Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU

GIFFORD Jasper Cover called on Guy Zook Friday morning. Mrs. Mary Obenchain was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Mrs. Bessie Snyder is not improving any at this writing. Mrs. Ella Hancock spent Sunday with George Lambert and daughters. The little babe of Mr, and Mrs. Homer Timmons is quite ill at this writing. Mrs. Florence Hilton called on Sylvia and Hazel Lambert Sunday evening. Nate Keen spent from Sunday until Saturday with relatives at Remington. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Keen had quite a bunch of company Sunday from Tefft. Gaylord iHilton and Charles Stevenson of Kersey were in our town Sunday. The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott is not improving any at this writing. There will be church services Saturday night; also Sunday night. The public is cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. O. Barker returned to their home at McCoysburg after a week’s visit with relatives here. Robert Steel spent from Saturday until Tuesday, with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Antrim, of Range Line. Grandma Swisher met with an accident. Saturday by injuring her ankle so badly she is not able to walk any. There was quite a wind storm Saturday which done a lot of damage to the onion crop by blowing the onions out of the ground. David Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Smith and son Orval and John Smith of Moody, called on Robert Hilton and family Sunday.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) County Superintendent W. O. Schanlaub was in town Thursday on business. Mrs. Annie Baker went to Joliet, Illinois, Monday for a short visit with friends. A. J. Hufty has material on the ground for a new silo he will erect in the near future. Charles Brown went to Chicago Heights Wednesday and visited in that vicinity several days. George Corbin and family spent Wednesday with Mrs. Corbin’s brother and family at Momence. W. E. Leek and Max Kepner and

family of Rensselaer called on Earl Leek and family Sunday evening. Abner Huntington was down from, Wheatfield last week for a short visit with friends and relatives. Clarence and Marvin Craig of Chicago Heights were guests of their uncle, Fred Standish, Wednesday. Frank F. Eldridge and family of near Lee spent Sunday with Mrs. Eldridge’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jenkinson. Wilmot Dungen of Science Hill, Kentucky, arrived Saturday night for a few days’ visit with his brother, Elisha Dungen. Nora Blake, who had been visiting with her sister, Mrs. 'DeWitt, went to Rensselaer Wednesday enroute to her home at Fair Oaks. Charles Fleming and family accompanied by Miss Grace Lyons of Brook, went to Milford, Illinois, Sunday to pay Charlie’s sister a visit' Mrs. Mary J. Rimer and Frances Brown Visited over Sunday With Ed Brown of Wheatfield. They report Ed to be driving a new Maxwell car. Earl Bruner and family, Oscar Stucker and family, Will Johnson and family and Mrs. George Johnson and Frank, went to Hebron Sunday via Cedar Lake. Jay and Nellie Makeever attended the commencement exercises in Rensselaer Thursday night. Their niece, Mis? Hershel Collins, is a member of the graduating class. As W. W. Miller’s fine barn is nearly completed the boys are hinting around that Jay should have a dance. We think that this would be a mighty good way to initiate the new building.

ROSELAWN Tom Huston was a. Roselawn visitor Wednesday. Mrs. Harry Baxter was down from Lacross visiting friends this week. H. IH. Nelson has another blacksmith, who came to work Monday, from the southern part of the state, Miss Pearl Best and Miss Mernie Bess entertained the Sunday school class Tuesday afternoon at Miss Best’s home. S. W. Benjajmin of Martinton, Illinois, was a visitor at the home of Otis Phillips and family Tuesday afternoon. Planting pickle seed, late potatoes and various other garden truck is the order of the day around Roselawn. Henry Lee, who has been confined to. his home with a severe case of rheumatism for some time, was able to get to town this week. J. R. Mulder, Sr., who was one of the many at the fire Friday morning was quite' badly bruised by a hard fall in running away from the scene of the fire when the barrel of oil exploded. Jack Cobb was a Roselawn visitor Wednesday. Jack is the manager of the pickle plant at Thayer, which position he has held for several years. He reports there is a large acreage contracted this season. A whole bunch from Roselawn and vicinity attended the commencement exercises at Kentland Thursday. There were eleven graduates from the eighth grade in the township, nine of them being from the Roselawn school. A fire which started aboqt 2:30 o’clock Friday morning, June 1, burned the large two-story frame building owned by Mrs. C. M. Rice and occupied on the lower floor by Dr. Rice’s office and Jay Weaver's barber shop. The second story had been used the last two years as a school room. The origin of the fire seems-fcTbe a mystery, as there was no fire in the doctor s office stove or in the barber shop during the day or night of the fire. We understand the building was partially covered by insurance, but the contents of the doctor’s office ‘and Weaver’s shop were a total loss. Fortunately for the rest of the town the wind, what little there was blowing,, was from the northwest and carried the heat and flames away from nearby buildings. Whether the building will be rebuilt we were unable to learn at this time.

FAIR OAKS Health continues reasonably good in our village. Ike Kight and -wife Visited his brother J. R. at Thayer Sunday. Ben Zellers and Can Manderville visited at Thayer the first of the week. Cottage prayer meeting was held at Aunt Hannah Culp’s Wednesday evening. ' : Will MCKay went to Gary last week and is now employed m the tinplate mills. Charles Manderville came up and

spent Sunday with his aged mother and brother Can. Aunt Hannah Culp suffered a very severe attack of the grip Sunday, but is better now. Mrs. F. R. Erwin returned home Tuesday after a few days’ visit with relatives in Chicago. Earl Kennedy and family of west of Rensselaßr Forded up here and visited Harry Young’s Sunday. Several of bur young men from here enlisted and took the physical examination Tuesday. All passed but two. Joe Kosta returned from Chicago Tuesday evening where he had been to market with a carload of fat cattle. The plasterers finished up the job of plastering the Spang house the first of the week. The carpenters will rush it to completion how... The Wildrick stone road in Newton county, which Mr. Teach got about half done last fall, still remains unfinished and the work of completing it soon does not look as bright as it might. (Paul Barker, who had had the Job of carrying the mail too and from the depot, gave it up and took up a job at Maynard as tower man. Sol Yeader has been subbing for-him in the mail work. Rev. Hensley filled his tegular

appointment here Sunday. Owing to the fact that a good many from here attended the Sunday school convention at Brushwood there were but a very few at the morning service. We are still keeping watchful waiting for signs of a new school house in our town for our next term of school. The time to erect a new one in time for school is short, so somebody will have to get busy soon. Lew Moffitt, who had been employed as ticket agent at Gary for the interurban, enlisted in the infantry last week and went to Fort Wayne Monday, took the examination and went on to Ohio where he will take training. We have been having plenty of high winds and rain the past week. A very heavy rain fell both Monday and Tuesday nights and now we are saying: "Too wet to work in the fields and the weeds are growing pretty rapidly.” Small grain generally never looked better at this time of year than it does no*.

WHEATFIELD Louis Misch was a San Pierre caller Saturday evening. Jack Smith was a caller at the McDaniel home Sunday. A few days of good warm weather will repair the loss, however. < ''i. f fc t'.- •

Mrs. William Grube went to Illinois Saturday on a visiting tour. The heibvy wind Saturday did considerable damage to the corn. William Meyers and son were business callers at Rensselaer Saturday. C. M. Dewey and family were callers at the McDaniel home Sunday evening. Mrs. Minor departed for Ohio Saturday to visit her mother, who is very sick, •' Mr. and Mrs. George Heil and daughter of Aix attended memorial services at Wheatfield last Wednesday. While going to and from Rensselaer Saturday Louis Grube and your correspondent met a large number of our old friends. Chatles Hewett and your correspondent took a pleasure trip over ipto the southeast part of Walker township Monday in quest of hay. The heavy wind here Monday evening blew down the silo of Mr. Jones, our local dairy man. It was a stave silo. He had it insured against wind. W. O. Nelson has traded his real car to Louis Misch for a car like Harry drives. W. O. is going to revise his book on autoology. You Ford drivers let him alone. A niece from Rensselaer and one from Ohio came home with Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Grube Saturday evening from Rensselaer, the former for a few days’ visit and the latter to stay all summer. Thomas Hewett and James Goin went fishing Tuesday and came back with a fish about the size of a clothespin, just to show that “cussed Wheatfield correspondent” that they could fish. They said

they were sorry for the fish so they left them. A large number of auto loads went to Rensselaer Monday to watch the electing of a county superintendent and to appear before the board of commissioners for and against the saloon at Wheat-! field. It appears that the ladies, althoughvoters now, were not qualified to vote at the local. option election. Let me tell yon something right now, watch the ladies shake up things in the coming elections. I C. M. Dewey, Charles Hewett, Mr. Minor and son Guy spent last Friday at the model and experi-! ment farm at Purdue. They had; an enjoyable time and saw some fine cattle. A trip there is surely a paying proposition to any farmer.; Steve Maloney, who had lived around here, for a number of years, and was widely known in these parts, was fpund dead in one of the marshes close to the river Tuesday. He was lying in about six inches of water and it is the supposition that he had drowned. We have not heard what the coroner decided as to the cause of his death. As to his history ot whether be had any relatives in these parts, we do not know at this- writing. i

William Grube, S. D. Clarw, Andrew Grube and P. O. Kennedy of the Wheatfield Center Farmers’ club and Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Dewey arid daughters, Neita and Bessie, and your correspondent, .of the Wheatfield Farmers’ club, attended the farmers' club officers’ meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hauter, southeast of Rensselaer Saturday. About seventy-five were present, and to say that it Was an enjoyable event is putting it in mild language. All that camo brought an abundance of eatables, which were sipread upon the tables from which all partook in the true spirit of friendliness. After the dinner the large tool shed was turned into an auditorium where we listened to able addresses by the county agent. State Leader Coleman of Purdue and the president and secretary of the Jasper County* Better Farming association. Then came short talks by representatives of the different clubs. AIT were for pushing things to success and all sang the song of cooperation* After the published program had been carried out, a judge from Indianapolis, who had come to deliver the commencement address at the Newton township school exercises that evening, gave a stirring speech in which he paid tribute to the farmers. He said that it was up to us all to stand behind the government of the C. S. until we saw autocracy and militarism go down before an avalanche of democracy. Mh and Mrs. Learning are to be congratulated for the success of the meeting. We also wish -to extend to Mr. and Mrs. Hauter the thanks of all present for their hospitality.