Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — News Notes of Nearby Towns [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

News Notes of Nearby Towns

At Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

flte n* of luteres from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

1 PINE GROVE. | (Too late for. Saturday.) Bertha Cooper spent Sunday with fceme folks. Harry Beck was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Arthur Zimmerman shredded fodder Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davis broke bread with (Mrs. Sarah MeCleary Sanday. James Torbet and family and Mr. aM Mrs. Bluford Torbet spent Sunday with Harny Beck and family. John Baker and wife and two efeitdren spent Thursday night with Mrs. Rachael Price, who is i’.l at this writ.'ng. Mr. Smith, of near Crawfords▼tile, Montgomery county, came via aato Wednesday and spent Wednesday night with James Torbet and family. I MEDARYVTLIiE. j (From the Advertiser.} Joe Maddox, of west of town is very ill with heart trouble. Wm. McNeil of Wheatfield, was a guest at the Brooks Lanam home last Sunday. Edward Wocknitz of Huntington, lad., oldest son of Frank Wocknitz, visited his relatives here the fore part of the wqek, returning home Tuesday.

Charles Moose has been seriously sick for the past two weeks and at times it seemed as if the end was near. Later accounts, however, say he is somewhat improved. In the basket ball game on Friday evening between the high school and Wheatfield our boys defeated their opponents while the Wheatfield girls scored a few points higher than the home team. Miss Ida Bandow left Monday morning for Laporte, Ind., where she joined Mr. and Mrs. L. Ames, and oo Tuesday they all left for Citronville, Ala., to spend the winter in the sunny south. Mrs. Harry Hardesty, .Os:ar Pulaski land Richard Lizenby have gone to Danville; Ind.. having -received word of a rela,>se their sisteh, Miss Ida Pulaski had suffered at the hospital in that city. Later: Word was received here Thursday that Miss Ida had died that morning.

—| | EAST JORDAN “I- -r— fJohn Shide shredded corn Wednesday. Mrs. Blaze is recovering from her recent illness. John Robinson and Lase Criswell butchered Tuesday. Shredding i 3 the order of the day In this neck of the woods. Ansel Jones t who has been staying with his uncle, B. T. Lanham, returned home Wednesday. Olive Criswell went to Wlnamac last week to visit her sister, Mrs. Blanchard of that place. James Burling has began th<s erection of a seven-room house on his farm southeast of town. Miss Opal Waymire returned Saturday from a two weeks visit at

the home of her aunt, in Kokomo. The Remington Telephone Company has been doing line work in this vicinity this week. It is said Leonard Bice had a phone put in.

I GOODLANP -I -f----(From th« Herald.) Mrs. Dan Mead of Cherubusco, is here the guest of relatives. Leslie Oswald left Sunday morning for Washington, D. C. George Cummings and wife and little son of Medina, Mo., will spend Sunday with Mrs. Alice Cummings. M. E. McClellan of Salem, Ind., came Wednesday for a short visit here with his son. Normal, and fatnBf. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Rich, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rich and Frank Rich visited Sunday with J. D. Rich, at Brook. Mark Crandall and F. D. Gillman were among the stock show visitors from this community the latter part of the week. Anna Ploutz returned from Ottowa. 111., Tuesday after an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Paul Budach, and other relatives.

J. A. Armfield and August Elbert, who have been looking after their interests down in Texas for several weeks, returned to Goodland Monday. The grand old stork has left a bright baby boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Crandall near Wadena. McGraw had better send out two contracts for 1913 now. _ The town hoard appointed Mort Kilgore to fill out the unexpired term of F. C. Rich, treasurer-elect, on the school board, whose term did not expire until August 1, 1913. Thursday morning about 8:30, Meddie Budreau, who was shelling corn for Mark Crandall at the home of Sam Moore, met with a very painful accident. He was tightening the hard oil oiler and the large drive belt on the main pulley slipped off and burned and cut his right wrist. He was taken to Chicago on the eve. ning train where he will receive hospital treatment. Word was received here Sunday of the burring of the house and other buildings of Henry Getting, near Hartford, Mich, at one o’clock last Thursday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have caught from a defective flue. This makes the second of Mr. Getting’s loss by fire since going to Michigan, last summer z spark from a railroad engiEe setting fire to a hav stack and burning it.

MIDROY. H G. D. Praks was in Rensselaer Saturday. Martha Clark visited the Queen City school Friday. Mrs. James Boone spent Friday evening at Frank May’s. Marion Spencer spent Thursday with John Clark and family. Our teachers attended the institute at McCoysburg Saturday. G. D. Parks was a business visitor in Indianapolis Thursday. Mrs. Thomas Johnson, who has been sick is now convalesciing. Earl Foulks and Martha Clark attended church at Lee Friday night. Miss May Bullington is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Bivans. 1 William Culp, who wag hurt in an upset with his son Roy a few days ago, is still suffering from his injuries. George Foulks, who has been suffering with blood poisoning in his knee, is now able to walk about the mom on crutches. Dr. Clayton is still attending him.

-I REMINGTON. (From The Press.) A. D. Washburn of Kentland was transacting business here Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Flint of Rensselaer spent the week end with friends here. Warner Elmore spent a couple of days this week at his farm near Andrews. Mrs. Charles Harris of near Rensselaer was a Remington caller Wednesday, Miss Grace Ott left Saturday for a week’s visit with Indianapolis friends. Mr. and Mrs. Nason Turner of Brook spent Monday and Tuesday with relatives here. Mrs. R. H. Crowder and son Richard of East Chicago are visiting friends here this week. A son was born Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Shannon, of three miles east of town. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Miller, 5 miles west of town, Tuesday, Dec. 10, a daughter. Miss Gladys Cobb of' Crescent City, 111., came Friday evening for a few days visit with friends. Miss Mary Detrlck of Goodland spent Friday night and Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Will Lock. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Voughn or New Castle, came Saturday evening to visit 1 at the homt- of C. B. Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Morton Bennett, of flhni psville, Ind., are the guests of ner parents, J, M. Howell and wife, since Saturday. Mrs. Homer Hardy of Huntington came this evening for a visit with her parents. Mr. and Mr)?. D. V. Garrison, and other relatives. Lewis Cheadle came very nearly losing a hand in a corn shredder Tuesday, a 9 it -was he has a very badly lacerated hand and arm. Miss Grace Thompson went to Valparaiso Wednesday of last week to spend the winter with her brother, M. M. Thompson, and family. Mrs. Florence Childers of Brook returned home Friday after a few days visit with the family of Dan O’Connor. Mrs. O’Connor accompanied her for a week g stay. Mrs. M. W. Timmons, who bag

i-.en a guest of her brother, Will Michaels, and Charles Harm and 'viie, for the past two rr* >!.s, nitu’cd this morning to her aome in Kankakee, 111. Adrain Foster received last night by express from his brother, in New Orleans, a small live alligator. At present it is rathe.r small and he ean not use it for a bed fellow, but next spring when it gets to be full size he proposes to teach it to drive Brown's delivery car and have it to do all the delivering for him. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lods of near Mt. Gilboa came home Saturday from the St. Elixabeth hospital at Lafayette, where Mr. Lods has been undergoing treatment for a very serious injury he received from a fall from the top of a high corn crib in October. Mrs. Lods also submitted to two operations which confined her there for about five weeks. Dudley Tyler, who lives southwest of town, camo near losing his arm one day this Week. He was trying to relieve some part of a shredder that became clogged, and his sleeve became caught in the gearing. Immediate stoppage of the machine was the only reason he did not lose his whole arm. As it was he escaped with some minor bruises and had some skin scraped off his arm ana hand.