Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A« Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

JTT Ite.m of Interest jj frera Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

1 mOQIOIS VALLEY. I ' ' . ' , - ; Oats sowing will soon be a tiling of the past. Margaret Hurley spent Sunday with home folks. Letter Schreiner spent Sunday with M. Tudor. •John Xornian was seen in ou j Vicinity Monday. f Barney Kolhoff was a, Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Louie Zillhart hauled oats to Rensselaer Tuesday. Elaner Brown was. in our vicinity Sunday evening. Frank Miller begun work for J. W, Marlatt Monday. Dan Hopkins i* the proud owner Of a fine new buggy. Wm. Me FI If res'll spent Monday at his farms in this vicinity. Emmet Pullina and .Tames Gilmore dehorned cattle Monday. John and Kenneth Grooms spent Saturdav and Sunday with home folks. * •* Walter Brown who is working in our vicinity, spent Sunday with home folks. Alton Grant, anddaughter Josie spent Suml ay with his soil, ('has. Grant and wife. Clarence Green and family • of Kniman spent Sunday with Win. Green and family. Mrs. J. W, Marlatt and children spent Sunday with her brother, Chas. Reed and family. Miss Lucy M orgenegg, who is working in Rensselaer, is spending this week with home folks. Mrs. Joe Full ins and sons. Max and D;om. returned home Sunday evening after a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. MicAully of Chicago. Frank Brown, who has been suffering from a sudden attack of heart trouble has recovered and was able to spend Sunday with, his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown, west of Rensselaer. Miss Pauline Zillhart, who makes her home ,in Chicago, came Sunday to sjiend a few days with her par to spend a few dtavs with her parto spend a few days with her parents, returning Wednesday. H. M. Shi pm an, who has been spending the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Grant, went to Nebraska” Tuesday to 1 visit friends and relatives for a few weeks, after which he will go to Burke, So. Dak., to spend the summer with his other daughter, Mrs. Everal Smith.

| MILROY. W, I. Bivans was "in Monon Tuesday. | Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parks jvero *' in Rensselaer Monday. Mr. and Mrs. James Blankenship were in Wolcott Tuesday. M. A. Gray of Remington came to his farm Tuesday. J. Boon has been assisting Mr. Marehand to haul corn to Gee. Miss Lural Anderson spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Ruth May spent the first of the "week with her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Foulks. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Culp took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Spencer. Mrs. L. Foulks of Monon, who has been seriously ill, is now able to sit up some. Roht. Reeve’ and Foster Morgan took dinner 1 Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank May. Mr. and Mrs. -John Southard and daughter Belle were shopping in Rensselaer Monday^ R. Foulks of Monon came Sunday evening to his farm for a load of corn which he hauled Monday Mrs. Abersol returned Monday evening, from' Illinois where she was called by the serious illness of her father. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson spent Friday and Saturday with the former M brother, Wm. Chapman and family. G. L. Parks was called to Illinois Wednesday to attend the funeral of his uncle, returning home the lalst „ of the week. " Mrs. Bullington called on her mother, Mrs. Blvans, Sunday. The latter is suffering from lumbago,

and .is not able to walk at times. Banner school closed Tuesday, A number of patrons and friends came in the afternoon- to listen to •the program rendered by the pupils,- Miss Anderson, the teacher, has taught three years in succession at Banner.

PINE GROVE. ' | John Tor bet spent Sunday with John Switzer of near Aix. The rain Wednesday stopped farmers sowing* oath for a while. Mrs. James Torbet and son Chas. were Rensselaer shoppers Tuesday. Bertha Cooper is spending a few days with Mrs. Garter Harriott and family. . Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet took dinner with Clint Beck and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gifford spent Sunday afternoon with Andy Ropp and family. Gladys Baker spent Saturday night and Sunday with Essie Coiner of north of Aix. Clifford Baker helped his uncle, Wesley Price of south of Aix, plow a few days last Week.

Mrs. Janies Torbet and son Chas. called on Mrs. Harry Gifford and tatnily Monday evening. Mr. and 'Mrs. Chas. Shroyej* and son Elmer took dinner with his daughter, Mrs. Roy Torbet. Mrs. Bluford Torbet and sister-in-law. Creola Torbet, called on John I <tk< r and family Monday ovoning. (’lint Beck and family sipent Tuesday nlight and Wednesday forenoon with his brother Harry and family. Mrs. Lizize Cooper and two grand-children spent Sunday afternoon with her sister-in-law, Sarah McCleary. Those that spent. Sunday with Harry Beck and family were Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels and Mr. and Mrs. Janies Torbet and two children. .

I LEE. j Mrs. Marguerite Hoover of Monon visited here a few days the past \veek at H. C. Anderson’s. Sunday afternoon a large crowd ■ athered at the Osborne cemetery att the burial o! James Overton. S. W. Noland did not feed all o his last summer’s crop of oats this winter, and thrashed, them this week. I ncie David Culp and wife visited at their son James’ Sunday, the first time sineO his sickness during all winter. (MT-@ Lural Anderson, who has been teaching in Milroy the past winter is homo now at her uncle’s, H. C. Anderson’s. Mrs. C, A. HoTeman has been having trouble with rheumatism and has been under the doctor’s 'care but is better now. William Large has bought the Craft farm jir-n north of Lee. He has tour farms now in one tody, the one lie has owned for so long and the former' George McCoy and Eli Wood farms. Last Sunday being the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Zable viixty of their friends and neighbors went with well filled baskets' at the noon hour and made them a very pleasant surprise. All had a very enjoyable time.

| THE NORTHSIDE. 1 I -I Charles Burns, called on George Casey Sunday. Walter Harrington and son were in Parr Monday. Miss Marie Comer called on Nettie Davisson Sunday. Wallace Miller spent over Sunday with home folks. B. D. Comer left for Hoopeston, 111., on business Tuesday. Jack Reeder and Dick ' Gasaway went to Rensselaer Sunday. Lewis Harrington is visiting his parents in Virgie a short time. Helen Header and Charles Wisenian attended church, Sunday evening. ' . Mrs. Pearl Austin of Wheatfield ts visiting the Factors’ for a few dayjt. Mr. and Mrs. Waiteman Reeder,

are visiting the former’s parents near Yirgia for a fetjr days. ’ They wili then go to Remington where they expect to make their future home on a farm.

The lkeraries have closed for the season, but will probably be held again next fall and .winter. ’There was a goodly crowd out and a fair program rendered Saturday night. Several good recitations were given among the best was "Si and 1.” , —i- | PAIR OAKS. j John Cooper still remains fiuite poorly, • My, but didn't we get a big rain Wednesday? Chas. Gundy's are moving hack to Fair Oakiu this Week from' Gary. it is, reported that several more families will change houses here in a few days. Mr.-t. Dr. Fyfe of Wheatfield, with her children, came Tuesday to visit a few” days with relatives. Mrs. James Clifton, after about a week's visit with her daughter, Mrs. Abe Dekoker, of near Demotte, came home Monday.

The wheat through these parts is very badly damaged and will nearly all have to be plowed up and the ground planted to corn and oats. The Standard Oil man .was in town Tuesday the first time for about two months, on account of bad weather and roads. William Cottingham and family arrived here from Danville Sunday The coal strike put. a lot of men 1 out of work, ar.d he was one of them. «■ . Dave Trapp moved Monday over about Enos where he wall work oil the stone road, Mr. Dinama will move into the house vacated by Traii;:. Since The weather warmed up we have been having pretty good train Sen.ice oh- the Motion. The milk train has been close on time now for about ten days. • Frank Husted. who is stationed at Shelby as operator, came down the latter part of the week and visited his uncle. Chas. Halleck, and his son Clifford over night. Chat;'. Halleck has several men at work nowadays digging up and dispatching fruit trees. There has been several wagon loads hauled away this week, and’they are fine. Sol Norman, the assessor from 'Parr, was in our town Monday again "nosing into people’s business.” He reports the tidings of a bouncing baby girl at his house about two weeks ago.

A babe was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Clifton Sunday morning. It was very delicate and only lived six or eight hours when it passed away. Interment was made Monday evening. Mrs. Chas. Holly and children, who have been visiting relatives here the past month, left the latter part of the week for Paxton, 111., where they recently moved. Charles has a- tile factory down there. Miss Hannah Culp, who was crippled by a fail four months ago and of which about three months she has been at Will Warren's, has so far recovered that slhe was taken home Friday of last week. She is able to get about with the use of a cane. John Wiseman and new bride arrived here and have been visiting has •son Farm and his other children a few days. Tuesday they landed in Fair Oaks and will visit hF' sister, Mrs. Mallatt, a while, and then go to Montana where he has a homestead.

Suitervisor Goff has decided to begin repairing and putting new culverts in the right way this spring, using steel sewer and building abutments, at the upper end of each. We feel this is a wise plan, as the tile sewers give very poor satisfaction. They wash out o bad whenever we have a freshet. Mr. Simmons moved out on his farm Monday. His house and barn came near being destroyed by a forest lire Monday. A high wind blew a big fire, which started west of his place about, a half-mile, right down onto them before they were aware of it, but with the aid of a passerby, and hard work they succeeded in saving the buildings. Out postofiice has recently took on a different appearance. The P. M’s. wife got,busy Monday morning and put a couple of carpenters to work, Joe Brown and Leslie Warren, and had a new roof laid on and a new floor put down. She also had new paper ' put; on the wails. The office was moved into Milt Gundy s place of business for about 24 hours.

I BAOI’S BRIDGE j C. E. Bush was a business caller at Routs Thursday. Mrs. Wm. Hallier called on Mrs. Bert Vandercar Wednesday. Rich Lindy of Hebron spent Saturday and Sunday in this vicinity. Mrs. James Clark and Mrs. c E Bush were shopping in Wheatfield Friday. 1 t John Ct e} sdsd a large number of fine seed potatoes among the farmers here this week. Miss Grace Pool finished a very successful term of school here last J uesday. A splendid program was rendered before quite a number of visitors. Mrs. George Beemer. who was called to Valparaiso last week by the illness of her daughter,. Mrs. Lester Brown, lias ‘not returned home .at this writingg.