Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

SURREY. Corn husking is the order of the day. Eimer Brown is husking corn for Mr. Lyre. r i. The weather is somewhat cooler at present. Howard Holmes is on the sick list at this writing. . . Mrs. Estel Osborne is on the sick list at this writing. ’ Elmer Brown spent Saturday night with Everett Greenlee and family. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Holmes were Rensselaer goers Saturday forenoon. Mrs. J. W. Nowels called on her daughter, Mrs. Joe Luers, Wednesday. •

Miss Rebecca Green visited her niece, Mrs. Everett Green, Wednesday. John Osborne still continues to make his usual trip of a Sunday evening. Mrs. W. B. Holmes and daughter Pearl were Rensselaer goers Monday forenoon. Jay was seen going east Sunday evening, i wonder what the attraction is, Jay? Mr. and Mrs. E. Green called on Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Holmes and family Sunday evening. ‘ We suppose the North Dakota boys are not coming back to old Jasper to husk corn this season. I wonder how The dance was at Geo. Houston’s Saturday night. We hope they had a good time.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) John Macklenburg moved to Rensselaer * Monday. E. G. Perrigo transacted business in Chicago during the week. Erney Schanlaub went to Goodlafid Tuesday to see the doctor relative to his eye. Miss Zimmerman of KioWa county, Kansas, cousin of John Brooks, ia visiting here. Art Harriman of Churubusco was in this hazel dell during the week renewing acquaintances. Mrs. Sigler of Chicago spent several days with her son, J. D. and family during the week. 1 Miss Leia Crisler, from Rochester visited friends and relatives in and around Mt. Ayr, during the week. Lee Dirst and Martin Barker went out Monday and appraised the personal property of Philip Brown deceased. Mrs. Haskell of Chicago was a guest at the Sigler mansion during the week. She is a sister of “Budge.” P. White loaded his household effects Tuesday and shipped them to Foresman where they will make fheir home during the winter he has secured work on the section. Mrs. Minnie Francis of South Bend was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Geesa during the past week. On her homeward trip she was accompanied home by Mrs. B. Geesa. Clinton Arnold came home Saturday from Crookston, Minn., where he has been farming during the past season. He reports that the past summer has been very dry and that crops, as a result, have been very poor but that everybody there, including John and W. H. Magaha, formerly of this community, are getting along quite welk Edgar Arnold also pulled in last evening from Crookston where he had been for almost two years.

REMINGTON. Miss Mollie Hogan is visiting relatives . in Chicago. Mrs. Leona Taber visited in Logansport last weekMrs. J. P. Hammond of Rensselaer visited Mrs. Jason Bickel last Tuesday. . 1 Mrs. Ranier of Brookston visited her son Dr. Danier and wife here last week. Walter Rich and L. R. Risser of Kankakee, 111., were here last week on business. W. T. Elmore, Fred Berger, H. W. Milner and Ed Sutherland were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Eells have adopted a little girl from Logansport whose mother js a widow.

Miss Millie Gray has gone to Terre Haute to take a course in drawing and music at the State Normal. Everett Dobbins, who has been spending the summer near Aberdeen, S. Dak., returned home last Wednesday. < ..: .. Wade Rawlings of Hutchinson, Kan.. came last week to see his mother, who has been in poor health for some time. Robert Erwin and daughter Julia were called to Noblesville last Thursday by the death of the son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Whitmeyer. Mrs. John Lambom of Chicago returned home Wednesday after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. Frank Rich and family.—Goodland Herald. The Whitehead & Harner furniture stock has been sold to Frank Howard, O. G. Maxwell will open a pool and billiard hall in the room they occupied. Mrs. A. Beasley, wife of the democratic candidate for county auditor, was suddenly stricken with paralysis Sunday night at about 9 o'clock, and at writing (Monday), is lying at the point of death, little hopes being entertained for her recovery. Mrs. Beasley is perhaps 45 years of age, and her maiden name was Miss Clara Bond.

FLY IN WHEAT. Prof. Troop Says Samples Sent Him are Badly Infected. John E. Alter of Union tp., sent a sample of wheat to Prof. Troop of the Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette last week, and got the following reply: Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 31, 1910. John E. Alter. Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir:—Yours of the 30th is at hand. The wheat which you enclosed is very badly infested with the Hessian fly. The life history of the fly is something like the following; The fly lays its eggs in the fall sown wheat, beginning about the first of September, if it can find wheat at that time, and continuing until September 20 to 25. These agge hatch and work on the wheat until cold weather, when they are in the condition in which you see them at present. They pass the winter in this stage and the adult fly comes out again in the spring and lays another batch of eggs which works on the wheat until harvest time. What you should do next year would be to plow a strip around the field you wish to sow, the latter part of August and sow one drill width around the field and then pare the rest of the field for sowing and about Septembver 25 plow the trap strip under and sow the whole field. Tae flies will have laid practically all of their eggs on the strip which is plowed under. Very truly yours, JAMES TROOP.

NOBODY BUT FATHER. [The following poem is floating around; unfortunately, no one knows who w rote the gem: ] Nobody knows the money it takes to keep the house together; Nobody knows of the debt it makes. Nobody knows—but father. Nobody’s told that the boys need shoes ’■ And girls hats with a feather; Nobody else old cloths must choose. Nobody—only father. Nobody hears that the coal and wood And flour’s out together; Nobody else must make them good. Nobody—only father. Nobody's hand in the pocket goes So often wondering whether There’s any end to the wants of those Dependent—only fathen Nobody thinks where the money will come ? To pay the tills that gather; Nobody feels so blue and glum; Nobody—only father.

Nobody tries so hard to lay Up something for bad weather, And runs behind, do what he may, Nobody—only father. Nobody comes from the world’s ( cruel storm, To meet dear ones who gather Around with loving welcome warm, Nobody does—but father. , r Nobody knows of the home life pure, Watched over by a mother Where rest and bliss are all secure, Nobody can —but father.