Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — BROOK [ARTICLE]

BROOK

(From the Reporter) Miss May Shilts of Chicago visited this week at the home of Mrs. Minnie Shilts. William Dunlap of Rensselaer spent Sunday with friends and relatives in Brook. k , Mrs. Ben Price and children of Stone Bluff came Friday for a visit With her parents, Mr. an.l Mrs. Howard Snyder. Chester and Norman Harry spent last week in Louisville, Kentucky, visiting their sister. Mrs, B. E. Beagley and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Gridley left Tuesday for Canada where they will look after the wheat harvest on the farm of the latter. Mrs. Edna McMillen went to Chicago Thursday 'morning to meet her husband who is on. his way back from his Dakota farm. Harvey Kendall, wife and daughter went to Joliet and spent Sunday with relatives. Thev were accothnanied by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sampson. '■ ■= ~ ; • Chas. Murfitt. Paul McDonald and Misses Rose Mayhew and Florenec Cline visited with Mr. and Mrs. Zander Black near Kewana Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Cunningham went to Kentland Monday and accompanied her brother Albert and family to Morris, Illinois, where they attended the funeral of a relative. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kadow of Chicago visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beecher. Thursday thev in com pan v with the letter visited relatives in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gf’ffin and' family of Rensselaer and the P. L. and Edward Henderson families of Goodland were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Hiestand Sunday.

Jasper Shear Was the only Brook boy to go to Louisville Thursday. The other boys will leave October 5. Jap has been “ready” for some time and will make a. good soldier. The annual reunion of the MyersCorbin. families took place last Saturday at the Myers grove west of town. There were eighty nresent and they enjoyed ' a fine day of feasting and visiting. Mr.rand Mrs. George Battleday went to Chicago Heights Tuesday

to visit their daughter, Mrs. Hurtt. Mr. Battleday will then go to Dickinson, N. Dakota for a stay of a month or two with relatives. Mrs. Charles Denham had as guests this Week her sisters, Mrs. Horner, Mrs. Green and Miss Thompson, and Miss Mischer of Remington. All of them returned to their homes during the Week, , Rev. J. H. Ade and wife, the newly appointed pastor of Rensselaer circuit, which is composed of Brushwood and Mt. Ayr, passed through our city last Wednesday on his way to his new field, taking dinner with Rev. Sickafoose. Howard Howell was honorably discharged from the and returned home this week. He had joined the hospital corps and had been stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas. After several weeks he developed a physical weakness that unfitted him for severe service.