Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

POSSUM RU!f. Mr. Newgon called on T. J. Parker Thursday morning. Andy Ropp finished up threshing in this burg this week. Everett Parker and Lvde Ward were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Mr. Gassaway and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Estel Marion. Essie and Cecil Comer took dinner with Orpha and Myrtle Parker Thursday. Mrs. Jasper Cover and daughter Violet picked pickles for Brouhard’s Monday. G. H. Comer and son Wayne were Rensselaer goers Monday, and also went to Monon. Mrs. Ores Cunningham, who has been at the bedside of her father, returned home Monday. Everett Parker went to Medaryville Wednesday afternoon to see a doctor. He has been quite poorly. Wake up, Possum Hollow, and show yourself. We have not seen you for a century. Your sister, Possum Trot, Is just fine and your great, great granddaughter. Possum Run, is worse. Come at once.

PIXE GROVE.

Mr. and Mrs. James Britt and family spent the day at Fountain Park Sunday. Several from this vicinity attended the Odd Fellows’ meeting at Fountain Park Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Dale and family are visiting , friends and relatives near Crawfordsville.' Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shroyer spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs! Roy Williams and family of near Aix. Mrs. Harry Beck and daughter Helen are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Janies Torbet and family. Mrs. Cratie Cragun and daughter _Celina and friend, Mr. Fuehring, are j visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet { and family. Newell and Lowell Hayes returned home Thursday after a week’s visit with friends and relatives in Henry county. Mrs. James Torbet and daughters, Chloae and Creola, attended the shower given in honor of Miss Floy Williams Tuesday.

McCOYSBIIu;

Sam Cook is improving at this ■writing. Mr?. Charles Ferguson is still on the sick list. Mrs. Laura McDonald was a “burg” caller Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Levi Herr ig getting along very nicely after her long sick spell. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brown left Monday for Frankfort to spend a

few weeks with his mother and friends. Mrs. T. B. Stevenson called on Mrs. John R. Phillips Wednesday afternoon. Claude Reeves is u*e owner of a swell'rig now. Who will be the lucky girl? Harvey Phillips and Will McDonald have completed their job of painting the school house. Miss Mayme Stevens and girl friend from Indianapolis are home for a couple of weeks’ vacation. Rev. W. N. Sherrill and family and George Barker of Frankfort visited from Monday evening until Wednesday morning with Mr. and Owen Barker and family here.

POSSUM TROT

Robert Toombs is away on a vacation. Mrs. Reuben Snyder is no better at this writing. The weather has been somewhat cooler this week. Theodore Smith called on James Elliott Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Reese Cavendeb are the parents of a new son. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Smith’s baby is on the sick list this week. Theoiie Lambert spent Friday with Edith and Marie Smith. , Mrs. John Walker called on Mrs. T. H. Smith Tuesday morning. Miss Ida Davis called on Mrs. Clyde Davisson Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. James Britt called on Theodore Smith Wednesday evening. . Miss Ida Davis spent Sunday evening with her sister, Mrs. Guy Zook, of Gifford. Marie Smith has been spending a few days with her cousins and uncle, George Lambert, of Gifford. Walter Conn and brother Daniel are spending a few days with their sister, Mrs. Robert Toombs, and family. Those who called on T. H. Smith and family Sunday were Pearl Davis and spa. -John Eger and son Ted, Jamec'FH'otf Win. Greenlee, Walter and Daniel Conn and H. Toombs.

LEE

Ward Lewis of Remington was here during the week visiting relatives. Elzie Webb and family and his mother were Sunday guests of Mrs. C. A. Holeman. Job Overton and wife of Monon spent Sunday here with his brother Frank and family. Miss Agnes Stiers was visiting during the past week with the Misses Holeman at Monticello. Riley McClintic and family of

MOODY

Monticello called on Harry Rishling’s family Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks had their little grandson. Jack Jacks, of Rensselaer with them last week. Walter Jordan and family and C. A. Lefler and family went from church Sunday to Gifford Mars’ for dinner. H. C. Anderson and wife and Miss Lural and Hubert Maxwell and wife attended Fountain park assembly at Remington last Sunday. O. A. Jacks and wife took Frank Eldridge and family to Monticello Saturday. Mrs. Eldridge having teeth extracted at the dentist’s. J. H. Culp and wife took Elzie Webb and wife and three small children to Monticello Tuesday to visit George Holeman and family. Mrs. Cora Rishling and children spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. Steve Freeman, in Gillam. Helen and Chase continued their visit until Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bartoo and baby of Remington and Mrs. Lula Crowder and children of Indianapolis spent Thursday of last week here with Harry Rishling and family.

Fred Markin was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Mrs. Ernest Wentz called on Mrs. Win. Kvlpke Sunday.Several from here attended church at Rensselaer Sunday night. Miss Mary Markin took dinner with Melva Walters Wednesday. Mrs. Ed Ames called on Mrs. Fred Markin Tuesday evening. Mrs. Ernest Wentz vailed on Mrs. Fred MaTkin Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Steve Freeman and daughter were Francesville goers Thursday. Miss Lillian Tiede called on Mrs. Wm. Kupke Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Jhn Kupke and Lillie Kupke called on Mrs. Wm. Kupke Monday. Miss Elsie Goepp is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ed Eilts, of near Parr. Miss Reva Rees of Newland called on Mrs. Wm. Kupke Wednesday. T. O. Smith and son called on Steve Freeman and family Wednesday. Miss Mabel Christy of Chalmers is visiting her aunt, Mrs. John Maxwell. Miss Lillian Tiede of Francesville is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ernest Wentz. Miss Helen Rishling of Lee called on Miss Mary Markin Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Steve Freeman and daughter called on Mrs. Ed Ames Friday afternoon. * / Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bruce visited their daughter, Mrs, J. G. Culp, Wednesday. Mr, and Mrs. Albert "Walters and family were Francesville goers Monday. Edward Rose of Chicago spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rose. Mfs. Steve Freeman and daughter Dieie called on Mrs. Fred Markin Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Harry Rishling and children of Lee spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. Steve Freeman. Mrs. Carl Remra returned to her home at Medaryville after a week’s visit" with her daughter, Mrs Wm Kupke. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Markin and daughter Mary and Lester Conrad spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Yeoman at Surrey.

SCRAPS

The trees and shrubs which produce some sort of rubber are said in a narrow belt around the world, within five degrees north and south of the equator. William S. and Joseph A. Emery are visiting their brother, Leonard Emery, of Bangor, Me.; this is the first time the brothers have bom together in 33 years. A French scientist successfully combatted locusts in Argentina by inoculating a number of the insects with a parasitic disease and liberat ing them to infect others of their kind. For automobile tourists there has been invented a complete bed that weighs only 14 pounds and, with the exception of the blankets, can be folded and carried in the tool box of a car. The population within a 100-mife radius of Bristol is 10,000,000. Passengers and mails can be conveyed from the Royal Edward dock passenger staton to London or Birmingham within two hours. In the construction of a California home, the pipes of an organ are hidden in the grill work of the room, so that only the console is visible, and this may be drawn about the room to any convenient location. Mrs. Teresina Allen, age 61, whe died recently at Trinidad, Colo., was a daughter of the famous, the almost mythical, Kit Carson, of Indion fighting fame. She is Survived by two hrothers, -one of them Kit Car son, Jr. The practice of numbering houses is said first to have begun in Paris, in the year 1512. Berlin, quite con-

■ trary to modern German lo'/e of system, originally numbered buildings entirely without regard for the street on which they stood. Martin Van Buren, who apparently liked to see things coming toward him in a flock, is said to have waited until the end of his presidential term before drawing any of his salary. The total, according to the $25,000 rate then paid, was an even SIOO,OOO.