Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondent*

MTT Item* of Intere*l Til from Surrounding Town* Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis.

XEWIiAM). Miss Bessie Ballard called £lla Beebe Sunday afternoon. The farmers are ail very anxious To see warmer weather so that they <an begin farming. Fred Ballard, aged 15 years, dislocated his shoulder while scuffling ■one day this week. M:s» Ckloae Martin has return's! home as Mrs. G. M. Beebe is -.gw able to do her own housew-ork. The intention hereabouts is to 4’lant a large number of acres of •onions thisf season if the weather permits. Ernest and Howard Speaks of Rensselaer have been visiting their sister, Mrs. G. M. Beebe. Howard -returned home Monday.

MILROY. [ 'H-— —r » 1— , Elmer johnsoa was in Rensselaer Monday. ' George Foulks was’ in Wolcott ’Tuesday. Thos. Johnson is working for Branson Clark. Mrs. Anna Chapman was sick the first of the week. Win. Chapman and family called On his mother last Friday. James Boone’s nephews of Lafayette visited him last week. Mrs. G. L. Parks and son Leon were shopping in Wolcott Wednesday. Foster Morgan and Everett Clark fc’ere Monon callers Saturday afternoon. Thos. Spencer and family took ■dinner Sunday with George Foulks ■ana family. Foster Morgan of Pemberton, 0., Mailed his aunt,, Mary McCashen, Friday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. McLear and Mr. fcnd Mrs. Klein called on G. L. Parks Friday evening.

Miss Pean Abersol and Chas. dark attended the class play in Monon Tuesday night. V j. ioom vnd family spent Monday with Mrs. Boone’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. McDuffy. Mrs. Tevis of Monticello spent the week with her daughter, Mrs. thos. Spencer, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Daniels spent Monday and Tuesday with Mrs. Anna Chapman and family. Ivan Blankenship is recovering from pneumonia and will probably beVab’e to attend school next week.

Mrs. Belle Parks called on Miss Margaret Shide, who is suffering With inflammatory rheumatism, Tuesday afternoon. Thos. Spencer way in Greencastle On business the first of the week, then went to Chicago after returning from the former place. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Clark of Morocco, Frank May and family, John Creighton, Joseph Clark and wives, B. Brown of Monon and Thos. Spencer ate dinner Saturday with Geo. Foulks.

j FAIR OAKS. j ~ : ' i Oar schools will close here Monday or Tuesday. Arvel Brlngle and Lola Moore went to Lafayette Monday. Hev. Downey filled his regular oppointinent 1 in the M. E. church Sunday eve. John Zellers, -the sawmill man, who has his iriiil located down in Jordan tp., was at home over Sunday. Hoy Haste and wile left this week for Talbot. Benton county, where they will work on a farm the comiag Feason. The weather took another change and Thursday it didn’t look like we would have any spring, as it war slightly cooler. v Mrs. Will Warren has been suffering for about ten days with something similar to pneumonia,

but is on the mend at this writing. Owing to the scarcity of rough feed farmers are bringing into practice something they have never done bt fore, that of feeding up—r-ye and wheat straw. Miss Hannah Culp is still recovering from her injury she received from a fall in early winter. She- is feeling fine but has not ] very good*-use of her limb as yet. -Mrs'. Jesse Garriott left Wednesday for Humboldt, Kan. Jess went about a week ago. They expect to make that their future home, j We wish them success in this move. Mr. Borne, one of our telegraph j operators, went over to Conrad on J ibe Indiana Harbor last week, "to j fake charge of the station there. His family followed him this week. A Mr. Cravens succeeded Borne at this place. R looks ,at this writing like winis losing its grip. Under the ! rays of the sun and the wind the | past -few days the snow ana | ice have been disappearing rap-' ; idly, making a lot of water on the J ground again. ■ -Wo have been having two or i three on the sick list in our town i the past week. Walter McCdnnhll’s I babe has been quite sick with pneut monia and Mr. Clossen’s little girl was stricken with scarlet fever, but at this writing both are somewhat improved. At the still hour of midnight, while the people of our town were tall last asleep, they were startled |by the toll of the church bell and cries of fire. The residence and hall, which belonged to Mpj. S. E. Kesler, was all ablaze before scarcely anybody knew of it. They suceeded in getting most of the goods out down stairs but scarcely anything upstairs. It is reported she had SSOO insurance on the house. The loss on the house will be something near SBOO. It was one of the old landmarks of the town, and was built about 25 years i ago for a saloon building and later Burgess Dillon, now of Rensselaer, built onto it and turned it into a hotel. Since then, at various times,! it was used as a store room, but lately was used as a dance hall. It was considered to be worth between twelve and fifteen hundred dollars. It is reported that a’ couple of fellows got an overdose of old John Barleycorn while the fire fight was going on which put them, out of business for a couple of days.

—i j I LEE. . , -IMiss Maud Noland visited our school Monday afternoon. Miss Lural Anderson spent Saturday and Sunday here with home folks. Uncle David Culp has improved enough now to be able to do his work. L. M. Jacks helped J. H. Culp get wood Tuesday . preparatory to have a buzzing. Monday there was a netv book case brought here tor our school to help keep the library books in. Our school closes this Friday with a fine program and the usual big dinner that all enjoy so much. Mr. and Mrs. Len Lefler of Lafayette visited here over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks.

Tuesday morning Mrs. C. A.

Holeman went to Rensselaer to spend a few days with het sor. Orval and wife. Abe Lewi;* has been visiting his parents and his sisters, Mrs. O. A. Jacks and S. M. Jacks, here during the past week. Mrs. Jacobs, a sister of Joseph Stewart, returned to her home in Michigan this week after an extended visit with him and family. S. L. Johnson of near Monon drove a fine mare here Tuesday and it took sick and the veterinary from Monon came that evening and .the next morning, but he could do nothing for her and she died Wednesday noon. The one 6 from here that tried the township examination all passed. Those in the eighth grade are Harry and Thelma Noland, Dollie Jacks and Agnes Stiers, and those that tried from the seventh grade are Chloae Overton and Etha Noland.

j THE NORTHSIDE. —I H. J. Dexter went to Indianapolis Wednesday. George Comer called on Walter Harrington Wednesday, Mrs. W. C. Faylor attended the Brushwood Aid Wednesday. Helen Meader arrived home

from Terre Haute "Wednesday. J. W. Faylor sold two cows to Fred Schultz the first of the week. “Too much of a Good Thing,” will be played at Center Saturday, March 30. « I. F. Meade-r went to Hammond Thursday to attend the republican district convention. Mr., and Mrs. J. W. Faylor and Mr. and Mrs. John Miller attended lodge at Parr Wednesday . evening. Jim McCo'.ly and son Frank are building an addition on the house occupied by Jack Reeder, nea,r Virgie. April 3 will be the last day of school at Center. There will be a big dinner and in the afternoon a ’ good program will be given by the school. Miss Kitts, teacher. , Arthur Millspaugh doubtless thinks men should go a-visitin’ as well as women, and followed suit Friday last. He went to visit his parents down in the south part of the state where hi wife and daughter and Mrs. Todd and daughter have been visiting the past ten days. They are all expected home the last o this week. The next literary will be at Center Saturday, March 30. There will bo a play ard a debate. Everybody come early so as not to miss the first act. The question to be debated on is: Resolved, That the Average Farmer Has Not Kept Face with the Times." The affirmative are E: ta Keener, H. J. Dexter; neg., \V. L. Wood and Mr. MoCurtain. <

-I s T ' ----l—- ---! j FOUR CORNERS, | i -I— ’ * -I” I A sister of Dave Wesnor’s of Ari gus is visiting relatives here this | week. The Eehles Bros, are buzzing wood for Ed Wesner and X. Ivecne this Week. L. C. Asher, southeast of Wheatfield, is building an addition to his house. John Pinter, who is taking treatj bient at the springs for rheumatism, iis improving nicely. J. A. Hixson is unloading a car of tile to be used on the contracts bid in by F. Guy Barnard. Have your voters to select delegates that nominate D. S. Clark of Wheatfield tp., for recorder next Monday. Ray G. Anderson of Wheatfield is attending night school at Tefft twice per week. All night sessions, it is reported. Ex-trustee Stalbaum is busy’ unloading a car of tile which will be used on the farm lately purchased of John Finn.

dent of north Jasper for over 20 years, is contemplating a move to Chicago in the near future. We would really 'not like to see one ot the old landmarks of north Jasper leave us. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fisher df. Oterbein came Saturday to visit home folks, returning' to their school work Sunday afternoon. i_,ee informs us that the new school house is not vet ready for occupancy. There seems to be some mystery as to the identity of , the majj who xFed at the home of Mr. Shook of near Demotte, and who was buried there Thursday. Some think that the name Bush was fictitious and as he died without revealing who his relatives were or the locality from which he came. J The ones who have befriended him and administered to his many wants are at a loss in what direction to turn for information. The deceased left some money on deposit at the Bank of Wheatfield, and it is said carried some insurance. He claimed to be a soldier and a Mason. The latter had charge of the funeral. John Greve, who has been a resi-

—i- *—}—; | IROQUOIS VALLEY. I —! : Will Whittaker is hauling wood. Mrs. Flora fulling spent Monday with her mother. Luo Green eallefl on Mrs. Chas. Grant Wednesday. Miss Katie Morgenegg is t working for Mrs. Linback. Gertrude Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. 1 Joe Grooms spent Sunday with his -daughter Gladys. Ls■ < Ethel Marlatt called on Bessie McElfresh Wednesday. Chas. Reed and family spent Sunday with J. W. Marlatt.

Victor Walker called on his fa-* ther, Ike Walker, Sunday. K. Zillhart, and son Louie were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Bethel ' Arnold spent Sunday with Eva and Anna Mqrgenegg. Geo. McElfresh hauled hay from Parr Monday and Tuesday. - Mrs. Llnback, who has been seriously ill, is recovering nicely. j Mrs. Ike Walker, who has been on fihe.sick list, is some better. Mr?. John Williams spent Wednesday with Mrs. Flora Pullins. Leo Kolhoff spent Saturday night and Sunday with Grover Brown. ; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant spent Sunday with his father west of town. Sam Scott and family spent Sum day with Mr. and Mrs. Will Whit-' taker. ; Merriman Tudor and family spent Sunday with Nelson Wilcox and family. . • ''./; v- ■ ;/: Mr. and Mrs. John Xewcome spetit Sunday with John Hefferlin and family. j Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pullins and sons spetn Sunday with Mr, ■ and Mis. Jehu Alter. j Mrs. Fred Schreiner and children spent the last o; the week with her lather, W. A. Green. i -• is. Loti Daniels and children are spending -the week with her nu,Fur, Mrs. Walker.,. {« Geo. Me El fresh and son Alpha - delivered sonie tat cattle to J. J. Eiglesbarh Wednesday, H. M. I Shipman and ueice of Rertiingtbii came Wednesday to visit Chas. Grant and family. ■C ha . Campbell, who has been living in W. X. Jenkin’s property, moved to Parr Saturday. Fred Schreiner, vho has been doing carpenter work near Kninian. returned home Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. George Hefferlin of Brook spent Saturday and Supday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. War. Gratner. Frank and Walter Brown, who are working in our vicinity, spent Sunday with tiheir parents, west of Rensselaer. Mrs. Ben Smitih and Dave Green left Thursday for their home in Crawfordsville a.ter a week’s visit with Wm. Green and family.