gdests of Mr. and yrs. Philip Paulus and family Sunday. < . '■ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Overton spent Saturday night and Sunday with the latter’s sister and husbands, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Lewis. Mrs. Roy Flanders went "to Piercetons last Thursday to visit with her husband who is staying at one of his farms near that place. Charles Waling of Brook had a -car load of tile shipped to Julian last -week to be hauled to his farm in this vicinity. Levi Critser & Son will put them in.

■ 1 LEE. Mrs. T.. P. Jacks was sick during the past week. 1 Grandma Williamson is very poorly with rheumatism. S. M. Jacks' and wife were at H. C. Anderson’s Sunday. Rev. Queonan went from church Sunday to Will Rishlings’ for dinner. Miss Ethel Lewis is sewing this week for Miss Lural Anderson, at the latter’s home. Morris Jacks and Cleo Mellender went from church Sunday to J. H. Culp’s for dinner. Craley Mellender, the census enumerator, ha® been at work in this place this week. Joseph Stewart had a very sick horse Sunday, and called the veterinary. It isi improving now. John Mellender and wife went from church Sunday to Mrs. HOleman’s for dinner. Mrs. Henry Randle of Rensselaer came Saturday evening to visit her brother’s family, Fred Stiers over Sunday and returned Monday morning. Fred Carlson of Chicago, who farmed the place last summer just east of here where John Mellender lives now, wasi here last week marketing his last year’s corn crop.

PARR. The snow! The snow! Winter has set in rather early this year. Miss Rosa Lane is spending a few days visiting at Olga Schreegs’. The ice cream parlor is not doing a very rushing business these days. Mrs. Rowen and son Frank and family of Rensselaer visited at Chas. Rowen’s Sunday. Rev. Jesse Jenkins will fill the pulpit at Brushwood Sunday morning while Rev. Shaefer is away. Miss Ocie Wood has quit school on account of her nervous condition and is now head clerk in her father’s store. ■; Miss Agnes, Thomas of near Rens-

selaer, spent a few’ days with Martha and Olga Schreeg the first of the week. ■ • . . Roy Hudley has moved his blacksmith shop upon the Stibbe property and is ready to. do all kinds of smithing. Miss Blanche Babcock went to Lafayette Friday to visit at friend and attend a” reception at the Purdue University. The Ladies Aid met at Chas. Ro wen’s Wednesday afternoon to talk on the topics of the day and sew carpet rags. Herald Veder has returned from New Mexico and will spend the summer with his relatives’, D. S. Alter and L. W. Benbow. Horatio Ropp, wife and daughter of Rensselaer, spent Sunday with Wm. Blankebaker’s, and attended the I. O. O. F. anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Addie Warren were called to the bedside of her sister, Leota Hurley,Tuesday, who died that night of stomach trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Louie Schreeg are spending a few day in Chicago looking after their ’property and will return tn an auto if they can find one that will suit them. . An effort is being made to organize a ball team of both the young men and kids. Good material is at their command for both, especially the Wd team. J. E. Alter was seen in our burg Wednesday inquiring into everybody’s business and asking about their census. He has a job that he is proud of but can’t let it go. Lenny Brusnahan. who Was home on a few days' visit returned last Saturday, accompanied by Frank McCurtain who went on a job seeking prospect, but returned Wednesday with a job pending and will go to work in- a week or so. The I. O. O. F. Lodge at this place celebrated the ninety-first anniversary of the order by gathering at the hall and lead by the band and Rebekahs they marched to the church where they listened to a fine sermon (an old rounder which drove the nail clear home) by Bro. Page of'Frankfort, Ind. The building of the creamery at this place 4 s progressing very nicely. All the outside work is done except the painting. They have the boiler and engine set up and commenced on the cement floor Friday. As soon as the floor is completed it will not be but a few days till they can install the remainder of the machinery. A call has been made to have all the stockholders to meet at Parr Saturday, April 30, for the purpose

of signing the charter and electing the officers and directors and to attend to such other business that might come before the meeting.

WHEATFIELD. L. H. Kenyon of Demotte was in town Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Sterrett were Kankakee goers Saturday. Miss Emma Cooper of Demotte, is staying at R. A. Mannan’s. Tom Jensen of Rensselaer spent Sunday with home folks and friends. Mrs. Minnie Meyers returned from a short visit with relatives at LaCross Tuesday. NJrs. R. E. Davis and daughter, Frances were in Knox Wednesday, to see the dentist. John Allen of Kankakee was in town Sunday visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Allen. Miss Edith Miller, who has been staying with Dr. Schwier’s family at Knox, returned home Friday. H. H. Bush, who has been very sick at the Eagle Hotel for the past ten days, is now able to be out. Simon Fendig and John Bowie attended the Democratic State Convention at Indianapolis this week. Mrs. Anne Hibbs returned home with her daughter, 'Mrs. John Woods, for a visit with relatives at Staunton.' George Danford and sons, Everett and Walter, who have been working at Reddick, 111., are at home for a week or so. Mrs. Charlie Gerber of Hobart and Mrs. Laura Jones of Tefft, visited their brother, W. J. White and family this week. Miss Jessie Southard, who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. M. L. Sterrett, returned to her home

at Wolcott Tuesday. Mrs. Elizabeth jMelser and Miss Minnie Clark were in Chicago over Sunday the guests of the former’s daughter, Mrs. Wm. Shultz. -Oscar Byerly and wife and children were in town a few days visiting friends before moving to their new; home at Fostoria, Ohio. * • .. Will- Mason and wife and son, Hampton left Monda'y for a trip through the western states. Mr. Allea of Brazil is section boss' during Mr. -Mason's absence. ■ :—- ' Mesdames Will Spry and James Spry and son, Carl Mason, returned to their homes at Chicago Heights, Saturday after spending a few days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John' East. , . Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ostander and daughter Mabel, of Lee, gave a concert at the M. E. church Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ostander are blind and very accomplished musicians. The door receipts were IIBJS. Ward Hamilton, Julius Gingrich, Ed Lidtke and Louis Pinter, went to Chicago Monday, returning home Wednesday in the former’s new automobile. Mr. Hamilton will use his new car in the livery busines.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Harry Romine returned Monday from the Attica Springs and was apparently much improved. Mrs. W. W. Merrill of Rensselaer, visited here Friday and Saturday at the home of J. R. Sigler. Geo. Rimer returned Thursday from Attica where he was working in a foundry with his father. Born Friday, April 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Mannie Rice, a boy. Mother and child are reported doing well. For this time of year there Is an unusually large number of people afflicted with the grip in this neighborhood. The railroad officials were over this branch yesterday taking an inventory of material on hand with all section foremen. Dave Halstead is having a new house erected on one of his farms northeast of here. J. S. Brenner

and Geo: Hopkins are doing the work. Miss Ruth Sayler returned to Rensselaer Friday after visiting here with .Mrs. T. E. Hufty, who will leave to-day to join her husband in Colorado. Dennis Casto and family, who moved to South Dakota some time ago, returned to Rensselaer Tuesday. They came to stay, Dennis saying that Dakota was, no place for him. Billy Hammond went to Hammond last week to enter a hospital and undergo an operation. His health has been failing fast for the past few months and for several weeks he has been unable to work at all. W. K. Haskell returned Friday (evening from Pullman, 111. While there he resigned his position with the Pullman Car Co., and will make his home here with his sister, Mrs. Winona Dunlap. Billie is an expert carpenter and will continue to follow this line of work. Manno Miller is working in Ontario, Canada, and has hired to remain there throughout the summer. Mr. and Mrs*. W. O'. McCord came over from Rensselaer Friday, and the former visited here until the first of this week before returning to Chicago. . ’ .Chas*. Fleming has gone into the poultry business on a large scale and has some as fine Barred Plymouth Rock chicks as anyone would want to see. He is preparing to attend all of the poultry shows in this district this year and expects to carry away some prizes.

PARR CELEBRATES. No morf striking example of lodge loyalty and never falling interest could be recalled in Jasper county perhaps, than that which took place in the the little town of Parr on last Sunday, where the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs assembled together to celebrate the ninety-first anniversary of Odd Fellowship, a large number of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs met at the hall at ten o’clock and marched to the church, where a good sized audience awaited them, and there they listened to a powerful and very impressive sermon on Odd Fellowship delivered

by Rev. J. W. Page of Frankfort, taking for his text, “Behold how great matter a .little fire kindled.” (James 3:5). Brother Page talked for more than an hour and among the many good things that he said was, that every man should be an Odd Fellow and every Odd Fellow should be a Christian. And we certainly need more of the love of Christ in the hearts of the people, both in the order and out of it. The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs made a good showing and ought to feel proud of it, which they undoubtedly do. There were a few visitors' thfere from other lodges and the welcome extended to them proves that they are aiming as Odd Fellows, not only to be faithful ‘to their Vows, the one to the othdr, but to do good to others, and I want to say In behalf of all Odd Fellows, that if we are exercised in the great principles of friendship, love and truth, we cannot fail t.o impress those who are outside the order with the excellency of the teachings of our order. And I want to thank the members of the order for the welcome extended to me while there and the invitation to visit their lodge at some future tipe which I certainly will take advantage of.

A VISITOR.