Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GIFFORD Church services Sunday evening. Everybody come. Albert and Lyda Akers and Ethel Nuss were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Ted Kean spent Sunday with his parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Keen. Miss Mabel Scott, who has been working at Monon, came home Monday for a visit. Mrs. Ethel Hill and baby and Mrs. Lettie Snyder and baby were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Hankins attended the wedding supper at Charley Britt’s Thursday evening. Guy Zook and family and Grover Norris and family spent Sunday with the former’s brother, Jud Zook, and family. Jess Grim was a Rensselaer goer Friday, to be examined. He passed the examination O. K. and left for Union City, Ohio, Friday, returning to Gifford Monday. Edward Wakeben, general superintendent of Squire Dingee Pickle company of Chicago, and Fred Pickner of Parr were out looking after the pickle factory here. Mr. and Mrs. Dice Zook are spending the week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker, as Mrs. Zook is not able to return to her home at Demotte. Samuel Davis and Harry Winnick of Rensselaer, Sylvia, Hazel and Ola Lambert of Gifford and Ollie, Allie and Walter Conn of Laura spent Sunday with Theodore Smith of Laura. John Snyder and family of Clinton, Illinois, spent the first of the week with friends ancF relatives here. They left Wednesday morning foi- Kouts to visit Mrs. Snyder’s brother, Tom Woolever. Elmer Kerns of Laura, who has been working at Gary digging a basement under a church, was pushing a wagon in under it when the wagon struck a post and the tongue flew up and broke his jawbone. He will be laid up for several days. John Hill and George Lambert | went to Grant Davisson’s Tuesday . night after a load of bridge plank, and while coming back a horsefly alighted on one of the colts they were driving. Mr. Hill got out to kill it and in doing so frightened the horses. They ran away, spilling George, the plank and the wagon box. The team ran into a fence and stopped. WHEATFIELD C. M. Dewey and son and your correspondent took an auto ride into the vicinity of Aix and Virgie Sunday. Ford McColly, a (member of Company M, which is still stationed at Rensselaer, visited relatives and friends here last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Carmack of Clinton county came last Thursday for a few days’ visit • with the latter’s father, James Goin, and other relatives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Dollinger and children went to Chicago Saturday. Peter returned in the evening, but Mrs. Dollinger and children remained for a few days’ visit with her (parents. Mrs. Allen, who was seriously hurt in an auto accident in Pennsylvania several days ago, has returned home accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Simon Fendig. At this writing she is getting along nicely. Some people’s idea of an ignorant

person is surely built on a queer foundation. However, there is a difference of opinion sometimes in regard to these matters. One who has not an ax to grind is the only true judge. C. M. Dewey, accompanied by his daughter Viola, went down to the Amos Alter farm north of Rensselaer Monday and purchased one of the best 100-pound Duroc pigs on the farm. Mr. Dewey is building up a herd of Duroc hogs that will surely be winners. Dr. Fyife, who is now a lieutenant in the medical department of the army and who is now stationed at Indianapolis, visited his wife and children Sunday. No one doubts that the doctor will give a good account of himself there. He has a good record at home. Thomas )H|ewett went to cello, Illinois, Tuesday morning to attend the fair being held there and to visit friends and relatives. Mr. Hewett and family formerly lived at that place, so a trip there is like going home. We wish "Uncle” Tom a good time and lots of cake and pie. Allen Fendig, who is a member of the engineering branch of the army and who is stationed in Pennsylvania, is spending a few days here with his parents and grandmother, Mrs. Allen. Allen looks well and is ‘ surely developing into a fine-looking young man. Wheatfield has a right to be proud of the boys sent forth. Trustee Davis and Jerome Nelson of Tefft were in town Friday evening looking good, and they reporter! that Kankakee township is right in the front rank, where it always is. Mr. Davis is the senior member of a firm that is operating thr.ee thrashing machine outfits and in order to carry them safely and serenely through the many steps of the harvest dance and to keep their dispositions fresh and sweet they ordered a ton of patience, which they freely use. You bet, the boys can do the thrashing in ah , up-to-date manner, but patience is the oil they use to keep them right in tune. All automobiles in general and Henry Ford in particular have tried to devise some way to lower the running expenses -of autos by either getting something cheaper to take the place of gasoline or compelling the oil companies to reduce the price of gasoline by congressional action. So far they have in a large degree failed, but it was the good fortune of one of our local thrashermen to discover not a substitute for gasoline but 'how to run a car without gasoline with a large saving on tires and an assurance against being arrested for unlawful speeding. Listen, while we tell you the secret. Bend over so we can whisper in your ear the grand news. Hitch a team of mules to your car. You can also throw away youir horn for the mules will toot their horns in season and out of season, if you give them the proper training. On your first trip you may feel a little funny sitting in state behind the wheel with the mules throwing out their warwhoops, but you will get used to it. You will be the envy of your friends. ’ FAIR OAKS Health still continues reasonably good in our town. ' ' Cottage prayer meeting was held at Ben Richard’s Wednesday evening. Arvel Bringle and wife of Remington came up and spent Sunday with his parents.

'Mrs. C- A. Gundy and son ipharles went to Rensselaer to visit Grandma McGlynn a few days. , , ' Weather is very dry up to the present but have some prospect for a shower this evening (Tuesday), We were favored with a very nice shower Wednesday, which was much needed and thankful to get. Mrs. Petty, who had been with her parents since last spring, returned the first of the week to get ready for school work. The pickle plant has taken in about 2,000 bushels of. pickles. Up to the present they have put up thirty-six barrels of dills. Clarence Geary is another who has been wrestling with the auto fever for some time, but had it reduced Monday evening by 'purchasing a Ford roadster. The Winamac Construction company is putting in new cement abutments on the county line road to replace the old bridge across the Moffitt ditch near Pembroke. W. S. McConnell, the hay man. has been considerably bawled up for several days on account of being unable to get cars to ship hay in. IHte does get one loaded but it is held up on the sidetracks before it gets to its destination. Mrs. Al Moore, who had been living on her place near town, left Monday for her home at Lafayette and will probably not return this fall. She has been on the sick list for some time and will probably have to go to the hospital for an operation ere long. W. O. Gourley, who lives a couple miles out of town had a bumper crop of turnips last year and hired help from town to pull and top them, and this year he has about ten acres in pickles and drives in every morning in his Oakland andt takes out a load to pick pickles. They have been gathering in about fifty bushels per day, which brings him from 75 cents to $1 per bushel. Marion Brown, who lives on one of Lawler's farms near here, and who has been watching his neighbors and many others pass by in their autos, has-been waiting, waiting and longing for his turn to come to do likewise. He arrived at that point the first of the week, purchasing one of those famous Fords. When his little boy was asked by a neighbor if that was their car, he replied, “No, it is our Ford.”

The people of our burg were very much surprised Saturday evening at the report of the death of our old friend, Dave Winslow, who had very suddenly passed away. While, he had been very seriously ill for a week or two he said he was feeling better that morning, and no one thought the end was so near. The 'funeral was held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the Christian church and was conducted by Rev. Rogers of Kniiman. There was a large crowd out to pay their last respects to the deceased. We join in extending our heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved children. His wife preceded him several years ago. He leaves three children, namely: Mrs. Charles Barker, Mrs. Oliver Brouhard and Joe E. Winslow. SIOO REWARD, SIOO The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there L at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that i? catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional 'Condjtionß 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. 75c.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY Who wouldn’t stand for being called a hog at present prices? The federal marshal is becoming a fixed feature in the landscape. The bulk of the oats crop in Jackson township will be thrashed this week. Northern Newton county, it is said, has the largest crop of beans ever known. Hugh Darroch, (formerly of Morocco, died recently at his home in Niles, Michigan. Ben Graves of McClellan township reports the loss of five valuable steers from blackleg. Joseph Miller of Beaver township has rented Jacob Schanlaub’s farm, west of Mt. Ayr, for next year. Clarence Blankenbaker thrashed an even 4,800 bushels of oats from eighty acres, or sixty bushels an acre. The Newton county teachers’ institute Will be held in Kentland August 2 7 to 31. Instructors, Dr. Byron- King and Prof. George E. Schlater. The citizens of Newton county will go into winter quarters with more grub on hands than in any previous winter within the country’s history. A nice, refreshing" shower fell here Tuesday night, but what we need is a rain such as the farmer asked for in his prayer—"a gutterwasher, an old root-soaker.” The potato crop in northern Newton county is the best ever known, both as to yield and quality. “ W. H. Beckwith, living in the Beaver lake region, shipped a full carload of potatoes not long ago and probably will faave that many more. Following are the names of the teachers secured by the school board at Morocco: W. D. Stevens,

superintendent; Olive Potter, principal; Earl Applegate, assistant principal; 7th and Bth grades, Bruce Stevens; sth and 6th. Emma Ketchum; 4th, Vera Deardurff; 3rd, Ruth Purdy; 2nd, Sarah Archibald; primary, Flossie Smart. School opens September 3. The Newton County Council of Defense is perfecting an organization which, it is hoped, will make this section a decidedly uncomfortable place for the sub-traitor and ‘‘hamstringer,” who have imagined that the phrase ‘ free speech” warranted them: in vilifying Uncle Sam and boosting the kaiser without let or hindrance. No kaiser-boosting in old Newton —not this year. The distinction of being the oldest Democrat in Newton county, in active service, is claimed, we are told, by both Andrew Ellis of Morocco and Noah Shriver of this township. After hearing all the evidence an unbiased jury of twelve men probably would decide that “Uncle’’ Noah was the oldest and Andrew the “purtiest,” which, in the writer’s opinion, would be a just and upright verdict. It is a wonder that this thing escaped the modern temperance lecturer Listen: When Da Vinci painted the “Last Supper” in the old cathedral in Milan, it took him twenty years. He would look closely at the different men he met in his daily walks and when he saw one that he considered fit to sit as a model for one of the disciples he would secure a sitting. Finally he painted all but Christ and Judas. After a two years’ search he saw in the choir of the cathedral a young man with a most beautiful face and engaged him to sit as a model for Christ. He looked around for eighteen years before, he found a man who would do for Judas. One day while walking through a park he came across a most disreputable looking fellow, and this vagabond was engaged to sit for Judas without further ado. After the painter had finished the picture and paid the “vag” the latter remarked: “Do you know, master ” pointing to the picture of Christ “that I am the same party who sat for that?” Eighteen years of dissipation had made the difference. •.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Mrs. M. Hemphill of Rensselaer is visiting in the John Baker home. Bom, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rush Wednesday, August 15, a boy. “Uncle” Alfred Coovert lias been on the sick list several days this week. Work on the new school bouse is progressing nicely, the basement being almost completed. Miss Catherine Nance of Terre Haute spent a few days as the ’guest of Miss Addie Harris. Miss Jane Makeever came home from Valparaiso Friday where she has been attending school, for a four weeks’ vacation.

C. C. Shue has been considerably under the weather the past week with pleurisy and is not /much improved at this writing. Mrs. Ben Reeves has been quite sick at the home of her daughter, Grace Noland’s, the past week, but is reported on the mend. Jay and Charles Makeever, accompanied by their mother and Orville Collins, spent the day Sunday with Benton Kenton at Goodland. Fred Wolfe went to Walkerton Saturday for a several visit with, friends before the opening ot school, which is now only a couple of weeks off. A fine eleven-pound girl babe put in its appearance Saturday morning, Awguet 18, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson. Mother and babe reported doing fine. Mr. and Mrs. Ellery Hern and little son are here from Dallas, Texas, for a month’s visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Hern will be remembered as Miss Edna Long. Mrs. Lee Dirst has been considerably indisposed for several days due to poisoning. The poisoned place is on her back just below the shoulders and has caused her considerable suffering. C G. Carter and wife of Mentone and James Glassley and wife of South Whitley spent the past week visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ponsler. The two ladies are sisters of Mr. Ponsler. With very little commotion or apparent effort the several different committees on arrangements for the coming stock show, which I s be held here September 21 and 22, are completing their work. The finance committee reports splendid success thus far and we have every assurance that we are to have a very successful festival this fall.

RAID REYNOLDS BLIND TIGERS Quantity of Liquor and Three Slot Machines Secured. The barber shop and residence of Clint Casto at Reynolds was raided by White county officers last] Saturday and a large quantity ofj beer, wine and whiskey, together with three slot machines, were confiscated. Casto was arrested and gave bond for his s&pearance in court at Monticello. There had been rumors for some time that Casto was running a blind tiger and gambling joint, and the evidence became so strong that irate citizens swore out a warrant with the above result. '