Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — Page 4

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

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Jasper Guv was in Loganspori on business lasi Tuesday. Remington was weil represented a; Goodland's Hors£ Fair week. m Mrs. Jane Bartee has gone to Los Angetes. Cali., for an extended visiL Mrs. H. E. Sheetz of Indianapolis visited last week with her brothers Bert and Had Spencer. Miss Florence Sharp of Chicago was the guest of Misses Ruth Stoudt and Helen Geier last week. Stephen Yeoman of Indianapolis spent a couple of days last week with his mother. Mrs. Ira W. Yeoman. Mrs. Madge Hartman Loos of Kansas City. Mo., is visiting her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. James Fefley. James Barling of south of jown is reported seriously ill at this writing from a complication of ailment--. John Scott and family returned last week from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips in Wabash county. Ed Sutherland is having a second story added to the residence which he recently purchased of Wm. Puc-k----e

Mr.-. G. I. Thomas and daughter Opal visited at Fairbury. 111., last week and attended the. fair at that place.

Dr. Rose 11. Remmek. optical specialist, or Rensselaer, will be in Remington Friday, Sept. Is. at the Griffith House.

Clyde Fuller ton of Aberdeen, So. Pafc.. returned home last week after a Tteft of a couple of months with relatives about Wadena,

v Frank Timmon- of Hoopeston. 111. visited bis mother, Mrs. Rebecca Timmons, here last week and took is. the Goodland Horse Fair, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Beeks left Jast week for a visit with the Capes' and other relatives and friends in Minnesota and', the Dakotas. Mrs. £. B. Vondersmith of Kentlahd was here visiting old friends and' looking after some business matters last Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Keefer and two children and Mr. and Mrs Ellery Bloom of Indianapolis came last Wednesday to visit George F. Bloom. ’ ■ -

William Corah, who has been visiting with Charles Winger and family at Mabion, Wash., for the past three months, returned home last Tuesday. / Mrs, Jena Lamborn of Chicago visited last week with Mrs. M. A. Timmons and other relatives and friends here, leaving Monday for a visit with her brother in Monticeilo. Dr. A. P. Ranier and Miss Harriet McCarter were married last Wednesday at the home of the bride's brother at Warsaw, and arrived in Remington Thursday. The marriage came as a surprise to the doctor’s friends here, but we all join in extending congratulations just the same.

Cyrus Rice received what is perhaps the top price yet paid for land in this vicinity, when he sold his 7S acre farm south of town to R. O. Meeker of Cropsy. 111. The price received was Sl7 0 per acre: Mr. Rice has bought the Bartee l€b a mile south of town, of a Mr. Sullivan of Illinois, paying therefore 24,&*H». or 12.40(1 more than the latter paid for the farm about a year ago. Who says real estate values in this vicinity are not booming?

Tell This To Your Wife

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LETTER FROM HENRY HAYES.

Former Barkley Tp„ Resident Writes From His New Home Year Middle Creek. So. I»ak. Middle Creek. 8. D.. Sept. 8. 1910 Dear Editor: —-Enclosed find remittance for The Democrat, and 1 want the address changed from Sulphur S. D,» to Middle Creek. S. D. We have' not moved, but have a new postoffice io two miles of us; we have been going seven miles for our mail. We are still on our homestead. have raised but* little as yet as it takes a few years to get started in a new country, and we think Taft has neglected us in the way of rain this year. We thought when Teddy got back we would get rain sure, and when we did not then we didn't know what was the matter until re saw where Senator Cralne “*sald “2 solid west." and that explained it nil. ' We are all well here, have had much better health here than in Indiana. John Stewart's and E. M. Gwin's are all well. - Mr. Gwin is working out by the month and hie wife is staying on the claim. They lire half a mile from us. and Mr. Stewart's a mile. I hare 50 acres broke out, more than anyone else around, but I have bees here two years while the most of the others just came this year. AM the land is taken up that is any good now, and my family was the , '■nt hi' this port of the country except .the., ranchers. We came they Xow I could write more than The!

! Democrat could hold if I had the time, bu: don't think you would want that. Will try to write more later. Yours respectfully. H. H. HAYES. P. S —Please send me the National Monthly also. I got a sample copy a few days ago and think it is fine.

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OBITUARY OF MRS. MARGARET STOCKWELL.

Mrs. Margaret Stockwell. daughter of William and Nellie Rodman, was born August 13. 1836, at Marion. Ohio and departed this lif* September 2. -1910. at her home at Sparta. Tenn.. aged 74 years and 19 days « ■: 'v /•

She is survived by one brother and two sisters, William F., and Mrs. Mary E. Hatch of New Liberty, Ohio, and Mrs. Rachel Burly of LinviHe, lowa. She was married to Willard Stockwell at Marion. Ohio, in -1854. who preceded her to that eternal rest August 9,180 S. at their home in Sparta. Tenn. To this union six children were born, four boys and two girls, all of whom are laid to res: but two. A ley A., wife of John N. Baker of Barkley tp.. was bora April 6. 1856, died Sept. 11. 1 i*'": Samuel M., born April. 1864*, died in Sept. 1888; Lewis C., bora Sept, 1, 186 1. died June 16. IS*o3; Joseph, who died in infancy. Lemuel W.. with whom she was making her home, and Nora 0., wife of G. M. Hershman of Manchester. Tenn., still survive, besides twenty-one grandchildren and five great granchildren and a number of friends and other relatives to mourn her loss. She was a kind and affectionate mother gad friend and bore the heavy burdens to the final end. She was laid at rest beside her beloved husband at Manchester. Tenn., Sept. 3, 1,810, xx

Mrs. Jacob Wilmert, Lincoln, 111., found her way back to perfect health. She writes: ‘‘l suffered with kidney trouble alnd backache and my apetite was very poor at times. A few week's ago I got Foley Kidney Pills and gave them a fair trial. They gave me great relief, so continued till now I aui again in perfect health.” A. F. Long.

FARM BARGAINS.

Five, ten and twenty acre tracts half-mile from court house. Prices right. 85 acres, all cultivated, joins large ditch, well located, good buildings, Price 650. 100 acres, all cultivated, black soil with clay subsoil, on large ditch, near station. Price 650. 133 acres, six-room house, large barn, good well, all black soil with clay subsoil, near station, at $45. 160 acres, good black corn land with clay subsoil, good house and barn, well located. Price SSO. 80 acres, good 6-room house, large barn, good well, double cribs, all tillable. on large ditch, has some tile, and a bargain at 640. Terms, |l,Ouw down. All the above farms are bargains and can be sold on favorable terms. I can show these farms from this place any time. Also have a number of farms for exchange. G. F. MEYERS.

This is the Handy Store During the heat of summer there are a host of appetizing things that we'can supply re&iy to eat. Xo necessity at all for cooking oneself cooking meals.' ■ Our canned goods department is always ready to serve you. Potted Ham, Sliced Beef. Delicacies in biscuits to no end. The freshest fruits from far and near. In short, there is every requisite here to enable a housekeeper to prepare appetizing meals easily and quickly. And best pf all, the grades that we handle are guaranteed to be pure and wholesome. - Try us on anything you like McFarland & son RELIABLE GROCERS.

A THRILLING TALE

It was proposed at the Millerton Literary club that a prize be offered for the best short story. Some one suggested that It would be better to offer a prize for the worst short stocjf whereupon it was determined to give two prizes, one for the best and one for the worst At a meeting of the club the manuscripts handed in were read by the secretary. The following was In competitiou for the booby prize: ATALEOF THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. One dark, dismal, disagreeable night In midwinter, when the June roses were in full bloom, a woman stood at the door of a cabin in the Catskill mountains. Her tattered garments fluttered in the wind, while her jewels flashed in rainbow hues In the hot noonday sun. “He cometh not” she said. - There was a creaking of horse’s bubs down the road, and a moment later the splendid figure of a young man of some seventy-five summers, mounted on an Arabian steed, with steel springs and leathern curtains, emerged from the clove.

“Oh. Algernon, why are you so late?” “Clarissa, dearest I have been delayed by a puncture In the left hind leg of my trusty steed ” “Algernon, 1 have the worst possible news for you. Father is unalterably opposed to our marriage. He has a six pounder, loaded and pointed up the chimney, ready to fire as soon as he is aware of yoiir presence.” “What, ho! Does the old dotard think to scare me?” And with one leap he landed on the roof and stood looking defiantly down the chimney. There was,a report, followed by a shriek from Clarissa, and her lover's headless trunk rolled at her feet.

Maddened l>y the sight. Clarissa was about to rush into tbfe cabin to reproach her father with the bloody deed when Algernon stopped her. “Consider.” he said. “The gun is by this time reloaded. Let ns take refuge undej the fall of the Kaaterskill.” Alas, they were too late! Just as they were about to sink behind a mountain peak the father appeared at his cabin door with a fieldglass and, pointing it deliberately at the fugitives, pulled the trigger. “Are you hurt, dearest? 5 ’ asked Algernon tenderly. “ ’Tis nothing—a mere break in the left ventricle of the heart. lam better now. And you?”

“A trifle. The old man has been sadly fooled. Both my legs and both my arms are cork.” “Then let us speed on.” Pulling the throttle wide open, they skimmed the ice merrily. Reaching a lake from which the water bad been drained to supply the neighboring residences with warmth, they looked about for a boat with which to cross. “Oh. for a mud scow!” exclaimed Clarissa.

“Here is something better.” replied Algernon, and. seizing a toboggan tied to a post, they mounted and rode up the mountain side with lightning speed. The sight from the summit was resplendent with beauty. The rising sun was sinking in the north. The full moon, a slender crescent fit to deck a lady’s brow, was at the moment passing behind Arcturus. All nature was hushed, the stillness unbroken save for the blows of a thousand artisans in a boiler shop in the valley.

The lovers were standing on the peak, pensively viewing the scene and unconscious of danger, when the pursuing father, wringing the sweat from his raven locks, reached the summit of a neighboring mountain and looked wildly about for the fugitives. Not seeing them, he drew a searchlight from his vest pocket and. pointing it directly at Algernon's heart, tired. The brave man who could not be worsted by round shot succumbed to the more subtle power of electricity. An arm and two legs caught fire and blazed with the brilliancy of pitch pine.'-Vvr “My love! My lover" shrieked Clarissa. “Must I stand here helpless and see you burn to a cinder?"

“Fear not. dear heart." replied the. iron hearted man. “1 am only vulnerable in the thorax.” With that he waded into the lake and was extinguished. Moved by Algernon's bravery and Clarissa’s tears, the old man relented. Seeing the limbless body of his would be son-in-law floating in the lake, he waded in and. seizing Algernon by the right arm and left leg. dragged him to the shore. “Give ! me your hand, noble mam” Mid Clarissa’s father. "You've burned it.” moaned Algernon. Fortunately at that moment a distinguisljpd dominie passed by. walking on an alpenstock, and consented to unite the pair In the holy bonds of matrimony. ■. 1 ■■ 5 Years have passed since the sound of these festivities ceased to leap in echoes from crag to crag. The butter-: cups and daisies lovingly nod to each other, kissed by the clouds that stoop from heaven to wrap them in a wind-, lng sheet of disagreeable fog. The shrill whistle of the locomotive floats over the mountain plains where once the only means of conveyance was heaven’s own simple meteorite. The numerous progeny of Algernon and Clarissa now scamper oyer the mountains. * * » * • * • The committee unanimously agreed; to bestow upon the author of this thrilling tale the booby prize.

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