Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — Page 4

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

FRANCES VILLE (From the Tribune) Ernest Shultz was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday. Miss Ida Koster is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Wade', at Lebanon this week. 1 Mrs. Orie 'Haymond was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. -J. Lefler at Monticello Friday. Mrs. Ida Stigleman was called to Chrisman, Illinois, Monday on account of her father, Samuel Moore. Steve Rees returned from Florida He stopped off at Knoxville, Tennessee, and reported that it/'was snowing in that region. Bruce Bell, formerly a teacher in the public schools in Frances* ville, dropped off here Thursday to renew old acquaintances. He is now instructor in the East Chicago schools, teaching printing. ,/ James Ent of Watseka was called to Francesville Thursday on account of the serious illness Of his mother, who has double pneumonia. Miss Ella Swing of the Hope hospital is the nurse at the Ent home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gardner entertained at Sunday dinner last Sunday the latter’s brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Baughman, of Medaryville and sisters, Mrs. E. J. Tur pie of Golden, Colorado, Mrs. N. J. Low of Medaryville and nephew’, Hugh JJ)W, of Gary. ' ' ’* es

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) D. A. Rodgers spent Monday in Rensselaer. Mrs. Markin of Remington was the guest of Mrs. Lizzie Daggy Saturday. Mrs. M. B. Beard and Mrs. LewMiller are spending a few days in Indianapolis this week. John Howell was called to Scottsburg, Indiana, Wednesday by the death of his sister. Mr. and Mrs. Artie. Jobes and Mr. and Mrs. John Hinchman spent Wednesday in Lafayette. Mrs. John Zehr went to Remington for a few days’ visit at the home of her son, Eli Zehr. Miss Eva Sullivan went to Remington Monday for a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. John Roberts. Miss Mabel Dens of Fowler came Wednesday evening for a. visit with her sister, Mrs. William Lanou, and family. John Dunn received a message Irom Mechanicsville, New York, Friday of the death of his brother, Martin Dunn. Cloyd Ellis of Chicago Heights, Illinois, is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Hughes and other friends. ' Mrs. Minnie Parsons was the guest of her son, Roy Parsons, and wife in Logansport from Saturday until Monday. Mrs. Ernest Mattox and baby spent Saturday and Sunday \in Remington with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Boudreau. ' James Murphy of Round Grove township has a Duroc sow- that farrowed twenty-two pigs, nineteen living and doing well. Miss Lena Knockel of Remington, who had been staying with her sister, ’Mrs. Eli Farney, returned home’ Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Orville .Alvis of Remington, who are moving to South Bend, spent Wednesday night here with Mrs. Lizzie Daggy. Lester Morrow and family of Linden moved to Wolcott this week. Mr. Morrow will engage in the harness business with L. W. Sexton. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Holdridge, Mr. and Mrs. Al Wooden and Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Johnson spent Wednesday in Lafayette, going over in the former’s car. Mrs. Mary Boudreau, who has been visiting at the home of her son, Oliver Boudreau, and of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Demaris, and

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family, returned to her home fa Remington Saturday. Mrs. Carrie Clark, who has spent the past winter months fa St. Petersburg, Florida, and various other places of interest in the* South, returned home Wednesday evening. L M. Kean accompanied Mrs. Francis Revell, who has been spending the winter here, to her home in Milan. Ohio, Wednesday. Mr. Kean will be absent two weeks and will visit relatives and friends at Norwalk, Vermillion and Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Lena Troxel, a native of Burns, Switzerland, and , widow of the late Rudolph Troxel, died at her home in Wolcott Wednesday evening, April 11, at 10 o'clock at the age of 59 years. She was married to Rudolph Troxel, who passed away in 1913, and to this union were born eleven children, eight of whom are living, Mrs, Emma Neusbaum Of Remington, Mrs. Ida Verkler of Cissna Park. Illinois, Mrs. Lydia Bollier of Seafjeld, .Edward of Lacross anti 51 John. Andy, William and Bennie of Wplcott. These with several grandchildren and manv relatives are left to mourn their loss. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at th© Christian Apostolic church and were largely attended. Burial was made in the Apostolic cemetery about a mile and a half east of town. '

goodland (From the Herald) Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cox on Sunday, April 15, a daughter. Miss Lethel Weishaar of Brook visited here this week with Miss Lillian Perkins. _ Frank Rich has furnished a room upstairs in the Weishaar building and will make his home there. Mrs. Mae Butler of Churubusco came last Saturday for a visit with her father. W. A. Harrington, and other relatives. Supt. W. O. Schanlaub visited the Goodland schools Tuesday and was very much pleased with the progress and interest shown. Miss Mabel Daniel returned to her home in Ft. Wayne last week after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. W. A. Carfl McKinley left Thursday morning for Ft. Wayne to enlist with Uncle Sam’s army. Three have enlisted from Goodland to date., » - By order of Dr. M. L. Humston the seventh and eighth grades at school are closed owing to a case of scarlet fever, John Gemmelt being the patient. . Mrs. Anna Kitt, aged 94, has been duifa ill for the past several days. Her son, A. J. Kitt, and family of Fowler have been at her bedside most of this week. < Dr. and Mrs. Frank Kennedy- and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Washburn, who have been touring southern Indiana and northern Kentucky, arrived home the first of the week. < Matt Kirk of Minonk and daughter, Mrs. Charles Long, and family autoed over from Milford, Illinois. Sunday and spent the day with the former’s niece, Mrs. Arthur Wray, and family. *

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Houk passed away at Bunker Hill. Indiana, last Saturday afternoon following a short siege of pneumonia. Mrs. Houk was visiting relatives near Bunker Hill last week when the little fellow was stricken. The remains were brought to Goodland Sunday /evening on the 6 o’clock train and taken to the Joseph Houk home on Newton street. William Houk, who is a street car conductor in Chicago, came to Goodland on the 8:40 train. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. P. C. Johnston, the pastor. Interment in Goodland cemetery.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Miss Ruby Brewer of Rockville is visiting with Ellis Redinbo and wife. Lee G. Baughman and family spent Sunday with Mr. • q'fid Mrs. Gardner of Francesville. William ’ Wood left here Wednesday morning for Ft. Wayne’, where

he is to enlist in the United States coast artillery. & ..■. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Prevo and I baby visited from Friday until Monday with Mrs. Prevo’s brother, J. 'W. Reed, and family of Indianapolis. I Mrs. H. E. Pass of Hammond •and Mr. and Mrs. James Frantz of Michigan City visited oyer Sun'day at the home of Calvin McCay and family. James Emmett has the contract for erecting a new home for ©ft Stolt of San Pierte. Some few months ago Dr. Stolt suffered the loss of his fine home by fire. I Joseph Ikelberggcr, living west lof Medaryville, was arrested here .last Wednesday afternoon while in ■a state of intoxication and placed jin jail. That- evening he was arSraigned before Judge Rathfon, en,j tered a plea of guilty to the charge ,of drunkenness and fined $5 and I costs. . .

I BROOK (From the Reporter) John O’Connor was over from ; Rensselaer Friday. I Jacob D. Rich was in Frankfort i Tuesday visiting relatives. j M. J. Thornton and Howard Myers were Chicago visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Grennard were visiting relatives in Remington Sunday. Miss Helen McCay spent the week-end with her mother in Champaign, Illinois. i John Botts left Thursday for Leroy, Illinois, to attend the funeral of his niece, Mrs. Eve Hood. O. B. Stonehill and family and Charles Denham and wife motored to Remington and spent Sunday (’ with friends. ’ Mrs. George Conn and the chil- , dren were in Indiana Harbor over Sunday visiting the husband and father, George. While there little James took part in a,church program with his violin and won new laurels to those he already has at I home. ’ ■ On Friday. April 13, a girl baby arrived at the home of Prof, and Mrs. Hogg. On Sunday girls were given to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Boner, and on Tuesday another girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hood. Charles Robertson received word Wednesday that his brother had died suddenly in Detroit. His sister, Mrs. L. E. Lyons, and her husband left for Detroit Wednesday evening to bring the body to the old family home in Ellettsville, Indiana, while Charles left for the same place Thursday morning.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Daniel S. Makeever et ux to Ida A Randle, February 27, undivided i.; lots 1,2, 3," 10, 11, 12, block 2? Rensselaer, South addition, $3,250. ' %■ ' ' - . . ' Moses Leopold to Charles C. Warner, April 17, lot 1,2, block IT, Rensselaer, Newton or Clark’s addition, part nw nw, 30-29-6, $750. Josiah Davisson et ux to Tlilma Girard et baron, March 14, w}£ se, 21-32-7, Union. $4,000. Leslie Fisher et ux to Ernest Harris, April 19, part lot 3," block 8, Remington, SI. q. c. d. Flora B. Jordan et baron to George W. Caster, April 2. se sw, 24-2 S-6, Mliroy, sl. Q. c. d.

COURT

The case of Edward Jessup vs. the Interstate Public Service company, brought here from Newton county on change of venue, was submitted to the court Friday and judgment given plaintiff for $2,800 and costs. This case grew out of the death of one of the little Jessup boys and the terrible injury of his brother over at Goodland last summer. The boys were playing on the roof of a building there and caught hold of one of the high tension electric wires of the defendant I company. One of the boys died as a result of his injuries but the I other lad’s life was saved. This ’action followed for damages. John lA. Dunlap of this city and H. R. : Hopkins of Goodland were attor- ‘ neys for palintiff. I In the case of Daniel Wolfe vs. Clifford Fairchild, trustee of Keener township, tQ be released from bond of trustee, George Marr, Alfred Terpstra and Cornelius Evers, i Sr., appear and offer to sign bond lof trustee. Court so orders, and ‘plaintiff is released from further liability-. State vs. Jay W. Stockton. Affidavit filed, for - change of venue I from county Saturday and state ■ opposes granting same. Motion j-argued Monday and court grants I change and sends cause to Newton I county. Eight attorneys were repI resented in the argument, Deputy Prosecutor Sands, W. H. Parkison, George A. yvilliamg and M. Leopold for the state, and W. W. Lowery of Indianapolis, Palmer & Carr of Monticello and A. Halleck of Rensselaer for the defense. This case is identical with tlie one recently brought to trial in the White circuit court and thrown out because of a faulty indictment. Mr. Stockton is charged with giving false evidence to the state board of accounts when he testified that he saw teams belonging to County

[Commissioner D. S. Makeever hauling corn away from the Jasper county poor farm in 1915. The reports of the county farm superintendent contain no entry of Makeever purchasing any corn that year and the state contends that he did not get any corn from there during that year. Attorneys for the defense contend that Mr. Stockton was once placed in jeopardy on this charge when the case was called and considerable evidence heard at Monticello, and that, he can not again -be tried on the same charge. J. P. Ryah ditch. Parties agreed Monday on Attorney Elmore Barce of Fowler to sit as special judge, and the latter qualified and assumed jurisdiction. Cause set for hearing on May 5, the last* day of the present term, and it will probably Bp continued then to some date in the near future which will be satisfactory to the attorneys and the-'parties concerned. Allis vs. Allis. Cause continued. Samuel Price vs. Barney Daywitt et al. Cause dismissed. The jury was excused Monday until next Monday, April 29.

MEETINGS OF FARMERS’ CLUBS

A meeting of the patrons of Union school, Marion township, was held in the school building Monday evening, April 23, for the purpose of promoting a community sentiment in the district. The meeting Was addressed by the county agent and other speakers. The Bowling Green Farmers’ club held its regular meeting in the Bowling Green school house Tuesday evening, April 24. President John Zimmer reports that an interesting program was rendered. The West Carperiter Farmers’ club will' hold its monthly meeting at the Welch school house Wednesday evening, April 25. The schools of the neighborhood have been arranging numbers and the meeting will be addressed -by Rev. C. W. Postill upon poultry production and by County Agent Learning on corn culture. The matter of a permanent meeting place will be considered. The Wheatfield Center Farmers’ club will hold its third regular meeting at the Kennedy school house on Thursday evening, April 26. Among the speakers will be County Agent Learning and Supt. M. L. Sterrett of the Wheatfield schools. Important business matters will he discussed.

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

* The Monon had a freight wreck Sunday morning near Clear Creek, south of Bloomington, in which eighteen cars were derailed. No one was hurt. Raymond Siegfried,. Harry Noland, Lavon Barnhart and Howard T. Robinson of Monon were among those enlisting in the U. S. army at Lafayette last Friday. Dr. Erastus Test, known as the “Grand Old Man of Purd,ue,” died Saturday evening at his home in Lafayette. He had been with Purdue since 1888, first in charge, of the preparatory department and since 1894 at the head of the mathematics department. In 1910 he was granted a Carnegie pension. The graduating class of the Goodland high school this year is composed entirely of boys, eight in. number, being the first time in history that the graduating class was not composed of a majority of girls. The graduating exercises will be held May 21, and fiyron W. King of the School of Oratory at Pitts’burg will deliver the address, B. F. Lassiter of Westfield, employed with the Monon interlocking crew, drank an ounce of carbolic acid at Monticello Sunday because his wife, a daughter of Enos Mock of Reynolds, had left him and filed suit for divorce. The deed was committed in plain sight of the home of Charles Foster of the White County Democrat, where Mrs. Lassiter is employed. Prompt attention was given Lassiter, but his condition is serious? ; Orie S. Winger, the young man whose bride of an hour' left him in a restaurant at Covington last July, and whom he has not seen since, on Saturday filed a suit for divorce in the superior court at Lafayette. Following their marriage the bride entered a buggy and drove away. A few days later the sheriff of Fountain county received a letter from Kokomo from Mrs. Winger stating she would not live with her husbands The complaint states that Winger believes his wife married him Jo escape parental control. John Caruther of Memphis, Ten-

neseee, came to Delphi last Friday morning to claim the body of his brother James, who was found dead at the Wilson street crossing Easter Sunday morning. The brother states that the deceased was a member of the Tennessee Company 9 and was at the border at the time of the trouble between Mexico and the tlnited States, and that he was on his way home from Gary to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was expecting to be called out. He was employed in the Gary gas works. He has five sisters and three brothers surviving him. A special Monon train struck an automobile containing Addison Boutelle, prosecuting attorney of Galesburg, Illinois, and another man named Shirck of that place late Saturday at Patton; south of Monticello, seriously injuring both men. They were driving a new car home from Kokomo and were testing it at low speed when they crossed the track. Shirck was seriously injured about the head qnd back. Boutelle was hurt about the head and” he suffered a gevere nervous shock. The men were taken to the Forbis hotel at Monticello.

Amid the cheers of thousands and the music of bands playing patriotic American airs, a fighting force for service with the allies against the armies of the central empires left Gary on a special train Sunday. The force consisted of 250 Serbian steel workers from Gary, Hammond, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, and will go to the Balkans to fight in the allied armies commanded by General Serrail. The Serbians are seasoned veterans Who went from Gary five years ago to serve in the Balkan wars. Most of the men are Serbians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Once subjects of the Austrian government, they will now fight against it. F. B. Janssen, one of Jasper pioneers, died at his home, four miles southwest of Remington, Thursday night, April 19, at 11:15 o’clock. Mr. Janssen was born in Ofresland, Germany, August 27, 1829. He was united in marriage with Theda Wiards May 25, 1858. To this union were born five children of whom three are living; B. W. of Wolcott, W. B. of Rockford, lowa, and Emory W., who lives at home. In 1881 Mr. Janssen with his family came to Illinois where they lived until 1900, when he moved to Remington. Mr. Janssen was the father" of B. W. Janssen, who formerly lived in Lafayette. He also leaves twenty grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from the home this morning at Mt. Gilboa at 11 o’clock. —Monday's Lafayette Journal,

IN THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS

Some people we know would rather not go back to the condition of the “good old days.’’ For they were good days in many respects. We were healthy and we were happy, happy in working to accomplish our ambitions. But these are good d-ays, too.. There is so much to enjoy and so much to be thankful for. We can be just as contented and happy as in the days gone by—if we will. Some of the unpleasant features in connection with the cost of living, features that are galling our sensitive soul today, will have been eliminated in the near future after we have looked the situation squarely in the face and taken stock of ourselves. The hardest thing in the world to do is to trim our personal sails; to cut down personal expenditures; to forego a few of the many pleasures of the eye, ear and palate. For the present that appears to be about the only solution of the high cost of living. If each and every one of us will trim just a little the aggregate showing will be of gigantic proportions.

A thief stole 2,500 pounds of dynamite at Millinocket, Maine, and got away with it. A gray, lowering sunset or one where the sky is green or yellowish green indicates rain. The United States leads all countries in the consumption of s gar, with an annual average of 3,492,000- tons during the ten years 1904-1913. The annual consumption in this country is nearly onefourth of the world’s production.

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NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES No. 1004 In the matter of the estate of Maria Baker, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1917. Notice is, hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Maria Baker, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, .to appear jn the Jasper Circuit Court, on Thursday, the 3rd day of May, 1917, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settle--ment account of Vivian Boicourt, administratrix of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to anv part of said estate. VIVIAN BOICOURT. Administratrix. Judson J. Hunt, Attorney for Estate. all-18-25 NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS' AND LEGATEES No. 873 In the matter of the estaw of Sarah E. Lane, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1917. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Sarah E. Lane, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Thursday, the 3rd day of May, 1917, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of The Trust and Savings Bank, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. THE TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK. Administrator. all-18-25

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