Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

McCOYSBO^G There will be preaching next Sunday. 1 Paul Stevens is among the measles patients. j Harry Cochran is able to be out; again after a sick spell. ' \ Owen Barker is able to be out again after a spell of the grip. Leonard Widner is able to work j again after a spell of. pneumonia. I

There was no Sunday school here* I Sunday on account of the measles. J Jay and John Wood of Renssel-i : aer spent Sunday with friends here. I Mrs. Wilson Bussell was the guest of friends at .Rensselaer Montoy. ... i Mrs. Mary Lowe of Rensselaer was the guest of friends here Sunday night. j Viss Ella Bussell was the guest of her brother Wilson and family j Wednesday night. Mrs. Bell Lownaan’s mother of Parr came Sunday tieuas to spend E few toys with the former. Sam Robinson and family of j Morocco were guests of his sister, iMrs. J. R. Phillips, and family over Sunday. | There is a number of cases of i measles in and around the burg. So far they are all getting along jvery well. > I Mrs. Mary Ann Robinson returned home Wednesday after a ! few days visit with her son Dan and family at Rensselaer.

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Golda Hurley spent Sunday with, home folks. \ : Nile- Britt stent Stmtoy with Orpha and Myrtle Parker. T. J. Parker called on Lloyd Ward Wednesday morning.. William Smith and T.\ J., Parker were Rensselaer goers Sanrday. • Mrs. William Hurley called on Mrs. T. J. Parker Tuesday morning. Everett Parker spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Davis of ;Zad-oe; v ...w Mrs. Simon Cooper and children Srpeht Sunday with William Hurley and family. Mrs. Jasper Cover and children !are> confined-' to . their''-beds .with scarlet fever. • Mr. and Mrs. Otba Spriggs spent afternoon and evening with IT. J. Parker and family. | The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ores Cunningham have the diphtheria, and are quite had. Charley Parker, who has been visiting relatives here since Decernj ber, returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Hell and daughter spent Sunday afternoon with G. H. Comer and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Davisson were breaking a colt Saturday and also called on friends in these parts.

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Ephraim Gilmore dehorned cattle Wednesday. Several of oar farmers commenced sowing their oats this week? Hubert Maxwell is reshingling a barn for Warren Poole this week. Walter Jordan and family spent Sunday with his parents, Robert Jordan’s. , Burner Gilmore hauled lumber and posts Tuesday for his mother’s yard fence. W. L Stiers and wife were at Medaiyville the first of the week hanging Vfall paper. Hoy Rfehiing and family of near Rensselaer were at her parents. J. L. Osborne’s. Sunday. Htabert Maxwell and wife visited his sister, Mrs. Katie Downs, and family in Rensselaer Sunday, j Mrs. C. A. Holman and sons Ray and Asa and families went from [church Sunday to J. H_ Culp’s for dinner. I Misses Venue and Margera Spencer of Monon were Sunday guests of Misses Chinn and Edith | Mr. and Mia. Wkmemmm and feat*-

ter Disa of Barkley tSwnship were Sunday guests of Harry Rishling and family. Miss Vernice Gray and pupils are preparing an interesting program for tbe last day of school, which, will be April 5. Miss Lural Anderson came home Friday evening and stayed until Sunday morning, when she returned tp her school. Vernon Jacks and wife of Rensselaer spent Friday night of last week here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks. Carl Westphal and family of near Reynolds came Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, S. M. Jacks and family and O. A. Jacks and wife.

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Oats sowing began the fore part of the week. The citizens of Morocco are up in arms, so to speak, over their poor electric light service. There is a notable scarcity of wild ducks this spring—in fact, of aquatic wild fowl of all kinds. “Kaiser to abdicate,” says the Chicago News. Good idea. Better abdicate, Bill, while the abdicating is good. Grandmother Wright, one of the pioneer women of Jackson township, is in very poor health at this writing. Even a casual observer could hardly overlook the fact that Jackson township has some wretchedly bad roads. The protracted meetings at North Star closed last Sunday night with something like twenty accessions to the church. Mr Campbell, owner of the saw- | min, 'will finish the season’s sawing I probably this week and will seek a new location. Trustee George Hopkins has been visiting some of the neighboring towns getting pointers on Mt. Ayr’s proposed new school house. After all, what does it profit a man if . he escapes the German submarine only to be gathered in by the cavorting U. S. cyclone. The early-day lad, at this season * of the year, felt that he owed it to himself to drink large' quantities of sassafras tea “for his blood.” Miss Cecil Miller returned homo recently from a Chicago hospital where she was operated on for appendicitis. She is making a rapid $ recovery. V Weather prophets are proclaiming a dry season, and perhaps they are right Even a weather prophet is likely to make a correct guess some time. Death claimed two of Morocco’s citizens within the last few daysClarence Robinson and John Martin —both prominent and highly» esteemed young men. i Wilmer Morton, living south of Mt. Ayr, is shy about 200 pounds of nice smoked meat —purloined by some pork-loving citizen during the silent watches of the night. Farmers in’ northern Newton county are looking forward hopefully to big crops this season. . The absence of spring floods invariably means good crops in that region. Josh Billings once said, “It is better to know less than to know so much that isn’t so. Could it be. now, that Josh was taking a sly dig at the war correspondent? Commissioner George H. Hillis of the Hillis & Totten ranch in Colfax township bought fifty bushels of seed corn of Sidney Schanlonfr this week. We’Ve got to feed the allies, yon understand; and nmip will endeavor, to help a little.