Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

days on account atf the illness of the operator at that point. Miss Violet Waymire, who was visiting her grandmother, Mrs. MeQuown, and her friend, Miss Pauline Bartoo, last week, returned to her home in Kokomo Saturday. Harry Howard did not remain in Texas, where he went to take up a U. S. job, but is now back again at Bloomington, where he is “cramming” to become a “pill dispenser.” Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Washburn went to Indianapolis to spend a few days* They will visit Depauw university before returning, where their daughter is attending school. Mrs. A. P. Rainier, who has been in the hospital at Lafayette for some time, was operated on last Saturday for appendicitis and other complications. She is reported to be getting along nicely now. Robert Williams, who has been working on a farm for his in-law, Charles Gibb, at Forrest, Illinois, all summer and fall, came home Saturday for two or three weeks’ visit with home folks. Maxine, the young daughter of VMr. and Mrs. Ed. Lucas, was taken to Lafayette Tuesday where she has since been operated on for appendicitis, with w'hich she had been suffering. She is reported doing, well at this time. M. F. French attended the fun-' era! of his only sister at Brookston! on Sunday, Mrs. Sarah Ripley, She j was ninety-two years, five months ( and eighteen days old at the time, o/" her death, which occurred the 1 day previous. Death is ascribed resulting from a general breakdown from advanced age.. She was next to the last of a large family, there being nineteen children in the double family. Mr. French is the last. Burial was at Brookston. ! Mrs. Joseph Sego of near Goodland was operated on at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette on Monday and died on Tuesday of this week. Her age was twenty-three years. She was the daughter of John Him of near Goodland and leaves besides him, one brother, John, and a sister, Mrs. Joe Graham, also a son two years of age. The cause of her demise was appendicitis. The funeral was held at the Sacred Heart church in Remington Thursday morning by Rev. Baker. The attendance at the funeral was one of the largest ever held in that church, and included friends and relatives from near and far. The sorrowing husband and bereft son have the sympathy of the whole community.

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