Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU

LEE. I S. M. Jacks is attending court at yonticello this week as one of the jurymen. Miss Cora Noland visited over -Sunday with Carl Westphal and family near Reynolds. Frank Eldridge is laying the foundation for his new house and commencing the frame work. Mrs. Frank Fisher of Wheatfield wag here during the past week visiting her parents, Leroy Noland and wife. m The farmers are having a layoff from their farm work for a few days on account of the fields being too wet to work. Mrs. Gilmore, !ffrs. Sarah Jordan, Mrs. Mary Holeman and Mrs. Della Gulp papered a room for Mrs. Elmer Gilmore Thursday. There are 170 goats on the farm just south of town where Mr. McGowen lives. * They have just been shipped in to clear off a patch of brush.

RIVERSIDE. Griff Marsie departed for Seattle, Wash., Monday. . Corn in these parts is about all planted at this writing. Waine Brown informs us he has purchased a motorcycle. William Muffley was installed as chief cook of the clearing gang for the big dredge this week. Mr. and Mrs. William Mutchler and family and Jinks called on Mr. and Mrs. Bert Vandercar Thursday evening. Earl Pierce of Kouts was buying hogs and cattle through here last week. William Mutchler sold him gf>me cattle. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Shook and family of St. John were among the auto tourist sight-seers of the big dredge Sunday. Dredge Foreman Stroud, who was injured in an auto accident near Kouts recently, is getting along nicely considering the Seriousness of his condition.

ROSKLAWX. I. N. Best was a Lowell visitor Monday. , Wm. Overmayer was a Hammond visitor Monday, C. T. Otis came dow r n Wednesday looking after business on the ranch. E. T. Boyle and family entertained T. B. Cunningham and wife Sunday. Hersliell Harris and wife of Morocco were business visitors here Monday. Miss Trump and Mrs. Humphreys of Fair Oaks £pent Sunday with the Hixon family here. Miss Ethel Studer visited with Mary Jane Phillips from Sunday until Tuesday evening. Mrs. Lida Conger has moved to Shelby, taking rooms in George W. Dickey’s new residence. Miss May Miller of Gary spent Sunday with C. W. Smith and family on the Wentworth farm. Rev. Coleman preached two excellent sermons Sunday morning and evening to good-sized audiences. Bruce White of Rensselaer was erecting wind mills on the Lawler ranch here Tuesday and Wednesday. Rev. Coleman and the Mulder family took dinner and spent the afternoon at th© home of Henry Christensen Sunday. The! cold, wet weather has retarded the planting of corn in this vicinity, only a few who have high sand land have planted as yet. Young Jake Walstra, who was operated on for appendicitis in a Chicago hospital a tew days ago, returned home Wednesday evening, accompanied by his brother Lewis.

FAIR OAKS. Health is generally pretty good in these parts. Willard Rice and wife left here Saturday for North Dakota to stay indefinitely. ike Eight was in Indianapolis a few days the latter part of last w r eek on business. The surveyors were out Wednesday and measured up the ditch which F. R. Erwin is digging. Mrs. S. B. Thornton went to Rensselaer Monday to take care of Philander Benjamin, who is quite ill. Mrs. C. A. Gundy and son Charles, who had been down to Rensselaer for some time, came home the first of the week. Dr. Loy of Rensselaer was called Wednesday to Can Manderville’s, who has been suffering with tonsolitis and rheumatism. We noticed that the rye fields are heading out, but it is very short, most of it about a foot high, so the crop will be very short. Enos Moffitt w r ent Monday to help move a dry land dredge from Parr over six miles east, where they will begin cleaning out the Jungles ditch. Joe Kosta, who lives south of here,

delivered a nice buncb of fat porkers to this station for Mr. Tolen, who shipped a carload to Indianapolis Tuesday. The sewer thai drains the low grounds of Fair Oakg became stopped up 30 the water which fell during the heavy rains could not get aw r ay. Several men began Monday to take up and clean it out where it was gorged. Tom Mallatt was pver from Virgie Tuesday and will probably accept a proposition from Mrs. Will Warne on the blacksmith property of $350, which is generally thought was certainly a booming price. It is said if the deal goes through they will tear the building down and build a barn out of it and turn the lots into a truck patch. * vv'e were visited with tw r o or three days and nights of heavy rains, accompanied with considerable electricity and some wind. The fields are soaked and covered in some places with water, and will be some time before farmers will be able to get into the fields. » It filled the dredge • 0.-h so full T. R. Erwin had to stop work a few days.