Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

PARR Lakin & Murphy have purchased a new Ford. We got a nice little shower Saturday evening. Miss Mahel Gunyon of Frankfort is visiting friends at Parr for a few days. Lee Myres and family of Rensselaer visited the former’s parents at Parr Sunday. The farmers are very busy in these parts planting corn. Several have already finished planting. Parr Sunday school will observe Children’s day Sunday, June 10, at 8 p. m. A good program is being prepared. Miss Hazel Lowman and two sisters, Dorothy and Doris, and brother Earl ’ are visiting at McCoysburg. Remember, the farmers’ club will meet again Friday, June 1. Let everybody come and make this meeting a success. Mrs. Clyde Gunyon left Saturday evening for Minnesota, where Clyde has charge of a dredge boat. They ujill be gone most of the summer. Mrs. Fern Stiner, who had been visiting her parents, Jfr. and Mrs. Sol Norman, for a couple of weeks, returned to her home in Chicago Saturday evening. Mrs. Etta Myres and Mrs. Ocie Brusnahan, who attended grand lodge in Indianapolis as delegates from the Parr Rebekah lodge, returned Wednesday evening.

GIFFORD Adam Flesher lost a fine horse Monday night. Edna, Georgia and Ruby Smith were in town Monday. Teddy Keen spent over Sunday with home folks, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Keen. Miss Ida Davis spent _ Monday night with her cousin, Miss Hazel Lambert. Harold Handley of Newland was here Sunday looking for onion weeders. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Norris took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Zo6k. Mr. and Mrs. John Akers and son Albert of Tefft spent Sunday in our town. Burl Blackman of Kersey spent Sunday with Carl and Lemuel Stockwell. Taylor Hankins, son James and daughter Opal were Rensselaer goers Saturday. The onion growers are going to bring in 150 foreigners to work In the onion fields. William Henshman of Walker township shipped three carloads of fine cattle to Chicago Sunday. There will be church services Saturday and Sunday evening by Brother Onna at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. A bunch of young boys went to Wheatfield Saturday, returning Saturday evening. They stopped in our town and decorated our business street with beer bottles. It is time now that we were getting after such doings or the boys will take the burg.

LEE Walter Jordan and family spent Monday evening in Rensselaer. Gerald Clark has been in very poor health during the past week. Ate Lewis of Illinois is here this week visiting his parents and other relatives. Mr. LaMar and family of Francesville were here Sunday visiting at Johnnie Clark’s. Lonnie Noland, who has been in Colorado the past three months, re-

turned home last week. Mrs. George Holeman and baby Rosemary of Monticello here this week visiting relatives. - G. A. Jacks and wife were in Lafayette Monday to have his thumb treated, where it had been operated on. It is improving nicely. A sister of Mrs. McGowen of Chicago was here visiting them, and all took Sunday everting supper with Orville Holeman and family. Mr. and Mrs. True Woodworth of Rensselaer and O. A. Jacks and wife drove in the latter’s auto to Tipton last Sunday to visit their sister, Mrs. Sorrel, returning home Monday.

WHEATFIELD Our wheat and oats look fine. Rev. Emerich preached at Kniman Saturday evening. Alexander Raeth was a caller at the Hewett home Sunday. Ellen and Emma Raeth visited at the home of Jdhn Misch Sunday. C. M. Dewey and family took an auto ride over into Porter county Sunday. Louis Shirer and son of Rensselaer visited with the Misch families Sunday. Quite a few of the members of the Kniman Farmers’ club attended the Wheatfield Farmers’ meeting Friday evening. Quite a few from here attended the commencement exercises at Tefft last Friday evening. All report a fine time. All of the corn planting in these parts will be finished this week. The ground is well prepared and everything points to a bumper crop this year. While going home Saturday evening on his motorcycle, Frank Andrews got his hand jammed against his machine, seriously injuring one of his fingers. You can break into the house twice and get away with it, but be careful in the future, for “Uncle' Jim is handy with a club and an expert with? a shovel. Talk about ’ a good hatch of eggs, we know of a lady that put fifteen eggs under an old hen which came proudly off her nest in due time with sixteen chickens. A traveling street show, composed of three members, struck Wheatfield Saturday and gave a show on the street in the evening. A few features that we saw and others we heard about were quite good. They charged no fee but they seemed to fare well on the product of volunteer contributions. William Davis, foreman of the Powers ranch, informed us that the ranch has 700 acres of corn plamted. over 300 acres of oats and about 300 acres of wheat. That will surely make a dent in the grain Shortage of the country. This large acreage is made possible by an excellent drainage system that cost a small fortune. We used to handle the navy bean in a very familiar manner. That was when we were on speaking terms with it, but the time is coming when rings and other costly jewelry will have beans for sets — but what is the use of writing about it, for only the very rich could afford to buy such extravagantly precious things. C. M. Dewey, Charles Hewett and your correspondent attended the Kniman Farmers’ club meeting Thursday evening. The house* was crowded and all enjoyed the program. The county agent talked on pork productiori, telling how to produce more and better hogs on cheaper feed and with less grain. Others talked on the orchard, while others discussed the binder twine question and when to buy. The Kniman ladies’ quartet rendered some ■ fine selections in a manner that evoked great applause. The ladies are surely fine singers and already have a wide popularity, which was attested by the fact that they were encored three times. Yes, we are going to attend again. The second meeting of the

Wheatfield Farmers’ club was held at the Re'mleyi opera house last Friday evening. A fair-eiyed audience was in attendance, part of which took an active part in the discussions. The county agent and Superintendent Sterrett gave short addresses that were listened to with rapt attention. They both declared that co-operation was the thing needed. A ladies’ quartet sang two songs that were well received, j They intend to make this One of the main features of each meeting. Come out to the iiext meeting and hear the ladies sing. This club is here to stay and let me tell you right now that '-they are going to have some rousing, meetings this summer.

ROSELAWN Sam Lavin visited home folks Sunday. J. •W. Crooks was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday. Mr. Dasy of Gary visited his family here over Sunday. J. T. Bess and family were Lowell visitors Tuesday. Doris Crooks visited home folks at Rensselaer over Sunday. Flora Dixon of Kentland is visiting friends here this week. Mrs. Bess and daughter Bertha were Lowell visitors Wednesday. Agent Girard and family are occupying the Mrs. Brooks property. The Mulder family a u toed to Valparaiso and Crown Point Sunday. James Rice is visiting his friends. John and Myron Born, at Cook, Indiana. «. I. N. Best and family autoed to Cook Sunday and visited with Roscoe Born and family. Dorsey Kight and French Crooks came from Rensselaer Sunday and autoed back to school Sunday evening. Mary Jane Phillips entertained her grandmother and two uncles, Mrs. Jasper Makeever, Jay Makeever and S. W. Benjamin. Raturday, it being her fifteenth birthday anniversary.

FAIR OAKS Health still continues good in our town. There is nothing doing in these parts this week only work, and plenty of it. Matt Karr and sons rigged up a tractor and went down near Surrey Sunday to plow. Rev. Hensley was here and filled his regular appointments Sunday in his usual convincing way. Robert Sheip of Monon came up and visited his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Kight, Sunday. Miss Amy Bringle, who had been attending Valparaiso university, returned home Thursday for vacation. John Thomson of west of Roselawn, with his family, visited at Cora Dewitt s Saturday night and Sunday. The baseball season was opened here Sunday, between Fair Oak? and Rensselaer teams. Rensselaer got flayed by the local aggregation. “Fish” Gilmore went to Kentland Saturday and brought back a couple span of mules for A. D. Washburn to be used here on his farm to plant corn. George Schanlaub of near Mt Ayr died Tuesday after a short illness from lung fever and heart trouble. He was nearing the 7’.year mile post. We haven’t seen any signs of a new school house yet, although bur; old one was condemned about a month ago. It will only be a fewmonths till the beginning of the school term again and no school house probably. Our dry season came to an end Sunday night, ■ when we got a nice light shower, but Tuesday was an all day rain with the temperature going down and the wind getting very.high, making it very disagreeable to be outside. Frank Hufficker of Chicago wasdown Saturday looking after his ranch near here. He let the contract to Cal Burroughs to put a concrete foundation under hi? house and build an addition to it and to also make other improvements.

FOUR CORNERS George Gore is in Newcastle this week on business. Clarence Nelson is on his mail route again this week. The Miller boys of east Walker killed a large wolf Friday. Ed Lambert is a recent purchaser of a “little, tin wagon.” Dr. Downie of North Judson "was in this section Tuesday professionally. Memorial dav will be observed at Wheatfield with an. appropriate program. Clager, the garage man, has a new sign that all can read, either coming or going.

John Cooper and wife of near Lacross attended the funeral of D. H. Turner Tuesday. Most of the corn will be in the ground this week should the weather continue fair. Freeman, the stock shipper, was on the Chicago market with a carload of mired stock Monday. Simon Fendig is having his place of business brightened up with a coat of paint, the same being applied by Nelson, the painter. Ted Biggs is now able to get down town, where he can pass the time and have a talk with his chums. He is improving slowly. The last day of the Tefft school proved rather sad, as on that day D, H. Turner, who drove the hack for the river school, was laid to rest in the Wheatfield cemetery. The indications are that Tefft and vicinity will have a harder task in th© near future than the temperance people.- of , 'Wheatfield will have to free their city of booze. - Enos Hibbs dumped a load of humanity- out of his car when it turned turtle on the stone road southwest of Tefft a few nights ago. Dr. Solt and wife, John Ahlemeyer and Enos were in the car. No one was hurt. The wind shield was broken and one wheel mashed. OBITUARY Daniel H. Turner was born in Kentucky May 21, 1838, and died at his home in Kankakee township, Jasper county, • Indiana, May 20, ISI7. aged 79 years less one day. Death was the result of a railroad accident while driving a school hack on May 14.. 4 Mr. Turner was the youngest of a family of nine children, and spent his boyhood days with his parents in Putnam county. When he grew to manhood he moved with his parents onto a farm in Kankakee township, Jasper county, Indiana,

where he resided up to the time of his death, a period of more than fifty years. In the year 1863 his father died, and in the same year Mr. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Clarrisa Herrinton, who died in December, 1913. To this union no children were born, which proved to be one of Mr. Turner’s greatest sorrows. In later years he adopted a child by the name of Hawkins, now Mrs. Gertrude Schreiber of Lacross, Indiana. At the death of his father the care of the mother fell to Mr. Turner and he proved true to the trust. In the year 1880 the mother was called at the age of 84 years. The eldest brother and sister rfioved to Texas, and since the, civil war all trace of them has been lost. One brother, near Terre Haute, Indiana, a sister of Otumwa, lowa, Joseph of -Tefft and Mrs. Anna Hibbs of Wheatfield, have all been laid to rest. One brother, William Turner, of Blodgette, Oregon; one sister, Mrs. Rebecca West, of Tefft, and a number of nephews and nieces are left to mourn his death? His many friends and neighbors will miss his many kind deeds and acts of friendship. To his friends no one could prqye more true and no one w;as turned empty-handed from his door. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. G. A. Emerich, assisted by A. S. Keen. Burial was made in the Wheatfield cemetery.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Al Blake of Fair Oaks was in our midst Thursday. 1». E. Ponsler was in Chicago last week on business. Mrs. Hattie Barton and daughter Orphia motored to Lafayette Friday. ■■' . . ■ . ■ Charles Snow and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Snow’s folks near Foresman. ‘

Clark B. Shont of Milford, Illinois, visited a short while Sunday with Archie Lee. '. Rudy Miller of Windfall came Wednesday for a visit with his father, Ben B. Miller. Mr. Huffy, who was considerably indisposed the first’ of the week, is now getting along very nicely. Mrs. Ode and Mrs. Victor Alexander motored to Indianapolis Thursday, returning Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Inkley .and children motored to Wheatfield Sunday and spent the day with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bengston and little son of Foresman spent Sunday with Mrs. Bengston’s parents, Mhr. and Mrs. Francis Makeever. Howard Rimer was down from Michigan City last week to see his grandfather, ; George Schanlaub. Howard is braking on the Lake Shore Electric line. Jacob Schock, whose home is near Milton, was in our midst visiting old friends. Mr. Schock is an old resident of Mt. Ayr, having Come, here in the year ’B2 or ’B3. He and his family moved to Milton in 1907. He was a clerk for a long time in the old Sigler store.