Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

As Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

MTT Item of Interest JJ frem Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

- ■ IROQUOIS VALLEY. Chas. Grant called on M. Tudor Tuesday. Mrs. Chas. Grant was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Joe Grooms spent Sunday with his daughter Gladys. Bessie McElfresh was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday, Mrs. Frank Linback spent Sunday with Miss Eva Morgenegg. Rose Snow is assisting Mrs. Chas. Pullins with her house work this spring. > Grace Price is spending a few days this week with friends in our vicinity. The dance at Alex Hurley’s was well attended and all report a fine time. Have another, Alex. Lou McKay and wife and Fred Schreiner and family spent Sunday with Wm. Green and family,. Ethel Marlatt. Anna Richmond and Louis Zillhart spent Sunday evening with Geo. McElfresh and family. Mrs. Jennie Swift of Chicago spent Saturday night with her brother, J. W. Marlatt and family. Mrs. Wm. Nuss and daughters, Alma and Opal, are spending the week with W. A. Green and family. Little Dorothy Schreiner is spending this week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morgenegg. Sam Lowery went to Chicago Monday with a car load of cattle which he and W. P. Baker have been feeding through the winter.

| PARR. We are pleased to know that we are to have a new elevator in Parr. A nice rain Monday evening came in at just the right time to boost Otto’s onions. Tom Fay left Monday for Hoopeston, 111., where he will help Gunyon & Stephenson with their dredge. L. L. McCurtain is painting the church at Kniman this week, while “Red” is painting the house when; he lives, on Chicago avenue. Miss Hazel McColly of Chicago

Heights visited her sister. Mrs. Fred Iliff, Thursday and Friday of last week, returning home Saturday morning. • €, D. Lakin will erect a building on his lot on Firman street to be occupied by Perry Griffith. We are glad to see Perry get back at the old stand. The blacksmith shop has changed handb again, now being in charge of Newton Pullins, He is an able blacksmith and you’ll find him on the job all the time. Jack Wilson made a trip to Chicago Heights Saturday. Jack has a creamery of his own in town now. Bring your cream and receive cordial treatment. Schreeg. McCurtain and Lakin did not give their dance at Virgie Saturday night on account of the rain. They postponed it until next Saturday night, June 8. Some of the Parr boys made a trip to Thayer Sunday to join the Fair Oaks team in a ball game with Thayer. The boys had a 10 to 0 look on their faces when they returned.

1 I LEE. Miss Verda Lewis is working for Mirs. Frank Webb. Miss Cora Tyler spent Sunday with Miss Lural Anderson. i Mrs, H. C. Anderson visited relatives in Monon from Saturday until Monday morning. Miss Odie Myers of near Francesville was the guest of Alvin Clark I and family last week. Lowell Noland, son of Rev. D. E. Noland of Rolling Prairie, visited I relatives here last week. I I Mrs. L. M. Jack’s sister, Mrs. 1 Anna Hoover and daughter Belle of Wayne county, visited "here during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sparling of Demotte and Mrs. Dan Fairchild and little son of Monon took dinner with S. M. Jacks and family Tuesday. O. A. Jacks and wife and daughter, Dollie went to Lafayette Sunday to spend the day with Mrs. Spencer and little daughter, who are confined in the hospital there. Wednesday evening several from here attended the Monon tp. commencement at Monon. The graduates from here are Harry and Thelma Noland, Dollie Jacks and Agnes Stiers. On Tuesday evening several of Miss Lural Anderson’s friends gathered at her home and spent the

evening with her before she left for Winona Lake where she will attend school. , On Thursday of last week white Mrs. Thoritas Spencer and two children were returning home from Monticello where they had been attending the decoration day exercises their horse became frightened at a paper which blew off the fence ip. front of it. The buggy was overturned and the littlt girl sustained a : ractu re of the” 'thigh bone, and Mrs S;<n<.er suffered a broken wrist, while the boy escaped unhurt Friday they were taken ’O a Lafayette hospital where they will remain until they are completely recovered from their injuries. They should tee' lucky to have escaped injuries that might easily have proven. fatal ■ m the accident.

MILROY. Rev. Morrow will be here again June 16. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Bi vans were in Lee Tuesday. Mrs. John Mitchell and son Clifford went to Lee Monday. Ed McKinley was a business visitor in Rensselaer Monday. Miss Pearl Abersol and Chas. Clark spent Sunday at FrancesvilleMrs. Geo, Castor assisted Mrs. I Hamilton w;ith her work MondaV. ■ Rev. Morrow ar.d sons, Clifford and Francis, ate dinner Sunday with Uncle Fred SaltwelTg. • Mrs. Geo. Foulks spent Tuesday with Mrs. L. Foulks of Monon, who is in very poor health. .W. I. B.ivans and family took dinner Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Geo. Bullington and family. T. A Spencer and son Maricn went to the hospital at Lafayette to visit Mrs. Spencer and daughter Wednesday. Mrs. At E. Abersol and brother, Wm. Demoss, who were caned to Illinois last week to the burial of their, father, returned home Saturday. , ' ; • ■ Mrs. N. Dickman went Thursday to visit her mother at Kokomo, and also to bring her little daughter Nellie, who has been visiting there for some time. home.

Mrs. Tevis, Mrs. Spencer’s mother of Monticello, and Blanch Miller are staying with T. A. Spencer, while his wife and little daughter are in a Lafayette hospital. Revs. Whitaker and Telts preached some very uplifting and helpful sermons this week, and all that have not hegrd them should be sure to be present Sunday morping after Sunday schoo?. A very sad accident happened to Mrs. T. A. Spencer and children Decoration day. They had gone to Monticello. and when returning home, west of Monon, the horse became frightened at an empty sack hanging on the fence near the road. It upset the buggy, pinning them underneath.’ After some struggling they succeeded in freeing themselves from the buggy and unhitched the horse. Bruce Brown came along in his auto and took them home. Mrs. Spencer's arm was broken and little 3-year-old Ethel’s thigh bone was broken near the hip. requiring a very painful and difficult operation to set the injured bone. Dr. Reagen took the little one with its mother to the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette the next morning. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Jacks and daughter of Lee went to visit, them Sunday and found they were getting along as nicely as could be expected.

i| UNION. I Rev. and Mrs. Brock of Aix spent last Sabbath in Parr. Lewis, .is working on the Jungle’s "barn this week. I. F. Meader's have relatives from Chicago visiting with them. Helen Meader and Mrs. Miller were Parr callers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dexter were in Rensselaer on business Saturday. Mrs. W. C. Faylor called on Mrs M. Davisson one day this week. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder of near Virgie were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Miss Cora Dexter left Saturday for a few days visit with friends at Lafayette and Otterbein. Miss Lena Schultz was chauffeuring her father and mother around calling on some of the neighbors Sunday afternoon.

A .R Schults has developed another talent, that of a painter. He spread paint all over his garage, making it very neat. Mo-t all the farmers are through - corn and some are plow•’■■f while others have had to n- ’ 1 * of had seed corn. O. ar Waymife. son of Fred Waysustained a fall last Sundav afternoon while at Dexter’s. Jus": how badly he was hurt we did not ivaru, . Q h (‘-const ruction of the German Lutheran church, which was recently destroyed by the cyclone, is in progress. James McColly is pushing the nails. There is not going to be much fruit this year, most of the apple trees were hurt by the blight, and cw: g to the hard winter it is going to take some time for certain varieties to recuperate, while other trees were killed. Talk about automobiles! The people of our community are very thankful that we had lots of rain at the time of their passing through here otherwise we would not have been able to see across the highway from early morn till late at night, the dust would, have been so thick. But all is peace and quiet once more with only a few straggling cars gotr.* back to their des'tnation.

PINE GROVE. John \\. Baker was a Rensselaer caller Monday. Planting corn is the order of the day for farmers hereabouts. hloae Torbet spent Sunday with her brother. Roy and family. Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and -on Charles were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. James Torbet attended Ladies’ Aid Society at Brushwood Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hale and son Paul called on Harry Beck and family Sunday afternoon. Andy Ropp and son-in-law. Vern Odell, went to Chicago Friday, returning home this week. She’by Comer an I family of nea; Aix took dinner Sund-y with Gen Daniels and family of Independence. Elmer Shroyer and Thomas Cooper cal.ed on the formers brother-in-law, Roy Torbet and family. Tuesday. Mrs. Clemens and son Arthur and Creola Torbet called on Mrs. Andy Ropp and daughter Bessie Mondav afternoon. Roy Torbet and family spent Wednesday with James Torbet and family. The former helped Mr. Torbet shear sheep. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan and Mr. Shesier of Rensselaer called on James Torbet and family Wednesday afternoon. Sunday school was organized at Independence Sunday with a very good attendance. It will be held at 3 p. m. from now on. James Torbet and family and the formers lister, Mrs. Bell Dickey, and W. H. Hess of Warsaw, took dinner Sunday with Harry Beck and family.

j' FAIR OAKS. | Health is generally pretty good in our town now days. Our Sunday school people are talking Children’s day exercises. N. A. MteKay’s house is being treated to a coat of paint this week. James Clifton and Rufe Noland put down a new well Saturday for Miss Culp. i John Wiseman, wife and son Vick left Tuesday evening for their home in Montana. Mrs. Pearl Zellers of Aix is helping her mother, Mrs. T. J. Mallatt. clean house this week. The Fair Oaks ball team played ball at Thayer Sunday to the tune of 10 to 0 in favor of Thayer. Abe Bringle, wife and daughter attended Memorial services at Rensselaer Thursday of last week. The stork paid a visit to Fair Oaks Sunday and presented Corah Dewitt and wife with a bouncing big boy. Mrs. John Thorn of Hammond

is here at her father’s.' Chas. Halleck’s. place this week with a stock of millinery on hands. About thirty young people, friends of Amy Bringle, gathered in at her home Saturday evening and spent the time singing' and playing on the piano. Harry Keller left Wednesday for Kankakee. 111., to take up a job of firing on a locomotive. His brother (. taude is there holding down a similar job. Miss Lola and Leota Moore of Lafayette came up Thursday and spenttheremainder of the week with their uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Bringle. Harve Thomas, an old time resident of west of Rensselaer, changed cars here Tuesday on his way down to Foresman to visit his brother Morris and a sister near Goodland. Mr. Pair of West Virginia, who has been visiting friends here the past three weeks, left Monday for Lafayette to visit Arvel Bringle a few hours, and then go on to his home.

We still get a good-sized shower [ once or twice a week yet which , is fine for weeds, meadows and oats. There are quite a number of farm-; ■ ers in these parts who will have > to'plant their corn over. Rev. Downey filled his regular apj jointment in the M. E. church Sunday at 2 p. m. The audience eni joyed a duet by Misses Flossie Gundy ard Amy Bringle, which was : very touching and appealing. William Blankenbaker of Parr, with his assistant, begun the raisjing and putting new sills under the A.len hotel Wednesday, preparatory 'to putting a cement foundation under ; it. They will raise the building ' about 16 inches. Our townspeople had very nice services Memorial day. There were ■ recitations and songs very approI priate for the occasion. It was held in the Christian church. Rev. Downey of the M. E. church delivered an excellent sermon after which all marched to the cemetery jto pay their respect to those who are sleeping in the silent city of s the dead. Many flowers were placed ion the graves.