Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — Page 4

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GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) John Kercher, Sr., went to Francesville Thursday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Rose Ult. William Burke and daughter of j Goodland were guests Wednesday Of Mrs, Richard Burke. Mrs. E. R. Rawlings and children of Remington were the guests Friday of Mrs. J. M. Biesecker. Miss Jessie Gates of Rensselaer, who has been visiting Mr. and .Mrs. Charles Jones, returned home Monday. Mrs. Elizabeth Daggy went to Rensselaer Saturday to spend a week with her brother, Charles Scripter. Dr. J. B. Waynick of New Carlisle was the guests Wednesday and Thursday of Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Rodgers. Miss Annis Mitchell was the guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Parks, of Chicago the first of the week. Mrs. Martha Hickman of Lafayette, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. Belle Phebus, returned home Tuesday evening. E. G. Boicourt was the guest from Sunday until Tuesday of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. C. T. Boicourt, and children at Rensselaer. Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Wright of Bethany, Illinois, came Monday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Sell. Rev. Wright is a brother of Mrs. Sell. Mr. and Mrs. James Simmons and son of Kentland were the guests over Sunday of Mrs. Simmons’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Scripter. , Mrs. Reuben Zehr and daughter Electa of Monticello and Mrs. Andy Troxel of this place spent Thursday with Mrs. Eli , Zehr, northwest of town. Mrs. Jane Jones and son Emmet and daughter, Miss Minnie, who are visiting her, went to Kingman Wednesday to visit her son Albert and wife. John Hughes of Oolagah, Oklahoma, came Saturday morning and visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hughes, until' Wednesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Overman and daughter, Martha Elizabeth, of Amboy are spending a fbw days with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Carl and other relatives. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith went to Paris, Illinois, Saturday to visit their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Crede, and attend the chautauqua. Miss Clare Garvin, Miss Marion Garvin and Master iHugh Garvin of near Rensselaer were guests of their sister, Mrs. Frank Seifert, the first of the week. Miss Minnie Waymire of th<| Monnett school at Rensselaer came Monday to spend a two week’s vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waymire. Mrs. T. B. Grimes of Lafayette, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. T. Rader, and her sister, Mrs 1 . Joseph Winters, returned home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Lawrence Troxel and children and Miss Maude Rader went to Lafayette today to visit friends. From Lafayette Miss Rader will go to Indianapolis, where she will teach the coming year. James Christopher and sister, Mrs. Della Daugherty, of Lexington, Kentucky, are visiting their cousins, Andy Smith and family and Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Pettit, of this place, and their aunt, Mrs. Lucy Pitts, at Remington.

GOODLAND (From the Herald) Charles and Dorr Babcock are' home from Indianapolis for a few ; days’ vacation. Miss Fern Patton of Blooming-; ton, Illinois, visited with her grand- ■ mother. Mrs. W. W. Gilman, and other Goodland relatives this week. ■ 'Mrs. William Cloutier returned last Monday after visiting with Mr. 1 and Mrs. Will Stewart and little daughter at Dana, Indiana, for two weeks. A. J. Kitt was over from Fowler Sunday and Monday the guest of his mother, .Mrs. Anna Kitt, and his daughter, Mrs. R. O. Shepard, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hall and three children autoed to Goodland from Milroy, Indiana, Monday for a visit with the former’s mother, Mrs. Richard Hall. Mr. and Mrs. John Runyan autoed here from Kouts Sunday morning for a visit over Sunday with the latter’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Louette. They were accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Louette, who had been visiting with them.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Spaulding and Mr. and Mrs. William Keen returned home Sunday evening from a trip to Wabash county, as recorded in our last issue. They report oats harvest there as being good but the corn badly in need of rain. The • roads were fine and the dust plentiful. Mr. and Mrs. George Evans and daughter, Mrs. Michaels, and granddaughter of Norfolk. Nebraska, visited here the first of the week with Mrs. Evans’ (cousin, John L. Cooke, and family, It had been forty-five years since they had met. The Evans were enroute to their old home near Bedford, Indiana. I Bert Patton and daughter, Miss Fairy, of Bloomington, visited with, Goodland friends' and relatives at i the Park Sunday. Miss Patton is<

a soloist with the DeMolay band and has a rich, clear voice that is good to hear. Mr. Patton, with his brother Al, built the large poultry house now occupied by E. E. Bogan & Company. ? Mrs. (Henry Butler was stricken on Tuesday morning and an operation was necessary to save her life. She is now undgr the care of a trained nurse. Mr. Butler, who’ was visiting his sons, Wes and Tom, at Avilla and Columbia City, Indiana, in company with his sons came to Goodland Tuesday evening. The boys returned to their homes Thursday morning. The following will teach in the local school this year: Katie Hogan. Ist room; Mrs. Harriet BrowneMcNabb, 2nd; Frances Shand, 3rd: ; Annette Cloutier, 4 th: Roaklei Smith, sth; A. J. Reams, manual’ training; Gpal Light, domestic science; Agnes Davis, music; Edith Fox, assistant principal; W- O, Bough, principal; George N. Porter, superintendent. On August 15 Miss Harriet Browne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j Elmer Browne, east of town, and Mr. Clarence Russell McNabb of Bloomington, Indiana, were married. The bride is one of our accomplished young ladies and for a number of years has taught in our; local schools, and will continue this work. The groom is a young man I of sterling character, and when ’ his couptry called he volunteered. his services, and is now a member. of the officer’s training camp at' Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. John Sage and brother. Warren, returned Sunday from their Missouri farm, embrac-l ing about six hundred miles for the trip. They left here about three weeks ago, going south to ■ Crothersville, Indiana, where they spent the evening with the ton family. From there they went to Louisville, Kentucky, and to the Maflnmbth Cave and Bowling Green, j thence west to their destination. They encountered all kinds of roads and were pulled out of mud holes; —but enjoyed the trip immensely. They report the crops gooM vaJohg the line —but none better tham in this section. FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) b Miss Lois Petra visited in Indianapolis over Sunday. Miss Nellie' Emmart of Lafayette is spending her vacation with her, sister, Mrs. O. D. Engle. Miss Johanna Shubert left yesterday for Detroit, where she will visit her sister, Mrs. Argus Rotruck. Miss Alma Garling has returned i from Valparaiso university. She; will be one of the teachers in the county next year. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rose and Mrs. Edward Rose were in Indianapolis Sunday, where they visited the training camp. Mr. and Mrs. John Butler of Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Geer and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kruger. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Colbo re- , turned home Saturday evening from j their Canadian trip, where they j visited their son Leslie. At Pangman, Saskatchewan, they were the guests of Mrs. David Hazen. Mr. and Mrs. John Adams of Brazil and a party of friends motored through here Sunday enroute to Chicago. Mr. Adams lived here with his parents thirty years A ago, but the entire community has changed so much in that time that the only pioneer residents whom he found were W. A. Geer and W. R. Jones. The barn on the Joseph Eischel-

barger farm in Gillam was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. The barn, valued at S6OO, was not insured. Frank Buckley is the tenant there and his loss is something over $200,' covered by insurance. Monday afternoon lightning struck the barn on the L. M. Horney farm in Beaver and it was soon consumed in flames. The loss is estimated at over SI,OOO. with insurance to cover most of it. Lightning killed a full-blooded Hereford cow owned by Gus Selmer in Rich Grove one day last week, valued at S3OO. The animal Was insured for $l5O. The death of Mrs. Nicholas Alt occurred at the hospital Tuesday morning, where she had been for several weeks suffering from a complication of diseases. Mrs. Alt, who- was sixty-three years of age. was born in lowa and later came to Illinois, where she married Nicholas Alt: her -maiden name was Slagle. Besides her husband, brothers and sisters, she leaves to indurn the following children: William Alt Of Fairbury, Joseph of Hammond. Sam of Montana. and Mrs. William Bechdolt. west of town. The funeral was held at the Christian Apostolic church, west of town ; —this afternoon. —Burial was made in the cemetery east of Francesville.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Fred Robey and little son at- . tended the Robey reunion at Rey- ; nolds last Sunday. Oren Bell of Rensselaer visited here Saturday and Sunday with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Sanders are the proud parents of a baby girl since Monday, August 20. Ernest Smith and family motored to Danville, Illinois, Saturday to be the guests of his sister, Mrsl Leo Littell, until Monday. ; Mrs. Theodore Bremer went to Pennybog, Michigan; last Thursday to visit several weeks with her parents and other relatives. John Garling, wife and daughter of Norman. Oklahoma, spent from Thursday until Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William Garling. Mr. and Mrs. George Cannon and daughter Bessie of Lebanon were

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the guests of T. L. Smith and fam r ily from Saturday until Monday. J. R. Guild and grandsons, Edgar and Walter Guild spent Sunday at Remington as the guests of Rev. W. B._ Warriner and family. Mr. and ,Mts. Guilford Querry and Mr. arid Mrs. J. J. Jones motored to Hebron and spent Sunday with Mr. .and Mrs. William Querry. Mrs. William Dunn and children, William and Katherine, of Wingate spent several days here as the guests of her son Ralph, and old friends. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bremer and children motored to Michigan City Sunday and spent the day with the former's sisters. Miss Lena Bremer and Mrs. Broderson. Mr. and Mrs. Davison and Mr. Smith Malcolm of Danville, Illinois, and Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gamble of Logansport, and Miss Edith Gamble of Lafayette all came Saturday evening to visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Horner and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Harper Malcolm a few days.

BROOK - (From the Reporter) Dr. Wood and family spent last week with Robin Hunter and family at Silver Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Will Cunningham went to Monticello on Monday to attend a reunion of the Thompson family. Peter Wolf of Kenton, Ohio, is here for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Laban Lyons, and his son, Henry Wolf. Mrs. May Oliver of Cleveland, Ohio, came cn Monday for a visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Stearman. Bruce Corbin and wife accompanied by Marion Adair and wife, motored to Lafayette on Sunday and visited with FrePman Davis and family. Ray Hershman went to Detroit on Saturday and joined his family, who have been visiting relatives there. All of them returned home on. < Mrs. Hoot man had as dinner guests on * Wednesday, Lieutenant McDaniels and two sisters. Ethel and Alsie. and Miss Emma Burch of Sheldon. Illinois. Prof. Longwell and Rev. Wilson accompanied a bunch of the Boy Scouts to Monticello on Monday for a two-days camping trip. They camped out on the George Hambridge farm on the banks of the Tippecanoe. O. M. and Fred Lyons went to Chicago on Saturday to look into the feasibility of buying Canadian cattle. They can get feeders cheaper there than in the U. S., but in buying in such quantities as the Lyons’ interests feed every year the Canadian markets are too small to furnish the cattle without waiting for some time.

ROSELAWN C. T. Otis was a Chicago visitor Sunday. Misses Clara and Helen Hopper of Rensselaer are visiting friends here this week. H. H. Nelson and family and the former's brother Fred autoed to Gary Sunday. S. W. Benjamin of Martinton. Illinois, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Sunday. C. M. Rice and son Burge=s autoed to Kentland Saturday evereturning Sunday morning. Leonard Brooke has moved into one of Mr. Jones houses and will wprk for Mr. Larson, west of town. Misses Vera and Merna Bess and Camilla Weaver attended the teachers’ institute at Kentland Monday, Merrit Collins of Hegewisch is visiting at the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Kight. The pickle crop is turning out very poor this year. The bugs and lice have been numerous and there will not be half a crop. Mrs. J. W. Crooks and daughter Jeannette and sons, Lardner and Lewis, will return to Rensselaer Friday where they will begin their school term. Mr. and Mrs. Parker and son Paul of Hergher. Illinois, were in Roselawn a few minutes Monday on their way home from Rensselaer, - where they had been visiting relatives. Miss Ethel Studer west of town, entertained Dorothy Rogers, Jeannette Crooks, Mary Jane Phillips, Clara and ’Helen Hopper, Elizabeth Brand and Edna Tanner at her home Saturday and Sunday. The contract was let for the Roselawn school building Saturday, August 25. to a Crown Point contractor. The building is to be of brick and contain four rooms. The construction will begin in thirty days. Mrs. P»eII and children moved to Rensselaer Saturday, Mrs. Bell will work in the -garment factory and her daughter Bessie is employed at Barnes’ restaurant, while the two boys will attend school. Mr. Bell is employed in Chicago.

Don’t forget The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department when in need of correj spondence cards, stationery, typewriter ribbons and papers, the better grade of lead pencils, ink eras- * ers, etc., etc. NOTICE OF DITCH SALE Srafe of Indiana.) , County of JasperlSS: In the Matter of the Construction of I the Henry C. Dekock Ditch, Cause No. 3054. Notice is hereby given that on Saturdav. the Ist day of September, 1917, at the office of the county surveyor ,in the court house in Rensselaer, Jasper countv. Indiana, at the hour of 2 i o’clock P- m.. the undersigned will offer for sale at public outcry to the lowest and best bidder therefor, the contract for thd construction of the Henry C.

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Dekock, et al., ditch, cause No. 3054 of the commissioners’ court, according to the plats, profiles and ’ specifications thereof, as the same are on file in the office of the auditor of Jasper county, Indiana. Each bidder will be required to deposit a certified check or a bond in the sum of SIOO, as a guarantee that if awarded the work he will" enter into contract and give bond for the construction of the work as the law requires. The commissioner reserves the right to reject any and all bids. EDGAR D. NESBITT, Commissioner of Construction. Notice of Filing and Docketing Drainage Petition. State of Indiana.’) County of Jasper)SS: In the Jasper circuit court to September term, 191". IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF JOHN KEEFE, ET AL., FOR THE CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NISSIUS DITCH. . No. -343. To George E. May, ' Parmelia Billard. Elizabeth Hauk, Jacob Winzeler, Charles W. Beaver, Isaac J. Clark, Hannah M, Clark, Ebon P. Sturgess, John Makeever, Robert H. Morrow, Jesse Davis. George W. Caster, Charles E. Clark, Emma Digman Emipet' L Hoiirhgsworth,- Deo Bord, Scott, William Scott. H. C. Southard, Albert A. Blair, William M. Miles, H. A. Walters Joseph M. Nofziger, Sol Guth. Clarence Risser, Charles F. Mansfield, Mary McCashen. John P. Walters Flora J. Poole, Alfred Boudreau, Josephine Boudreau, Augustus D. Babcock, John H. Uphoff. William K. Armitage, David H. Flynn, Martha Flvnn, Frank Sommer, Peter Scheid, James E. Parks. George L. Parks, Homer James, Delia James, John Was* ner, Mary Charles. John F. Zimmer, A Tune, Thomas A. Crockett. John H. Kinney. William C. Kinney, Louisa J. Griswold, James Hemphill, James A. May, A Itia Stuart, Howard Stuart, Milroy Civil Township, by George W. Foulks. trustee. Jordan Civil Township, bv John Kolhoff, trustee, Princeton Civil Township: you and each of vou are hereby notified that the petitioners in the above entitled cause have filed their petition in the office of the clerk of the Jasper circuit court, praying for the change, repair and improvement of the Nissius ditch, cause -No 99 of the Jasper circuit court, upon and along the following described route, to-wit: . . ~ Commencing at a point in the line of the Nissius ditch about 100 rods east and 30 feet north of the southwest corner of section 26, township 23 north, range 6 west, in Jasper county. Indiana, arid running thence northerly and northwesterly to a point about 40 rods west of the northeast corner of section 27; thence northeasterly to near the center of section 23; thence north-

erly to near the center of section 14; thcmce northeasterly to near the northast corner of said sectipn 14; thence northerly about 200 rods; thence westerly about 160 rods to a point about 40 rods north of the center of section 11; thence southwesterly about 100 rods; thence northwesterly about 120 rods to the .Howe ditch at a point' near the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 10, all of said described line being in township 28 north, range 6 west, and being along and over the line of the Nissius ditch as heretofore constructed and now existing. . Also tile branch No. 1 of the Nissius ditch, beginning 32 feet south of the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 27, township 28, range 6 in Jasper county, Indiana; thence east 2,700 feet; thence north 61 degrees east 1,660 feet to the main Nissius ditch at station 307 plus 59 thereof. You are further notified that you are named in said petition as being t b owner of lands or easements which will be affected by the proposed change, repair and improvement of said drain, and that your lands are described in said petition. You are further notified that said petition is now pending and will come up for hearing and docketing in the Jasper circuit court on Friday, • the 14th day of September, 1917, the same being the sth day of the September term, 1917, of said court. JOHN KEEFE. Et Al.. Petitioners. Attest: (Seal) JESSE NICHOLS. Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court. als-22 Nonce of Ditch Petition. To Whom It May Concern:— Notice is hereby given that a ditch petition has been filed with the clerk of the circuit court of Jasper county. Indiana, and that the petitioners in said petition has fixed on the 24th day of September, 1917, as the time for docketing said petition. Therefore, this notice is given to all the following named land owners and corporations of the filing of said petition and the day set for docketing the same: Lewis S. Alter, David A. Augspurger. Thomas Brien. W. D. Bringle. Edward D. Bellows. Frank J. Babcock. Alonzo Buckley, L. Elmer Brown, Hairy M. Brown, Nancy E. Brown, Caroline E. Buck, Anna Barger. ZejjhimiahCorbin. John A. Coen. Arthur Coen, Eliza. O. Corey, James Cooper, William E. Cam. Victoria Conrad, Anna Clandon, Henry Deno' William Esson. Charles Ellis. Mary' Eck, Anna Eck, Frank Eck, John Ferguson, Alson A. Fell, John kenwick Caleb Friend. Frank Fenwick. William Gushua, George Gibb, Franx W Goss. Emma Goss. Richard Garvey. Myrtle E. Gladden. Christian J. Guth. Peter Guth. John W. Hitchings, Spencer Hamilton. Joseph Hottler, Frank Holscher, Eliza Burgess Hunter. Joseph Hall, Jr., John Hudson. Dexter R. Jones, Merritt Johnson, Newton Lyons. John B. Lyons. Oliver M. Lyons. Guv Little, Alva J. McCashen, Alfred E Malsbury, Edward L. Meyers, Charles Meadle, John Y. May, George H. May.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917.

John C. Marshall, Christian Nofzinger, Peter Nofzinger, Catharine Nofzinger, Francis C. Price, Lymon Raymond, James F. Ross, Peter A. Rowlands Frank L. Roberts. Edwin O. Ropp, Lewis Siminonin, John Siminonin, Joseph Sommer, John Stack, James Shaefer, Charles E. Sage, Warren W. Sage, Charles W. Spencer, Charles Tebo, Dudley Tyler. William Washburn, Florence E. Wingard. Julius L. Wood. Libbie Wood, Lucy Wickersham, Philip Weller, George Wortley, Joel Zimzel, the Trustee of Carpenter townshhip, Jasper county, Indiana; the Trustee of Jordan township,. Jasper county. Indiana, that your lands are described in said petition as affected by the proposed drainage. That said petition asks for the construction of an open ditch by means or a dredge upon and along the following described route, to-wit: Commencing on the south line of section 8 in township 27 north, range 7 west, in Jasper county. Indiana, near the southeast corner of said section and in the line of Alter’s Creek, also called Mosquito Creek, and running from thence in a northerly and northwesterly and westerly direction following wherever practicable the line of Alter’s Creek, or Mosquito Creek, and the line of the Eck ditch, across sections 8 and 5 in township 27 north, range 7 west, and across a portion of section 32 ana across section 31 in township 28 north, range 7 west, in Jasper county, Indiana to the county line between said Jasper ana Newton counties, and continuing from thence in a northwesterly, northerly and northeasterly direction, following the line of the Sage ditch across portions of sections 36 and 25 in township 28 north, range 8 west, in Newton county, Indiana, and across portions of sections 30 and 19 in township 28 north, range 7 west, in Jasper county, Indiana, and continuing in a northwesterly direction along the line or said Sage ditch, (formerly called Mosquito Creek) and across section. 24, in township 28 north, range 8 west, in Newton county, Indiana, and terminating at a poipt near the southeast corner of the west half of the southwest quarter of section 13. township 28 north, range 8 west, in Newton county, Indiana, which point being the source or beginning or the Mosquito Creek Lateral of the Borntrager Ditch as established in the circuit court of Jasper county. Indiana, and Where the proposed dram will find and have a good and sufficient outlet in said lateral tn ’’aidßorntrager ditch. ALFRED ECKMAN, JR.. ALFRED ECKMAN, SR., FRANK ECK. HENRY deno. ELMER BROWN. A. E. STICKNOTH. H. G. SIMSHAUSER, WESTER BOWDY, ' JOHN ECK. WM. GLADDEN. GEO. T. PUTT. CARL DAVIDSON. WILT JAM KEEN. CHRIS SICKINGER. WILLIAM T. CORY. GEORGE BUCH, E. B. HUNTER. By Robert Ormiston. Agt. Petitioners. Jasper Guy and Williams A torneys. /