Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

WHEATFIELD ’ Louis Miser va.s- a K-nsse-Laer I goer Tne-day --eimxg. / The Children's dar enerTsee vUI be held .at the rm. ma meaner S'tnday evening. AU zr-rre. | The Misses Gatrede Mfeeft and Grace and NeT? Kit::, Waw- are attending VaJperzis® nriTereity. spent Szrday Trinh b-rcre fnExsThe M. E. chzrrh which has : been ad-rroh-s a wzjfe:* internal renovation. is s:v "reai~ for US* 1 . ‘Ci? 'SriZl dfccre Sunday mczuira:, . ; These tot day? wit-, w&W.t-- v-S-IFOCIT! ST ]~r- ' ' ' y-_* TT • _2.ZL«I yuvuzg on t.n stir of .■ greeßL,".'•GtF'T ,om. .•■ Tw*x'are,' some weeks- r.:.'t i- ' Mr. and Mrs. C. M f"?TT rri daughter and BtTr Hewe-tt Tent to . Rensselaer • T tn.-i.-.-. . :aej ■, former to'■■attend the Jaesgßg; CgKEaty’ Better Stork aesefii* m meecrig, • and the ladies -.o do si’Tying. The county agent me: TT-th*. a few; of the farmers at E»st Friday as per amomneemeni ta> talk over the propositM® T hirhs a < stock show and street fair a£j Wheatfield some time h® October. | An executive sHMEtae vis elected to formulate me./caati now say that the wtS he an assured fact. The exeeative committee is composed of the following: C. M. Dewe*. Albert Keene and George They .. request the . ■co-opErat’.Kt of rhe ■ .farmer? .of northern .'aster We wish to suggest to rm? *rorram eommf’tee of- <the «heatfield Fourth of July r-rrarlni-'m i plan to make the eelehratian ’ts cd - the greatest' patriotic cmm-'-iP's: ever held in Jasper eraT- Request all that come to srsxg their song books and help song "My Countrv Ts? of Thee•..“ "Th—- StarSpanned Banner’ and *z~_ -Battle Hymn of the BepnbEeT There win be hundreds of smod shsars -resent who will be glad to heir in the singing.• The fart that'a32 wfi© -wish, to sin? may do so wifi re _’tte of the best drawing cards, mi u<:-sh-in g coni 3 be nicer var to . a—ar . these songs smug by a large tramcourse of people.. .These-are extraordinary times —-le* -us ,■ hxwe a program to correspond.

JACKSOX T< ! 'V\ >HIP. AhB'IOX O»TXTY Iforocc® w3l ■ ceteteate tie selorions old Fo-urth-Mr=. Ransom Elijah is Tf-'.'fiig relatives in lowa an 5 Eraest Schanlaxb is. WfMite s neat little eoT-ag- on u .north Jackson Township farm. Mrs. Elizabeth Boon, u xzed and well-known Tes*ent_<®f Koncco, died suddenly - rTarsday.-'off. te*< week. If Germany -kink? tkat this county is unpreyared' Jet ter rea l some of our aneatywens poetry bearing on the war. Amorr the thing? that rise np "r jolt the even keter. '«f "a Warfs i=' the ihoiilEhi thnt -he <e t.*o-■ eta to fisht for his ccnutrrCan it be the saire W BaR; of whose ..grandeur, ghßiiv ax-f Eaec-ir-ity the Eepub-Heaa tster- or' : cago spoke only a ';•« eteut —ux'm-' ago? Prr. r. . I dreamt be the same immortal t -r FTL t’Vncle” James Siaskertaker who had ‘been visiting -extjm ts Wabash county. rersrped her •'■ .• ne ; fore part of the WB&. corn cro”' fn - • &£'•■ being backward, with rev arnf steaa farmer still plantjnr. : The corn crop ir this Titfuhr- F?' looking fairly promising. A Etteei backward, it is tree, tet pree-; ent warm wetter is wnrSfey menders and next fall vr. see an x .erase crop, no doubt, if teterThe' oats crop ; is,tte. year?' Dutch Bin and his red-t.ix-i-1 .crew will., it . is _ re • J i-xe .the Bible .at the' -elfwe'' oh. tte. -reent war. No: a. ■ oadhifea, catee.' to think of .it. . Ttere. ,are ; sowral things in the Bible which. bunch, could hardly be ■ r.xr.e; . s&, wanting changed. Old Jackson townskip r-spwx.fed

nobly to the call of the Red Cross, and this is true of the county generally, so far as the writer has been" informed. The citizens of Newton county may be divided on the subject of the county seat, .but when it comes to swatting the kaiser and the fly they present a solid front.. Dr. C.»E. Triplett. Sr., of Morocco and ope of the oldest physicians in northwestern Indiana, is quite sick nt this writing with a complication of diseases. The -doctor -is ■ ;'-.. 82 years old, and began, prac•;cir. r medicine in this county in • >*'■_' When in the? prime of life his reputation as a succos t'ul physician was practically stale-wide. Fete; Gorman, baeheiur. is doing his bit towards bringing Dutch Bill to a realizing sense of the sitnation. Peter ,is tending forty acres I' corn, and it is real pleasant to h-np him vilifying old “Doc” grid ••Charley” in the gray dawn of morn, in an effort to’ make two ears of corn grow where formerly oßty the cat-tai’, and rosin weed 1 flourished. It beats all what newspaper advertising will do. Early in the season the newspapers said ‘‘Plant gardens and truck fields,” and. 10, never before, perhaps, have there been such large and fine gardens and truck fields as greet the eye &f the traveler at the present time. Special attention appears to have given’ the potato crop and with the most gratifying results, too. As a mail carrier, Abe Bringle hn* few equals and ho superiors, but as a weather prophet he is a monumental failure. He prophesied a drv May and it was wet: he predicted hot weather and the next day came'down the pike with icicles two feet long protruding from his nostrils: he read in old Doc Stinkurn's almanac that we were to have cyclones galore in June and forthwith sounded the alarm, but cyclones came, and now. Abe is thinkins of going out of the forecasting business altogether.

FAIR OAKS Health still continues quite good Alva. Brouhard shipped his household zoods here Tuesday and moved in-o the Hopper property in the north part of town. Fred Call, w-ho is working on the Lawler ranch, lost a very valuable driving mare • Monday from some kind of intestinal trouble.

Cottage prayer meeting was held ■at Abe Bringle’s Wednesday evening. It was announced to be held at Grandma Noland s next week. -Aunt” Sarah Smith somehow got a fall last Monday and broke Eer arm. Dr. Rice was called and ter' the necessary attention. Tom Johnson’s got a letter Monday from their soldier boy down near the border stating that he would be home July 7 on a furEough. Mr. Clevenger, who is now in the employ of the Libby-McNeil-Libby Pickle company, was here the lat--er part of the week looking after his property. -jLi_ - - --- Paul Barker, who had been drayman. and mail hauler to and from the depot, has sold out to James •’lifton, and his son Arthur will do t - mail and dray act from now on. The old ex-editor of the Morocco CO (inter., Sidney Schanlaub, has : lately' cut his smoking expenses 'down in order to support the Reu ; Cross. Where he usually smoked tup two grangers per week he now ' smokes but one. This surely is a good Example for others to pattern j after. i - ~<‘. Mrs. Tom Johnson, while out with Tom Monday where he was deadening timber on the Lawler ranch. was struck a glancing blow %u one foot by the ax in Tom’s tends, he having not struck the tree squarely, and a gash a couple inches long was laid open. Dr. Rice was called and dressed the wound. We had one of those old-fash-ioned heavy wind storms Monday, with considerable rain in some

parts and in others not much rainfall. Mrs. Joe Winslow, who is substitute on route , No. 2, was caught by the wind and the wagoif was blown over with her in it, but fortunately no damage was done aside from a couple* of sprung axles. She has decided that the carrier’s life is not all strewn with roses. ' . William Geary and Joe Winslow are the last in the.se .'parts to fall victims Qf the automobile fever. William had his case diagnosed Tuesday and was completely restored by taking a full dose of the well-kridwn Ford remedy, and on Wednesday a .Ford specialist came over from Medaryville and diagnosed Joe’s case as identically the same as Williams’, and prescribed a new Ford, which Joe very willingly took. He will use his car in carrying the mail. The Red Cross speaking held in the M. E. church Saturday evening was, are sorry to shy, a mighty slim affair so far as the turn out; was concerned.--—There were less than a half dozen men out, but a fair sprinkling of ladies. Txfose present showed their willingness to support the great cause by contributions. Rev. McDaniel gave the principal address, which was certainly very interesting. W. L. Wood gave a short talk “which was full of earnestness and zeal.

VIRGIE W. W. ‘Zellers and wife were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Miss Esther Wiseman spent the Week-end in ’ Chicago, visiting friends. Miss Opal Shriener of Kniman has been staying with X. -Geesa’s this week. ® Mr. Cook, manager of the pickle factory, came down from Chicago Wednesday. • Rev. Flickinger will preach here at the usual hour, 7:30 o’clock Sunday evening. ' ’ x ■■■ Mrs. George Cover’s sister and children from Hebron spent the week with her. Charles Reed and Earl Wiseman attended band concert at Rensselaer Wednesday evening. John Reed and family attended the commencement exercises at Rosebud Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Estel Marion spent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frances Marion. The strawberry crop is turning out better than was expected. James Wiseman picked 300 quarts Tuesday. Misses Ada, Patience and Dora Florence spent Sunday with their upcle, Jack Reeder, and family of near Fair Oaks. Miss Indus Wiseman, who is in training at the Lakeside hospital, Chicago, came Monday eve-

ning for her summer vacation. Thomas Florence and daughter. Miss Ada, left for Ohio Monday morning. Ada expects to spend* the summer there with her uncle. Mr.. Florence will return in a few days. There will be a strawberry festival and ice cream social here in the school yard Saturday evening. June 30. Proceeds for the benefit of the Virgie church. Everybody come and bring everybody else with you.

MILROY Our sick in this vicinity are not improving very fast. Mrs. G. I* Parks and family enter tain pel Chicago guests Sunday. _ Several from here attended the band concert at Rensselaer Wednesday evening. Mrs. Robert Johns of McCoys-

burg is spending a tew days with Mrs. John Mitchell. Charles Beaver and family and Mr. and Mrs. True Culp were Monos' callers Wednesday. Mias Ethel English and brothers* Fern and Keith, spent Monday with Mrs, Earl Fonlks. • Although a little late. Children's day program will be given Sunday evening, July 1. Ail invited. Mrs. W. B. Fisher. Mrs. Lena Hemphill and Mrs. G. Foulks spent Thursday with Mrs. Frank May. W. B. Fisher and George and Earl Fouiks and families ate strawberries Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Sanari norh o* Logansport. Mrs- Maud Ovens of Harvey. Illinois, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Elmer Clark, who has been sick but seems to be improving slowly ■BOW. Solicitations are being made for the Red Cross. A meeting was held Tuesday and the people re- ■ eponded liberally and Milroy is doing her best to give her allotment. ATA* DOGS MUST BE MUZZLED Notice is hereby given that after this dele, June 20. 1917. ail dogs found o» the premises of the owner that are not properly muzzled. will be killed auumdtog to law. ThA rwle wfll be rigidly enforced.—By Order of CUy Health QfltaEf