Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS Health still continues good with ÜB. ' . • Bert . Warren’s have lately installed an organ in their home. Jesse Harriott and wife will go to lowa about July 5 to work on a dredge. - , Liman Hall has taken a big contract to deaden timber for J. J. Lawler near here. Joe Winslow, the carrier on route No. 2, has made his wife his substitute. She begun service this week. James Clifton suffered a nervous breakdown last 'week, due to hard work on the Spang house, but is now feeling pretty good again. We were visited .by a very heavy frost the latter part of last week, which did considerable damage to growing crops, such as corn, pota- „ toes, rye and other crops that grew In the muck land; It has been announced that there will be a Red Cross meeting here in the M. E, church Saturday evening. Everybody is invited to come out and bring their pocketbooks and give their mite. Rev. Hensley was here Sunday evening and filled his regular appointment. Owing to the Children’s day exercises at Lee, his '■'’Jier point, he was not here for nis 11 a. m. appointment. C. A. Bringle and wife of Remington came over and visited home folks Sunday. They left Monday for Valparaiso to visit his sister Amy, and then go to Hanna to visit his aunt, Mrs. F. L. Yeoman, and thence to Gary to visit Roy Gundy and wife. This is vacation for him. James Clifton, the contractor on the C. B. Spang house, completed same and turned it over to Mr. Smith, the tenant, Monday. The latter will move into the house the last of this week and I. A. Abel will move from the Dr. Wells property into the house vacated by Smith, which is owned by Mr. McCully of Illinois. James Clifton received a letter the first of the week from his brother Sam, who is located near Milltown, Oklahoma, stating that corn was neck high and small grain crops were fine. They had begun harvesting and that there was an abundance of all of fruit. He is more than satisfied with the country. They only had I one snow and but very little cold weather last winter.

GIFFORD Teddy Keen spent over Sunday with home folks. Chester Caster, who is working at Hebron, spent Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Reece Cavinder spent Sunday with Will Obenchain and family. Moses Hancock and family took Sunday dinner with George Lambert and daughters. Earl Parker and family*’Of Kersey spent Saturday and Suxday with relatives and friends hmre. Mr. and Mirs. JoWn Stockwell and Mr..and Mrs. Al Caldwell autoed to Monon Sunday evening. John Taylor and daughters, Hazel and Opal, of Monon spent over Tuesday with Charles Taylor. Jack Scott of (Hoopeston, Illinois, is spending a few days with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott. Vern Keen has quit onion weeding and went to Kersey to work on a farm for his brother-in-law, Orval Fisher. Miss Mabie Scott, Miss Myrtle

Stockwell, Byrl Blackman and Carl Stockwell went to Zadoc Sunday to see the steam shovel.

WHEATFIELD George Grube was in the vicinity of Zadoc Monday. William Meyers, Sr., has a new car. Sixty miles an hour is his pace now. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Miseh were callers at the Raeth home Sunday afternoon. William Brown has given his restaurant building a coat of paint that surely puts it right in line. Editor Hamilton of the Rensselaer Republican attended the Red Cross meeting here Tuesday night. C. M. Dewey and family and Mrs. Vandercar ate ice cream at the Hew’ett home Monday evening. ■ If you are in favor of having a stock show and street fair at Wheatfield this fall, report it to either of these gentlemen: C. M. Dewey, Albert Keene or Joseph Hickam. Mr. Freeman, our local stock buyer, loaded a mixed car of hogs and cattle Saturday. He pays a little more than outside buyers so he should have the first bid on stuff in his line.

Col. John Finn and Jerry Maloney were at Wheatfield Saturday evening. The colonel says that the next time he goes with a young Demo crat he. will have a car come about four hours behind to pick him up. With a flag raising for the main drawing card our Fourth' of July celebration should be very largely attended. Everything that goes to make up a good sane celebration will be in evidence. Come and see the metropolis of northerns Jasper. The Wheatfield saloon matter is surely presenting some knotty legal questions that are taxing the legal capacity of the attorneys connected with it. No one at this time can clearly see what the final result will be, although surface objects snow the direction of the current but not the speed of it. The frost last Friday evening did ouite a lot of damage in these parts. One field on the Salisbury farm, occupied by Samuel Payne, was badly damaged. It was queer how the frost acted. Some fields of corn low and very wet escaped without a visible sign of damage, while corn on high sandy places was frozen down to the ground.

A large number of Red Cross workers from Rensselaer, accompanied by the Rensselaer band, held ■> meeting at Wheatfield Tuesday evening. After an able address by one of the pastors of Rensselaer the sum of SB2O was quickly raised to help the Red Cross for European war duty. When all not present are given a chance to contribute the sum will reach close to the SI,OOO mark. That is patriotism. A reception in honor of the newly weds, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hamilton, was given Friday evening. It was largely attended and all gave the new occupants of the matrimonial boat lots of advice. Summed up, it read like this: Keep in the middle of the stream; don’t drop the paddles, and watch out for the cataracts and eddying pools, and don’t rock the boat. Congratulations. If you want good advice see us. Wheatfield can be truthfully called the town of gardens. We never saw better gardens in any town: each with a large variety of vegetables and all well kept. No one can realize the money value of these parcels of ground laden with vegetables. Aside from the monetary side of the garden the training it gives to the children in getting them

acquainted with a few of the secrets of nature is surely a valuable factor of education. r—e — Louis, John and Michael Misch and your correspondent took an ah to drive of about three hours- duration via Kniman,, Aix. Rosebud church, Virgie, Demotte. Kersey and Wheatfield. During the trip' we saw some badly frbst-bitten fields of corn, while some were hurt very slightly. Oats and rye looted good and the wheat, although thin, looked well. We met Mr. and Mrs. H. Remley. Louis and Thomas Jensen and wives and Mr. Babcock of The Democrat, all out for a spin.

MT. AYfc (From the Tribune) Ed Harris attended the auto derby in Chicago Saturday. Roy Gish of Rensselaer was a business caller here Monday. Frank Coovert was up from Monon over Sunday. He is improving very rapidly now. Mont Brien and family of Goodland came Monday for a visit with G. W. Lynch. Miss Jessie Elijah of Morocco visited over Sunday with her friend. Miss Vera Witcher. , Mr. and Mrs. Cale Baker spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Gish, south of Rensselaer. Jesse Coovert and wife of Valparaiso were in Mt. Ayr last Sunday visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Wm. J. Little and babjes are visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Bohannon, near Julian. Delos Dellman of Wheatfield came Tuesday of last week and visited until Friday with his friend, Robert Hufty. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fraunhauff and Otto Hood of Brook were here Sunday visiting with C. H. Stacker and family. Charles Brunton and family o f Morocco and Bove M-'keever a«i<l family were Sunday visitors witl) Mrs. Almira Stucker.

Ruby. Standish, who , had been visiting for the past month with her sister at Lawrence, near Indianapolis, returned home Sunday. Miss Pearl Putt of Monon and Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Bohannon of Brook were Sunday guests at the home of W. J. Little, the barber. Mrs. John Perry and two babies and Mrs. Alex Miller and daughter of Columbia City visited Friday and Saturday with friends and relatives. Harry Williams,' the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Williams, had the misfortune to fall from a horse Sunday and dislocate his left shoulder. Uncle Joe Miller returned from a week’s visit with relatives near Goshen. His son, Ben Miller, and also Miss Mary Hostetter of Goshen returned with him for a short visit. Mrs. Gilbert Stucker visited Sunday with her brother. Walter Brown, of near Monon. Mrs. Stackers parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Brown, of Roselawn also Sundayed with Walter.

Lieut. J. B. Garland of Rensselaer, Don Heaton and Harry Smith of Fowler passed through town Saturday enroute to the Kankakee river where they spent Sunday fishing. William Jenkins, James VanArsdell Edwin Huntington, Charlie Dearduff, Clair Vestall, George Shupe and Elmer Brunton attended the weekly military drill in Rensselaer Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. A D. Washburn and son and daughter. Howard and Helen of Kentland visited Sunday at the home of C. H. Stucker. Miss Smart, also of Kentland, accompanied them. Mr and Mrs. E. O. Baker and two children of Laketon came Monday to visit with relatives and friends here. Mrs. Baker was formerly Miss Nellie Stacker and is a daughter of Will Stucker.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Isaac Shannon et ux to Theodore Bollier, June 14, s% ne, 4-27-®, nw ne 9-27-6, 120 acres. Carpenter. sl. Albert Baillen et ux to Henry Peck, June 9, wi£ sw, 17-31-®, 80 acres. Walker, sl.