Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSKIjAW.V. Otis Phillips was a Chicago visitor Monday. Everett Dunn is working in Gary for the tin plate works, Mr. Gravenstock of Fuller Island was a business visitor lo re Wednesday. ■. . . , ■ . Gletos Gundy went to Lafayette Monday where he lias secured a job in the Hub clothing store. Nick Hixon has moved from the M. E. parsonage to the house formerly occupied by R. M. Dunn. R. M. Dunn and family moved to Thayer Monday. Mr. Dunn has opened up a first class grocery store there. Etta Lee was able to take tip her school work in the Lowell high school after a week's absence on account of the measles Dr. C. M. Rice and son Burgess autOed to Chicago Sunday and left the car in the city to be overhauled, returning home via-train. Robert Gilbreath has Traded his town property here for a farm. Mr. Gilbreath will not leave here until fall, having the farm rented. William Overmayer was over to Kentland Saturday and brought home a hunch of greenbacks to the men who have been hauling stone on the roads. D. K. Frye and family, accompanied fay Mr. and Mrs. Hickson, autoed to Gary Sunday, visited the Fuller family and took in the sights of the great steel city. Jake Walstra, youngest son of Peter Walstra, was taken to Chicago by Dr. Rice Wednesday, where he was operated on for appendicitis. He came through the operation in fine shape. Andrew McCarthy and family moved to the farm just bought of Mr. Jabczynski Wednesday, They moved from Chicago via auto truck. Mr.' Jabczynski and family have moved back to Chicago, their former home.

McCOYSBURG. Mrs. Levi Herr called on Mrs. T. B. Stevenson Monday. Roy Bussell and family autoed to- Logansport last Sunday. The Gifford base ball boys'will play McCoysburg here Sunday, May 21. ■ ; Mrs. T. B. Stevenson called, on Mrs. Will McDonald Wednesday evening. Airs. Charles Ferguson and son Arthur were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Frank Garvin and Miss Alice Stevenson wmre in Rensselaer Wednesday evening. Mrs. Ray Fleck was called away Friday to attend the funeral of her home Wednesday. T. B. Stevenson has returned to his work after a short visit with wife and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, R. V. Johns and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lear of Seal!eld. Harvey John, Gilbert Martin, Miss Eva Johns and Sam Cook autoed to Rensselaer Wednesday evening. Mrs. Charles Ferguson, son Ray, and Bertha Campbell visited her mother at Reynolds over Sunday, return ing horne Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. True Culp, Mrs. T. B. Stevenson and daughter Alice took dinner with Mr, and Mrs. William McDonald and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bussell and children and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Bussell attended band concert Wednesday evening at Rensselaer. Mrs. 1. R. Phillips and daughter, Dora Stevens and baby, attended, the big birthday dinner with Dan Robinson and family of Rensselaer.

LEE. Herbert Maxwell has bought him a Jersey cow for their own use. Mrs. Becky Jacks helped Mrs. John Osborne clean house last week. J. H. Culp and family called on J. W. Mellender’s Sunday afternoon. The Home Missionary society met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. H. C. Anderson. Mrs. Hester Warren and daughter, Anna May, visited her parents at Medaryville last week. Mrs. C. A. Holeman has recovered from her sickness enough to be able to go to church Sunday. - Miss Anderson, a teacher of Rensselaer, spent Saturday and Sunday here with Miss Lural Anderson. Mrs. Susie Robbins and two children of Monon spent Sunday here with H. C. Anderson and family. Mr. Linback and family moved from the house they did live in, to the Mrs. Ann Rishling property at this place. Hoy Rishling and family of north of Rensselaer spent Sunday afternoon with his mother, Ann Rishling, of this place. Uncle Wesley Noland came to his non Obe’s Monday to stay with them

for a while. He is able to be about in the house some with help. S. M. Jacks and family and his sister, .Mrs. (’. A. Lefler, went in the former's auto to Remington last Sunday to see their uncle, Ed Culp.

PINE GROVE. Floyd Shook spent Sunday with Frank Britt. Gladys Baker spent Saturday night with Nile Britt. Mary Shook took dinner with Alice Galbraith Sunday. Charles Shroyer was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Gifford Sundayed with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Snow attended the baptism at Gifford Sunday afternoon. David Yeoman and Charley Torbet were Sunday guests of Newell and Lowell Hayes. Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Price spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents at Wheatfield. „ Mr. a nd Mrs. Roy Torbet and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shroyer. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Daniels and family have moved front town to their cduntry home for the summer. Mrs. Charles Jenkins and son Seth of Wheatfield spent Friday night with Mrs. James Torbet and family. Mr. and Mrs. Janies Torbet and daughter Cbloae and Mr. and Mrs. Bluford Torbet and daughter Ruth spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Dale and family. Mr. and Mrs, Ed Ropp of Chicago took dinner Sunday with the former’s father and family, Mr. and .Mrs. Andy Ropp. They stopped here on their way home from Atlanta, Ua.

MILROY. William Chapman lost a valuable horse last week. W. 1’- Gaffield and George Martin were in Monon Sunday. James Wood spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Charles Wood visited friends in Lowell over Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Mary McCashen and daughter Etta spent Tuesday afternoon with I. F. Clark's. Mrs. George Foulks and Martha ('lark spent Satorday night with Mr. and Mrs, Henry Goble: Miss Dott Porter returned home Tuesday after a few days’ visit with George Foulks and family. Mrs. Jesse English and Mi s. Beckt.tan of Rensselaer spent Wednesday with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Earl Foulks. Mrs. Porter and daughters, Lottie and Dott, and son Donald and Mrs. Robert May called on Mrs. Fisher Tuesday afternoon. William Fisher and son Clyde and Fred Marchand autoed to Lafayette Tuesday evening to hear the famous Minnesota Symphony orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks and little son. Loren George, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Clark spent Sunday evening with Joseph E. Clark and family. Mr. and Mrs, William Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McCashen and Miss Dott Porter spent Sunday with Frank May’s.

W. L. Rich is improving slowly ! and is now able to sit up a little. John W.‘ Stokes of the Marion Soldiers’ home is spending the week in town. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haskall of Rensselaer spent Sunday with the editor’s family. Dr. Latidon has recovered from his recent sickness and is again attending to business. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Julian o f Sheldon were Sunday guests of Me! Julian and family. . ! Lou Fields and mother of Goodla nd Were week-end visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Rich. .Mrs. Dr. Hornaday of Frankfort was a Sunday visitor of her sister, Mrs. Catherine Miller. Jackie Harris returned to the Wabash Valley sanitarium at Lafayette Monday for treatment. Miss Pauline Kenyon of Oxford came'Friday for a visit with her uncle. Will Kenyon’s family. James’Bell of Goodland spent the week-end in town with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Walker. Miss Alice Walker went to Lafayette Thursday last for a few days’ visit With Miss Ethel Greene. Miss Dell Yeoman spent a few days the first of the week with her brother Steve and wife in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. George Worden and daughters, Frances and Cecelia, attended church services in Lafayette Sunday. Mrs. Walter Gillam and son Ronald spent Saturday night and Sunday in Goodland the guests of Mrs. W. E. Rich. Herman Baxter and Miss Pearl Baxter returned Tuesday evening from a visit of several days with friends in Illinois. W. E. Jhonston and his brother, Dr. Roy Johnston, of Decatur are attending ilie funeral of Porter Eveland at Garden Grove, lowa, today. Frank Rich, treasurer of Newton county, was over Sunday. Frank has counted lots of money in the last three weeks and he will be busy for three .weeks more. Mrs. Fannie Hell returned to Goodland Tuesday after spending several days in town. She was accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. li. h. Walker.

Mrs. Josephine Emery and grandson, James Kenyon, who have been spending the winter in Florida, arrived home Saturday, having driven through in the little Ford. J. L. Williams received a telegram Saturday conveying the sad news of the death of a sister in Kansas from heart trouble. A brother died from the same disease only a year ago. Mrs. M. K. Gray and Mrs. Augusta Brooks, mother and sister of M. A. Gray, were here to attend the funeral of Mr. Powell. They returned to their home at Saunimin, 111., Tuesday. Some one suggests that perhaps that load of matches that got on tire was from Dr. Besser’s match factory and were such hot stuff that they “combusted” of their own accord. Dr. Elmer M. Bull of Wabash came Sunday for a couple of days’ visit. He returned home Tuesday accompanied by his mother, Mrs. T. B. Markin, who will spend several weeks at his home. Rev. and Mrs. Konkle were the recipients of a surprise reception tendered them by the members of t heir church. This partook somewhat of the nature of a farewell, as Mr. Konkle closes his pastorate here in a short time.

Mrs. T. M. O'Connor and Mis. Edgar Johnson of Fowler and Mrs. Henry Tribbey of Terre Haute motored to Remington Wednesday, taking dinner with Mrs. John R. O'Connor and also calling on Marion Hoover and family and other relatives. Mrs. Ellen O’Connor entertained relatives and friends at dinner Sunday. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Marion O’Connor of Gil boa, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tribbey and Utile daughter Loraine of Terre Haute and Mrs. Rosamond Blanchard, a trained nurse, of Illinois. Miss Ida Beal accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Beal and little daughter, Marceline Parks, to Crawfordsville Sunday morning to spend a v dav or two with Charles G. Beal and daughter Ruth. They returned Monday evening, accompanied by their mother, who has been spending the past two months with her son Charles. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Morin of St. Mary, Ontario, arrived here this week from their home and will visit Mr. and Mrs. George Morin, the former’s father, and other relatives. They drove through from Canada in their Overland. They state that they found some dreadful roads through the state of Michigan. Mr. Morin is a chiropractor and is* looking for a location hereabouts. The war in the old country has shot the work all to pieces in Canada, hence his change in location. We used so know Mr. Morin when he was located in Morocco in another business.

BROOK. (From the Reporter.) John O’Connor of Rensselaer was in town on Wednesday. Born, Wednesday morning, a ninepound boy to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Curts. Mrs. Bernard Gragg spent Saturday and Sunday with her husband in Lafayette. George Casey was in town on Friday. He is farming this summer near Rensselaer. S. S. Barnes ahd wife of Fowler spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Fred Longwell, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Rees Hill returned home the first of the week, Rees

came from his farm in the northern peninsula of Michigan and Mrs. Hill from Battle Creek. El wood Harry of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Mr. andj Mrs. W. E. Harry. Miss Hazel Perkins and Miss Ruth Be master of Goodland spent the week-end with the Misses Letha and Gertrude Weishaar. Warren McCray i s suffering from a bad wrist, the result of a kick from the crank handle of his Ford, which he was endeavoring to start. Mrs. Jane'Allen and her daughter, Mrs. Hershal Gray, of Chicago came on Saturday and visited with pMrs. Allen's brother, John B. Fores’.nan, and Mrs. E. E. Hess until Wednesday. Mrs. Win. Bice, who was taken to the hospital in Chicago, was found to be in such a serious candition that it was decided that an operation would he of no avail and she was brought home. .Mrs. Fred Foresman was taken to Chicago on Monday for treatment in the hospital. She has been gradually growing worse since the birtii of her, babe several weeks ago and it was concluded to place her under the care of a specialist. Robin Hunter and wife of Silver Lake, Jnd., spent Sunday and Monday in Brook visiting relatives. Robin says that they have had too much rain in their country and while the oats are looking fine the corn ground is not in as good shape as here. After Mr. Ade had experimented with various grasses on earth taken rroni the dredge bank on the west of the farm he gave up the idea of smoothing and grassing it over as none of the known grasses would crow on it. So he left it in the rough and is covering it with black locusts; Over 5,000 of these small trees are being set out on the embankment. Jacob D. Rich and John Foresman took Fred Lyons up to /their farm near Tefft this week to expert the land. Fred is authority for the statement that the land is well underlaid with clay as the ditches show clay where they are being dug and then he says Joe McKinney says they are, and Joe has looked at the underpinning of more land than any man. in this country. “Looks like a bargain to me,” is the way Fred expressed it.

Word from Mrs. Ray Hershman, who was called to Detroit owing to the death of her .nephew,-, says' that he was killed by an auto. He was playing near the curb and a big car coming at high speed skidded over 100 feet and struck him, fracturih? the skull. He was hurried to the hospital but, died in a few minutes. The driver had lost control of the car which was going fast arid the pavement allowed it*to travel the distance. Mrs. Daly, the boy’s mother, is almost prostrated with grief. The father, who is on the road, was in the south at the time and was several days getting home. The lad was six years of age and had visited several times with his mother in Brook.— [ Mrs. Dalv and Mrs. Hersh man are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Sayler, formerly of Rensselaer, and well known to many people here.—Ed. Democrat. ] On Monday occurred the death of Mrs. Louis Bracksma. She had been sick for some time and last week a specialist was summoned from the city and decided the trouble was cancer of the stomach. She grew rapidly worse and died at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon. She was the devoted mother of a large family, most of whom survive her. She has resided in and near Brook since 1 S!M. She was a member of the United Brethren church. She was married last October and she and her husband had .iust completed the rebuilding and equipping their home with all the modern conveniences. Mrs. BrackSiiia's long residence here has made for her many friends who sympathize with the family in their bereavement. All the children were in attendance at the funeral except Orrie, who was here onlv a few weeks ago and had just returned o his home in Basin, Wyoming. The surviving children are Airs. Lillie Antcliff of Medaryville, Ben and Irvin of Brook. Oscar of Montana, John of Lacross, Ind., Orrie of Basin, Wyoming.

FRAN( 'ESYILLE. (From the Tribune,} Mrs. Margaret Hill and daughter went to Xiles. Michigan, yesterday. John Fitzpatrick of St. Paul was here yesterday and today, the guest ot'vhis brother Will. Mr. and Mrs. Paul yon Tobel and children, spent Sunday with relatives at Fairbury, Ililnois. Jesse P. Hubbell of Toledo was here the first of the to viist relatives and old-time friends. Mrs. George Parnell and son of Chicago are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Manion. William Molitor returned to Chicago Sunday after bing the guest of his brother, John Molitor, for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gangloff and son John of Rensselaer were the guests last Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huguet. Mr. and Mrs. John Clifford of Lagrande, Oregon, are the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stone, south of town. Ms. and Mrs. James Hayworth motored here Sunday from Logansport and spent the day with Mr., and Mrs. Frank Nolan and Mrs. Mary Bledsoe. John F. Kopka and Dr. W. C. Richardson were in Chicago Monday making a./purchase of feeding cattle to be shipped here and then reshiped when they are in shape to fetch the topnotch price as fat cattle. Roy Sherrick is the new station agent here, having succeeded D. L. Keen, who has been located here temporarily since Wilbur Stigleman was assigned to Mofiticello. He was checked in Monday. He comes here from French Lick, where he has been the agent for the Monon seven years. Mrs. Sherrick, w_ho is visiting in Louisville, is expected here the last of the week.