Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

fAir oaks Health continues good in our village, and everybody is busy. Frank McKay came down from Gary and spent Sunday with his family. The thrashing is not all through yet, but will finish pip in a day or two with nice weather. Mrs. A. M. Bringle visited her son Arvel and wife at Remington from) Friday until Tuesday. J. E. Walter, the Lawler foreman, is making his rounds this week with a brand-new Ford. Cora Dewitt and wife, who had been tenting in Will Roudebush’s watermelon patch the past month, returned home Saturday. Can Manderville is talking of emigrating to some other*locality in the near future. Maybe he will, but we are from Missouri. It is reported Alison Keesa, who run the Cottingham pool room and soft diink shop, got cold feet and emigrated last week. Al Blake rented the place and is now proprietor of same. Our school held a "hard time” social in the Gundy hall Friday evening. All reported a good time. The financial part amounted to about S2O, which will be used to purchase a basket-ball equipment. There was a carload of lumber unloaded here the latter part of the week that had been treated with creosote to floor the three bridges across the Washburn lateral and the Moffitt ditches, east of town.

G. I. Thomas, wife, his sister, Mrs. James, and her son and Orval Thomas > and family of Remington autoed to Virgie, where G. I. has a farm, and then to Fair Oaks and looked over his property here Sunday afternoon. Everett Erwin of Dem Otte, who had been working on the F. R. Erwin dredge for some time, resigned last week and took the physical examination and passed it O. K. and went right on down to “Kaintuck” to take training for the war. The new school house contractors have already received one carload of brick and one of gravel. They are now waiting on the well diggers for water to work with. 1 The well outfit was landed here the latter part of the week and will probably be put to work in a few days. The Morocco Courier states that the sheriff and prosecutor and town marshal of Kentland made a raid on Pat Miller’s place of business near the old Beaver lake region over a week ago and got four barrels of beer, but why they, didn't get Pat is the question, as he was just as much in evidence as the £per, it is said. Enos Moffitt, who went to Montana last spring and took up a claim, returned to Fair Oaks Wednesday evening. He says it has been very dry out there this season and crops are short. He was at his brother Bruce’s through the harvest season and -the crops there were, very short on account of dry weather.

WHEATFIELD

R. A, Mannan was a business caller at Crown Point Monday. Ouir soldier boys, when they get home, will be expert housekeepers. C. E. Bus'h of Kersey is working at the carpenter trade in the vicinity of Baum’s Bridge. Mrs. Bert Vandercar and children visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bush, Sunday. The pastor of the Catholic church filled his appointments at Wheatfield and Kniman Sunday. Dewey & Hewett are busy filling silos at this writing. They have an entire outfit, ensilage cutter and engine. Remember the Wheatfield Stock show Saturday, October 20. Make this day a holiday. All come and have a good time. Quite a few houses are being built south of Baum’s Bridge to

accommodate those who wish to work in the river timber this winter. Col. Finn of Tefft was in Wheatfield Monday evening, wearing an up-to-date Van Dyke beard. He would pass as Justice Hughes in a Republican Oscar Turner, who had been clerking in the Pinter general store the past few years, has embarked in the cream and feed store business. Oscar is a fine fellow and we, with his many friends, wish him success. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wiseman, Jr., who had been living close to Baum’s Bridge the past few months, returned to South Bend a few days ago where he intends to work in the Studebaker shops and thus get a slice of those big wages. All factories need men badly. Peter Dollinger, who had been in Wisconsin attending the funeral of his father, returned a few days ago. Mr. Dollinger states that the corn in the section of the state visited by himi is almost a total failureowing to the cold weather last spring and during the summer. Lou Misch sent his friend, , a postcard, showing a Kentucky Democrat driving a pair of mules to an auto to gasoline. As ——- was the originator of the idea, he would like to know why that son of Andrew Jackson is using his patent without paying him for the right? Please investigate, Lou. . . i£•

GIFFORD

Jesse Grimm loaded a car of onions here Sunday. Gladys Elliott spent Saturday night with Elsie Haniford. Miss Opal Hankins spent Monday night with Pearl Stockwell. Mrs. Blanch Akers spent the past week with her cousin in Chicago. Reuben Snyder returned to Illinois this week with his parents and two brothers. Earl Parker and family of Kersey spent Saturday and Sunday here with relatives. We all thought Tom Thumb was dead, but we got to shake hands with him Monday in the onion fields. A number of relatives gathered at the home of Jesse Nuss Sunday to the number of thirty-five. All enjoyed a fine time. Mr. and Mrs. Tine Perkins returned to their home at Winamac Sunday after spending a few’ days here with relatives and attending the funeral of the latter’s sister. Chester Caster has sold his store in the - Odd Fellows building to John Bicknell of Daniels is the clerk, and he is improving it nicely. We wish him success. Friends and relatives, to the number of about forty, of Mr. and Mrs. Nate Keen gathered at their home at Gifford Sunday. After a hearty dinner, which all enjoyed, the younger members of the party engaged in the usual game of baseball and the older in talking of earlier days.

Chester contemplates buying property in Morocco and locating in that town, we are informed. According to the old adage, “Half a loaf is better than none,” which, by the way, cannot be said, dear Maud. about some poems that have been writ. Work on the new school house at Mt. Ayr is progressing quite rapidly. At the present rate of speed the building should be completed along about the first of January. A negro, whose name the writer has been unable to learn, was killed in Morocco Friday of last week by being run over by a train. The man was employed on a farm near Enos. # The later garden variety Of tom fool is now at the bat. You will recognize him when he tells you that the garments made by the Red Cross women are turned over to certain individuals and sold by them to the sojdiers at a profit. Frank Makeever, living near North Star, has lost four or five head of cattle within the last ten days, due. it is believed, to their having eaten some poisonous plant. Dr. E. R- Schanlaub of Morocco and Dr. Kannal of Rensselaer administered treatment, and it was reported Tuesday evening that no further trouble from the disease was anticipated. "Baseball season is over,’ says the Keqtland Democrat. Yes, and it should keep right on being "over” until the close of the present war at least. There are entirely too many young men today wasting good time playing baseball, football, golf and what not, who ought to be over in the trenches killing Huns or doing something at home to help the boys who are there and those who are getting ready to go. Farmers whose corn escaped the frost should make it a point to put up a few extra bushels of seed corn this fall. There will be little or no real sound corn in the frost belt, and, as a result, farmers in that region will have their seed to buy next spring. Put up a few extra bushels and sell it to your less fortunate neighbor for just enough above regular market ntice to pay you for gathering it. Be a good fellow and' help whip the kaiser. As to whether the recent frost did or did not materially damage corn depends largely on the location of the corn. The central and southern part of Newton county escaped with little or no damage, while hundreds of acres of corn in the northern part was practically ruined. As an instance of the damaging results of the frost north of here, Mr. Hillis of Colfax township. who had out several hundred acres of corn, is reported as hav, ing said that he will have no corn at all.

We see by the papers that a movement is on foot take up the question of writing letters to the toys at the front and in the camps. Well, yes. but how about the person who has the devil-given faculty of writing a letter that makes the recipient feel blue as indigo for a week after reading it—who begins a letter with a groan, rqins in every depressing scrap of news, carefully omitting the good, and winds up with a still louder groan. By all means write to the boys if yon can say something pleasant and interesting. but if you are a naturalborn dispeller of human hopes and ambitions you will best serve your country by mailing your stuff to your old uncle or aunt, who probably won't live long anyway.

SOUTH AMERICA

Mrs. Fred Saltwell was a Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. Fred S&Jtwell called on .Mrs. Albert Dolfin vfednesday. Fred Dobbins is sowing rve for Mrs. Lilli® Mitchell this week. Don't forget Sunday school and preaching services next Sunday. Mrs. Fred Dobbins spent Monday with her aunt. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell and Mrs. Albert Dolfin called on Mrs. Saltwell Sunday afternoon. Misses Julien Dunlap, May Robinson- and Jessie Dolfin visited from Friday until Sunday night with Miss Dollie Blankenship.

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(From the Journal) Charles Owen of Remington spent Tuesday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen. , Mrs. Amen Osborne has been spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hermansen. Mr. and Mrs- John Barker of Lebanon and Sadie Petry were guests at *<'• Gilbert Barker home last Sunday.' ' Mrs. William Johnson went to Monticello last Saturday to visit with her daughter. Mrs. Lon Curtis, over Sunday. Cora Lanam went to Gary Monday of this week where she wi’l spend a few days with Mr. and i Mrs. Scott Lanam. .Mrs. George Haymaker returned tp her home in Madison, Illinois,! last Saturday after a five-days visit with the Ira Fetter family. J. D. Gettinger went to Mooresville, Indiana, Saturday to visit over Sunday with his daughter, ’ Mrs. Ola Thomas, family. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Reighter of j Saunemin, Illinois, are here visiting i Dr. and Mrs. Hackley. Mrs. Reighter is a cousin of Mrs. Hackley. .1 Several of the Gillam young people attended the wedding of Miss Katherine Abler and Lawrence Sheets at Reynolds Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock. Mr- and Mrs. P. T. Robinson and son Ray and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stevens spent Saturday night and Sunday with William Querry and family at Hurbnrt, Indiana. Dorothy Coppess, tour-year-old