Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

Ai Fumiihed by Our Regular Corretpondenta

STT Items of Interest from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the jasper County Metropolis

NEWLAND. | Miss Mary Rees was at home Sunday. There will be a Christmas entertainment at Newland Sunday school Sunday night. & B. J. Gifford has his steam shovel down at McCoysburg ready to work on the grade there. The young folks gathered —<■< s Sunday night for the purpose of practicing for the Xmas entertainment, z At the election for supervisor at Newland Saturday Floyd Tow was elected by a majority of six votes over Wm. Rees, eleven over Geo. Martin, and twelve over John Bowen.

SOUTH NEWTON. | i C. R. Weiss was a business caller at Brook Monday. A merry Christmas and happy New Year to one and all. Joe Jenkinson, finished husking corn for Earl Leek last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Roberts were Mt. Ayr goers. Tuesday Albert Potts of near Brook called on Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powell Monday, John Jenkinson and wife of Mt. Ayr spent Sunday with Earl Leek and wife. Fred Waling and wife visited with Arthur Powell and wife Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Paulus attended the funeral of Mrs. Caroline Goetz Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Pruett spent Tuesday with the former’s parents of near Ade. Ernest Mayhew and family took Sunday dinner with relatives over near Foresman. George Bentley of near Brook spent Saturday night and Sunday with his uncle, Philip Paulus and family. Mr. and Mrs Arthur Powell visited last Friday with the .atter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Potts of near Brook. i The people out this way would like to see those stone roads go through mighty soon, as the roads we now have are out of sight, see? The road supervisor election in district No. 2, resulted in the election of Edward Shindhsr, he receiving 10 votes and Joseph Lane 7. There is still some corn out in this locality yet. Too much snow to make any headway at husking. A number of farmers, have been plowing the last two weeks.

| NEW CENTER. | —I ! Mr. and Mrs. Wiley were Christmas shopping in Rensselaer Monday. Miss Flo Gallaher spent this week with his sister, Mrs. Wiley Latta. Chas. B. May, trustee of Carpenter tp., attended Mrs. Ruth Miles’ saie Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Moore assisted John Southard’s dress poultry last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Latta spent Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gallaher. ' Dr. Martin and wife of Mt. Ayr spent from Monday evening until Wednesday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Will Vannatta. Owing to the bad roads Mrs. Ruth Miles’ 'sale was not largely attended Tuesday 1 . Things sold fairly well for the time of year. Mr. and Mrs. James Maj*, Jr., and two. sons, Argile and Doyle, took dinner Sunday with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John Southard. Miss Mary Jacks’ box social last Saturday evening was attended by a full house. The program, by the school waswell rendered. The boxes also sold well; $30,50 was cleared, pretty good for Milroy. Mrs. Ruth Miles, whose sale was Dec. ,19, wifi go fol a visit at Wolcott with her -children and friends. We regret very ,much to lose her as a neighbor, but our loss will be somebody’s gain. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miles and son Ralph, Mrs. David Pettit of Wolcott, Mr. and Mrs. Web Jackson of Rensselaer and Mr. and Mrs. John Southard and daughter took dinner Tuesday with Mrs. Ruth Miles. - • Our Sunday school superintendent wishes to know why people neglent coming to Sunday school. He says if attendance is not kept up Milroy will be # without a Sunday school. If Sunday school is closed it will be of no use in trying to re-organize again as thb regular attendance will go elsewhere and lose interest in Milroy. ' | On last Fridaj' evening while on their way home from Rensselaer, Mr. I and Mfs. Vannatta’s horses gat out of I the main road into a side ditch. The I night being so dark Mr. Vannatta was i unable to see his way back into the I, rhad again and pulled the horses

farther into the ditch, upsetting the buggy with them in it and as It wa4 covered with a storm-front It gave them no chance to get away until the storm - front broke loose. Bdth escaped without any injury.

—l_ . • | LEE. Two shredders are busy near here now. S. W. Noland has moved in their new home. Lizzie Redd is sick, Dr. Clayton is attending her. Mrs. S. M. Jacks is improving now from rheurriatism. Mrs. J, H. Culp and son Glenn were Monon goers Wednesday. O. A. Jacks made a business trip to Lafayette oh Friday of last week. Asa Hileman and family visited his brother drval and wife of Rensselaer Sunday. L. E. Noland and wife and little Sarah Burr visited Sunday at S. W. Noland’s. George Culp of near Monon called on his sister, Mrs. Ann Smith, of this place Sunday. Walter Jordan and family and Elmer Gilmore and family took Sunday dinner at E. Gilmore’s. Horton & Mosley had' some cattle shipped here this •week for their ranch near this place. o Everybody is very busy preparing for the Xmas entertainment to be held here Saturday evening. J. H. and W. E. Culp butchered for their father, David Culp, Monday, he not able to do it himself. W. L. Stiers’ new baseburner has come. It will be placed iri their new house which is almost completed. Mrs. Alf Jacks, Mrs. Frank Overton and Miss Ethel Lewis went on the milk train to Rensselaer Wednesday morning to do Xmas shopping. Miss Morris, our teacher, and pupils are planning to go to Miss McDonald’s school just south of here Friday afternoon for - her Christmas entertainment, the latter and pupils being here at our school for the, Thanksgiving entertaipment.

“I 1— | FAIR OAKS. | —i ! George Culp of’ near Monon came down Wednesday th See his sister. We desire to Wish a. merry Christmas to the many readers of The Democrat.. Mr. Gourly movd his family over from Paxton, 111., last week into their new home. We have had several days of nice weather this week, but the roads are awful. Mrs. John Kight and little daughter returned to their home in Indianapolis Sunday. Postmaster Thompson is slowly recovering from his recent attack of pneumonia. Judson Perkins and a couple of men ■ came up from Rensselaer Monday and put up a windmill for Mr. Gourly. Born, last week, over in Newton ’ county on the Thompson farm, to Mr. l arid Mrs. Ed Lakin, a girl. All doing fine. | Tom Johnson has been dragging down ( the large sand hill about 3 miles, south, of town on the rural route this ’ week. Elder Briggs held quarterly meeting here Thursday evening. There were sev- ; eral here from Shelby and Roselawn in attendance. Miss Parisa Bozell went down to Rensselaer Tuesday evening to assist Mrs. L. P. Shirer move out to their new home. Amy Bringle came home Thursday, from school with a very severe attack of tqnsilitis, and was unable to go'back; until Tuesday. Miss Hannah Culp, who suffered a severe bruise from a fall a week ago' last Sunday, IS; making slow progress toward recovery. / , John Wiseman and son Vic returned Tuesday morning from Montana where thej* have been for some time proving up on a claim. We got another heavj* rain Wednes-1 day night. We have had the roughest weather the past month that we have had for a numbei* of years. Uncle Joe GaineS, who has been laid up with stomachJfrblible the past month at' Roy Casey’s, ’ has so far recovered as to be able to 11 ’go down to his south of Mt. 'Ayr Wednesday. The last report from William Cot- i tingham at Danville is that they have got control of the diphtheria now. He 1 has a complication of diseases and is yet in a bad condition. His parents' have been-there for some time under quarantine, and it is not known at this writing when they Will ie at home. There has. been. quj,te a chain of happenings in town since 6ur last re- ; port. The first was" a fight Friday ev- | ening in which one man was knocked down and a tooth- knocked, oqt, and the other fellow waA taken before the J. P. at Parr Mondaj’ and found guilty and was lodged in the -Renpeslaer,; jail to lay out his fine. The incident was,, an election Saturday to elect a super-1

visor. F. M. Goff, who formerly held the office, was re-elected over Frank Hooper by 10 votes. The . third incident was that a certain individual of the boot-legger quality brought down a supply of the suds from up the road on the milk train Saturday evening, and. that together wish what was already on hand, got several on the wide guage tread; and fourthly old John Barleycorn got mixed uft with pool balls and billiard cues, and one man got ,pretty severely hurt with a cue and a bill drifted through one of the barber’s mirrors. narrowly missing a customer who I wr. iin the chair being shaved. The 1 'th r> nd last chapter, Harry Young, liv.-? nn tfie Tolen ranch was in uay night with a horse and ituggy and about 10 o’clock the horse got loose and got on the railroad ’’track. The horse was killed and the buggy demoloisohed.