Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

CURTIS CREEK. Arthur Mayhew is ou the sick list. Glen Sager has gone to Colorado on a prospecting trip. Vibert and Roxy Gunyon are visiting relatives at Frankfort. Relatives from Kansas are - ’ ing Nelson Hough and family. Mr. Tillison of Illinois is visit 3 * ing his sister, Mrs. Doan and family. Chet Downs and wife visited over Sunday with relatives east of town. Mr. and Mrs. Will Eldredge spent Thursday with S. B. Holmes and Ipmily. Master Lawson Eldredge and* sister Leatha are visiting the Holmes •children. ■ * Grandpa Hufty of Mt. Ayr visited Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. R. X Yeoman. '' Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Francis spent -Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Weurthner and family. S. B. Holmes and wife attended -the funeral of two of their old neighbors in White county last Xeek. The monument for Mrs. Holmes’ father and mother was erected Monday at the Osborn cemetery in Hanging Greve tp. Allie Francis visited over Saturday night with his sister, Mrs. Vest, in Barkley tp., and also looked after Mis farm Which is located near his -sister's farm.

SURREY. Threshing is just completed here. George Mauck is ori\the sick list this week. E. S. Thornton is having lightning rods put on his barn. The old rock foundation has been removed the former Vaughn church site. C. E. Day is having a lot of -■sprouting done. John Marion is -helping. C. L. Parks is having the school room repapered and other buildings repaired. Will Byerly has forty acres plowed for wheat, which he did all by his. lonesome. There is pretty strong talk of some farms changing hands around here before long.

There are a number of farmers having the oats straw stacked in their barns instead of outside. John Jungles has returned home from Sheldon, 111., where he was running a roast engine on a stone road. L. P. Shirer is getting the tiling fever a little, and had George Rusch locate and level up a route for same. Mrs.-Holcomb. Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Stanger and. daughter of Bloomington, 111., returned home this week after a two weeks visit with T. F. Dunlap and wife. Levi Chupp and wife went to Edinburg last . week to see their four sons who are located in business there. Anson, the oldest, has had very poor health for two years and is steadily growing worse.

SOUTH NEWTON. W. E. Leek of Rensselaer visited with his son Earl and wife last Mrs. Roy Flanders and Mrs. Frank Cole spent last Thursday with Mrs. Alice Potte. Born, Aug. 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hurley, on the Jay Lamson farm, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pruett call--ed on their gon Clarence and wife Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Alice Potts and Mrs. Fred Waling were at Mrs. Arthur PowTuesday canning corn. Philip Paulus and brother Henry -of near Morocco transacted business in and near Rensselaer Wednesday.,Ross Dean of Rensselaer was the guest of Mrs. Mary Powell and daughter, Mrs. Alice Potte, Friday. George Tilllson of Penfield, 111., spent several days visiting with his si&ar, Mrs. Henry Doan and family ’ Philip Paulus helped her!

daughter, Mrs. James Reed of near Surrey, to Cook for threshers Monday. ■ - No. 6 school house was papered Wednesday. School will open there this year after having been closed for four years. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beacher of Jordan tp..; .-pent Saturday night ans Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett. James Clifton of Fair Oaks came Tuesday to Mrs. Mary Powell’s. He will do some carpenter work for Philip Paulus while here. Mrs. Mary Powell and daughter, Mrs. Alice Potts visited Sunday and Monday with the former’s Mrs. {-red Markin, of north of Rensselaer/' ’• , ’ Mrs. Fred Waling and sister, Mrs. Arthur Powell, helped their mother, Mrs. Silas Potts of near Brook, the latter part of last week with some work. ...

PINE GROVE. Newton Jenkins spent Sunday with Bluford Torbet. Mrs. Rebecca Hurley is still very poorly at this writing. James Leatherman called on J. M. Torbet Monday forenoon. Several of this vicinity attended church at Good Hope Sunday. Miss Loa Mullenhour called on Chloe Torbet Sunday evening. ,j Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Walker and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Walker and family Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Shroyer and son Elmer are spending the week in Chicago Heights with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ropp and daughter Bessie, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and sons Roy, John and Charles and daughter, Mrs. Ethel Cragun, Miss Loa Mullenhour and Miss Verna Shroyer were guests of Will Faylor and family Sunday afternoon, and ate ice cream and cake with them.

LEE. Our school opens Sept. 12 at this place. Sunday John Mellender and family took dinner with L. M. Jacks’. Miss Edna Lefler and Elmer Jacks are visiting their grandmother; Mrs. Harriet Jacks. Miss Myrtle Lewis, who visited relatives in Indianpolis a couple of weeks, returned Sunday. Mrs. Carlson of Chicago made a short visit w’ith John Mellender’s, her husband’s tenant, last week.

Ward Lewis, who stays with his grandmothqy, Mrs. Ann Rishling, is‘making his parents at Remington a visit before school commences. Miss Leatha Wood and Eleinr Jacks visited the former s sister, Mrs. Mabie Rishling bunday, and attended league here Sunday evening. Mrs. Holeman went to John Os?borne’s near Rensselaer Monday to visit her aged mother, Grandma Mellender, and returned Wednesday evening. Stone was shipped in here last week and men are hauling same and putting it on the road south of here, and will built a toad into town from the south. Mrs. Tillie Brock; formerly Miss Tillie Peregrine of this place, and husband of Ohio, came Tuesday morning to visit her parents. She has been sick for almost the past three mofiths and is not able to be up yet. ••

NORTH UNION. Mrs. Will Read was in Rensselaer Monday. The farmers are busy plowing for wheat nowadays. Will Faylor Went to Rensselaer Saturday on business. Mrs. Wess. Faylor spent Friday with Mrs. Will Faylor. Wess Faylor and little son Marion were in Parr Monday.

George Casey was seen in this neck of the woods Wednesday. Sunday was the first service for the new minister at the Lutheran church. John Larsh was seen in our part of the country Tuesday, looking up stock cattle. Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Meader and daughter Lois went to Rensselaer Tuesday on business. There w'ere several from this locality that attended the basket dinner at Good Hope Sunday. We had a fine rain Tuesday night doing lots of good, as the late potatoes and corn were needing it. Mrs. Dodge and daughter Marie of Fair Oaks called on her daughter, Mrs. Will Faylor Friday afternoon. There is a young lady friend of Purdue visiting Cora Dexter a few days. She returned home Wednesday, . <

Mr. and Mrs. H. Dexter returned home Friday after a week’s visit with friends and relatives at Lafayette. Mrs. Meader and Lois spent Tuesday night in Rensselaer getting the things in readiness for the girls to go to school. The friends and neighbors remembered that John Miller had a birthday and they went to his home Thursday evening with well filled baskets, and in all there were about 50 or more present. f The members of the threshing crew in this neighborhood met at W. C: Faylor's Sunday afternoon and spent the afternoon in a social way, and just before leaving for home they were all served with ice cream and cake, and left for their homes Well pleased with the occasion. Those present were J. M. Terbet and family, A. Ropp and family; I. F. Meader and family, H. Defter and family, D. Hahn ahd family, L. Todd and' family, A. Millspaugh and family, J. W. Faylor and family, Mr. and Mrs. McGoven, Geo. Mar; shall and family and Mrs l . Dodge and daughter Marie of Fair Oaks.

MT. AYR. (From the Pilot.? Born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lynch, August 29, a boy. Jasper Wright took in and shipped out a car load of hogs Wednesday.

Mr. L. ftaskell of Chicago is the guest of his uncle, J. R. Sigler, and family. . Mrs. A. J. Hufty is visiting relatives at Indianapolis this week, going on Tuesday. Mrs. Geo. Smith returned Monday from her visit with Gilman and Danville, 111., friends. Nish Wright and dughter of Champaign, 111., spent a few days herd the guests of his brother Jasper. Mrs. Ostander of Lee accompanied by Miss Agnes Stiers were guests of Rev. Noland and family this week. Mrs. E. Schanlaub went to Chicago Sunday to see her husband who is in the hospital, and will remain for a few days. Miss Jane Chilcote of South Bend returned home Friday after a several days visit here with relatives, Mrs. Merry, Mrs. Sigler and her uncle, John Chilcote.

Miss Blanche Hohes, of Bay City, Mich., accompanied her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ashby, home from their northern trip, and will remain indefinitely. Undle John Hufty is able to be up and spends much of his time out of doors. His confinement of many weeks prevented him o. the open air, and he is now endeavoring to get his share with interest. John Bicknell has been swinging around the circle during the past week, having shipped a car of stock from Kniman and Rensselaer, and next week will ship a load or two from this place and another from Kniman. I am informed that a petition will be circulated here immediately for signatures, to be sent, to the Methodist conference, to" be held at Laporte commencing Sept. 28, praying that Rev. Noland, be returned for another year to this charge. Several laymen will attend and pull every string to secure his return.