Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — ROSELAWN [ARTICLE]

ROSELAWN

J. W. Crooks and son French Forded to Rensselaer Wednesday. John Bicknell of Rensselaer was a business visitor in our town last week. C. T. Otis was a Chicago visitor Monday, returning Wednesday morning. John Roorda and wife of near Fair Oaks were shopping in Roselawn Tuesday. Mr. McCarty, living south of Morocco near Ade, was a visitor of the J. T. Bess family Sunday. Nick Hickson and family of Kentland were calling on friends here Sunday. They were former residents. J. H. Lee finished thrashing this week, which ended the thrashing in this community as near as we could learn. J. J. Mulder was in Chicago Sunday visiting his sister, Mrs.. Fred Leeson, .who is in a Chicago hospital for treatment. The contractors on our new school building and the Korth stone road are having trouble getting men at good wages. D. K. Frye and family and Arthur Korth autoed to Crown Point Sunday evening and were taken in by the latest Charles Chaplin movie. Silage cutting is in full blast on most of the farms in this neighborhood and offering as high as $3.50 per day with board for help. Robert Jones and family left for Tennessee Friday for a visit with father, mother, sister and brother, who moved to Tennessee a fewyears ago. Misses Dorothy Rodgers and Mary Jane Phillips were guests of Mrs. Jasper Makeever and family Saturday and Sundav and attended the stock show at Mt. Ayr. William Whitcome and family moved to Momence last week, where 'he says himself and boys will work in the brick factory. He says it’s good-by to Roselawn for good this time. Miss Clara and several others whose names we did not learn were baptized in the Kankakee river Sunday by immersion. Rev. Claud, the Methodist minister of this charge, performing the rites. Floyd Cox, wife and baby visited with Mrs. Cox’s parents in Michigan and report the frost as having done great damage there to the crops, especially the bean crop, which w-as totally ruined in the locality they visited.