Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

items of Interest jJ from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

—! i NEW CENTER. —i : i Lud Clark shredded 'fodder last Thursday. Jessie Southard • spent Sunday aaight with Mrs. James May, Jr. Guy Moore and family called on Mrs. John Southard Monday evening. Ara Griswold visited Laurel Anderson's school Thursday of last week. John Southard spent Monday and Tuesday at Rensselaer on the grand jury. Velda and Fern Abersol spent Tuesday night with their teacher* Miss Ara Griswold. Mrs. Isaac Hamilton and daughter Mildred spent Sunday afternoon ■with Mrs. William Harwell. James May, Jr. and son Argile took dinner Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James May, Sr. / Mr. and Mrs. John Southard and •daughter Jessie spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Beaver.

Mrs. Abner Griswold and daughter A.ra attended the revival meeting at the Chistian church in Wolcott last Thursday evening. We have a girl in Milroy tp., at the age of 16 who says she shucks 50 bushels of corn a day. Can any girl at that age beat it?

Wiley Latta and family attended an infare dinner last Thursday at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Gallaher in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gallaber. Mrs. William Miles spent Sunday night with her daughter Mary, who is teaching in Walker tp., going (from there Monday to her brother’s, Mr. Jackson’s, near Rensselaer, retuning home Monday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sommers drove through to . Lafayette last Sunday a week for a visit with the latter’s parents and also an uncle of Mrs. Sommers, Mr. Halsma of Onstead, Mich. On Monday one of Charles’ horses took sick and •died Tuesday afternoon, leaving him one horse to drive back with Thursday.

James May, Jr. of Buttzville, No. Dak., arrived here Monday evening. Mis wife and two sons proceeded him three weeks ago. They will probably spend the greater part of the winter here. He expects to go back in the spring again. Hs said when he left there they were having such a blizzard he could scarcely see for any distance.

FAIR OAKS. | (Health is generally good in town nowadays. The meetings are still' going on In the M. E. cbur.cn. Ike Kight and Enos Moffitt were at Rensselaer Tuesday on court business. George Marshall expects to move to his new home in Alabama in about two or three weeks. AI Brouhard moved out- of the Moore property Tuesday into the house vacated by Jesse Garriott. Jesse Garriott bought and mobed Into the Frank Hooper property in the north part of town last week. Earl Laech arid family, after about a month’s work down about Foresman, came home Wednesday. Ben Zellers moved his engine out to Pete Wood’s Monday evening to saw wood and shred fodder this week. Mr. Claus and wife, who formerly was Miss Carrie McKay, will move here from losva this week,. we are informed. Marion Dunn moved Monday from the Williams property into Grandma Hall’s house, in the west part of town. V Ed Fairiy is engaged at odd times in making cement blocks for build-

ing purposes. He is doing the work in a house in the west part of town, and makes them for market. The recent snow storm put a good many -out of a job, while it gave several a Job —that of hunting rabbits, of which there were lots caught. They report a big crop of them this year. We certainly have had some genuine winter weather since Saturday night. The high winds then were very damaging to the corn through these parts, blowing it down so badly. Further than that there wasn’t much damage done. Uncle Ransom Elijah, who lives north of Mt. Ayr, and his granddaughter, Miss Grace Handley, of near the Tolin ranch, who have been visiting in California and other states the past month, returned home the first of the week. While out there they spent a week in the woods out on a hunting trip. He was successful in bagging one deer, besides several other aniamls of lesser importance. By the way, Uncle Ransom used to be one of the pioneer deer hunters, when Beaver timber was inhabited by them, and in those days he was a crack shot with a rifle. Thursday morning at 1:40 o’clock, the still hofir of night, the town was aroused from its slumber by the toll of the Christian church bell, calling forth the residents to fight a fire which had started in the residence of Ed Kesler. A good sized crowd of ready hands were soon on the scene, but nothing could he done to check the hungry blaze. All they could do was to keep it from getting to the woodshed and then N. A. McKay’s house would have been in serious danger. The house was a good 1 % story cottage, with an addition built to it for the purpose of taking pictures, as his wife was quite a photographer. There was nothing gotten out but an organ and a few other things. The loss will be S7OO or SBOO. Ed hasn’t slept in the house but a few times since his wife has been gone, and at the time of the fire was at his mother’s where "he has been stopping. Up to this writing we have not learned wether or not he carried insurance but think he probably did. Fortunately for other property in town the roofs were covered with snow, or the fire brands would have endangered many other buildings. How the fire started is unkonwn.

NEWLAND. ] -i ■ K Miss Grace Daugherty is visiting in Chicago. Harry Beebe called on Henry Martin Tuesday night. Albertus Williams is putting a new floor in his kitchen. The Holiness people are holding a series of meetings at Gifford. Mrs. Belle Tow is engaged in housework for Mrs. T. M. Callahan. Mrs. Jesse Boothe went to Lafayette and had a bone removed from her nose last week. The cyclone Saturday night caused much excitement and considerable . damage to property in this locality. Mr. Tow had about 200 chickens blown away. Chimneys were blown off a number of houses and windows blown out. J. W. Blacker’s house was blown to one side until he was compelled to move into another house Sunday. A numbef of barns and outbuildings were badly wrecked by the storm.

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SOUTH NEWTON. f — ' Joe Jenkinson spent Sunday with home folks in Mt. Ayr. Hilderd and Lloyd Powell spent Saturday afternoon with Russell Paul us.

, Clarence Pruett and wife took Sunday dinner with Ernest Mayhew and wife.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur. Mayhew visited from Saturday till Monday with relatives in Brook. Mrs. Ross Reed spent Wednesday and Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Paulus. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest and Bert hlayhews visited Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett.

Several farmers have finished husking corn in this locality. The snow stopped husking for a few days.

The cyclone did considerable damage in South Newton. Messrs. Koon and Feldhaus suffering the greatest loss. The place will be rebuilt as soon as help can be secured.

Miss Wasson, teacher at Blue Grass and Robert Parker of Curtis Creek visited No. 6 school last Thursday, and Miss McAlpin and Etta Bare of No.. 8 on Monday of this week. H. T. Feldhaus and daughters Catherine and Elizabeth are staying with another daughter, Mrs. Joseph Truelly until their house is repaired which was slightly demolished by the cyclone.

| IROQUOIS VALLEY. —I 1— Hunting rabbits is the order of the day. - Mrs. George McElfresh called on Mrs. K. Zillhart Tuesday. John New'comb and Lue Hefferlin were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. H. M. Shipman and Charles Grant were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marlatt and family were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Mrs. John Newcomb returned home Monday after a visit with relatives at Wheatfield. Mrs. S. Price and son Cleveland went to McCoysburg Tuesday to attend the funeral of Ed Jenkin’s baby. Ike Marlatt, who has been having charge of his brother’s farm near Gifford, spent a few days in our vicinity. Mrs. A. McAully of Chicago Hts., who is visiting her father, John Alter and family was in our vicinity Wednesday.

LEE. —1 ! J. H. Culp has a horse sick with lung fever. Asa Holeman has been husking corn for his brother Ray of near Reynolds. Mr. Bullington shipped a car lbad of sheep from here thi9 week for his landlord. Wm. Brock and David Culp took buckwheat to Monticello to mill last week. Isaac Parcels moved this week to his new home in Battle Ground where he owns a restaurant. Carl Westphal’s landlord is having a good hog house and feeding pen built on his farm just houth of here. Mrs. S. M. Jacks, who has been sick all summer with rheumatism, has not been so well again the past week and the doctor has been coming again. Mr. LaMar and family moved to Francesville this week to take up his work in his hitch barn, and Mr. Pratt whom he traded with, moved on hjs farm also this week.