Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — HAPPENIENGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENIENGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSELAWN John Horton was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday morning. H. H. Nelson and family attended church at Shelby Sunday evening. Misses Mabel and" Elsie Nelson were shopping in Rensselaer Wed> nesday. Dorsey Kight was out of school a part of last week oh account of a severe co)d. J. D. Law of Morocco and H. L, Sammons of Kentland were Roselawn visitors Wednesday. Mrs. Lyda Conger came over from Lake Village Wednesdav for a visit with numerous friends. Mrs. T. M. Gephart, who has been critically ill at her home near Thayer, 'is still in a very serious condition. Superintendent McKenzie held quarterly meeting at Roselawn Sunday and preached one of his usual fine sermons.

Mr. and Mrs. John Algrim and Mr. Caster of Shelby attended the ouarterlv meeting hpre Sunday at the M. E; church. t Frank Nelson and family drove up from Chalmers and visited the family of H. H. Nelson and Grandma Nelson Sunday. Mrs, Who re, wife -of our minister, Tier. Wjjiare,- accompanied her husband ..to the services at Shelby and Roselawn Sunday. Mrs. Matilda Brooke returned home from Chicago Mondav of last week where she had been for some time caring for her mother. Mrs. Chesterton, , wife of Mr. Chesterton, the Monon agent, came un from Fowler for a few days’ •visit with her husband at the Burton hotel. . Sunday school at the regular hour. 10 o’clock: nreaching next Sunday evening at 7:30. You are requested and urged to come out to both these services. >

Miss Nellie Makeever stopped here Sunday on her return from Chicago where she had been visiting- friends, for a short visit with her sister, Mrs. Phillips. Outside of a staged in front of the post officelast week by two farmers, of our community, there was little if any excitement of note in our burg. And the spectators said it was a very tame scrap at that. The writer received a letter from C. L. Gundy last week stating that his father and mother had moved to Hamlet and opened a' hotel and restaurant business, and that hitpself a#d wife had joined them in conducting the same/ , Thursday. January 4, was Clara Hopper’s fourteenth birthday anniversary and fourteen of her girl friends and school chums planned a surprise party to be held at her home in the evening. A very enjoyable evening was spent with games music and a real old-fash-ioned taffy pulling. The young people reluctantly departed for their homes at 11 o’clock, wishing Miss Clara many happy returns.