Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

LEE Mrs. C. A. Holeman is making a week-end visit with her son Orvi 1, of south of Lafayette. Mrs. Deliah Myers, mother of Anne Rishling, died in Reynolds Friday and burial was made at the Osborne ceiietery Sunday morning. - Mrs, George Holeman and son ’of Monticello canie Thursday to be with her neice, Mrs, Lora <)•.- mo.e before her leaving -for the hospital. The remains of Mrs. George Conaway was brought here. Sun day evening from Virginia. Minn., for burial which was made Monday at the Osborne cemetery. Mrs. Lora Gilmore was taken to the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette last Friday to be operated on for apendicitis. She was accompanied by her husband, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. C.dp. The operation was very successful and she is getting along as well as could be expected. obituary of Sarah Culp. Sarah daughter of David and Elleanor Culp, was born May 14, 1 867, in Jasper county, and died in Virginia. Minn., her late home, at the age of 48 years, 9 months and 21 days. June 6, 1889, she was united in marriage to George Conaway. To this union thirteen children were born, two having gone before her. She leaves to mourn her loss the husband, eleven children and five grandchildren, an aged .father and stepmother, two brothers, William and James Culp, and a host of relatives and friends. At the age of twenty-two she united with the Methodist church at the Osborne school house, where she was a faithful member. She was a kind and loving mother, having a sweet disposition, and was loved by all who knew her as she spent the greater part of her life in the surrounding community. xx

FAIR OAKS. Health is still improving in our town. The teachers’ institute was held here last Saturday. Leslie Warne is having a pretty serious time with quincy this week. W. O. Gourly’s brother from near Paxton, 111., is here maxing him a visit nowadays. Rev. Rogers occupied the pulpit in the Christian church Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Arthur Ropp and Floyd Baxter are chief cook and bottle washers on F. R. Erwin’s new dredge. There was a quite a number who attended the Miles’ sale Tuesday and things sold at a good figure. C. B. Sprong of Georgetown, 111., was in these parts the latter part of the week looking after his farm. Tom Johnson went out to help Homer Stanley move Thursday over towards Morocco on a place adjoining the old Sam Barker farm. Miss Pansa Bozell, the nurse who went down near Mt. Ayr last week to wait on Mrs. Huntington through a siege of grip, came home Wednesday. ■

F. R. Erwin's new dredge is throwing the dirt right and left in fine shape; Those who have seen it work say-it is a -dandy machine. It is run by gasoline. Ira Simmons, who lives four miles west of town, will make a sale about the first of March and expects to move to Nebraska, where he is trading for more property. C. B. Stewart of Rensselaer, the truant officer, was up here Tuesday looking after- some children who had been kept out of school on account of the scarlet fever scare. The weather has ut-en ideal up until Tuesday evening when we got a nice little shower, accompanied with <iuite a bit of lightning and thunder and now we have all kinds of mud again. Nimrod Burns has the lurnbor on the ground to build himself a new home. It is to be located at the north side of town on Hendrix street. Ruben Nolen is the architect and builder. Dr. Rice of Roselawn was called here one day last week to see one of Cal Borough's little girls who was <iilite ill. He diagnosed her case as scarlet fever and placed a quarantine on them, but it was a mild case and she is feeling very good at this writing. Rev, PoStill came up Sunday and lilled hjs regular appointment as usual, but the affair which was to take place in the country immediately after the services in which he was to play an interesting part, failed to materilize. He turned away but we can’t say sorrowfully, as he seemed to take it in a very cheerful way, ha! - The road officials in Lincoln tp., Newton county, have been using a drag on the gravel roads over there, filling up the ruts and holes. The same is v,ery much needed on the county line and on the road west from here, as there are great deep ruts cut by heavy haullng~wheA the frost was going out of the ground, making the roads in a bad shape. Mrs. Trump and daughter Bula, who had been up in Michigan for a month caring for her daughter, Mrs. Frank McKay, who had an attack of pneumonia, returned home Monday and reported that Frank had had another boy added to his family and all but the mother was fine and dandy. That makes three boys. They will make the burden light for their father in his declining days.