Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

<IT Items of Interest □J from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County, Metropolis

| NEW CENTER, —: 1 i—\V. 11. Walters’ were Rensselaer ioers Saturday. Miss Irene McAleer called on Mis. Vannatta Friday. Mrs. Vanriatta spent last Thursday. with Mrs. Latta and children. John Sommers, Sr. and son Chas, took a load of hogs to Remington Saturday. Wiley Latta sold a fine bunch 6f hogs. He and Will Vannatta hauled them to Remington last Thursday. Listen for the wedding bells in Milroy, Lt won’t be many days, and I hope the bride will remember us with a piece of cake.

— ; 1— | . FOUR CORNERS. I —l— ~—— l Frank Fenzel’s sympathy for the old hotse is so great that, he carried a stove on his back across the field while the old horse went around. Henry Hunsicker and wife returned Friday from their Xmas outing in the south part of the state. They, report a pleasant time while away. The H. W. Marble dredge crossed the C. & E. I. railroad Saturday night and should conditions continue favorable, will finish before April 1. Chas. Peregrine, we are informed, is taking up the 1 sewer the township refused to pay for. Rather tough when the tile and deal both refuse to work.

20 degrees below Sunday a. m., and out of wood and coal was the cr V The weather forecaster, who said New Year’s morn was to be the coldest of the winter, has gone into hiding. Homer Hixson of Wyoming a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. .?. A. Hixson, visited over Sunday here. He was called to Boswell by the sickness of his mother and came from there to visit his unme and aunt. Jerome Nelson now has a son who has the mail route out of Tefft, a son-in-law a carrier out of San Pierre, and should the Prohis win | in the next election, no doubt, JerI ome will be given a postal position at Washington. Our rural carrier, Clarence Gulbransen, is now, nicely located with his newly made bride on the farm formerly occupied by Ed Hight and now owned by Wm. Fitzgerald, who will farm the land this year. May Clarence prove equal to the task before him. Our mail carrier came near burning out last- Friday while on his route. His stove, which was bolted to the side of the. wagon, set fire: to the woodwork and for a time it seemed that the mail wagon and all would be lost, but with well directed kicks the stove was torn loose from its fastenings and the fire put out. It pays to be a kicker sqmetimes.

• -I Z_ >■! .1I IROQUOIS VALLEY. | —H ——, i __ John Newcomb was a Rensselaer goer last Thursday. Grandma Lowery is on the sick list at this writing. C. Green and family visited Wm. Green last Tuesday. Leo Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer last Wednesday. *

LouH Zillhart was a Rensselaer goer last . Wednesday. Mrs.. Chris Morgenegg was a Renselaer Saturday. J. W. Marlatt purchased a fine team of mules this week. J. W. Marlatt spent a few days in Chicago the past Week. Mrs. J. W. Marlatt spent Sunday with Wm. Green and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant attended the poultry show Saturday. Gertrude Kolhoff spent Saturday night with Maggie Hurley in Rensselaer. x ■ ■' \ Perry, Jennie and Ethel Marlatt visited Bessie; Ed and- , Jennie McElifresh Sunday. The weather being very bad for the poultry ’show very few from our vicinity attended. -■ Mrs. Emnret Pullins and daughter Bessie returned home from Boone county where they were visiting relatives. . . . Bessie and Alpha McElfresh'g returned home last Tuesday where they have been visitng in Chicago during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. William Augspurger of west of Rensselaer visited Mr. anil Mrs! George M.eE!fresh Sunday making the trip in their new Overland auto.

_ _ MILROY. | Albert Wood came home for a visit this wefek. Elmer and Thos. Johnson were Lee visitors Monday. G. L. Parks was in Renselaer on business Monday. Meetings closed again Sunday night at the church. Vance Spencer was a Monon caller Tuesday afternoon. Chas. Clark called on Miss Pearl s Abersol Sunday evening. Miss Ara Griswold called on Mrs. Belle Parks Sunday evening. D. Z. Clark is in poor health with out little, if any, improvement. Willard Johnson spent Sunday night with his mother in Monon. Chas. Saidla, Albert. James and Chas. Wood spent Monday evening with Willard Johnson’s. Owing to the teacher, Miss Ara Griswold, being sick Monday, there was no. school at Center. Mr. Nier of . Buffalo and Mr. Chr'isenibry of Quincy, Ind., visited Jas. Blankenship last week. 'Miss Lural Anderson and Mrs. George Foulks ate dinner Sunday wlith D. Z. Clark and family. Mrs. Thos. Spencer called on a physician in Monon Sunday, as she was on the sick list at that time. Mrs. Mary Johnson, who has beep visitng her brother, O. «T. Beaver, was taken sick Saturday and had a sinking spell which lagged for sometime. A physician 'called. Mrs. L. Foulks, who spent the week with her son George, was sick all the week with stomach trouble, and Saturday was taken to her home in Monon to oe near her physician.

I FAIR OAKS. | _ | ;; ; ■_—- - ,—-I Will Warren went to Thayer -Tuesday after a load of hard coal. Cold, did you say? Yes, we are surely hdving cold weather nowadays. ' ' Owing to “the severe cold weat'ier the trains on the jMonon have been late for-nearly a week. Miss Amy Bringle was a. guest of Miss Carat Miles in the country west of here Saturday and Sunday. Milt Gundy finished filling his icehouse Sunday, and'Cottingham filled his Tuesday, The Lee was of pretty good quality. Fred McKay, who has been working With the Interlock Block gang down about Frankfort, returned home Wednesday. Willard Kiev And family, who .bad. been vj.-zirg his parents here since X m as. re: urn ed t o the i r hoihe. •i n JK’arren " Uncle Joe, Gains'. who - has been Roy Ui-ew's sick for some time, " - laughter's. Mrs; Al Htlss s. Virgie Tues-r-The;:. . ■ . ‘ >r .a:. ‘ *wAs k- '. •.■• k aryo ’iads week. -?r -A-a::-rz nave to shovel ;- -- Fish: .dW'Wr.-returned home a tew days':ag: a :er about a week's vis:: at ■Rensselaer and vicinity and while awaw he bargained for the store at Aix. He will take charge about March 1. Miss Hannah Culp is not making very progress toward recovery from her injury she received from, a fall some time. ago. Cottage prayer meeting, was held at, her house Wednesday "evening.

We were informed last week that Mr. Teach, who built the gravel road in .these parts last year, had secured the contract for building the 13 miles of stone road in Jackson tp., Newton county, in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr. Jake Spitzer, who has been employed at Davenport, la., for several years, returned to Fair Oaks last week .to visit his mother and others for about a month. His sister, Mrs. Joe Winslow, who has been living near Bud Hammond’s in North Dakota, for nearly two years, arrived here Monday to visit her mother also for a few weeks.

The report came up from Mt. Ayr a few days ago that old' John Barleycorn got pretty well stirred up in that little peaceful town. The story runs about like this: A farmer drove into town last week one of those cold, stormy days, and bitched the team to a post. Then he joined a couple of more booze-histers and they proceeded to get spewed. The team stood at the post all day when a citizen who had some feeling for the dumb animals ordered the town marshal to put them in a barn which he did with the assistance of a couple of other men and about that Mme old John Barley corn got hot a\ul the trio charged on the iparshal and his assistants. After a little skirmishing and a few bouts a couple of them got a few wounds about the head, and the marshal and his force fled. It is said alter the battle was over there were axes, pitchforks, .-pades and numerous other weapons left on the battlefield, but no dead soldiers:

I „ LEE. 1 —| i We are having genuine winter weather now. Thursday and Friday was examination at our school. Horton & Mosley shipiaul a car load of cattle from here Monday. Jan. 8, born to Mr. and Mrs. Widner of this' place, a daughter? Bruce Brown and Charles Ward shipped two carloads of hogs from here Wednesday evening. Hollis Jacks did not go to school \ to 'Monon Tuesday but visited the Lee school in the afternoon. j J. H. Culp and family and Elnfer Gilmore and family took dinner Sunday at Mrs. C. A. Holeman’s. Elzie Webb was in our village Tuesday getting teams to haul shelled corn for his landlord, Mr. Kimes.

PINE GROVE.

Curtis Gifford spent Saturday with Charles Torbet. Everett -McCleary called on James Britt Sunday morning. Bessie and Hattie McCurtain called on Bernice and Lucy Walker . Sunday evening. Bluford Torbet and wife spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Sarah McCleary. Katie and Eva Morgenegg and Lucy Walker spent Sunday with Chloae and Creola Torbet. Irving Peregrine and John Torbet attended Sunday school and

church at Brushwood last Sabbath morning. " I Chloae and John Torbet attend-’ ed the Leap Year party at the JordanT home nea* Newland, ,and repotted /a fine time. J i Mr. and Mrs. Roy Torbet and Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet at? .oysters with their brother-in-law, Harry Beck,_ and family Saturday night. . j Ed Ropp and Gertie Radamacher of Chicago returned td their home Saturday after a few weeks visit with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ropp. I ~ - . r Mrs. Ethel Cragun and daughter Celine returned to their home in Indianapolis Saturday- after a two w-eeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet.

- —i—- I. I SOUTH NEWTON. j j —' I-- i Health generally good in this vicinity at this writing. i Earl Leek and wife were Mt. Ayr visitors Wednesday. | Philip Paulus was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday and Thursday. j Fred Waling helped Arthur Powell with his butchering Wednesday. Clarence Pruett and wife spent Sunday afternoon with Arthur May-! hew’s family. Arthur Mayhew went to.-Lowell Thursday to attend the poultry show, at that place. Nearly every family has lost their | canned fruit from freezing during this cold spell. No, thank you! We don’t want; to go to Dakota. Jasper county is cold enough for us. Don’t forget the box supper and spelling, school at No. 6, Newton' tp., tonight. Everybody welcome. | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Doan and; daughter Celestia Wilds, were call- 1 ed to Lafayette Friday by the death of the former’s nephew. . j The farmers in this vicinity are trying to shred their fodder, but owing to so much snow and such cold weather they don’t make much headway.

] | THE NORTHSIDE. I _ I. F. Meader was a Parr goer Wednesday. Lewis Todd is’ busy rabbit shooting these days. Jack ReedeY was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mr. Peek's called on Jack Reeder Tuesday evening. Roscoe Reeder is busy hunting rabbits nowadays. (Ralph and Will Weston and Esta Keener hauled .hogs to Parr Wednesday. . Miss Marie Coiner spent the last week -at Purdue, taking a short course in butter-making. Everybody’s busy nowadays putting wood in the stove, thawing pumps, and driving the chickens to water.

I. F. Meader went to Lowell Thursday to attend the poultry show and put some f of his own birds on exhibition. Robert Ott helped haul ice for the Parr Creamery Wednesday. Pretty cold job that; would be more welcome next summer. There will be a literary at Virgie Saturday night, Jan. 27. The principal feature will be a debate. The subject to be debated on is, Resolved, “That, Education Is Better than Money.” Everybody come.