Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

REMINGTON. Fred Gay is visiting friends and relatives in Kokomo. J. W. Taylor and daughter Stella were Rensselaer goers Saturday. • Sidney Burton left last Tuesday for Springville, Tenn:, for an indefinite visit, Robert Shaw of Lafayette attended /he funeral of Titus E. Price here last Wednesday. Mrs. Michael Renck visited the family of George Breeze in Monticello several days last week. A. Beasley has taken his little son Kermit to Gary where he will make his home with his uncle, Luce Bond and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard gave a miscelaneous shower on Monday evening of last week in honor of Miss Delia Sharkey. Mrs. J. H. Allman has sold off her household goods and will make her home with her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Peck. She will also dispose of her residence property here. Goodland Herald: Last Saturday the old Kent Hotel building and lot was put up to the highest bidder and was sold to Mr. Henry Butler. Consideration was $1,250.00. Max McCollough of Williamsport visited relatives here and in Gilboa tp., last week, leaving Saturday for California where he will spend the winter for the benefit of his health. A broken engine on the 5:44 p. m. train from the east last Wednesday at Wolcott, delayed the train two hours while an engine was sent for at Effner to pull the train through. ■An item overlooked in our last week's grist was that of Wm. Hotalling’s barn being struck by lightning on Sunday evening previous and burned to the ground. The loss is estimated at S2OO with insurance of SIOO. Fowler Leader: Harry Parker has traded his feed barn to Jacob May for eighty acres of land north and west, of Remington. Possession of the feed barn will be ; given the first of the year. Mr. Parker does not expect to leave Fowler but wi’l stay and operate the barn.

MT. AYR. (From the Pilot.) Mrs. McCord spent a few days at Rensselaer with her mothei. Dr. and Mrs. Merry expect to entertain their daughters'Misses Jessie and Blanch, of Chicago, at Yuletide. Miss Elsie Thurston, of Terre Hayite, spent Thanksgiving .holidays with her sister Miss Stella Thurston. Mrs. John Rush and three children visited with John’s parents at ’’Vatseka, returning home last Saturday. Arthur Ashby' has been Under the doctor's care for a few days with a complication of kidney trouble and rheumatism. ■, Miss Thurston, the popular assistant in the High School, entertained her sister from Terre Haute during the holiday., A note to her people from Miss Edna Long, stated that she would end her vacation at Decatur and', proceed to Long Tree, Missouri, Wednesday. . Robert Crisler, well and favorably known to our people, but now a resident of Aurora. 111., visited Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sayler Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Alex Miller and children are expected to-morrow but he will not blow in before the middle of next week and as soon as he and W. W. get matters arranged the latter and family will start for Pasedena, California. Mrs. Lawson Ponsler and Miss Addie Harris, entertained four tables at cards Saturday' evening in honor of Miss Elsie- Thurston, of Terre Haute. After the games ments were served and an Informal musical program rendered. The invited guests were James Makeever, Grace Carter, Pauline Sayler, Stella Thurston, Jay Miller, Frank Johnson, Wade Makeever and William Haskell.

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.