Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GIFFORD r Lonzo Daniels Was a Gifford caller Sunday. Shardon Longe was a Rensselaer goer Friday. A. Potts took dinner with George Lambert’s Charley Vanarsadoi called on Reuben Snyder Friday. Albert Akers of Tefft was ’a Gifford caller Saturday. i There are several new cases of measles in our burg. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. C harley Snow Friday, “a dish washer.” William Dunn called on Charley Scott and family Wednesday evening. George Lambert and Grover Nor-1 ris called on Grant Davissoh Tuesday. Miss Marie Cavinder called on Sylvia and Hazel Lambert Wednesday. Mrs. Jennie Lambert took supperl Monday with her son, George, and family. ” Leota and Austin Obenchain are confined to beds with the Mrs. Bob Grim and children took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hyman. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Steele of Lee came Saturday for a short visit with the former’s parents. Guy Zook and dhildren spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother, Mrs. IMary Smith of Laura. Bob Grim and Tom Lambert went to Winamac Sunday and ret "F n ®“ Monday with a load of household goods for Mr. Lambert.

v ’ MILROY S ’ .Jessie Dolfin spent Sunday with Jennie IHorwell. , Miss Bessie Price attended Sunday school here Sunday. [ Bessie Price spent the week-end with Irene McAlear. r _ As the Wolcott school is closed this week Marie and Lillian Fisher are home. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks ate dinner Sunday with Charles Beaver and family. Mrs. Joseph Clark and children visited Mrs. George Foulks last Saturday. Mrs. Earl Foulks and Mrs. George Foulks visited Mrs. William Beaver last Friday. A B. Y. P. U. will be organized next Sunday night, March 18. Miss Juanita Fisher leader. AU are invited to come and help. Sunday .school at 10 a. m. The pie social has been postponed indefinitely until the scarlet fever scare is over. LomWood had a case of scarlet fever la Jua family and it was thought best to wait until later. - Mrs. Thomas McAlear and Mrs. G L. Parks entertained the Black Oak Aid at the. later’s home; also each furnished sewing and about twenty-five ladies worked and enjoyed the day throughout, especially at the noon hour, as all who partook can verify.

VIRGIE Rev.„ Flinger preached here Sunday night. Zessie Zellers caure home Tuesday evening. Firman Pettet is working for John Reed’s this week. Miss Ada Florence . spent over Sunday with home folks. The carpenters are at work again on Lewis Harrington’s house. John Zellers and son Leslie spent over Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hooper were Rensselaer goers Saturday. A literary was given here Friday night. Subject: “Women Suffrage.” Misses Flossie and Indus Wiseman visited school Tuesday afternoon. Mr. amd Mrs. William Wilcox spent Sunday with George Cover and family. Mrs. Anna" Middlecamp and mother visited relatives at Remington several days this week. Charles Florence left for Remington Monday morning to work for his brother-in-law this summer. The ladies of the neighborhood met at Mrs. Thomas Florence’s and spent an enjoyable afternoon Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Frame of Demotte spent Sunday with the latter’s sister, Mrs. James Wiseman. Miss Indus Wiseman, who is taking training in the hospital, Chicago, spent several days at her home this week.

FAIR OAKS Health is generally quite good in our town nowadays. Leroy Noland of near Lee visited relatives in these parts a few days ago. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Abe Bringle’s Wednesday evening. - Rev. Hensley was here Sunday

and delivered a couple of splendid sermons, as usual. The farmers _are rapidly preparing to begin farming at the earliest possible opportunity. William Bowsher has been mah ing some good catches of frogs the past week or ten days, and makes from $4 to $6 per day. Levi Yeader of Illinois came over the first of the week, looking after his farm', which is a portion of the George B. Davidson ranch. . Dr. Kresler of Rensselaer was called Monday to see Mrs. Ben Richards. She has been in poor health the greater part of the winter. Calvin Burroughs, who has been at Surrey the past three months blacksmithing, owing- to lack of work has decided to quit. He will move out onto the Hufficker ranch for the summer. 1 Bert Warren has contracted for a portion of J. J. Lawler’s deadened timber. He has several men at work cutting it into cord wood, and loading it on cars at the Law- 1 ler switch and will ship it to market. We were visited by a heavy sleet Monday night, and since then have had all kinds of disagreeable weather, while the roads have become something fierce. They are almost beyond travel, especially on the gravel, and entirely so on dirt roads. >

WALKER CENTER Miss Grace Knapp spent Sunday with Mrs. Shouler. Miss Marion Garrett called on Lena Meyers Monday. Misses Hazel and Alice Meyers spent Sunday at the Garrett home. Church at Walker Center Sunday evening, March 25, by Rev. Flingenger. Charley Karch was a Gifford goer Sunday evening. Some attraction down there, Charley? - m Everybody remember, the Sunday school every Sunday at Walker Center at 10 o’clock. Mrs. Guy Meyers and daughter of Kniman spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Anna Karch, I The box social at Walker Center Saturday evening was well attended and everybody enjoyed a good time. Mrs. James Tomlinson was called to Earl Saturday on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Clayton Weaver. Miss Della Knapp of near Wheatfield returned to her. home Monday after /a few days’ visit with her brother, I. W. Knapp. Mrs. W. N. Henkle returned to her home near Rensselaer Saturday after several weeks’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Hurley. (We hope to'hear from Walker Center regularly.—Editor.)

' MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Lee G. Baughman spent Sunday in Monon with his father, U. M. Baughman, who is in very poor health. Mrs. A. E. Malsbury of Lafayette is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hornet, and other relatives here this week. Mrs. Ida Minshall, who has been in the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette for several weeks, was brought home this week. Robert Hunter and son Dea and mother, Mrs. Sam Hunter, of Francesville attended the" funeral of Mother Thorson Saturday. Mr; and Mrs. August Kain visited Thursday and Friday with the former’s sister, Mrs. George Kummings, of Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Pugh of Attica visited from Saturday until Monday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Talbert. Mrs. Amanda Poicel, mother of Jacob Poisel, living west of town, passed away at the home of her son Tuesday morning at 3 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 'Whittaker of Niles, Michigan, who have - visiting with their daughter, Mrs. W. 'S. Kessinger, returned home Monday morning. O. S. Bell having moved from the Guild stock farm to a farm near Rensselaer, the farm was refited the past week to Charles Shields, who will move there at once. ' Mrs. Grace Green of Dewey, Illinois^" who has been caring for her mother, Mrs. J. H. Low, during her illness, returned to her home Tuesday morning. Mrs. Low, is now much improved.

Mrs. T. E. Knotts of Gary visited Thursday and Friday with her sister, iMys. C. E. Robinson, and mother, Mrs. Long. Mrs. Long has been, in very poor health for some itme, but is somewhat improved. Mrs. Perry Deselms arrived home Monday evening from Winfield, Kansas, where she had been called recently because, of the sickness and death of her’'father. Her mother, who is well advanced in years, is in very poor health.

BROOK • (From the Reporter) Dr. C. A.. Wood and family spent Sunday with the Doctor’s parents at Rensselaer; ' * George and Frank Weishaar went to Peru last week, taking along some stock for the farm. Mrs. Thomas Ulyat was called to Fowler Tuesday by the serious illness of her little granddaughter. Walter Whaley returned from the hospital at Lafayette on Tuesday, where he had been taking treat-’ ment. Mrs. Mabel Morgan of Roberts, Illinois, and Mrs. J. C. Myers of Kentland spent Sunday with. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Herath. Herman Ploutz and daughter, Mrs. Jacob Holderman of Goodland were visiting the Ernest James family the first of the week. Last Friday a deal was made by which O. B. Stonehill purchased Jacob Cline’s one-half interest in the Denham & Cline hardware store. John J. Sell and wife and Miss Bertha Sell left for Battle Creek, Michigan, Tuesday morning. The latter expects to make a short stay at Battle Creek. Henry Wolff and family attended the ’ funeral of the former’s uncle, John W. Lindley, at Knox on Monday. Mr. Lindley was an old pioneer of Starke county. Jacob D. Rich and wife went to Remington on Wednesday evening in response to a message stating that the former’s mother was in a serious condition from the results of an attack of the grip. Word was received by relatives of Mrs. Barnett Hawkins on Friday that if they wished to see her alive they should come at once. She lives with her son Art in Spender. Roy Thayer, who came last Thursday for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thayer, and his brother Alvin and family, returned to his home at Manhattan, Illinois, on Monday. The stork has visited our old friends, Rev. Woodson and wife, in Indianapolis, presenting them with a baby girl, one day last week. As the baby arrived at the Methodist hsopital, no doubt our Brook friends staying there will bring a report of its appearance. Morton Ulrey loaded his household goods and stock on Friday for shipment to his/new home near Andrews, He left by automobile shortly afterward. Mrs. Ulrey stayed over until this week, then going by train. Mr. and Mrs. Ulrey have lived in Brook and vicinity almost all their lives. Ormand Pruett met with a serious loss the first of the week. He had placed an oil stove in the hog house where he had some brood sows and pigs and while he was away from home something happened to the stove it is supposed, and the house and three sows with all the pigs were destroyed. At the present value of hogs they were a considerable loss in themselves as well as the house. Brook had the unique distinction of having two ministers in the hospital at the same time, suffering from the same troubfe. Both Rev. Dillman of the Christian church and Rev. Wilson of the Methodist church have been suffering for some time with recurring attacks of appendicitis. They only waited until the revival meetings were over to enter the undergo an operation. They decided to go together and left with their wives on Monday for Indianapolis where they -entered the Methodist hospital and on Wednesday were operated on successfully, much to the relief of their many friends. Word came on Thursday that they were getting along nicely.

GOODLAND • (From the Herald) Born, to Mr." and Mrs. Albert Hotler, Wednesday night, a son. Mr. and, Mrs. Melvin Htobscn of pear Lochiel moved this week into one of the vacant houses bn south James street. Mrs. Robert Wilson and Miss Anna Colston went to Logansport Wednesday to visit with thformer s daughter, Mrs. Reuben Ball, and family. „ ' Miss Blanche Walker of Wanatah came the latter part of last week for a short visit with Goodland friends. Miss Walker was trimmer here for Miss L. Houk a few seasons ago. Mrs. Joseph Ward, who spent the winter in Kankakee, Illinois, will return to Goodland about April 1, and Will move into her property on south Newton street vacated this week by Homer Hoover. As usual the girls basket-ball team lost at Remington and the boys wOn. However, honors were equal at Kentland Saturday night when the two teams clashed with the two teams from Brook. TarT week seemed to be a very unfortunate one for our basket-ball girls. Miss Ruth Gagnon received a

broken nose on Thursday; Grace Gilman two cracked ribs on Friday, and Ruth Hamilton a sprained ankle on Saturday. Mrs. M. L. Humston, accompanied by her son Charles, boarded the Big Four train at Fowler- s for Indianapolis where the former underwent an operation at St. Vincent’s hospital Miss Bernice Humston has not been well this week. . Frank Henderson, who recently sold his farm in Kansas, came the latter part of last week for a visit with home folks. He is looking for a location and when he finds a suitable place his family will load their goods and move here. Mr. and Mrs. R. Lyle Constable visited last week and this with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Constable at Rushmore, Minnesota. Mrs. Constable returned home Tuesday evening but Mr. Constable stopped off at Galesburg, Illinois, to attend a large Shorthorn sale held February 5, 6 and 7. Ray W. Dowell, who left here last spring and started up a lunch and soda fountain at Fowler, has met with misfortune In ,not being able to meet his obligations and was closed out Monday by Joseph Wendler of Fowler, who held the note. Mr. Wendler has placed the place in charge of Orsen Peck,' who worked for Dowell, he place is on the market. Mrs. James Farrell, who expects to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Alexander, in Wisconsin, traded her property on west Union street to Mr. and Mrs. John Fehrle for their property in the northwest part of town last week. The Fehrles will move into their new home and Mrs. Farrel will rent her new place as soon as the i Fehrles vacate. T. E. Handley Of this city and Ward Hoy man of Sheldon, Illinois, j left Goodland Tuesday morning at, about 9:30 for Judyville,- Indiana,; where the latter wanted to see a! car. ” They came home by way of

Lafayette and Mr. Hand ley drove to Wolcott and there Mr. Hoyman took the wheel and about one mile west •of Remington the car went into the ditch and turned turtle with the two men underneath. Mr. Ben May happened along and assisted the men out from under the car. They were taken to Dr. Rainier’s office in Remington for medical treatment. Dr. C. C. Bassett. was called over from Goodland. Mrs. Handley was notified and she hurried over and they returned to Goodland with Mr. Handley about 9 o’clock. He received a severe wrench in his back and complains of his chest hurting him; he also received a bad cut on the left side of his face. He was very sore Wednesday, and Thursday and it will be several days before he is ‘out, again. Mr. Hoyman returned to his home on the 9:18 train Wednesday, morning—evidently he was not eer-, iously injured. The car was somewhat damaged, the windshield was broken into pieces and one fender was demolished.

FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) Born, to Mr. and Mrs. William .Ren, Saturday, a boyx Dr. and Mrs. H. O’. Jones are' visiting Mrs. Jones’ parents at St. Paul, Indiana. Miss Mabel Jackson was visiting! relatives and friends in Frankfort i the first of the week. Mrs. Lizzie Hart of Lafayette ia

visiting her mother, Mrs. Margaret Rees, and other friends. Robert Brandenburg, young fjon of James R. Brandenburg, is reported very sick with bronchial pneumonia. Garfield Burgett was down from Janesville, Wisconsin, over Sunday, the guest of his family and friends. .Mrs. James Mohler and son returned to her home near Monticello Tuesday after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Mary Garling, and daughter. Miss Laura Pike of LoWell and Miss Ethel Pike, who is attending. Depauw, have been visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pike, south of town. . William Fife, for a' long time a resident of Francesville and who ; made with Mr. and Mrs. [ Henry Bechdolt while here, died at [ the home of his daughter near Logansport Monday of last week. He had been afflicted With cancer of the face for many months and suffered pain which was beyond the comprehension of the human being’s imagination. Suffering this untold agony with such a dreaded disease he prayed that he might be summoned' any time. Francis Marion Waggoner was the son-of John S. and Amelia* J. Waggoner, and was born in Ford county, Illinois, on the 6th day of February, 1855, and died at the age of 62 years and 22 days. June 23, 1885, he was united in marriage to Laura Belle Hacker. To this union was born six children, four girls and two boys. In December, 1914, he became a member of the Masonic order. He was untiring, industrious, honest and honorable in all of his dealings with his fellowmen; possessed a generous and kind heart and was devoted to his friends. Besides two brothers and two sisters he leaves a large circle, of friends to mourn his sudden departure. The funeral services were held last Friday morning far the Christian church. Rev. Orval W-, Baylor officiating.