Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

VIRGIE Miss Bertha Reed spent over Sunday with home folks. Miss Ida Zimmerman spent over Sunday with friends here. Matthew Sandifur and family moved to Brook Saturday., Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman were Rensselaer goers Friday. Most everyone around has been nursing the grip the past week. Miss Bertha Florence returned to Rensselaer Monday morning to work.

WHEATFIELD Louie and John Misch were at Rensselaer Sunday. Mrs. Geffert and daughter were callers at the Dewey home Sunday afternoon. Homer Fisher* who is working at Schneider, came up last Saturday to see his dad and friends. Dewey and Hewett sold seven head of cattle to Kouts and Wheatfield buyers last Saturday and Tuesday. The state agent of the IGobe Fertilizer company called .on their local agent, Louie Misch, last Thursday evening. (Henry Henrichs, the threshing man, buzzed wood for Dewey, Hewett, McDaniel and Mr. Raeth last Tuesday and Wednesday. Rev. Emerich began revival services at the M. E. church here Tuesday evening. Pictures of Bible scenes will be shown at each service. What we want is the news. We try to be correct, down to the least detail, but sometimes we don’t get it qulite straight. So if you have anything in the news line that affects you, tell us. If you don’t someone else will. Remember,, we we get a look in at all that is going on. The time was when a man could steal a 300-pound hog and get away with it, and if he was caught he could be charged only with petty larceny. But at the present 'time he that stealeth a pig in the long dress and nursing bottle stage, would be chased to the end of the earth with the noose of grand larceny hovering above his head. Oh, you 12c hog! On January 22 President Wilson delivered before the senate of the United States a remarkable message, which will become historic. In it he laid down the true basis of permanent peace. If Europe would adopt and put in practice the ideas set forth in this remarkable document we would have ages of peace. We would have an earth composed of republics, each working out its destiny under a common protection. It seems strange that our Democratic friends still think they have a perfect legal right to run their

Fords into the ditch whenever they so desire. Such proceedpre was alright when the > state was a citadel of Democracy; when the flag of Democracy was at full mast. But as we have a Republican governor now these inalienable rights belong to our Republican brethren. They have the right to go into the ditch any time they please.

GIFFORD Grover Norris lost ’ another good cow Monday. L Quite a few attended the Dexter sale Tuesday. John Akers, Jr., of Tefft spent Monday night in our burg. James Byitt hauled George Lambert a load of wood Tuesday. Mr. Hahn of Virgie is moving into Mr. Popel’s house west of Gifford. Clarence Markin of Moody was seen in Gifford Sunday with his best girl. Rae Collins of Newland is moving into the George Heit house east of Gifford. Earl Parker and family of Kersey spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Misses Beulah Walker ajjd Leota Obenchain spent Sunday .with Lillian McClannahan. Five more of our Gifford boys left Monday to work in South Bend, in the Studebaker shops. William Steel, who went to w r ork Wednesday (Cutting right of way on the Kankakee, river, met with quite an accident, Cutting one foot badly. Taylor Hankins, Theodore Smith, Jud Zook and William Obenchain called on George Lambert Monday. The latter is not improving much at this writing.

MILROY Mr. Moore’s have moved onto the Mansfield farm. , Ernest Harris visited Frank Sommers over Sunday. Mr. Dobbins called on Mr. Doifin’s Sunday afternoon. Jbseph Rees of Piqua, Ohio, spent last week with George Foulks. Willard Johnson and family spent Tuesday night with Thomas Johnson’s. W. Dobbins held meetings last week at Center, closing Sunday evening. Jos. Rees and George Foulks and family spent _ Sunday with Joseph Clark’s. Mrs. True Culp spent Tuesday with her mother," Mrs. Charles Beaver. Misses Irene and Louise Marchand spent Sunday with home friends. Miss Gertrude " Faylor visited home friends over Saturday and' Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beaver took dinner Monday with Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell. - Mrs. Ernest Beaver and baby spent several days last week with Charles Beaver’s. Frank ‘ Sommers is moving to Rensselaer and Mr. M ood will move onto Frank’s farm. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McCashen and J. R. Clark and family called on Mrs. Mary McCashen Sunday? Mrs. Earl and Mrs. George Foulks called on Mr. and Mrs. George Wood Tuesday afternoon. ■Fred May and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles (Harwell, Mr. and Mrs. I. j. Clark and Lud Clark’s ate dinner Sunday with Elmer (Mark s. Mr. and Mrs. William Wall and two children spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. Mary McCashen, who is somewhat improved from her recent illness.

Charles Beaver and George Foulks went to ijondn Tuesday to bring the gasoline lighting system to the church. Mr. gpencer will have the church ready for painting in a day or two and will paint the walls-and ceiling now and varnish the inside woodwork, but painting the outside will be done later.

I MT. AYR . (From the Tribune) Clark Short of Rensselier was in town Thursday. ► y Riley Hickman visited his sister, Mrs. Dave Guthrie, at Vincennes from Friday until Monday. Menno Chupp and wife of Parr stopped in town a while 'Wednesday. They had been out to their farm northwest of town. Sunday, January- 28, Mr. and Mrs.'Jasper Makeover of near North Star, celerabted their forty-ninth wedding anniversary. About thirty enthusiastic Odd Fellows from here were in attendance at the big degree feast meeting at Fowler Misses Nellie Makeever and Coral Moore and Jay Makeever were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Meharry Wednesday evening for supper. ■ -A ■ \ Mrs. J. V. Collins of near Rensselaer, accompanied by her son and daughter, Devere and Nellie, ‘were visitors at Jasper Makeover’s Sunday. r Mr. and Mrs. Charles Armold were in Watseka Thursday to visit Mrs. Armold’s sister, Mrs. Hiestand. who is a patient in the Watseka hospital. j Harvey Messman and wife/of northeast of Rensselaer were ‘‘doing time” in Mt. Ayr last Tuesday. Mrs. Messman enjoyed the day with the Royal Neighbors. Miss Lulu Hickman, whp has been staying in Rensselaer for some time, has returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Hickman, north of town. - Mrs. George Johnson returned home Thursday after a several days’ visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bruner, having been called there by the sickness of her little grand-daughter. Jasper Wright visited Rev. Downey at Lochiel Wednesday. He reports the Rev. and family as being quite well and getting along nicely. Mr. Downey sent his respects to old friends at Mt. Ayr. Adam Miller, who for a number of years has resided near Goshen, and who had the misfortune a few months ago (to lose his wife and helpmate, came Friday for an extended stay with his father, Ben B. Miller. Ernest and Ray Bucks of Thornhope, who have been working on a dredge near Des Moines, came home Friday. They stopped off on their way to their home to visit their uncle, Frank Burns, and family. They spent Friday and Saturday here. . • ' Misses Gay Makeever, Elsie Benson, Ruth Endsley, Lucy Harris and Mr. Shankland were among the applicants to take the January teachers* - examination Saturday.. They all went to Rensselaer for the work, it being more convenient of access than our own county seat. The latest investor in Mt. Ayr property of which we have learned is John Murfitt. We are just informed thht John has bought the Dunlap property where Tom Inkley lives. Whether John intends to move to town and take things easy or use the property for rental we have not yet learned.

FAIR OAKS _ The sick of our town are recovering nicely now. Yes, we had considerable wind the first of the week. Lon Moffitt went to Gary Wednesday evening to look for a job in the mills. James Cliff ton was the last to take down with the grip in our town, but is recovering. Mrs. John Dean went to Rensselaer the first of the week to visit her mother, Mrs. C. A. Gundy, and Grandma McGlinn. Mrs. Cottingham went over to Momence last week to visit her son William’s family and help them through the measles. Ray Haste; who went to Buchanan, Michigan, last fall to work in a factory, some way or other got one of his eyes put out a few days ago. Aunt Hannah Culp and Grandma Noland went to Lee Monday to see the former's brother, David Culp, ■ who is considerably under the weather. Rev. Hensley came down Sunday and delivered acouple of splendid sermons, taken from the second chapter of Luke. The text was from the second verse. Eugene Barfoot, who owned and lived on the Pembroke fruit farm the past year, sold out and moved back to Chicago last we6k. A Mr. Swanson of Chicago now occupies the farm. Jap Wright of Mt. Ayr was in these parts Wednesday buying stock. He bought a cow of Mr. Eggleston and one of L ncle Dave Winslow, and a bunch of hogs of Mr. Smith. Grandpa Abel has recovered enough to go down to the depot and back, and Ben was able to go over to Virgie a few days ago, visiting and putting in his time at his brother Warren’s. A Mr. Dobbins of White county dropped in here Monday and opened up a meeting at ‘ Mrs. Warpe’s for the next two weeks. He held •two nights and called it off and went home Wednesday. It seems as though the task of getting hands to work on the farms this year in these parts will be somewhat difficult, owing to the fact that so many -have gone to work in the mills in Gary and other manufacturing towns.

The people of the M.. E. Sunday school are planning'to hold an oyster and ice cream supper at the school „ house Saturday evening, February 3, the proceeds to go to purchase song books and make repairs on the church.

FOUR CORNERS < T. J. Jones of Tefft lost a valuable cow Sunday. Ed Lambert and family are visiting relatives and friends in Missouri. ' ' I Homer Fisher of near Low’elJ is home for a few'days’ visit before going to Gary. , " » D. H. vWesner shipped a car of cattle from Wheatfield Tuesday to the Chicago market. An epidemic of measles has struck this part of Jasper county and a number are on the stricken list. . , The new: school hack used for transporting- the northwest district to Tefft, made the first trip Monday. D. H. Turner has the contract. Alfred Duggleby turned the light on someone w r ho was visiting his com crib a Jew night ago, and, fortunately for the light-fingered gent the gun wras not loaded. D. H. Wesner delivered his fat hogs to the Kouts shippers Wednesday. Eleven cent hogs at country shipping points adds to the farmers’ bank accounts. Dr. Bailey of near Lowell loaded two cars of cattle at Tefft Monday that he purchased of Frank Hershman and sons. The cattle will be put on full feed at once.

Sam Seegrist is dangerously S|ick at his home north of Tefft with pneumonia and asthma. His son Walter of Chicago has been with his father the greater part of the time. Mrs. E. W. Allen of Wheatfield is visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Luse of Chicago. Mr. Luse returned home a few days ago from hia farm in Kankakee township after selling his corn with a pocket full of cash. John Allen, car distributor at Kankakee, Illinois, came up on the 5 p. m. Saturday long enough to say “How do you do’’ and see his mother, - Mrs. E. W. Allen, of Wheatfield. John is one of the boys who remembers the tie that binds. The M. W. A. of Wheatfield are making arrangements for a blow-out on next Monday afternoon and night. Enough applications have been returned to make a good showing and visitors are assured a warm welcome. The first round-up will begin about 2:30 p. m. and the second at regular camp hours.

Sale bills printed at The Democrat office in very short order.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY

the spinal, folumn of winter was broken, anyway. L. F. Porter of Morocco has traded for a telephone plant I at Hebron. The meat market at Mt. Ayr has again changed hands, Kinder Kennedy being the new owner, Henry Deardurff, Jackson township’s prettiest bachelor, has, purchased the J. R. Sigler 80-acre fitrra in Colfax township. . Miss- Moore of Mitchell, South Dakota, who had visiting with Miss Nellie Makeever, returned to her home the fore part of the week, j Mrs. Clarence Blankenbaker and ' children were under the doctor’s ■ care last week with bad colds and fevers. They arc much better at this writing. J. M. Huffy of Mt. Ayr. who has been quite?sick. i.s\ recovering. Unde Ben Geesa, whose • serious illness was mentioned in The Deino.crat recently, is no better. Frank Sargent who. with his brother-in-law, Curt Pollock, farmed the Mrs. John Kennedy ranch last year, is getting ready to move to the vicinity pf St. Anne. Illinois. Pollick will move to a farm north of Morocco.

A bunch of lowa girls have decided to walk 500 miles this year in order to obtain proper exercise. During the year mother, in looking after her household duties, will also do a little stunt in walking—say 3,000 miles or such a matter. Jacob Hosier, an aged Resident of Morocco and a veteran of the civil war, sustained a fracture of the hip the latter part of last week from falling on the ice. Owing to the serious nature of the fracture It is doubtful whether he will ever be able to walk again. The wise old “soak” will begin tapering off right now. Otherwise he will wake up some fine morning with that dark brown taste in hi.s mouth and a breath like a buzzard, to find not in all Hooslerdom a drop of the critter that is generally supposed to remove said dark-brown taste. A mjile isn’t such a worthless creeter as some would have us believe. : K”r instance, Clarence Blankenbaker sold a span of young mules to Ode Shellenberger the other day for S4OO, and Clarence is positive that he could have got $425 if he had had a little more time to reason with Ode. “Our old friend Ephraim Stebbins,” says an Oklahoma paper,” will be laid up for some time due to the front wheels of his automobile running over his leg,” It is only necessary to figure the width of an automobile the ascertain the fact that this same old friend

Ephraim is none of your squat, dumpy fellows. Surely the never-sweat club is not attending to business. Here it is getting along,the first of February and harry a once has the peach crop been killed off, no warning has been issued with regard to the utter worthlessness of seed oats, not to mention a score of other calamities which should have been submitted to a candid world several ,days ago. Wallace Harrington of Englewood , 11l inois, lost a. valuable w ! atch in the Kankakee river two years ago while fishing in that stream. Last September he came down again for a day’s fishing, and along in the afternoon succeeded in landing a monster pickerel. Upon cutting the fish open Harrington made a startling di scq very- the. lost, watch wasn’t inside. The other day- we were shown about a half-pint of goose shot that had been scraped from a little pocket in the side of a ditch in the old Beaver lake bed, a relic of early days, no doujjt, when tho lake swarmed with wild fowls. Como to think of it, there must .be several thousand tons of shot: in the old lake bed, fully half of which the writer, as a boy, and by the aid of an old musket, placed there himself.