Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

At Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

1 IROQUOIS VALLEY. I «—jr Henry Shipman is on the sick list. Isaac Marlatt was*' seen in tour locality Sunday. Rex Ott was a Rensselaer goer Sunday evening. . . * Katie Morgenegg has returned home for a vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Everett Green visited wtih home folks Friday -and Saturday. Emmet Pullins is remodeling his hen houses after the storm. Lucy Morgenegg has been spending a few days with home folks. Barney Kolhbff purchased a fine Jersey cow Friday from John Moore. Charles Reed and family spent Sunday with J. W. Marlatt and family. Lou McKay and family spent a few days with Wm. Green and family.l Addie Warne and family spent Saturday and Sunuay with A. Hurley’s.’ W. N. Jenkins is spending the winter with his sister, Mrs. Sam Price. Fred and Lester Schreiner spent Sunday with Geo. McElfresh and family. William McElfresh 'and Clyde Schreiner called on Sam Lowery’s Sunday. „* i - Miss Luella Green is suffering quite severely with the toothache and neuralgia. , Anna and Eva Morgenegg spent a few days with their sister, Mrs. Lester Schreiner, in Rensselaer. Hiram Davis and family of Vincennes, Ind., are spending a few days with her parents, Alex Hurley and wife.

1 COUNTY LINE. | A happy and prosperous year to all. Fay Lear visited in Milroy*. Sunday. ’. ' * V . J. Boone took a drive to Lee Saturday. Branson Clark shredded fodder Friday. Everett Clark caled on E. Webb Saturday. . Willis Conley was out (hunting rabbits Wednesday. IRobt. Conley of Michigan visited his parents over Xmas. The farmers are getting ready to > shell corn in this vicinity. Louis Grube visited James Blankenship and wife last week. Wm. Demoss and Chas. Jones were Lee visitors Thursday. A. Whitlow and son were driviqg through this vicinity Sunday. 'Meetings were held last week at Mllroy church by Elder Brown of Peru. Mrs. Conlqy, who has been quite sick, is able to be up and around again. . Walter Whitlow went to Kentucky last Friday to visit relatives over Xmas. Mrs. Geo. Foulks is the proud owner of a handsome new steel range. Louis Grube and wife, James Blankenship and wife spent Xmas, with Amos Neier and wife at Buffalo.

MILROY. V- J- Booh was in Lee Tuesday. Ed Johnson’s phildren~are sick. Earl Foulks left Saturday to attend school at Valparaiso University.

tf"JT Items of Interest JJ from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper V' County Metropolis

'Chas. and Martha Clark took supper Sunday evening with Pearl Abersol. - Mrs. Louisa Foulks of Mono'n came Monday for a few days visit with her son George. Glen McKinley returned to school at Fairmount Monday after,a week's vacation with his parents. Pev. and Mrs Henry Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Ed McKinley and ; Dan and Lon Chapman ate dinner Tuesday with Geo. Foulks’. A number of friends and neighbors ate apples and watched the new year in with James Boon, it also being his birthday anniversary. W. I. Bivans went Monday for a visit with his son" Joseph near Rossville, in., an'd also to visit his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Gladden, in Rossville.

! PINE GROVE. J • i ■ ' , i— "* Miss Chloae Torbet is on. the sick list at this writin&l John Torbet palled oh Gerald Gifford Sunday afternoon. Miss Bertha Cooper spent Sunday with her mother near Independence. Independence school again opened Monday after a week’s vacation. Mr. and Mrs. 'Harry Gifford called on Mrs. Jordan and family Sunday. James Torbet and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beck Sunday. Roy Daniels has been visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gifford were shopping in Rensselaer one day the latter part of last week. The Independence Sunday school was not largely attended Sunday on account of bad weather. Mr. Peregrine-, the Independence school teacher, spent Xmas holidays at Valparaiso with his parents. Miss Hattie McCurtain has been working for her aunt, Mrs. Caddie Caldwell, at Parr the past two weeks. Misses Marie and' Gertrude Barkley and Leighton Gifford were the guests of Miss Besie McCurtain Sunday. James Torbet’s granddaughter is spending the Xmas vacation with them. She expects to returns to her home in Indianapolis today.

J FAIR OAKS. » “I ! -TriHealth is generally pretty good in our town nowadays. Arvel Bringle,went to Valparaiso Thursday to enter William Gilman of Peoria, Til., visited friends here Thursday of last week. Isaac Kight returned home Tuesday after the “ greater part of a week’s absence away on business. Mabel Warren, who has been at Hoopeston, 111., for about six weeks, returned home the first of the week. Miss Pansy Bozeli went to Edinburg the latter part of the week, where they moved from last spring. She will be gone an indefinite time. The ladies of the M. E. aid pulled off an ice cream alfid general supepr in the Kesler hall Saturday night. -It was a very enjoyable affair. v’t ..-y, Lola and Leofa Moore, who had been here spending holidays with relatives and friends, returned to their homejn Lafayette Sunday evening. / UncTe Frank Lakin and wife left here Tuesday morning for Chicago. He is in poor health and it is said he will v go to a hospital for treatment. Qur schools opened again Tuesday morning. People who went away to spend the holidays have returned and those that came here for tb,at purpose have gone away. < Fine winter weather now. Tlie thermometer has been close to zero for several nights and if the weather keeps up as it is the ice will be thick enough to harvest soon. Bob Mace, who lived near the elevator, moved Thursday opt a mile east of town, on one o-f Thompson’s farms. , Mr. Bozeli, the watermelon man, will move from Mr. Sawin’s farm into Mace’s house, soon.

Rev. Downey filled his appointment in the M. E. church here!Sun- ! ■day night, and after services quite a number „of young folks gathered at Abe Bringle’s to watch the old year out and thb new one in. They passed the evening very pleasantly, playing the piano and singing. The - section 'hands were balled out Tuesday evening after their day’s work was done to repair the track where there 1 was a rail broken. This is hhe third one that has been broken in the past couple of months betwen here and Pe“mbroke. Broken rails will easily be detected since they have the block system in operation, and the. wrecks, no doubt, will be less frequent.