Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 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

Colman Merritt’s have Into the Lottie Peck property this •week. Mrs. Lelia Lilvis is spending the •week with her sister in Union township. Mr. and Mrs. George Bilile of Wabash were guests of his parents over Sunday. Mrs. Kate Griffin of Goodland Spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Remington friends. George Bartee has moved into the Mrs. Groves property, recently vacated by the editor. Dr. and Mrs. Bond of Goodland attended the funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Bartoo, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Howard Jones is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, at Fort Wayne this •week.

Miss Bozelle of Parr is here helping to care for her sister, Mrs! Charles Bringle, and the new nephew. Mrs. George Morris returned to her home in Wabash Friday after a two weeks’ visit with her mother and other relatives. Mrs. Fannie Parks is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Kenyon, at Oxford and granddaughter, Mrs. Laura Kerr, at Covington this week. Miss Helen O’Dell went to Greencastle Tuesday for a short visit with her father and an aunt, whom the had not seen for several years. She returned this Thursday evening. Miss Nina Washburn came home from Greencastle to attend the funeral of her grandmother. Mrs. Mary Washburn, which was held at j Kentland Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Coover re- 1 turned to their home in Peoria! Monday morning after a two weeks' j visit here with his parents, Mr. and j Mrs. Marion Coover, and other relatives. Mrs. George Stoudt and son Robert motored to Michigan City last Wednesday to visit her daughter Ruth and Mrs. Frank Wolf. Miss Ruth is playing in the Dreamland theater. Eli and Roy Zimmerman, who were called home last week by the death of their sister Tda, returned, the former to Laurel, Nebraska, and the latter to Mishawaka, Indiana, Monday morning. Horace Hoover and family of Lafayette were week-end guests at the home of her sister, Mrs. Howard JBrookg, south of town, and at--tencfed the home-coming services al Gilboa Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bahler, Mr. I and Mrs. Andrew Steffen, Mr.. and j Mrs. Louis Kochi, the Misses Anna j and Lydia Gerber, Lydia and Ma-j tilda Bahler and Elsie Beekley left j Friday morning for a few weeks’ visit with relatives and friends at Rockville, Connecticut. Horace Blood, accompanied by! his daughter and her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dußien. and his! eon, 'Harry Blood, drove through : from Joliet, Illinois, Tuesday to attend the funeral of his sister. Mrs. Arabella M. Bartoo. They returned 1 to their homes Wednesday. Our mother, Mrs. Arabella Ml Blood, widow of Lafayette Bartoo, passed quietly away at her home in Remington Monday morning, October 15, 1917, just as the clock was striking 3, aged 85 years, 6 months and 18 days. She had been -gradually failing for the past year, hut during the last two months her failure was more rapid and death was due to a general breaking up of the system. The funeral services Vere held at the Christian church Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. C. Tharp, and interment made in Remington cemetery, beside her husband, who preceded her nineteen years ago. Our mother was a woman of very strong personality and her friends who knew and loved her are numbered by scores. *

WOLCOTT

(From the Enterprise) Mrs. Bert Cowgill spent Thursday with relatives at Remington. Thomas Ward of Wellington, Illinois, spent a few days here this week. Guy Ikfbore went to Beloit, Wis-1 consin, Monday to take a position on a steam shovel. Mrs. Mary Foley of Covington came Monday evening to visit her niece, Mrs. Harry Burley. C, S. Shantz of Elkhart was here this week looking after his farm interests southwest of Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Abner Bright of Winchester were guests over Sunday of their daughter, Mrs. Charles Henning. Mrs. Ray Plummer went to Gilman Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Homer Spangle, and her brother, Homer Foster. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seifert and son Dwight motored to the Kankakee Sunday and spent the day. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Harper left early Thursday morning on an automobile trip to St. Louis, where they will visit relatives for several days. Miss Blanch Kaberary of Moxville. North Dakota, came Sunday to apend the winter with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Scottsburg, who bad been visiting Ernest Naugle and family, went to Chalmers Tuesday evening to visit Mrs. C. C. Bassett of Goodland was the guest from Wednesday morning until Thursday morning of Jtgfej. Mrs. William Fisher,

Mrs. Susan Wheeler, who had been visiting Wolcott friends for several weeks, left Wednesday morning to join the family in their new home at Vincennes. Clyde Fisher, who is stationed at the Great Lakes training camp near Chicago, spent a twenyy-four furlough with his patents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher, north of Wolcott, Wednesday. Herman Blunie writes his relatives here that he has enlisted in the aviation corps of the army and is now at Jefferson barracks, St Louis, and expected soon to go to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. L. E. Wheeler, who since leaving Wolcott has been engaged in the moving picture business at Lawrenceville, Illinois, has sold his theater in that place and has taken a lease on a moving picture theater at Vincennes, and has moved his family there. James M. Fitzgerald died of tuberculosis in Denver, Colorado," Friday morning, October 12, at 9:30. The remains, accompanied by his daughter Bessie, were brought to his old home in Paris, Illinois, arriving there last Monday evening, the funeral and burial being held Tuesday. Mr. Fitzgerald owned and resided on a farm south of Wolcott and for some time was a resident of Wolcott. A year ago the family went to Colorado for the benefit of Mr. Fitzgerald’s health, and remained there until his death.

GOODLAND

(From the Herald) Mrs. H. T. Griggs is attending the national encampment being held at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mrs. Allie Davtp arrived from Haywards. California, Monday for a visit with her cousin, Mrs. B. P. Davidson, and family. Mrs. Charles Dunkel and daughter Lorena left Thursday morning for Chicago Heights, where they will visit for a few days with relatives. L. Spaulding is working hard to get his rock roads in excellent repair for the winter traffic, and from all reports he is doing an unusually good job of it. Mr. and Mrs. J. R- Hazen left Thursday morning for Walnut, Kansas, for a visit with the former's brother, Lincoln Hazen, and family. They expect to visit other points before returning. George Spaulding was down from Bangor, Michigan, last week fthe guest of his brother Louis. He reported that our crop prospects here were much better than in Michigan. Even our roads were better. Mrs. W. A. Harrington has just returned from a visit with her son, Charles Harrington, and family at Bloomington, Illinois. She went to Wadena Monday afternoon to help care for Mrs. David Fullerton, who is quite sick at her home in t'hjit place. Claud L. Wheeler of Francesville has purchased the Mrs, Handley restaurant and will start same during the latter part of this week. Mrs. Handley came to Goodland three years ago with her husband, having purchased the restaurant from Miss Lena Hannaman. They say a Ford can do anything. For instance: The Farrell Ford of east of town turned three sommersaults which resulted in breaking three ribs for young Farrell. The lad was driving along i the road in front of the John Plummer farm east of town, when all of a sudden, the result of a broken spring, the machine started in on its acrobatic stunt. The machine lost young Farrell on the first turn then proceeded to make two more revolutions —with the result that' the machine is a total wreck.

BROOK

(From the Reporter) Mrs. Parkison of Kansas is a J guest of Job English this week. Mrs. Miller of Owen county, Indiana, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Berlin. Mrs. Charles Denham went to Remington Thursday for a few days j visit with friends. Walter Murfitt and wife will go to Whiting Saturday to visit Dr, Osborn and wife. Mrs. Fred Snyder and Miss Verna Lyons spent the week with Mrs. Albert Ohman in Chicago. Miss Marie Hill of Hartford, Michigan, is visiting friends and relatives in Brook and vicinity. Mrs. Demoret of Crawfordsville is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. M. Snyder. and will remain for a couple of weeks. To show that it means what is says when it floats Old Glory, the local lodge Knights of Pythias' ordered the purchase of SSOO worth of Liberty loan bonds at its meeting Monday evening. ’ Amos Agate and O. M. Lyons returned last Thursday from their trip to Hartford, Michigan. They found the corn crop badly frosted and the corn will be soft. The j cattle they - went to look at were i held, at sl7 and. of course, they i let the owner keep them 1 . George Antcliff and wife started t for lowa Monday afternoon. They had received word of the death of John Simpson, whose wife is a sister of Mrs. Antcliff. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson lived many years ago on the place where Joseph Ade now lives, when the place was owned j by Sol Seaver. On Saturday nineteen car loads of U, S. soldiers passed through Ade ;on their way to Camp Taylor. This jfs the first bunch of men to take ! this route, and as they came from Chicago, it is not known why they were sent. to Camp Taylor, 'as men from the North usually go to Illinois or Michigan cantonments. William Kline and wife and Isaac Gerrich returned Sunday from a two weeks’ visit with relatives in Pennsylvania, near iHanover and York. William says they have good corn crops and had fine wheat and about as good oats as we had here. They found the country prosperous and’everybody happy except for the wa-. The children at school discovered a snake in one of the window

guards of the basement Monday. A call brought the teachers and they captured it. It proved to be a diamond back rattler, about two feet in length. His appearance was hard to account for, as rattlers especially of that brand have been almost driven out of this section of the country. One of the boys in the Reporter office happened to recall the fact that the show last year or two years ago had a hunch of rattlers which they were exhibiting, and getting disgusted with them in a foolish moment turned them loose. The boys came along about two hours afterward and finding them crawling around tried to kill them. It is supposed this one escaped. Fortunately it was captured before it did any damage.

MEDARYVILLE

(From the Journal) Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baughman of Royal Center were in town Tuesday on business. Julius Brown returned Saturday from South Dakota, where he Lad been working on a dredge. J. W. Toyne was called to Goodland Tuesday on account of his brother William suffering a stroke of paralysis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vaughn and baby of Chalmers arrived here Wednesday for a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Thomas Knotts and son Eugene of Gary motored here last Tuesday and spent the day with the C. E. Robinson family. Grandma Long returned with them for an extended visit.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Russell were visitors here last week. While here they autoed to Winamac, talcing Mrs. Low and Mrs. Short with them, where they spent the day with Charles Baughman. Mesdames E. W. Horner C. S. (Horner, C. E. Linton, W. U. Douglass and Messrs. A. C. Prevo, C. E. Robinson and Charles Parker attended the funeral of Mrs. Hargrave at Terre Haute Monday. Isabella Teressa Stoffel, wife of Michael Stoffel, died last night at 11:45 at her home. She had been suffering for some time from valvular trouble with her heart, which caused her death. Mrs. Stoffel’s maiden name was Williams. She was born and raised at Winamac. She was about 67 years of age. Mary McGinnis, widow of Jaimes McGinnis, died last Tuesday night at 11 o’clock at the home of her son Samuel at Demotte, where she had gone for a visit. Mrs. McGinnis had been making her home sine© the death of her husband with her son, Alex McGinnis, west of town. Arthur Prevo went to Demotte this morning to bring the remains here, where funeral services were held today at 2 o’clock in the Christian church. Interment in the local cemetery. Mrs. Cynthia Ann Hardesty, widow of Isaac Hardesty, was called by death last Monday. Mrs. Hardesty was born August 27, 184 0, afid died October 15, 1917, aged 77 years, 1 month and 18 days. She had been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Richardson, where she was living at the time of her death. The funeral was held at the local Christian church yesterday at 1:30 p. m. Interment in the local cemetery, The whole community was shocked last Friday morning when Station Agent Douglas announced that he had received a message from Rev. Hargrave that his wife was dead. Rev. and Mrs. Hargrave and their mother, Mrs. Warren, received a message Saturday, October 0, from Mrs. Hargrave’s sister, Mrs. George Donie, of Detroit, Michigan, that her husband had been accidently injured. Mrs. Hargrave and Mrs. Warren went immediately to Detroit, Rev. Hargrave going Mopday morning following. In the meantime a message had come that Mr. Donie was dead. The shock of the injury and death of her sister’s husband was more than the delicate health of Mrs. Hargrave could withstand and she died very | suddenly Friday morning. The j body was taken to Terre Haute, her former home.

FRANCESVILLE

(From the Tribune) Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Odom, in Gillam, Thursday, a girl. Mr. and Mrs. George Budreau returned Saturday from a week’s visit with relatives at Fowler. The Francesville basket-ball team was defeated at Medaryville. Friday evening. The score was 16 to 7. Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Jones will leave Monday for a couple of weeks’ visit with relatives in Indianapolis. O. K. Ruth of Solesberry, Indiana. was the guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. John Molitor. He is' the great-grandfather of Mrs. Molitor yV W. B. Leeson has sold his 170acre farm in White Post township to Charles Greenwold of Pontiac. Possession will be given - March 1, at which time the owner will move here. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shumaker were the guests of Star City relatives Sunday. They were acconivpanied home by Mrs. Crist Corts, who had spent a week . with her son, Charles.

JUNGLES

Misses Olive and Ora Clark were Wolcott goers Saturday. Mrs. Maggie Foulks spent Monday with Mrs. Earl Foulks. Teachers’ institute was held at, the Lone Star school Saturday. Fred May and family spent Sun- 1 day with Mr, _and Mrs. I. J. Clark, i Walter Chapman spent Sunday night with his cousin, Clyde Wood, j Ernest Clark left Sunday eve- i ning to husk corn for Charles Van Voorst. • Misses Helen Porter and Mahle Lansing visited Miss Effie Wesner’s school Friday. Sunday school at 2 p. m. and preaching at 3 p. m. next Sunday. Everybody come. Charles VanVoorst of Chalmers called on Everett and Ernest Clark Saturday afternoon. Henry Wood spent Saturday night with his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. James Wood. Elmer Clark and sons, Clifford and George, visited Charles Harwell and family Sunday. Mrs. Lud Clark and daughter Sophia and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr.- and Mrs. William Harwell and son Robert spent Sunday with their son, Charles (Harwell, and family. Vera, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elfner Johnson, who has been quite sick, is improving at this writing. William Chapman and family and Miss Effie Wesner visited with Newton Sunderland and family Sunday. " Oliver Hamilton and children and Mrs. Vesta Hamilton and daughter spent Sunday with Manson Beaver and family. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Culp moved onto the William Culp farm, and Will and wife have moved onto the Roy Culp farm near Lee. Mrs. Starr and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Forster and son and Mrs. Kane spent from Saturday until Monday with Mrs. Anna Chapman and family. Frank Garvin had quite an accident Sunday night while up north. His horse got tired of waiting for him and broke lose and came back south and got into the ditch and could not get out without help. All the damage done was a broken pair of shafts. It was not learned where Frank was.