Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

? ’ ■ MILROY Mrs. Dunn spent/ Tuesday, with Lillie Mitchell. .Mrs. Georgia and Rose Darrow spent Tuesday ‘ with Mrs. .Fisher. Creighton Clark and Tom Denton buzzed wood for Chas. Beaver Monday. ’ Z“ • The Ladies’TSfid met for ness meeting Wednesday afternoon 'With Mrs. Lillie Mitchell. Mrs. Mary MgCashen is suffering from an attack of pneumonia. Dr. Clayton was called Tuesday. She has been in poor health for some time.

LEE Glenn Culp is on the sick list this week. Raymond Warren helped Gatl Culp .do some hauling Monday. Grval Holeman and" family ate Sunday dinner with his mother. Mr. Ferguson of near Lafayette was here Wednesday visiting his sister, Mrs. George Hault, and family. GrandmA Culp is very low at this writing. Her brother, Leroy Noland, is staying here helping care for her. Lester Warren went to Chalmers Saturday to see his doctor, returning Sunday. He is improving very satisfactorily. The Warren boys . took three loads of machinery Wednesday to the farm they have rented near the Crockett cemetery. / Mrs. H. C. Anderson has poorly most all winter with her nerves. She is better at times, but has severe chills quite often. Mr. Trout shipped seven carloads of cattle here lately for his two ranches, one just out of town and the other about five miles south of here. He has lots of hogs also, and has shipped in several carloads of shelled corn to feed to his stock.

WHEATFIELD A shortage of cars is interfering •with the delivery of corn here. William Meyers is piling up a lot of large tile for use next spring. Quite a few from these parts attended the Heil public, sale last Thursday. Mrs. McDaniels, who had been away on a visiting tour, returned last Thursday. Rev. Emerich filled his appointment at Kniman last Saturday evening and Sunday. Messrs. Louie, Mike and John Misch gave us a call last Thursday in our new home. Bert Vandercar and family are row located on the Dewey ranch southwest of Wheatfield. So fai\ our whe&t looks fine. If we don’t have too riTarfy thaws and freezes we will have a record crop this year. The Sommers’ public sale last Friday was well attended. ® Mrs. Sommers is going to Indiana Harbor to spend the winter with relatives. In a letter to Mr. Dewey, Kenneth Gibbs stated that he and wife are located at ’Sandusky, ’’Ohio, where he is working ip the company’s factory. .He said that they had real ice there of the 15-inch variety. We are writing 'these items with a pencil presented to us by Louie MisCh, the local agent of the Globe Fertilizer company of Louisville,

Kentucky. It is one of the slickest advertising medicines we have ever seen. We intend to put Wheatfield on the map this summer in big capital’ letters and each letter a shining light. Watch this department and seq things boil. We don’t intend to stir up trouble, but if anyone desires it —let him throw his dirk. We are ready for all sizes of game, from pop-guns to cannons.

GIFFORD

Lida Acker called on Sylvia Lambert Sunday evening. Sylvia Lambert called on Mrs. Frank Dunn Monday. Sunday . school every Sunday at 2:30. Everybody welcome. W. F. Hankins received a car of ice from the river Monday. Mose Hancock is putting up ice for W. F. Hankins this week. George Lambert was hauling hay from Tom Parker’s Wednesday. The little son of Mr.-and Mrs. Guy Zook is ill at this writing. Jacob Meyer, north of Gifford, lost tw r o good horses Monday night. AlonzoJJaniels of near Rensselaer spefifSaturday night in Gifford, zfhe little son of Mr. and Mrs. /Earl Haniford is somewhat better at this writing. Lee Wester of the oil field spent Friday night with his sister, Mrs. Frank Dunn.' Frank Dunn came home Monday, from Wheatfield where he has been hauling stone for Chas. Cain’s road. Sylvia Lambert, Who has been working at Parr for Dennis Healy, came home Saturday night for a short visit. . IHazel Lambert met with a painful accident Sunday when she let a tub of ice fall on her foot and mashed it quite badly.

FOUR CORNERS

On account of scarcity of cars the elevators at both Tefft and Wheatfield are full to the roof. Mrs. Wesley Hammerton of east Walker, who had been quite sick for several weeks, is once more able to be out. Charles Sands, deputy prosecutor,' came up to Wheatfield Saturday fora small deflation which will be paid ninety days from date. The greater part of the corn in this section has been marketed and If other localities did likewise the price no doubt will now advance. Charles Galbreath, who was arrested for Striking Ed Miller, plead guilty Saturday- before Squire Vandoozer and was fined sls and costs, $34 in all. 1 Unable to purchase the coal direct, Trustee Davis is purchasing from the Wheatfield merchants his winter supply for the new school house at Tefft.' Dr. Solt of San Pierre had charge of J)r. Fyfe’s patients while the latter was away attending the funeral of U. G. Cottingham, who was buried at Broqkston. George Luse of Chicago, who owns part of the old Luse ranch, contemplates putting in several cars of tile and putting up some more building this coming spring. Oscar Graves and his mother have sold their (property in Tefft and moved their household gootfs to North Judson for a few weeks, preparatory to moving to California. C- , • . The M. W. A. of Wheatfield are making arrangements for a royal good time in the near future. They have secured twelve or fourteen applications for- membership and as soon as all papers are returned the time will be announced. George Ferguson, the picture man, is giving the people some good shows these cold nights. Give him your patronage. He is another of Wheatfield’s take-a-chance business men who is willing to back his judgment with cold cash. No woiider W. B. McNeil has fitted up a new office, no wonder he wears a smile that does not fade. He has a new heir, a baby girl. The first born is a boy. Now a full house, tire infallible result of cause and effect. We extend a hand of encouragement and a heart full of sympathy. On Wednesday the teachers and pupils took possession of the new

school building at Tefft, which is now completed, except varnishing and some minor work which will be finished after this term of school is over. No doubt the teachers and pupils will put forth an extra effort to make good while dad digs up a few extra dollars to pay his taxes next spring.

JACKSON r ~rbwNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY

U. S. corn 95 cents. Argentine corn $1.04. " Now stand aside please and w r atch taxes in Indiana drop to almost nothin’. A number of cases of whooping cough are reported in this vicinity and in and around Morocco. Miss Nellie Makeever is home from Chicago, after an enjoyable visit with friends in that city. The county conference of the Christian churches of Newton county was held in Kentland Wednesday of last week. —-Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Deardurif and Misfe Rilla Baldwin of Morocco visited lest Sunday with Mr. * and Mrs. Sidney Schanlaub. “Dogfish is improved by smoking,” says an Eastern paper. Indeed, it would be difficult to do anything to a dogfish without improving it. It is wonderful how those Republican farmers who are hauling corn to market at 9.5 cents a bushel are bearing up under their defeat at the recent election. The contract for the construction of a new bridge over Beaver Creek, north of Morocco, at a cost of $4,500, has been let to Alva Herriman of near Brook. The four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elijah died the latter part of last week of Whooping cough and pneumonia. Interment in North Star cemetery Sunday. “My occupation, you might say, is that of a farmer,” says Tom Lawson. What a good joke it w’ould have beer! on Tom if the printer had made it read “framer.” Mr. Teach, who has charge of the construction of a stone road in Colfax township, has now a large steam roller on the ground, which will be used in completing the work. e If grain prices keep on soaring those Illinois Republicans who received that shipment of Argentine corn last fall at $1.04 a bushel — for campaign purposes—may yet play even on the deal. Benjamin Gteesa, ,an old and well-known resident of Jackson township, is quite sick with little or no hbpe of recovery. John M. Hufty of Mt. Ayr, another old resident, is said to be in very poor health.

Congressman Will R. Wood has presented the name of George Richmire of Morocco for appointment as midshipman in the U. S. navy. George will take his examination at Washington, D. C., within the next few days. We are told that a Morocco young man recently took up- a collection among his friends in order to enable him to go to Rensselaer to see his best girl. Here is surely a promising candidate for the hymenial alter, huh? what? A Colfax township farmer* chopped down a hollow tree the other day in which .was found a coon, an owl, two rabbits and three opossums. It would be easy to add that the tree also contained fifty pounds of honey and a bag of Spanish doubloons, *'but “truth” is our motto. Yes, sir, let truth prevail though hog -meat raises to a dollar a pound and the price es print paper douibles every whip-stitch. Oh, yes, yes, yes; the temperance cause will get no end of help from the two old parties now. You see, the two old parties are seeing a great big, brilliant light—in. other words, the temperance forces are becoming strong, ami it would not be wise to longer disregard their wishes. Aye, verily, it is going to be a race now between the two old parties as to which . will love the temperance cause the hardest. It carries one back to the good Old days to. see Steinbach of the Kentland Democrat getting some public printing again, J and getting it from a Democratic official, too. Steinbach has received some mighty dirty treatment from certain members of-his party in the. last several years, all of which, if one may judge by remarks heard on every hand, will not be forgotten by the straight out-and-Ont Democrats of Newton county right shortly. Say, you people with your little families of two to four children and who rant and. howl about the high cost of living, will you kindly listen to this? ■ “Mr, and Mrs. Edward A. Sharp’ of Chicago are parents of seventeen children. It costs about $3 a meal to feed this farhily with meat alone; they also consume at each meal two pecks of potatoes and six loaves of bread. In one day they use ten quarts of milk.” Will you kindly. shet up now and stay shet..

FAIR OAKS —

News is scarce again this week. We are still having some of that genuine zero winter weather. F. R. Erwin got in a carload of coal this week. It retails at $5.75. Health is generally a little improved in our town sjhce our last report. Rev. Hensley was here Sunday and gave us a couple of splendid sermons. Mrs. Halleck and little Franca Ropp are the latest to be taken down sick. Grandma Abel is seriously sick with what Dr. Rice diagnosed as Bright’s disease. William . Cottingham and family of Momence came over and attended his father’s funeral Saturday. Sam Kettering, who has been working on Erwin’s dredge, took the grip and. neuralgia and had „to lay off. Arthur Ropp is subbing for him. • * Menno Chupp of near Surrey moved Wednesday over onto the Tol-in ranch in the house with Roma Miller. He expects to work with a saw mill near there. Joe WHdrick, who moved from south of Mt. < Ayr last winter up near Valparaiso, has moved back to Colfax township and will occupy one of Mr. Tolin s farms, where >. Earl Kennedy lives. Earl will move onto his own farm, the old near Rensselaer.

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) \ Mrs. D. J. Stutzman’s sister returned to her home Friday. Bruce Hardy was home from Dane, Wisconsin, last week. Mrs. J. R. Sigler was having dental work done in Rensselaer. Thursday. e Wade Makeeyer and George Brown were Rensselaer visitors Saturday evening. Miss Jane z Makcever went to Foresman Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Charles Bengston. Bill Burns, the trapper, was in town Monday and reports trapping good with fine prices prevailing. Mr. and Mrs. B. Kivell of Tracey, Minnesota, are here, the guests of Mrs. Kivell’s folks, , the Zoboroskys. Miss Alda Brunton of near Brook spent several days in the Harry Brunton home north .of town, last week. • *. Mike Fay and family, of Parr were. _over Sunday guests at the hom<* of his brother-in-law, Frank Signaan. , ' •

Miss drace Brown, who is staying in the home of J. C. ’Baker, went td her home near Parr for an over Sunday visit. • » Dink Cox, who- makes his home nettr Knoxville, Tennessee, visited his brother Cass from Wednesday until Saturday of last week: Miss /Ona Shindler returned to her home in Brook Friday after a few days’ visit in the home of her brother, W. A. Shindler, the lumberman. Thursday Hamlin Smltt>\ sold the city meat market and ice’business to Kinder Kennedy, who began at once. to make preparations to put up a crop of ice. iHollis Brown was in town Saturdayen route to his father’s from his brother’s, south of Rensselaer, where he had been staying since leaving here last summer. Word comes that a son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Omar Wilcox of North Mrs. Wilcox was a daughter of Mrs. Ransom Elijah and were from around Harr. George Lynch, fearing a shortage of ice for next summer, leased J. B. Ashby’s ice house and put up twenty loads of eight-inch ice Thursday and Friday for his own use. -■* ' \ , Mrs. Lizzie Ham, who has been visiting the Hopkinses. Cooverts and other friends and relatives here the past several months, started Wednesday on her .return home to Vernon, Texas. ‘Mrs. Anna Baker has as her gyest hfer brother, Ed Metzger, .who for fourteen years has been a resident of the Dominion! of Canada. This is Mr. Metzger’s first trip since he took up his residence as a British

subject, and his second trip to the States anywhere. A. B. Tolin was in Chicago several days last week buying cattle. Mr. Tolin has made a couple of trips prior to this one of a like mission, having .already purchased some 400 head. * While seated at the breakfast table Saturday rnornin'g, our esteemed -friend and citizen, L. H. Dirst, had a very serious attack of heart trouble .that rendered him unconscious for some time. Rev. Gragun received a letter from a brother at Indianapolis in, which he stated that eggs are worth a nickel apiece.there, and that they are not using a great many on account of the silvery