Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondent*

tfTT Item of Interest □1 frem Surrounding Town* Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

| BAUM'S BRIDGE. -| . j James Clark and family visited at the Henry Hunsieker home Sunday. C. D? Shook and Hoy /Williams of Walkerton were in these parts Monday. Elmer Clark visited with his uncle, James Clark and family Sunday evening and Monday. Austin White and sons of near Hebron were in these parts Monday after their hay press. Walter Wiseman and George Beemer, who have positions near Hammond, visited home folks the 4th. Mr. and Mrs. James Clark and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bush ate ice cream at the Walter Wiseman h’ome the 4th. Rev. Presley Davis of Florida arrived here a few days ago where he intends to spend the summer with friends and relatives. Taking into consideration the lateness of corn-planting in these parts, our corn will compare very favorable with 'the prospects anywhere. Supervisor Finney was in these jfarts last Monday reminding us that we were over’ 21 and under 50, saying bring a shovel and lots of nerve and be on hand at 8 o’clock Our base ball boys l are lining up their opponents with the cat o’ nine tails of terribleness. Two nines have been annihilated recently and others are making application for a chance to get honswoggled. When our new gravel road has entered the part of completion, we will enter an epoch of unapproachable advancement. No section of old Jasper will advance as rapidly along the line of improvement. Northern Jasper will ere long be The Section.

MILROY.

J. J. Clark called on Ed McKin’ey Tuesday. W. P. Gaffield was in Wolcott Tuesday. G. L. Parks has purchased a new Maxwell auto. George Foulks and wife Were in Monon Monday. Glen McKinley Was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday. (George Foulks was a Wolcott visitor Tuesday. hd McKinley and son Glen cleaned the cemetery last week. Joseph Grouns and son Edgar were Wolcott goers Tuesday. Branson Clark and wife called on Mrs. L. Foulks of Monon Saturday. Mrs. Jacob Beaver and Mrs. W. Latta were Wolcott visitors Tuesday. Thos. Johnson has resumed work on the Gifford road after an absence of a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Fay Lear and family. Rev. F. A. Morrow preached here Sunday forenoon and will preach again next Sunday at 11 a. m. George Foulks and wife attended the Sunday school convention at McCoysburg Sunday afternoon. Quite a few 1 from here attended the trial at Squire Gaffleld’s court Monday between Roy Bunnell and Lon Chapman. Mrs. A. A. Fell will preach Sunday morning before the basket dinner. In the afternoon the township Sunday school convention will be held. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Castor and son Omar of Steger, 111., spent Thursday night of last week with the former’s brother, George Castor and family.

IROQUOIS VALLEY.

Alex Hurley was a Rensselaer goer Monday. i , Lucy and aKtie Mofgenegg spent Sunday with home folks.

Lucy and Katie Morgenegg spent Jennie McElfresh Monday afternoon. Dan Hopkins spent Sunday evening with Barney Kolhoff and family. M. Tudor and family spent Sunday with his father in Rensselaer. Lester Schreiner and family spent Sunday with Chris Morgenegg and family. Miss Beck Green, who spent last week in Rensselaer, returned home Saturday. Frank Brown is the proud owner of a new horse and buggy. Watch him, girls. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant spent Sunday with his brother Garland and family. Anna Richmond spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Lon Kiser, in Rensselaer. Frank Brown -spent Saturday night with his brother Grover at Sam Lowery’s. Miss Lillie Brown of west of Rensselaer began work Monday for. Mrs. John Moore. Beck Green spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. George McElfresh, who has been on the sick list. Emmet Pullins and family spent Wednesday at her father’s, helping celebrate his birthday anniversary. Owing to the celebration of the 4th, everyone is tired and are staying at home, therefore, news is scarce. Miss Lucy Morgenegg, who had been spending several days at home, returned to her work at Walter Lee’s in Rensselaer Sunday. About 4 0 friends and neighbors attended the picnic in George McElfresh’s woods the 4th. The day was spent in playing games, making music and dancing. All went home at a late hour saying that they had had a very pleasant time. There is more Catarrh in this section of the than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years' doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts' directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.

EAST JORDAN.

Born, Friday, to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pilotte, a son. Sunday school at Egypt at 2 p. m., Sunday andi preaching at 3 by Rev. Parrett. John Gray and son Harry of Wheeler, Ind., were in the neighborhood Saturday. Mr. arid Mrs. Allen Keister and Chas. Dluzak’s autoed to Rensselaer Saturday evening. Wm. Wortley and family and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh spent Sunday with Osa Ritchey. Roy and David Michaels started Monday for the west. Henry Cain of Monon went with them. Roy Kessinger and neice, Anna Reed, spent Thursday evening with Chas. Kessinger and family. Almost avery one is now rested from the effects of the 4th, and are looking up other places of amusement. Miss Mayme Tullis and neice, little Helen Fox, of Compton, 111., are visiting this week with Riley Tullis and family. \ Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. L. M. Ritchey went fishing Tuesday and reported a fine catch, the largest being a two-pounder. There was quite a little family gathering at Clarence Maxwell’s on Sunday, in honor of his sister, Mrs. Jesse Perdum, of Franklin, Ind. Mrs. Meyers and children of Connorsville returned home Monday after an extended visit with her husband, who is working at present for Osa Ritchey.

LEE.

Clark & Son got in a car ,ldad of binders the first of the week. J. H. Culp and wife and son Gail took Sunday dinner at W. L. Stiers’.

A large crowd of our people celebrated the Fourth in Rensselaer. Miss Ethel Webt> spent the past two weeks visited Mr. Kime’s family in Illinois. The Ladies\Home Missionary Society met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Fred Stiers. Miss Mollie Wood came Saturday evening and visited relatives and friends a few days. Vernon Jacks and family of Lafayette spent Sunday here with his parents, G. A. Jacks’. Miss Flossie Holeman of Monticello spent the last two weeks here with friends and relatives. O. A. Jacks and wife and daughter Dollie visited Hoy Rishling and family, north of Rensselaer, Sunday. Mrs. Harley Bruce and baby of near Crawfordsville ‘visited her sister, Mrs. Mabie Rishling, a few days thi| week. Harley Clark, Glenn Culp and Lonnie Noland spent Sunday with Roy Noland, who is expecting to go to Alaska in the near future.

FAIR OAKS.

Mrs. Pearl Kight went to Chicago Wednesday to see her physician.' The watermelon and pickle prospect is growing better everyday in these parts. Born, the 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fross, a son. The mother is quite poorly. Growing weather and crops are advancing very rapidly. Health is generally good. Mrs. Anna Zellers and children spent the 4th and remainder of the week with her parents at Winamac. Fish Gilmore and wife went a few days ago to Elwood to visit his uncle, Jacob Dilavao, who Js quite old. John Kight, who spent the past week here with his family and other relatives, returned to Indianapolis Sunday. John Zellers and sons, who have been in Jordan tp., running their sawmill this spring, are taking a vacation this week.

Barney Dewitt and son Dal, who live on Mr. Sawin’s farm, has out 10,000 sweet potato plants, and they are looking fine too. Mat Karr and three sons, who have been over about St. Mary’s operating their sawmill, came home the latter part of the week. Miss Elnore Williams, who is employed in Chicago, with her cousin spent the week with her parents, returning to Chicago Monday. Pansy Bozell, who is staying at Clint Brown’s at Surrey, caring for Stewart Hammond, cattle up and spent Sunday with home folks. Sherman Richards of Rensselaer came up Monday with his equipment and is papering and decorating the AHen Hotel this week. Arvel Bringle, with his mother, sister, Miss Coral Miles and Miss Hammond autoed to Rensselaer Wednesday. The huckleberry crop has been better in these parts this year than for a nurhber of years. They have been selling at 10 to 12% cents per quart. Al Blake and Ed Fauley went out to the Tolen ranch the first of the week to make cement blocks for Mr. Tolen’s cement house to be built this fall. A petition was circulated here this week asking the C. & E. L railroad company to give the people along this division better passenger and mail service. The C. & E. I. Co. is asking for men to form an extra gang to put their roadbed in order that they might give better service, which the patrons are loudly asking for. Morris Gorman, on the Lawlor ranch, begun hay harvest Monday by starting five mowers. Rye is also being cut now, which in many places is light, but as a general thing oats are doing fine and will be a good crop. A deal was closed a few days ago wherein George Lambert traded his property here for a large gasoline engine which he expects to use in building stone roads for the Crown Point Construction Co. The man who got the property lives in Missouri. Dan Smith is the name. He will probably fix the house and rent it. Mr. Farmer: Who wants mower and binder repairs. See C. A. Rob er is. 1 have a good stock oh hand I have the McCormick agency. If you need a hayrake I have the McQormlck self-dump, no better made; easy to operate; long-lived; can’t eat; all steel; i could make razor blades from v the metal *t is. made of. C. A. Roberts, the Buggy I Man Rensselaer, Ind. ts

Report of Sunday School Convention. Hanging Grove tp. Sqnday school convention met at McCoysburg. July 7, 1912, Convention Was opened by Rov Bussell. Singing by all. Prayer by J. N. Leatherman. Duet, Minnie Johnson and Ethe' Parker. Joseph Stewart, Township Presi dent, took charge of convention. First address was by Arthur Waymire, telling us of ,our need of living a higher and better life, and the need of keeping the children in Sunday school. Duet. Clara “and Frank Ringeisen. Second address by J. N. Leatherman, giving the need of the teachers’ training course, and the lessons prepared for the different classes, especially for the younger children. Song by all. Third address. “Some of the Needs of Our Rural Sunday Schools,” by B. D. Comer. Discussion by L. H. Hamilton, emphasizing the need of teachers' training. l 4 I Recitation, Mrs. O. E. Hitchings. Music, young men’s quartet. Talk on “The Past, Present and Future of Our Sunday Schools,” by Roy Bussell. Discussions by B. D. Comer, Joseph Stewart and L. H. Hamilton Fourth address, Mrs. A. A. Fell. Talk by Rev. Morrow, emphasizing the remarks of the others by saying that we should all be more ready to be at Sunday school and do bur duty each Sunday. Many other helpful remarks were heard in all of the addresses. A vote of “Thanks” was given the retiring President for the Work he has done for the conventions in ihe past years. ■ A collection of $4.51 was taken. The following officers were elected: President, Royal L. Bussell; Secretary and Treasurer, Frank Ringeisen; Supt. of- Home Class Dept, arid Cradle Roll, Mrs. J. R. Phillips: Supt. of Teachers’ Training Dept. Mrs. C. C. Randle; Supt. Temperance and Missionary, Gifford Mars; Supt. Adult Dept., Mrs. R. L. Bussell. Convention closed with singing, and benediction by Mrs. A. A. Fell. EDNA LEFLER, Sec.