Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

At Furnished by Our Regular Correspondent!

<TT Item of Interest jl from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

. | '■ TEFFT. Clayton Wilkison went to Tefft Sunday evening. Dr. Downey, of North Judson, was in these parts last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Maloney visited over in Starke county Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and family of Chicago are visiting the Rasmussen family. Dr. Timmons and family and J. B. DeArmond and family went huckleberrying Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lemar and children are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall. Mr. and Mrs. L C. Henderlong spent Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Finn. Mr. and Mrs. George Sands and Mrs. W. I. Cullen and family called on Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Weinkauf, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hine and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Badka and family, Herman Luken and daughters Lizzie and Anna and Fred Hine visited Mr. and Mrs. Ed Long and family Sunday.

BALM'S BRIDGE. - z ( George Beemer was at Kouts Saturday. James Gilbreath is putting up hay on the Ott ranch. Mr. King of Hebron, was a caller a the James Clark home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bush are setting out a larger strawberry patch —more shortcake. Quite a few of our citizens attended the Christian church at Wheatfield last Sunday. James Clark started his New Eli hay press last Thursday. All went as smooth as could be desired. Jesse Akers is assisting James Clark with his haying. A fine boy, girls—a good leap year proposition. Mr. and . Mrs. Lawrence Statkey and family of Kouts, ate dinner with Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbreath Sunday.

The Porter county boys locked horns with the Wheatfield Juniors io the tune of 7 to 8 in favor of the Wheatfielders. B Owing to the damp look of the atmosphere, our boys, the Riverside Regulars, did not play the return game with Kersey last Sunday. We want all the news for this department. If you have visitors or are going to take a trip or are in love, or intend to get married, tell us. Samuel Obenchain went to Kouts Saturday evening to consult a doctor in regard to his daughter, who got one of her hands poisoned With poison ivy.

I '■ LEE. ] ' _] Wm. Zable lost a horse during the week. Miss Delena Lefler spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Jacks. Walter Jordan and family took dinner Sunday at Elmer Gilmore's. Mrs. Fred Stiers and granddaughter, Miss Agnes Stiers, have gone to St. Joe, Mich., to visit relatives. Mrs. C. A. Holeman, who has been staying with her son Arvai

and family in Rensselaer the past three weeks, is home now. Several teams went to Charles Jones’ Monday and helped plow his buckwheat. Mr. Jones’ are the people who had the little Creel girl at the hospital. Little. Eva Greet, who was so badly injured by being thrown from a horse recently, is home now from the hospital and’ seems to be improved a little, but she is in a very bad condition.

Mrs, John Clark and two little ones went last Saturday to Terre Haute to visit Miss Martha Clark a couple of days, who is there attending school, and then they expect to go to Illinois to visit her sister, Mrs. Clarence Carrottiers and family, before returning home. Tuesday afternoon, during the rain, lightning struck the barn on the Wm. Large farm, where Ray Holeman lives, and burnied it, together with about 20 tons of b hay. The horses and other things were all saved. The building was covered by insurance and the hay partly so.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country tham 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 •Tailing 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.

| . NEWLAND. ~1-~ - ■ . i All the onions around Newland are “laid by.” Misses Belle and Lizzie Tow called on Mary Rees Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ballard visited relatives in Fair Oaks SundayMrs. Callander and daughter called on Mrs. James Rees Monday. Miss Mary Callender called on Miss Ella Beebe Monday afternoon. Newland is to have a cold storage building and a new store building this fall. . v Jr Miss Florence Wolfe and Miss Emily Ballard called on Mrs. G. M. Beebe and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Mustin and children went on a visit to Knox in their auto Saturday, returning Sunday. Quite a number of young folks gathered at G. M. Beebe s Monday evening and made ice-cream. All had a fine time. Mrs. Calalnder and daughter were here from Nappanee visiting the former’s hn -band and sons, who are here in the onion business.*

_] |— | IROQUOIS VALLEY. Joe Grooms is on the sick list. Ed Price and family spent Sunday in Parr. George Brown spent Sunday night with Wm. McElfresh. Ggp. McElfresh was a Rensselaer goer Monday evening. Bessie McElfresh called on Lillie Brown Monday afternoon. Fred Schreiner is assisting Wm. Green in making hay this week. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant spent Sunday with his brother Garland. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Comer spent Sunday with Wm. Green and family. Lincoln Jenkins spent Sunday afternoon with Sam Price and family. ' Clarence, ' Nellie and Neva Garriott called on John Mdore’s Sunday. Frank Brown and Geo. McElfresh spent Sunday with S, Lowery and family. Mrs. Alex Hurley is recovering slowly from her recent runaway accident. Garland Grant and Bruce Hardy helped Chas. Grant shock oats Wednesday. Meda McCay spent Tuesday night with her cousins, Opal and Florence Schreiner. Maggie Greenlee is assisting Mrs. S. Lowery with house work for a few weeks.

Lucy and Katie Morgenegg spent’ Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. Lillie Brawn spent Saturday night and Sunday with her aunt*, Mrs. Dora Greenlee. j Anna Richmond spent Sunday afternoon with Bessie Gordon and, Maggie Greenlee. Ethel and Jennie Marian spent Sunday evening with Bessie and Jennie McElfresh. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schroer spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Schroer. Lou McCay and family of Rensselaer are spending this week with Wm. Green and family. Bessie McElfresh spent Sunday afternoon with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. John Schroer. Walter Brpwn and Dan Hopkins spent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown, west of Rensselaer. Anna Richmond, who has been working for J. W. Manatt, returned to her home in Rensselaer Tuesday On account of sickness. Len McCurtain and family of Parr and J. Williams and faintly and Max Kepner and wife of Rensselaer spent Sunday with Emmet Pullins and family. Chas. Grant and wife were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow of Wheatfield spent Sunday with M. Tudor and family.

| MILROY. W. I. Bivans was in Monon Tuesday. Jas. Boon autoed to Remington Sunday evening. G. L. Parks was in Rensselaer Monday. G. L- Parks Was making business calls here' Monday evening. Geraldine Payne of Rensselaer visited Mary and Pearl Johnson last week, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Foulks and son Earl spent Sunday with Frank May’s. Lep Parks made his usual call Sunday evening on his Wolcott, friend. ■. ’ , - <■ ■ \ Thos. Johnson has quit working on the Gifford railroad and is now at home. Thos. Johnson and family and Earl Earl Foulks spent Tuesday evening with Elmer Johnson’s. Mrs. Blair of Piper City. DL, came Wednesday to visit Mrs. G. L. Parks and to pick berries. Richard Foulks and granddaughter, Iris Williams of Monon, ate dinner Monday with Geo. Foulks’. Chas. Harwell and sister, Miss Etta and Richard Hanna and sister/ Miss Nellie, called on G. L. Parks’ Sunday. Glen McKinly is improving slowly from his attack of appendicitis. Although not able to sit up yet, his physician says probably he can be up the last, of the week.

| FAIR OAKS. -I- 1Good health still prevails in our town. • Otto Braun, the band master of Lowell, was in town Monday. We were visited Tuesday evening by a very heavy rain which was almost a cloud burst. Mrs. J. M. Clifton went Monday to Demotte to visit het daughter, Mrs. Abe Dekoker. a few days. The meetings are going on in the Christian church with a moderate attendance. The lack is owing to the busy time of the year and short nights. Mrs. George Lambert came up from Mt. Ayr Saturday and moved the remainder of their household goods to that place where George is working on the stone road.

Mrs. Ike Kight left here Tuesday with her gi;andadughter, Miss Beulah Shehaß, to visit her brother, William Spry, of North Dakota. She will probably be gone a month. The writer and family took a run over to Newland Sunday afternoon and called on Chas. Smith's. They brought home with them Miss Jennie Kimbel of Copemish, Mich., who is out for the summer- She will visit here with Amy Bringle for an indefinite time. Mrs. Cravens, who has been working the second trick at the depot for some time, was released the latter part of the week and took up a like position down about Salem, Ind. Grover Wood, who learned telegraphy here and had been waiting for a position for some time, was given Craven’s place. Ben Zellers, who has been con-

ducting a pool room and barber business on Front street in the white shack, owing to thtMiilapitated condition of the building, moved his equipmrnt out .Wednesday and stored ’hem He will open his barber shop in Tom Mallati's little office in the rear of Kight & Eggleston s store. The white building Isa little. old cheap shack, first built at Brook by Mr; Kesler and used as a saloon and store room over 7 years ago. They took it down and moved it here and used it as a store room several years, and since it has been Used for—various purposes and now it has become unfit for occupancy and is an eyesore to the town.

—H - —J—UNION. M*s Fern Casev is on the sick list. Oats cutting is the order of . the day. Oar’-s Gassaway is working for J. W. Faylor. Mrs. Wesley Faylor spent Tuesday night with' Fern. Casey. Mrs. W. C. Faylor attended the funeral of Mrs. Switzer Tuesday. B. D. Comer and daughter. Miss Marie, motored out to the dredge Monday in their Overland. Mr. and Mrs. Schreeg, daughter O’ga -.son . Otto and granddaughter of Chicago attended the picnic at A. Ri Schultz’s Sunday. . Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jenkins spent- Monday and Tuesday with the latter - grandfather, Michael Schultz, motoring through from Hammond on a motorcycle. Mrs. H. J. Dexter gave a little surprise on Mr. Dexter Thursday evening by. inviting a few of the neighbors in to spend the evening. All reported a fine time. A. R. Schultz’s had a picnic at their home Sunday. Three auto loads from Hammond and one from Parr, making 28 in all present. The day was •spent in various ways, games music and much eating. Ail returned to their vraious homes reporting a fine time. That’s right, speak up for Jasper, it is the best place in the world to live. Where do we find better crops? Where do we find prettier flowers? Were the roses ever so red as they are this year? We democrats, find Jasper a good healthy place to lire. Talk about the speed of the tourists that go through our quiet country; why some of our own auto owners' raise the dust once in a while, too, knocking over cows, pushing mules into graveyards, besides bursting lamps and having good times in general. That’s the way to enjoy life.