Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

MILROY Roy Culp filled his silo Wednesday. •Clyde Fisher spent Sunday . with home folks. Mrs. Henry Goble of Monon spent the last of last week with relatives here. Jean Marchand left Monday for an extended visit with relatives in Michigan. Mrs. Smith of Chicago visited her sister, M*s. Albert Dolfin, and family over Sunday. Mrs. Claude Spencer assisted Mrs. Walter Gilmore with cooking for thrashers Monday. Louise Marchand and -Mrs. Lytle helped Mrs. Claude Spencer cook for silo men Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Irwin and Mrs. Parsons of Wolcott called on G. L. Parks’ Sunday evening. Ruth May on her new pony called on her aunt, Mrs. George Foulks, Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Woelfel and daughter Myrtle visited G. L. Parks and family the past week. Sunday school will hereafter be held at 2 p. m. and preaching at 3 p. m. Don’t forget the change in time, and come to both Sunday school and preaching September 23 at 2 p. m. • _ Charles McCashen, J. R. Clark and families, Creighton Clark, Clyde Clark and daughter Mildred of Newton county, iMr. and Mrs. Moses French of Remington spent Sunday with Frank May’s:

FAIR OAKS

Health still continues good with us. Cottage prayer meeting was held at “Aunt” Hannah Culp’s Wednesday evening. Edna Wood and Mrs. Don Warne went to Fort Harrison Monday to see the boys. The pickle season came to a final close last week with something over 5,000 ’bushels taken in. Otto Cedarwall and family tried out their new Ford Sunday and visited friends in Fair Oaks. Rev. Wariner of Shelby filled his regular appointment in the Christian chuirch Sunday evening. George Lambert of Mount Ayr was here Sunday on a little business deal with F. R. Erwin. B. T: Clevenger came down from Chicago the first of the week to look after his pronerty. He rented it to Cal Burroughs. Frank Wildrick of the Remington schools made his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wildrick. a short visit in Colfax township Saturday. J. W. Bozell came up from Edinburg Monday to make, a deal with Will Roudebush for four carloads of melons which he had piled up in his patch. John Roorda, who has lived on Section 31 on the Otis ranch for fifteen years, has decided to leave the ranch. IHe doesn’t know just where he will locate. The school house contractors landed here Monday and begun the work by clearing off the “ground and getting ready for the excavation for the basement. It is reported that William Boyle, the Ford agent at Roselawn, delivered a new car to Earl Williams near Kniman the latter part of the week. Now, girls, get ready for a joyride. The farmers in these parts have begun filling their silos this week. The farmer that has a silo to fill in the frost-bitten districts this fall is the one that will lose the least of his corn crop. Pat Miller is having a cold storage built and an addition to his residence. There is lots of prosper! ty< in Pat’s direction. Dave

Deardurff. Pat’s neighbor, is building a cellar on his farm. I Frank Hooper of east of town was in Saturday peddling onions and cabbage. He reports having a big yield of potatoes which will mount up into the hundreds of bushels, but his corn was badly damaged by the frost. Frank McKay’s family arrived here Tuesday. They take up their residence in their property again. Frank will work at Gary in the shops. He left Buchanan, Michigan, because the house he lived in was sold and he was unable to get another to move into. There were three men and that many wagons and horses struck camp in the south part of town about two weeks ago, said to be from Monon. They put in their time scouring the country for old iron and gathered up a carload and shipped. They appeared to be a very conscientious, confidential set of fellows, but it is reported that a number have found out they were not quite so. Ex-editor Schanlaub has decided his barn needs a new roof and was figuring and calculating on about how much it would cost him. He asked a passing friend what he thought and, on being advised it would cost about $25, he said he would have to hitch up old Queen and look about and see if he could find some of the early-day roofing (bull grass), but, of course, he didn’t say whether he wanted it to put on the barn, cover a pig house or cover his straw stack, but we suspect it was for the latter.

WHEATFIELD

Henry Hendricks made a flying trip to Indianapolis Wednesday after thrashing machine repairs. Miss Rose Misch, who had been spending her vfcation here with her parents, returned to Rensselaer the first of the week. Louis Misch has promised us a number of excellent letters from Camp Taylor, which we will include from time to time In our items. Seven different kinds of wheat and four different kinds of rye will be sown on the Dewey farm this fall. Dewey and Hewett will sow close to 160 acres of wheat * this fall. Come out to the stock show preliminary meeting at the Wheatfield town hall tonight. All who are interested in having a good, live stock show at Wheatfield some time in October are especially invited to be in attendance. The next time we have a lot of cake and pie to eat up here we will let you Rensselaer boys know, but you must remember you will have to eat a little more than a dozen pieces of each to carry away a prize. What do you say to that? You will have to whet your appetites upon an emory wheel—a grindstone won’t do. Tn answer to a military notice received Tuesday, Louis Misch and Oscar Stembel of Wheatfield and John DeArmond of Tefft went to Rensselaer Thursday morning to join the boys assembled there from other parts of the county, from whence they went to Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, to enter military training in one of the best encampments in the United States, being in itself a city with all the advantages pf a first-class place. Jasper county is sending a fine quota of boys l —one that we all can be proud of. With the boys goes the admiration of the county. We will make. their return a triumph. “The Army and Navy Forever, Three Cheers for the Red,. White and Blue!”

SOUTH AMERICA

Mrs. Tally Mitchel called on Mrs. Dolfin Thursday. Mrs. Mitchel and Jessie Dolfin were McOoysburg goers Friday. Mrs. Anna Chapman spent Sundav with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Johnson. Mel Bunnell and family called on Albert Dolfin and family Sunday afternoon. The Misses Erma, .Ora and Olive Clark spent Sunday with Mrs. William Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks “Forded” to Remington Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell snent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Lud Clark, and family. Mrs. William Chapman helped her sister, Mrs. Lon Wood, with thrashing cooking last week. Mrs. Ella Lear and Mrs. Tilly Clark helped their mother, Mrs. Fred Saltwell, in canning fruit. William Sheean and Mrs. Elzie Smith of Chicago visited their sister. Mrs. Albert Dolfin, Saturday and Sunday. Quite a crowd of young people called ■ on Miss Wesner, our new school teacher, Sunday afternoon at William Chapman’s. The food, eaten each year by the rat 'population of the United States amounts to $160,000,000. This figure does not include the loss of materials other than foods destroyed by rats.