Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

Ai Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

he-ni of lateres □1 frcsa Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Oiroctctng the H»ppeningi is the Temiory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

MILROY. —; 1 . Chas. Clark is farming for Mrs. Mary McCashen. I. J. Clark and son James were in Monon Saturday. ’’ Greer Bunnell’s spent Sunday with Thos. Johnson’s. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell at*tended church Sunday. Mrs. Thos. Spencer attended church at Lee Sunday. Janies Boon took cream to Wolcott in his auto Tuesday. Oscar Jacks spent Saturday night with Marion Spencer. John Southard's took dinner Sunday with George Foulks’. Mr. and Mrs. Leming ate dinner with Wiley Latta’s Sunday. Miss Let ha Clark spent the w eek with her aunt', Mrs. George Foulks. A. E. Abersol and daughter Pearl were Monon visitors Saturday. Miss Lural Anderson spent Saturday night and Sunday with Frank May’s. G. L. Parks’ spent Sunday with Mrs. Parks' mother, Mrs. Ravenscroft. Chas. McCaehen’s took dinner Sunday with Mrs. Mary McCashen and Miss Etta. Fred May and family and Lud Clark and family took dinner Sunday with I. J. Claim’s. Rev. Morrow and sqn Ralph and family of Rensselaer ate dinner Sunday with Jas. Mitchell’s. W. I. Bivans was in Lee Saturday. Martha Clark left Saturday for Terre Haute to attend school. - Mr. and Mrs. G. Foulks called on J. R. Clark’s Sunday evening to see the new boy born May 18. Rev. -Morrow came Sunday and reorganized the Baptist church and will preach again June 2d. All invited. Mr. and Mrs. Leming, Mrs. A, May and daughter, Mrs. Morgan Sterrett, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McCashen attended church here Sunday.

TEFFT. —I 1— William Cullen spent Sunday with his family. George Mahaffy is Shearing the farmers’ sheep in this locality. William Cagel has been helping Ross White put in tile the past week. Lambert Collins and family moved to Dunn’s Pleasure Resort last Monday. John Finn is improving slowly. iMrs. M. Jones attended the commencement exercises at Knox last Friday evening.

I BAUM’S BRIDGE. i _j 1— George Beemer was a Wheatfield goer Monday. , What we need here is a concentrated dose of good dry weather. Milke Delehanty and son Jay took a couple of loads of hogs to Kouts Saturday. Meedames James Clark and C. E. Bush called at the Beemer home Friday afternoon. Miss Arndt of Lafayette came Saturday for a few days visit with Mrs. C. E. Bush and other friends. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith and daughter Maud were Porter county visitors Sunday. George Beemer, Jr. and Walter Wiseman, Jr. went to Chicago Monday to secure a position with an interlocking company. Mrs. Lester Brown, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Beemer, the past few days, returned to her home at Valparaiso last Sunday. If you have visitors or intend to go on a visiting tour, or are love, or expect to get married or even want to —tell us, as we want all the news. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bush. Mr. and Mrs. Uncapher of Indiana Harbor and Mrs. Zeri Miller were called tto Hebron Sunday by the death of Harvey Whaling. R. H. Morehouse is the banner farmer in these parts in regard to the amount of corn planted. He has about 65 acres planted, a large part of which is up. Our baseball team was defeated by the Porter county boys on their diamond last Sunday. When our boys get lined up in proper style, they will make these surrounding nines look like a small cent.

NEWLAND. T! M. Callarhan was here from Rensselaer on business? Tuesday. Mrs. F. M. Walters who has been sick for some time, is up and about again. Howard Speaks of Rensselaer is visiting his nephew. Harry Beebe at Newland , John Burris and wife, who have been visiting in Monticello, returned yesterday. Mrs. G. M. Beebe is visiting her father, J. W. Speaks, and her sister. Mrs. O. R. Lewis. James Jeffries of Gifford moved to McCoysburg to work on B. J. Gifford s digging there. Barkley Sunday school convention had a song from the Newland Sunday school last Sunday. A number of acres of onions are being planted in spite of the late season and bad weather. Monty Mansfield, who lived east of here, had his house burned down last week, caused by sparks from a defective chimney. Mr. Callander and sons, onion men from Nappanee, were here planting onions to experiment on the ground. Mr. Callander returned to Nappanee last week.

| LEE. ' Walter Jordan and family visited Sunday at Ray Holeman’s. L. M. Jacks and family visited Sunday with their son Charles and family. , Mr. and Mrs. Werner of Rensselaer visited here Sunday with G. A. Jacks. John Osborne and wife went from church Sunday to Alvin Clark’s for dinner. Simon Parcels and family went from church Sunday to H. C. Anderson’s tor dinner. Mrs. Frank Overton and children visited a few days last week with relatives in Rensselaer. Win. Culp and wife and David Culp and wife called on Leßoy Noland Sunday afternoon. Born, May 18, to John Clark and wife, a son; May 20, to Elmer Gilmore and wife, a son. Mrs. Ida ”Lewis and daughter Ver da. who made an extended vWt with relatives in Madison, returned home last week.

Mrs. C. A. Holeman. who has been visiting relatives in and near Indianapolis the past few weeks, returned home Tuesday. We have had fine weather so far this week up to this writing, and the farmers are surely making good use of it, plowing and planting. S. M. Jacks is remodeling his store building to some extent, making the stairway up from the outside and making an addition to the storeroom. Charles Lefler is putting out some corn on his farm he has bought here, the former T. P. Jacks farm. He is planning to move on same in another year.

FAIR OAKS. ; Mrs. Cottingham’s aunt from Brookston is visiting her this week. Mrs. Al Moore and little dauzhter o: Lafayette cafne up Saturday on business, Neen Littlefield of Rensselaer came up in his auto Tuesday and visited his farm. Cottage prayer m«-e ing was held at Hannah Culp’s Wednesday eve with a good attendance. Milt Gundy is having his residence replastered this week, Al Blake is spreading the mortar. Bud Hammond of North Dakota was here the first of the week shaking hands with old friends, those that were not too busy. i - Mrs. Joseph I. Burns, who has j been keeping house for the boys [since their father s death, has about .decided to move back to Niles,Mich.

There were a couple of the latter day' saints dropped in at Fair Oaks Tuesday and gave an open air sermon in front of one of the stores in the eve Ye.-, we are having pretty warm weather just now. Farmers are, using every moment in putting out their crops, nearly ail are planting corn these days. Frank McCoy and Lawrence Halleck are putting up a private telegraph line between their houses for the purpose of learning and practicing telegraphy. James Clifton has a job at Felix Parker s on Mel Larms farm near Pembroke. He will re-shingle all of the buildings on the place and rebuild some porches ' Hillis & Taiten shipped nearly 200 fat hogs from here to Indian* apolis last week and Monday they shipped six or seven car loads of fat cart 13 to the same place. The pencil pusher topk a leave of absence from his rural delivery work Tuesday to take a rest and worked hard all day. Enos Mo.fitt is now subbing instead of Jesse Harriott who moved to Kansas. The Fair Oaks correspondent for The Dem scrat wishes in this - report to inform the readers of The Democrat at Hibbard, Ind., that he has two sets of batteries for his auto and hasn’t run over anyone yet. See? .

Uncle Dave • Winslow received a letter from his Joe near Lisbon. No. Dak.. last week, stating they were all well; 'and had his wheat in and it looked well. He also stated he was going to begin plowing for corn. The writer, wife and daughter autoed out to the Mead school house in Newton county Sunday and visited the Sunday school, and didn’t ■run over anybody either. Ha! They took dinner and spent the afternoon with Mr. Miles'. i Mrs. A M. Bringle received a [bundle of papers from, her neice, I Iva Moffitt, o: near Fargo. N. Dak., Monday and in it contained the ser(mons of 5 weeks work by Billy Sunday at that p ace. She writes there were 3,738 conversions in that city from his preaching and she was one of them. Mrs. Ed Fauley’s mare dissappeared from town Monday and Ed can’t hear a thing of her. She was running loose, grazing about town, which she had done for several years more or less. It is thought that probably someone has taken the out op a farm and pressed her into service during the rush in getting the crops in. , Mr. Sawin of south of town gave a stag party to a number of his friends at his home Thursday eve They were served with lunch which consisted of meats selected and extracted by him from the buff and porkers, so it is said, and prepared by Don, the colored gentleman, who lives on Sawin’s ranch. It is also said they had plenty of cigars and good strong drink (coffee probably I. The report was they had a fine time.

—! IROQUOIS VALLEY. Mark Hoyes was in our .bcality Sunday afternoon. John Moore and so:'. Vick were in our vicinity Tut stay. . Mrs. Clyde Burris spent Sunday with Mrs? Fred Schreiner. Chloe Torbet spent Sunday with Katie and Lucy Mor gen egg. Lucy Morgenegg spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. Wm. McElfresh of Rensselaer spent Monday at his ‘arms 'in this vicinity. Barney Kolhoff and son Led attended lodge at Rensselaer Saturday evening. Mrs. Fred Schreiner and children spent Tuesday with her rather. Wm. Green and family. Quite a crowd from our vicinity attended the aband concert at Rensselaer Thursday eve. Mrs. Mollie Vance Of Rensselaer spent Saturday and Sunday with her father. Wm. Green. Clarence Green and family of Kniman spent Saturday night and Sunday with- Wm. Green and family. Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Marian and Charles Reed went to Morocco Sunday to Se Mrs. Win. Pollock, who is very Til. Charles ■ Grant and . wife spent Sunday with his father, Alton Grant, west of town. ’ who is very sick at this writing. . Those ..that., spent Sunday, with Geo. McElfresh and family were: Fred Schreiner. Clyde Burris. Louis Zillhart. Ethel Mariatt and Anna Richmond? ??;?

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I PINE GROVE. Lucy Morgenegg spent Sunday with home folks. Chas, Shroyer helped Harry Beck 'Veal a calf Monday evening. Mrs. James Torbet helped her daughter, Nellie Beck, paper Wednesday. Creola Torbet called ■on Mrs. Lizzie Cooper and Mrs. Harry Beck Thursday. Harry Beck and daughter Neva and Creola Torbet were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clint Beck spent Thursday afternoon with J. M. Torbet and family. John, Chloae and Creola Torbet spent Sunday with Lucy, Katie and Eva Morgenegg. Mrs. Stella Campbell and two children spent one day this week with Roy Torbet and family. Wm. Hess. a Sunday school missionary of Warsaw spent Wednesday night with J. M. Torbet and family.

Elmer Shroyer and Samson Cooper called on the former’s sister, Mrs. Roy Torbet and family, Sunday afternoon. Bertha Cooper is spending a few days with her uncle, John Cooper, who is in a critical condition at this writing. Mrs. Stella Campbell and two children of Laura are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Cnas. Shroyer and family. f Those that took dinner with Roy Torbet and family Sunday were Harry Beck and family, Bluford Torbet and wife. Mrs. Belle Dickey and J. M. Torbet, wife and son Charles.

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