Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

Ai Furnished

by Out Regular Correspondents

MIT Items of Interes l jl from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

| NEW CENTER. Glen McKinley is lying very sick with appendicitis. ~ Jesse Stinson helped John Sommers stack hay last week. Some- of the farmers are beginning to cut their wheat this week. Mrs. Will Vannatta spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Isaac Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Grouns called on John Sanders and family Sunday evening. Mrs. John Southard and daughter, Miss Belle, were Rensselaer goers Thursday. West Stinson and J. F. Grouns are hauling gravel for the new school house. Milroy Baptist church held a very successful convention Sunday, which was largely attended. John So me tn rs, Sr. and son John cut their wheat Thursday, John Johnson assisting them. Arthur Coffman and two brothers of Remington spent Sunday with Vern and Virgil Sanders. The stork surprised the neighborhood July 14 by bringing a 11 pound boy to' Mr. and Mrs. John Sanders. Delight is no name for it. While Mrs. Rachel Sommers was out huckleberrying Friday afternoon, her house caught fire. The neighbors came but the house was. too far gone to save.

MEDARYVILLE.

(From the Advertiser.) Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton went to Wheatfield yesterday to attend a family reunion there. Lewis Waeknitz was over from Fowler, Ind., to visit mis parents. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Waeknitz, over Sunday. Mrs. Mary A. Peters, of New Carlisle, Ind., is the guest of Dr. T. F. Massey and- family, since Tuesday last. Mesdames Sadie Domke" and Eva Hunt left for Bass Lake Saturday moring to be gone during the hot summer months. Mr. and Mrs. John Parker of Wabash, Ind., visited their son, Charles Parker, and family, from Thursday of last to Monday of this week. The two-year-old child of Mr. Mansfield,of Gillam -tp., which was bitten by a rattlesnake a couple of weeks ago is now recovering nicely under the care of Dr. Hackiey. Clyde' Faris spent Monday and Tuesday with his wife, who is taking treatment at the home hospital in Lafayette. -He feels very much incouraged over the progress she is making and feels confident of her gradual recovery. Mrs. Mabel Cramm and daughters, Lucile nad Gladys Thorson, of Crookston, Minn., are visiting Grandma Thorson and their other relatives here, the W. H. Young family. They not many changes since their last visit here six years ago.

- , FRANCESVILLE.

(From the Tribune.) Miss Dica Longwell of Monon is the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. M. Maxwell. Miss Myrtle Hudgens returned from the hospital at Lafayette, Friday evening. • 1 Mrs. Edward Finnegan was called to Chicago yesterday by the illness of her sister. < 'Misses Alma McCords and Anne Umbricht of Chicago are visiting ( relatives in this community? Frank Kruger returned from Illinois Monday where he had been on business for several days. Stephen Rees went to Logansport Monday where he will spend a few days with old time friends. Miss Irene Stein has returned from Lafayette where she was the ■> guest of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Kopka for a week. Mrs. J. V.T Kehy returned to Ambia Monday, after a few days

stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney B. Maxwell. Misses Ocie ’Coffel. Vjjgie Tillett. Pearl Geyer, Ruth Hayworth, and Anne Fitzpatrick were Rensselaer visitors Friday - evening. Frank Lowrey, south of town, purchased a five passenger Auburn touring car last week of his cousin.. J. J. Lowrey, of Pulaski. John Brady went to Michigan City Monday to visit his sister, Mrs. John Drury, Who - makes her home at the St. Anthonj r hospital in that .city. Carl Haring from southeast of Francesville a bunch of miles, was in town Monday. He said they got their first rain in three weeks in his vicinity Sunday evening, and ;..ntt crops had not been suffering from a lack of sufficient moisture. Charles Bussell of Hanging Grove tp., is here this week moving the large tile shed at the Orren Severn farm, east of town, to more desirable quarters on the place where it will be used for a stock barn. Mr.' Bussell has quite a game preserve on his farm ovdr in Jasper county. He now has 40 wild geese, 60 mallard ducks? a young deer and several other species of game. .

GOODLAND

(From the Herald.) John Putt is building a large silo on his farm. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Oswald went to their farm near £outh Whitley, Ind.. .Monday. David Condon, or Ottumwa, la., came Monday afternoon for a visit with relatives. Mrs. Ediha Heistand of Brook visited here this week with ■ her daughter, Mrs. Perry Henderson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bridgeman of Kentland spent the Fourth here as guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bullis and family. Mrs. Leander Lemman. of Lebanon, Ind., came Tuesday for a visit here and with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Brown, at Wolcott. Benny Hecox was operated on for appendicitis at the Policlinic hospital, Chicago, Tuesday morning, and is reported to be' doing nicely. Mrs. S. C. Spoor of Elwood, Ind., who has been visiting here, went to Brook Thursday morning for a visit with Mrs. John Haynes and family. Mr. Little and Dr. Kennedy, who are fishing in northern Wisconsin, sent a box of fish back home, which proves that they are using the right sort of bait. Mrs. John Childers and two children, of Pine Village., were visitors Monday with Mrs. Kreigh Gilmore. They were enroute to Foresman to visit with relatives. Peter Brook spent the most of this week at his farm east of Seafield where he is having a six room, two story house erected to replace the one that burned several weeks ago.

James S. Babcock came up from Indianapolis Saturday evening for a visit with home folks. He returned Monday afternoon, accompanied by his mother who will visit in the city a few days. W. A. Harrington, Roy M. Sheppard and. Chris Gautsche left Tuesday morning for a tour through the state of Michigan. If a suitable tract can be located a purchase may be made. The Mt. Ayr liveryman drove down to Goodland Wednesday and tied his team to the hitch rack just off Union street, and one of the horses succeeded in working the bridle off his head and the team ran east on Union and turned north on Newton at a dead run. In front of the Ferguson residence the team broke loose from the buggy which was smashed almost to pieces. > 1

REMINGTON.

Recent births: July 8, to Henry Wealing and wife, a son. Mrs. A. P. Reeve of Silver City, lowa, is here to visit her father, Chas. Bonner, Sr. Miss Lucille Babb of Memphis, Tenn., is here visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Green. - Mrs. Cecil McKain of Indianapolis is visiting her parents, Mr. arid Mrs. John Abram Wahl. James Wood hag bought a new K-R-I-T touring' car through the Auto Sales Co, of Remington. Misses Aileen and Florence Allman of Rensselaer visited theirl

cousin, Miss Laura Peck, last Wednesday. John R. O’Connor, well known in Remington, has been nominated for treasurer by the democrats of Benton county. Chas. H. Peck has bought the A. E. Malsbray property on North Ohio street. We did net learn the amount paid. Elias Julian has bought the Wm. Hawkins property on South Ohio street. The consideration is said to have been $1,075. J. E. Hollett of Redlands, Cali., a former hardware merchant of R-mington, was here awhile last week visiting old friends. John Shide, who recently underwent an operation in a Logansport hospital, wa sbrought home last Tuesday evening. He is still quite weak. , Elias Julian has sold his 80 acre farm near Odessa to Joseph D\nton. the donsideration being $16,000 it is stated. Mr. Julian wilt move to Remington. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Green of Logansport are visiting the" latter’s aunt, Mrs. Geo. Stoudt and family. Mrs. Green was formerly Miss Nona Legg, and has frequently visited here. > • > A piece of red hot iron lodged in one of Wm. Cheadle’s shoes last Thursday while he was having some work done at the blacksmith shop, and before the shoe could be removed, his foot was burned quite badly. ■ Mrs. A. P. Rainier received word last Tuesday of the death of her brother. William McCarter, of near Warsaw. He had been in poor health for some time and came here only the Friday previous to visit Mrs. Ranier and consult the Doctor regarding his ailment, which the latter pronounced gallstones. Leaving Remington Sunday evening he became so bad that he stopped at the home of relatives in Warsaw instead of proceeding from there, to his home, and died Tuesday morning.

MT. AYR.

(From the Pilot.) J, R. Sigler was at Rensselaer an business Monday. Sewa • and grand son art vi- i : ng her >glitc-r, Mrs. Dotv, at Warsaw, John bigler of Wheeler spent Sunday here with the family of J. R. Sigler. Mrs. J. Martin returned Sunday rrcm a week end visit with relatives at Jol’e*. 11. Buck and wife of Chicago spent Sunday here with hi- sister Mrs. J. R. Miller. Mrs. George Arnold and children returned home from a week’s visit in Chicago Tuesday. Mr-. Jasper- Wright returned Monday from a brief but doubtless pleasant visit with Brook friends. Thomas Mitchell has a month or six weeks work in Newton tp., decorating Lane Bros., barns, sheds, and houses. Word was received Saturday from Kankakee, of the death of Mrs. Cambell. She was a sister of William and Milo Miller,, of Mt. Ayr. William attended the funeral Monday.

Thus far up the political gangway the Pilot has not heard of ary one shying their skypiece into the arena as the would-be-champion deader of the third party movement in Newton county. J. A. Pritchett came up from Indianapolis Saturday. He is a staunch Democrat, and has great taith in Wilson as a progressive and believes that he will be elected by enough insurgents lining up to turn the trick. As a home for the new addition of population to the town, some twelve foreigners, who will unload stone from the cars, the old shed on the Nichols lot, east of the bank, has been patched up. In the bunch there .are eight brothers. Prosecutor Longwell and family spent the fourth at Fowler. In conversation with Fred, Saturday, I inferred that as yet, he was undecided whether he woul fcr the office of district attorney this fall. It is an office that hardly meets expenses, but a judicial necessity, and should be made a salaried office. If you do your duty, you create enemies; if you don’t, you have made them, so there you are betwixt devil and the deep blue sea. <

WOLCOTT. .

(From th* Enterprise.) Isaac Leopold returned Sundav evening from a busniess trip to Texas. Miss Emma* Kean spent Sunday at Remington, the guest of Miss Opal Thomas. Miss Etta Dawson spent Tuesday at Remington, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Schott. ' Miss Wadman of Indianapolis was the guest over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. R, M. Wilkinson.

Mrs. E. A. Brown of Crescent City, 111., was here Monday and Tuesday looking after business matters. Miss Buddie Streetmalter of Chicago came Monday evening for a visit with her aunt, Mrs. Philip Stortz. Lonnie Dowell of GoodlandXand Perman Mattox were guests at the home of G. W., Thomas at Remington Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Shesler of Idaville were the guests over the 4th of Mrs. Shesler's sister, Mrs. Charles Waran. Mis» Myrtle Ferguson of Paxton, 111., is spending her vacation here, the of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ferguson. C. W. Keck of Fairbury, 111., came Thursday to spend the summer months with his family, on his farm near Seafield. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hotteling Of Remington and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Clary of Wolcott called on E. S. Kiser and family Sunday. Mrs. F. E. Hart and son Morris went to Remington Wednesday evening to visit Mrs. Hart’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Morris. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Sell of Foresman were guests from Wednesday until Monday of Mrs. Sells parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Spencer. Miss Edna Richards, who has been visiting friends here for some time, went to New Albany Tuesday to visit friends after which she will return to her home in Harrison county. 1 . Mrs. D. K. Jackson returned Wednesday evening from a three weeks visit with relatives at Logansport. She was accompanied home by her neice. Mrs. Anna Chandler, who will visit here for a tew days. - Miss Lucille Dye of Lafayette, who has been spending the week here the guest of her grandmother, Mrs. Dye and other relatives, returned home Tuesday evening. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Ethel Dibell. Mrs. Henry Crede of Paris, 111., came Thursday evening for a few days visit with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith. Mrs. Crede has been attending Chautauqua at ElPasp, 111., and capie up for a visit with her parents.