Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENIN GS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GIFFORD Mr. and Mrs. Harry Walker were Medaryville goers Saturday. Mrs. Laura Antrim called on Sylvia Lambert Monday evening. Mrs. Ethel Hill and children spent Sunday with Jess Nuss and family. There will be services at Gifford Sunday night, August 26, by Rev. Bert Warren. Timothy Haniford and daughter Elsie went to Anderson Saturday to spend over Sunday. Mrs. Maude Perkins and children of Winamac are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Snyder. Pickles have not been coming in so fast this week, as most everybody is complaining of lice eating them. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Steel of Lee and Mrs. Laura Antrim of Range Line spent the first of the week here with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steel. Among the Rensselaer goers Saturday were Thomas Lapi'bert, Jake Myers and family, Miss Sylvia Grim, Miss Opal and James Hankins and Reuben Snyder and daughter Irene. Dick Myers, who is in Company M at Rensselaer, spent Sunday with this parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Myers. James VanArsdal, likewise of Company M, spent Sunday in' Gifford also. . • MILROY The Ladies’ Aid met with Mrs. Lud Clark last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dolfin entertained company last Sunday. W. B. Fisher’s went to Rensselaer Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mrs. G. L. Parks has been entertaining guests from Chicago. Cecil Ross spent Sunday with Carl and Clifford Beaver and Charles Mitchell. Mrs. Balser Kohler of Kansas City, Missouri, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Saltwell. Mrs. Charles McCashen and children and Mrs. A. L. Clark spent Sunday with Mrs. Geofge Foulks. Juanita and Lillian Fisher and Miss Wilson attended Chautauqua at Fountain park Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks attended band concert at Monon Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clark and son of Kankakee, Illinois, visited friends and relatives here the first of the week. Mrs. A. L. Clark, who had been visiting her daughter, Mrs.. Charles MsCashen, and family, returned to iher v -hb>me in Kankakee, Illinois, Monday. Miss Freight and niece of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who had been visiting her cousin, Mrs. W. B. Fisher, and family, left for their home Wednesday. WHEATFIELD Louis Misch was a San Pierre caller Sunday. Mr. Goin and daughter were dinner guests at the Hewett home Sunday. Floyd McColly of Wheatfield called on Bert Vandercar, Jr.. Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John DeWitt of Fair Oaks friends and relatives here last Friday evening. Wheat so far is averaging about twenty-two bushels per acre, with a field here and there making about thirty-two bushels per.

Mrs. Hattie Alter of Rensselaer and nephews from Salt Lake City, Utah, visited a few days at the McColly home in Wheatfield last week. ■ '. x Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel of Rensselaer came up Tuesday to help their son Lawrence with his thrashing. Mac surely has fine crops this year. - Alexander says that he has his opinion of any fellow that loses his meat out of an auto. Any meat that can hop that good must be bull frog bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Stembel, Viola'’and Darrel Dewey and Nettie Hewett autoed to South Bend last Sunday. They report a fine time and lots to eat. The corn here is looking good and if we can knock old Jack Frost so hard that he will not be able to get around until October we will have a good crop. Gertrude Misch and Grace Knapp returned to Valparaiso Sunday evening. This week finishes their term at the university. Both young ladies expect to teach school this year. We wish them success. Louis Misch, Alexander Raeth and Jerry Maloney of Tefft attended the K. of C. lodge at Rensselaer Tuesday evening, going via auto. The boys gave Alexander an exhibition of speed that would surely make a fellow lose his bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dollinger entertained a company of their Chicago friends Tuesday, who came down to see them thrash their

grain. Among the guests were the latter’s parents, who own the farm. Peter is surely making good at farming. Our elevator is taking in a large amount of wheat at the fablous price of $2.25 per bushel, which, is surely the. highest mark ever reached by wheat in these parts. They used to break banks, etc., to get rich quick, but now they go to farming and make an old-fash-ioned successful bandit look like a penny-ante gamester. Remember, the stock show and street fair which will be held at Wheatfield some time in October. Line up your show stock .and raise your big vegetables, pumpkins, etc., and. get in on wagon number one. The executive committee is Composed of the following gentlemen: C. M. Dewey. Albert Keene and George Freeman. See them about it. MT. AYR Miss Ellen Saylor of Rensselaer is visiting at Jack Smith's. John Rush and Robert Yeoman are building new corn cribs. Miss ,|?ylvia Watson of Medary-

ville is visiting here with her sister, Mrs. John Himes. Roy Lowman's oats thrashed seventy bushels per acre and marketed at 64c per bushel. Truly the farmer has no kick Coming this year. Charles Clark and family of Leesburg visited among friends and relatives here and at Morocco several days the past week, returning home Monday. Noah Anderson returned home froip Talona, lowa, Friday evening 7 for examination by the draft board. He expects to return there if hot passed by. said board. Rev. A. G. Cragun and family will spend a few days in Decatur county. There will be no .preaching services at the M. E. church August 19 on account of Rev. Cragun being away. The trustees who have been raising the money for the improvement and equipment of the U. B. church here have met with splendid success. They report having the amount necessary almost in sight. Mrs. F. M. Coovert and daughter of Talala, Oklahoma, joined Mr. Coovert here this week for an indefinite visit at the home of C. H. Stucker. Mr. Coovert has. been here for some time endeavoring to get relief from rheumatism. ■>. / SIOO REWARD, SI 00 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there io at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional 'conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by. building up the constitution and assisting nature., in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall’s Catarrh Medicine that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all druggists. 75 c.

FAIR OAKS Health still continues good with us. Rev. Hensley filled his regular appointments here Sunday. Newton Waterman and wife of Chicago visited F. R. Erwin s a few days this week. Several of the soldier boys came up from Rensselaer and spent Sunday with home folks. G. H. Hillis shipped several carloads of fat cattle from here to market Tuesday evening. The pickle harvest is now in full blast and they are coming in in quite large quantities. W. O. Gourley has recently took the remedy for the auto fever and is now driving an Oakland. Earl Kennedy and family of west of Rensselaer “Forded” up Sunday and visited Harry Young’s. Lou Moffitt came up from Fort Harrison Sunday,, and made a short visit with his “best ’ and others. Chas. Manderville came up from Kentland Saturday and visited “grandma” until Tuesday morning. Henry Roorda and family of Harvey, Illinois, is visiting his father, John Roorda on the Otis ranch.

Will Roudebush has about ten acres of watermelons out near the Swim crossing, and they are looking fine. “Uncle” Dave Winslow has been considerably undar the weather the past week, but is some better at this writing. Mrs. Fred McKay and children, after a couple weeks visit with home folks, returned to their home last Friday at Buchanan, Michigan. There were six that took the examination Saturday for the postmastership here, and we are all wondering who will be the lucky one. The weather has been very favorable for threshing, and they have been putting in full time, at it. The corn in some localities is needing rain very much. Born, the 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rush, just west of a bouncing boy. This is the 1 ->th time the stork has visited them and all the children are living but one. Herbet Bozell and Gladis Warne slipped away Sunday evenins and w.ere joined in the holy bonds of matrimony. We extend congratulations and good wishes for their future. Bert and Les ; Warne, Fonda Clifton and Arthur Ropp have a job of deadening a section of timber for J. J. Lawler west of town that will about clean up the remainder of the green timber on the Lawler ranch. Mrs. A. M. Bringle went to Valparaiso Saturday to visit her daughter Amy, and then on to Hanna to visit relatives until Thursday. when she will attend the commencement exercises at the Valparaiso university from which Miss Amy graduates this term. Mrs. Cottingham, who had been caring for her son William’s children while his wife was awaj visiting awhile, and then gave some of her time and attention to Dr, Fyfe’s family, returned to Fair Oaks the latter part of the week. She then went to Brookston' to stay with her mother, who is quit aged.