Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

wheatfield Miss Minnie Tinkham was in South Bend Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Jensen were Chicago goers Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wilmington ■were in Wanatah last Thursday. Thanksgiving here was faithfully celebrated by eating and husking corn.

The Misses Margaret Petit and Alice Meyers visited the Wheatfield school Monday. The grade girls of the domestic science class served dinner for their mothers Thursday. Mr. Sommers is husking corn for Salisbury and Payne. He is some corn jerker—can keep three ears in the air at once. Earl Mason, who used to be connected with the Click barber shop, is in- the land of Montana. He is enjoying himself immensely and is looking for a location where he can inhale the ozone of 40 degrees below zero weather. W r rite us. One of the most comical wagers we ever heard of was an election bet made by a Republican and a Democrat. To the loser the joy of eating a cat was the great privilege held up. , But we understand that the Republican, after much arguing with the Democrat, feasted on a pair of rubber boots instead. Wouldn’t that Democrat have looked manly eating a tom cat? The Northern Indiana Land company, which has bought back the land lately sold to a powder company, is beginning to make some much needed improvements. Preparations are being made to erect on the southwest corner of the land a set of buildings which, we understand, is to be the headquarters proper. The dredging of the river has reclaimed land that is covered with an alluvial deposit which will make it a corn produqpr. When this land was taken over by a powder company a few of our people wore rubber boots all the time as shock absorbers against a possible blow up of the mighty powder works, but all they did toward the erection of a powder concern was the erection of a fence post.

MILKOY Mts. W. B. Fisher was in Wolcott Itiesday. Mrs. Ogle spent Tuesday with Mrs. i r .Tue Culp. Born, Decemher 2, to Mr. and Mrs. True Culp, a daughter. Miss Gertrude Faylor spent Thanksgiving vacation with her parents. - Clarence and Clyde Fisher attended the musieale at Lafayette Tuesday night. Mrs. W. E. Fisher and daughters, Lillian and Juanita, did shopping in Rensselaer Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks took supper with Mrs. Anna Chapman and family Sunday evening. Rev. Livingston will preach at Center Sunday. December 10, at 2:30 p. m. Sunday school before preaching. J. R. Clark and sons, Zelith and Gerald, and daughter Amy, Martha Clark and Mrs. George Foulks autoed to Lafayette Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks, Martha Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Frank May and daughter Ruth spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. M. French in Remington. FOR YOUR SWEETHEART A silk knitted reefer, $1.50 to $4; a beautiful silk scarf, 50c to $1.50; belt with silver buckle, $1.50; suit case, bag or silk umbrella, packed in gift boxes. —HILLIARD & HAMILL.

VIRGIE Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McCurtain spent Tuesday in Chicago. Earl Wiseman spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Fred Thews of Laporte spent Sunday with friends in Virgie. Miss Lottie Pickner spent a few days with W. A. McCurtain and family. Miss Gertrude Faylor, who is teaching near Monon, spent the .week-end with home folks. Miss Minnie Homfeld returned Sunday evening from a visit with home folks near Valparaiso. Miss Opal Shreiner is improving rapidly from typhoid fever and is able to sit up at this writing. Miss Flossie Wiseman returned home Saturday evening after a short stay with Farm Wiseman near Roselawn. A number of the young folks of Virgie attended the pie social at Gant Saturday evening. All reported a good time. Mrs. Anna Cover returned home Sunday from a visit with her sister at Hebron. Her aunt returned with her for a short visit. There was a meeting held at the Virgie, school house Tuesday evening for the purpose of qrganizing a literary society which was very successfully carried out. The name “Community club’’ was adopted for the society and we want this club to stand for all the meaning its name implies to the community at large. The first program will be given Friday evening, December 15.

GIFFORD —Walter ConiL was a Wheatfleld goer Saturday. Mrs. Bessie Snyder is not very well at this writing.

Joseph Sholl and Dice Zook were Medaryville goers Monday. Sunday school every Sunday at 2:30 o'clock. Everybody come out. Miss Lucy Rutledge and Homer Jordan were Wheatfleld goers Monday, Mrs. Jennie Cavinder is spending the first of the week with home folks. Walter Stump is spending a few weeks with his sister, Mrs. Lilly Zook. Mrs. Ella Mure called on Sylva and Hazel Lambert Saturday afternoon. William Obenchain and George Lambert were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Homer Jordan, a student of Angola, spent a few days with home folks here. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ad Zook is improving some at this writing. Miss Sylvia Lambert returned home from James Moore’s where

she had been working the past two weeks. John Aker and family went to Tefffc Sunday to visit a few da>'9 with home folks. Miss Maude Steele of Shelbyville is spending a few days with her grandparents here. Carl and Lemuel Stockwell and Lemuel Braddock called on Mr. and Mrs. John Price Sunday. Quite a number attended the entertainment given by the Gifford school last Wednesday afternoon. Sylvia, Hazel and Ola Lambert called on Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Smith Sunday, taking dinner with them.

FAIR OAKS Health still continues good in these parts. We got another heavy downpour of rain Monday. Bert Warne butchered another nice fat yearling beef for his mother Tuesday. Rev. Hensley was here and filled his regular appointments Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. He gave a splendid sermon at each meeting. Mark Reed of near Virgie, who got quite badly crippled up while working on Erwin’s dredge, was in town Monday on his way to Rensselaer to see his doctor. He has been improving nicely, but as yet is under a doctor’s care. Uncle Dave Winslow took very seriously sick Wednesday Avith a very hard chill, accompanied with vomiting. Dr, Rice of Roselawn was called and gave him the necessary treatment. The outcome is very uncertain on account of the uncertainty of the development of the attack.

The teachers of our sehoftls are preparing to have a “way up time’’ the, night of December 16. They will give a joint box supper, which promises to be an exceptionally swell .affair, and in connection will give a literary program, and this one feature will be something grand, as the children of our schools are well adapted to such work and our teachers are fully capable of doing their part in the affair. All who avail themselves of this opportunity to have a good time will not regret it. Everybody come.

01 Brouhard, the signal maintainor at this place, was sent by the company to Shelby. Monday where his point of Operation will be now'. They will move there some time in the near future. Mrs. Brouhard w»ent there Tuesday and secured a house to move into. We are sorry to lose them as they are splendid neighbors, and the church will greatly miss them also as they are of the leading -workers in the Christian church and Sunday school. We fell our loss is Shelby’s gain. We wish them w r ell in their ne'* location.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Prof. Shankland spent the vacation with home folks at Flora. Julius Guildenzoph of Fargo, North Dakota, is visiting here now. Miss Flora Parke, the primary teacher, spent the holidays with her parents at Hammond. Mrs. W. R. Lee returned Friday from a Thanksgiving visit among home folks at Bluffton. Charles and Kenneth Lynch spent Thanksgiving with their uncle, Mount Bryan, at Goodland. Mrs.' L. E. Ponsler visited in the family of Erhardt Wuerthner since Thursday, returning Sunday. E. R. Krammes and family of Sedalia spent the week-end visiting Mrs. Krammes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Coatney. Mrs. Frank Stover and two children of near Fair Oaks visited Mrs. Stover’s sister, Mrs. Frank Slgman, Friday and Saturday. . Miss Ona Shindler returned to her home in Brook Friday, having

spent Thanksgiving with her brother, W. A. Shindler. Oscar Stacker shelled and delivered his corn last week. Oscar got in before the break in the market and delivered at 87c per. bushel. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sigler and daughter Dorothy spent the Thanksgiving holiday with Mr. Sigler’s sister, Mrs. Lee Haskell, in Chicago. A baby boy came to the home of Art Anderson Wednesday. Dr. Martin was in attendance. This is the fourth child and their first boy. Isaac Parker, wife and daughter Kaythern of near Remington were the guests of Mr. Parker’s daughter, Mrs. Jay Miller, on Thanksgiving. Ed May and family of near Remington, Erhardt Wuerthner and family and Ed Harris and family all took Thanksgiving dinner with L. E. Pohsleip Ed Harris and wife went to Chicago Friday and Saturday attended the fat stock show. Mrs. Harris went to Racine from Chicago to visit her son Charles.

John Frey accompanied Levi Stutzman to Sugar Creek, Ohio, Tuesday for a visit among old friends and relatives. John formerly lived there and still qwns a small farm in that vicinity. Jasper Wright visited several days in Crown Point last week. Tie was at the home of his son-in-law, George Hershman, and his friend, Sheriff Whitaker of Lake county. Mr. Wright had a bed at the jail one night. However, it was at his own choice and was a good one. Nothing is to ho thought of it.

Buy him a fine traveling bag, traveler’s set, pocket sets for Xmas. He will appreciate these very much. Duvall’s Quality Shop.—C. EARL DUVALL. CONSTIPATION CAUSES BAD SKIN A dull and pimply skin is due to a sluggish bowel movement. Correct this condition and clear your complexion with Dr. King’s New Life Pills. This mild laxative taken at bedtime will assure you a full, free, non-griping movement in the morning. Drive out the dull, listless feeling resulting from overloaded intestines and sluggish liver. Get a bottle today. At all druggists, 25c. —Adv. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Albert Konovsky to Charity M. Wolff, November 28, part se se, 27-32-7, 2 'acres, Keener, S4OO. Mary J. Putt et al to Orville M. Putt, November 6, ne, 35-28-7, Jordan, sl. Albert Konovsky to George Hockney et ux, December 4, part se se, 27-32-7, Keener, $1,200. Charles Malchow et ux to Harry L. Brown et ux, November 24, lots 1,2, block 5, Rensselaer, continuation of South addition, $250.