Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

<TT Items of Interest □J from'Surrounding Towns Tersely TokL w Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

REMINGTON'. | . Peter Geib has bought' TF’Tfiew Ford auto. Born, May 217 to Dennis O’Connor and wife. a son. Emmet Meehan is clerking in Hallfhan’s restaurant. Turner Merritt and family spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Pernard Hargreaves is now clerking in the Hartman store. Dr. Ranier is remodeling his residence bnVSouth Ohio street. Rev. Bull was in Chicago last -week undergoing an operation or throat trouble.

Bert Spencer attended the F. & A. M. grand lodge meeting in Indianapolis last week. Misses Laura Peck and Irene Balcom went to DePauw Thursday attend a class party. Thomas Parks and grand-daugh-ter. Miss Opal, of Gretna Green, visited relatives here last week. .1 \V. Stokes, who spent the winter at the Marion Soldiers home, returned to Remington Wednesday. Miss Ruth Stoudt and Miss Helen Peck attended the Wolcott high school class play Wednesday night. Mrs. Geo. Stoudt and daughter Ruth visited in Rensselaer Thursday and Friday with Mrs. F. E. Babcock. Mrs. Thomas Montgomery and children of Guthrie, Okla., is visiting here with her ‘sister, Mrs. Fred Budreau. ‘ Grandma” Shide, who has been an invalid tor the past two years, was taken to St. Anthony’s Home at Lafayette Wednesday. While working on Dr. Ranier’s residence last Monday, Clark Johnson fell from a scaffold and dislocated his left arm at the elbow. Mrs. Thus. Welch and daughter of Angola visited her cousin, Mrs. C. H. Peck, here last week. She will also visit J. D. Allman and family in Rensselaer. Miss Hattie Bartoo of Spokane, Wash., while on her way to Boston to attend the national convention of nurses, stopped off here last week for a visit with relatives.

Owing to the edict of the health authorities forbidding all public gatherings, the memorial services to have been held at the Presbyterian church Sunday were called off. C. A. Balcom, the grocer, mention of whose failure was made in a recent issue of The Democrat, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the federal court. Liabilities are given at 54,100 and assets at $2,100. Kentland Democrat: George Worden of Remington was a Kentland visitor yesterday. He, with his automobile, brought over the Catholic Sisters of that place to attend church services here. Because of an epidejnic of the scarlet fevr there since about two weeks past their churches, schools and other places of public gatherings have been closed; hence their coming here. *

| MEDARYVILLE. (From the Advertiser.) Mrs. Calvin McCay is visiting with her daughter. Mrs. John Long, at Monon since Tuesday last. Scott Lanam is here from Indianapolis the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Lanam. Mrs. Fred Lee of Chase, Mich., is the guest of her brother, Wm. Poisel, and other relatives here. Earl McMahon of Midland, So. Dak., is here on a visit with his aunts, Mesdames Frank H. Nichols and Alice Williams, and his uncle. G. H. Farnsley. Dr. O. P. Thompson, the optician, who has had an office over the Corner L»rug Store for the past six months or longer, has gone to Chicago to practice his profession. His fanjiily, we understand, will remain here for the present at least. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parker visited at their old home in Francesville last Sunday. Their daughters, Miss Feme, whose school term closed last week, and Miss Opal, who had been visiting friends in Francesville for several days, arrived here Monday evening. While sitting on the porch of her house several miles south of this town on Tuesday of last week, Mrs. Wm. Vollmer, who is quite a corpulent lady, suddenly became dizzy and falling off the porch she frac-

lured one arm between the elbow and the wrist. Dr. Linton reduced the fracture and the lady is getting along nicely. . The death of several hogs from hydrophobia occurred in the southwestern part of Gillam tp. during the past week. They belonged to Algie Kauffman and Thomas Walters and were bitten some time, when and how many of them is not ! known. Time will show whether ! Others of them are infected with the | disease. In the meantime, be cau- ] tIOUS. : Almost two years., ago a revolver in the trouser pocket of Hugh Low was accidently discharged, the bullett entering the fleshy part of the ! leg near the knee. The bullet was never removed and didn’t seem to inconvenience Hugh any until lately when it made its presence known most uncomfortably. Hugh went to Lafayette last week and had the bullet removed and he thinks he will be as good as ever after the wound has healed. In writing from Colorado Springs, where he has been taking treatment at M. W. A. sanitarium for almost six months, Frank Wayne writes: “I am doing fine and now weigh K 73 pounds; like it fine out here, but still have a longing for old Indiana. We are surely having fine weather, an average temperature of from 70 to 80 degrees in the .-hade. We have had but two good rains since 1 came to this place, but at that everything is nice and green and growing fine. We have here about eighty milk cows which furnish the milk for the boys who are sick—there are about 180 of us and most all of them are doing fine. I am certainly getting my money's worth.”

; GOODLAND > j—(From the Herald.) Harry Little was a business caller at Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday. » Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Harrington returned to Goodland Wednesday evening from Crothersville. Mrs. Bolin of St. Louis, Mo., visited here this week the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Rice and family. A. D. King south of town is gradually growing weaker. Yellow’ jaundice which has set in makes his trouble two-fold. Dayid King of Clinton. 111., a brother and Mrs. A. J. Ross, a sister, and husband, of A. D. King are here at the latter’s bedside. Isaac Winehold, of near Fowler, left this week for Wilson. Kan., where he will make an extended visit with his brother, Samuel. Several farmers shelled and hauled their corn to the elevator this week. 48c looked good to those who had corn which rated No. 3. Receiver Grant Hall was over from Fowler Thursday and started the arrangements for paying a twenty per cent dividend to the Goodland Bank depositors. The town board has ordered all poles on Newton street between Mill and Jasper streets to be painted. First for a height of six feet black paint will be used, and the balance of the pole to the first cross arm is to be white.

FRANCESVILLE. | _■ (From the Tribune.) Miss Irene Stein was the guest of Miss Edith Liptrap at Noblesville part of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pratt returned Monday evening from a visit at Miami with his parents. Miss Zora Tillett returned yesterday from Valparaiso where she was attending school the past winter. Miss Minerva Cook returned to her home in lowa Monday. Mrs. F. L. Sharrer accompanied her as far as Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McKeever and daughter are moving their household goods to Lafayette this week for future residence. L. H. Applegate of Jacksonville, Fla., came Friday evening and is visiting with old time friends. He has been in the restaurant business for several years and has been very successful.

| MT. AYR. (From the Pilot.) ' W. W. Miller’s family have returned fro z» the coast. Miss Bringle of Hardingsburg is visiting her nephew, Wm. Shindler, and family. Sigler Bros, have put in a small gas engine and will tie on their coffee grinder.; 7 Mrs. McCord is taking a vacation and visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Crockett, at Rensselaer. C. Baker, who spent the past week or two with his daughter, Mrs. Tower, at Danville, 111., returned Wednesday. ‘ A petition is being circulated for a stone road under the three mile law to connect up our system in the southwest corner of the township with the Brook and Morocco stone roads.