Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT HAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST TOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT HAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST TOU

FAIR OAKS Health is quite good in our vicinity. The Methodist people cleared about 135 with their stand the Fourth. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Sam Potts’ Wednesday evening. Sandy and Buddy Boyle of Lacross were Fourth visitors at A. I. Abels.

James McKay went home with his brother Frank to Buchanan, Mich., Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crosby of Chicago were guests of their cousins, A. M. Bringles, from Sunday until Tuesday evening. Mrs. Burns of Brookston and brother, Mr. Nelson, of Wellington came up and visited their sister, Mrs. Cottingham, over the Fourth. Hillis & Tolen shipped nine carloads of fat cattle from here to the Chicago market Monday evening and J. J. Lawler shipped nine carloads the Fourth. A few days ago Joe Thomas and Ed Shindler of near Surrey were hunting for a huckleberry patch over in Newton county near Pat Miller’s place. The writer received a letter a few days ago from Uncle John Casey at the soldiers’ home stating they had all arrived O. K.» and that his daugh-

ter Fawn and sister, Mrs. Dickinson, were comfortably settled in Marion. The dredge on the upper end of the Moffitt ditbh is near the C. & E. I. bridge and the Jasper county dredge on the Boyle lateral is also near the C. & E. I. road at the old Bruce Moffitt homestead, or where Gideon Koffman lives. Mrs. R. B. Thornton expects tc start for South Sioux City, Neb., Friday morning to visit her brother, Elmer Moffitt, a few days and then she will go on to Minot, N. D., to visit another brother Bruce and then on to Spokane, Wash. William Cottingham and family of Momence and Frank McKay of Michigan came home to spend the Fourth with home folks. Fred McKay of lowa w’as at home, too. He has a job as block maintainer on an interlocking system out there. We have had a few days of fair weather and lots of farthers celebrated the Fourth in their corn fields. The harvest time is fast approaching. Some will begin cutting rye this week. The hay harvest has already begun but in a few days it will be a general thing all over. There was a very large crowd out to the Fourth celebration and all seemed to have a good time. There was over 100 automobiles here besides a large number of buggies and wagons. The horse race was more amusing to the square foot than anything else. It was a pretty close contest. The trip was made around the half-mile track inside of 10 minutes.