Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1912 — Box Social. [ARTICLE]

Box Social.

There will be a box social at the Queen City school house Saturday night, Dec. 14. Ladies please bring boxes.—Lund Anderson, Teacher.

Mrs. H. L. Barnes and baby of Oshkosh, Wis., is visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. Rainier.

Mr. Hayner, the expert piano tuner and repairer, is in town. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stevenson were called to Monticello last week by the deatht of Mrs. Frank Snyder, whose husband yas a half-brother of Mr. Stevenson's.

Word come-to Mrs. W. V. Porter that her aged father, Joseph V, Parkison of Bucklen, Kan., who has been im bailing health for some time, is now confined to his bed and is in a very critical condition.

Miss Vera Miller went to Chicago Friday where she met her sister, Miss Rose Miller, who has been employed as trimmer in a Grand Rapids, Miph., millinery store, and together they went to Burlington, Wis., for an extended visit with relatives.

John McCullough is a candidate for postmaster at Remington. If he is successful the business of the office will be well looked after..... Judge Saunderson received a telegram Thursday evening announcing the death of his only sister, Mrs. Montgomery, at her home in Fresno, California. —Benton Review.

Edward Herath, notice of whose public sale appears In another column, expects to move to town soon after his sale, providing he can find a suitable house to rent. He is undecided as yet as to what he will do, but may engage in some kind of business here. Ed is a good citizen and it is hoped that he may decide to remain In Jasper county permanently.

The fire company were called to the Monnett Home about 5:30 o’clock Friday evening by an alarm sent in when a wallpaper covering to a stovepipe opening in a flue caught fire and fell upon a couch underneath and set fire to it also. The fire was extinguished with no further damage, but had it occurred at night when all the inmates were asleep the results might have been tragical.

Mrs. John Andrus, whose husband recently died, a public sale of the personal property tomorrow, after which she will return to Rensselaer to make her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Parker. The farm of 125 acres they lived on was owned by Mr. Andrus’ mother, who has rented same and will go to Hammond to live with her daughter, Mrs. Parker Overton. Mr. Andrus owned a farm of 80 acres, adjoining on the north, now occupied by Hoy Rlshllng.