Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

MT. PLEASANT. John Pool called on Edward Bartley Saturday. Frank Lakin called on Carter Garriott Sunday afternoon. John Clouse took dinner with Perry Marlatt and wife Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Davisson visited with relatives in Wheatfield Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Alter called on Mr. and Mrs. John Clouse Thursday afternoon.. Mt. and Mrs. Dallas Ropp speht Saturday evening with Albert Hurley and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Payne visited with Mr. and Mrs. Frances Marion and family Sunday. W. Vest of Champaign, 111., visited the first of the week with his brother Frank of this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson attended the funeral of Arniel Schultz’s little daughter at the Lutheran church Sunday afternoon. John and Carrie Garriott, Rudolph Ritter, Francis Davisson, Jess Walker and Otto and Minnie Ritter attended the party at Joe Bundy’s Friday evening. Will Yeiter, who has been looking up a location in North Dakota, returned home Thursday and is undecided as yet whether he will buy a farm there or not. >• Charles Bohart and H. Lucas of Fair Oaks, Mike Jungles and wife and Isaac Miller and Mel and Albert Garriott spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John Clause.

CURTIS CREEK. Schools will open next Monday in this township. Chas. Weiss has bought the former Will Yeoman farm. Walter Stillabar is visiting with Benton Kelly and family. Reuben Yeoman and John Rush’s stpent Sunday in Rensselaer. ■Mark Sayler and wife ate dinner Monday with Chas. Weiss and family. Mrs. Etta Werner visited Friday with her sister, Mrs. Ed Bruce, south of town. Erhardt Wuerthner was at Sharon last Friday. He is still looking for a farm to buy. Jeff Smith and wife visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Shriver, northwest of Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Jeff Smith left Tuesday for Wildhorse, Colo., to visit her son Hamlin and family.

Geo. Werner returned home Friday from a couple days visit with his mother near Knox. One of the Yeomans from Kansas says old Jasper is ahead of anything he’s seen in the corn crop this year. Geo. Heuson, Nelson Hough and Jay Lamson left on the Cristler excursion Tuesday for Jamestown, No. Dak. Miss Nellie Parker is attending high school at Rensselaer. She is boarding for a time with Will Donnelly and family. A sister and brother-in-law of Nelson Hough, who have been here visiting, returned Monday to their home in Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Caroline Goetz has been very sick of late, but is slightly better at this writing. She has been quite feeble for a long time. Miss Florence Moore of Rensselaer and Miss Virgina Holmes spent Sunday afternoon with the latter s parents southwest of town. Miss Nan Carr left Tuesday for Mitchell, So. Dak., to visit her sisters, and also look after her farm. An aunt from Lafayette will keep house for her brothers during her absence.

MILROY. Earl Foulks went to Monon Monday. Dr. Johnson was in our vicinity Wednesday. Grandma Castor came Saturday for a visit with her son George. Branson Clark and family visited Clell Clark and family Sunday. Mrs. Willard Johnson went Sunday to consult a doctor at MOnon. Mr. McDuffy visited his daughter Mrs. J. Bodne and family Sunday. Mrs. Willard Johnson went to Monon Sunday to consult a physician. Earl Foulks spent Saturday night in , Lee- with Tommy and Harley Clark. Mr. and Mrs-. Albersol and children visited Mr. DeMoss and family Sunday. Mrs. Bivins returned Tuesday from a visit in Illinois with her children. Mrs. L. Foulks visited her son Richard in McCoysburg Tuesday and Wednesday. Thomas Spencer and family and Earl Foulks took dinner Sunday with Wm. Culp's. ’ G. L. Parks and children, Hazel and Russel, returned home Monday from a visit in Chicago.. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Becker and son

visited over Sunday with his parents Jeff Becker and family. Mrs. L. Foulks. Mrs. Underwood, Ed Herman and family took dinner Sunday with Uncle Fred Saltwell’s. Lightning struck the barn on the farm farmed by Greer Bunnell Sunday night, burning it and also Mr. Bunnell’s corn shredder. The little two-year-old daughter of Jean Marchand has been in very poor health, and was taken to Monon Sunday to see a physician. i Charles McCashen and Frank May and families, ’Misses Laura and Letha Clark and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McCashen spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary McCashen. Geo. Foulks and Frank May and families were at D. Z. Clark’s Tuesday where all the children and grandchildren met and had a picture taken of the group, Mr. Stillwell, the photographer, of Monon, taking the view. A Sunday School convention will be held at the church Sept. 18, an all day’s session. A good program will be prepared and several good speakers will be with us. A basket dinner is also on the program. Come and bring your baskets. Everyone invited.

FAIR OAKS. FT R. Erwin has a brand new buggy. Health is generally pretty good in these parts. . .. The pickle raisers are having a pretty good harvest now. Amy Bringle went to Rensselaer Sunday evening to enter high school. """Lawrence Halleck took a fine load of watermelons to Rensselaer Tuesday. Supervisor Goff is having the gravel road that runs north of town repaired. Gladys Halleck went to Lowell Monday where she entered high school. The cottage prayer meeting was held at Will Warren’s Wednesday evening. ”

Mr. and Mrs. Phillips of near Rensselaer visited her parents, John Umfrees, Sunday. Fish Gilmore is having his house plastered this week, John Wiseman spreading the mud. ■ . William Piatt and family of Parr came up Sunday and spent the day with relatives here. Carl Hoover of lowa came Monday to visit his uncle, F. R. Erwin and friends for a week. We got a very heavy shower here Sunday night and don’t need any more for some time. Mrs. James Munden and family were visitors in Fair Oaks a couple days the latter part of the week. Alfonda Clifton made a trip down near Surrey and visited Grandma Powell the latter part of the week. Mr. Vergin, who has occupied ~AT Moore’s house the past three months, moved back to Bass Lake this week.

Floyd Cox, who went to Montana last spring, arrived home Tuesday to see his mother, who is quite poorWilliam Finters’ folks of near Morocco came over Saturday and visited at George Lambert’s over Sunday. Miss Grace Bonham, who has been visiting relatives here for a week, returned to her home in Chicago Thursday. Miss Nellie Deihl of Salem, Ind.. and Miss Thompson of Monticello arrived here Sunday eve to teach school in Colfax tp. The new engine to take the place of the old one on the gravel road arrived Thursday and is being put in shape for service. Ernest Zea and John Thornton and wife of Rensselaer were among the attendants at the meeting at Will Warren’s Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Gundy was summoned to Monon Sunday to see her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. Clint Gundy, who was very seriously sick. Arthur Clifton, who has been holding the night job at the depot, was sent to Danville, 111., Monday to take charge of an office. Uncle Jos-iah Thompson is having some new improvements added to his property in the way of a new woodshed and well house. Will Warren has the job of hauling and sawing a lot of cord wood for Lawler. He has to car it also, and will begin sawing in a day or so. Several of the gravel road employes had a mix-up Saturday night, and some are wearing black eyes. John Barleycorn had a finger in it. Thomas Mallatt is prepared now to retail ground feed at his place of business. He gets his supply from the Mt. Ayr feed mill. They are putting out a splendid feed. There were about 25 from here who attended the tent meetings at Roselawn Sunday evening, returning home on the 11 p. m. train, which stopped to Accommodate them. Frank Wilson, who left here a

couple of years ago for California, returned last week. He is staying with his son Chas, on Nubbin Ridge at present. They all took dinner with Jack Umfrees here Sunday.