Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

REMINGTON. ”1 - ■ ' :’. ■ . ’ " ~ Mrs. Will Beal visited in Wolcott last Wednesday. i Rev. Crowder assisted in meetings at Monticello last week. Frank Miles of Wolcott was a business visitor here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hackley of Aberdeen, SO. Dak., are here for an extended visit with relatives. Several of the leading stores of Remington have signed an agreement to close at 7 p. in., each pight until the middle of March. Mrs. Markin and daughter Ethel of Bellmore, Ind., who have been visiting Will Beal and family, returned home last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Coon and Martha Roifsch visited in Wabash county last week. The former are visiting here from Otto, lowa. A. E. Vincent of Eldorado, Kan., came Saturday for a few days to look after some business matters. Mr. Vincent will move March 1 on a big farm which he has purchased near Newton, Kan. Wolcott Enterprise: Chauncey Mitterling came Monday evening and is packing up his mother’s household goods, preparatory to shipping them to Chicago Heights, where Chauncey is employed.

I MEDARYVILLE. ( From the Advertiser.) The Misses Cora Lanam and Bessie Osborn visited friends at Indianapolis several days last week. ■ Gtrs Steinke came home from South Bend last Thursday and expects to stay here until the worst of the winter is over. Mr. and Mrs. George Eisenhart of Frankfort, Ind., were the guests of the former’s brother, Dr. E. H. Eisenhart, and family from Saturday , to Monday. Mrs. H. L. Brown of Anthony, Kas., for several week" has been and still is the welcome guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary M. Querry, and her brothers and sisters in this locality. Miss Lillie Manning, Miss Esther Pullins; Ethel Manning, Mary Pullins apd Harold Pullins spent Sunday with Grace and Charley Schoonover, it being Charley’s sixteenth birthday anniversary.

MT. AYR. ' 2 ' (From the Pilot.) Edgar Seward was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday transacting business. _ » Wm. Shindler spent a day or so on the farm and at Brook during the week. e Jesse Putman has returned from Oklahoma and commenced working for Frank Elijah. Pen wright's orchestra furnished the music for the club at' Brook Monday evening. Dogs killed four sheep for William Shaw Friday night; and ducks for Ed Long and Ed Browh. John Better of Joliet, 111., has been visiting bis nephew, Frank Herath and family for a few days. The home of John C. Baker was brightened last Thursday by the visit of a stork that left a baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. Lemma Hickman rejoice over the advent of a 12 pound boy that arrived last Thursday. Jacob Hayworth has bought forty acres of Wm. Adam, in Colfax an J expects to ciit off all the timber this spring. Pete Dowing has accepted a position on a farm near Chalmers and will move in the spring. Charley Frey who recently took unto himself a bride, wiil move to the ,place vacated by Pete and work for James Elijah. - . _

GOODLAND ' I >— From the Herald. Mrs. Geo. Fox went to Frankfort i Saturday for a visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Rowe were guests of Remington relatives Thursday. Geo. Linfoot of Chicago visited here with the Al Wild family this week., Wm. Welch left Monday for an extended visit with relatives in New York state. ) Dr. K. Clymer returned to Goodland Wednesday after a visit ’with relatives at Rochester, ,Ind. Mr. and - Mrs. John Ktelley apd children visited with relatives in Remington Saturday and Sunday. / A. P. Hawn and A. J. Spinney left Monday for the Dakotas where

they will look around for a few days.. /■ \ Mr. and Mrs. Wm. N. Waterman will move to Goodland in the spring and live on the old homestead east of town. Mrs. Albert Dodge of hear Remington was accompanied to the Chicago hospital by Dr. and Mrs. Frank Kennedy Monday. J. R. Hazen was over from Kentland Tuesday. He has a dandy restaurant there and feels right at. home in the business. Guy Maxwell left Monday morning for Dexter. Kan,, where he will prepare for the coming of his family who will follow-later. Roy Hall has sold out his restaurant interest on Van Buren street in Chicago and has rtnbarked in business at Little Falls, Minn. Mrs. S. B. Doolittle of Binghamton. N. Y.. an d neice, Mr s. Sheets of Oklahoma, left Thursday for Marion after a few days visit here with the former’s brother, C. M. Peckham. We received word this week from Lawrence Sell and Leo McGraw who went, to Kansas two months ago, to the effect that they had signed with the El Dorado base bail club in the Kansas state league. They will have their tryout in April. The marriage of Miss Olive Burgess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Burgess of this city, and Mr., Brewster Hornbeck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dußois Hornbeck of Elgin. 111., will occur during next month at the residence of the bride’s parents. The announcement supper will be given February 3d.

In sending his subscription from Big Rapids, Mich., John W. Sapp writes that he has’been a subscriber of this paper during its life. He is just getting over a long seige of sickness, having been confined to his home since June 20th. He reportslß inches of snow, 4 below zero and good sleighing.

Robert Champley passed away Thursday afternoon at 2:08 o’clock after a short illness of pneumonia and a complication of other diseases. Mr. Champley cared*"for the Goodland school building up until his rec-ent illness and had living quarters in the southwest section of the school building where he died.