Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

FAIR OAKS. Health still continue good in our town. Mr. Higgins of Morocco, was a business visitor in our town Wednesday. Arthur Ropp and Sam Potts are painting a couple of houses for Abe Bringle this week. Mr. Lange, the music dealer of Rensselaer, was here Thursday looking after business. Mrs. William Cottingham and children of Momence, were here and visited home folks last week. The reports are that the Bruner Telephone Co. has bought the Halleek system, which extends over to Lake Village, etc. The Fair Oaks Sunday schools were well represented at the convention at Parr last Sunday, as there were about 65 in attendance.' Jap Warbritton has moved back to town, after an absence of a couple of years. He occupies Mrs. Mattie Dickinson’s property in the west; part of town. j Grover Smith, Jr., of Wheatfield, was here Thursday to see the former Ed Fawley town lots on which he is offered a proposition. J. F. Judy is the present owner. * The Methodist Sunday school is preparing to have children's day exercises immediately after Sunday school next Sunday, after which Rev. Postill will deliver a sermon. Bert and Les Wame have taken the contract to deaden about 500 acres of timber for J. J, Lawler, about three miles south of town. There are four of them at work at it now. ‘‘Uncle” John Casey visited the Soldiers’ Home at Marion last week and had a week’s visit with some of his old comrades. It had been about eleven years since he was there, and quite a few had answered the last roll call since then. He had a very pleasant time. > •

PINE GROVE. Thomas Cooper spent Sunday in Wheatfield. j Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Torbet were, Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Gifford were in Rensselaer, Friday afternoon. Mr. Lutz of Shadeland, was out Tuesday looking over his farm. Bluford Torbet and family spent Sunday with John Dale and family.. Bluford Torbet and family spent’ Sunday evening with Mrs. MeCleary. J. M. Torbet and son, Charley, worked at the Prater; cemeterv Friday. Vern Odle and Charlie Britt are hauling lumber from Rensselaer this week. Mr. Willett brought l ' gome land buyers out Tuesday to look at his farm. Miss Goldie Laner spent Sunday afternoon with her uncle, Oscar Smith. i Mrs. Cratie Cragan spent Sunday with her brother, Leßoy Torbet. and family. : i Several from this vicinity attend-, ed the Sunday school convention ati Parr Suhday. Ira Daniels is able to be out again after several weeks’ illness from scarlet fefer. Mrs. J. M. Torbet attended Ladies’ Aid at the Brushwood church Wednesday afternoon. Will Hayes and two sons, Morris and Allen, were Rensselaer goers Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Schroyer, spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Leßoy Torbet.

- Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Torbet and son, Charles, spent Sunday with John Dale and family. Ernest Florence, Miss Celina Cragun and Miss Bernie Yeoman called on Paul Lesh Sunday evening. Horace Daniels and family autoed to Hobart, Ind., Sunday to visit his half-sister, Mrs. John Grey, and family. POSSUM RUN. Miss Nile Britt spent Sunday with Myrtle Parker. Mrs. Jasper Cover was a caller in Xewland Wednesday. Mrs. Henry Doan called on Mrs. Thomas Parker Sunday morning. Mrs. Elda Stowers called on Mrs. W. M. Polleck Thursday morning. Mrs. Willard Abbott and brother, Roy Armstrong, were Rensselaei goers Friday. “Doc” Gregory, the Baker medicine man, took dinner with Thomas Parker and family Thursday. The buggy ride Sunday in the new buggy was fine, only it was not long enough. How about it, girls? Mrs. Lewis Grube, Mrs. Cora Hodge and children spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Comer and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Heil and daughter called on Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Corner and family Saturday afternoon. ; Miss Orpha Parker spent from Friday evening until Sundav evening with Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson and family of Monon. Mr. and Braddock and daughter, Jessie, and Mr. and Mrs. Guss Britenbaugh and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Price.

LEE W. L. Stiers has purchased a new ' automobile. Frank Overton shipped a carload of stock Wednesday. The ladies will clean the church on Thursday of this week. ; The Ladies' SHome Missionary met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. H. C. i Anderson. Rollin Stewart and family of near f Lafayette, were here Sunday for children’s day. Harold LaMar and family are ' tenting where he is working on the stone road, north and west of here. George Holeman and family and Win. Jacks and wife of Monticello. were here Sunday at the children’s day exercises. There was a large crowd from here attended the Motion township commencement, held at Monon on Friday evening of last week. Joseph Stewart and wife and C. A. Lefler and wife and daughter, Frances, went to Montmorenoi one day last week to visit relatives. They went in the former’s automobile There was a very large crowd here : Sunday at the children’s day exercise. who enjoyed the bountiful dinner spread in the grove at the noon j hour, and listened to the children in the afternoon, who did splendidly. McCOYSBURG. i We are having plenty of cold, ugly weather for June. Mr. and Mrs. Johns were Monon goers Saturday evening. Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Capt Morris ■ were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. Rogers’ daughter and baby of Indianapolis, are visiting her. Mrs. Chambers and children yisit- : ed her sister. Mrs. Gordon, and fam- ‘ ily Wednesday. Grandma Robinson spent Wednes-

day evening with her granddaughter, Mrs. Dora Stephens, andsfamilv. Miss Ruth Robinson of Rensselaer, came Wednesday evening to spend a few days with relatives. Paul Stephens and family and sister, May me, and Eva Johns autoed to Remington Sunday afternoon. There will be children's day exercises Sunday evening, June 13, at the school house. Everyone welcome. Miss Helsie Gordon and friend, ; Miss Shelly, of Rensselaer, visited < home folks Saturday niaht and Sttn- ! day. Mrs. Benson of Lacross, spent the first of the week, with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. McDonald, and family, and other relatives. Miss Dora. Platt and friend, Grace Wood, visited the former’s folks from Saturday evening until Tuesday, both returning to Rensselaer then. ■ .« . Grandma Robinson and Mrs. R. C. McDonald attended the funeral of Mrs. Dillavou Tuesday afternoon at Rensselaer, they being relatives of deceased. R. L. Bussell and family and Mrs. Phillips and son, Harry .autoed to Morocco Monday, spending the day with Mrs. Phillips’ brother, Sam Robinson, and family. PLEASANT RIDGE. Crops in this loeailty are looking fine. Mrs. Lon Colton was a Rensselaer goer'Wednesday. Lucille Luers of near Rensselaer, is working for George Hains. Xewt Hendrix was looking after his farming interests Monday. Quite a few from here joined the Moose lodge Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Humphrey spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Alf Peters. Mr. and Mrs. James Walters spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. .Toe Lane, at Surrey. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. John Xagel is very sick with measles at this writing. Mrs. George Kanne has been working for the past three weeks for Mr. Fell in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. George Parkison took in the band concert at Rensselaer Wednesday eve. Little Estel Pearson of Hobart, spent a few days inis week wit'o Mrs. James Walters. Pie and Philosophy. Commenting on the inconsistencies of longevity a writer recently cited the fact that, though a lifelong devotee to apple pie, Emerson lived to be over 78 years old. That, however, ife not the important fact. Many persons have lived to even a greater age. The distinctive feature of Emerson’s pie-eating career is the wholesome, cheerful and thought compelling system of philosophy which it brought forth. To demonstrate that apple pie had much to do with Emersonian optimism is no task at all. Thomas Carlyle, whose disciple and friend Emerson was, never aty pie, and, although as great a lover of mankind as was the sage of Con- 1 cord, Carlyle was a victim all his life' of melancholia and dyspepsia and hard words. By intellectual descent and association Carlyle was a German, his thought being fed by Goethe, Schiller and others of that great group. But he adhered to the Scottish diet, which does not harmonize with Teutonic philosophy, and so he became physically and mentally dyspeptic. Pie might have saved him had he taken it in time. Further to emphasize the point that pie, or apple pie, at any rate, is the optimistic factor of philosophy, it is necessary only to cite the fact that Xietzsche, who in his unspoiled youth was a devout and cheerful disciple of Emerson, became the materialistic “superman” _of Xietzsche’s later pieless years. All budding philosophers who read these solemn words should be warned in time. —Chicago Xews.