Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — HAPPINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

Dr. P. J. Pothuisje of Denver, Colorado, is a Remington visitor today. Oscar Taber went to Logansport Friday morning to spend the week end with his relatives. Mrs. Laura Harins of Rensselaer has been visiting at Mrs. Jena Lamborn’s and Earl Taylor’s this week. Mrs. O. P. Taber came Monday evening to spend Christmas with her daughter, Mrs. Homer Lambert, and other relatives. I Mrs. Cyrus Rice of near Delphi, Indiana, came Friday to spend a couple of days with her mother, Mrs. Meehan, and other, relatives here. Mrs. Isabelle Green, who has been spending, the past two months with her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Babb, at Memphis, Tennnessee. returned home last week. Miss Myrtle Ford, who has been having a seige with diphtheria and heart trouble in the Henrotin hospital, Chicago, was brought home Sunday and taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Jacob Hensler.

Mrs Eastes has just received a letter from Orris Hotaling in which he states that his mother, Mrs. Will Hotaling, is very sick with bronchial pneumonia, and has been taken to the hospital. Mrs. Hotaling has many friends here and we hope soon to hear of an improvement in her condition. Mrs. John Pepin and son Ralph returned home Thursday last from a fortnight’s stay in Chicago with the family of her sister, Mrs. H. D. MacDonald, while the latter underwent an operation. Mrs. MacDonald has visited here and has many friends in town who will be glad to know that she Is recovering so nicely.

There was a quiet little wedding at the home of Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Markin southeast of town whan their daughter Ethel was united in marriage to Cyrus Alvis. A wedding supper followed the ceremony, which was pronounced by the bride’s father. The young couple have gone to housekeeping in the Mrs. Debo property in the south part of town. Many friends wish them all kinds of happiness. Frank Timmons, who has been over to Springfield, Illinois, for the past week, informs us that he has just hired out to the Fitzsimmons Construction company of that city, and if they can handle the union end of the matter he will go to work next Tuesday. He will be in charge of two jobs at Normal, Illinois, one a gymnasium at the old soldiers and Orphans’ home, which will run about $25,000, and the other a woman’s dormitory, which is a/ SIIO,OOO job. On Saturday evening, December 16, at the home of the contracting parties on north Ohio street, was celebrated the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Lucky, who were united in marriage December 16, 18G6, in Shelby county, Illinois, and soon after came to this vicinity, "where they have resided ever since. Those present were the members of their immediate family: Miss Lina Lucky of Remington, Mrs. Will R. Puckett and son Maurice of Peru, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Graham of Windfall and Lee Rush and family of Remington, together wuth Rev. Warriner and wife and members of the W. R. C. and G. A. R. post.