Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

James Callaghan, who had been, in the Northwest for several months, returned home Wednesday. Attorney Jasper Guy attended *'call day” in the Jasper circuit court at Rensselaer Tuesday. Corn husking in the vicinity of Remington is almost completed. The yield is generally reported quite light. A son of Bert Shuster of north of town got his leg broken Saturday while trying to climb upon a moving wagon. M Fred Parker, who is working in Racine, Wisconsin, returned to that place Sunday after a visit with relatives here. S. E. Burns departed Wednesday evening for New York city to meet a young brother from Scotland, who was detained at Ellis island. Frank Timmons, the brick layer, is at his home here recovering from bruises and a general shake up received in a fall from a scaffold on which he was working on a house in Rensselaer. Frank Ellis of Chicago Heights, eon of Mrs. Albert Ellis, a former resident of Wolcott, died at the home x>f his mother at Chicago Heights on Tuesday. He was buried at Remington Thursday. Quite a number from Remington attended the Odd Fellow and Rebekah county meeting at Rensselaer Wednesday. Quite a number also went over to that place Thursday to the Democratic barbecue. The Democrats had a big jollification here Tuesday night and one of the chief attractions of the parade was “Uncle Sam” riding a donkey and the latter pulling a cart on which lay the G. O. P. elephant, a hauling him off for burial.

POSSUM RUN Everett Parker called on Willard Abbott Sunday evening. William Hurley called on Grant Davisson Wednesday morning. Walter Stump has been spending the last week with his sisters. Most everybody attended the blow-out at Rensselaer Thursday. Several from this vicinity attended the box social at Gifford Saturday night. Mrs. Simon Cooper spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. William Hurley, of Laura. Walter Conn and Golda Hurley called on the latter’s parents Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Charles Brouhard and son Lawrence spent Sunday with E. A. Merrill and wife. Clyde Armstrong and a gentleman friend of Indiana .Harbor were callers in these parts Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughters, Jasper Cover and family, Walter Stump and William Wankie all visited Mr. and Mrs. George Davisson Thursday evening.

LEE Becky Jacks and daughter spent Sunday at S. L. Johnson’s near Monon. •Walter Jordan and family went from church Sunday to C. A. Lefler’s for dinner. / The Ladies’ Home Missionary society met Tuesday afternpon with Mrs. S. M. Jacks. Uncle David Culp has had a very bad cold, almost pneumonia. He is very poorly at this writing. Mrs. Linback was called to Winamac last week to help care for her little granddaughter, who is very sick. S. M. Jacks and wife, Mrs. May Jacks and A. B. Lewis and wife

autoed to Lafayette Friday last and visited relatives. Mrs. Thoinas Clarke and son- of Kankakee, Illinois, called on Mrs. H. C. Anderson during the past week and then visited her mother, Mrs. Myers. Mrs. Ella Noland was called >to Logansport last Saturday, her brother, Clarence Maple’s, wife was operated on the day before and was very low. Mrs. Noland came home Sunday evening but was called back again Wednesday by the death of Mrs. Maple. Mrs. Noland and daughter Etha went for the funeral.