Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

BROOK. (From the Reporter.) Mrs, Denham and son of Remington were jn Brook Sa-rurday visiting Mr. Denham. . t C. E. Sunderland and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Pierson at Fores man. . John English of Brookston spent a few days this week here with his brother. Job English. Ed Childers and,, wife of Monticello visited over, Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Neely Wilson. Harry Risley and family of Sheldon were visiting at the home of Tout Meridith on Sunday. Fred Longw.ell was taken suddenly ill while at school Monday morning with chronic heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Gentry of Morocco came over Sunday and spent the day with relatives here. Freeman Davis was up from Lafayette and spent Sunday with his father, Frank Davis, attd sisters. The Leopold family of Rensselaer spent Sunday afternoon visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs; Ben Leopold. The Light fam i lies held a reunion at Earl Park on Sunday and Link Light and family from, this place fttended.

Mrs. Albert Ohman came down from Chicago on Friday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thorp Beagley. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Corbin of Morocco came down Sunday and spent the day with the latter’s father, Isaac Sell. A. O. Levitt left for his'Bome in Basin, Wyoming, Wednesday. “Pat” had been called here by the serious illness of his mother. Mrs. Charles Kensey and little son Charles of Snow Hill, Md., are the guests of Mrs. Kensey’s father, Rev. MacDonald, and family. Paul Hanson was called to Momence on Tuesday evening owing to the illness of his brother, Gilbert, who is not expected to live. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Bowers had as their; guest for the week-end Grover Kesner, brother of Mrs. Bowens, and Miss Ruth Klank of Champaign, 111. Irvin Clinton went to Kewanna the latter part of last week and returned with his mother, who has been quite sick for a number of days previous.

Rees Hill left Saturday for northern Michigan, where he will spend some time with the boys and look after his property interests in that section. Mrs. H. H. Magee and little daughter of Lake Crystal, Minn., arrived Friday and will make an extended visit with her mother, Mrs. John Haynes. Mr. and Mrs, Sternberg were in Chicago the first of the week and from there Mr. Sternberg went to Wisconsin to look after some business matters. Israel Light came down front Conrad on Monday evening to pack and ship his goods to Lake Village, where he expects to make his home for some time. Dr. Larrison has purchased the Ed Wilson property on Main street. Ed will build on his share of the home farm west of town if the property can be divided.

Mr. Denham went to Remington Sunday to spend the day with home folks. He expects to move to Brook this week and will occupy the property vacated by Mr. and .Mrs. Israel Light. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Sunderland entertained their children and grandchildren and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest James* and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard James and children on Sunday. Elmer Light and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fierce of Brook and Mrs. Chas. White and Mrs. date Washburn of Kentland and Mrs. Burford Light left for Chicago on Thursday, from where they will leave for Oklahoma to attend the funeral of A. W. Light.

The dredge men think that it will take about three weeks more of digging to reach the railroad bridge south of town. If it takes them the

same length of time to tear out and replace the railroad bridge as it did the one at Foresman there will be no passenger trains for about three days. • ’ Harold Herath was badly injured about 5 o’clock Tuesday evening by being thrown by the h<jrse he was riding. He was on his way to Dave Harris’ to bring home the cows and just as he was entering the gate at the Harris home the horse bOcatpe frightened and whirled about, lost it- tooting and fell. Harold st ruck the ground with his head and shoulder with tremenduous force and was rendered unconscioms, and remained in an unconscious condition until after 10 o’clock the same evening. A physician was called and found that no bones were broken hut tha* he was badly bruised and shaken up and. will probably be confined to his bed for a week or two. At last reports he was getting along all right but verv sore from the effects of the fall.

WOLCOTT. (From the Enterprise.) . Miss Grace Dixon, who has been visiting at Morocco, returned home Wednesday evening. Miss Bessie Huffy returned home Thursday evening from a few days’ visit with - friends in Chicago. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Croft, Saturday, April 22, an eight and* one-half pound daughter. Mrs. Roy Wilkinson spent from Friday until Monday evening with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, at Lafayette. Miss Ethel .Markin of Remington, Fred Griffin of Monticello and John Spencer of Monon were guests Sunday of Mr. and /Mrs. Earl Markin. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Sentman and daughter Eunice of Covington, Ind., came up .in their auto Saturday to see their new nephew’ and visit Mrs. Sentman’s brothers, Ernest and Perman Mattox, and families. King Gray received a. telegram Saturday announcing the death of his sister-in-law at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, and left at once for that city. Mrs. Gray was called there last Thursday and arrived before the death of her sister. Mrs. Orr Snick received word by telegram Wednesday morning of tb,e death of her father. George Hanaway, at Sanducky, Ohio, At 8 o’clock Wednesday morning. The remains will be brought to Monticello where the funeral will be held Saturday or Sunday and burial made in the Norway cemetery north of Monticello.

GOV IDLAND (From the Herald.) Nirs. A. J. Kitt of Fowler Visited friends in Goodland this week. B. Furman left Sunday morning for New’ York City, business calling him there. Mr. and Mrs, Max Harner spent Sunday with the former’s parents in Remington. Spoor Kitt, student at the Onarga, 111., seminary, visited his grandmother, .Mrs. Anna Kitt, Sunday. Barney Clark was taken to the St. Vincent hospital at Indianapolis the first of the week for an operation. Charles Wellington of Lafayette called on his mother here Sunday. Mrs. Wellington is much improved.

Miss Carrie Green was over from Remington Sunday the guest’ of her aunt, Mrs. John Carpenter, and family. Mrs. C. C. Bassett went to Gibson City, 111., last Friday moaning for a short visit with Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Griffith. Improvements are being made on the George Ormiston property on west Jasper street, which is occupied by Robert Harms. Miss Elizabeth Stryker of Washington, 1). ('., came Wednesday for a few weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs. Charles Burgess. Attorney A. D. Babcock returned last Saturday morning from Indianapolis, where he spent a few days visiting with his son James. Frank Conway, who has a position as pharmacist in one of the Quigley drug stores in Richmond, Ind., came home Sunday for a visit with home folks. Mrs. Magill and daughter Alice of St. Louis are here the guests of Mrs. Magill’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Henderson. They expect to visit about a week. Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Baumann returned Wednesday form a week’s

visit with Kralls Allen at Grant Park, 111., and Mrs. Wm. Frohreich at Beecher, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hotler. were called to Meadows, 111., Tuesday to attend the funeral of the latter’s sister, Mrs. Joseph Mossi-rnan, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Johnston of Omaha, Neb., w ill be here Sunday to visit their son. Rev. Paul C. Johnston. They will also be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burgess - white here. / < Raymond Cooke, who has a portion with the Nordyke Marmon company at Indianapolis, came home last Friday to spend Easter with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cooke. He drove through in his car. W. 1.. Wood and daughter, Mrs. Ocie Brusnahan, and Miss Lucy Brusnahan of Parr and the Misses Florence and Ruth Gorham of Rensselaer were callers in Goodland last Friday night. Mr. Wood was one of thC speakers at the “Get-to-Gether” meeting at the school house. ♦On Easter Sunday Mr. and Mrs. George Wortley, residing seven and a half miles northeast of Goodland, were most agreeably surprised by having their children and grandchildren come in with well filled baskets in honor of Mr. Wortley’s t3d birthday. After the dinner, which was greatly enjoyed by all, the afternoon was spent in singing, led by the Johnson brothers of Mt. Ayr, after which all departed for their different homes wishing Mr. Wortley manyhappy birthdays in the future. Those from away w-ere George Wortley and little daughter Florence of Logansport and Charles Battleday and family of near Mt. Ayr.

FRANCESVILLE. (From the Tribune.) Joseph Hepp was over from Winamac on business Tuesday, Stanley B. Merica, who is attending Purdue, was home Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Coey visited with Mr. and Mrs.- Ilarve Buckles at Chalmers Sunday. Harry Wise of Miami was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Wise, Sunday. Mrs. John C. Fitzpatrick returned home Tuesday after a few days’ visit with friends and relatives at Wheatfield. Miss Delia Nelson of Monticello was the guest of her parents here Sunday.

Clifford Boulden will leave sometime next week for Gary, where he has secured employment during the summer, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Doyle were passengers Ashgrove Sunday and attended the funeral of a neice, Mrs. Willis Burroughs. Mr. and Mrs. Aniinen Osburn of Grass Creek, Ind., were the guests of the former's parents, west of Francesville, over Sunday. Lase and Dan Smoyer returned from Hamilton, Ohio, Monday, where they were called to attend the funeral of their uncle, Dan Smith. His age was 81 years. He dropped dead on the streets in Hamilton.

The Monon will put a new time card into effect within a few days which will effect this division some. The south bound evening train will leave Michigan City one hour and 2P minutes later than at present on Sundays only. The death of Mrs. Vilas Kelley, formerly Miss Lena Maxwell, occurred rather suddenly Saturday afternoon at the St. Elizabeth’s hospital Danville, 111. She had been taken to the hospital the day before suffering from a complication of troubles which had become very acute within a very few- 'hours, and before she could be relieved with an operation death came. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Maxwell, former residents of this place but now of S-pringborough, Carroll county. About six years ago she was married to Vilas Kelley and he is left with two sons. The funeral was 'held Monday at Ambia. M. M. Maxwell and Mrs. Frank Stiller of the place returned from there Tuesday evening.

THE JUNGLES. (Too late for Saturday’s issue) Mrs. George Wood was a Rensselaer goer Friday. Several ladies assisted Mrs. Bess Chapman-in papering Tuesday. 11. M. Ogle and boys hauled fertilizer from Wolcott Saturday. 11. M. Ogle attended*the funeral of J. H. I'phoff of Onarga, 111., Thursday. Mrs. George Beaver assisted her sister, Mrs. Mabel Johnson, with papering Friday. Mrs. Elmer Clark and Mrs. William Harwell are near Wolcott taking care of their daughter and grandson. We hear that one of our newly married couples*who live near Wolcott have the big head. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Harwell were visited by the stork Friday and are the proud owners of a new son. Eight and a half pounds.