Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

Mr. and Mrs. Mel Julian moved Saturday into the house vacated by Rev. Ashley. Mrs. c. W. Harner and Mrs. Nellie Tribby spent Friday at Brook, the guests of Mrs. C. T. Denham. Merl Gardner, who had been in South Dakota the past year working, returned home the latter part of the week. Homer Lambert has moved his family into their recently purchased home, the residence vacated by Mr. Julian, in the north part of town. C. Hartley Coover returned to the Rockville sanitarium for tuberculosis patients Wednesday after a several weeks’ visit with his family. Elmer Johnson has been off duty at Gumm’s for the past two weeks with a couple of carbuncles on his neck, with which he suffered most severely.

Mrs. Emma Goss, who had been visiting her son, Albert Dodge, and family in Burlington, Kansas, the past three weeks, returned home Saturday evening. , Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peck and Frank Howard and family spent Sunday in Bloomington, where they visited their sons, Bruce and Harry, and daughter Irene. Raymond Busey and Miss Maude Payne with Rev. and Mrs. Griffin motored to Chicago and Evanston Tuesday. Mr. Busey and Miss Payne returned Wednesday. Mrs. O. P. Taber has purchased the late Mr. Wingard property. Mrs. Taber was formerly the owner of that property; in fact, the house was built while she owned it. Miss Katie Armstrong, who had been working for Mrs. Robert Hackley since August, went to Hamilton, Ohio, Monday to make her home with her sister, Mrs. Edward Dilg. Mrs. Elmer Zink of Knightstown spent Tuesday and Wednesday in town. She reports the family as all doing well and liking their new home. Elmer is in the moving picture business there. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Beal and little daughter, Marceline Parks, of Wolcott, accompanied by Mrs. V. M. Beal and daughter, Ida, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dick of Watseka, Illinois. Marion O’Connor returned the latter part of the week from the farm he has rented near Delphi. He purchased this year’s corn crop standing in the field and has been up there gathering it for about two weeks.

Mrs. Bell Payne and daughter Maude from Martinsburg, West Virginia, who had been spending the past two weeks with M. F. Busey and family south of town, went to Logansport on Wednesday for a week’s visit with relatives near that city before returning •to their home. Mrs. Elizabeth Beasey, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roushkulp, Mrs. May Newberry and Charles Beasey, all of Logansport; Ernest Kellenberger, wife and mother of Reynolds, and Mrs. Fannie Largent of Kentland attended* the funeral of little Flossie Beasey Saturday. Mrs. Largent, who remained over, was taken so seriously ill in the event that they sent. her husband. E. Peacock got a bad fall at the Press office Tuesday afternoon. He was doing some cabinet work and while standing on the top of a six-foot step ladder fell heavily to the wooden floor, striking his head on some blocks of wood with which the floor was littered. He got a bad cut on the left temple, a badly bruised hip and an injury to the left "Wrist, but fortunately no bones were broken. The injury will lay him up for some time without doubt. ■ _ The Press editor made a ninetymile drive Sunday over parts of Jasper county, particularly the northern part. - We struck some abominable dirt roads and some mighty fine stone roads up in the north part of the county. The stone roads there were as smooth as a floor and without chuck holes, even on the most traveled roads. One of these was a main road out of Chicago, too. But the worst stretch of stone road to be found anywhere In these parts or that we saw on that drive was inside the corporation of Rensselaer, while the

next worst stretch is in Remington. Wherever stone or gravel roads have been oiled a few years in succession there you will find so many chuck holes that automobile riding becomes a dread. We should like to see something done that will effectually remedy the condition. Flossie Lucile, youngest daughter of Thomas and Margaret Beasey, was born June 5, 1910, at Remington and died November 2, 1916, aged 6 years, 4 months and 27 days. Flossie was a bright, loving little thing and had just commenced her school life, but her health was too frail to withstand the onslaughts of the much-dreaded whooping cough, and when to that was added other complications it was too much for the child. She is survived by three sisters and four brothers, besides her fattier, mother, grandmother and a host of other relatives. The funeral services were held at the home on Saturday afternoon conducted by Rev. E. F. Lilley and attended by a large number of sympathetic friends and neighbors. Interment in Remington cemetery. John R. O’Connor of Gilboa, who was made a joint defendant with George Chappell of Remington in two suits filed by the Continental and American Eagle Insurance companies for $l,lOO alleged to be due the companies from Chappell in premiums collected and not accounts for, has filed an answer to each suit in three separate paragraphs. The complaints in the suits filed by the insurance companies allege that Chappell, a well known insurance agent, has absconded with sl,100 and they are holding Mr. O’Connor liable on bonds he is alleged to have signed. Mr. O’Connor in his answer filed by his attorney, Elmer Barce, states that he did not sign the bonds but that he did sign his name to a blank bond but afterwards the name of | the companies and the amount of the bond were filled in by Chappell and that the signature of the not- , ary and his seal were afterwards I attached, all of which is fraud. i According to Mr. O’Connor, he j was in Chappell’s office and was |asked to sign his name to the paper which he did, but immediatei ly afterwards he told Chappell that I when he had the bond properly filled out he would then decide whether he would go his surety or not. The signature of S. H. CornI well, a notary, is also said to be a ; fraud, and Mr. O’Connor prays for judgmentXtor costs and all other proper relief.

BROOK (From the Reporter) T. J. Prouty was down from Surrey over Sunday, visiting his brother Louis. I Mrs. Papp of Chicago, who had been visiting at the Battleday’s, returned home Saturday. Dr. Wood and family spent Sun- ' day in Rensselaer as guests of Mr. ■ and Mrs. George Collins. I Mrs. Vondersmith returned on I Saturday from a visit with Charles at the farm near Fair Oaks. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Smith of Oxford came on Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Meredith. I Mrs. Newton -Waterman of Chlcago was a guest the last of the 1 week of her sister, Mrs. Vondersmith. Hugh Light and John A. Sell ex(pect to leave today for Minnesota, where they will spend a couple of weeks hunting big game. t Miss Ethel Reed has gone to Indianapolis to attend the library association, which will be in session I the remainder of the week. I Allen Harmes left for his home in Goodland on Wednesday after , spending the summer in the employ ; of George Ade at Hazelden. I Mr. and Mrs. George Atkinson of Washington, D. C., were guests on Saturday and Sunday of their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Davis. | Arthur Dirst left for Mudlavia Thursday to take a course of baths at the springs for his rheumatic troubles, which he has been unable to get rid of. | Marlon -«Pierson and Philip Miller went to Chicago on Saturday to

oee their wholesale houses concerning settlement of accounts over their store losses. Frank Wood of Billings, Montana, was here on Friday night visiting his brother, Dr. C. A. Wood. He had been in Chicago where his wife was in the hospital. Charles Bourkland came down town on election day and voted. He wag on the streets for a short time and managed to make the trip along the streets on crutches. The designers of the new decorations at Hazelden came on Thursday and will plan to make an entire change in the interior work, to be done some time this winter. George Harnod was in Donovan on Friday attending the funeral of Isaac Thomas, a distant relative.' Mr. Thomas was over 90 years of age and lost his wife only a few months ago, Nick Herath had one field of Frank I. Mann corn which went fifty bushels per acre. The balance of his land is averaging forty-five. Isaiah Gerrich had one field of Learning corn that averaged fiftyone bushels per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Weston and Mrs. William Stath returned from their Colorado trip on Friday evening. They were visiting the Maple families and spent over a month with them, and while there visited other points of interest in Colorado. Mrs. Stickler, who was injured early in the week, is in a very serious condition. Her daughters, Mrs. Dave Shand of Brook and Mrs. May Crane of Earl Park, have been with her. Her son Clyde of Chicago was down for a day or two. William Sunderland, who has spent several years in South Dakota, came through with his car of household goods on Saturday. His wife and children will arrive the last of the week and they will make their home on the Hugh Light farm, south of Brook, in the future. After registering his vote on Tuesday George Ade, according to his custom, left for Chicago. This is the date of election years that marks the closing of his country home for the season. He will go from there to French Lick to spend several weeks before going south for the winter. On Friday last Mrs. Stickler, a woman almost 80 years of age, tripped on a rug at her home in Brook and fell and broke her right arm just a short distance below Jhe shoulder. She lay unconscious for several hours before she was discovered. The break is a bad one and at her age may give her continuous trouble.

FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) Mr. and Mrs. Nute Dunn of North Vernon were visiting old-time friends and relatives here Tuesday. E. A. Armstrong returned from Lansing, Michigan, Monday where he had been the past several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Claire Alkire of Lacrosse were the over Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Alkire and Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Burgett and children. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Watson and Mrs. S. K. Jones motored to Wolcott Sunday and were the guests of their respective relatives and friends during the day. Milton Wilcox of Rensselaer and Jess Wilcox, his son, of Indianapolis were visiting old-time friends here Monday. Jess is now located with the board of trade at Indianapolis. Mrs. L. W. Hubbell left Monday for Stuttgart, Arkansas, where she will visit with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Rhodes, for a month or more. Lew says that this lacks eleven months of being a whole year.

MEDARYVILLE (From •the Journal) James R. Linton and men are building a large cattle barn %>r John Ryan. John' Selmer,.Lewis Selmer, William Vollmer and wife made a trip to Wheatfield Friday. James R. Guild is in very poor health, having been confined to his home for the past week. Mrs. Margaret Antrim of Hebron is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. George R. Howe. Algie Kauffman and family are moving from their home in Gillam township to a farm near Valparaiso. Mrs. M. N. Stoffells is in very poor health and her daughter Mamie of Chicago is here caring for her. Julius Brown and family, who had been living in Morocco while Mr. Brown was employed there on a dredge, returned home Saturday. A farewell surprise was given Mr. and Mrs. Algie Kauffman and family last Monday evening.' Mr. Kauffman and family moved to Valparaiso Wednesday. Harvey Faris of Bozeman,, Montana, arrived here Wednesday evening to visit bis mother, Mrs. Rachel Faris, of Gillam township, and numerous other" relatives. Howard and Walter Faris of Caldwell, Idaho, arrived here Monday to spend some* time among their many relatives. The boys are grandsons of Michael Robinson. Lee Willever and wife of Farmington, Michigan, came last Saturday for a weeks’ visit with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Willever, and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Alice Firebaugh. Mrs. Willever was stricken %ith

another stroke of paralysis one day last week and is unable to talk. Her son Lee and wife came from their home in Michigan and spent the latter part of the week with her. Last Saturday Hamilton Record had the misfortune to get his hand badly sprained while trying to crank his auto. It is not known whether the bones are fractured, but the injury is giving him considerable pain.

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Miss Belle Wood of Rensselaer is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. A. ’Rogers. Mrs. James Smith of Seafleld spent Thursday with Mrs. Jennie Graham. Mrs. D. J. Pettit spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs. Pitts, at Remington. Miss Bertha Primmer of Remington was the guest Monday of her sister, Mrs. John Hinchman. L. Leopold left Wednesday' for Chicago. At Rensselaer he was joined by Mrs. Leopold, who accompanied him to Chicago. Mrs. Arthur Hawn and daughter Maxine of Logansport were the guests Wednesday of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Snick. Mrs. C. T. Bolcourt and children of Rensselaer were the guests Saturday and Sunday of her father-in-law, E. G. Boicourt, and wife. Rev. H. Goodacre, who is preaching at Mount Orab, Ohio, came home Tuesday and is spending a few days with his family here. Mrs. H. W. Braud of Reynolds was the guest Tuesday and Wednesday of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry St. Peter, west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Spangler and two sons of Hartford City, who had been visiting Bert Spangler and family, returned home Monday. Mrs. Martha Heffley of Cutler, who is visiting her . daughter, Mrs. Julius Evans, went to Remington Wednesday to visit Mrs. Will Blake. Mrs. James Simmons and son, James, Jr., of Kentland were the guests Wednesday of Mrs. Simmon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Scripture. Mrs. Elizabeth Daggy went to Rantoul, Illinois, Thursday for a two weeks’ visit with her nieces, Mrs. William Schlusker and Mrs. Cal Doney. Harry Culbertson, who moved his family here this spring from Fowler and occupied the Arrick property while here, on Tuesday of this week moved back to his home town.

Mrs. Eddie Emond, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Overy, south of town, and her father, Joseph Graham, at Remington, left Tuesday for her home in Vallatta, Ontario, Canada. Charles M. Smith-of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Smith, and his sister, Mrs. Q. L. Hughes, was joined Saturday evening by Mrs. Smith, and Sunday afternoon left in their auto for a six weeks’ trip to Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Nickey Dewey are both down with typhojd fever. Nickey and his family have had a tough time of it this season with illness. All the early part of the season their baby was very ill and Mr. Dewey lost much of his time from his work, and with both himself and wife ill right at the edge of wifiter, makes it a blue outlook for him. Thomas D. Spencer, brother of W. V. and S. T. Spencer of this place, died at his home at Kensett, Arkansas, Friday, October 27, from injuries received from the attack of a bull. As he was coming from the barn he was met by the animal and knocked down, breaking his leg and several ribs, also cutting and bruising him badly about the head. Twelve hours later he .succumbed. Though getting along in years Mr. Spencer at this time was enjoying the best of health and he was not thought to be in danger from his injuries until thfe last moment.

GOODLAND (From the Herald) Miss Blanche Carpenter was a caller in Remington Wednesday. Mrs. Ida E. , Hopkins went to Kingman Thursday for a visit with Mrs. Lizzie Ward. Dr. Frank Kennedy left Thursday for a ten days’ shoot and vacation in the northern woods of Wisconsin. Mrs. Bork of Chattsworth, Illinois, visited this 1 week with her daughter, Mrs. Bert Gravel, and family. Miss Caddie Griffith of Findlay, Ohio, will arrive the latter part cf the week for a visit here with friends. Moses Barney moved this week to Gary where he has a position as motor inspector of the Gary Interurban company. Howard Clymer, who has been spending a few weeks at Fort Worth, Texas, returned home Thursday afternobn. Mian Margaret Nichols of Lafayette returned home Tuesday afternoon after a-visit here with the G. D. Clymer family. Attorney and Mrs. A. D. Babcock went to Indianapolis Thursday morning where the latter is to

undergo an operation at the St. Vincent hospital. Mrs. John Leavitt and little daughter of Lacrosse visited here last week and this with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Poutre. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mitten of Danville, Illinois, were over Sunday guests at the home of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mitten. The Mt. Ayr I. 0. O. F. lodge last week purchased the equipment and paraphernalia of the Goodland I. O. O. F. lodge that recently surrendered their charter. Miss Phelina Clymer returned to her studies at Northwestern at Evanston, Illinois, Thursday after a stfort visit with her parents, Mr. ami. Mrs. G. D. Clymer. Mrs. Sarah Rich returned to her home in Remington Monday morning after a short visit with her son, W. E. Rich, and family. Mrs. Rich is enjoying the best of health. A. P. Hawn, David Hllger and Lemont Dunkel autoed to the form-, er’s farm near Star City Tuesday, returning the same evening. Andy’s corn crop there is above the average. Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Griffith and little daughter of Gibson City, Illinois, came Thursday for a visit here with friends. He spoke to the Presbyterian congregation Thursday night. Madison James returned Saturday after a two weeks’ visit with his son, Dr. Fred. James, and wife at Champaign, Illinois. He was accompanied home by Dr. James, who visited here over Sunday. Elmer Skinner, the county road superintendent, was in Goodland Thursday afternoon looking after his men in this part of the county. He is well pleased with the condition of the roads in the township. Postmaster Frank Retterath and Mr. and Mrs. George O. Bales autoed to Lafayette Sunday to see the former’s niece, Mrs. Ethel Fosnot, a patient at the St. Elizabeth hospital. Mrs. Fosnot was operated on November 2 for appendicitis and is doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Doland, Mrs. H. R. Little and Mrs. W. E. Rich autoed to Danville, Illinois, Thursday where the latter three boarded the train for St. Louis, Missouri, to visit Miss Lulu Little, Lois Rich and Mildred Winship, all students at Forest Lake college. A familiar voter at the polls Tuesday was John Carpenter, who voted for his fifteenth President, the first # being for James Buchanan in 1856. Mr, Carpenter can tell you more about those good old campaign tithes than you ever

dreamed of. Especially in the early times when it took from ten days to two weeks to get in the complete election returns. Henry Grass, who last year came from Minnesota to make his home here, voted for his fifteenth President Tuesday. Monday Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spaulding and Mr. and MYs. Charles Patrick and daughter Neva autoed to Gifford and spent the day with Nate Keen and family. Election morning (Tuesday) Mr. Spaulding drove his car down to Charles Dunkel’s shop for some repairs on the top and when Charles lifted some robes in the machine out flew a yellow hen. Mr. Spaulding was accused of foraging but stoutly denied having copped the Hen-. To square himself he gave the hen to Charley, who took same home. As the result of a fistic encounter Saturday night Floyd Heck of Wadena and Ernest Buckles were fined $1 and cqsts, amounting to $2.50 each, in Justice Burke’s court. Ernest Buckles received a had cut on the left side of the head that required two stitches to close. The misunderstanding started up town about 7 o’clock and closed just outside the northeast door of the skating rink. They attempted to rush the fight through the northeast door of the skating rink, hut Bert Gravel squelched it before they could get together. The Heck lad was brought to Justice Burke’s office and the Buckles lad was given. attention in Dr. Kinneman’s office. This fs the first trouble for over a year and the fine was made small, thinking it would serve to teach the boys the desired lesson. The Heck lad has just recently returned from the West and it is to be regretted that his homecoming should be thus marred.