Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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REMINGTON (From the Press)

Henry Miller from the Marion Soldiers’ home is spending the week here. Mrs. J. R. Guild of Medaryville is visiting at the M. E. parsonage this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Whitehead and sons of Wheatfield visited in Remington Sunday. Mrs. Sallie Albright of Flora is spending the week with her brother-in-law, John Jordan. > Miss Berea Bartoo is spending the week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Waymire at Rensselaer. Mrs. Edward O’Connor and children of Logansport spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. D. A. Bickel. Miss Catharine •Carmody of Clifton, Illinois, has returned to Remington for an extended stay with friends. Adrian Foster went to Lafayette Monday at which place and Marshfield he will spend the week with friends. Col. Griffith left Tuesday evening for a trip to Lawton. Oklahoma, where he will visit the family of Will Zea. Miss Nina Washburn went to Greencastle Monday where she entered Depauw university for a three years’ course. Miss Iva Brooks went to Bontiac. Illinois, Monday to spend a few days at the home of her grandfather, A. J. Brooks. A 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stokes has been very low with pneumonia the past week with little hopes of recovery. We observe Ellis Jones driving a new Ford this week. Evidently it does him good to butt into the rear of a thrashing rig. Gus Merritt went to Lafayette Wednesday to consult a specialist in regard to his eyes, which have given him considerable trouble of late. Miss Ethel Hollingsworth of Syracuse, Indiana, came Tuesday evening to spend a week with her parents, Mr.' and Mrs. W. M. Hollingsworth. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Johnston and children and Mr. and Mrs. Will Ott went to the Ira Grant home neSr .Winamac Sunday and spent the day with them. Rev. W. B. Warriner, pastor of the M. E. church, being absent next Sunday, Mrs. A. A. Fell will have charge and preach at the morning service following Sunday school. Charley Reeves, now located north of Schneider, where he manages the Belshaw lumber yard, was here Saturday looking after his property. He reports everything going along nicely with him. Miss Dorothy Flint of Pierpont, South -Dakota, is visiting her aunt, Miss Callie Bonner. Miss Dorothy came East about a week ago for medical treatment, which has had the desired effect and she is getting along nicely. Talk about the high price of meat. Ben May has just bought of James Kennedy, northwest of Wolcott, two 2-year-old steers 'that cost him $450. Probably the highest priced steers ever sold in Jasper county. He will ship them. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Beal and little daughter, Marceline Parks, of Wolcott, accompaneid by Mrs. V. M. Beal and daughter, Miss Ida. autoed to Winamac Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Ira Grant at their new farm home.

Miss Agnes Bickel’got a bad. f” 11 Monday when a ladder on which she was standing while picking grapes broke, letting her fall several feet to the ground. Besides the ordinary bruises of such a fall | she received a cut in the forehead that required six Stitches to close, | and a black eye that for its kind is a “peach.” i Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Fell enter-: tained at . a chicken dinner Wed-' '■ nesday Mr. Fell’s Spnday school class, including the following persons: Mrs. Andrew Hicks, Mrs. Margaret De’bo. Mrs.’ Fanny- Parks, Mrs. John Ott, "Mrs. Hawn, Mrs. Irwin, Mrs. S.: Galbreath, Mrs.! Walker, and as guests of the class, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Galbreath, John Ott, (Henry Walker, Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, Mrs. Groves and Mrs. Allman. j i James Gilbert has started the remodeling of the old house which he recently removed from the corner opposite the ,M. E. church to the rear of the same lot. He intends fixing it up mighty nice., and modernizing it with toilet and bath and furnace, etc. He says he has not decided just what he will do with it, but we are of-the opinion that he intends occupying it himself, while he builds a fine,, new, modern residence on the corner from which he removed the old building. . -