Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — Page 3

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917.

HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GIFFORD Frank Eldridge of McCoysburg spent Mpiiday in our burg. Miss Opal Hankins spent Sunday afternoon with Martha and Eylven Louge. John Akers, Harry Walker and Jees Grimm were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. Lizzie Swisher and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Hall. Missefe Rosa and Clara Dunn of Medaryville spent Sunday with Beulah Walker. Charles Scott, our blacksmith, was a Lafayette goer Saturday, returning Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Steel moved intp the Dr. Myer house, east of Giiford, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Myers spent Swnday with Mr. and Mrs. William Hurley of Laura. Mrs. C. B. Steward of Rensselaer took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed Tuesday. Earl Smith and sister Gladys and lilss Lida Akers spent Sunday in Morocco, visiting friends. Reuben Snyder and daughter •pent Friday and Saturday _ with Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Laura. William Steel and Carl Stockwell are moving and building a dwelli»g house for Taylor IHankins.

Howard Abbott of Indiana Harbor is here visiting a few days with his uncle, William Obenchain. Mr. and Mrs. Dice Zook and little niece of Demotte called on Mr. and Mrs. Guy afternoon. Mrs. Emma Nubs, who had been viaiting relatives in Illinois, returned Tuesday after an absence of two weeks. Art Akers and family moved to Moody Sunday. A nice crowd gathered at their home Saturday night and held a dance. The snow that fell Monday night did a lot of damage to the onions that were in, the fields, as some are not done “topping” yet. Chester Caster, who has been working on a dredge at Hebron, epent Sunday with his wife here. The latter also returned with him for a week’s visit. Miss Vesta Brown, our school teacher, took sick Tuesday morning at school and had to be taken to Sheridan Louge’s, where she boards. There will be no school for a few days.

FOUR CORNERS

DeArmond and Morrow are putting in an iron bridge near the county line. W. B. McNeil purchased a carload of stockers at Chicago the first of the week. Alfred Duggleby absorbed his

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bench lecture at the K. of P. hall a night or so ago. Elwood Gulbransen has rented a farm near Hebron and will take possession March 1. Alfred Duggleby is putting the finishing touches to a cement cattle barn and fruit cellar. The business men shut up shop Wednesday afternoon to push the sale of Liberty bonds. Sam Gillespie has taken charge of the office work on the Monon railroad at San Pierre. Assessor John Shirer has the contract for hauling pupils from the Dahncke district to Tefft. A new telephone line is being built along the township lines of Kankakee and Walker townships. Enos Hibbs has built a new barn on the old H>. D. Turner farm in Kankakee township, which he now owns. John Garlach has been harvesting his German fruit, kraut, in its primitive state. The price is sls per ton. Walter Seegrist of Camp Grant was home over Sunday. We predict that Walter will make good fox U. S. A. Ed Lambert of East Walker is in Missouri, his former home, this week, assisting in the settlement of the estate. Ed Lakin, who recently suffered a broken forearm when his team ran away and threw him out, is getting along O. K.

H. Tirnan, H. Ray and Elmer Berg of Richmond came for a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Morris McCullough of Tefft. William Fitzgerald of Kankakee township is unloading a car of limestone. He is convinced that it is a paying proposition. Bro. John of the Review is too busy nowadays to accommodate one of his customers. Joe, we will bring your batteries from the county seat. The Masons of Wheatfield gave Oscar Turner the bumper degree Tuesday night and then did justice to a Liberty loan banquet. Oscar was able to attend to business the following day. Thirty-eight birthday post cards were sent to our old telephone man and photographer, Nelson, now in Colorado. We can, in our imagination, hear his ha, ha! when he receives them. Superintendent John Matt of the Tefft high school was called Friday by telegram to the bedside of his mother at Stillwell, Laporte county, who was not expected to live but a few hours. She died Friday, and the Tefft school to show marked respect sent flowers. Bro. John, has been eating our butter for two or three weeks and it has failed to produce a smile of

recognition when he meets ns on the street. Now we do not propose to keep his infernal machine—we should have said internal machine —in running order if it does not produce the smile of brotherly love. Now smile, darn you, smile, or we will put our butter under t the embargo act and non-smiles need apply. Some young bloods, who had tarried too long at the river dive, ran their car into the ditch near the old Turner farm Sunday night. The car was damaged but not sufficient to put it out of the running, and they continued on their way south. If there is a worse hell-hole than at the river dive don’t tell us of it, for we want Porter county to have the credit. A nice law body of officials in Porter county there sure is! ~ .

FAIR OAKS

Health is fairly good with us this week. The new minister of this M. E. charge was here and delivered his first sermon Sunday. James Clifton has been doing some repair work on G. I. Thomas’ property here the past week. If the weather would behave Lawler’s men would get through filling the silos near here this week. Sam Potts and wife will move off of the fanmi about the first of the year. They will move back to town. The well drillers at the new school building completed their job the first of the week at a depth of 100 feet. The work on the new school house is progressing fine nowadays.They have about fifteen men at work on it now. Lou Moffitt came up from Fort Harrison and spent Saturday night and Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Cedarwall, and others. N. A. McKay’s house puts on quite a different appearance since they got it leveled up and a new porch and some new doors added. Miss Estella Parigp, who teaches the school at Mead Chapel, was a guest at A. M. Bringle’s from' Saturday evening < until Sunday evening. There were several from here that attended the divorce trial of William C. and Kate Hintz at Keulland Monday. Hintz, who sued for a divorce, was granted same. William Burch, who had been working as a motorman on a street car line at Hammond for some time, resigned and went to work on Erwin’s dredge near Roselawn Monday. A. B. Tolin of the .Tolin ranch was taken to the hospital Sunday, to be treated for some kind of stomach trouble. The doctor was going to use the X-ray on him to assist in diagnosing his case. The Fair Oaks basket ball team scored two victories last week, one over the Wheatfield team Friday night and over Shelby Saturday night. In each game they won by a large majority. They expect to have another contest soon. We were visited with a young snow storm Monday night and left a pretty heavy coat of snow on the ground, but the sun came out and it was soon about all gone, and in the afternoon the weather put in most of the time raining and snowing. The trial against some fellows in Lincoln township for brutally beating Jacob Hawold, who died from the effects last spring, came off and the offenders were fined SIOO only. It seems as if a man’s life is not of much value in these parts in this day and age of the world. What do you think?

SOUTH AMERICA

Albert Dolfln was a Wolcott goer Thursday. Jessie Dolfln was a McCoysburg goer Saturday. Mrs. James Blankenship was a MOnon goer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dolfln were Monon goers Saturday. Clarence and Ivan Blankenship were Monon goers Saturday. Jessie Dolfln called on the Marchand girls Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Blaser called on Mrs. Lilly Mitchell Thursday. Miss Jessie Dolfln visited with Dollie Blankenship Sunday evening. Mrs. Fred Saltwell and daughter, Mrs. Lud Clark, were Lee goers Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. JTred Saltwell took Sunday dinner with Albert Dolfln and family. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell called on their daughter. Mrs. Lud Clark, and family Tuesday. Mrs. Fred Saltwell and Mrs. Lud Clark and daughter Sophia were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Misses Erma, Ora and Olive Clark were out joy-riding Sunday with some friends from Rensselaer. Mrs. Lilly Mitchell and sons visited with her sister, Mrs. Thomas Lear, from Friday until Saturday morning.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP. NEWTON COUNTY

Ernest Huntington will move to Oxford. Texas, about the first of November. In spite of our game laws, we observe that there are still a fe\ji wild ducks left. ! And, lastly, brother, don’t forget to send that Christmas present to the soldier boy. j Daniel Schanlaub is operating the sawmill formerly owned by Charles Campbell. j John Bissenden of Chicago visit- ; ed over Sunday with the family of ! Clarence Blankenbaker, , ! We are told that in some locali- | ties corn buskers are demanding 3 to 10 cents a bushel for husking, j Poor old agriculturist! I Young America, Shep and the John Rabbit family are again mix-

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

ing matters, with “Bub” and Shep doing most of the mixing. A Lake township boy is said to have cleaned up sl9 in about two hours the other day, catching skunks. And the fur season has just begun, too. A. D. Swain, carrier on one of the routes out of Morocco, and Miss Mayme Roadruck of that city were united in marrieg recently. Rev. Swanson of the Beaver Methodist church officiating. Mt. Ayr may well be proud of her new school house. The building certainly presents a fine appearance, and what is of even more importance, it bears the ear-marks of honest work throughout. We have observed that the man who howls the loudest about being deprived of the right of free speech, generally turns out to be just a plain traitor, a peace-at-any-price crank or something worse. Corn husking promises to be unusually late this fall. Not in years, farmers say, has corn been so slow in drying out, and it appears to be the general opinion that it will not be safe to store corn in large quantities before the middle of November. “Home-made sorghum molasses at U .25 per gallon.”—Advertisement. Nothing doing here. As a boy we ate home-made sorghum per gallon, per barrel, per hogshead and per every other way, but never again, war or no war, sink or swim, survive or what’s-his-name. Grain dealers are worried not a little over the condition of the present corn crop. Excessive moisture, with corn making slow progress in the way of drying out, will, it is feared, make the handling of corn a rather unsafe proposition, at least until well along in the winter. Farmers who have examined their corn assert, as a rule, that it is extremely difficult to find any considerable quantity fit for seed. This condition prevails, we are told, not only in the northern part of the county, but in localities where the frost was thought to have done little or no damage. Mrs. Jennie Conrad, owner of a 5,000-acre ranch in the northern j

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What is believed to be the largest deposit of .slate in America has been discovered at a depth of 500 feet beneath a Pennsylvania farm.

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part of this county, has Btarted a movement which the store-box philosopher may well view with alarm. Mrs. Conrad wants Uncle Sam to round up the U. S. loafer and compel him to perform manual labor, at least so long as the present war lasts. Talk about the refinement of cruelty. Huh? The American girl—God bless her—is going to help win the present war. A few months ago the American girl knew practically nothing about knitting, but what cared she for a little thing like that? If her country needed knitters she could learn to knit, and she did learn —learned over night, seemingly, and today she is turning out knitted articles for the soldier boys—sweaters, socks, pulse warmers, etc., with a dexterity that causes the surprised grandma to fervently exclaim, "Did you ever?’’

WHEATFIELD

Rev. Emerich attended a public sale near Knlman Tuesday. Albert Long visited at the Rice home Saturday and Sunday. Albert Keene, Joe Hickam and Charles Hewett were at Rensselaer Monday. T. Gilbert, an evangelist from Chicago, is holding meetings at the Odd Fellows’ hall. Charles Hewett, Bessie Hewett., Mabel Jones and “Happy’’ Miller autoed to Idaville Sunday. The latest style Is to hang a lantern on the cow-catcher end of your auto to light the way. R is a Democratic invention. Mr. and Mrs. Bowie received a letter from their son Dick, in which he said he was well and that he liked army life fine. Dick is connected with the engineering department.

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) George Hufty and wife of Albion are visiting J. M. Hufty. Mrs. Rose Wildrick of Hebron is visiting relatives and friends here a few days. The Amish young people met at Dave Miller's Saturday evening. A fine time is reported by all. Harry Wild and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Perkins of Goodland visited J. R. Sigler and family Sunday. - Charles -Harris went to Racine, Wisconsin, Thursday where he will probably take up occupation in the auto works. Eli Stutzman and wife of Arthur, Illinois, who had been visiting here for the past ten days, returned home this week. Mrs. Chauncy Huntington and baby Marjorie and Mrs. F. P. Huntington went to Wheatfield Saturday, Monday. J. B. Ashby made a business trip to Chicago Monday. He went by way Of Kankakee, Illinois, where he visited a day or so. John Wiseman and wife, who have been visiting here for some time, are preparing to return to their home in Montana. Mrs. Sperry, who is making an extended visit in the Sigler home and who is suffering from rheumatism, is reported considerably better.

The M. E. parsonage has been repapered and painted preparatory to receiving the new minister and his family, who will arrive here this, week from near Aurora, Illinois. Mrs. Loma Miller went to Kankakee, Illinois, to visit her daughter. Mrs. Croxton. Mr. Croxton is Is now engaged in the grocery business with Ralph Ashby at that

place. Mrs. Jennie Sigler left this week for an extended stay in Chicago. Mrs. Sigler’s departure for the city was hastened some by the fact that Leon Haskell is due to start for France in the very near future, and Mrs. Sigler wished to see him before 'he left. John Jenklnsen .loaded his household goods for Chicago Monday evening, where he intends to take up his residence. He haR not yet decided just what he will do, but will no doubt find something to his liking in the city, as work is most plentiful there. Rev. Ade was called to Ross well last week on account of the death of a brother. Consequently he did not get to fill his appointments Bunday. He advises that so far as he now knows preaching services will he held at the regular hour Sunday evening.

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