Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — HAPPLNINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPLNINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

SOUTH AMERICA. Miss Leona Ogle spent Stinday wit h Pearl Ross. Miss Orabelle Swartz called on Blossom Groups Sunday afternoon. Miss Leona Ogle and Blossom Grotins were Rensselaer goers Thursday. ' Gr < ■ Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clark and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Elsie Clark. Ernest Harris spent from Friday until Sunday with his uncle, Frank Sommers. Mr. and. Mrs. Charley Lytle called on Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Win. V, Vanatta spent the Fourth with Dr. and Mrs. Martin at Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Mary Brehman of Pleasant Ridge, spent a few days with her parents. Mr. and .Mrs. George Martin, this week.

ROSELAWN. Flora Frye was in Lowell between trains Friday. W. T. Kight was a Lowell visitor Friday morning. Miss Mabel Downey came Monday for a visit with Iva Dunn. Mrs. Fred Geeson and son, Freddie. of Wisconsin, are visiting home folks here. Clarence Hixon is working on the Lawler ranch, helping out with the hay harvest. Mrs. Lida Conger returned from Morocco Tuesday night, where she had been visiting friends. J. J. Mulder accompanied by V. D. McCloud and daughter, Florence, autoed to Lowell Saturday. Wm. Boyle, of the Ford home, went to Earl Park Thursday and brought back a car for a customer. Reuben Gundy and wife autoed to Kankakee Monday .to attend the celebration of the glorious Fourth. The Monon depot came near burning Monday. The fire was started by some boys shooting firecrackers. (’. T. Otis came down from Chicago Friday morning to look after his farm and dairy interests hereabouts. .Mary Jane Phillips returned home from St. Anne,' Hl ‘ Tuesday, after a week’s visit with her aunt and uncle Benjamin’s. Rye and wheat harvesting has begun around here, and the prospects look good at this time for a good Yield of all small grains. Walter Lynge, the local agent for the Independent Wood Silo Co., received a carload of silos Friday for his customers in this vicinity. Quite a number front here attended the celebration at Thayer Saturday. The main feature was the ball game between Snyder and Thayer, which Snyder won in the 11th inning. Joseph Roush and family of Hegwisch, ill., are keeping house temporarilly in the Barkey cottage. Mr. Roush is working here at present, as everything in his line of work is at a standstill at Hegwisch. Henry Jensen, living two miles west Of Thayer, received quite a cut in the head Saturday while hauling lumber from Roselawn. Mr. Jensen's wagon was run into by a large touring car driven by a Chicago party, and he was thrown from the wagon and against a po-t. He was brought to Roselaw n and the wound dressed by Dr. Rice. All expenses of the accident was paid by the auto party, whose name we did not learn.

MILROY Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hamilton spent Sunday - afternoon at Wm. Chapman’s. Preaching agaip Sunday, July/11, at 11 a. m., and after B. Y. P. U. in the evening, Mr. and Mrs.. Reed Spencer 01 Wolcott, spent Sunday with Wm. Fisher and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beaver and daughter, Dollie, spent Sunday afternoon with G. Foulks'. An election of officers will be held Sunday at Sunday school and «. teachers’ meeting at George Foulks’ Saturday evening, led by Rev. Samsel. Mr. and Mrs. Scrlpter of Wolcott, visited their daughter, Mrs. Perfect Spencer and family, Saturday night. Mr. Spencer and family accompaning them to Wolcott Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell,, Mr. and Mrs. Lud Clark and daughter, Sophia, Ruth May, Nettie Dignan, Sylvia Beaver and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks took Sunday dinner with George Foulks’.

OAK GROVE. Mrs. Elmer Kerns is very ill with tonsil it is. John Lilly madp a trip to Judyville .Monday and bought a span of mules. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman ■ Gifford called on Susie Alexander Monday afternoon. Misses Rose and Nelle Fleming are spending a few days with relatives at Kouts. Mr. and Mes. Elmer Kerns have gone to housekeeping in John Pettet's tenant house. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Graham ana. family spent Sunday' with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pettet at Kersey. Miss Margaret Pettet returned home Sunday, after a short visit w|th Miss Pauline Iliff, at Kouts. Firman Pettet called on Jim Wisenian at Virgie, Sunday night. Firman is interested in the silo question. Miss Myrtle Shell returned home Monday, after spending a fe-w days with her Sister, Mrs, George Collins, of Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Shell, daughter, Addie, and son Edwin, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Turner at Burke’s Bridge. Airs. Charles Payne and daughters, May and Geraldine, returned home Monday, after spending the Fourth with Mr. Payne’s mother at Rensselaer. -■

FOUR CORNERS. Trustee Davis and Thomas Jones went to the county seat on business Tuesday. Quite a number of Wheatfield sports attended the blowout at North Judson Monday. Our It. F. I), carrier, Clarence Nelson; has purchased a home and is now nicely located in the new cottage recently built by the Hot. Gore of Tefft. The shipment of stock both front Wheatfield and Tefft would lead one to believe that the majority of farmers are going out of the stock business in this section of the county. Wheatfield Regulars will play a. Kankakee team, on home ground, next Sunday. Come out and help foot for the home team, and they need your help financially, besides. Harvesting of wheat commenced Tuesday, but the heavy rain all night Tuesday ami Wednesday has called a halt for a day or two. The fly did great damage to some fields. We will not make more than onehalf a crop, Mrs. Jack Schreiber lost the greater part of her turkeys a few nights ago, by wolves. They came within a few rods of the house for them, and came the next night and "iu-' w one trap? that was set for their benefit. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Teach of near Francisville, visited over Sunday with F. W. Fi-do r and family. They, were favorably impressed with this part of Jasper county, and said the crops was much better than where they were Ideated. Attorneys George Hershman ana Knotts assisted the orator of the day, Halleck, at Burrows Camp Saturday. A number of Rensselaer citizens were in attendance and did not fail to partake of the ”10c straight” at the resort. The greatest attraction at the river on the 3d at Burrows Camp, was the smile that rested for a moment on the face of a certain editor when he referred to a libel prosecution. It was like a ray of sunshine just before a thunder storm. Mrs. ( lark, mother of Harmon Clark, is critically ill at this writing. She is a sister to Mr. Melcher, who- received the injury Saturday when struck by an automobile near the Fitzgerald farm, and who was called here on account of her critical condition; Thomas Jones and James Spry are building a double crib and granary for F. W. Fisher. Charles Meyers and Mr Dewey are also building granaries. They are not disposed to take the. prices offered for their grain and will, like hundreds of other farmers, store same. - Everything at Burrows Camp was en the free for all list Saturday, gambling in almost all its forms is said to have been on the board. The crowd was thisty, the weather ideal, but the ball game was a joke, with the score 32 to 5, in favor of the Wheatfield Regulars: The score would have been greater had the win nets been able to stand the strain. Mrs,. Leoh) Hubbard and two. caught-vs o, Wabash county, are* visiting relatives here this week. They » xpe : to return home the last, of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have charge of the poor farm of Wa-ba-.h county. A few years ago the county stood, 1,600 Republican and now, when the new year comes in, the Democrats will hold every elective office in that codnty. Harmon Me'.chbf,-who was struck and had his leg broken by an automobile driven by Mrs. S. Fendig of Wheatfield, Saturday, is doing nicely at the Fendig home where he was taken immediately after the accident. No one who is aware how the accident occurred blames Mrs. Fendig in any way for it. The unfortunate one who received the injury does not himsen tdame her, but the ones w’ho were driving the other car and who, if reports are true were in no condition to be on the road with a car ✓at 'that time. The number of their car was taken and they will hear from it later, it is said.