Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents'

41T Items 6f Interest j] from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper CouYity Metropolis

Born. Jan. 1. to X. Marcotte and wife, a daughter. J. A. Washburn was a Kentland visitor last Tuesday evening. James Sheetz of LafaveUe was a busines visitor in town Tmirsday. Miss Louise Hartman went to Chicago last* week to attend a music school. Miss Blanche Burger of Huntington visited the family of her brother Fred here last week. Mrs. Wade Green and babe of New York are visiting her father, D. R. Jones, and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Howell left last week - for a visit at Chatsworth and other points m Illinois, to be gone a couple of weeks. Miss Anna Cheadle, daughter of W. 11. Cheadle of Benton county,! and Mr. £>. E. Brovnstein of Gary will be married Jan. 17. Mr. and Airs. Sigo returned last week from Kankakee, 111., where they were called by” the., death of Charles Budreau, a brother of the' latter. The Remington Commercial Club met at the Townsend hall Wednesday evening and reorganized by electing C. H. Peck, president; J. A. Washburn, Sec.; and Fred Hicks, Treas. ,' v 'Miss Ethel Green, who has been at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. James H. Green, for several weeks, returned last week to East Chicago to resume her teaching. MrS. Green Is considerably improved in health. C. H. Coov* r, son of Marion C. Coover of this place, and well known here, has bought the Weldon (Ill.) Record and took possession of same last w’eek. He has for some time been employed on the Cerro Gordo (Ill.) News. Charles A. Balcom, a former well known groceryman of Remington, and Miss Edith Roadahafer, daughter of Wm. Road ashafer of Remington, were married in Chicago Jan. 1. Mr.' Balcom is 44 and his wife 29 years of age.

! MEDARYVILLE. I —I- : —|- (From the Advertiser.) A stalwart little hoy baby cam* last Saturday morning to enliven the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Manning. . John Gruger has been appointed to teach the unexpired- term of Wm. Bennet of the 7th and Bth, grades I of the Medaryville schools. ,j A force of men have been busy this week hauling and setting up | the poles for the proposed electric lights. How soon these lights will j be in operation, will depend in a I great measure, on the weather we’re-! going to have from now on. For some time not the very best of feeling has existed between Henry Poisel and Howard Howe. On Tuesday morning they accidentally met in Wm. Cox’s harness shop and after a few preliminaries they started to settle their" difficulties by the fistic route. In me melee that followed the stove and other pieces of furniture were upset and after the smoke of battle had cleared away it was found that Henry Poisel had come out second best and needed the services of a physician to dress some of the wounds he received about the head.

FRANCESVILLE.

(From the Tribune. ) Mrs. Wm. Kilander of Hammond visited John and Henry Doll and families last week. iMr. and Mrs. W. J. Whitaker arid chileren of Brazil, have been guests of relatives here this week. Miss Nellie Woods of Watseka, 111., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs Watson Rhinehart and Mr. and Mrs Frank Grafton this week. Norval Osborne of Gillam dfove into town Tuesday with-a load'of shelled corn that weighed 110 bush* els and ,10 pounds. Next! Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnson of Urbana, Ill.', came last week to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs F W. Gardner, south of town. The local K. of P. lodge gave a banquet Monday evening at their hall in the Koster block to the members, their families, visiting members and several other invited guests. The number banqueted was estimated at 160. James Plotner, the assessor of Beaver township, met with * serious

accident near his home Wednesday evening about 5:00 o ; clo<?k when he fell from a load of shelled corn and broke both bones of his right arm above the wrist. A threshing, engine that was used to 'run a Corn shredder, blew up on the Con Dwyer farm ten miles east of Francesville yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock, and in five minutes , a i ter ward the Dwyer home was turn--led into a hospital with medical aid hurrying to the ..scene. As a result I "Johjiny" Hawkins apd Moses Rey- ( molds were badly injured and seyl eral others were slightly hurt from flying fragments. Hawkins was the most seriously injured of the two I men. His right leg is broken in ; two places between the knee and : thigh; his knee cap was torn loose ! and an ugly and dangerous wound in the groin about seven incJj.es long , and very deep was caused from a big (splinter from the feed board which i was driven into his body from the | impact of the explosion. His face | was cooked almost beyond recognition from the escaping steam and hot cinders. His condition is considered most serious and his recovery is doubtful.. When the engine cut loose he was standing on a load of fodder. Reynolds, who was standing back and to one side of the engine received a broken leg between the knee and ankle. He will probably get along alright if complications do, not set in. Th,e engine was owned by G. W. Gilger of Jefferson tj). He cannot give a reason for the explosion unless it was caused from a defective boiler or crown sheet, as the water was not low when It let loose.

| THE NORTHSEDE. I -i- L (Too late for Saturday’s issue.) John Miller went .to Fair Oaks Thursday. - v Jack and Roscoe Reeder were Rensselaer goers Friday. ' Miss Gladys Ogle called on Marion Meader New Year’s day. * A. R. Schultz and James Garriott were seen about Virgie Thursday. Say! But we are having some snapping cold weather these days. Wow! J. W. Fayior is able to walk around a little. He is slowly, but surely, recovering. i Wallace Miller rode the Woodmen goat Wednesday night. Hurrah for your grit, Wallie. . j W. G. Fayior called on David Yeoman Wednesday ana helped David to some pork. Roscoe Reader attended the dance at Fair Oaks Monday night, and got home,, at an early hour—about sunrise. Mrs. B. D. Comer’s sister and her husband from North Dakota, are visiting her now and attended the marriage of their nephew.

1 GOODLANIJ “t— i(From the Herald.) Mrs. John Sage went Thursday morning to Chicago. Dooley Shearer was in Remington over Wednesday evening. H. T. Griggs was a business caller at Logansport Thursday. Harold Verrill returned to hia work in Kankakee, 111., Thursday., Edith Fox returned to her studies at Depauw University at Greencastle Tuesday afternoon. Riley Clark of Hutcheson, aKn., came Thursday evening for a few days visit here with relatives. James Bobcock returned to his studies in the Indiana Law School ut Indianapolis Monday, evening. Mrs. Julia Pefley and spn Harold oi Lafayette were holiday visitors ot Mrs. Elmer, Brown and family. They return home Monday."!

Mrs. A. C. Tedford went -to Kankakee, 111., Wednesday morning for a short visit with .her daughter,! Mrs. Bert Rich and family. —C. H. Weiss and little son Ernest came down from. Chicago Saturday for a short visit here witir—lris^par- 1 ents, ‘Mr. and Mrs. John Weiss. j Fred Poulsen, who has been away' from Goodland for a number of years, returned last Friday for a visit here with his mother, Mrs. John Poulsen.. v John Carpenter received a telegram Monday morning bearing the sad news of the death of his brother Daniel at his late home, in Monce, 111., on Deer 30. • * LMr. . and Mrs. Chas. Bansback were down from Chicago this‘week and shipped their household effects to Chicago. Mrs. Bankback. was formerly Misg Jessie Spurgeon. Mr. and Mrs. J. ,E. -Carney returned Tuesday evening from Indianapolis where they spent the holidays, the guest of t.heir daughter, Mrs. L, L. l ied, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Michaels and little daughter Myrtle returned Tuesday from Momence. 111., where j they visited with Mrs. Michael’s patents-, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.' Gebault. Mrs, Ida Hopkins of this city and and son Harry o, Chicago, have leased the New Gibson, the leading hotel” in Gibson City, 111,, and took o pr;.sse-sion . Wednesday night. Mrs. Hopkins has conducted the Goodland hotel in this city for ten; years and js at) expert in caring for the public in the eating line. Most of this week was spent in taking inventory at the Constable & Pierce . drug store preparatory to' meigihg that stock with 1 that of John Li Cooke’s and Chas. Humstoh’s. Next week the building will be cleared of drug stock and Mr. McClellan, who will hold his public sale Saturday, will get the room ready for his new grocery store.

Mrs. Eflie 1). Kerns, daughter of S. and Hattie pexter was born in the Province of Friesland, Holland, April, 1861, and died at her home in this city Jan. 1, 1912, aged 51 years. The deceased came to Goodland with her parents in September, 1 880. She was married to James Kerns Aug. 3, 1881, To this union was born seven children three of whom died in infancy, leaving a husband and four chilcYen to mourn her death. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church, conducted by the pastor, J. F. Smith. Interment was. made in the Goodland cemetery Wednesday afternoon.

The 1 heroic work of the local fire department saved five buildings in the business part of Goodland Wednesday morping when they held the 1 flames inside the Henry Butler hotel building, being occupied by Shearer Brothers. This is old the Beala Kent building and is a three 1 story structure and was just recent-' Iy overhauled and repaired and fit- 1 ■ ted up for a first class hotel and 1 restaurant. Mr. Butler purchased the ’building at an administrator’s sale on Nov. 26, 1910, and last summer spent something like $2,500 Repairing the large building for a hotel. Mr. Butler, we learn, carried no insurance and from a rough estimate it looks like a $2,000 damage to the building. Shearer Bros. I fared a little better, having something like a SI,OOO insurance. .Atpresent Mr. Shearer does not know what he will do’ as there is no room suitable to move. into. The Shearer Bros, started in business here last August and semed to have a perous business and it certainly was 1 a piece of tough luck tti get burned! out just as they were getting started ( good. Several theories have been 1 advanced as to the origin of fire but no one is sure. Some have | said that defective wiring was the! cause, and upon investigating, it was found that no wire was near where the fire started.

I MT. AYR. j" (From the Pilot.) 1 Born, Friday, Dec. 29, to Mr. and Mrs. it Jacob Cripe, a boy. David Deardurff and wife moved to their farm in Colfax tp. Monday. Mts. Merle Condon of Goodland is visitng at the home her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Baker. Born Tuesday, Dec. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Prouty, a daughter. Mother and, babe doing fine. Jay Makeever has returned home from d visit with friends at Marion. Ohio’ Jay reports the time of his lire, Edward C. Hosnaw of Indianapolis was visitng his sister, Mrs Frank Burns, and family Thursday and Friday. Harry Hufty, wife and little daughters, Edith and Annabella, spent Sunday at Mr. and'Mrs. Robert Yeoman’s., B , y „ U ' e wa >’ who was that man Puitelle. Wasn’t he a candidate tor office somewhere? The name sounds familiar.' v Mrs. Chas. Handley of North Manchester is here for a few weeks visit _with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Baker. Mrs. George Miller died at her! home in Morocco last Saturday. Her death* it is said, was caused by grief, due to the death of her sop Harry, which occurred about two weeks atgo. j Leslie Miller, son visit- 1 ed Sunday and New Year’s with his folks here Mr. Miler, returned to his work Monday evening by way of Morocco; his wife took the train here Tuesday for the same place.