Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1914 — All Over The County [ARTICLE]

All Over The County

FAIR OAKS. Health still continues good in our village. It is reported there is to be a new foreman on the Monon section at this place soon. Henry Nickem moved Wednesday from the Lawler ranch into the house vacated by Burroughs’. Cal Bouroughs moved Tuesday from Mrs. Dickinson’s property in the west part of town, to the Wilson property, recently vacated by Lees Warren. Walter McConnell'drove his auto down to Rensselaer Tuesday, which he had been using for nearly two years, disposed of it and drove home a new Ford. Mrs. James Clifton, who has been sick at the home of her mother, Mrs. J. A. Powell, in Rensselaer, the past two or three weeks, is slowing recovering, but is not able to return home yet. Tuesday Jake Trump went down to work as flagman for Mr. Teach on the new road. The railroad company required Mr. Teach to furnish a flagman where his track crosses the C. & E. I. tracks. The writer and family took an auto trip Sunday up through Crown Point and Valparaiso to Hanna, and visited F. L. Yeoman’s, returning home Monday. We noticed the corn especially, anu with but a few fields the crop is good. The potato, cabbage, onions, carrot, turnip and celery crop is good, also tomatoes. Our schools opened Monday morning with W. R. Fair as advanced teacher; Miss Josie Dexter, intermediate, and Miss Wilma Peyton, primary teacher. All of the graduates of this place have taken up the high school work. Leonard Gourly of east of town, went to Rensselaer; Paul Barker to Mt. Ayr; Merril Simmons of Colfax tp., Newton county, also went to Rensselaer. A couple of months ago, a party came here from Brook with a Ford touring car and started a livery business, and the first thing he did was to give a few of our car owners, who had been hauling people out over the country, their orders, and he compelled one to quit using his car at all only to gd back and forth to work. Now the gentleman of the - first par{:, so it is reported, has disappeareu and hasn’t showed up for about a week, but w r e haven’t noticed anyone shedding many tears as yet.

MILROY Frank Scipio’s father visited him and family this week. Robert Keve and Joe Rees spent Sunday with, G. Foulks . Tsaac Hamilton spent Sunday with Everett Parks and family. E. Marchand and family autoed to Rensselaer Saturday evening. Mrs. Elsie Clark and children spent Sunday with Lud Clark’s. Henry Goble of Monon, called on G. Foulks’ Wednesday afternoon. Joseph Rees spent the first of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank May. Charles Wood and Ludd Clark spent Saturday night in Rensselaer. Louise Marchand is assisting Mrs. Elmer Gilmore with her work this week.

Mrs. Isaac Hamilton and Mrs. Vesta Hamilton spent Saturday in Rensselaer. Pearl Ross is quite ill with malarial fever. A physician is in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Clark are visiting Mrs. Clark’s daughter at Mentone, Ind. Clyde Clark of Newton county, came £o look after his cattle in his pasture here Wednesday. Our schools begun Monday with the following teachers: banner, Martha Clark; Center, Mr. Hymen; Lone Star, Marie Fisher; Queen City, Earl Foulks. Mr. and Mrs. Fred May were in Rensselaer last Saturday afternoon their youngest child, a sweet little girl, being left with Mrs. Howard Stewart, Mr. May’s sister. The baby suddenly became very sick and Dr. Besser of Remington, was called, who found symtoms of a telescoping of the bowels. On Sunday evening she was taken to St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, where she underwent an operation on Monday evening. Her bowels were telescoped or locked, but she passed, away Tuesday evening. They brought the body home Tuesday night and the funeral was conducted at the house Thursday at 2 p. m. Burial was made in the Dobbins cemetery.

SOUTH AMERICA. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Clark are visiting her daughter at Mentone, Ind. Mrs. Elmer Clark called on Mrs. John Shellheart Monday afternoon. Mrs. Dignan's little daughter, Margaret, is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Branson Clark and family visited Lud Clark and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Havens and family were Rensselaer goers Saturday. * Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clark and family visited Lud Clark and family Sunday. Miss Irma Clark and sisters. Ora and Olive, were McCoysburg goers Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William Howell and son, Robert, were Rensselaer goers Saturday forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. William Havens and family visited James Moore and family near Pleasant Ridge Sunday. Charles Howell, Miss Mable Clark, Ernest Harris and Jennie Howell were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Charles Howell and Miss Mable Clark spent Sunday evening with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clark

Miss Anna MeCollough spent Sunday with Miss Leota Simms at Attica. Dr. Laura Reeher of Morocco, spent Monday with Mrs. Turner Merritt. Clyde Reeves is packing his housebold effects preparatory to removing to New York. Misses Amanda and llga Baier returned home Tuesday from a week at Cissna Park. Harvey Williams went to Chicago Monday to buy feeding sheep to run in his corn fields. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Forbes moved Tuesday to the Forbes house on north Indiana street. Miss Ethel Greene went to Lafayette Monday, where she will enter Purdue for the winter. Miss Dell Yeoman went to Indianapolis Monday to spend several days with her brother, Steve, and wife. Miss Florence Johnson returned Friday evening from a week's visit ■with her sister, Edith, at Elkhart. Mrs. J. P. Warner of Rensselaer, has come to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Pefley. Uncle Guthrie Morris has been on the sick list for the past two weeks, and at times suffering very severely. Ed Peck is again in the east looking about for a farm in New York, to which place he expects to remove Boon.

Ardis Cornwell had the misfortune to break one of the bones of his right arm while cranking a car the other day. Mrs. Samuel Bickel and daughter. Mrs. Geo. Johnson, of Melvin, 111., spent Friday night with Jason Bickel and family. Mrs. Julia Hicks and daughter of Portland, Ore., came the latter part of the week to spend some time with her relatives. C. H. Peck went to Dayton, Ohio, Monday to participate in the Grand American Handicap, held in that city this week. Virgil Clark of Gary, was a weekend guest of his grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Clark, returning to his work Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Findley and children of near Joliet, 111,, have been spending the past week with Mrs. Fred Goss and other relatives. Misses Leone Harper and Lottie Porter returned Saturday from Terre Haute, where they had been attending the summer normal school. Mr. and Mrs. Luce Bond and Hermit Beasley of Chicago, and Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Bond and family of Goodland, were Remington visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Gift of Jonesboro, Ind., were visitors at John Howell’s home and with other relatives last week, returning home Saturday. Tom C. Smalley of the U. S. S. Louisiana, came Tuesday evening for a few days’ visit with his parents, while his ship is undergoing some repairs. Mrs. T. R. Quayle and daughter of Lake Forest, 111., spent a week nere witji th© Spenc6r and Hargreaves families, returning home Tuesday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Stitz and niece, Zelda Stitz, autoed to Wabash Friday to visit relatives a few days. Bessie and Hartley Stitz of that place, who had been visiting here, accompanied them home. It is Teporte'd that Ed Peck has closed a deal for a farm of 208 acres and that Will Broadie has purchased a 100 acre farm in the same locality. Both families will remove to New York within a short time. Marion Parks went to Lafayette, Saturday, where he \vas to take up a course in agriculture at Purdue. He was brought back home Sunday, being met at Reynolds by auto, sulfering from bronchial pneumonia. George Wordan, who recently lost his tine residence by fire, has already started work on a fine new one to take its place. The old building has been cleared away and foundations dug out and excavations made for the new one. It is to be of brick and will be 82x40 feet and two stories hijjh, with all modern improvements. Frank Hodshire of Monticello, has the contract for the brick work and expects to begin'his part of the work as soon as the brick can be secured, probably by next week some time On Wednesday morning, September 2, the tolling of the Sacred Heart church bell announced to the people of Remington, , that Mrs. Margaret Schmitz had passed awav after a long illness to her Eternal reward. On Thursday morning a solemn requiem high mass was celebrated in the church, after which • her remains were taken to Goodland and from there shipped to Chicago! where on Friday, another solemn requiem was celebrated in St. Alphonsis’ church and interment made in St Boniface cemetery. The deceased was born March 8, 1 840, at Badem, near Treves. She lived in widow-hood thirty-one years, her husband having died in 1883. She had ten children, two of which preceded into eternity. Two were chosen to a higher calling, Rev. J. M. Schmitz, priest and pastor of the Sacred Heart congregation, and Sr. M. Loyola, as a teacher in Oregon. Mrs. Schmitz was a Christian woman in the truest sense of the word. Her sweet face made sunshine in a shady place. If strangers

felt the charm of her rare courtesy and joyous sunny temperament, how much more so , ,|the members of her own household iipon whom she lavished all the sweet earnestness and careful culture of her mind and nature. Strong and potent was the influence of this loving heart, which gave of its gifts so generously. The spirit of her love was not weakness but strength. Gently, almost unconsciously it coerced those coming in contact with it to strive for, if not to attain the realization of her high calling. Her loss will be felt as a mother and friend and her vacant place can only be Tilled by the sweet consolation, which Providence bestows on those who mourn, for He has said: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” mourn, for they shal be comforted.”

POSSUM RUN. Ike Marlatt had his silo filled this week. The ball game at Gifford Sunday was a great success. Gharley Parker spent from Friday until Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Comer and son were Rensselaer callers Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Caldwell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Pierson. Everett Parker took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker of Gifford Sunday. Mrs. Win. Shultz and Mrs. Julius Slniltz called on Mrs. Edward Ritter Wednesday. Bud and White Toombs and Walter Conn spent Tuesday evening with Tucker Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Comer and family spent Saturday with Mr. and .Mrs. Grube of Wheatfield. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins and family called on Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Smith and family Wednesday afternoon. Those that spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker were Everett, Orpha and Myrtle Parker, Earl Haniford and Nile Britt. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Cover ana children, Mrs. Gaylord Hilton and Rancey McCurtain called on Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker and family Sun day afternoon.

LEE. O. E. Noland filled his silo Tuesday. Mrs. C. A. Lefler is improving now and able to be up. Ephriani Gilmore's silo is completed and now ready foi filling. They are building the flues this week on J. H. Culp’s new house. -Mrs. Ida Lewis is’ going this week to Lebanon to care for a sick niece. Aivin Clark and wife and T. R. Clark and family went to the Jacks’ reunion last Sunday. Our school began Monday with Miss Irene Gray as teacher, and with twenty-eight pupils. Miss Lural Anderson has gone to teach school north of Rensselaer," where she taught last winter. Most all of the Jacks’ from here attended the Jacks family reunion at Battle Ground last Sunday. Rev. Olin Stewart and family of Montmorenci, made his parents, Joseph Stewart’s, a short visit last week. Mrs. Minta Hoback of near Tipton, is here this week visiting her cousin! Mrs. C. A. Holeman, and other relatives. Joseph Stewart and wife and H. C. Anderson and wife went Thursday to Shadeland, near Lafayette, to visit Rollifi Stewart and family.

COLFAX TP. NEWTON CO. School commenced Monday. Mrs. B»rt Sullivan was shopping in Enos Thursday. Alva Call was a visitor of the Butts' family, Sunday. The school teacher of No. 2 is boarding at John Wildrick’s. Carl W ooton and Jap Wright were Morocco visitors Wednesday. . Walter Wooton and Nelson Wildrick drove to Mt. Ayr Saturday. Clarence McDonald transacted business hr Enos Tuesday forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Sullivan spent Sunday with Bert Sullivan and family Peter Clark and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Will C’ole spent Sunday at Earl Kennedy’s. Mrs. Sam Butts and Mrs. Annie McCombs called on Mrs. Margaret Wooton, Saturday. Tom VaLon of Michigan, came Monday to visit his uncle, James Sammons, a few days. Miss Ethel Thomas and sister, Nora, and two brothers, Ora and Daniel, spent Sunday with Mrs. Margaret Wooton and grandchildren. A democratic mass . meeting wa9

held at the Odle school house Tuesday evening, which had been postponed on account of the storm a week ago.