Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1915 — News Letters From the Country [ARTICLE]

News Letters From the Country

FAIR OAKS. Health etill continues good in our town. >. Rev. Postill occupied the pulpit in the M. E. church Sunday, Ray Casey’s family is now recoy-. ering from a seige of the grip. Virgil Saylor of Kniman, was here Tuesday and called on Abe Bringle’s for a short time. We have been having some pretty soft weather the past week, and the snow has been disappearing quite rapidly. Clay ‘Harris of Beaver Lake, shipped a nice bunch of fat cattle from here to the Indianapolis market Monday. _ Postmistress Erwin has been on the sick list a few days this week with a heavy cold, but at this writing is improving. Mrs. Cottingham returned from visiting her son, William, at Momence, 111. She still suffers a good deal of pain from her accident while alighting from a train. James Clifton, who has been hindered from work on account of bad weather, resumed work on the large stock barn on the Huff ord ranch northwest of town, Monday Abe DeKoker of Demotte, was in Our town Wednesday demonstrating a lamp, which he is the agent for. It certainly is fine and gives an abundance of beautiful white light. W. O. Gburly’s father, who was reported sick at his home in Paxton, 111., last week, died last Saturday. Mr. Gourly was at his bedside when death came. Mrs. Gourly left for there on the 10:42 train Sunday, to attend the funeral. It has been announced that there will be an exhibition in the Gundy Hall the 19th, 20th and 21st, of the photo drama of Creation. The exhibition will be given by a party

from the International Bible school of Chicago. Admission free. The meetings at Will Warne’s and at the school house, are still going on with quite a bit of interest in both. Meeting will continue at the school house until Sunday eve. They are expecting Mr. and Mrs. Crofts, of the Moody Institute, to be here Saturday eve and Sunday. They are both leading teachers in the Institute.

FOUR CORNERS. Save your bird shot for the chicken thieves who are abroad'-in the land. H. Meier is shelling the corn oil the F. G. Barnard farm in Kankakee tp., this week, A daughter of Nathan Keen, from Indianapolis* is visiting her parents in east Walker this week. The Mrs. J. A. Hixson sale Tuesday was well attended and good prices was secured for most everything offered. Charles Meyers and wife started son Baltimore Tuesday to visit ents and friends. They expect to be absent six or eight weeks. The wolf..,drive Friday proved the lack of organization, and Jan. 22 they expect to make a more successful drive. Five or six wolves were seen during the drive, but none Were captured, The large boom for the river dredge was hauled out to the river Tuesday on trucks shipped from Chicago especially for this purpose, and by Wills & Davis’ traction engine. The boom weighed 30 tons. O. Salrin was mixed up in a runaway Saturday while driving to Wheatfield. He met W. S. Hamilton coming south in his car; the horse took fright and ran away, throwing Salrin out and breaking and damaging the buggy but injuring no one. Just a little excitement, and Hamilton pays one-half the expense.

The representatives of the C.& E. 1., railroad were in Wheatfield Wednesday in their effort's to create an interest in taking off the Bowie Special; but Bowie not being in town there was .no one to tdot the big horn for the improvement association, and they, the agents of the railroad, were obliged to await his coming. Freeman of San Pierre,- shipped a car of hogs the last of the week to Chicago and was compelled to pay sll inspection fee before the car left Tefft, which laid the hogs over one day and caught the i sc drop in the market. This is the effect of the quarantine restrictions in this county. iHe loaded a car th<e same day at San Pierre, from which place he is a regular shipper and where' inspection is not called for, and was not aware of Jasper county’s exactness.

Come to the wolf drive Friady, the 22d. Come to Wheatfield or Tefft, The north line is % mile south, along the stone road, the west line 1 mile west, to Tefft running south 5 miles. Shotguns, but no rifles or dogs. Permit granted by game commissioners to carry firearms as above. This section of land to be surrounded is the home of a number of wolves which are and have been doing a great amount of damage. A day’s sport for all and'especially one for Squire Bussell. Come. The Democrat of last week made us say that the team killed. on the crossing two miles west of Tefft, was settled for by the railroad at SSOO, the amount*’ 1 was $5 and not SSOO. This team was the third these parties had lost within the past year under similiar circumstances, and it is reported that they 'did not car 6 to urge their claim and accepted the $5 and receipted in full. [The correspondent left out the period between the 5 and 00, and we therefore supposed SSOO was meant. — Editor.]

We informed that the I-am-It of the Wheatfield improvement association worked-that organization , last week for carfare and expenses so that he might be permitted to attend the Jackson day celebration at Indianapolis. He informed the association, we were informed, that the C. & E. 1., officials were making a great effort to have> the “Bowie Special” taken off and that it was highly important that some one with brains be sent to block their game, and as he had always the brain

power, plus the brass, they should send him, stating that $25 would be sufficient he thought to pay carfare, hotel expenses and care for him in a manner suitable to one of his rank and station, but some members thought that sls would be ample lor such a trip, and this amount they gave him and told him that they would expect him tb make the railroad officials of the C. & E. 1., realize that Wheatfield was yet on the map. So .Bro. John grabbed 'Ms grip and with a clean shirt and a fresh collar or two, and with the front part of his back, one of the signs of north Jasper, encircled with a fine gilt watch chain, hiked for Indianapolis. It soon became known that President Wilson was to speak .the following day and then some of the republican members of the improvement association, realized they had been stung. One thought perhaps that Gov. S. M. Ralston or J. W. Kern had sent Bro. John a silent message, having heard of his great brain power and his ability to see into the future, his business sagacity and “loyalty to his party,” they wished to consult with him on the Mexican situation and other questions of national importance. We predict for Bro. John a glorious future.