Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

MILROY. Vern Culp was in Lee Saturday evening. . Mr. and Mrs. John Southard attended Fountain Park Sunday. Miss Wood, daughter of Peter Wood, visited hei; aunt, Mrs. Anna Chapman, last week. Mrs. Frank May and Mrs. J. R. Clark assisted Mrs. G. L. Parks cook for threshers Monday. G. L. Parks and brother-in-law, Henry Ravenscroft, made a visit to Rensselaer Wednesday. Mrs. Ed Herman and daughter Kathryn returned home Saturday after a month’s visit in Ohio. Wm. Culp and family and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Foulks attended the funeral of Thos. Smith at Lee Wednesday. Miss Veda Spencer visited her aunt, Mrs. Underwood, last we*k The latter went home with her for a visit. Miss Belle Southard returned home from Terre Haute Saturday where she had been attending school. Thos. Spencer, Fay Lear, Lud Clark, John Woosley and families took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Abe Woosley. Don’t forget the Sunday School needs your presence and help. Come and let us give one hour in a week to meet and study the Guide Book to the Home where many mansions are prepared for us.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crowder of Lafayette came for a visit with his parents. The former’s wife took ill Sunday evening with appendicitis and has been in a very critical condition. Her parents were called to her bedside. Mrs. L. Foulks was called to Lee Tuesday by the death of her halfbrother, Thos. Smith, who was quite aged. The funeral was held Wednesday in the M. E. church, conducted by Wesley Noland. Interment made in Osborne cemetery. Frank May and family and Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks with other members of the family spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. D. Z. Clark, it being the latters’ 44th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Clark’s health is not improving very rapidly. 0. A. Jhcks and family of Lee, Mrs. Mary McCashen and Misa Ettie, Mrs. J. R. Clark and son Charles, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCashen and daughter, Velma, Misses Leetha and Dora Clark visited Mrs. Geo. Foulks Sunday, in honor of her birthday. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parks entertained Tuesday for dinner Mrs. Parks’ mother, Mrs. Ravenscroft, and sons Samuel and Henry and daughter Mae of Goltry, Okla., and janother daughter of Mrs. Ravenscroft, Mrs. Kate Harner of Kingman, Kans. 1 - Mis. Johns, who has been afflicted since May with a severe stroke of paralysis, and could begin to walk about a little, fell on Tuesday morning of last week, and it was thought for some time that she had fractured her hip, but it proved to be a very bad sprain from which she has suffered greatly since. She is confined to her bed and cannot move. Her speech has only partially returned.

MT. PLEASANT. Stella Parker attended an ice cream social at Gifford Sunday evening. A. J. Tyler of North Dakota visited with Will Yeiter and wife Tuesday. Clarence Hurley of near Wheatfield visited Frances Marion and wife Monday. Albert Garriott and John Clouse were business callers at Rensselaer Thursday. Cora Herrod visited a few days with Carrie Garriott the latter part of the week. - Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Henkle visited W. W. Faylor and wife Sunday afternoon. The young people's picnic and dinner held at Lakin’s grove Sunday was largely attended. John Newcomb and Will Heferlin visited over Sunday n’ght with Clyde Davisson and wife. Several land buyers visited this locality the past few days, but it is not known whether any farms were bought. Mrs. Fern Wilson and son Charles of Chicago visited over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bartley. Mr. and Mts. Albert Garriott and Mr. and Mrs. John Choure spent Sunday evening with Thomas Parker and -wife. Will Herrod and wife, who came

here from Missouri a few days ago, and Carter Garriott and wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Albert Garriott Sunday. Philip Durant and the Heferlin Bros, brought their threshing machine into this locality Monday and threshing will all be done in a few days around here. The long drouth was broken with a good rain Tuesday morning. The high wind accompanying it blew down corn fields badly and did more damage than the rain did good.

COTTAGE GROVE. Mrs. John Powell was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Bertie Greenlee was visiting home folks over Sunday. John Toben and Miss Pearl Humes attended church Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Donnelly returned home from Lafayette Sunday.- - ~ Quite a number from this locality went to Chicago on the excursion Sunday. Mrs. Eva Greenlee spent Sunday with her friend, Mrs. Kate Ablahat, in Chicago. Will Kennedy’s children are sick wtith scarletena, and the attending physician has the family under quarentine. Elmer Brown returned from North Dakota a few days ago and reports crops in his locality worse than was first reported.

CURTIS CREEK. Mrs. Erhardt Wuerthner, Jr. is on the sick list. Everett Grimes apd bride are visiting his parents. Ason was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew. Warner Hough and Joe Francis went to Lafayette Tuesday. ' Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Holmes visited Mr. and Mrs. John Scott Friday. Sanford Makeever is visiting relatives in this vicinity this week. Miss Grace Grant is helping Mrs. Joseph Francis, Sr. with her work. Mrs. George Heuson has been very sick, but is better at this writing. Several from this vicinity attended the Fountain Park Assembly Sunday. Misa Irma Holmes is visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jacks south of Rensselaer. Isaac McCurtain of Hanging Grove tp., took eome of his cattle out of the Bislosky pasture Tuesday afternoon. Ben Sayler was out to his farm this week, the first time for several weeks, owing' to trouble with his eye. It has been operated on three different times. Mrs. Cena Carr Arnott started Wednesday for her home at Spokane, Wash., after several months visit with relatives here. Porter Litka, the Indian boy, who has been spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Werner, rereturned to Oklahoma Tuesday. The sad news was received Tuesday of the death of Grandmother Shindler, a former resident for years of this neighborhood, but for the past 7 or 8 years of Jordan tp.

, FAIR OAKS. Mrs. A. M. Bringle is on the sick list this week. Mr. Vergine made a trip to Bass Lake Sunday in hie auto. J. J. Lawler was here Saturday i inspecting the hew gravel road. [ We got a very heavy rain, wind

and electric storm Tuesday morning. Mrs. C. A. Gundy visited her son Clint in Monon from Friday until Monday. • There were about 20 tickets sold from here Sunday for the excursion W -Chicago."'-' ’ •.. ' ' The “Perry at the ' North Pole’’ iroupe pulled off a show here Saturday night. Mack Comer and wife of hear Blackford were visiting at Jessie Garriott’s Sunday. Uncle Joe Burns went up to South Bend Sunday on a matrimonial prospecting trip, it is said. Frank Garriott, who has been attending school at Valparaiso, returned to Fair Oaks Friday. Harold and Wilda Littlefield of Rensselaer are visiting their uncle, F. R. Erwin, here this week. The Jasper County . Democrat’s soliciting agent was in these parts Monday in the interest of the paper. William Finters and wife of near Morocco visited their daughter, Mrs. Lambert, Saturday and Sunday at this place. 7 ' - . Charles Barker and family and Jake Trump’s family returned home Monday after a three week's visit down about Brazil. ■ Mrs. John Wildrick and daughter, Mrs. Peter Clark, visited her son James Wildrick of this place Wednesday of last week.

Miiis Minnie Cox went to Roselawn Monday to see the doctor. She is still making a very satisfactory improvement in health. Harvey Davisson of North Dakota was a visitor in our town one day the latter part of the week. He says crops are fairly well in his county. Mr. Vergine and Mr. Martin, who have been working on the gravel road here, went up near Crown Point Thursday to work on another contract for the same company. Mr. Williams and wife of near Rensselaer and C, L. Parks and wife of near Surrey and Sam Potts and wife of east of town were in attendance at the meeting at Will Warren’s Sunday. The first watermellons of the season were brought in to F. R. Erwin’s Saturday. They were grown by Chas. Halleck’s, but not quite as large as he usually raises but are of a very fine flavor. Uncle Ide Burns came home Thursday with his new bride and on the following night the boys about town gathered up all the cows bells, tin pans, shot guns and everything that they could make a noise with and gave the couple a general old-fashioned charivari.

WHEATFIELD. Guy Lane and family of this place were visiting in Knox over Sunday. W. B. McNeil transacted business in Rensselaer Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Clara Hoehn of Oklahoma was visiting friends and relatives here Sunday.’ [ Mre. Joe Stump returned from a few days visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rayher, at Rensselaer Monday. Mrs. H. E. Remley went to Inwood Saturday for a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Funk. Misses Bertha and Capitola Swisher, who attended the' summer term at Valparaiso University, returned home Friday. Mre. Robert Biggstv of Crystal Springs, Miss., came Monday for a visit with her mother, Stars. John M. Helmick, and other relatives. Major Brown, a former Wheatfield resident, but now an inmate of the soldiers’ home at Lafayette spent a few days with friends here. Misses June Jessup and Della Knapp, w'ho have been attending the State Normal school at Terre Haute, returned home Saturday. Simon Fendig caught a tarantula off a bunch of bananas in H. E Remley’e store last Wednesday that would measure about 3 % inches across.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Samuel R Stover to Frank Stover, Aug 16, und % acres, Union, $6,500. Anna J Yeiter to Nina A Yeiter, Aug 12, Its 9, 10, bl 13, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, S2OO. D J Wadding to J Albert Miller, Nov 26, 1908, se nw. 7-31-6, 40 acres, Walker, sl. q c d. Benj. J Gifford to Samuel Jacobson, June 8, s% sw, pt se, 12-30-6, 108.25 acres, Barkley, $3,247.50. James T Randle to Alfred Collins. Aug 22, pt outlot 76, Rensselaer, $4,500. Alfred Collins to Greenip I Thomas, Aug 22, pt outlot 76, pt se nw, 30-29-6, Rensselaer, $13,500. George F Meyers to Horace G. Daniels, July 21, outlot 19, nw subdiv Owen’s add, 19-29-6, Rensselaer, SI,BOO. Louis Paulsen to R E Davis. Aug 22, It 15, bl 3, Graham’s 2d add; Wheatfield, SSO. , Anna Yeiter to James Snedeker, Aug 20, It 12, bl 12, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, $125. Elkanah W Phelpe to Bernice M Clark, Aug 15, pt Its 11, 12, bl 7, pt outlot 5, Bentley’s add, Wheatfield, ne st, 25-32-6, Wheatfield, SBSO. Armilda Stone to Harriet E Parker, Aug 23, Its 1,4, bl 2, Searight’s add. Remington, sl. q c d.

NORTH UNION. Josie Dexter was a Rensselaer Waller Wednesday. . Gertrude and Marion Faylor spent Wednesday in Parr. Al Keener is doing some painting for Watson Humes.'' John Miller went to Rensselaer Tuesday on business. \Mrs. Will Faylor went to Fair Oaks Tuesday, shopping. I. F. Meader ie hauling lumber tttis week for his new house. George Casey and Al Keener went to Rensselaer Tuesday on business. David Yeoman and family called <m W. C. Faylor and wife Sunday. Mrs. L. Todd and Gertrude Faylor went to Rensselaer Monday, shopping. It looks like we would have plenty of rain. We can stand some more as tHe ground is yet to hard to plow. Will Faylor and wife, John Miller and wife, J. W. Faylor and family, L. Todd and family, A. Millslyaugh and family, Rinhart Eilts «&d family spent Saturday fishing crti the Kankakee river.

LEE. Several from here attended the Fountain Park assembly Sunday. Mr. Gilmore and son Walter made a business trip to Monticello Tuesday. J. H. Culp and son Gail made a business trip to Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon. Born, Sunday, Aug. 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gilmore, a nine pound daughter. Charles Jacks and family of Rensselaer came Wednesday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Jacks'. The little son of Frank Overton took suddenly sick Sunday afternoon with cholera infantum and suffered greatly, but is better at this writing. Daniel Clark and wife celebrated their wedding anniversary Tuesday by having all their children home for dinner, except their son Clyde of Morocco. Uncle Thomas Smith, the aged father of Mrs. Alvin Clark, died at the latter’s home. Tuesday morning at about 4 o’clock. He had been in poor health for several years and ‘ lately his mind seemed to be badly deranged at times. The funeral was held at the church Thursday at 2 o'clock, and interment made in Osborne cemetery. Uncle Thomas Jacks dropped dead in the street Wednesday morning • at about 8 o’clock. He had been overheat more than a week ago and his heart had been troubling him since. He ate breakfast and did the chores as usual that morning, and then went to the store and was on his road home when he dropped dead. Arrangements had not been completed at this writing for the funeral. Thursday of last week J. 11. Gulp - received a telegram stating that his little two-year-old neice, Amy Conaway, in the northern part Wiscon--sin, was dead, and Friday he received another saying that her father, George Conaway, was going to bring her here for burial. The latter arrived Saturday evening on the milk train, and the funeral services W£re held Sunday at 10 o’clock at J. H. Culp's residence, and interment made in Osborne cemetery.

SOUTH NEWTON. Robert Overton is doing some tile ditching for Ed Goetz. Edward P. Lane called on Charles Weiss Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lora Flanders was in Chicago Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Paulus visited with the Carr family Sunday. Charles Lam Son visited with Oscar Weiss a few days last week. Clarence Pruett and wife visited with relatives at Goodland Sunday. Charles Waling and son Ed of Btook were at Arthur Mayhew’s Tuesday. Miss Sadie Paulus spent Sunday at Mt. Ayr, the guest of Miss Mary Johnson. Miss Sadie Paulus went Wednesday for a week’s visit with friends near Fowler. —. Joe Ade of near Brook was at Clarence Pruett’s Monday, looking after the farm. Mrs. James Reed of Surrey spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Philip Paulus. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waling spent Sunday with the , latter s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Potts. » Mrs. Charles Waling of Brook is staying a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Mayhew. * Born, Monday* August 22, to Mr and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew, a son. Mother and child doing well. Harley Lamson and family of Bluffton are here for a visit with Jay Lamson and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pruett visited with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett Tuesday. Bela Roberts and sisters, Mrs. Firfen k Cole and Mrs. Roy S’? '■ . ■ ' ' i

were the guests of Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Arnold of Mt. Ayr Sunday. Several farmers in this locality have started to 1 plow for wheat. The plowing Is fine after so much rain. Some are not through threshing Erhardt Weurthrref and Philip Paulus took a trip up in the Gifford district Friday, but were not veiy favorably impressed with the country they saw. The guests at the Carr farm Monday were: Mrs. Mary Powell and daughter, Mrs. Alice Potts, Mrs. Joseph Francis, Sr. and son Joe, and Thomas Knox and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell spent last Thursday night with the latter’s parents, Mt. and Mrs. Silas Potts, of near Brook. Their little daughter Hildred remained for a week’s visit. Mrs, Arthur Arnott started on her return trip home to Spokane, Wash., Wednesday after spending the summer here with the Carr family and other relatives. Her father, Carey Carr, went as far as Chicago with her.

NORTHSIDE GLEANINGS. Mrs. Frank Schroer visited with home folks Saturday. Mrs. Alex Hurley called on Mrs. Will Whitaker Wednesday. Mrs. Wilcox called on her daughter, Mrs. Cade Potts, Monday. Miss Grace Price of Parr did some sewing for Mrs. Alex Hurley last week. Mrs John Hurley, who has been quite sick is slightly improved at this writing. Mrs. Addie Warren and baby are spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. Alex Hurley. Mrs. L. W. Schreiner and children are spending a few days with Geo. McElfresh and family. Mrs. Edward Barkley helped her daughter, Mrs. Frank Schroer, do some sewing Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Carter Garriott and family visited ’Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Green and family. Mrs. John Scott spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Whitaker, whose little son Glen is quite seriously sick. Quite a crowd gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Schroer Sunday to help celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Chris Morgenegg and daughter Anna and Mrs. L. W. Schreiner and children spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Lizzie Cooper..

Mr. and Mrs. Barney .volhoff spent Sunday night with the latter’s uncle, Joseph Stripmeyer of south of Rensselaer, who died a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Frank bchroer and son Elvin and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Davisson and son called on Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barkley Thursday evening. • Quite a large number of young folks held a picnic in Carter Garriott's grove Sunday afternoon, and report quite an enjoyable time. The girls took well filled baskets, and all took part in a five o’clock supper.

FROM NORTH DAKOTA. Crop Conditions About Jamestown, Are Not as Bad as Reported. Jamestown, No. Dak., Aug, 22. Dear Editor—-As the report is in old Indiana that us Hoosiers have Uy lcc.t our crops and are working on the railroad to keep from starving it might get our friends and former neighbors, to believing that we are in bad shape and have not the grit to ask tor help. But I Will say this much, I will make more money this year than I ever made in one or even two years in Indiana,, and had one rain that came in June. I cut over my entire crop onethalf section of wheat, 60 acres of oats, 50 acres of barley, finishing up the 20th of August. I am going to start three teams to help thresh Tuesday at $4.75 per day each. ' Wages are not as good as in former years, but this looks like there was something here. It is hard for me to estimate my crop, but it is quite a good deal better than I thought it would be. It is true that T. G. Brown has done considerable work in the blacksmith shop at odd spells. It is also true that he also took a contract on the railroad after he got through seeding, which he realized about S7OO on. We still have a warm feeling for old Indiana, however. I admit that us Hoosiers ' were pretty blue for awhile, but we are

to come out all right aftei all. I noticed in Cottage Grove items that the correspondent had recently learned the improved method of dairying as a mortgage lifter. That is the way us Hoosiers are trying to do is to grasp every honest dollar we can to improve our conditions. ’ Walter received a fractured jato in a ball game—not in a mix-up over the Jefferies and Johnson fight. As I fear I will worry your patience I will close. From a friend of the good old Jasper* County Deomcrat, SAMUEL H. HOLMES.