Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1915 — HAPPB OUR NEIGH IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPB OUR NEIGH IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GOOULAND. TFrom The Herald.] Howard McCurry's condition remains about the same. Lester Rich was over from Rensselaer Tuesday and Wednesday. A. E. Stieknoth is erecting a large barn on his farm northeast of town. Mr. and Mrs. Moshier, of Waupaca i Wis., are here the guests of Mr. and Mrs.. Z. F. Little and family. Mrs. Ray Rockwood and baby of Boswell, is here the guest of her sister, Mrs. George Fox, and family, south of town. Miss Edith Fox, who taught school at Wadena last year, is enjoying the sights at the Panama exposition at San Francisco. Mrs. Frank Wiles and little son, Murl, of Danville, 111., is here the guest of the former's brother, H. H. Downing and family. Thomas Huston, who has been staying at Rensselaer for the past few months, returned to Goodland this week for a few days visit with friends. “ " Newton Wickwire and family autoed over from Chalmers Sunday morning to visit with Mrs. Wickwire’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben F? Davidson. Rexford Banes and family of Motion, visited home folks and attended the Chautauqua Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McConnell were also here from Oxford. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jacox and Miss Mary Shlarb returned to their home in Plymouth, Ind., Monday after a short visit here with Mr. ana Mrs. John Fehrle. Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. Dowell went to Chicago Wednesday where the latter boarded a train for San Francisco, Cali., to attend the exposition and to visit relatives. Miss Caddie Griffith of Findlay, Ohio, in company with Miss Marie Rumbaugb of Mt. Pleasant, Va., came last Friday night for a visit here with the former’s brother. Rev. S. A. Griffith and wife. Mrs. L. A. Lemman, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Frances, at Martinsville, Ind., has returned to

Goodland. Her daughter, Mrs. Ora Campbell, of Frankfort, accompanied her home for a visit. Albert E. Gray went to Detroit, Mich., Wednesday to look after a contract near there. He expects to attend the big races in Chicago if he can reach that place from Detroit in time after he completes his business there. Miss Mary Watt returned Wednesday from attending the funeral of Mr. Augspurger, who passed away at his home in Peoria, 111., Sundaj night. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Interment was made at Carlock, 111. Miss Lucile Cassidy, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. John Cassidy, living west of Goodland, was married at St. Joseph church, Kentland. Tuesday morning, to Mr. William Hoss, of Indianapolis. The ceremony was. performed by the Rev. Fr. Stetter at 8 o’clock in the presence of a large company of relatives . and friends. The immediate families of the bride and groom and a few intimate friends enjoyed a wedding breakfast at the home of the bride’s parents following the church service. The young couple left immediately for Indianapolis to establish their home, and where the groom is engaged as a member of the public service commission. The. bride is a lovely young ladytehd a graduate of the Goodland higTf school in 1900 and has the best wishes of her large circle of friends.

WOLCOTT. I From The Enterprise ] Miss (’ceil Baggy, who has been visiting relatives at Rantoul, I'll., returned home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blake of Lafayette, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stockton of Monticello, were in town Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. George Wieshaat and Mrs. Will Ulyatt of Brook, were the guests Friday of Mrs. H. Goodacre. Mr, and Mrs. Nelson lloicourt, of Remington, spent Sunday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Boicourt. Miss Ruth Martin went to Chicago Monday evening, where she will visit her aunt, Mrs. A. B. Seegur, for a week or two. Mrs. William Reames and children of Headlee, were the • guests from Sunday until Wednesday of her sister, Mrs. A. J. Reames. ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. L. A. Miller left Friday evening for South Bend, to spend Sunday with their son, Cecil, who is attending business college there. Miss Fleta Delzell, who has been spending several weeks with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Delzell, at Idaville, returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Mart Snick and Mrs. Milroy Sigman spent Sunday with Mrs. Sigman’s daughter, Mrs. L. M. Ritchey, who is ill at her home near Rensselaer. Air. and Mrs. George Doctor, Jr., of Monticello, came over Tuesday to visit Mr. Doctor’s parents, and incidently, to take home a few of Dad’s good cherries. Mrs. Joe Ford and little daughter, who have been,visiting Mrs. Ford’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Seifert,and other relatives, returned to their home in Rankin, 111., Tuesday'. Mr. and Mrs. M. Seifert, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seifert, Miss Olive Seifert, and Mrs. Joe Ford and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Johnson and family at Seafield. Miss Dorothy Roudebush and twin sisters, Alice Caroline and Anna Catherine, of Noblesville, came Thursday evening for a few davs' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Tal Mitchell and family. Mrs. Jay Kenrich and children of Culver, Ind., who have been visiting

her parents at Reynolds, and her sisters, Mrs. Ed Pugh and Mrs. George Jackson, for the past week, returned to her home Monday morning. ' Word‘has been received that Walter W. Schuyler, now located at Boeas del Toro, Panama, is now acting chief engineer of the Bocas division for the United Fruit Company, the largest fruit company in the world. Mr. Schuyler is very well known here to most of us. He is a graduate of the Wolcott high school class of 1907. The swimming pool is the center of attraction just now, and people, both old and young, are getting much pleasure from its use. Ever* afternoon and evening the water is black with the heads of bathers, and the rails around the pool thronged with spectators. Tuesday evening from 6:30 to S:3O the railing was entirely surrounded with spectators and in some places they were two and three deep.

BROOK. [From Th* Reporter.) Miss Alice Davis returned from Rensselaer, the first of the week. Lige Esson of Peotone, came on Tuesday to inspect his farm and visit relatives in Brook. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eastburn of Sheldon, were calling on Brook friends on Sunday evening. Allen May and Mrs. Harve Hinton were called to Hallsville, Ohio, on last Friday owing to the death of their mother. Jake Thomas, Bert Blood ''and Collins Griffith of Remington, are doing the plastering on the new wing of the Methodist church. Mrs. Myers, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Meredith, left on Thursday for Kansas where she will spend the summer. Curtis Light came home on Saturday for his vacation. He is a graduate civil engineer and will locate shortly at Cedar Rapids, lowa. Archie McMullan of Forest, 111., is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Howard Myers. Miss Harmon, a cousin, from Rensselaer, is also a guest at the Myers home. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hanson, Wm. Karr and family and Roy Bowers and family were entertained on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs Pierson of Foresman. Ben Price is to be successor to James Davis in the local railroad office. He will move here the last of the week and take charge. He has been located lately at Danville, 111. Just as Mrs. Hinton arrived home from the burial of her mother her husband received word of the death of his mother in Adelphi, Ohio, and with his sister, Mrs. Wm. DeLong, he left for that place at once. Mrs. Byron Park and daughters, Grace arid Eunice, started Thursday for a trip through the west. Mrs Eugene Thayer accompanied them. They will visit the various points of interest as well as the exposition. Nathaniel Light, well known to our people, and whose sickness has been mentioned, is lying at the point of death at his home in Shel don. from dropsy, with no hopes of setting better. Israel and Link were at his bedside on Sunday. Nibs Hes§ is sore on the dredge, for he says it has spoiled the fishing. The banks are so high that you lose all the big ones -trying to get them on top. This goes to show that as an invefitor Nibs believes in getting out something new.

ROSELAWN. A 1 Clark had a “blowout” in Roselawn Friday afternoon while making a business call here. French Crooks goes to Logans!»ort to work for contractor Medium! and Boyer, Tuesday. Pearl Best is the possessor of a brand-new Ford 5-passenger ear, having sold her old car to a Remington garage man. Little Elsie Lewark, while playing last Wednesday, fell and dislocated her shoulder. She is getting along nicely at this time. Miss Grace Hathaway and Miss Zelma Anderson of Lowell, visited with Bertha, Merna, Vera and Zella Bess Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. S. W. Benjamin returned to her home at St. Anne. 111., Friday accompanied by Mary Jarte Phillips, who will remain until she gets homesick. Cordell Weaver is working for Fred Nelson, assisting in the construction of his silo and making himself generally useful as well as ornamental around the works. J. T. Bess, the oil man, has made his daughters a present of a fine new Tonk piano. The instrument arrived Friday and it is needless to say the girls are just beaming with smiles. Fred Harrington, the Standard Oil man, was a Roselawn business caller Friday. Fred looks none the worse after his plunge into the ditch with his Ford auto-about two weeks ago, on his last trip here. The Bess girls entertained class No. 10 pf the Lowell Sunday school of the M. E. church, at their home here Saturday evening. There was 35 jolly young folks present ana they enjoyed a very pleasant and profitable evening. Thayer defeated Mt. Ayr in a very closely contested game Sunday on the home grounds. Sharkey of Mt, Ayr, and Cobb of Thayer were both very effective, and with better support the score would have been 2 to 1, instead of 5 to 4. Fred Clements and sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, of Mt. Vernon, Ind., came Friday to spend their vacation with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crooks, and with the Crooks’ children, while their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Judge Clements, are sight-seeing at the California exposition. Rev. Wood, district superintendent of the M. E. church, officiated here Sunday evening to a full house,

preaching a very strong sermon. Rev. Wood is a very entertaining speaker, keeping his audience in good humor all along, and no one went away feeling sleepy or grouchy. We hope to hear him igain. Dorris Crooks went to Chicago Saturday morning where he will take up his studies in the Chicago Art Institute. He will make his home with his uncle and aunt, Dr and Mrs. French, during his stay iri Chicago. Here’s hoping Dorris makes good at his chosen profession, as he has worked hard at his studies and also earned the money to take this course in art and is well deserving of success. Cletos Gundy was a Chicago passenger on the milk train Monday. Cletos was called there to act as best man at the marriage of his cousin, Mr. Clifford Rainford, of Lake Village, to Miss Sadie Kavanaugh, a trained nurse of Chicago, and thereby hangs a happy romance. Something like a year ago Mr. Rain ford was the victim of a street car accident and was taken to a hospital, and fell under the care of Miss Kavanaugh, whose tender nursing speedily restored him to his former health. Here’s hoping the future for Mr. and Mrs. Rainford may be full of the joys of this life and that neither may have cause to regret their romantic meeting and happy marriage.

SOUTH AMERICA. a few weeks with her aunt at Remington. Miss Goldie Beaver spent Sunday with Irene McAleer. Charles Culp is assisting Henry Deßoy plow corn this week. Leona Ogle called on Blossom Grouns Thursday afternoon. Miss Orabelle Swartz called on Blossom Grouns Tuesday afternoon. Miss Orabelle Swartz returned home Sunday night after spending Mrs. Alta Stewart assisted Mrs. Thomas McAleer with sewing Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Swartz attended the band concert Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kerr and family spent Sunday with Wm. Fisher and family. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Swartz spent Sunday afternoon with George Martin and family. Mr. and Mrs. - Charles Sommers and two children are visiting in Lafayette this : week. Mr. and Mrs, John Johnson spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sommers. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Beaver and two children spent Sunday with H. M. Ogle and family. Mrs. William Garvin and Mrs. Lena Sommers spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Louis Swartz. Mrs. John Havens, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Grouns, returned home Sunday evening. Church and Sunday school were very well attended Sunday, and Rev. Samsel delivered two very fine sermons. Church again in two weeks. Dr. and Mrs. Martin of Mt. Ayr, spent Sunday With W. V. Vanatta. In the afternoon they autoed to Wm. Harris' and family to spend the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Boudreau and two children autoed to Fowler Saturday and called on her sister, Mrs. Charles Boudreau, and also her son. From there they autoed to Goodlant. and spent the afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Daley, returning home Saturday evening. “THE JUNGLES.” Goldie Beaver spent Sunday with Irene McAleer. Frank Somers is spending a few days with his sister, Anna Murphy, of Surrey. A number from here attended the commencement at McCoysburg Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Beaver and two children took Sunday dinner with H. M. Ogle and family. Roy Walls and family, of Pleasant Ridge, took supper with H. M. Ogle and family Sunday evening. Roy Walls and family, of near Pleasant Ridge, took dinner Sunday with Nicholas Dignan and family.