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

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Jasper Makeever is reported not so well as last week. Jasper Wright returned Thursday from his visit with his son Ray at Pueblo, Colorado. Mrs. Merry, who has been considerably indisposed for - several weeks, is quite a little improved now. ■, Mrs. Floyd Sampson and two children went to Fowler Thtlrsday to visit her mother and other relatives. Mrs. S. H. Shryver and daughter of Chicago came Saturdaj' to visit her sisters and other relatives here. Estol Doty came from Warsaw Tuesday and is visiting in the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Olive Seward. M. M. Redman of Wilmington, Illinois, came Monday for a visit with his brother-in-law, Dr. J. T. Martin.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hopkins of Donovan, Illinois, visited Mr. Hopkins’ parents, Mr. and. Mrs. C. J. Hopkins, here Sunday. Mrs. Arthur Putt r> r Virgie visited her son. .-uandisb, northeast of town Tbursdi' Mr. Standish’s wife has been quite sick for several days. Mrs. W. T. Shaw went to Muncie Saturday to visit her son, Raymond Stucker, and wife. ißaymond is an instructor in the business college there. Mrs. Vance Collins of Rensselaer and Mrs. Otis Phillips of Roselawn came Saturday to pay their father, Jasper Makeever, a visit. Mr. Makeever still remains quite poorly, J. M. Witham was over from Parr Thursday consumating a deal with W, R. Lee for a 100-acre farm. It is a tract of land about 10 miles northwest of town, Which Mr. Lee recently came into possession. » .Elmer Stucker and family, who juSt recently moved to Mt. Ayr from a farm near Brook, will remain residents of our village olily for a short time. Last week they went to Bluffton in Wells county on a visit, and while there rented a farm about four miles southeast of that town.