Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — All Over The County [ARTICLE]

All Over The County

GIFFORD. Thursday was “all fools” day. T. Hankins was a Rensselaer goer Friday. Mrs. Tom Parker was a caller here Monday. A. E. and D. D. Zook were Rensselaer goers Monday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder, Tuesday, a son. The newlyweds took Sunday dinner with home folks. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Lon Dan iels, March 24, a daughter. O! You 'Easter eggs. It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good. John Stockwell and Fred Ballara visited the county hub Saturday. Mr. Heil of Wheatfjeld, is visiting a few days here with his brother. Ben Lowry and Wm. Bartal returned from a trip to Chicago Tuesday. Wm. Hersbman had a carload of tile unloaded at this place Thursday. Dr. Stone of Medaryville, made a professional call in these parts Saturday. If you don’t believe ’s horse can go some, just ask Emily. She knows. Art Snow and wife spent Saturday night with his brother, Charlie, and family. Tom Hoover and wife moved to Newland Thursday. We were sorry to see them go. A. Cowelle and John Stockwell are putting in tile on their farm and also Mr. -Hell's. . Several from around here attended the revival meeting which is being held at Newland. Several of the girls of this place took a walk Thursday and visited the Independence school. Grandma Lambert is staying with her daughter, Mrs. Reule Snyder, who is very poorly again. Dr. Thompson of Winamac, was called here Monday by the serious illness of Mrs. Bessie Snyder. On account of the backward weather we are having, not Very many farmers have sown any oats. Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan and daughter, Lucille, took supper with George Heil and wife Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs, George Dunn of West Vernon, were guests of their daughter, Mrs. John Walker, of this place, Sunday. Mrs. Harry and little son returned home Saturday after a couple of weeks’ visit with relatives in the southern part of the state. Leo Sharepetta will return from Chicago Thursday bringing with him his bride. Boys, get your tin pans and shotguns ready if you want a cigar. r The aged mother of Charlie Snyder and Mrs. McCurtain, who has been very sick for some time, died of heart trouble Saturday night, at the age of 73 years. Burial was made in the Dunkard cemetery Tuesday. Sheridan Logue’s family, which has been quarantined for the past two months on account of scarlet fever, will be shut in for another month now, as their little son, Don, took sick Saturday with the same disease.

Make Good Work Possible. You cannot do good work while your bowels are sluggish or your liver torpid. Wm. O. E. Bielke, Mgr. Scott Hotel, Hancock, Mich., says: “I gave Foley Cathartic Tablets a thorough trial, and find them a mild but safe cathartic.” Foley Cathartic Tablets never gripe or cause nausea. They do away with that drowsy, dull, tired feeling, and are wholesome, cleansing and healthful. Most satisfactory for stout persons. —A. F. LONG.

MILROY. Mabel Clark visited her parents Sunday. Martha Clark visited Ed Johnson’s Thursday night. Martha Clark spent Tuesday night with Isaac Hamilton’s. Queen City and Center schools closed Saturday of this week. Mrs. John Mitchell spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. George Foulks. Martha Clark spent Sunday with her brother, Joseph Clark, and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lear. The little son of Elmer Clark is suffering from an attack of pneumonia. John Mitchell and son, Charles, were McCoysburg visitors Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Earl Foulks attended the last day of school at Black Oak and enjoyed listening to a splendid program and a fine dinner. Rev. Samsel preached here Sunday morning and in the evening. Will preach again in four w r eeks. The children of W. Latta are sick at this writing. Drs. Blickenstaff and Ravenscroft of Wolcott, were called Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank May, daughter Ruth, Mrs. Mary McCashen and Miss Ettie, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks, Mr. and Mrs. G. Foulks, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Clark and daughter Mildred, ate dinner Sunday w ith Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McCashen. Mrs. Rachel Sommers, who had been seriously ill with pneumonia for about a week, died at 6:30 a. m., Thursday. A trained nurse fron, Chicago had been caring for her. She died at the home of her son, Frank Sommers, with whom she made her home, her husband having died several years ago. At this writing the hour for the funeral has not been set.

A Sluggish Liver Needs Attention. Let your liver get torpid and you are in for a spell of misery. Everybody gets an attack now and then. Thousands of people keep their livers active and healthy by using Dr King’s New Life Pills. Fine for the stomach, too. Stop the dizziness, constipation, biliousness and indigestion. Clear the blood. Only 25c at your druggist.—Advt. VIRGIE. ~ Zelah Wiseman' is working for Mrs. R. L. Budd. v Several in this community are sowing oats this week. Indus Wiseman came home Monday for a visit with home folks. Mrs. Florence and daughter Patience, spent Monday a t Reider’s. Bertha Reed spent Sunday after

noon with Patience and Dora Florence. N Bertha and Carl Gasaway and Arthur Florence spent Sunday at Keider’s. j, \ Elsie Zellars returned home Sunday after a few days' visit with her brother, Warren. Earl Matthews, Charles Florence ,and Lonzo Wiseman spent Sunday with the Hahn boys. Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman called on Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Harrington Sunday evening. Lizzie, Flossie, Earl and Charles Wiseman and Gladys Harrington spent Sunday at Zellars’. John Reed, Warren and Leo Zellars, May and Agnes Reider and Lizzie Wiseman were Rensselae? goers Saturday, Gporge Cover and family, William Wilcox and family and Jasper Cover and two children visited at James Wiseman’s Sunday. , -

A Place for Sheep on the Farm. The department urges the desirability of maintaining a small flock of sheep on the farm. With proper care and attention a flock of 25 to 30 ewes can be kept at very little expense, and they will prove of inestimable value in freeing the farm from weeds and adding something to the farm income. In addition ,to providing a considerable supply of wholesome food for the farm table, there will be a surplus for sale, and an additional item of revenue in the form of wool. Many farmers make a practice of buying ewes in the fall, breeding them and selling the lambs the following summer. Such ewes can be carried through the winter on wheat and rye fields if not pastured too closely, or on clover hay with some roots and a little linseed meal. If the clover hay is not available, corn fodder may be used as roughage, in Which case it should always be supplemented with bran or linseed meal. Lambs should come early and should be taught to eat as soon as they are old enough. GiVe lambs access tc, corn by providing a creep through which they can go without allowing the ewes to follow.

For farm purposes the black-faced ewes are more popular than the others, although good results can frequently be obtained from the white-faced ones. In buying ewes, be sure that they stand well on their feet, have good straight backs and good mouths. Ewes that have broken teeth or teeth that are badly worn down should not be bought. As a rule, a sheep has one pair of pei manent incisor teeth when it is one year old, two pairs when it is two years old and three pairs, or a full mouth, when it is three years old. A full-mouthed ew£, if the teeth are in good condition, can be used for breeding with good results although she may be as much as five years old. Never buy a ewe that has a broken mouth —that is, with teeth that have been broken off or lost. None but a pure-bred : ram should be used. It is not necessary to have a show animal, but a strong, vigorou ß buck is essential. Shropshire, Oxford, Southdown and Hampshire rants sire excellent mutton lambs, and these breeds are recommended for the farm states. A suitable ram can be bought for $8 to S2O. The two principal drawbacks to the sheep industry in the farm states are dogs and stomach worms. The dog nuisance can be obviated to a great extent by placing dog-proof fences around the pastures. The United States forest service has had excellent results in protecting sheep from coyotes and wolves by building fences constructed in the following manner: A barbed wire is first stapled to the posts right on the surface of the ground. Three inches above this is placed a panel of closewoven wire, 36 inches high, and above this two strands of ordinary barbed wire. Care should be taken to see that there are no openings between the ground and the lowest barbed wirp. An inclosure made in this manner, into which sheep may be turned at night, is inexpensive, and dogs will not get through it. Most of the damage by dogs is done at night. , The presence of stomach worms is a very serious drawback. The young lambs become infested with them by eating grass to which the worms have attached themselves, the eggs being deposited by the mature sheep. It is therefore desirable to H&ep the lambs on land on which the mature sheep have not run, and if possible, in cases of bad infections, to keep the lambs away from the mature sheep as much as possible. In the farm states the farmers will, find it to their best advantage to regard the wool from the sheep as a by-product, and direct their principal attention to the production of lambs and mutton for the table.— U. S. Dept, of Agriculture Weekly News Letter.

BUM. He’s a little dog, with a stubby tail, and a moth-eaten coat of tan, And his legs are short, of the wabbly sort; I doubt if they ever ran; And he howls at night, while in broad davjjght Ihe sleeps like a bloomin’ log, And he likes the feed of the gutter breed; he’s a most irregular dog. I call him Bum, and in total sum he’s all that his name implies, For he’s just a tramp with a highway stamp that culture cannot disguise; And his friends, I’ve found, in the ,streets abound, they urchins or dogs or men; Yet he sticks to me with a fiendlpJb ' glee, it is truly beyond my ken. I talk to him when I’m lonesome like, and I’m sure that he understands b When he looks at me so attentively and gently licks my hand; Then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say aught thereat, For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that! >' So my good old pal, my irregular dog* my flea-bitten, stub-tailed friend, Has become a part of my very heart, to be cherished till lifetime’s end; And on Judgment Day, If I take the way that leads where the righteous meet, If my deg is barred by the heavenly guard—we’ll both of us brave the beat. —W. D. Wegeforth. Whooping Cough. Well —everyone knows the effect of pine forests on coughs. Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey is a remedy which brings quick relief for whooping cough, loosens the mucous, soothes the lining of the throat and lungs, and makes the coughing spells less severe. A family with growing children should not be without it. Keep it-handy for all coughs and colds. 25c at your druggist.—AdVt. Electric Bitters a spring tonic.

Gait and Character. By their walk you shall know them, Here is a professor who has invented a machine for recording the human -gait. “A person can be identified by his manner of walking as easily as by finger prints,” says the professor. ‘‘Watch the man who drags his feet along the ground as if every step were an effort. If he has any of the world’s goods it is because it has been thrust upon him. He iS the kind of man that would be in the first lifeboat that put out from a sinking ship. The man with dragging gait is the man without a heart. “The woman who has difficulty in lifting her heels from the ground when she walks is a whiner. She believes the best she ever gets is the worst of it, and she will go into the minutest detail about trivialities. The woman with the dragging gait is the woman without spine. / “Watch the man who hurries along as if he were anxious to part company with the pavement. His steps are quick and snappy. The man with the snappy step has plenty of pep. When you see a woman planting her feet firmly on the ground and walking with a free swing you may be sure she is wholesome, to be depended upon, capable. She will be your friend, your pal, vour sweetheart on rainy days just as much or more than when the sun shines.” . And a lot of wives whose husbands are given to hitting both sides of the street and the middle coming home will find the gait machine a handy little household object.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

FAIR OAKS. Arvel Bringle was home from Remington over Sunday. Mrs. F. R. Erwin made a business trip to Brook last Friday. Charles Penright of Mt. Ayr, was p visitor in‘ F4ir Oaks over Sunday. Cottage prayer meeting Was held at Ben Richards’ Wednesday evening. William Blankenship of Parr, came up Monday and moved a barn for Will Warne. Jake Trump and Frank McCoy went to Foresman Monday to lay track for the new stone road in Jordan tp. Lou Moffitt has so far recovered from his attack of appendicitis as to be able to go back to the ranch on Monday. Mrs. J. T. Right and little daughter of Inffianapolis, came up last week and is visiting relatives here nowadays. James Erwin of Demotte, came down and begun the work of painting the interior of F. E. Erwin's store, Monday. Fonda Clifton moved back to Fair Oaks a few days ago from the Fred Schultz farm. He will occupy Enos Moffitt's new house when completed. Maurice Gorman went down west of Rensselaer, in Jordan tp., Sunda> to visit his parents, who are quite aged. His mother in particular is very poorly. Lou Smith, the present owner of the old Lambert property, is here, dismantling the old blacksmith shop. He will probably use the lumber to build a woodshed. We are having fine weather nowadays, just cool enough to keep back the fruit buds. It still continues to freeze some at nights. We got quite a snow storm Sunday afterrfoon. The writer recently received a letter from Mrs. S. B. Thornton of near Spokane, Wash., stating that Sam was quite poorly and not able to work, on account of a painful growth in his side. Frank Husted, whose job came to an end here a few days ago when the railroad company took off permanently one of the operators, went to Bell Junction Monday to take up a like position. Joe Wilson’s wife of Parr, who was so close to death’s door from an abscess on the brain, for which she was operated on in a hospital in Indianapolis, came home last week, and is said to be feeling fine. She had been away for five or six months. Next Sunday is Easter, and the Methodist people are planning to

have something extra in services. A fall house is wished for. Rev. I’ostill will he, on hand to deliver r bne of his all-convincing sermons which he has had locked up in his vocabulary and saVing for this special vice.Rev. Ed Blinlime of Pennsylvania, a young Methodist minister who has just finished a post-graduate course at Moody Institute, expects to begin a series of meetings here Sunday evening. The place is not decided upon as yet, but they will probably be held in ' the school house. lie is a fine speaker and should be heard by a full house continually. ~ SOUTHEAST JORDAN. Anthony Nesius was a Remington goer Tuesday. Miss Anna Stein is working for Mrs. Anthony Nesius. Frank Nesius and son, Carl, were Remington goers Tuesday. Miss Zona Dillion and pupils visited at Blake school Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parks were shopping in Logansport Saturday. Mrs. Barney Stein and daughter, Mary, helped Mrs. Tom Stein paper Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Nesius took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wagner. Mrs. Matt Nesius and son, Henry, called on Mrs. Frank Nesius Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Nesius called on Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nesius and family Friday evening. Henry Shide and Barney Stepn have purchased a Ford automoible: Hurrah for the little Fords. Mrs. Rose Roy went Saturday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Irene Anderson, at Sherryville, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. John Nesius and children and Fred Bells called on Mr. and Mrs. Barney Stein and family Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stein entertained the following at dinner Sunday: Harry and Dorothy Shumaker, John, Mary and Anna Stein. LEE Mrs. H. C. Anderson is 'having a siege with the grip. A Harley Clark spent Sunday with Glenn and Gail Culp. Mrs. C. A. Lefler has beep on the sick list the past week. 1 Miss Mattie Jordan did sewing last Saturday for Miss Lural Anderson. Our school closed Thursday with the usual big dinner and a fine program. Miss Marie Calhoun of Lafayette,

j visited with Miss Dollie Jacks over | Sunday. i R ay Holeman has put up a new j yard fence on his farm during the j past week. - • Frank Overton and family spent Sunday at Hoy Rishling’s, north of j Rensselaer. i The young people did choir practice Wednesday evening at Miss Geraldine Morton’s. John Osborne and wife and Alvin Clark and wife w T ent from church Sunday to S. M. Jacks’ for dinner. Mrs. Ethel Otterberg and baby of Rensselaer, was here this week visiting her parents, G. A. Jacks and wife. A man and wife and little girl, traveling through here, gave two illustrated lectures on the temperance cause this week. Mr. Mann and family of Kankakee, 111., and his brother-in-law. Arthur Steirs, came in the former's auto and visited their relatives, the Stiers’, during the past week. Our “Jitney” Off e C---This and sc. Don’t miss this. Cut out this slip, enclose with five cents to Foley & Co., Chicago, 111., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup. Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley’s CatharticTablets.—A. F. LONG. POSSUM RUN. Estel Marion is the owner of a new buggy. Everett Myers called on 1 1 William Polleck Thursday morning. Eh A. Merrill called on Thomas Parker Thursday morning. Thomas Tanner buzzed wood for Thomas Parker Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McCoy were Rensselaer callers Wednesday. Tom Lambert took dinner with Thomas Parker and son Sunday. Charley Parker and William Polleck were Rensselaer callers Saturday. Mrs. John Price called on Mrs. Francis Marion Wednesday after noon. Ross Polleck went to Rensselaer Monday afternoon to have his teeth* treated. Mrs. Alfred Caldwell and mother called on Mrs. John Price Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Price spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parker. Mr. and Mrs. William Polleck called on Mr. and Mrs. James Myers Sunday afternoon. Jennie Openohain of near Possum Run, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Gladys Baker of Pine Grove,