Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU

WHEATFIELD The schools in these parts began last Monday. j Remember the Farmers’ club i meeting at Kniman Thursday eve-j wing September 20. C. M. Dewey is going to erect another cement stave silo on his j farm this fall; size 14x49. and Mrs. Lawrence McDaniels attended a birthday anniversary dinner in Walker township Sunday, j Mr. and Mrs. Hickam, Mrs. 1 Charles Woodard and Mr. Frost •were callers at the 'Hewett home Sunday. The Wheatfield stock show executive committee will hold a meeting at the Wheatfield town hall next Saturday evening to arrange for the show. All who are interested' in this show are invited to come. Rev. Father Daniel, pastor of the j Rensselaer Catholic church, and; two friends were in these parts last Friday. On their trip up here they j accidentally ran into a wagon that they were •passing, which did con-, Siderable damage to their ear. They : came up to fish, hut we did not! hear how many they caught or bought. ! The frost that we had a few days ago did considerable damage to" our corn. Some furthers estimate that it will reduce the corn crop about 50 per cent, in places, especially where the corn was planted "a little late. The gardens, too. suffered greatly. All this in the face of the fact that the weatherman had set the date of the first frost in October. "The Wheatfield Farmers’ club will hold another meeting at the Wheatfield school house Friday evening, September 21. The county agricultural agent will give a talk on the selection of seed corn, Mr. Smith of Walker township will give a talk on the growing—of wheat. Others will give short talks on timely topics. The Wheatfield stock ehow will be discussed, too. Singing by the ladies’ quartet. All come. Of late years we see editors taking their annual vacations like the kings and princes of old. This vacation idea is just a revival of a custom that prevailed in the editorial circle of a few thousand years ago. As the custom among the leribes came into vogue on a tidal wave of instant popularity, so it died quicker than Jonah’s The first editor to take a vacation was Sheledorpe, who was City editor of the Jerusalem daily. According to tradition, he met a Chaldean lady at a reception given by King Hezekiah and he got so

entangled in the meshes of infatuation that he lost his appetite and began to wilt like the grass of the field, until the editor-in-chief, seehis plight, told him to go and spend a few days on the banks of the Dead sea. All would have went well if he hadn’t written the last weekly letter to. his paper in which he told about catching a sixty-pound fish and drinking water by the barrel.