Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

fTT hems of InleteH jJ from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling (be Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

PALESTINE 1 i Mrs. John Gallagher called cn Mrs. Andrews Friday. Mrs. Nome Hoston called on Mrs. Nels Anderson Friday. Miss Lilie Lear spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Elsie Templeton. The Baptist Ladies Aid will meet at the church Thursday to tie comforts. Miss Carrie Anderson visited Miss Effie Gallagher Friday afternoon. Aunt Mary Johnson called on Mrs. Nels Anderson Saturday afternoon. There was quite a number out to church Sunday evening in spite of the rain. Mrs. Nels Anderson and five children spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Ed Johnson and children. Miss Lillie Lear, who has been working for Mrs. Wenye Kerr, returned home Sunday, her mother being sick. Nels Anderson and daughter Carrie were Monon goers Saturday, the latter going to have her finger doctored.

j—- | LEE. | _l 1— J. H. Culp put dry wood in the Lee school wood house this week. S. M. Jacks and family visited his sister, Mrs. Charles Lefler, and family Sunday. Clyde Davis has rented the Price farm at this place for another year and is now doing fall plowing. Mrs. C. A. Holeman spent' Saturday night and Sunday with her daughter and family, Mrs. J. H. Culp. J. H. Culp and family and Elmer Gilmore and family and Mrs. C. A. Holeman took dinner Sunday at David Culp’s. W. L. Stiers’ new house is getting along fine. It is a two story square house and will make a nice improvement for the town. The first of October and we have had no frost yet but an abundance of rain. The fall pastures and fall sowing of grain is doing fine. Mrs. C. A. Holeman went on the milk train from here Sunday evening to Reynolds to visit her son Ray and family for a few days. The steam press that has been haling hay for Mr. Gilmore has pulled out on account of the rains making the ground too soft for the engine.

SOUTH NEWTON. | —! Relatives from Brook spent Wednesday with Mrs. Arthur MayheW. Jeff Smith and wife were guests of Milton Grimes and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wortley visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wortley Monday. Arthur Mayhew and family spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives at Brook, Everybody is busy picking apples now, of which there is a large crop of fines ones. Mrs. C. A. Koons went to Logansport Saturday for a visit w T ith her daughter. (Mr. asd Mrs. Clarence Pruett took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Paulus and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mayhew spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mayhew of near Foresman. We would like to see some fine weather now as the farmers have

iars to do yet before corn husking. Mrs. James Reed and children of near Surrey visited last Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pnilip Paulus.,_ James Carr is visiting near Mitchell, S». Dak., with relatives. He is expected home the latter part of this week. The rain and had roads, don’t count much when Marsh wants to go see his best girl. He made the trip Sunday all right. Henry Harris is having quite a number, of tile put in on his farm in this locality. The men are boarding at Milton Grimes’.

‘ —l 1— NEW CENTER. *■ [ —I New Center is back again after a week’s vacation. It is too wet in Milroy tp. to thrash buckwheat or to even sow wheat. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Digman took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Latta. Miss Ara Griswold and Mary Miles did shopping in Wolcott Saturday afternoon. Wiley Latta, Will Vanatta and John Southard transacted business in Wolcott Saturday. Mrs. William Miles spent Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. Grant Pollock of near Wolcott. Miss Mary Miles and Belle Southard spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. They are both greatly pleased with their schools. Ernest Beaver, who is attending high school at Rensselaer, spent Saturday and- Sunday with his parents. He says he likes the school work fine. Homer James of Wolcott was in Milroy Monday finding out whether buckwheat was in a condition to thrash or not. He has run in this neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. WillNyanatta tell us they have purchased a. new farm in Milroy tp., on which they will move next spring. Tfiqy are greatly pleased with their purchase as they made quite a bargain in selling the place they now live on and buying the new one. We are also pleased to know that *we can still have them in this neighborhood, as they are good citizens. A surprise party was given Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Vanatta in honor of Mr. Vanatta’s birthday anniversary. Refreshments consisiing of oysters, pickles, cake and other things were served. Those present were Chas. Beaver, wife and three daughters, Wiley Latta and family, Vern Culp, Jihn Southard, wife and two daughters. At twelve olclock all departed for home, wishing Mr. Vanatta many more happy anniversaries.

WHEATFIELD. Alva McNeil of Lacross was in town Tuesday. A. I. Jensen Sundayed with .Chicago relatives. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Austin were Rensselaer business visitors Saturday. John Allen of Kankakee spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. E. W. Allen. Will Spry and Mrs. James Spry visited over Sunday with relatives at Lowell and East Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. John Pinter went to Chicago Wednesday to purchase their yjinter stock of goods. Miss Stella White of Telit spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Herman Langdon. Mrs. C. E. Downey and children went to Kentland Tuesday for a ten days visit with relatives. Mrs. Gird Hendrickson spent Friday and Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. O. M. Jumper, of Lacross. Mrs. Brooks and son went to Danville, 111., Friday after a few weeks spent with her brother and family. •Mrs. Charley Knitted and two children of Tolleston are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John East. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Helmick and A. VanDoozer attended a soldiers’ reunion at Knox Thursday of last week. Mrs. Clarence Sands and children" of Francesville- are spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Rockwell. Robert A. Mannon went to Indianapolis Monday to attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the K. of P‘s., as the delegate of the Wheatfield lodge. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton of Medaryville returned home Tuesday from a visit with their son Ward and wife, and their daughter, in*. George Ferguson. Mrs. A 1 Goble and two children, who have been visiting her mothe\ Mrs.' Mary Archer, for ten days* reSu-

tamed to her home at Indianapolis Wednesday. Her mother accompanied Jtef for a week’s stay. Mr. and Mrs. Presley Davis of, Tampa, Fla., who have been spending the summer with their son Elwood and daughter, Mrs. James Clark, left here for a week’s visit in Illinois Monday before going to their southern home.

FAIR OAKS. | News is very scarce this week. Health is still good in our town. Postmaster Thompson has been on the sick list' a few days this week. George Marshall took another trip down to his Alabama home a few days ago. Chas. Halleck has several men at work picking pears this week. He shipped a carload this week. Mrs. John Kight of Indianapolis, after a few days visit with relatives here, returned home the first of the week. r William Blankenbaket of Parr came up Tuesday with his tools to move Frank McKay’s house onto his own lots. The electric block signal system men are working here this week putting in cement foundations on the Monon route. Sam Potts and Bert Warren took another load of potatoes to Rensselaer this week; Tbdy are a pretty nice lot of Murphy’s, too. Chas. Manderville, after a couple weeks work here remodeling his mother’s house, returned to Kentland the latter part of the week. We continue to get a pretty heavy rain about every other day. In some places water is standing in the fields and the ditches are full. The Monon section men of this place are building a grade at the south end of the switch preparatory to making the siding about 100 feet longer. It is reported that J. A. Lucas, who has been living on the Bruce Moffltt farm, has sold his household goods preparatory to moving away. The farm has changed hands again it is said.

PARR. * ! The annual fall festival will take place here Oct. 14. Parr is improving fast. Cement sidewalks being the latest. Paul Longstreth, who had broken his arm last week,, is getting along nicely. Earl Bruner., who is, on the sick list with rheumatism, is not getting along so well. / Clyde and Luvia Gunvon, Otto and Olga Sehreeg were guests of Miss Blanche Babcock Sunday evening. George Marion is spending a few weeks with home folks. He is working in Chicago Heights in the chemical factory and expects tt> make his future home there as soon as his wife recovers from . rheumatism.

THE XORTHSIDE. | Herbert Garriott was in Parr on business Wednesday. Mrs. Fred Schultz was in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. Mrs. James Garriott called on Mrs. B. D. Comer Wednesday. Everybody is greatly interested in The Democrat’s piano contest. Mrs. Dexter and Mrs. Meader were in Parr shopping Wednesday. Wallace - and Lewis Miller are ditching -nowadays, also Jack Reeder. Roscoe Reeder of Virgie is working for Sparling Bros, solth of Rensselaer. Victor Comer is helping Mr. Blankenbaker move the old Brasket house for B. D. Comer. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gasaway Were shopping in Rensselaer Tuesday. The U. B. congregation of Aix gave a surprise supper on Rev. and Mrs. Shaefer Tuesday evening. They - soon leave us. and we wish them God speed.

_j 1 — PINE GROVE. —! n,l— Britt is hauling away, his cane crop this week. A. Eib ■' called on James Britt .oand James Torbet Wednesday afternoon. Harry Beck and family visited with Chas. Shroyer and family Sunday afternoon. Mrs. James Torbet attended the Ladies’ Aid at Mrs. Nancy Burgett’s Wednesday afternoon. Ruth Gilmore of Demotte is visiting with her uncle, Charles Walker, and family this week. The school teacher, Irving Peregrine, who teaches at Independence, is boarding at J. M. Torbet’s. Bernice and Lucy Walker spent Sunday forenoon with their grandmother, Mrs: Jane Hurley of Blackford. Mrs. Bdyner and three children of Chicago Heights spent Tuesday night and Wednesday with her aunt, Mrs. Chas. Shroyer. Several from here attended the surprise supper given in honor of Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Shaefer Tuesday evening at their home. All reported a fine time.

IROQUOIS VALLEY. j —1 TT-“ 1— 1 >liss Florence Arnold was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Alex Hurley is hauling lumber for the Burns school. , Beck Green called on Mrs. Barney Rolhoff Wednesday. Perry Marlatt of Rensselaer visitor at fils farm Wednesday. Vilas Price is helping Will Durant make sorghum this week. Wm. Green purchased some hogs of George McElfresh Monday. , Henry Ropp and son Dali hauled a load of cane to the mill Wednesday. Mrs. Belle Daniels and children visited her mother, Mrs. I. Walker, Wednesday. Mollie McElfresh of Rensselaer spent Thursday in the country, gathering hazelnuts.

! Gertrude Kolhoff and Rex Ott attended the show at Rensselaer Tuesday evening. Emmet Pulling is. improving the looks of his place by cutting the hazelbrush along the fence. Chas. Grant and father-in-law, H. M. Shipman, called on Garland Grant, west of town, Tuesday. Dick and ClarencO; Green are assisting their father in wheat sowing and corn cutting this week. „ Mrs. Maud Newcome and Belle and Margaret Daugherty visited the Smith school Tuesday afternoon. The Burns school house is progressing very slowly and it will be *ome time before it is finished .and ready for occupancy. Louis Zillbart went to Rensselaer Thursday and brought home a fine line of blacksmithing tools tor his father's shop. George McEifresh had the good luck to find a bee tree which he cut Wednesday evening and got 17 pounds of fine honey, Lester Schreiner of Sandwich, 111, returned home Monday after a short visit here with relatives. His sister-in-law. Miss Kathryn Morgenegg. accompanied him home for a short visit.