Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

Ai Funuihed by Our Regular Correspondent!

4T Itea« «f Intern 75 frc. Surrounding Tewu Tersely Told Chroaicfiag the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Melropolii

| NEW CENTER. John Sommers, Sr., has a sick horse. James DeMoss of Pontiac, returned home Friday. Miss Pearl Abersoll spent Sunday with Thomas Spencer and family. John Sommers is on the sick list. He is threatened with typhoid feveer. • John Southard and daughter Belle were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Miss Jennie Harwell spent Sunday wdth Velda and Fern Abersoll. J. F. Grouns and family spent Sunday evening with the Stinson family. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Abersoll visited east of Monticello Saturday and Sunday. Miss Etta Harwell left for Piper City, 111., Saturday where she will visit her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Will Vannatta spent Sunday afternoon with Charles Beaver and family. Elmer Johnson and family and Thomas Johnson spent Sunday with Mrs. Anna Chapman. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell went to Knox Saturday to visit with her sister. Mrs. Martha Benson. Mrs. Casto and daughter Tillie are visiting her son and brother, Dennis Casto, and family. Mrs. Ross Mckinley and Mrs, Anna Hines of Peru, Ind., who have been visting Ed. Mckinley’s, returned hpme Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Southard and Mass Belle and Mrs. Rachel Sommers called on J. F. Grouns and family Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George FcfuKks; and Will DeMoss and family and James DeMoss of Pontiac spent Thursday evening with A. E. Abersoll and family.

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Roy Casey’s baby, which has been so critically ill for the past three weeks, is now considerably improved and getting along fine. J. J. Lawler’s men are now busy delivering about six thousand bushels of corn to the elevator, which he sold to Babcock & Hopkins. Charles Barker, Leslie Warne and Sam Hall caught a fine bunch of pike, croppies and carp from the Moffitt dredge ditch a fex\ days ago. Miss Pansa Bozell, who has been helping care for Uncle Steward Hammond at Rensselaer the past four or five months, is now taking a vacation of a week or ten days. Trennas Yoder, who lives over near Mr. Tolen’s, has Platt’s cement gang out there from Rensselaer this week making cement blocks with which he will build a cement block house. John Zellers, the saw mill man, informs us that he has located his mill on what used to be a portion of the John Makeever land, south of the old Yeoman homes-tead, so he is now getting close to home. Abe Bringle, wife and son ;.nd Miss Bozell autoed down to Jordan tp., and took dinner with his brother, William, and family, going from there to Hazelden form thence back to their old home farm and visited the Powell cemetery, the last resting place of their parents. We were visited Monday evening by a pretty heavy rain and we are still having' very warm weather.

We have had about a week or ten days with the thermometer registering about 103 to 105 in the shade. It has been so soht it has scorched some of the water melons out in the patch. A. D. Washburn and family headed a delegation of live auto loads from Kentland last Sunday who picnicked in the Washburn park spreading their dinners out under the shade trees, they heartily enjoyed themselves. Cy Rice and wife and daughter, who used to work for Mr. Washburn on the ranch a number of years ago, were among the bunch with their touring car. All enjoyed a feast from Mr. Bezel ’s water melons. ~ * Amos Alter and wife of Rosebud, and Rev. O. S. Rarden and wife of Dunkirk spent a very pleasant day last Thursday with the family of the writer. In the evening we all loaded ourselves in the autimobiles and visited the, water melon patch of Mr. Bozell’s and the way the melons were slaughtered was a fright, and the way Amos stored them away was surprising. After devouring a number of the melons he loaded his machine until it fairly groaned under the strain. He wanted a few to eat on his return home.

—1 : 1— IROQUOIS VALLEY. I -1 1Alex Hurley was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Barney Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Grover Brown spent Sunday morning with his brother Frank. William McElfresh spent Sunday evening with Lonnie Zillhart. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Scott called on Mr. and Mrs. John Newcome Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz of Rensselaer called on Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grant Sunday. Pauline Zillhart and Bessie Me-' El fresh spent Sunday afternoon with' the Daugherty sisters. Dan Hopkins and Gertrude Kolhoff attended the dance at McCurtains’ Saturday evening. Zelda Daugherty, who has been attending school at Winona, returned home Saturday night. Walter Brown spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown of west of Rensselaer. Delos Waymire of Rensselaer was seen in our vicinity Sunday evening. Wonder what the attraction is?

Fred Schreiner and Vilas Price are building a large new corn crib for Mrs. A. Parkison on the farm occupied by B. Kolkoff. Kenneth Grooms, who has been spending his vacation with his grandpaients, Mr. and Mrs. I. Walker, returned to Rensselaer with the opening of school Monday. Chris Morganegg and ' daughter Katie spent Tuesday with Lester Schreiner. His grandchildren, Clyde Ethel and Dorothy Schreiner, and cousin. Miss Maudie, returned home with him.

| BAUM’S BRIDGE. j Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wiseman Were Wheatfield callers Monday. Rev. Swingle ate supper with Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbreath Sunday. Sam Gray of Porter county spent Sunday here to attend the Bible lectures. ~ Misses Maud Smith and Allie Morehouse called on your correspondent Monday. v Another member has been added to the Dunkard church, Mrs. Vandoozer, who was baptized Sunday. Waiter Wiseman, Jr., of Hedgwich. 111., and Miss Belle of Kouts, spent Sunday with relatives and friends here. Rev. Swingle of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wiseman and Sam Gray ate dinner with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bush Sunday. Many relatives and friends from Porter county attended the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Morehouse Sunday. Mrs. C. E. Granger of Hammond, Mrs. A. J. Bush and the Misses Ethel and Fern Caster, called on Mrs. Bert Vandercar Wednesday afternoon. Wm. Hallier has a swarm of bees in his chimney. We have heard of honey in the rock, but this is the first case we ever heard of bees in a chimney.

We are glad to see Wheatfield baseball boys hand the hot end of the poker to those foreign Dines who try to horn-swoggle them. First come, first served, seems! to be the program. 5 ■ Rev. Swingle delivered two more splendid sermons at the Brey school house Sunday. Everyone come and hear him next Sunday at the Brey school house at 3 p. m., and at 7:30 p. m. Come, and you can carry away all the pure scripture you can absorb. No denominations condemned, brother to all.

j FOUR CORNERS. j W. H. Marble was a Crown Point visitor -over Sunday. Effie Fisher returned to Laporte to resume her work Tuesday. A goodly number from here attended the fair at Kankakee this week. Miss Pearl Keene, who has been working at Mt. Ayr, is home, for a few days. Mrs. F. M. Scott of Wheatfield is very sick from the effects of a recent operation. Ed Wesner, who lives on the Hehny farm, is delivering corn to the Tefft elevator this week. Louis Pinter, who has been in Michigan for his hay fever, is reported to be but little better as yet. John Pinter, the Wheatfield merchant, still lingers at the point of death, with little if any hope of his recovery. Rev. Charles Hickman and wife, the former a former pastor of the M. E. church here, are spending a few days with friends of bygone days here and at Wheatfield. It is reported that a ( double Gypsy wedding in addition to the ball game would be the attraction at the ball park at Wheatfield Sunday, when the Regulars play the All Stars from Kankakee. Mrs. William Meyers of Walker tp., is quite sick at this time. She had not fully recovered' from the severe illness she had last winter and is now very weak and n)ot strong enough to withstand any severe attack now. The Wheatfield Regulars went to Monon last Sunday to play the Monon baseball team. The boys had it easy up to the seventh inning, when the hoodlum element surged into the diamond and ordered the umpire off the field. The score then stood 8 to 2 in favor of the Wheatfield team, and the team refused to play unless the (umpire remained, but the manager, A. S. Keen, to quell the tufuult, put in another umpire and urged the boys to resume the game, which they did. But the decisions they received at the hands of the Monon gang tied up the score and when the game was called in the eleventh inning the score stood 8 to 8. 'the Regulars proved the better team all around in every way, but the unfair tactics and low down cussedness of the Monon gang takes the cake. They certainly were raised in the back woods, or grew up without any proper training.

| MILROY. I Dan Chapman was at Monon Wednesday. Wiley Latta’s little daughter is on the sick list. Mrs. Thomas Spencer was a Monon goer Tuesday. Earl Foulks attended a surprise dinner at Mr. Ford’s Sunday. G. L. Parks visited relatives at Mentone the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Branson Clark spent Friday with Clell Clark and family. Mrs. John Mitchell went Saturday to visit relatives tijj£ week. Viola Beaver, daughter of George Beaver, is suffering w’ith typhoid fever. Mr. and Mrs. Abersoll and sons spent Sunday with relatives at Monticello. Mrs. John Southard and daughter Belle were Rensselaer goers on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Johnson of Lafayette have moved into the Horner house. Mr. and Mrs. Bivans took dinner with their daughter, Mrs. Bullington, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. May and children took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Foulks’ Wednesday. Misses Lural Asderson and Cecil Jordan of Lee spent Monday night with Miss Martha Clark. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks and Miss Pearl Abersoll took dinner with Thomas Spencers’ Sunday. Mrs. Belle Parks and children and James Boone spent Sunday with Grandma Ravenscrpft at Remington. •—]- ]_ | LEE. I —| |— Mrs. William Zable and younger children have been visiting relatives in Illinois. Mrs. Carl Westphal had a bad spell Tuesday with her heart, but is better now. Veta Young and wife of Monon Chapel visited at W. L. Stier’s, Sundaty afternoon. < Morris and Hollis Jacks attended the old settlers’ meeting at Monti-, cello Saturday. J. H. Culp and wife visited with his father, Uncle David Culp, and wife, Thursday. Walter Culp of Delphi visited his nephew, J. W. Rishling, and wife here the first of the week. Three silos are being unloaded here this week, for J. R. Clark, W. E. Culp and Thomas Spencer. Bruce Brown and Charles Ward were buying hogs and cattle in this vicinity the first of the week: Mrs. Orval Holeman and baby of Rensselaer visited here Saturday night with her mother, Mrs. Ida Miss Lural Anderson, who has

been attending school at Lake Winona this suiii'ici, returned :.»,me Saturday. Mrs. Harold LaMar came to her mother’s, Mrs. Ida Lewis’, last week sick with symptoms of typhoid fever, but she is improving now. J. W. Mason and wife attended the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Matilda Mason, last Monday in Monon. The burial was made in Barkley cemefeny.

Orlando Vanderver of Indianapolis came Saturday to visit with Mrs. C. A. Holeman. Sunday he and Miss Cassie Holeman of Monticello Asa Holeman and family and Glenn and Gail Culp visited Orval Holeman and family in Rensselaer. Last Sunday the Jacks reunion was held at the home of L. M. Jacks. Tables were spread under the shade trees on the lawn, with all the good things that go with such a gathering. Those present from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Rubush, Indianapolis; Mr. Sorrel and family of Tipton; Mr. Dillman and family, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Downing of Battle Ground; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Jacks and baby, Mrs. Len Lefler and Mrs. Woolsiefer of Lafayette; Mr. and Mrs. William Jacks of Monticello; Mrs. Clara Rogers and children of Wolcott; Mr. and Mrs. Al Jacks of Montmorency; Mrs. Will Jacks of Logansport. There was also present a large numebr from the surrounding territory. In all there were present 96. The party lined up and had their pictures taken to help them remember the happy occasion.

| UNION. “Everybody works but Father.” Schools in our township begin Monday. Yah! John Lesh is going to buy an automobile, too. Say, you! who said my horses’s name was Dick? Nick? Mr. and Mrs. Mac Comer called on Joe Norman Tuesday. Miss Margaret Schultz called on Miss Lena Schultz Sunday. Misses Indus and Lizzie Wiseman called on Carrie Hahn Sunday afternoon. Matt Wenrick’s rig of near Mt. Ayr is now threshing in the Schultz Settlement. I. F. Meader took Mr. and Mrs. John Reed of Virgie to Goodland Wednesday. Tu Todd and Art Millspaugh are building, an addition to Mr. Mcgowan’s house. Misses Gertrude Faylor, Marion Meader and Josie Dexter started to high school Monday. Lois Meader returned home Friday from Terre Haute, where she has been attending normal. Albert Fetchner of Monterery is visiting here with his sisters, Mrs. Amiel Stibbie *and Mrs. Paul Schultz respectively. Mrs. Jhon Reed and little son and Mrs. William Cooper and little daughter of Virgie, were Rensselae goers Tuesday. Miss Mary Reeder returned to her home Saturday after a two weeks visit with her brother at Remington. We're glad you’r home, Mary. Misses Hattie and Antona Schultz attended the dance at Virgie last Saturday night with their friend who has “schust pen over from Germany a short while yet.” Mrs. Michael Jungles and children of Kniman and Mrs. V. M. Peer, called on their uncle near Wheatfield Wednesday. They went to remind him of his birthday. "Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. Lavene and daughter of Hammond, motored out Sunday to spend a day or so with A. Schultz and family.. Sunday evening they all visited the Schreeg 'family at Parr. They had what they called a moonlight party, out under the moon and stars. Some Chicago people were also present.