Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

a r- . i j * ri i As burnished by Our Regular Correspondents

O he o» of Interest Towns Tersely Told Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

I MILROY; Lud Clark’s called on Fay Lear’s Sunday. Wai. Halstead spent Sunday night with James Boon. Greer BunneT.l and family spent Sunday with Lon Woods’. Mr. and Mrs. Frank May called on G. L. Parks’ Sunday evening Foster Morgan took dinner Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Clell Clark. Lon Chapman and Greer Bunnell called on Thos. Johnson’s Monday evening.

Our schools are all closed now except Banner, which closes next Tuesday. ■ Miss Lural Anderson and Martha Clark did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Woosley have moved into the house vacated by Willard Johnson. Mrs. Anna 1 Chapman called on her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Johnson and family. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Woosley and children called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell Sunday. Mrs. A. E. Abersol was called last week to Illinois by the Serious illness of her father. James Boon called on .Miss Ara Griswold's school last (Thursday and took the school’s picture. Miss Lural Anderson and Mrs. George Faulks called on Mrs. Ed Johnson Sunday afternoon. Martha Clark, who is attending school in Monon, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Foulks. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Beaver, Chas. Beaver. Mr. and Mrs. John Sommers. Jr., were in Rensselaer Saturday,

Mr. and Mrs.. Hurd of Anderson are visiting his sister, Mrs. Ed McKinley and family for an indefinite period. . Sunday school was re-organized again Sunday with a fair attendance. Come Sunday morning and bring somebody with you.

| IROQUOIS VALLEY. [ Joe Gropms was a Rensselaer goer Monday. . K. Zillhart is kept busy in his shop nowadays. Harry Gallagher called on K. Zillhart Monday. Mrs. Flora Pullins spent Tuesday \ with her mother. 1 . Gertrude Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Mrs. Sam Lowery was a Rensselaer <oer Saturday, Aunt Sarah Daniels spent Monday With Mrs. Ike Walker. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Barney Kolhoff were in Rensselaer Saturday. Cleaning house and sowing oats is the order of t'he day. K. Zillhart and son Louis were Rensselaer goers Monday. John Marlatt hauled seed oats from Rensselaer Tuesday. Bud Lewis and son Albert were Rensselaer goers Saturday. K. Zillhart is improving the looks of his farm with new fences. Mrs. Ike Walker is slowly improving from her recent sickness. Mts. Lizzie Marlatt spent Sunday • afternoon with ,-Luelia and Beck Green. . Quite a crowd from our vicinity

attended church at Rosebud Sunday evening.

Eva Morgenegg went Sunday to spend the week with her sister, Mrs. Lester Schreiner. Opal a,nd Arthur Schreiner spent | Monday night with their grandfathI er, W. A. Green. Ike Marlatt, who is living at his farm near Gifford, spent .Sunday with home folks. John and Kenneth Grooms, who spent she week with home folks, returned - to school Monday. Bessie Pullins, who has been spending a few days with her grandmother, returned home Tuesday. I* Mrs. Belle Daniels and children, who have been spending a few days with her mother,' returning home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant and father, H. M. Shipman, spent Sunday with Garland Grant and father west of town. Bessie McEl fresh, who has been, i spending a few days with her grandparents in Rensselaer, returned ! home Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Arnold and son Mark spent the first of the 1 week with Eli Arnold, before go- ■ ing to Wabash to visit other relai tive-s.

Everett Green and family spent Monday night with his father. Wm. Green and family. They started for Michigan City where they will make their future home. Those that spent Sunday with Geo. McElfresh and family were: Lester Schreiner and family. Chris Morgenegg and family. James and John Newcome, Meriinan Tudor and Ethel Marlatt.

| FAIR OAKS. * | Making garden is the order of the day in town nowadays. Rev. Downy delivered a splendid sermon at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Erney Zea of Rensselaer came up Saturday to attend a meeting at Will Warren’s Sunday. Miss Anna Spry and another lady of Kankakee, 111., visited at’ Ike Kight’s the latter paint of the week. Some of the farmers have begun sowing oats, while others can’t begin yet on account of the fields being too wet. Mr. Hampton of Fowler, was here Saturday. He was out to his farm west .of here, making a short call on his teipant. Mr. Clevenger, a repesentntive of the National Pickle Co., moved last week into the house vacated by AT Brouhiard. John Kight came up from Indianapolis Saturday and visited with ■his wife and babe and other relatives until Monday. The scarlet fever scare is now over and the little (’lessen child has about recovered, and health is good now' in tlmne parts.

♦ George' Culp of Lee came up Tuesday to see his ester Hannah. She is feeling fine and is slowly recovering from her injury. Tame hay is retailing in the jficlds low for $25 per ton. from six to eight miles away. Then it costs $3 or $4 to get it. hauled. Mrs. Fauley. who ns- be-efi on Nubbin Ridge caring for her sick and aged mother, was at home a couple of days lan, week. Ray Haste and wife did not go down in Bent ..n cqun:;.' to work as reported, but have moved out on Lawler’s Kent ranch and will work for him. F. M. Goff xyas at home one day the latter part of the week He is now engaged in carpenter work and pruning fruit trees down'about Rensselaer. Mr. Bbzell begun plowing his watermelon'* ground Tuesday on <AD. Washburn s sand ridge north of town. He Speers to pur in a good sized patch, from 20 to 30 acres. Cal Burroughs has secured. the agency for the celebrated Birdsell wagons and buggies in addition to his blacksmith shop. So he is prepared to give bargains in vehicles also. | Harry Zimmerman, who several years ago wa; telegraph operator here, but is i-ov. located at Michigan City, came up from Rensselaer Tuesday and was a called at the Cottingham House. > Bert Warren, Ruby Nolan and Lyman Hall are assisting Mr. Simeon in erecting hi new house on the Peyton place west of here, which he bought last winter. They are pushing the work right along and he expects to move into it this week. ! Mrs, Leech of Rensselaer, who hid been visiting her daughter. Mrs. Carl Hamacher, down ab..ut Fores-, man. a lew days, changed cars here Saturday eye on her way >.oine< She took her two granddaughters heme with her for a week or two’s visit.‘ : i

■’Cloy J. Clifton, who, has been worfcicg on the section the g-resrer Of the winter, quit the first of the wc. k. He hired out to Mike Duffy of Fowler to work on his farm over in Newton county this summer. He will move his ■ family there in the near future. Services were held in the Christian church Saturday eve. conducted by a Christian . evangelist from West Virginia. It is said he was on his way to take up a charge at Battle Ground. He had a wife and three children. They went from .here to’ Lowell Sunday murreng. Mrs. Carol Miles of Newton county was a guest of Amy Brihgle Saturday. They went with Mrs. Kight to Virgie to attend the last day of school and enjoyed the big school dinner with the rest of them immankely. They had a fine program and there tyas about 150 in attendance. " . Mr. Carpenter, who came here last spring and succeeded Al Moore as foreman on the section on the Monon, resigned and went down to Patrlcksburg in Warren county, where ’he took charge of a section the first of the week. His family will fclJjw as scon as he can procure a house to move into.

One never knows how precious a friend is until they fail to put in their appearance. Such was the ca-3. he re Saturday morning when The Democrat failed to come, and st?. 1 worse in the-evening when still i: didn’t arrive. There wj- no end to the questions asked about its failing to come. . Even the postmaster couldn’t give any satisfactory news about it. trange to say.

PINE GROVE. j Sowing oats is the order of the day. Char'le? Torbet spent Tuesday with Curtis Gifford. Mrs. James Britt called on Mrs. George Daniels Wednesday. Everett McCleary called on J. M. Torbet and family Thursday. Roy Torbet is helping his broth-er-in-law, Harry Beck, to ditch. Harry Gifford and family called On Mr. and Mirs. Acres Sunday afternoon. Mr. Clemens and family took dinner with Andy Ropp and family one day this week. Hom. E. P, Honan and wife were out to tlheir farm in Barkley tp., Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gifford called on Mrs. W, N. Jordan of Newland Friday evening. Mrs. Gusta Torbet Ppent Wednesday with her mother. Mrs. Satan! McCleary, and family. I Mrs. J. W. Baker was called to: see her motihhr Wednesday evening' who is very ill at this writing. Mrs, Wni. Jordan of near Newland called on Mrs. Harry Gifford and Mrs. George Daniels Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet spent Sunday with the latter's mother, Mrs. Sarah McCleary and fam- 1 Uy. ; j Sever a'! of the boys from this neighborhood attended the exercises of the last day- of school at Gifford Tuesday evening. Those that spent Sunday with Arthur Zimmerman and family were James Britt and sons, Charles and Harry, Marie Wigging and Gladys Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Janies Torbet and seto Charles were -hopping in Rensselaer Saturday, it being the first time the former has been able to go to Rensselaer for three months. Those that took Easter dinner with Clint Beck and family were:

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hale and little son. Roy Tbrbet and wife. Harry .Beck and family , and . Creola and {Charlts Torbet. *

SOUTHEAST MARION. r I ■ > James Hall butchered Monday. I George Slaughter is busy Jeucing ih£s garden. ■ . ■ ! ■ Harry Shumaker was in this vi- ! entity Tuesday. j Raymond Lucas is working for George Wenrick. ; Em- :~t?n Criswell spent Sunday; • wish-. heme folks. ' j ; Joe Waensr called on Olive Criswell Sundayi evening. ■ Mrs Cha®. Slaughter called on ; Mrs. Waymire Tuesday. I George Wenrick is ,the proud j owner of a new buggy, ’ I Map- and Leonard Bice spent Sat-* urday night in Rensselaer. 6 Ml-.-cs Opal and Olive Waymire’ caCfed on Olive Criswell Monday. ! B. T. Lanham is improving his farm by fencing and cutting brush J D. M. Waymire is shingling a 1 house for Arnold Luers this week.; Tom ard John Stine were in this, Icca’Lty duck-hunting one day last week. I Ph.lip Roy is building a new barn' and imjirovirg his farm southeast ■of Rensselaer, I Raymond Lucas and Oj al Way-' mire spent Sunday with Mr. CrisWeE attd family. j Spring has come at last we hope. The farmers are sowing oats and plowing in earnest. j I Mis-T Mary Bice, EdiVi Wen- : rick and Opal Way mi re Ca ield on Mrs. Roy Tuesday afternoon. j Mrs. O; Waymire called Wed- ; nesday on Mi, Margaret Shid?, who, jis recovering ft her recent ill-’ ness. j Ybss Criswell and Peter Lucas ; were in Rensselaer Saturday night and took in the wrestling match.! I Fete . thinks he -'Willi' be an expert' wrestler some of these days.

I LEE. t 1 ■i * This week ha been like' spring weather and everybody is very busy. J. H. Culp and family ate Easter dinner with Rav Holeman and family. Miss Hicks of Monon comeg here each Tuesday and teaches a class in music. Ben Dentcn had a light strcke'iof paralysis last week, but is Slowly improving now. W. L. Stiers and family visited his brother Earl and family of Medaryvkle Saturday and Sunday. Leu Lefler of Lafayette went •through here Tuesday in his automobile and called on G. A. Jacks. Mrs. Ora Turner and children Of Rensselaer visited here with Simon Parcels a few days last week. Mr? and Mrs. C. Williamson and L. M. Jacks and family ate Easter dinner with Charles Jacks and family Sunday. ' . " ■ ■' '. . Mrs. Ida Lewis spent Sunday and Monday in Rensselaer with her daughter and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Holenian. O. A. Jacks was taken very sick last week with kidney trouble and the doctor made several trips to see ■'.)■ n. He is getting better how. Vern Cu p. who has been attending school at Vai par a iso; learning telegraphy, spent last „ week here with his parents, returhing to the school Monday. ’ •

| THE NORTHSLDE. | Marie Comer was shopping in Rensselaer Tuesday. W. C. Faylor was in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. , The Brushwood Ladies Aid met at, Mrs. Will Faylor’s Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wilcox’s baby; dded Wednesday and was buried, Thursday. Jack Reed. Chauncey Dexter and Arthur Mills] augh attended the Sparling sale Thursday. The Virgie school closed Saturday with a big dinner and a good program given by the school. Carrie Williams and Etta Fay attended the Easter program at 1 Rosegu.d Sunday evening. Mr. }li 11 spaugh and Ciiauncey’ Dexter are working on MichaelJungles' barn these days. | Several of the boys in our neighborhood went over to Kniman to play ball with the Kniman Fans Sunday. , I Oats sowing is the order bi the day. Spring "has come; the birds are singing, and the grass is green once more. Hurrah! Sunday school has been organized! at Center with a fairly good attend-; ance. Everybody come out and help the good work along. Owing to the bad evening Satur- 1 day last, there was no literary at Virgie. The next will be Saturday. April 13, at Center. Everybody come. The (fcuestkxi to be debated is: Resolved, That the Sign of the Titaes Have Reached the Zenith Of Its Glory. Come, everybody. This will probably be the last one.