Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGH BORING VILLAGES

goddland. (From the Herald.) Mrs. Harry 'Little went to St. Louis, Mo.. Sunday night. < Arnold, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewellen, is quite ill this week. George Mclntosh is home from California where he spent the winter. J. W. Oswald went over to his farm near South Whitley, Ind., the first of tne week. Miss Loretta Latimore of Remington was the guest of Miss Emma Stack over Wednesday night. Mrs. Eugene Steele of Knox, visited here this week the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Force. Mrs. Maude Shultz was granted a divorce from Archie Shultz at Kentland Wednesday. Plaintiff was given custody pf the two children. Mrs. Louis Walker and two children of Chatsworth, 111., came Sunday afternoon for a few days’ visit here with her father, George Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mitten and family autoed over to Danville, HL, last Saturday and spent Sunday with their sons, Roy and family and Clarence.

Mr, and Mrs. Charles Rouse and little daughter returned to Miles Ujty, Mont., this week after a short visit here with the former's mother, Mrs. Rouse. Little Miss Jane Thompson of Watseka, 111., came Sunday to visit Mrs. Maude Gilman. Tuesday evening Mrs. Gilman accompanied her home, and will spend the remainder of the week with the Thompsons and Mrs. Harry Parker in Watseka Frank Louette, who has been head clerk at Hancock's grocery for the past four yeats, has purchased the C. M. Stewart grocery in Fowler and will tike possession June I". Frank is a hustler and with his years of experience in ’ie grocery business he win make good.

Miss Caroline, eldest daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. John Pothliisje, of south of town, and Mr. Ivan Edgar Nutt of north of Fowler were married at the Presbyterian parsonage in Fowler at 12:30 May 2v. ’he Rev. J. Van Niece Bandy officiating, with only the immediate members of the two families present. The newlyweds left on the 2:25 Big Four train for Chicago, there taking a train for Denver, Colo., where they will visit with the bride’s uncle. Dr. P. Pothuisje, and family,: They willvisit other points in the west before returning home. The bride is an estimable young lady and graduated from the Wadena high school this year. Th ; e groom is one of Benton county's prpstierous young farmers, and the young couple have the best wishes of their friends. They will make their home after July 1 on the Frank Nutt farm northeast of Fowler.

WOLCOTT. (From the Enterprise; 4 ) Walter Seifert of Danville, 111., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mr*. M. Seifert. Miss Anna Spangle of Rensselaer is spending the week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. .John Dunn. Mr. £nd Mrs. J. H. Delzell. Mrs. John Dunn and Miss Berta Mr-Don-ald were Lafayette visitors Thursday. Mrs. C. E. Ross went to Delphos. Ohio, Saturday where she will visit relatives and friends until after Decoration day. Miss Ethel Bosch, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. M. Biesecker, returned to her home in Kentland Tuesday. Mr. and .Mrs. Ernest Mattox and children visited Mr. Mattox’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mattox, of near Plymouth, front Friday until Sunday. ': ' The few warm days have made the swimming pool a very popular place, and bathers can be seen enjoying the sport at almost any hour of the day. Mrs. Perman Mattox and little son and Mrs. L. M. Kean returned Tuesday evening form a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mattox near Plymouth.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Downey of Chalmers were here Wednesday evening for commencement exercises. Mr. and Mrs. Downey have engaged for another year’s work in the Chalmers schools. A group of relatives gathered at the home of R ti C. Duff and family for Sunday dinner. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Will Thomas and children, Ora, Mildred, Floyd, Dorothy and Delbert; Mrs. Wesley Brubaker and son Harry of Sheldon, Ill.; Miss Eva Snyder of Des Moines, lowa, and Mr. and Mrs. David Brubaker of Eureka, 111. The marriage of Miss Lois Schlademan to Mr. Everett Rogers was solemnized Sunday afternoon. May 21, at 1 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents, Rev. McCorkle officiating, in the presence of the immediate relatives. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bchlademan of Seafield and has been a teacher in the schools of the county for the past several years. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Rogers of Wolcott and is a prominent young farmer. The couple left during the afternoon for a 10 days’ automobile trip to parts unknown? The commencement exercises of the Wolcott high school were held in

’he M. E. church Wednesday, evening. the house being crowded to its Capacity. The graduating class was as follows: Charles Lea Byroad, Ray Ci Dawson, Fleta Irene Delzell, Clarence F. Dixon, Letha Leotha bye, Juanita Pauline Fisher. Marjorie Jones, Hope Ynez Kerr. Welt hy Lavinia Lear. Marian Humes Livingstone. Jay Bernard Long, Lowell Sylvester McCollum, Fae Lorene McKillip. Orville Raphael Overy, Willard Miles Pollock, Sarah Caroline Ross. Oakel Belle Smith, Everett R. Snick. Russell Goodrich Spencer. Edward M, Taylor, Shafter Miller Wynkoop and Lewis Spencer Wynkoop. BROOK. ( From the Reporter, r Jasper Makeever of near Fair Oaks was a business visitor in town Wednesday, Ira Forty and family of Remington came over Friday night to attend the commencement exercises. Peach Leopold drove to Rensselaer on Friday, he was accompanied by his mother and Mrs. Mazie Cline. Miss Aletha Hayhurst of Grant Park is the guesr of her auijj, Mrs. George Conn, and cousin. Mrs. Ferd Sell. Mr. and Mrs, C. J. Stebbins and little daughter of Rensselaer were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Don Burley on Sunday. Miss Grace Lyons, who visited home folks the last of the week, returned to her work in Indianapolis on Wednesday,

Win. Murffitt accompanied his brother John as far as Chicago last Friday, from there John started for his new home in Michigan. John L. Cooke and daughter Paulline of Goodland were guests of the E. E. Hess Drug company on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Hallie Elack and son Merrill left for Moncton, Canada, on Thursday where they will join Mr. Black who is in the service of the Canadian governent. - - Mrs. Fred Foresman was brought home from the Chicago hospital on Tuesday. She i s very . much itn pro ved in health and her condition is no .longer dangerous. Some of the farmer- claim that they will have to replant a lot of their corn, the heavy rains of a week ago anti the continued cold weather being responsible. George Conn suffered a broken arm by a fall on last Friday. He | was working on the second story of a barn and was cutting and placing I rafters. Ste; ping forward to swing i the rafter over the plate he stepped on the loose and unsupported end of a hoard and plunged forward, sfriking his hand on the plate to > < atch himself The ulna in the right porearm was broken. The fracture iis a bad one and will be five or six weeks in healing so that Mr. Conn can handle a hammef or saw. It caused a thrill of pride in the .audience when the class of 1916 j filed into the room and took their places on the stage. This class is he largest ever graduated in the history of the school: Donovan R. Berlin. Agßea McCarty, Forty D. Stonehill, Ruth Little, . Donald L. Lawrence, Delia Spangler; Russell M. Clinton, Bessie Cory. Marlin G. j Warr, Mittie Bill, Clifford H. Myers, , Vernon I’lrey, Jennie Glick. Clyde IF. Ricker. Elsie Montgomery, Nina Sargison. Marcelline ITyat, Irvin C. ;Clinton and Wilbur Brady.

(From the Tribune.) Mrs. Joe Ford and children of Rankin, 11l . are visiting her parents, Mr, and Mrs. M. Seifert. Last Sunday Wileon Timmons sold to Alex Merica a new four cylinder Studebaker and a Reo to William Garrigues. , Mrs. Ray Simpson and children of Monon are spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ’ Royal Brenneman. John Sprague, his wife and two children have moved from Denham to the W. c. Rose farm west of Francesville. Lerea McMurray went to Lafayette Sunday, where she will be the guest of friends and relatives for a week or ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Merica, two sons ano daughter motored to Kokomo where they were the guests of their son Dean and family. Frank Tillett of Gillam will leave this week for Wenatchee, Wash., where he will make an extended visit with his son, C. J. Tillett. Charles Kaupke, east of town, last week purchased the H. C. Kopka residence property and three lots in the east part of town. Mr. Kaupke will retire from the farm next spring and enjoy a few years a much needed rest after so many years of ardous toil.

Harry Overman secured some carbide. probably some that was left by the show, last Saturday morning and poured some water on it and then touched it off with a lighted match, After the explosion it was found that he had suffered severe burns about the face and head. His collar was burned off, eye-brows and most of the hair on his head and it was only by ,the greatest of good fortune the young man did not lose the sight of both eyes.

MEDARYVILLE. (From the Journal.) Mr. and Mrs. /Leslie Tillett of near Francesville visited relatives here Sunday. Fred Hall is making improvements on his property in the west end of town. Salem Long is home and feeling r nite strong again after his recent operation in a Chicago hospital. Misses Geraldine Reep and Florence Guild visited with Rev. Warner .nd famiW in Remington last week. Lloyd Low of Francesville has purchased the old office property of H. G. Jones and is making improvements upon it. Mrs. Everett Montgomery of Jackson, Mich., came Wednesday of last week for a visit with her parents, Ellis Redinbo and wife, Monday evening about 27 friends and neighbors of Mrs. Carl Toyne gathered at her home and gave her . -r: rise. A good time was had by all. " William Shaw, accompanied by his wife and son and Miss Keany, all of Mt. Ayr, motored here last Sunday to spend the day with Ellis Redinbo and; family. Mrs. Fred Meineka, living near Knox, drowned herself in a horse trough last Wednesday evening. She had become despondent on account of ill health. Monday afternoon a large limb broke a tree at the corner near the school building and fell across the wires of the McCaskey Co., causing considerable damage. The company proved very prompt in repairing the damage and no inconvenience was caused by the mishap.

WHEATFIELD. Uncle John Helmick died last week and was buried Thursday. This is a pretty busy tie around here. The warm days have made things grow very rapidly. We observed Memorial day at Wheatfield yesterday at Ferguson s opera house at 2p. m. The Memorial address was delivered by Rev. G. A. Emerich.

Edgar Wescott Overocker was born January 15, 1857; departed this life May 25, 1916, at home north of Demotte, having reached the age of 59 years, 4 months and 10 days. He was married to Miss Anna Hill on November 11, 1878. To this union five children were born, three of them have already preceded the father in death. Two daughters, .Mrs. Alvira c. Ca'se and Mrs. Emlie Louise . Barker, still live. 'Beside the two daughters he leaves a wile, two grandchildren, a brother, William Overocker, ot Streator, 111., four si-ters, Mrs. Ina Seeley of Utica, N. ¥., .Mrs. Cora Finch jpf Kankakee, 111., Mrs. Dora Hinch and .Mrs. Eva Stoner of Peterson, lowa, to mourn "hisdeparture. His last illness covered a period of over 18 months but only during the last five weeks was he confined to his bed. Mr. Overocker moved from Kankakee to the farm north of Demott’e about two years ago. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. A. Emerich of Wheatfield and the burial made at .Mazon; 111.

Fortunes for Seeds

Kansas spends about $14,000,000 annually for the seed necessary to plant the devoted to the state's principal crops, according to an estimate made public by .1. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agricu Iture. He points out that the estimate is based on last year’s acreage and prices.

"Two-thirds of the $14,000,000 is for wheat seed,” the report says ’’Kansas seeds each year more wheat than many states harvest. The value of the sorghum planted for forage comes next, amounting to $1,205,814, while the oats sown is third, and amounts to $1,14 6,907. ••It seems rather surprising that it only costs $602,800 for the seed to plant the state’s corn acreage, ;nd taking the run of the years, corn is Kansas’ most valuable product. More than $5.00.000 is spent each year for Irish potato seed. Assuming that the average life of a stand of alfalfa in Kansas is ten years, and that one tenth, therefore, is sown each year, there would be required seed worth approximately $380,000, Barley, which is grown mostly in Western Kansas, requires an annual outlay of more than S2OO, 000 for seed, and the clover seed sown each year is probably worth $150,000. The rye sown annually is rated at $86,000. It only cost about $65,000 for the seed to plant nearly 1,000,000 acres of kafir.”— Topeka Cor. New York Sun.

How Japs Dodge Grip

Polite Japanese never have the grip because they commit “iki wo hiki,” that is, drawing in their breath sharply, a salutary custom which one doctor has declared incomparable as a means of grip prevention, the idea being that Japanese are careful as to where and on whom they breathe, and so keep the percentage of germ distribution at a rather respectably low figure.—Chicago Journal.

Pigs as Epicures

Pigs, instead of being ready to eat anything, are among the most fastidious animals. Out of 575 plants, the goat eats 449 and refuses 126; sheep out of 494 plants, eat 276 and refuse 218; horses, out of 474 plants, eat 262 and refuse 212; while pigs, out of 243 plants, eat only 72 and refuse 171.—Chicago Journal.

i Farm Land Investment. , The stable investment of the farmer is land. It’s there when he goes 4o look at it, unlike some other forms of “investment’’ which have been known to vanish over night. The love of “another 80” is proverbial with the farmer. His surplus funds go into land because it always has yielded a fair and sure return on the money put into it, and the investment, itself has been enhanced greatly as population increased and the consuming power of the people has grown proportionately. The farmer has chosen land as his favorite investment because he has confidence in land as a money earner for him. That confidence which he has imposed in land has not forsaken him and neither will it for generatons to come.

This country has expanded in agricultural wealth because of the farmer’s confidence in the productivity of the land, and the tide of land buying has been west, northwest and southwest. Settlers have gone onto new lands in tens of thousands and rarely has there been a failure to ■make good.” New land is still available and a great amount of broken land , is also available and can be purchased at money making prices. The land buyer is constantly on the lookout for bargains and often, indeed, it is not the cheapest ; riced land which in the end proves the greatest bargain. Let the wouldte buyer bear this in mind.

There are farms in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and other western and northwestern states, not high in price, neither low in price, which have “proved up” in productivity and earning power, well equipped with buildings and fences, and the prices still are far below the top levels which often effect reduction in the net earnings of the owners. When a man buys land, either for an investment or for the purpose of farming it himself, he makes a safe investment. The safety of the investment is one of the strongest features which appeal to the conservative b- yer, and the frequency of bad deals in other commodities only goes to strengthen confidence in the safety of land buying.—Chicago Farmers and Drovers’ Journal.

Courtesy ,-of Aviators

A well-known Canadian journalist, recently back from the front, described to, me a remarkable air duel which he witnessed between a British and a German flying man, in which the former was the victor. ‘Our aviator came to earth immediately after bringing down the German,’’ he said, “and instantly ran over to the latter’s wrecked machine, whose pilot was stone dead. He was a giant of a man, and was evidently some one of great means, for he wore a really beautiful fur coat, and on his hands were diamonds and other rings which must have been of great value. A little to my surprise the British airmail proceeded to strip the dead man of his coat, and then to remove his rings and other jewlery, which he packed into a sort of tin canister. Just as he had finished an officer of the corps came up and inquired: Get everything?’ ‘Yes,’ replied the flyer. And the officer said: ‘Right-o! Off with you.’” "Then, to my further surprise,’’ added the Canadian, “our aviator put the tin canister on his machine, and, "hardly pausing a minute, flew straight over the German lines, keeping so low that he would have been an easy target for a rifle, but waving his handkerchief as he went. When he was over the Huns he dropped the canister, then wheeled and flew slowly back while a German party ran out to pick up the utensil. I’m told that a courtesy of this kind nearly always follows the bringing down of a pilot on either side, and that the airman who conveys back his opponents property flies in a certain fashion that reveals the nature of his errand.”—London Opinion.

Blue Jay Stopped Scrap

A black hen, a game rooster and a guinea hen on the farm at Samuel Dodd, near the Passaic county line, discovered and fought for nearly an hour yesterday over a good sized rat which had been crippled by the rooster. Each bird asserted its claim to the prize in the best way it could. When the fighting was tiring the combatants along came a bluejay, which settled the ownership by picking up the rat and flying into a corn crib. The farm hands and others who had watched the battle asserted that the bluejay’s trick entitled the bird to all the honors that have been heaped upon the species.—Brookdale (N. J.) Cor. New York Sun.