Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1914 — COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS

FAIR OAKS. Health is generaly pretty good in our village nowadays. Mr. Bozell and Mr. Boyle begun planting watermelons Tuesday. Dean Zellers, of Aix, is visiting his Grandpa Mallatt this week. Abe Bringle made a short call on Otto Cedarwall's Sunday afternoon, Uncle John Casey and sister, Mattie, returned from Chicago Monday morning. Lon Smith from Gifford was over a few days ago putting a fence around his property. ( ora DeM itt has a job’ of putting in several carloads of tile bn a f arm north wes t of t own. William Van Cleve is putting up a barn on the Stahl farm, a couple of miles south of town. * Mr. Boyle's little girl has been confined to the house for several days with a very severe sore throat. Ray Haste has moved from Grandma Brouhard’s property into Will Warren’s property at the south side of town. Jessie Harriott's aunt and niece, of Grand Rapids, Mich., left Monday morning for their home after aj few days visit here. The exercises at the last day of school here last Saturday were remarkably good and most of the patrons were in attendance. Miss Pansa Bozell, who has been at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis the past year and a half, taking a nutse's training course, came home Sunday for an indefinite stay.

I here will be a Mothers’ Day meeting held at the Christian church Sunday, May 10, at 2 p. m. A lady minister from Brook will address the people. Everybody is invited to come and hear her. VV e were favored with a good heavy shower Monday, in which there was considerable'hail. Oats had begun to need rain, and now they are looking fine. There hasn’t been much corn planted here- as yet. - ; Charles Clifton, who left Jasper county something like 30 years ago tor California, dropped in here last F riday for a visit with his brother, Jim. He is looking fine and is enJojJng good health. He will probably go from here to Michigan, where Sam and Morgan are, and visit them awhile. There was a double wedding took place at the residence of our old German friend, Father Hass, out north of town Monday, in which a couple of his children, a son and daughter, were two of the party They certainly had a big time at the reception, as there was a large crowd opt and they rejoiced and made merry until an early hour next morning. Best wishes for them.