Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

Ai Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

t <ll hens of Interes "til frem Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in-the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

I LEE. Miss Stella Widner) came home Wednesday for a visit. Miss Edna Lefler has been helping Mrs. S. M. Jacks clean house. Mrs. Ephriam Gilmore of Monon is here this week visiting her children. S. W. Noland has purchased a new organ for his little daughter Cora. Asa Holeman and Frank Overtoil and families visited at Ray Holeman’s. ' Miss Edna Brock is working for Mrs. Ord Yeoman near Pleasant Ridge. Leroy Noland went to Indianapolis about four weeks ago and entered a hospital to have a cancer removed from his face. He returned home last week apparently cured. His many friends wish it a complete cure.

TEFFT Mrs. Miles is very low at this writing. Assessor Lambert Collins is very busy these days. About fifty-three voters registered last Thursday. The Gengrich brothers have sold their farm east of Tefft. t Charles Stalbaum is hauling another carload of tile tb his farm. Miss Jessie White of Wheatfield is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Nativia White a fe\V days. Supervisor Marion Albin is busy repairing bridges and washouts caused by recent heavy rains. Mrs. J. Nelson and children went to visit friends and relatives'at Wilders and LaCross Saturday. Mrs. Nativia White who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles Gerber, end family for the past week, has returned home.

I ‘ 1 — IROQUOIS VALLEY. Lew McCay called on Wm. Green Ihu bday. Lt q Kolho f was a Rensselaer goer v-mday. Wil'liam Green was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Wil'liam Whittaker was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Chris Morganegg hauled hogs to Rensselaer Tuesday. William Green sold a horse to A. L. Padgett Friday. Alex Hurley and children spent Thursday in Rensselaer. Alex Hurley bought a cow of Werner Miller Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant were Renseelaer goers Saturday. -Mrs. Flora Pullins called on Mrs. Landis one day this week.

Opal Schreiner spent Tuesday evening with Lue and Beck Green. Mrs. Emmet Pullins and family were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Luella Green spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. George McElfresh. Grover Mackey is doing some papering for J. W. Marlatt this week. Mra. Chris Morganegg and daughter, Anna, were in Rensselaer Friday. Mrs. Parkison of Rensselaer visited her farm in this vicinity this week. . ’ ' ■ Margaret Hurley spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Addie Warren at Parr. Perry Marlatt, of Rensselaer visited has farm in ohr vicinity a few days ago. Mrs. Chris Morganegg spent Thursday with M;rs. Fred Schreiner and family.

l.esier Schreiiie-* m’ family spent Moni ay night with. Chris Morganegg and family. Mr. Tudor is breaking ground on the old Grooms farm preparatory to planting cornu Joe Pullins and James Gilmore are working the roads in our vicinity this week. i EE Arnold is having some lumber sawed preparatory t > building an audition to cis home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant assisted the former’s brother, Garland, saw weed Tuesday. Fred Schreiner Went to Valina Tuesday, near w'here he will do carpentering for Mr. Barkley. Bert Edwards of Remington sipent Wednesday night with his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant. George McElfresh and sons and Frank Brown spent Sunday with Lester Schreiner and family. Miss Dorothea Schreiner is visiting with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morganegg, this week. Ike Marlatt, who makes his home at the north Marlatt farm, spent Sunday with his brother, John, and family.

j FAIR. OAKS. j Fred Williams the painter, was in town Wednesday. Health is generally good with few exceptions this week in Fair Oaks. Floyd Baxter and- Milt Gundy were at Mt. Ayr Tuesday on business. Mrs. Al Moore of Lafayette was here a couple days last week on business. M. I. Gundy is building a new wood house and summer kitchen this week. Mr. Allen is having cement blocks made this week for the foundation of his hotel. The heavy rain of Saturday and Sunday put farming another notch or two behind. Mrs. N. A. McKay returned last week from her visit of about ten days at Kirklin. Ben Zellers has now got his feed mill rigged up and is prepared to grind all kinds of feed. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Miss Hannah Culp’s Wednesday evening with a good attendance. Mrs. Warren w T ent down to Rosebud Tuesday to talk carbide lighting systems to a few’ of her friends. It is reported that the old lady Kesler, with her little granddaughter, is keeping house for Eli Hooper in the north part of town. Ho! Ho! Look out for the Fair Oaks reporter. He is liable to run over you, for he is going to buy a set of new batteries for his auto. x

Trustee Kight was over a few days ago and gathered up the remains of the Wild Lilly school house which was demolished by the cyclone some time ago. Chas. Halleck and crew came home from their campaign of fruit tree delivery Tuesday eve. They are now transplanting a lot of shrubbery in his nursery. G-. H. Hillis unloaded four span of mules from a car here Wednesday that had been shipped from about Greencastle. They are using mostly mules on his ranch now. F. R. Enwin’s father, who has been in Dakota 'holding down and proving up a claim, dropped in town Tuesday eve, looking fine, although he is getting aged. But he is full of ambition. ’ Reason Dunn was up to Roselawn a few days ago and closed a deal for the Defries soft drink and lunch shop. He will take possession June 1 and will move his family up there soon.

We feel like complimenting Taylor Wood, the new supervisor of the Parr road district. By his movements he makes us believe they have a man at last that will do his duty and given all roads their just share of work. Mr. Lane’s wife, who moved here a short time ago, has been seriously ill for about a week with something like appendicitis. Dr. Rice of Roselawn is the attending physician. At this writing she is reported a little better. ' Arvel Bringle, who has a position in a lestaurant at Lafayette, came up and spent a few days with home folks. He went to Rensselaer Monday eve and attended the Salvation Army meeting. He and his parents took a drive over into Newton county Tuesday evening and then he returned to Lafayette on the milk train.

• PINE GROVE. j . i Jert Hale was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. We are having a spell of chilly "weather again. John Torbet spent Sunday with Jerry Tullis of near Gifford. Creola Torbet called on Mrs. Chas. Shroyer Wednesday evening. Elmer Shroyer took a veal cal: to Parr Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan were out to their farm Wednesday. Bertha Cooper called on Mrs. Roy Torbet Monday afternoon. Bessie Ropp called on Gmta and Chloae Torbet Monday afternoon. Harry Beck helped his brother-in-law, John Torbet plow. Tuesday. Harry Beck and family spent Sundav with James Torbet and family. Mrs. Bert Hale and son Paul spent Tuesday with .Mrs. Harry Beck and family. ' - , Bertha Cooper and Gusta Torbet called on Bessie Ropp Monday afternoon. * Geo. Tullis and son Jerry took supper with James Torbet and family Saturday. Mr. a rd" Mrs. Johf Baker and three children were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. Sarah McKTeary was called to Fair Oaks Monday by the critical illness of her brother, John Copper. Everett McCleary was called to Fair Oaks to see his uncle, John Cooper who is very ill at th;- writing. Mrs. Harry Beck and daughter Dorothy and the former's mother, Mrs. J. M. Torbet, were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and son Charles and the former's sister, Mrs. Belle Dickey, cf Indianapolis were up Saturday to see where the Cyclone swept through about three weeks ago.

Heme Talent Minstrels at Remington, May 27. At Remington opera house Monday. 2.. for benefit of federated Clubs Civic Improvement' fund. - Part I. “The Jingaboo Man"... .Mrs. A. V. I Locke, soloist, with chorus of 101 ladies. | Solo. C. H. Wharton! i The Marble Arch"—Comedietta in . one act, .'1 ■' tV‘l < ' '■ I Characters—Capt. Trentham. bachelor - Kieth Spdncer Jack Merewether. married ••• ■ > • Max Hargreaves Constance Cameron, widow Miss Pearl Morris Marion Merewether, married ’ . Miss Bess Guy Time—The present day. Scene—Merewether’s house in Milliton Gardens. Hyde Park. London., ■ Three Child Eloop tionists . Chester Wharton” Homer Hoads; Bernard Hargreaves. “Sugar Moon." coon duet.... Mrs. A. V. Locke, Wesley Merritt ■ PART 11. . Old Black . Joe .. . . ... . Chorus Overture. Band. Bard. Band .Claire Broadie "Everybody Two Step”.... , •••••••. Homer Lambert •‘Come Along My Mandy". . . .Miss Garnet McNary, C. W. Wharton : I hat Baboon Baby Dance... .Cha-. I Bowman. ‘•The Welcome on That Mat Ain’t Meant for Me.” Kieth Speller.' “Take Me Back to Babyland" ■• - Mrs. Chas. Bowman "The Owl in the Old Oak Tree,” Miss Lillian Sharkey, H. Lambert “The .Humming Coon". . . . C- W. Wharton “The Railroad Rag," Walter Johnson “Massa's in the Cold. Cold Ground" • A. E. Malsbary “Wxie". . , Chorus Chorus— Mary Bartee Pearl Morris Grace Sharkey Zephyr Crabb Mrs. McCullough Homer Roads Tickets on sale at Bowman's restaurant on and after Monday, May 20. Reserved seats 50c and 35c. General admission 25e. “The Federated Clubs are endeavoring to raise . unds to furtner their efforts toward ’beautifying and improving our ’ pretty little town. Assisted by C. W. Wharton of Kentland and home talent the above program will be presented.— -Mrs. Geo. Hargreaves, Pres, of Federated Clubs; Miss Pearl Morris, Com." .