Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT HAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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i Mt. Ayr. (From the Tribune) Edwin Harris and family were Rensselaer visitors Monday evening. Ellis Snow and sister, Florence, were Rensselaer visitors Monday evening. Joe Lewis, Cecil Dawson, George Shoop and Abner Huntington motored to Cedar Lake Sunday. John Jinkerson and family of Rensselaer spent Sunday with his father, Joseph Jinkerson. J. B. Ashby and daughter, Mrs. Loma Miller spent Sunday with A. Witham and family at Rensselaer. Cecil Da-wson returned home from Brideman, Mich., Saturday, where he had been working for Frank Teach. The bam being built for Lewis Wicker, north of town is nearing completion. Chas. Fenw right has the job. Mrs. Jasper Wright spent a few days the latter part of the. week wit j her daughter, Mrs. L. Hickman of Goodland. T l . A. Standish and family ano Kinder Kennedy and family spent Sunday with Joe Shindler and family near Rensselaer. Miss Elsie Benson came home from Valparaiso Friday to spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Benson. Born, Sunday, July 16, to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Baker, an 8-1 b boy. Wednesday, July. 12, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Gluck, a boy. The Modern Woodmen put up (be hay of Dan Drist last Sunday. About thirty men were present. The ten acres were up by 1 o’clock, and lucky it was for along came the rain. The big barn that is being built on the Tobin ranch is well under way. The beams are raised ready for siding and floor is being laid. Tom Michell and Ed Beckworth are doing the work. Dan Drist came home from Chicago Saturday after undergoing an operation in a hospital there for appendicitis. Mr. Drist says he feels fine, but it Will be some time before he is able to work again. Johnny Batchief, who has been for several months in Colorado, returned to Mt. Ayr Monday. Johnny states that it is very dry out there and that the grasshoppers are eating up what is left of the corn.

Miss Virginia Halstead, the eleven months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Halstead, who was taken suddenly ill two weeks ago last Tuesday while on the way home from Valparaiso, is reported to be doing better at this writing. The high w r ind Sunday did considerable damage in this vicinity. Brook and Morocco also report corn broken off and blown down. The roof of the canning factory at Morocco was blown off. Trees blocked the streets of Morocco and water flooded the gardens. Miss Verna Craig of Chicago Heights, died in a Chicago hospital July 7 and was buried in Morocco July 10. Mrs. F. A. and Misses Lera, Vera and Ruby Standish, Mrs. Kinder Kennedy and daughters, Leia and Pauline, and Mrs. Joe Shindler attended the funeral from here. The local freight that passes through here just ahead of the afternoon passenger was wrecked Friday afternoon north of here near the Lawler ranch. It seems that the beams on a defective car had broken and had let the car down on the trucks. The passenger train which follows up behind was unable to pass. It returned to Goodland and got jacks and other tools io lift the broken car. The section nen ware called out and about 11 o’clock p. m' they succeeded in clearing the broken car from the tracks, letting the passenger train by’. X

FAIR OAKS

Health continues fairly good in our village. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Abe Bringle’s Wednesday evening. . - Luther Hughes has been checked in and now takes Lon Moffitt’s place in Erwin’s store, Mrs. C. A. Gundy and son Charles are visiting her daughter, Mrs. Dean, at the Hillis’ ranch this week.

Sam Robbins of west of town came in and unloaded from a car a new feeder for his thrashing machine. W. A. McConnell with his hay force began his hay harvest on the Washburn land the first of the week. Mr. Harcourt and Mr. Burkstrum, students of Valparaiso university, were —’-’tors at Abe Bringle’s the latter part of last week. Mr. Korth of west of Roselawn, agent for the Overland automobile, was in Fair Oaks Monday evening talking auto business. W. T. Kight and wife of Roselawn and Ike Kight and wife attended the funeral of their niece, Mrs. A. G. Catt, at Rensselaer Sunday. Fonda Clifton, who has been living in Mrs. M. D. Carr’s property, moved into Mrs. Dickinson's property near the Christian church this week. Emerson Smith, who had lived, in Mrs. Thompson’s property since they came here from Illinois last spring, moved last week out onto the Spang farm. G. H. Hillis, who has always been against the silo proposition, has lately been changed over and is now hauling gravel to build two large concrete ones. R. M. Tolin and family of Mexico City, returned to Indiana last week! He has been holding down a job in the government printing oifice for four or five years. Mrs. Al Moore and two of her younger children o' Lafayette came up the latter par* of the week They will live on her placa during the summer south of town. We are still having some extremely hot weather which makes it very hard on harvesters. A number of horses have,been reported overheat and some have died from the heat. The two dredges, which are ■working east and north of town, are somewhat interfering with the rural mail services on route two out of this place. It seems that the proper

officials are very slow about replacing bridges which were taken out to allow the dredges to pass through. Lon Moffitt, who has been clerking for F. R. Erwin in his store, resigned and took up the job of running Mr. Albins’ auto livery the first of the week, and the first shot out of the box, when he went to crank it up, it kicked him and broke both bones in his right arm above the wrist. Carl Carpenter, who has been holding down the job as night towerman at the depot, has secured another position as dayman at a station called Haskell, up near Valparaiso. He will take the position about the first of next week, and expects to move there as soon as he can secure a house.