Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

SOUTH AMERICA Miss Olive Clark was a Lee goer Saturday. Mrs.- Lilly Mitchell was a Wolcott £oer Thursday. / ... Don’t forget Sunday school and preaching service tomorrow. Miss Irene McAleer spent Sundajwith friends west of Rensselaer. Rev. Hill called on Charles McCashen and family Sunday evening. Lud Clark and family spent Sunday with Elmer Clark ancC/hildren. True Culp and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dolfin were Monon goers Friday. Mrs. Mitchell helped her sister, Mrs. Thotmas Lear, clean house Monday. Robert Harwell and Will Dignan spent Sunday with Carl and Clifford Beaver. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell called on their daughter, Mrs. Lud Clark, and family Friday. MVs. Charles Ramp and son John of Rensselaer were out to the latter’s farm Thursday. Alfred Boudreau and family of Kentland were calling on old friends here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lear and Fred Dobbins and family called on Mrs. Lilly Mitchell Sunday evening. • Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell spent Sunday- with John Summers and family. Mr. Summers is in very poor health. FAIR OAKS Can Manderville made a business trip to Lowell Tuesday. Health is generally quite good in our village so far this week. Cottage prayer meeting was -held at “Grandma” Noland’s Wednesday evening. Charles Manderville visited his mother a day or two the first of the week. Cal Burroughs is assisting Harve Nelson, the blacksmith, at Roselawn this week. Mrs. A. M. Bringle went to Remington Wednesday to visit her first grandchild. G. I. Thomas of Remington was an all-night visitor in Fair Oaks Tuesday night. There was no school here Tuesday on account of shortage of fuel to keep the rooms -warm. “Aunt” Hannah Culp went to Rensselaer Tuesdays to see Mrs. Hollister, who is rather poorly. James Clifton and wife visited with their daughter, Mrs. Abe Dekoker, near Demotte Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Ike .Kight, who had been at Monon with her daughter for a couple of weeks, returned home the first of the week. The infant baby of Mr. Stevens, in the west part of town, died Monday and was laid away in the Fair Oaks cemetery Tuesday. It is reported our teachers held a dance in the Gundy hall Saturday night for the benefit of the basket ball team. What do you know abevt that? The temperature faa.s been growing a little cooler for a week or two until Monday night, when it boie down on us and froze consid-. erable ice and put the finishing to-Mh on corn that had previously escaped th'.’ frost. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bringle got a telephone message from their son Arvel at Remington Tuesday morning announcing the arrival of a nine-pound boy at their home that morning. This puts the former on the grandpa and grandma list. The school house contractors unloaded a car of Bedford stone Tuesday to be used in the construction of the building. They have four of" five carloads of material on the ground. The well drillers begun work Saturday and if they keep at it should have a well completed this week. The Wildrick stone road, which Mr. Teach begun last fall and when after he had gotten about half of it completed and then fell down on, will be co'hipleted this fall, it is said. The contract, has been let to Will Odell-to finish. He expects to begin with fifteen teams next

week and will push it along until completed. There is’ one mile to put the coarse stone on and 1 3-4 miles to put the dressing on. WHEATFIELD We are all eating pumpkin pies on neighbor Dooley this week. Charles Hewett and the Parrett tractor pulled the ensilage cutter for Mallie Clark Monday and Tuesday*. In a few days the wheat in these parts will all be sown and we will have the largest acreage of wheat ever planted in these parts. The silo builders of the Rensselaer Cement Products company are erecting another cement stave silo on the C. M. Dewey farm at this writing. This makes three on t.h'S farm. In * about three weeks Mr. and Mrs. Herman Langdon’s new house will be completed ready for occupancy. They will surely have a fine home, with all of the modern conveniences. Remember the stock show at Wheatfield Saturday, October 20. All come and help make it a grand success. Remember that a farmers’ institute and a colt show will be held in connection with same. All come out and enjoy yourselves. Tn the passing of O. D. Brown Wheatfield lost one of its sterling citizens. He was a man respected by all that knew him. kind and considerate; .we will miss him. We have known him since our boyhood and can truly say he was true to his friends. We received a letter from Louis Misch Monday together- with a bunch of photograph postcards of actual scenes with the boys at the training camp that are surely fine, and we note that all have smiles on their faces, as if they are having a fine time. These scenes give a fellow a good idea of part of the routine at a military training camp. He also put in a small photo of himself, and the boy surely looks fine in his uniform plus a smile. He says he is well, having a fine time and- he speaks highly of the J officers of his ' company. He likes his new work in the engineering corps, which is in reality a promotion. MT. AYR (From the Tribune) The C. H. Stacker family picnicked on the Kankakee Sunday. Mont Brien and wife of Goodland visited in the home of *G. W. Lynch Sunday. Mrs. J. J. Madden visited Imr son, O. C. Madden, near Goodland from Saturday until. Monday. Levi M. Yoder of Arthur. Illinois, has been visiting his daugh-* ter. Mrs. Beiler, north of town and other friends in the Amish settlement about here. Frank Johnson, accomnanied bv his mother and sister Mollie, left Thursdav for Ligonier where they will visit for a week or ten days. They went in Frank’s new Ford. Rev. A. G. Cragun and family left by auto Monday for their future charge at Yountsville. Their goods went via truck, a machine from Morocco doing the conveying. Postmaster C. J. Honkins, who has been suffering from paralysis and who had a relapse last week, has erown -steadily weaker until his condition is regarded as very critical. Indeed it seems onlv a question of time until the silver cord will break to release the life of this good man among us. Uncle John Baker and his housekeeper, Miss Mary Mnlcahay. visited Mr. Baker's sister. Mrs. Mary Hemphill. in Rensselaer Sattird->v. MrHemphill suffered a paralytic stroke a few weeks ago and they went to ascertain the progress she had imade. They found very little change in her condition. Ernest Huntington accompanied his family to Indianapolis whore they will visit for some time with; Mrs.. Huntington’s folks before taking final leave for their future home in Texas. Ernest returned here to make- final arrangements for getting his effects on the way and closing up business. In the departure of this ' family Mt. Ayr

loses the best of citizens, and although we regret to see them go, we£, bespeak for them great success in their Southern home.— — - GOODLAND (From the Herald) John L. Moran has been appointed superintendent of the Darroch ditch. Jack Sherrow is making improvements at his residence property on west Jasper street. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hoover of Star City, Indiana, came Saturday for a short visit here with friends. James C. Rice has moved into the Mrs. Burr property on w6st Jasper street recently vacated, by Attorney H. R. Hopkins. Rev. F. H. Magill and little daughter of St. Louis, Missouri, are visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henderson on west Union street. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mead autoed here from Oherubusco, Indiana, Saturday for a visit with his son Ray and family, and brothers, Sam, Garret and Allen, and families. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Perkins and two daughters. Hazel and Lillian, who have been spending the summer at Three Lakes, Wisconsin, returned home Saturday afternoon. Leonard Erzinger, Who has been visiting here with his daughter, Mrs. C. Griffin, and family for the past two weeks, left Monday for his home at Lake View, Wyoming. John Weise, Jr., Omer Fellmy and Charles Antcliff visited Camp Taylor, near Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday. They went to Kentucky and bought a car load of milk cows. The Ott Sanson barber shop and dwellings belonging to Frank Walton and Will Milner were burned at Wadena last Friday night. It is supposed the fire originated from a defective gasoline lighting plant. G. E. Henderson moved his family into the Murray property on Newton street,, recently vacated by Frank Antcliff. 'Mr. Henderson is a brother of William (Coby) Henderson, who was operator here for a number of years. William Force, who several weeks ago enlisted in the Telephone and Telegraph Reserve corps in Company E, 18th Battalion at Chicago, received notice to make all arrangements to be ready for a Call to service on the sth or 6th. The body of the infant son of Rev. Frank Magill that was buried at St. Louis in May of this year, was brought to Goodland Tuesday evening and laid to rest by the side of his mother, who was buried Sunday in the Goodland cemetery. Mr.' and Mrs. Russell Chapman left Monday for Burns, Tennessee, where the former will locate on a farm .near there. Mr. -Chapman came to this county three years ago and last spring married Miss Clara Pluimer and located on a farm east of town. Mr. Chapman is a hustler and will make good in his new location. -

The people of Goodland and vicinity were surprised and greatly shocked at the word announcing the sudden death of Mrs. Edith J. Magill of St. Louis. Mrs. Magill underwent an operation at St. Anthony’s hospital in St. Louis on Wednesday, September 2G, and after apparently recovering and doing nicely, died from embolism on Thursday, September 27, at 7 p. m. Her husband had visited with her in the afternoon and, while she had much pain, she seemed to be getting along well. But at 6:30 a telephone message summoned him to her bedside to find her very low and unable to give any sign of recognition. She died a few minutes later without regainig consciousness. Mrs. Magill, who was known so well and so much loved by all who knew her, was born and raised in our community. She wa« the daughter of ‘Mr. and Mrs, Robert Henderson and was born at their farm' two miles west of Goodland. She attended the district (No. 6' school and finished the grade school in Goodland, graduating later from the high school here. MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Miss Georgia Linton, who is teaching near Rensselaer, was home over Sunday. Rev. John Sebring went to Gary Monday to visit his son Charles and family a few days. Mr. and Mrs. William Rowles of Rensselaer spent Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. John Sebring. Alex McGinnis ■ 'went to Demptte Monday on account of the illness of his mother, Mrs. James McGinnis. Mrs. William Washburn of Rensselaer visited from Friday until Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Sebring. . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur - Rowe are the ‘ proiind parents of a tweTvepound baby boy since Thursday morning.' ■ -■ Mrs. Jiteic Harris, daughter of Mr." Elmer Pullins, and baby returned to her home in Valparaiso Wednesday after visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Shurr, Miss Alta Foss arid William Newton of Crown Point motored here last Sunday and were guests of the Henry Busch family. Miss Clair Hubbell of Poplar, Montana, and Toledo, Ohio, came Tuesday to spend a few days with her uncle and family, Mr. and Mrs". Frank Byers. Mrs. M. G. Prevo and daughter Hilda of Chicago and her guest, Mrs. J. A. Fischer of Burlington, Vermont, visited relatives here from Sunday until Wednesday. A telegram was received October 3 by Mrs. George Logan from her brother, Edwin E. Faris, announcing the death of his son, .Omer, at their home at Wenatchee, Washington. Frances Maibauer went to Kokomo Wednesday where her friends are giving her a party in honor of her eighteenth birthday. She will

visit in Kokomo for a couple of weeks. Mrs. S. P. Ballinger of Upland, who had been visiting with Mrs. J. R. Miller, returned to her home Wednesday. Mrs. Miller accmpanied her as far as Francesville where she spent the day with Mrs. Morgan. A large number of the friends and relatives of Miss Lily Manning were present at a shower given for her last Tuesday night in honor of her approaching marriage to Lester Guild. It was held at Lester Guild’s own home, southwest of town, by Misses Grace Schoonover and Fay Guild, assisted by the relatives of both of the young people. ~WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Born Monday, October 1, to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Carl, an son. Roy Daggy went to Logansport Monday to take treatment at the Plummer sanitarium. Mrs. Richard Burke and daughter Veronica spent Thursday with Mrs. J. L. Warne at Seafield. Mrs. J. B. Burch went to Remington Monday evening to visit her son, Ed. Burch, and wife. Mrs. William Tillett of Monticello spent the day Wednesday with her sister, Mrs. F. W. Wolfe. Mr. and Mis. John Sell of Brook spent Sunday with Mrs. Sell’s par-

ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Spencer. Mrs. Jack Hemphill returned Tuesday from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Alson at Mishawaka. Mrs. Joe Cota was called to Bradley, Illinois, Wednesday by the illness of her niece, Mrs. Thomas Boudreau. Mrs. Richard Burke and daughter Veronica and Miss Anna Mellon spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary Mellon at Remington. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Biddle and daughter spent Sunday with Mrs. Biddle’s mother, Mrs. Mary Boudreau, at Remington. Joe Emrond; Thomas McHugh, Joseph Vogel and Chester Dexter went to Paulding county, Ohio, Monday evening on business. Russell Spencer and George Blume went to Chicago Monday where they will enter the Chicago college of dental surgery. Mrs. Harry Frame of Milford, Illinois, visited Miss Carrie Clark and Miss Bernice McCullo.rn from Friday until Wednesday evening. Mrs. Lavina Irlons left Tuesday morning for Anderson to attend the branch meeting of the Missionary Society, and visit Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hart.

Mrs. Lee Nelson arid children of Attica were guests from Monday evening until Tuesday morning of Mr. Nelson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nelson., south of town. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Tyler and little sph Lester of Francesville, who had been visiting Triends at Forest, Illinois. stopped off here Monday arid visited Mrs. Tyler’s father, John Kercher, Sr. , .Mr. and Mrs. (leprge Criswell of Burnettsville visited Mrs. Margaret Stitts, who is ill at the horpe of her. daughter, Mrs. Jacob Watkins, frona Tuesday evening until Wednesday morning. Miss Vivian Dobbins was the guest Sunday and Monday of Miss Jeanette Dobbins and Miss Esther Blume, returning to Monticello Tuesday. From there she will go to Richmond where she will attend Earlham college. Mrs. Minnie Mansfield and family and Miss White’ all o-f Brookston, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wampshire and family of near Seafield and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Latta and family of Wolcott spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sigman and family. Mrs. Emma Witte and sister, Mrs. Thresa Bobzien of Michigan City, were week-end visitors of their cousin. August Busier, and family. They had not 1 seen each other for twenty-five The meeting was Certainly a happy one. These are the only, relatives Mr. Busier has, except a sister in Michigan. John Southard of Milroy township had on exhibition in Lux Bros.’ window Saturday a squash that he raised on his place six miles north

of Wolcott, that was really some squash. It measured 5 feet 8 inches around the long way and 3 feet 11 inches around the other and weighed 72‘4 pounds. The vine on which this squash grew also had some twenty other squash.