Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

POSSUM RUN Lena Hurley spent Friday night with Mrs. Clyde Davisson. Miss Williams took supper with Mrs. Jasper Cover Wednesday evening. Misses Orpha and Myrtle Parker called on Nile Britt Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Willard Abbott and children called on Mrs. T. J. Parker Sunday afternoon. ’ Mrs. Cyral Steel of Wheatfield is spending this week with Mrs. George Davisson. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Davisson took dinner with Henry Gilbranson—and family of Rensselaer Sunday. Mrs. Bud Toombs, who is working at Knox, spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. James Britt and family autoed to Attica Thanksgiving day and spent the day -with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Claude G roover o f Li zton spent a con pie of days this week with T. J. Parker and family. LEE Mrs. H. C. Anderson is on the sick list this week. Lester Warren 19 sick this week with a cold and the grip. O. E. Noland is building a cattle shed for Ephriam Gilmore. Miss Eva Hoult visited the first of the week in and near Reynolds. Grandma Gulp is a little better at this writing, but not able to sit up much.

Miss Marie Calhune of Lafayette is here this week visiting Miss Dollie Jacks. The hardware dealers, Culp & Son, had another car load of coal in this week. / Mrs. Walter Jordan’s broken arm has improved so that she is doing her work now. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart went from Sunday school to John Clark’s for dinner Sunday. Miss Agnes Stiers has returned from a few weeks’ yisit. in the central southern part of the state. Harry Rishling took a load of buckwheat to Rensselaer Wednesday and had it ground into flour. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Heltzel spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Chicago, attending the ,/at stock show. Misses Thelma and Etha Roland, rhloe Overton, Clara, Linback and Dollie Jacks spent Sunday w#lh Miss Delena Lefler.

Charles Armstrong and Simon Parcels are going to visit their wives, who are patients at Longcliff hospital, today. €. A-. Lefler and wife and daughter Frances spent Saturday and Sunday with her brother, William E. Jacks, and family near Rensselaer. Gifford Mars and family took Sunday dinner with G. A. Jacks and wife, and they all autoed to Rensselaer in the afternoon to see Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler. Omar Osborne of Schenectady, New York, was married Thanksgiving afternoon at that place, and he and bride left immediately for his parents’ home near here, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Osborne, where they are visiting until the middle of next week, w r hen they will start for their home at Schenectady, where the groom has their house furnished for them. We wish them a very happy married life. Several houses in a Spanish town are built of meerschaum, a course variety of which is mined in the neighborhood.