Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

MIT Items of Interest JJ from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

FAIR OAKS. | ■ — 1— Weather is fine, health is still good, news is scarce. F. R. Erwin received another car of coal this week. Rev. Downey occupied the pulpit in the M. E. church Sunday eve. Chas. Manderville of Kentland came up and visited his mother over 1 Sunday. Mrs. Millie Gundy accompanied Mrs. Pearl Kight to Chicago Monday to see her doctor. Mrs. Ruth Liston Baldwin of. Nor "th Dakota is employed at the Allen Hotel nowadays. .. j The C. & E. I. road jumped a cog Sunday and run six or beven trains ovpr this division. | Mt. Bozell moved last, week from th,e Sawin farm .into Mr. Moore’s property, on Front street. Hershel Harris of the Harris ranch was here a few days ago and hired several teams to haul baled hay. ' - '" . Mrs. Maggie Keller left a few days agfb for the west, where she has a position as cook on a dredge of Mr. Sternberg’s. , ■ . John McGlynn, wife and little daughter of Rensselaer, changed cars here Monday on their way to Foresman to visit relatives a fpw’ days. - ‘ /, The report reached here the first of the week Khat Joe Gains, who is home near Virgie, was very seri-’ at his daughter’s, Mrs. Helsel’s, . ousiy ill. .. | There is to be a Valentine box s,upper pulled off at the school” house on St. Valentine’s eve. The proceeds will go to the benefit of the M. E. church. | The latest report is Roy and Alva" Brouhard have joined the standing

army. They went to Chicago last week, took the examination and passed on to St. Louis. Dame Rumor has it that Wayne C all of near Nubbin Ridge, and Mrs. Maud Wilson-Rodman will be married next Saturday. May joy you know about that? May joy and peace be their lot. ' Wesley Noland of Lee came up Saturday to see how his sister-in-law, Hannah Culp, was getting along. She is now able to get in and out of bed alone and make her bed, but not able to use her limb much.

| NEW CENTER. j John Sommers, Sr. has a sick horse. Mrs. Emma Dignan (s on the sick list this week. Wiley Latta butchered a 650 pound hog this week. Joseph Groans went to Rensselaer on business Monday. Mrs. Charles Sommers, Sr. was a Wolco.r goer Tuesday. , Luther Tow took dinner with Joseph Grouns and family one day this week. The bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gilmore, passed through our vicinity Monday. Joseph Grouns and Elmer Clark attended the Bislosky sale north of Pleasant Ridge Wednesday. Percy Hite returned to his home in Kokomo Monday accompanied by Luther and Floyd Tow of Newland. Sunday school at Mibroy church every Sunday morning, commencing at 10 o’clock. Everybody is in-, vited to attend. _, r ■■-

| “ FOUR CORNERS. | —| |— Geo. Stembel lost a valuable horse Tuesday. F. W. Fisher and wife and Ed Wesner helped D. W. Wesner butcher Monday. D. H. and Mrs. Turner have been quite sick but are now on the road to health. Tne Fyfe-Smith lawsuit, which was to have been held last Friday, has. been compromised. This .Wednesday the sun is shinning and the ice in t'he roads and in the fields is fast disappearing. You can’t put a stop to democratic news. If it were prohi, we might stop long enough to take, a drink. The hens are putting forth every effort to reduce the high cost of living.. Yes, we had eggs for breakfast. Ray G. Anderson of Wheatfield was through this section this week in the interest of the Nprth Judson creamery. Nearly all are amti-Taggart in this locality. Who? Where? is some one to pour oil on the troubled waters. Nathan Keen, Jr., was in Monon Monday with his son, who is taking treatment for a nervous trouble. Dr. Stuart is treating him. Elwood Davis of Tefft contemplates a trip to the auto show and will try to purchase a team or two of work horses while ifi the city. Mrs. W. D. Meyers of south of Wheatfield has been dangerously sick with heart trouble the past week. She is somewhat improved at this writing. A sure sign of spring—the tenants have begun to move and for the next six weeks the noads will be lined with those who wish to better their conditions. 1 The hay business in this locality is about at a standstill on account of the scarcity of cars which are being used to haul ice from the Kankakee to Streeter, Hl. We were informed this a. in. (Wednesday) that Mrs. J. A. Hixson’s condition is better, and unless other complications set in her chance for recovery is more encouraging. I

The boathouse on the Marble dredge has gone to the bottom. Experts are now busy trying to float it. A representative of the republican. party, top-heavy and on the down grade. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i Louis Miller, who returned to her ( home in Chicago immediately after . attending her sister’s funeral of a week ago, was taken down with rheumatism and is now in a hospital taking treatment.

Foley Kidney Pills will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more.—A. F. Long,

—] 1— | IROQUOIS VALLEY’. | i James Hopkins is working for Wnf. Mairkin. Emmet Pullins was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mr. and. Mrs. J. W. Marlatt spent Sunday in Rensselaer. Lucy and Katie Morgenegg spent Sunday with home folks John and Kenneth Groom spent Sunday with home folks. Lou McKay spent Wednesday eve with 'W. A. Green and family.

Clara and Florence Arnold spent Sunday with. Minnie Waymire. G. B. Lewis and family spent Sunday with M. Tudor and family. Van Arnold and Cade Potts called on K. Zillhart tyednesday. Newt Jenkins and Cfeve Price called oh Geo, McElresh Sunday. Lin and Margaret Daugherty attended the-skating party Sunday. Will McElfresh and Louis Zillhart attended the skating party Sunday. Christiana Bease and John Fulender attended church at Rensselaer Sunday. ' Bessie and Jennie McElfresh spent Sunday with Ethel and Jennie Marlatt. Luella Green and Mollie Vance called on Mrs. Chas. Grant Thursday afternoon.

, j PINE GROVE. —] v John Torbet spent Sunday with Perry Garriott. James Torbet is on the sick list at this writing. Charles Torbet' spent Sunday with Curtis Gifford. ' Arthur Zimmerman was a Rensselaer goetr Saturday. Roy and Bluford Torbet were Rensselaer goers Monday. ■ Margaret Gifford visited the Independence school Wednesday. Bluford Torbet and Harry Beck were in Rensselaer Wednesday. Irving Peregrine spent Saturday and Sunday with his cousin at McCoysburg. Carrie Walker and Ethel Garriott called on Mrs; Chas. Walker Friday evening. John McCurtain is moving this week to the Tom Parker place northwest of Gifford. , Ir. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clint Beck and family. William Cooper and family spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Liz-zie-Cooper, and family. Chas. . Walker took dinner with his- nephew. Elbert Hurley, and family near Gifford Sunday,.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shroyer and son Elmer went to Noble.county Friday for a few weeks visit. Several from around here have “been attending the church services at Brushwood the past week. Mrs. Harry Beck, little son and daughter spent Wednesday with her father, J. M. Torbet, and family. Bessie and Hattie McCurtain, Neva Beck and Creola Torbet spent Sunday with Bernice and Lucy Walker. Chas. Walker, Willis Hurley and Herbert Gaririiott went to the former’s farm near Gifford Wednesday to do some building there.

LEE. —lt r—--8. W. Noland was helping the first of the weelj to invoice Reed McCoy’s store at McCoysburg. Clayton and Cleo Meilender of east of Francesville came Friday and Visited relatives till Tuesday. The box supper held here Friday night was a success, the proceeds being $35.50, to be used for library books. Hattie Overton of Rensselaer came Friday evening and visited her brother Frank and family till Sunday morning. Grandfather Williamson has been raving a sick spell and the doctor was called to see him. He is very weak and poorly. Qrval Holeman and wife of Rensselaer came Thursday of last week and did their butchering and visited relatives till Sunday evening. Uncle David Culp who has been

under the doctor’s care for the past few weeks, does not seem to improve much, and Is very poorly at this writing. .< Miss Ethel' Jacks, youngest daughter of G. A. Jacks of this place, who has been with her sister in Lafayette the past year or more/ has’ come home to stay with her parents now. Mrs. Joseph Stewart who has been on the sick list the past month, was able to be at chtirch Sunday for the first time. His sister, Mrs. Jacobs, has come to spend the bal-j ance of the winter with them. While, the children were playing 1 “teter” at school Wednesday, the, board accidently fell on Ezra Eldridge's head and cut quite a gash. I .Dr. Clayton was called and dressed the wound and said the boy would; be able to go to school again in a few days. ’ Uncle Wesley Noland, who went to Tennessee about a month ago to visit his son William and family, •returned last week. He went- to i Fair, Oaks Sunday to see ■‘his sis-, ter-in-law Miss Hannah Culp, who, was hurt recently from a fall but' is bettor now. j