Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondent,

ATT hems of Interest j| from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

MILROY.

' Everybody is canning ciferries. George Foulks wem to Monon Wednesday. Mrs. Lamport called on Mrs. Spencer Monday. Miss Pearl Abersol was in Lee and Monon Monday. The orchestra met at Geyrge Foulks’ Friday evening. Mr. McKinley and family* ate dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Saltwell. Mrs. Thos. Spencer and children went to Mr. Willett’s Monday to get cherries. D. Z. Clark and Mr. Sexton of Wolcott ate dinner Tuesday with George Foulks. Mrs. W. I. Bivans went to Hoopeston, 111., again last week to consult her physician. • Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Spencer and family attended the basket meeting j at Palestine Sunday. A subscription is being taken to raise money to insure the church, | as the policy expired the first of the month. Mr. Wall received word that his sister in Sheridan, Ind., was seriously ill and he and Mrs. Wall left Saturday to be at her bedside.;

j LEE. —i 7 Lou Anderson spent a few days this week in Chicago. Tom and Harley dark took dinner Sunday with Glen Culp. Roy Stiers and lady friend, Miss Ethel Lewis, went to Chicago Sunday. Asa Holeman and family visited 'her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vandervort Sunday. 4. Mr and Mrs G. A. Jacks hilled on his sister, Mrs. Charles Lefler, Sunday afternoon. Uncle David Culp and lamily visited Sunday afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. C. Williamson's. Wesley Noland has been at Fair Oaks during the past week with his brother James, who is sick. John Clark and family attended church Sunday and then took dinner with S. M. Jacks and family. Charles Jacks and family of Monon visited here Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Jacks. 'Mrs. Ben Denton and children have been visiting her grandma, Mrs. Mary Jane Johnson, of Winamac. Mrs. William Brock and little son Ray have made an extended visit with relatives in the southern part of the state. Everett Blackburn and wife, who have been working on the Horton & Mosley ranch near here, have gone away, and Ben penton and family will move on the ranch. Several from here attended the Hanging Grove tp. commencement held at the grove at Banta school house Saturday afternoon. The nine graduates did well in rendering their themes. Friday of last week Orval Holeman’s driving horse got choked on a corn cob and the veternary has been working with it since, and at this writing (Tuesday) they think the horse is a little better. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Clark visited his parents in Rensselaer Sunday, and picked cherries Monday and brought them home. With them picking and canning cherries is the order of the day as it is with all the women folks nowadays, cherries being so,plentiful.

SOUTH NEWTOM.

Little Lloyd Powell is on the sack list this week. Joe Ade was at Clarence Pruett's Tuesday looking after the farm. Dale Warner of Rensselaer spent Saturday jiight with Be|a Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wortley spent Sunday with relatives in Jordan tp. Mrs. Pruett and Mrs. Bare picked cherries at Mrs. Paulus’s several days this week. • Rev. Rardin and wife of Rosebud spent Saturday night with Clarence Pruett and wife. ( Philip Paulus and wife spent Sun- ; day with Ehardt Wuerthner au„ , wife of near Surrey. Marshall Pruett of near Ade visI ited Saturday and Sunday with his brother Clarence and wife. Quite a number from this vicinity attended Children's day exercises at j Mt. Hope last Sunday afternoon. ■ Mrs. Jesse Roberts and daughter j Elsie of Chicago came Monday for a 1 visit with the family of Press Roberts. Mr and Mrs. Robert Overton and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waling were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell Sunday. I Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett callled on the former’s sister and hus- ■ band, Mr.- and Mrs. Earl Clinton, Monday evening. < b. Mayhew of Illinois came Fridav and intends to spend, the remainder of the summer with his brothers. Arthur and Ernest. Everything is badly in need of rain now. We will surely get it now for everyone is busy putting up clover hay. It usually rains at this time of all others. I Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, who ' make their home'with their daughter Mrs. C. W. Postill of Attica, visited the latter part of last week with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Pancoast and family. Miss Sadie Paulus went to Rensselaer Saturday to meet her cousin, Miss Elizabeth Getting, and friend, Stewart Wilson, of Kentland. They went from there to Surrey to spend Sundav with the former’s sister, Mrs. James Reed, and family. There will be an ice-cream social held at the No. 6 school house in Newton tp. Wednesday evening, June 28. Other refreshments will be served in connection with ice-cream. The proceeds will be used for home missionary work. Everybody cordially invited to attend.

I I NORTH UNION. Gertrude Faylor went to Parr Tuesday afternoon. A. R. Schultz and daughter were in Rensselaer Tuesday. Joe Brown and another man called on W. C. Faylor Friday. Mrs. Will Faylor '"went to Fair Oaks Monday afternoon shopping. Mr. and Mr& Grilles of near Kniman spent Sunday with Ernest Stibbe. Mr. and Mrs. Will Schultz spent Sunday with Adolfe Schultz and family. Gertrude Faylor and little sister called on Mrs. Franw *Vest Monday afternoon. Mrs. Will Faylor and son Will took in Children’s day at Independence Sunday. George Casey took his son George to Fair Oaks Sunday afternoon to return to his work. A. R. Schultz and daughter Lena went to Rensselaer Sunday afternoon in' their auto. J. W. Faylor, wife and little ones attended Children’s day exercises at Independence Sunday. Several from this part of the

REMINGTON.

neighborhood hauled fat hogs to Parr Tuesday morning. Mrs. W. C. and J. W. Faylor and Raymond Faylor picked cherries at A. R. Schultz’s Tuesday. Jesse Garriott and wife of Fair Oaks were visitink in this neighborhood Sunday and Monday. J. W. Faylor .and wife and little ones took supper Sunday evening with Frank Vest and family. Raymond. Gertrude and Bessie Faylor attended Children’s day exercises at Parr Sunday afternoon. The farmers are thinking of beginning harvesting wheat the last of the week. Most of it is very poor.

PALESTINE. | Mr. Clark and family spent Sunday with Fred May and family. Jack Boone and wife picked cherries Monday. We are having some more hot weather. Charles Jones was a Lee goer Saturday. Mrs. Jones spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Conley. Mrs. Nelson Anderson and daughter Elsie went to Wolcott Tuesday on business. The basket meeting at the Baptist church Sunday was ell attended. and everyone reported having had a good time. Nelson Anderson and family spent Sunday evening with Charles Jones and wife. There will be an ice-cream social at the Baptist church Saturday night, June 30. Miss Hilda Green spent Tuesday afternoon with Miss Blanche and Ed Anderson.

Fountain Park Assembly will open August 12. Frank Jordan is driving a new Ford touring car. - Lowell Townsend is home from Evanston, 111., for the summer vacation, Arion Griffin of Monticello is visiting his grandfather, Uncle George Griffin. .... - Misses Ruth Stoudt and Rachael Smalley attended commencement at Crescent City, 111. Misses Bessie York and Mabel Howard of Bloomington visited relatives and friends here last week. John Sharkey, a former resident of Remington, died a few days ago at his home near Houlton, Oregon. ■C. H. Peck and E. L. Grobe are at Columbus, Ohio, this week attending the Grand American Handicap Shoot. “Shorty” Ochs now makes his delivery of mail on route No. 2, in a Hupmobile, recently purchased of L. B. Elmore. J. A. Washburn and eon Will, Frank Kelley and son Ralph, John Lewis and J. G. Tharp were fishing at the Kankakee a few days last week.

Monticello Herald: Miss Fern Patton of Bloomington, 111., who has been the guest of her cousin, Effie Million, went to Remington yesterday to visit relatives. Misses Margaret Johnson and Gertrude B’esse and J. M. Ott and daughter Daisy will accompany The Democrat party on their eastern trip, leaving Sunday, July 2. Mr. and Mrs. James W r ashburn returned last week from Huntington where the latter had an operation performed on her eyes and their son Will had his tonsils removed. Prof. Will Ruffing and James Van Pelt were in Remington last night to assist the cornet band of that town. The Remington people brought James back this morning via auto route in time to go to work. Ruffing went on to Goodland to visit his sister a while today.—■ Wednesday’s Monticello Journal.

ROSEBUD. I — Amos Alter marketed hogs last Tuesday. David Alter was a Parr visitor Tuesday. Farmers have all begun to cut their wheat this week. David Yeomafl and family went to Parr Tuesday evening. A few from here attended the Children’s exercises at Parr last Sunday. Arthur Greenlee of west of Kniman was seen in these parts Tuesday. Mrs. Sol Norman and daughter Farie are busy picking cherries this week. Peter Hardeman brought in his threshing machine Monday to prepare for business. Mrs. Fern McAully of Chicago is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Alter. *> Miss Luvia Gunyon, who has recently had an* operation performed on her, is rapidly improving. Rev. O. S. Rardin filled his appointment at Mt. Hope Sunday. He was accompaned by his wife. D. H. Yeoman or Rensselaer was prospecting over his farm last Sunday to see how his crops lookedRalph Lowman and wile called on the latter’s parents. Mr. and] Mrs. Walter Harrington, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith attended the funeral of their son-in-law, Grover Rltcljey, at Rensselaer Sunday. i z Clyde Gunyon, who returned home from work on a dredge in Minnesota on account of sickness, is on the mend.

FAIR OAKS.,' • —■—■ —-—— ——i— Walter McConnell begun his hay campaign this week. Abe Bringle and wife made another trip to Chicago Tuesday. Supervisor Goff begun the work of graveling the new road past the depot this week. „ A l r . Di , anna - who occupied Enos Moffitt s house, moved over on the Hillis & Tolen ranch last week. - Mr. Allen was visited by his brother-in-law from out in the far west over Sunday. It had been about 20 years since they had met. We are still having dry and hot weather and crops are very much in need of rain. The rye harvest has been begun in these parts this week. C. L. Eggleston run a naif into h:s foot about a week ago and has been confined to his home since. Dr. Rice was called Wednesday to treat him.

Almost everybody has been busy the past ten days taking care of the cherry crop. There has been quite a few hucklesberries delivered, too. Grandma Manderville, who is in the age of 80 some, partly fell in her well curb a few days ago and got very severely bruised up but there were no bones broken. The dog population has apparently decreased in our town lately, while the most of them have been muzzled, some have been killed. Some tie them up in the day time and let them loose at night. The Brean Drug Co. of Chicago, which purchased the Pembroke fruit farm, are making very extensive preparation to raise ginseng. They have to build a shade over the entire patch which they planted. Last week while Jesse Garriott was over near Fowler helping Leon Hampton put up clover hay, his wife visited Mrs. Maek Comer on Nubbin Ridge and picked cherries. They both came home Monday with i:s of cherries to can.

Jap Wright of Mt. Ayr came up Tuesday evening with his team and agon and bought and hauled home a wagon load of fat hogs from F. R. Erwin. He chose the night to haul them on account of the hot weather ip the day time. James Noland, whose sickness we have mentioned several times in our report, is still growing worse with dropsy. He hasn’t been able to lie d >wn for about 8 weeks, and has to sit in a chair all the time. His brother Wesley of near Lee is here helping to care for him. Fred Williams is giving Will Gundy’s store a few coats of paint this week, something it has been in need” of tor a number of years. It iriakes_a remarkable improvement in its looks. Fred has improved the looks of several houses in town this spring and there are several more waiting for him. We have been requested to offer the announcement in dur report that there will be a 4th of July gospel meteing here at Fair Oaks the 4th. If the weather is favorable it will be conducted in the grove, but if not will be held at Will Warren’s. All who wish are invited to come out and have a good time in the will of the Lord.

MILROY.

Frank May’s spent Sunday evening with Mr. Parks’. Walter Gilmore and Jessie Southard distributed ditch notices Sunday afternoon. Mrs. G. L. Parks went Monday to help her mother can cherries for Several days. Mrs. Parks’ sister, Mrs. Sarah Rank, of Chicago, came Saturday for a visit of indefinite length. Mrs. J. A. May and daughter Bell, Ed May’s, Branson Clark, Clell Clark, Lud dark and families ate ice-crgam Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.

NEW CENTER. Goldie and Sylvia Beaver spent last Sunday with Anna Caster. •Mr. and Mrs. John Southard spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Caster. Mrs. Nick Dignan and children spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Chas. Sommers, Sr. Wiley Latta and family and Miss Carrie Anderson attended the basket dinner at Palestine Sunday. Mrs. Grant Pollock and children

spent last Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. William Mijes. Mr. and'Mrs. Isaac Hamilton and daughter Mildred spent Sunday with their son James of near Remington. Mrs. Dot Clark, Mrs. Chas. Sommers, Sr., Mrs. Nick D’gnan spent Tuesday with Mrs. Joseph Grauns. Mrs. Chas. Beaver, son Gerald and baby daughter Dollie returned Thursday from their visit at Knox. Mr. and Mrs. George Caster went to Remington Wednesday to see Dr. Besser as the former has very poor health. ; Manson Beaver and son Herald ind Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beaver spent the day Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Beaver. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks and son Earl and Miss Pearl Abersol called on John Southard and family Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ludd Clark and daughter Sophia, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stuart and Mr. and Mrs. Ed May spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred May.

PARR. i ; . - i—4 1 Hurrah for the Fourth! The band concert was well attended. Marie King visited Martha Schreeg Thursday. Cherry picking Ts all you hear in this vicinity. Mrs. O. Shaefer visited Miss Ida Hurley one day this week. May Warren was a guest of Mrs. C. Marion one day this week. Misses Ida and Etta Hurley were guests of Martha Schreeg Thursday. L. Schreeg and wife went to Chicago in their auto one day this week to visit their daughter, Mrs. L. Jutz.