Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

PARR Politics is the order of the day, and sometimes pretty hot. The new school house will be completed in about two weeks. And it is going to be a fine building for this little burg. The new church at Parr is nearing completion and will be dedicated November 19. Everybody come out and hear a good sermon. The John Bowie and Clark brigade passed through Parr Thursday morning distributing cards and smiling upon those they chanced to meet. They look pretty good. There will be a Democratic speaking at Center school house, Union township, Saturday night, November 4, by Hon. A. A. Roghengass of Chicago. He will speak in German. Everybody invited. The Ladies’ Aid will serve luncheon Or square meals at W. H. Myres’ ice cream parlor on election day. They are going to have everything from a toothpick up to roasted ox. So there will be no danger of you not getting enough to eat if you only have the “mon.” Now, remember, at the ice cream parlor of W. H. Myres. Spooks were out right on Halloween night. At W. J. Platt’s some twenty-five or thirty ghosts or goblins, dressed in the most hideous way, appeared upon the scene about 8:30 o’clock and was a ghostly sight to behold. All had a good time. Luncheon was served about the time the imps and goblins were most numerous. But they departed at an early hour, about 1 a. m.