Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GIFFORD Charles Scott moved his family to Gifford Monday. William Obenchain was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Othel Cab well, Monday, a son. There -are ■squite a few cases of measels around here at this writing; Ida Davis called on Sylvia and Hazel Lambert Saturday and Sunday. Quite a number from here at-1 tended the sale of John Daniels Tuesday. j daughter, Dave and Nora, spent j Saturday and Sunday with rela-; ~ fives around here. Guy Zook came home Friday from South Bend for a few days'! visit with his family. Quite a number of young folks! around here called on the Keen’s young folks Saturday evening. The evening was spent in games anddancing. ' There was quite a crowd gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Deacon Smith , Wednesday eyening and held on old-time dance. All enjoyed themselves very much. Mrs. Al Blake and son and

FAIR OAKS

Health is very good in dur town nowadays. It is thought that the wheat and rye in these parts have wintered so far quite good. I We have had a decided change' in the weather the past few days. We got a light shower Tuesday night. x i One hundred one automobiles | passed the Hillis ranch last Saturday enroute from Indianapolis to. Chicago. Amy Bringle name home last week from Valparaiso university to spend the vacation. -She returned,

Thursday. ' .! A. D. Washburn of Kentland came up the first of the week and purchased a fine young mule of Enos Moffitt. Fred Call moved from the Simmons farm the latter part of the week to town and occupies Fred McKay’s property. Mr. Hughes, who had been section foreman on the Monon at this place for over a year, left for Missouri Tuesday. Mrs. Oliver Brouhard and Mrs. Charles Barker left here Wednesday for Terre Haute to visit rela-< tives -for a few days. Fred McKay, who is a signal maintainer out West, came home the first of the week to make his parents and friends a visit. i A few days ago Paul Barker bought of Enos Moffitt his horse,; wagon and harness and his draying job. Enos is preparing to go to Montana to take up a homestead.

Ruby Noland, wife and mother and Mr. and Mrs. Reeves moved onto the Spang farm the latter part of the week. They occupy the house recently vacated by Lee Rardin. We can always hear of something new and startling. The latest is that there is to be a dance at the Shelby school house Friday night. They must be short of dance halls. The teachers are preparing to pull off a literary program at the school house the night of the 17th. There will be a small admission fee charged at the door, the proceeds to go to The benefit of the school.

C. A. Bringle and wife came over Sunday and attended the thirtysecond wedding anniversary of her parents. It also being the birthday anniversary of F. O. Garriott and wife, they dropped in and made them a visit also. Jaeob Howald, an old man of Newton county of Swedish descent, was attacked and beaten up quite ' badly a couple of weeks ago by a couple of drunken brutes south of Roselawn because he would not give them some money, and now'he is in a very serious condition, that may iproye fatal. Mrs. Stevens of New Salisbury, Indiana, who had been visiting her sons at Morocco and Peoria, Illinois, the past couple of months, stopped off here while on her way home and visited her cousin, A. M. Bringle, over night. She is taking her little granddaughter home with her to stay this summer.

WHEATFIELD William Meyers sold a team of horses last Saturday. • Miss Goin visited at the Dewey and Hewett homes last Friday and ,Saturday. I The pastor of the Catholic church here filled his appointment at Kniman Sunday. ] They say spring is here, and we do notice that you have to spring i fast to keep warm. Dewey and Hewett purchased two cows and some corn of Huber | and Grube Monday. Indiana is soon to be a dry state, but remember we will still have buttermilk and cider. Michael Misch, Alexander Raeth and Henry Henrichs autoed. to Rensselaer last Monday. Claude Sayloi- is moving his household effects to the Wagoner farm in Walker township. Louis Misch has been on the sick list for the past few d%ys. At this writing he is much better. j

'Miss Viola Dewey and Master and Miss Sommers of Kersey visited at the Hewett home Sunday, i -The young child of Mr. and Mrs. . McDaniel, which was quite sick a | few days ago, is much better at i this writing. “ O, those professional weather 'prophets, they are surely in the same rank as the prophets of Baal. .We see their finish. | What we need is more local patriotism, as love of home and neighborhood is the sure road to love of country and its flag. According to press reports a few Democrats around Rensselaer are seeing robins in flocks of forty or, more, and it is a dry town, too. Louis Vandercar of Knox, who' is doing mason work for Neal Clager on a house north of Demotte, visited at the Vandercar home Monday.

Charles Hewett, who sold a team of mules to a Monon farmer last Saturday, delivered them to Rensselaer Monday. William Knapp went with him. - - Henry Henrichs buzzed wood for the Misch, Dewey, Hewett, McDaniel and Raeth homes last Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Yes, he saws for the Democrats, too.

j A few horse buyers were in Wheatfield last Friday, but according to report, they only purchased a very few, as they seemed to want only a certain size. Judging by this they must have been after ( army .horses. A few' of the young people of Wheatfield called on William Meyers, Jr., a few days ago and as Will was not in, they Searched diligently until they found him. It was some search, too. Fern said the next time they come on a surprise party expedition they are going to bring a bronco and a, lasso. • A few of the very cub writers of the metropolitan press fill column after column with their articles on love, in which they wander around in the wilderness of specu-l lation until they get lost and lay them down to die in the desert of Darnediflknowanythingaboutit. Why don’t these brainy chumps just say that love is friendship boiled down, and then stdp.

Charles Schatzley of Canada, who came here a few days ago to look for a location and who, upon his arrival, took sick with pneumonia and .died -,at the home of his parents in town, was buried here last Saturday. His father, who died a day after he did, was buried Monday, and his mother, who died Monday night, was buried Wednesday. It is not often that a father, mother and son passes away so close together, and. such a loss is surely hard for the bereaved to bear. All were widely known here and have s host of friends to mourn their departure. We wish tp extend our sympathy to the bereaved in this, their day of sorrow.

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) C. B. Dillman and family and E. Osborne and family of Wheatfield were here Sunday. Earl Leek and family have moved into the Baker property and are now residents of Mt. Ayr. Manno J. Miller came from Wheatfield Wednesday to visit his aged father, who is quite sick at the present.- , >- • Mrs. Mont Brien returned to her home in Goodland Saturday after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Lynch. Mrs. Chuck Lowman and children came from Parr for an over Sunday visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phares.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hopkins and Mrs. Hopkins’ brother, Mr. Ham, and wife attended a funeral at Lake Village Sunday. George Shupe returned from an extended visit with home folks in Kentucky and has again resumed work ’"for Everett Halstead. r • Mary Phares, whg has been staying near Parr for some time, visited her parents over Sunday, returning to Parr. Monday afternoon, Uncle Joe Miller is reported aS being very poorly. Mr. Miller is getting well along in years, where all forms of sickness take a ready hold.’ '

Noah Helmuth of Arthur, Illinois, has been visiting his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Helmuth. He went tol KOkomo Monday to visit other relatives before returning to his home. I Mrs. C. B. Dillman of Wheatfield, who came Sunday, remairieu? over night with Mr. and Mrs. C. j n , Shue, went On to Goodland Monday mornjng to visit her sister, Mrs. Frank Hancock. I Charles Summers completed his removal from south of Rensselaer to the farm he bought north of town last week. We know Charles to be a good citizen and are glad to welcome him to our midst. | Word comes from Arthur, Illinois, of the death of Henry Yoder at his late home ia that city. Mr. i Yoder will be remembered as an ■ old-time resident here, formerly living on the farm now occupied by Charles Fleming. * ) Clifford"' Barker moved Wednesday from neai - Monon to the J. D. I Rich farm near Julian. Mrs. 1 Barker’s father, N. K. Parke, of Hammond assisted them in the removal, and together he and Mrs. j Barker spent Tuesday night with old-time friends here. The newly-weds, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Mauck, wbo recently took up their residence on the old Mauck homestead, were treated to a pleasant surprise Thursday evening by some eighteen or twenty of their young friejjfls. The surprise was complete and a most pleasant time was reported.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hopkins have as their guests Mrs. Hopkins’ brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ham of Elbow, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. H'am left home in November, since which time they have been visiting relatives and friends in different states. Thejr have visited in both the Dakotas, Minnesota, lowa, Kansas and Oklahoma. Mr. Ham was raised here, his father’s old homestead being two miles directly west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Ham’s stay with friends and relatives here will be indefinite