Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

MILROY _ Mrs. Ogle called on Mrs. Fisher Tuesday. Gertrude Taylor spent Sunday with Martha Clark. The Ladies’ Aid met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Mabel Foulks. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Clark called on the former’s brother, James Clark, Tuesday. William Garvin is working on the foundation for the new church. Carpenters will soon begin work. Rev. Livingston will preach at Center school house Sunday, November 26, at 2 p. m. All invited. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks spent Sunday with the latter’s aunt, Mrs. Anna White, and family south of Wolcott. Charles Beaver’s attended church at McCoysburg Sunday afternoon spent the evening with W. S. McDonald’s. As a result of the election George Foulks served oysters to E. C. Marchand, W. B. Fisher and Earl Foulks and families Tuesday evening. A number in this vicinity are volunteering the hauling of lumber for the church. Work of this and all other kinds is a great help (financially and otherwise and will be appreciated by all. The Queen City and Center schools will give a box and pie social at Queen City school house Saturday night, November 18. Onethird of the proceeds will be given to the church and the remainder will be used for school equipment. Girls bring boxes and married ladies pies. A good program will be given by the schools.

VIRGIE Miss Ada Florence is on the sick list this week. There will be preaching here Sunday evening. The teachers’ institute will be held here Saturday. Most everybody at Virgie is wearing the Wilson smile. Mrs. Estel Marion spent several days last week with home folks. There will be a box social here Saturday evening, November 25. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers and T. J. Mallatt were Rensselaer goers Friday. —, Miss Bertha Gassaway attended the box social at Demotte Saturday evening. James Wiseman, Jack Reeder and Thomas Florence have finished their job of ditching.

Miss Opal Schreiner has passed the crisis and is now on the road to improvement. The new school building is completed now. It surely is an improvement to our little burg. Mrs. Ernest Clemens spent several days this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder. Monday we had real winter weather and by 8 o’clock Monday night the ground was covered with ■ snow. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers, son Dean, Miss Minnie Homfeld and | Mrs. T. J. Mallatt ate Sunday dinner with the latter’s brother, James W. Wiseman, and family.

FAIR OAKS. News are very scarce with us this week. Health still continues good in our village. | Cal Burroughs made a business trip to Lacross the first of the week. Win Blair hung paper for Mr. McConnell at the farm Wednesday. Rev. Warriner of Shelby accupied | the pulpit at the Christian church j Sunday evening. | Mrs. 01 Brouhard’s cousin, Mrs. Snow, of Chicago is here visiting i Mrs. Brouhard this week. i C. A. Bringle and wife of Remington came up Thursday and visited homefolks until Sunday evening. Mr. Cottingham has so far recovered as to be able to get out of doors and is improving very nicely. I Mrs. Sam Potts’ sister, Mrs. .Thornton, of North Dakota is here visiting Mrs. Potts arid other relatives in town. Fish Giltaore and wife returned home last week after a couple of week’s visit with T. J. Mallatt and wife of Virgie. Mrs. G. H. Hillis’ mother, who has been visiting her daughter the I past two months, returned to her home at Fairland Sunday. The congregation of the Christian ‘church will hold an oyster supper in the Gundy hall Saturday evening for the benefit of the church. Yes, we got another taste of • winter Monday night when the temI perature suddTOly dropped below ■ the freezing point. Everything perishable got a pretty hard nip and many pumps were frozen up. Frank Husted, who has been working as towerman at the depot, was sent to some other place to take charge of a telegraph office the first of the week. Orval Abel took his place here indefinitely. The election fever has subsided considerably in these parts but it ■is said that several were so unfor-

tunate, or fortunate, as to lose a goodly sum of money, ranging all the way from $5.00 to SIOO, bet-, ting on the outcome.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) W. R. Lee was a business visitor in Chicago Wednesday. Mrs. Jap Wright was in Goodland for ah over Sunday visit. Mrs. Sigler and sister, Mrs. Porter, visited in Goodland Monday. As usual, John Murfit is the first to report having finished corn husking. Dick Ashby, the village huntsman, killed ten fine wild' mallards Monday. Mrs. Jud Porter of Rensselaer is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Sigler, here this week. Mrs. John Murfit’s mother, Mrs. M. D. Walsh, of Chicago is visiting her for a short while. Walter Adams moved Thursday to a farm north of Morocco, where he will do truck farming. Mr. and Mrs. Able Grant of Rensselaer visited in the home of our banker, J. R. Sigler, Sunday. Mrs. John Heims has as her guests her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Watson, from Medaryville. Mrs. F. P. Huntington, who had been visiting at Demotte and Wheatfield, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Tom Inkley went to Lansing, Michigan, Thursday to visit a sister. She will probably be gone a couple of weeks. Mis 9 Florence Snow will leave for Kankakee, Illinois, this week to be gone several weeks in the home of the Croxtons there. Andrew Mast of Arthur, Illinois," is visiting friends in this vicinity since Thursday. He will probably return home tomorrow. Word comes that Arthur Dirst, whose home is at Brook, was taken to the springs at Attica Friday for treatment for rheumatism. Mrs. Orsen Peck was taken very suddenly ill on the evening of the election from blood pressure on the brain. During the day she had been in her usual good health but was stricken suddenly about 5 o’clock. When the attack came she fell as she was crossing the room at her home, becoming unconscious, in which condition she remained for about ten hours. Dr. Merry was called and worked diligently with her for several hours before he succeeded in drawing the pressure away from the seat of trouble. Consciousness returned slowly and Mrs. Peck has since been gaining very nicely.

GIFFORD Wesley Walker was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday morning. Sylvia Lambert is now working for Mrs. James Moore. Miss Olive Lilly spent Saturday night with Hattie Grinham. Miss Golda Akers called on Mrs. Maude Logue Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Steel visited home folks Saturday and Sunday. Nora ,Blake of Fair Oaks spent Saturday and Sunday in Gifford. George Lambert and Alvin Hershman were Rensselaer goers Friday. Guy Zook and T. H. Smith took dinner with George Lambert Monday. V Sunday school every Sunday morning at 10:30. Everybody come. Clyde Davisson and William Obenchain were Wheatfield goers Tuesday. Miss Golda Akers spent Friday night with her cousin, Mrs. James Akers, of Newland. Luther Myers, who had been working at Hammond, called on home folks Saturday. Mrs. Maude Perkins of Winamac spent the first of the week with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Snyder. Celesta and Hattie Grinham and Olive Lilly took Sunday supper with Sylvia and Hazel Lambert. Jacob Parker and family, Marion Jacks and family of Monon took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. John Hall. Mrs. Lizzie Swisher and family, Mrs. Cora Akers and family took

Sunday dinner with Mrs. Blanch Akers and family. The box social that was given at the Gifford school house Saturday evening was largely attended and everybody enjoyed a fine time.

WHEATFIELD O. S. Salisbury was at Wheatfield last Saturday. Miss Margaret Delehanty visited the Wheatfield school last Tuesday.-] E. R. Hight, who had been away, returned home Thursday evening. Misses Mary and Ruby Austin were Rensselaer goers last Tuesday. W. O. Nelson and family have moved into the Odd Fellows’ building. John and Homer Stewart are husking corn for Salisbury and Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Jensen and Miss Minnie Tinkham were in Chicago Sunday. Samuel Payne, who is one of the jurymen chosen, will be on duty next week. C. R. Peregrine of Tefft was a business caller at the Samuel Payne home last Tuesday. Mrs. Harmon Clark and daughter Anna visited with Mrs. Davisson at Demotte last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Jensen and children and Mr. and Mrs. Roe LaRue visited with John Stewart and family last Sunday. Although we lost the county, yet all fair-minded men gay that a county with the county officers divided among the parties is the only way to insure a good economical government. A large majority is a menace to the welfare of the taxpayer. Thin Presidential campaign has demonstrated one thing and that is that the American electorate does not believe in personal attacks upon the President. It is perfectly legitimate to weigh the policies of the party in power, to critically examine its every act, but to descend to the low level of corrupt word politics of personal abuse ’of the head of our nation is surely one of the most detestable programs imaginable and one that the American people have decided to stop forever. The re-election of the President has not filled our Republican friends with rancor, but they are taking it in the spirit of a true sport. As long as there was a chance for Mr. Hughes they stood loyally by him, but when they saw that President Wilson was the one called by a majority of the electorate, they are accepting the results with a look of relief. Although they didn’t say it, yet we know that a large number feel that the President was entitled to a vote of confidence, and they also know that the country is in safe and tried hands. Thousands of

Republicans voted for Wilson for the above reasons. We voted for Bryan two or three times. We know it all.