Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSELAWN Mrs. Mulcahy of west of town •was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday. Bert Hopper is doing some carpenter work for Mr. Evans, west of town.

Miss Dorothy Smith was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday, indulging In musical study. Mrs. Lyda Conger is making arrangements to move to Lake Village to make her home for awhile.

Elmer Guilford will have a public sale and move to Kankakee, Illinois, the first of November

Miss Elsie Nelson returned from a visit with friends and relatives at Wolcott and Brookston Saturday.

Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad was in Roselawn Wednesday, where she •boarded the evening train for the south.

I. N. Best, Claud Burton and others attended the Republican speaking at Lake Village Tuesday evening, October 17. Mike Duffy boarded the 4 o’clock train for Chicago Thursday evening to hear President Wilson speak at the stock yards meeting that night.

Charles LaCosse was in town Monday buying another new wagon to gather his corn crop. Charles is one of our best farmers and usually raises a good crop of corn. C. T. Otis sold six head of good horses to Wilson, the Hebron stock buyer, and delivered them at Hebron last Wednesday. Mr. Wilson will ship the horses to St. Louis. H. H. Nelson and daughter Elsie autoed to Hammond to see Miss Mabel, who is convalescing from the operation for appendicitis which she underwent last week in a Hammond hospital. John Horton, the new barber, moved his household goods to Roselawn Saturday and is living in the rooms above Laßue’s store. He is starting out quite well and hopes to make a success of the business here.

Robert Boswinkle of East Chicago was in Roselawn Wednesday. Mr Boswinkle is employed in an East Chicago factory at a good salary. He is taking a short vacation and visiting his parents and other relatives at Thayer. Tunis M. Gephart was in town Wednesday distributing greenbacks and silver to the merchants, “Gep” is always a good-natured chap and especially so when he is settling uip his bills. He says it is better to be happy any old time than to be a grouch.

A bunch of oil promoters were in town trying to revive the slumbering or ebbing interest in the Thayer oil and gas field, but what success they had we were unable to learn. It looks very much ‘like a stock promoting scheme to the man up a tree. J. C. Batman of Bloomington, Republican candidate for appellate judge, was in Roselawn Tuesday afternoon, October 17, getting acquainted with the voters in our community. Mr. Batman was on his way to Lake Village where he addressed a good-sized audience on the 'political issues from a Republican viewpoint. Tolin’s stock sale, held last week, was not so well attended by about one-half as their sale a year ago, and prices were much lower. Mr. Tolin was reported as saying that he ■would stand to lose $2,000 on the stock sold. Scarcity of corn and other feed is bringing down the prices of stock cattle and hogs in this locality. William Boyle’s new residence is under full headway and it is said It will be the most modern and up-to-date house in our town when completed. But what is uppermost in the thoughts of the old maids, widows and grass widows of the community is: “Who is going to be the housekeeper?’’ And “Bill” won’t tell.

Miss Mabel Nelson was taken to a Hammond hospital on the early morning train Thursday where she was operated on for appendicitis. She was accompanied by her father and mother and Dr. Iddings of Lowell. Mr. Nelson came home Friday morning and reported Mabel went through the operation in fine shape and was getting along nicely when he left the hospital. It is strange that a competitor cannot come to our town and engage in business without having his rval “butt in” and try to intimidate him as to how he shall or shall not conduct his business, as was the case in our village this week. But the old saying will probably hold good in this case of “a man cutting off his nose to spite his face.” Mr. Horton is sHll doing business at his barber shop, notwithstanding the efforts of competition to bluff him out.