Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS

McCOYSBURG. Grace Herr stayed Tuesday night with Thelma Johns/ John Herr,; who Went: r<, Illinois: Monday, has returned home. Trustee Parker called on the school Wednesday afternoon. Charles Stevenson, of Kersey, was a McCoysburg visitor .Monday. Miss Sadie. Herr spent Sunday even ip g wit h Mis s Jos i e Stu 1t z. Marine Stephens called on Alice Stevenson Wednesday afternoon. We are having some cold, snowy weather the latter part of this week. Mrs. Newton Funk, of Headlee, is staying with her daughter, .Mrs. Delt Albright. Mrs. Charles Beaver called on her sister, Mrs. Win. McDonald, Wednesday afternoon. Miss Alice Stevenson returned Saturday morning after a week’s visit with Myrtle Poole. Born, March 13 to Mr, and Mrs. Dilt Albright, a son, this making three boys and one girl. Harve Lowman, who has been building over in Milroy, is intending to move Monday or Tuesday. Miss Fern Trueax, of Monon, came to visit her uncle, Delt Albright, returning home Wednesday noon. Miss Grace Herr, Thelma and Harvey Johns spent Sunday evening with Ethel and Arthur Ferguson. Pearl Johnson and Frank Stephens are each nursing a case of mumps; no one else has taken them yet.

Mrs. Charles Stultz, who has had a hard seige of sickness, is able to be up and around part of the time at this writing. It is reported that trains No. 15 and 16 on the Monon will be taken bff. It will be unhandy for the people to this place if they are. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crowder, who have been visiting his folks, Mr. Crowder’s, south of here, returned to their home Wednesday evening. Born, .Monday, March 16, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ringeisen. We expect Frank will walk on stilts for a while. Hello! Papa and mamma. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Brown are moving in the house vacated by Clarence Messenger, who moved on the farm vacated by Emmet Ramsey/ < ' ' • ’ There will be preaching service at this place Sunday, March 22, at 7:30 p. in. Thie probation class only will meet at 6:15 at the school house.

LEE. Win. Wall is doing carpenter work for.Ephriam Gilmore. Walter Jordan was buzzing wood around here this week. Joseph Clark and family ate Sunday dinner at G, A. Jacks’. Frank Overton’s baby is sick this week. Dr. Clayton is in attendance. The teacher and pupil’s are preparing a program for the last day of school. Ray Holeman and family and his mother spent last’Sunday' at Elzie Webb’s. Charles Lefler has been sick during the past week with stomach trouble. ■ // Mrs. Ida. Lewis is staying With .Mrs.' Art’'’’” Stewart, who is sick with a ppendicitis. Charles Jacks and family have gone to Rensselaer to reside, where he has employment. Frank Eldridge and family spent Sunday with his brother, Korah, and family, near the Milroy church. Harley Clark, who has been working in a piano factory in Chicago Heights, this winter, came home last week. The Ladies’ Aid met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ray Holeman and (lid sewing for Mrs. Walter Jordan. Mrs. Len Lefler, of Lafayette, and Mrs. Thorstop Otterburg, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday here with their parents, G. A. Jacks and wife. Walter Gilmore landed .here this week with his car of personal property that he brought from his farm he recently sold in Minnesota. Roy v CuIP and Charley Marchand have both been very sick with lung fever, but are improving at this writing. They have a trained nurse for both of them. There will be a box Supper here at the school house Saturday night, March 21, the proceeds to help pupchase a new musical instrument for the church. Everybody invited. Ladies pßase bring boxes.

MILROY, Robert Keve ate dinner Sunday with G- L. Parks’. Garfield Howell was a Wolcott visitor Wednesday. Frank May has been cutting brush in his pasture here. John Ward and family moved to Rensselaer last week. Preaching Sunday at 3 p. in.; Sunday school at 10 a. m. Roy Culp has been very sick with pneumonia for about a week, and

COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS

Tuesday a nurse was called from Chicago. Branson Clark has been very poorly for the last few days.. . Mr. Wood,.who has been sick so long with lung trouble, is no better. James B- ' . ■ eR'- -imict- Sunday evening wit r . o a.,.,and family. " Miss Irene Marchand and Mrs. Willard Johnson were in Lee Tuesday. < Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johns visited his parents at McCoysburg Tuesday and Wednesday. No schpol at Queen City Wednesday as the teacher, Mrs. Morgan Slerritt, was sick. Quite a number of friends from Palestine neighborhood spent Saturday evening with Mr. Ross and family. Charles Marchand, who has been very low with pneumonia, is now gaining slowly, his. temperature being 99 degrees. A Chicago nurse was called Sunday. His sister, little Inez, who has been sery sick, also with the same disease, is convalescent.

PINE GROVE. Hattie and Raney McCurtain called on Mrs. J. W. Baker Sunday. Clint Beck and family spent Saturday with John Dale and family. John Dale and family took dinner with James Torbet and family Sunday. Warren Galbraith and family spent Sunday w r ith their folks down south of here. <*• Will Hayes’ family, who have had the mumps, are improving at this writing. Mrs. James Torbet and Mrs. Vern Odle and baby were Rensselaer goers Saturday. J. W. Baker and children ’spAnt Sunday with John Guss and family, Of near Mt, Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Donnelly spent Sunday with the former’s aunt, Mrs. Andy Ropp, and family. •Mrs. Charles Shroyer took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams and family south ofAix Sunday. Elmer Shroyer spent Saturday night and Sunday with his cousin, Harvey Snow, of near Black lord. Thomas Forgey went to his home near Logansport last week, re; urn ing Sunday and bringing a wife with him. And say. hut the wedding ,bells did ring Monday night. All had a jolly time. John, Creota and Charley Torbet and Freeniont Brown and Gerald and Leighton. Gifford attended the miscellaneous shower on Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Baker Saturday night. All report a line time.

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