Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Page 3

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

GOODEAND (From the Herald) William Stack of Arcola, Indiana, came Tuesday night for a visit here with his father, Robert Stack, and others. , Mrs. James Peck of Remington returned Sunday after a few days’ visit here with Mrs. William McCurry and family. Miss Value Patton of Wichita Falls, Texas, is at the bedside of her sister Leithel in Michigan, who is a typhoid fever patient. Mr, and Mrs. M. D. Johnson of Pierpont, South Dakota, are here on an extended visit with the latter’s sister, Mrs. W. H. Gilman, and family. William Babcock shipped twenty head of steers to the Chicago market Tuesday that netted him $lO.lO per 100 pounds. The full amount being $2,490. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Clark observed their 39th wedding anniversary Wednesday. Mr. Clark, who is just recovering from an illness, is as jolly as ever. Editor A. J. Kitt was over from , Fowler last Saturday night calling on his mother, Mrs. Anna Kitt. The latter is 93 years old and A. J. is just her boy grown up. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Wickwire, who have farmed near Chalmers for three years, will soon go to Canada, where they will locate on a farm near Detroit, Michigan. Ex-treasurer F. C. Rich was a caller in Goodland Tuesday. He will take up his residence in Indianapolis in the spring. In the meantime he is going to visit his friends. MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) A. C. Prevo was a Rensselaer visitor Thursday. Thomas and Louis Bennett made a trip to Rensselaer Tuesday. Mrs. William Sexton and son Earl moved tlie past week to a farm near Monon. • • G. D. .Prevo returned home Friday ffom Chicago, after a visit of several days with Millard Prevo and family. George T. Faris of Caldwell, Idaho, who had been visiting relatives here for several weeks, left Wednesday noon for his home. J. T. Icenogle and son Ivan arrived home Tuesday evening from Mattoon, Illinois, where they attended the funeral of a brother of Mr. Icenogle, and visited with relatives. ■ „ John Resh and family of Gary came Tuesday to visit a few days j with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Resh, and to assist in caring for Mr. Resh during his illness. Mrs. Perry Deselms left Friday for Washington, Oklahoma, to visit

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her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Robb. Mrs. Deselms’ father is in very poor health and she expects to visit there, for several weeks. Howard and Walter Faris, who have been visiting with relatives here for several weeks, returned to the West Tuesday evening. Howard returned ~to his home near Caldwell, Idaho, and Walter was headed for Montana where he intends to file, on a claim. William Boone, residing on the Schuyler Decker farm in Kankakee township, died a victim of small--lox Friday morning, after but five days* illness .of the dreaded disease. « Mr Boone eontracted the disease from A man who came to work on the Ballinger farm, where the former was assisting in some work. The stranger came from Chicago, and after complaining of being .ill, at the same time showing the outward symptoms of smallpox, disappeared and is supposed to have returned to Chicago. A day or so after the stranger left, Mr. Boone was taken ill and Dr. R. B. Jon.es, who was called, immediately pronounced the case smallpox./ The physician vaccinated the other members of the Boone family and notified Dr. Osborn, county health officer, who quarantined the home. Mr. Boone is survived by a widow and six children.

FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) Mrs. Laura Brown has gone to Blue Island, Illinois, where she will visit relatives. Mrs. Leo Worland and daughter of Rensselaer have been visiting’ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Coffel. Misses Della and Ada Shumaker are spending this week with relatives and friends at Star City and Logansport. Mrs. Charles E. Culp and two children were down from Lacrosse Sunday. Mrs. Ctflp will move to North Judson soon. Mrs. Orla Clouse of Rensselaer returned home Sunday evening after a few days’ visit with, her mother, sister and brother. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Porter of Rensselaer were the guests of latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzpatrick, Thursday and Friday. The White’s frame hotel at Lacrosse managed by W. E. Schultz /aught fire Monday morning at 5:3? o’clock from a defect in the chimney and was completely destroyed. They carried $2,700 insurance on the building and household furniture. Marriage licenses were granted last week to George Allen, son of Frank Allen of Jefferson township, and Miss Myrtle Clark, daughter of Ulva “Bud” Clark and wife southwest of Winamac. They were married at Winamac by Rev. A. H. Lawrence. George has been a familiar figure about town and the Tribune with his friends wish him happiness available. Announcement has been made in the Detroit papers that Roy C. Reish, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reish of this place, who has been employed at Detroit, was married last week. We quote what the paper had to say: “Announcement is made by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. King of Detroit, Michigan, of the marriage of their daughter. Miss Bertha E., to Rby C. Reish, on Wednesday, January. 17?

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Miss Eva Sullivan went to Remington Wednesday evening to visit Miss Ruth. Tribby. Miss Orpha Jackson is. spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Fern McKillip, on the farm. _ Mr. and Mrs. George Goss went to Reynolds Wednesday evening to visit Mr. and Mrs. Carl Westphal Mrs. Arthur Hawn and daughter Maxine of Logansport are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Snick. Ernest Mattox went to Watseka, Illinois, Sunday evening on business, returning home Monday evening. Mrs. D. K. Jackson went to Logansport Thursday to visit her son George a'hd family, and her sisters ’ ■ Mr and Mrs. itcy Parson of Logansport came Th .rsoay to visit Mr. Parson’s mother, Mrs. Mipnie Parson. Mrs. W. A. Rea of Marysville, Ohio, came last Friday evening to visit ’ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Jeyte. Mrs. William Blake of Remington was the guest Tuesday of her father and sister, Charles Hufty and’ daiighter. 0 Charles Hufty, who has been taking treatment at the Plummer sanitarium in Logansport, came home Saturday evening. Miss Minnie Jones, who has been spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. Jane Jones, returned to liidianapolis Thursday. - Mrs. Addie Blumer of Lafayette was the guest from Sunday evening until Wednesday evening of Mrs. Louis Jones, south of town. Miss Louise Brown of Lafayette, field secretary of the Illinois Woman's college at Jacksonville, Illinois, visited ’our school Wednesday. Thomas Taylor went to " Delphi Thursday as a delegate from the local K. of P. lodge to the district

meeting x which was held in that city: Mrs. E. N. Match, who was called here by the illness and death of her father, R. C. Pugh, left for her home in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Thursday. Mrs. Chester Corhki, who has been spending the week with her mother, Rev. Mrs. Goodacre, returned to her home in Kentland Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Holcomb ahd son of Joliet, Illinois, Came Thursday evening to visit Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Dunn and family. Mrs. Hoicomb and Dunn are,.sisters. Miss Hazel Kiser, accompanied by Dr. Ravenscroft and her father, E. S. Kiser, was taken to the hospital at Logansport Thursday where on Friday she will be operated on for the removal of a tumor.

BROOK (From the Reporter) Mrs. Rees Hill lefl* on Thursday for a stay at Hot Springs, Arkansas, Mrs. Charles Stearman was visiting friends in Altamount, Illinois, this xveek. , llarve Pierson and wife were 'presented with a fine baby gir( last Wednesday. Wm. Wooley and wife spent Sunwith Hiram Ashby and family in Mt. Ayr. <Miss Clara Bergen of Kentland is spending the week here visiting wittr friends. J. B. Fdresman, Jr., was in Wheatfield Wednesday looking after his farm interests. Mrs. Georgp Battleday was called to Morocco Thursday by the serious illness of her daughter. Mrs. John JJ Sell spent Sunday with her parents at Wolcott, returning home on Monday. Don Berlin is in Virginia visiting an aunt. From there he will go to Ohio to visit other relatives. Henry Sandmyer’s many friends will be glad to learn that he is slowly improving from his recent illness. Miss Mary Marshall of Hoopeston, Illinois, has been the guest of Mrs. Ernest VanDerVoort during the past week. Messrs. Rodefer and Welsh of Alabama are spending the week with -their friends, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Vondersmith. Mr. and Mrs. Farm Zoborosky of Morocco visited with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Battleday, over Sunday. Ernest Mayhew went to Chicago Sunday and brought home his wife from the hospital. Mrs. Mayhew is getting along nicely. Rees Hill left Monday, for Michigan where he will visit his son Homer, who is in the hospital recovering from an operation. • William Washburn and Robert Stout of Remington were guests at the homes of Charles Denham and C. B. Franklin last Wednesday. Clifford Barker, who is to move on the Jacob Rich farm, purchased last year of Morton Ulrey, drove down last Tuesday with a load of farming implements. Frank ‘Hansen of Lake Village returned home a few days ago from San Antonio, Texas, where he completed a course and received his license as a full-fledged aviator.

Tuesday Gates Bupp traded his house and lot in west Brook as part payment on a 90-acre farm three miles north and one mile east of Monon. The farm is well improved. The measles have been running rampant’ in the town of Foresman. The Graves family started them and now almost everybody has been exposed and the school is suffering in consequence. Mrs. Hilliard and daughter of Wheatfield were guests of Miss Etta Hess from Saturday until Wednesday when they left for home, accompanied by Miss Etta who will remain for a visit of several days. -Oscar Leach was down over Tuesdav and Wednesday visiting his son Jack and friends. He is still with the U. S. Steel company at Gary and is now in the weighing department. He says there is a demand for men all the time at the mills and that common laborers get 27y 2 cents per hour. Rev. Sickafoose was called to the ■Fenton home on Sunday to perform the marriage ceremony of James McArdle and Agnes Ruby Roberts, of Chicago, They were friends of Mrs. Dolar Kirk, who wtih Mr. and Mrs. Tyler of Chicago Heights were the only guests present. The party left for Chicago Tuesday, ~ /. ■ . . , ’ The announcement party of the bride had hardly made its way among her .friends until Miss Ethel V. Cline and Mr. Bruce F. Corbin were married at their* home in the country on Wednesday afternoon. Their friends had been led to believe that the wedding would occur on Sunday, but as they, had their future home already furnished they quietly sent for the Rev. R. C. Dillman. the bride’s pastor, and with their parents and Mrs. Dillman as the only witnesses the beautiful and impressive ring ceremony sealed the event in the new home. Mr. Corbin is the son of Frank Corbin and has always resided in and near Brook. He is a young man of splendid character, knows the farming game from experience and study and has* the ability to win success. The young couple are at home to their many friends on the old Tyler farm north of town, and start in life with the best wishes of all. / . f\ Thousands of British widows and their children’are to be transported to Canada, with the expectation that many of the women will be married to Canadian farmers, according to the plans of Commissioner David Lamb of the International Emigration Society of the Salvation Army.

ROSELAWN James Hyer and . the tenant on his farm southwest of town were in town Sunday. Miss Dorothy Rodgers was /in search 'of musical knowledge in Rensselaer Saturday. ’ j z J. W. Crooks visited with his family at Rensselaer from Saturday evening until Sunday morning. Humphrey Barber was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henrjy Jensen south of town for Sunday dinner. Mrs. Lyda Conger spent a few days at her farm last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Korth. Miss Pearl Best, Burgess and James Rice at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Best near Conrad Sunday. . Mrs. Georgia Raker came up from Monticello Saturday for a visit with Miss Maggie Mulder and other friends here; Mr. Speith. Monon agent at Shelby, and several others from the same town whose names we did not learn, attended the Masonic lodge here Friday night. . Rev. Wheare preached one of his usual strong sermons Sunday night. Preaching again next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Sunday school at 10 o’clock. You*are invited and Urged to come to these services. Tip David is working in Hammond for the winter. Hammond. Gary and East Chicago are drawing quite heavily upon the population of our commiunity and most of those who have gone from here to work in the above cities are getting verv good wages and are well pleased with their jobs. The eighth grade pupils, of which Miss Fay McCartney is a member, planned a surprise party in her honor last Wednesday evening, to which they Invited the pupils of the seventh grade. The party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hopper. The evening was spent in playing games of different kinds and with music, after which a dainty luncheon was served and all departed at 12 o’clock for their homes, wishing Miss Fay happiness and success in her home at Lowell, where she will soon go with her parents.

NORTH UNION (Too late for Saturday issue) Paul Schultz went to Parr Saturday. J.W. Faylor was hauling off corn the last of the week. Lesley Alter and John Lewis cut wood Friday at W. C. Faylor’s. Al Keener called on John Alter, who is on the sick list, Saturday. Mrs. Mattison helped Mrs. J. W. Faylor cook for shredders Thursday. yi

The New Chalmers Is a Good Investment The Chalmers 5-passenger, 6-30 is an unusually good investment at this time. The price of this model Chalmers is to advance to $1250 on March Ist. The present price is SIO9O Detroit You could not save $l6O any easier than by placing your order for a Chalmers now. This Chalmers is an exceptional car. It is a light car. It is an active car. Its lightness with its fine balance and its quickness, with its ability to perform well on the open road, in sand or in the restraint of traffic, are two Chalmers features that satisfy th<p driver. There are other fine -■ Chalmers qualities that discriminating drivers expect. ’ They are distinctive in design, comfort, quickness, power without effort, ease of control, simplicity and economy. Official tests show an average of 22 1-3 miles to a gallon of gasoline. There is but one other car that can turn around on less ground. These qualities are all well developed and built into the Chalmers. See the Chalmers, ride in it, and you’ll see the wisdom of saving this $l6O by ordering your Chalmers 6-30 now. •* j 7 < - A. A. Fell Motor Co. G. L. Thornton Wm. Hallihan Rensselaer Remington ; '''7 ' ' ; "

Bethlehem’s Bid on Shells for the United States Navy To the American People; The Secretary of the Navj has awarded contracts amounting to over $3,000,000 to a, British bidder for 14 and 16-inch projectiles for the Navy because of very much lower prices otiered by the English bidders. We know nothing of the basis upon which the British bids were made, but the public- is entitled to know the facts upon which we ourselves bid for this work. Two years ago we took contracts to make 4,200 14-incb shells at a price of $1,515,000. Up to now not a single shell has -been accepted by the Government, although we have expended, in wages, materials, etc., on these orders $522,881, and we have not received a SINGLE DOLLAR on these contracts. • In addition, a literal interpretation ot • the contract might make us liable for penalties amounting to *678,010. In the lighfof our experience, and having no other basis, we bid for 16-inch shells approximately the same rate per pound as that which the Navy Department actually awarded a 14-tnch shell contract one year ago. Bethlehem Steel Company CHAS. M. SCHWAB. Chairman EUGENEG GRACE, President

A good many in “this part of the woods” have bad colds or the grip. Dave Yeoman, Jr., and family called on Will Faylor Sunday afternoom . Frank Hayes spent Thursday and part of Friday with Will Faylor and family. Jack Reeder and Earl and Charles Wiseman were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. Will Faylor returned home the first of the week after a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. James Howell, at Lacross. There a big time at A. R. Schultz’s Saturday night in honor of their son Firman’s twenty-first birthday anniversary.

Telephone lines in use in the United States during the year 1912 amounted to 20,248,326 miles. A special form of electric fan is made use of In markets to keep the flies from goods on display. In Sweden articles sold as gold must contain not less than 75 per cent of the pure metal and those sold as silver at least 82 per cent of pure silver.

Tekas, contemplates the 'adoption^\f the.city manager form of governi\ent. There were 23,500,000 persons attending schools- of some kind in the United States in 1916. A tunnel through .James peak, west of Denver, will cut seventythree miles from the transcontinental trip. A United States patent has been granted two residents’ of South Africa for a single wheeled litter for moving sick or injured persons. A sanitary engineer of Pasadena. California, made a tour of inspection Of, the city ’sowers recently seated on the rear of a motorcycle. Ninety-one feet is the reported length of a pumpkin vino at Lordsburg, California, and brought to thePomona (California) chamber of commerce.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The husband, when waxing old, and well supplied with yellow- gold, remarks: “I’ll quit the farm; Ive had my fill of honest toil; this thing of wrestling with the soil has sort o’ lost its charm.” And so he buys a house in town, and thinks that he will settle down to soft and downy ease; but ere a year has gone its way, he’s yearning for the bales of hay, the piglets and the bee®. He finds the urban life a bore; his feet are cold, his soul is sore, time drags on leaden feet; so be resolves to travel back and build the tall alfalfa stack, and shock the bearded wheat. The farmer seldom learns to read; he is so buey sowing seed, and wielding shepherds’ crooks, and making hay in verdant vales, and combing burs from horses’ tails, he has no time for books. Sb when he moves himself to town, he cannot with a tome sit down, and read the stuff thait’s hot; he cannot lose himself in Pope, or wallow deep in Shakespeare’s dope, or soak up Walter Scott. Unhappy is that man, indeed, who thinks it waste of time to read, whose thoughts are all of hay, who’d rather mess around a churn than read a book by Laurence Sterne, or ode by Thomas Gray.