Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

VIRGIIb Robert Kiersma is not yet able to sit up. Robert Conner is in our burg nowadays. - " Miss Bertha Florence spent Sun' day with home folks. Miss Golda Snyder visited MlisS Hazel Hurley Sunday, Miss Jennie Kiersma'visited Miss Gladys Harrington Sunday. L. E. Harrington was at Grape Creek over Sunday on business. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Harrington visited a niece near Rensselaer Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt Sunday. Robert Conner and Charles Reed attended the dance at Demotte Saturday night. Miss Bertha Gassaway and friend attended the play at Lemotte Tuesday evening. * Mrs. John Zellers visited her son, W. W. ■ Zellers, and family several days last week. Mrs. John Reed is very much improved at this writing. She is now able to sit up a little. Misses Laura Strain and Blanche Hayes of Rensselaer spent Sunday with their cousin, Miss Bertha Gassaway.

The young people planned a picnic supper for Sunday evening, but owing ta the rain they met at the school house where all enjoyed a splendid supper. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers an<F son Dean and Misses Flossie Wiseman and Minnie iHomfeld met with an accident Tuesday evening when they started to Rensselaer. Just north of Wiseman’s Lonzo was tak 5 - jng a number of horses to pasture, when one of the colts, blinded by the lights, ran directly into the ma- ; chine before it could be stopped, i Its head crashed through the wind shield, cutting the oolt quite severely about the head and shoulders. The animal struck the machine with such force that it was knocked to the ground and the radiator of the auto was badly bent. Fortunately no one was although all received a bad scare.

GIFFORD George Lambert was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Albert Ackers was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Ernest NusS and family moved to Lacross Tuesday. Mrs. John Hill and tw-o daughters were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mrs. Mary Norris spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Guy Zook and children. Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Nuss and baby spent Sunday with Charles Snow and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Cover spent

Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Zook of Gifford. William Obenchain and two daughters, Leota and Ostia, autoed to McCoysburg Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kerns and baby spent Sunday with Lona Cavinder and daughter Lillie. Miss Iva Stump went to her home at Wheatfield Monday. She spent the summer with her sister, Mrs. A. E. Zook, of this place. The supper given by the Odd Fellows - was largely attended, and Brother Logan Wood of Parr made a good talk. One hundred fifty people were present.

WHEATFIELD W. O. Nelson came home Thursday evening. ', Mr. and Mrs. John Dewitt are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank McColly. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. William Spry Jvas buried last Thursday. Harmon Melzer of Corydon, lowa, is visiting friends and relatives here and at South Bend. Clyde Cody and family, who live at Momence, Illinois, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Rowe Laßue. Mrs. Samuel Payne and daughter and Mrs. Ira Clark and daughter called on Mrs. Bert Vanderchr last Wednesday. Andrew Grube is threshing buckwheat now in these parts. The buckwheat is a good quality but badly mixed with weed seed. Registration day at Wheatfield was a great event and the number that had to register was quite a revelation. About 78 voters registered. S. D. Clark, William Grube and Clark Bros, went to Valparaiso last Tuesday to see and hear John Adair, who will be the next governor of Indiapa. Mr. and Mrs. William Tinkham. who had been visiting friends and relatives, here and at North Jrulson for the past few days, returned to their home in Illinois a few days ago. '

FAIR OAKS Health still pretty good in these parts. Mrs. F. R. Erwin was a business caller in Rensselaer Tuesday. Enos Moffitt went to • Lacross Tuesday evening on business. Mr. Cottingham is not making very satisfactory gains this week. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Aunt Hannah Culp’s Wednesday evening. C. B. Stewart of Rensselaer was here in his little Brush on business Tuesday. Bert Warne and Sam Potts autoed to Gifford Tuesday evening to church. J. J. Lawler shipped several carloads of fat stock from here Tuesday evening. Mike Gundy went to Gary a few days ago to work with his brother Roy in his office. McConnell’s men finished up cutting and baling hay on the Washburn land last week. There was an auto load of tourists struck camp in the south part of town Tuesday evening. Yes, we got one of the old-fash-ioned jack frosts Tuesday night, which put everything on the colored list. Mrs. Trump and daughter Beulah arrived home Wednesday evening from their visit to Buchanan, Michigan. Ray Wood and Bert Warne are the latest in these parts to purchase Fords. Ray drove his home from Rensselaer Saturday evening and Bert drove his home from ]\ewton county the same evening. Orvel Abel,. wlio.JtiatL been visiting relatives at Battle Ground, visited here with his parents between trains Monday while on his way back to Brook where he is at work helping dismantle the Sternberg dredge. ' The notices are up that the Prohibitionist motor brigade, which is traveling over Indiana, will be here on next Monday at 11 a. m. There will be speaking and campaign songs given from their auto in the streets. They would like to have a big

crowd out to see and hear them. They will. no doubt give out something interesting. Several of the young folks of our town very narrowly escaped death Sunday evening while out auto riding. Little Howard Rayner coaxed his grahdpa Allen to let him take his machine and take* a bunch of youngsters for a ride. He loaded it down with six children, all near his age, four girls and two boys. The girls were Gladys and May Halleck, and Jessie Zellers and Jennings Winslow and himself. It Is said he had been letting the girls take turn about driving, and this time it was Gladys’ turn to drive. When they were nearing home she was sending the car down the pike like a house afire, when it began to wabble first one side of the road and then the other. When Howard tried to take the wheel and steady it she hung pn and gave it a quick turn causing' the car to roll over a couple of times. Elsie Zellers suffered the worst wounds. Her side and shoulder was pretty badly bruised and it is feared she might have some bones broken, but she refused to have a doctor examine her. The only thing that saved them from probable death was that the top was up and shielded them. The machine was, a pretty bad wreck and it will cost about SSO to repair it. A pretty dear lesson, eh?

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Ed Boyd was in Danville, Illinois, Saturday and Sunday. Algie Martin, Democratic county chairman, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Corbin and Hiram Ashby were Monon visitors Sunday; Mrs. Will Shaw returned from Sheridan Sunday where she visited friends. Will Shaw went to Chicago Monday- , being interested in the sheep market. John Bicknell of Rensselaer was calling on old friends here Tuesday morning. Mrs. Charles Snow- and daughter Florence were Rensselaei- visitors Thursday. Floyd Waling stopped in towij a while Monday enroute home from a visit to Star City. Uncle Joe Miller and wife have planned to leave for a two weeks’ visit in Davis county. The .registration was very nearly complete in this precinct Monday? Total count was 255. Alfred Stakley and family and friends from Remington went to Lafayette Sunday morning. Mrs. Ben Reeves and daughter Grace of Fair Oaks returned to their home Monday afternoon. vJohn Lyons and Jasper Wright loaded out a load of extra good hogs for the Chicago market on Friday, October 6. Master Max Hilliard of Wheatfield spent Several days visiting in the family of his aunt, Mrs. F. P. Huntington. Miss Lucy Harris and Miss Elsie Benson, two of our enterprising young teachers, visited school at Enos Friday. Mrs. Warren White, two children and Mrs. Joe Hilliard of Wheatfield came Thursday and visited several days in the Huntington families. Mrs. Frank Sigman’s mother, Mrs. Fay, who has been staying with a daughter near Fair Oqks, came Thursday for an extended visit with Mrs. Sigman. Lewis Brunton and his brother Foster autoed to Gary Sunday where they were detained a part of the night op account of the lights -of their car going bad. Mrs. Dan Dirst and Mrs. W. A. Shindler went to Chicago Monday. Mrs. Dirst will meet her daughter Leota, who is returning from a several days’ visit in the West. A nine and One-half pound boy is reported*. as having arrived at Charles Bengstdn’s at Foresman, and Mrs. Bengston’s mother, Mrs. Frank Makeover, is spending a few days with her. Mrs. Ida Sperry and little son, who have been visiting a cousin at South Bend and an aunt at Walkerton, returned here Thursday to visit awhile longer before returning to her home in Illinois. Charles Summers of near Rensselaer, who purchased a farm a mile west and three miles north of here, a part of the purchase including some of the Guildenzoph farm, was out to his place Wednesday. Charles Baker of Greenwood, Wisconsin, visited Wednesday and Thursday with his • father, John Baker. Mr. Baker had been called to Elgin, Illinois, on business and stopped here enroute home. , John Wolfe, our city marshal, received a p’ost card Friday from his eldest son Ben, who is located at Big Valley, Alberta, Canada, which said a big snow storm was on there when Ben was writing the postal. -Jiris-.Alice JJakeever pLColumbus, Ohio; Mrs. Fanny Hipshare of Caledonia, Ohio; Mrs. Ella Brook of Euou, Ohio, have been visiting in the homes of Frank and Jasper Makeever and other relatives here. The new minister failed to arrive and there wag no church service except Sunday school last Sunday. Word from Rev. Hoover is to the effect that the incoming minister will hold the first service next Sunday.

Ellsworth and Frank Warren of Parr were calling on old ' friends here Sunday. The Warren family moved from here to Parr last spring. Ellsworth reports a great deal of wheat sowing going on about Parr. Mrs. D. D. Helmuth received a telegram Friday apprising her of the death of her mother, Mrs. Jacob Kaufman, of White Cloud, Michigan. Kaufmans used to live on the Chas. Borklund farm south of town. Mr. and Mrs. Helmuth left Saturday morning to attend the funeral.