Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1917 — ROSELAWN. [ARTICLE]

ROSELAWN.

Mrs. O. Phillips was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday. • - - C„ M. Rice was a Chicago visitor Sunday and Monday. Miss Martha Bess, who is teaching in Washington township, was home over Sunday. Y Mary Jane Phillips and Dorothy Rodfcers were taking their music lessons in Rensselaer Saturday. Archie Leach, an old-time resident of Roselawn and vicinity, who left here hbotU a year ago, died at the home of a sister in Missouri about two weeks ago. T. M. Gephart was a Roselawn visitor a day or two ago. He reports the condition of his wife, who has been ailing for the past month, as about the same. Corn is still being marketed at the elevator here in large Quantities and the receipts will no doubt surpass that of any previous year in the history of business at Roselawn.

F. C. Nichols of Hammond was in Roselawn Monday showing a sample of a patent step-ladder which is being manufactured 'at Hammond, Mr. Nichols being a member and stockholder of the manufacturing company. .* The report camp hero last week that William Faran, an old-time resident here, had died in Chicago where he had been living with a nephew the last two years. Mr. Faran was 96 years old at the time of his death, it is reported. Humphrey Barbour is still holding down the big arm chair at the drug store, and patiently waiting the coming of spring when ho says he is going to Montana to work. Mind" you, he says to work. Now we know Humphrey Is not afraid of work. Yea, verily, we think he could lie down beside It and go to sleep, but aside from this •we think Humphrey is alright.