Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 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

JUNGLES Silo filling is the order of the day. James Woods is JLinprpying slowly. Lewis Swartz was a Wolcott goer Saturday. Miss Orabelle Swartz is hornet for a few days at present. Elmer Snodgrass visited Mrs. Anna Chapman Friday. Fred May and family visited Lud Clark and family Sunday.. Elmer Clark and son George wore Wolcott goers Monday. Mrs. Elsie Clark and daughter Edith were Remington goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Caster visited Nick Dignan and family Sunday. Lon Wood and sons, Clyde and Russel, hauled grain to Wolcott 'Saturday. Walter Chapman visited his grandmother, Mrs. Chapman, Friday night. Elmer Clark and sons George and. Clifford visited Lud Clark and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. McAleer and Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parks autoed to Illinois Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harwell and little son Elmer visited Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Clark Sunday. Mrs. Elsie Clark and children, Edith, Howard and Everett, visited Lud Clark and family Sunday. Walter Chapman went to visit Elmer Snodgrass Saturday night and, had not returned at this writing. Fred May, Elmer, Lud and Everett Clark and some of the children autoed to Monon Sunday afternoon. Ernest Clark visited his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Templeton, Saturday night and Sunday. | William Harwell and Elmer Clark are going back to their plowing again. Then it will be “batching” once more. Miss Anna Caster and friend and Misses Irma and Ora Olive Clark visited Mr. and Mrs. George Caster and son Earl Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William Chapman and daughter Berle and Miss Effie Wesner visited Mr. Chapman’s mother, Mrs. Anna Chapman, Sunday. Sunday school and church is improving a little. There will be' Sunday school at 2 p. m. and church at 3 p. m. Everybody come and be in their place. Mrs. Starr and daughter front Indiana Harbor, Mr. and Mrs. Forster and son Chester and Miss' Cane, also from Indiana Harbor, i visited Mrs. Anna Chapman Sunday. Earl Caster leaves for Rensselaer today to join the rest of the soldiers at Camp Taylor. They will leave Rensselaer on the 11 o’clock

train. Everyone will surely miss him, as he is among the popular young men of this vicinity. We all extend him our best wishes.

WOLCOTT

(From the Enterprise) Mrs. Ella M. Engle of Milford, Ohio, came Wednesday to visit Mrs. Noble Nor dyke. Mrs C. W. Besse went to Rensselaer’ Thursday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John O’Connor. Miss Unabella Ball went to Sheldon, Illinois. Tuesday to visit her cousin, Charles Morgan, and family. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Covington and daughter Marie spent Sunday at Goodland with Mr. and Mrs. Cady. Mrs. Norman Bauman and Lawrence and Lowell, went to Francesville ' Friday to visit Ben Tyler and family. Mrs. Jennie Graham went to Rensselaer Tuesday to visit her sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Powers and Mrs. John Hagins. Willard Miller of south of Wolcott left Tuesday for Hanover, where he enters Hanover college for a course of study. Misses Lizzie and Mar* Yackley and Carl Vonbergan and son Ernest of Bremen motored down Sunday and visited relatives and friends here, returning home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Holderman of Morris, Illinois, were here this week to attend the Lux-Humphreys wedding, and visit Mrs. Holderman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ferguson. 1 Mrs. W. H. Gerberich was called to Normal, Illinois, last Saturday by the death of her aunt, Mrs. W. Hf Ferguson, who died at that place Thursday. The funeral’ was held Saturday and burial made at El Paso, Illinois, the family’s old home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weitrick and little son and Mrs. Carrie Clark left Thursday morning in Mrs. Clark’s automobile for a week’s vacation trip. The party will visit Mr. Weitrick’s parents at Decatur, Indiana, and friends at Hartford City before their return home.

GOODLAND

(From the Herald) G. W. Gilman was in Chicago on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cooke spent Sunday in Indianapolis where they visited with Raymond. Kenneth Groom moved this week into the rooms over the Rider auto sales agency. Attorney H. R. Hopkins moved into; the property vacated by Mr. Groom op west Union street. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Logan and the latter’s mother, Mrs. I. E. Hopkins. were called to Veron Tuesday night' on account of the death of Mrs. Annie F. Carney, who passed away Monday night. A. C. Louette, who has been with the Herald continuously for nine years, has accepted a position with the Indiana National Life Insurance company as district manager of this district, and will soon enter upon his new duties. Doris Kinneman returned to Butler college at Indianapolis Monday after spending her summer vacation at home. This will be Doris’ jun-

ior year at Butler. Mrs. Kinneman accompanied her to Indianapolis and will spend a week with friends.

FRANCESVILLE

(From the Tribune) Mrs. William Culp spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stansbury and baby at Wanatah. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Reidelbach and niece of Winamac were visitors in Francesville, Monday. Miss Marie Rohloff left Wednesday for Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she will stay indefinitely. Miss Phala Riggs has taken a position as an instructor in the art department of the schools at Windfall, Indiana. A. T. Petty, superintendent of schools at Vicksburg, Michigan', spent Saturday and Sunday with his family here. The Starke County Republican estimsf+ps that the recent frost caused a loss of 75 per cent to the corn crop in Starke. Albert Schwing of Hanging Grove has returned from Michigan, where he spent a few weeks among the hay fever colonists. L. G. Auxier of Edinburg. Indiana, was here several days last w r eek assisting his son, J. P. Auxier, in moving on his farm in Beaver.

BROOK

(From the Reporter) Miss Vivien Moren of Chicago is a guest of Miss Rose Mayhew this week. Miss Grace Reed leaves Friday to resume her work at Depauw university. Ray Pence left for Purdue the first of the week where he will take a course in agriculture. Mr. and Mrs. C. J- Stebbins of Rensselaer were dinner guests on Monday of Mr. and Mrs. Don Burley. Miss Orpha Collier will leave /lext Monday for Chicago, where j she,, will take a nurse's course at the xVesley hospital.

Estil Gast and family of Warsaw and his mother came down on Friday and remained until Sunday to attend the Hess family reunion. Clarence Lemaster and family of Gillette. Wyoming, and Miss Ruth Lemaster of Goodland spent Saturday and Sunday at the George Weishaar home. Miss Stevens of Los Angeles, California, is the guest of Mrs. Lyons. Miss Stevens is on her way to Harvard to take a special course in domestic science. Mrs. Hallie Black and son left on Wednesday for their home in Canada after spending part of the summer with her father, Frank Davis, and other relatives. Richard Clark left on Monday evening to take a position with a plumbing firm at Lafayette. He will move his family there as soon as he gets permanently located.

Rev. Dillman returned on Tuesday from a trip to Indianapolis, where he expects to take a course at Butler college this winter. He will keep his pastorate and family here, and return each Sunday. Miss Opal Light and little Ardis Sunderland went to Chicago on Tuesday and met Mrs. Zena Yoakum and son of North Dakota. The latter will make an extended visit with. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Light. Mrs. Edward Crudden and son Leonard went to Lafayette on Sunday where Leonard will resume his work at Purdue. The latter has been offered an assistant’s position in the department of chemistry and may accept it.

Don Lawrence and Malcolm Davis left on Tuesday for Ann Arbor ; where Don resumes his studies and Malcolm enters the freshman class to take a course in journalism. Mr. and Mrs. Davis accompanied them as far as Chicago. J. D. Rich returned from his North Dakota trip on Tuesday forenoon. He harvested a good crop and was well pleased with his farm, but will make a trade shortly for more land in Newton_C£>unty> thu% getting his various landed interests" together. Various members of the Hess family held their second annual reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lyons on last Sunday, September 23. There were fifty-two ■present. Those fron\ out of tow’n were: Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Gast of Warsaw, Indiana: Mrs. A. A. Gast Akron, , Indiana; Strange. Lyons and Richard Brennan of Chicago. William Murfitt and wife drove to their farm near Leiters Ford on last Sunday and'spent the day with John Holder and family. They brought home some samples .of the crop in the way of potatoes, onions, cabbage and pumpkins that are now on exhibition at Lyons & Hershman’s store. They are a credit both to .the land and the skill of Holder, who runs the farm