Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

WHEATFIELD Rev. Emerich filled his regular appointment at Kniman last Sunday evening. The Xmas tree exercises at the M. E. church last Monday evening were well attended and a fine program was rendered. Miss Goldie Biggs, who has been way for the past few months, arrived home a few days ago. She declared that she' was glad to get home again. It would be perfectly in line with the revised rules of polite society to request your dinner guests to bring sugar along. Pocket sugar bowls will be a reality in a very short time. Lawrence McDaniel had a lucky runaway last Monday. His horses got frightened while he was husking corn and ran through the field and out into the road and west about a mile and up to the gate and stopped. Not a strap was broken, and not an ear of corn was missing. j The funeral services of George Wesner were held at the M. H. church Sunday and were largely attended. He was ninety-six years old and was said to be the oldest person in Jasper county. For th'e past few years he has lived in Wheatfield. He was one .of the men that helped to make our county what it is by his industry. We wish to extend to the relatives of j the deceased the sympathy of this ’ community. We wish everybody a successful and happy New Year. May your path through 1918 be a bright and shining light, so intense and brill-, iant' that your enemies will be blinded so they can not do you injury. May every arrow sent forth ; on a mission of destruction prove a boomerang. May the Stars and , Stripes on foreign shores be sue-j cessful in every encounter, until peace on earth is secured upon the true basis of justice and righteous-) ness to all on the threshold of a great era. The rearrangement of the inter-, ior of the Wheatfield Bank was surely a great stroke of improvement and gives it the appearance of, a place in a large city. It gives greater privacy to those attending to the bank affairs and also to those having business with the bank. On account of the marked change in the bank, quite a few of the previous friends had to be in-i troduced to Alex and Joe, as they didn’t know the latter in their new setting. We wish the bank a prosperous year. — i

GIFFPRD Eddie Marshall of Kersey called on his best girl here Sunday. William Steel of this place is in a serious condition at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Zook and Orval Zook went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Walter Conn and Ida Davis spent

! Tuesday afternoon with Will Hurley and family. Miss May Smith of Hebron spent Christmas and the holiday with Miss Hazel Lambert. Samuel Davis of Rensselaer was an over Christmas visitor with relatives and friends here. Guy Zook went to South Bend on business the last of the week. He returned home Monday. Mrs. Laura Antrim of Range Line, who had been visiting relatives here, returned to her home Saturday. ! Mack Steel olf this place went to South Bend Saturday to get his Questionnaire papers returned by ! that evening. j Will Obenchain and two daughters, Leota and Austa, and Mrs. Lizzie Swisher were Rensselaer goers Monday. i Pearl Davis of Indianapolis was ; called here Saturday on account of the death of his niece, Mrs. Ella Zook of Demotte. I Mrs.' Cora Akers of this place went to Fair Oaks Saturday to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al. Blake. Our school teachers, Miss Ruth Kennedy and Miss Vesta Brown, are spending their holidays at their homes. School closed with a program and Christmas tree.

FAIR OAKS Health is generally good with ns this week. Mrs. Bert Warne is -on the sick list at this writing. Jake Trump went down about. Tab Wednesday to visit his aged father. Cottage prayer meeting was held at “Aunt’ Hannah Gulp’s Wednesday evening. Cloyd Clifton went down to Mt. Ayr Wednesday to appear before the draft board. The main program in these parts nowadays is chopping, hauling and shipping cord wood. Amy Bringle went to Remington Wednesday to visit her brother Arvel and wife a day or so. J. J. Lawler had a car load of dead poles shipped to Thayer the first of the week for fire wood. Jesse Garriott went over to Blackford Christmas to visit his mother, wlho is in very poor health. There was a large crowd out Saturday evening to the Christmas exercises, which were held in the M. E. church. Marion Brown and family and Ettie and Carl Burroughs attended the Christmas exercises at. Shelby Monday night. Henry Wilson, wife and two children of Lisbon, North Dakota, visited the latter’s mother, Mrs. Ransom Elijah, this week. William Handley, son of George Handley of Newton county, who has been in North Dakota the past two

years, came home to eat Christmas turkey with home folks. Someone armed themselves with clubs Tuesday night and bombarded the Blake poolroom and knocked both front windows, out. >' We have had considerable soft cloudy weather the past week, but it took another change Monday and is how freezing weather again. Miss Amy Bringle, who is teaching music in the high school at Roanoke, came home Saturday to spend the holidays with relatives. J. C. Gilmore and wife, wh. have been at Panama the past year returned to Fair Oaks a few days ago. He has a couple of nion'.u.leave of absence from his work there as a boilermaker. A Happy New Year to the many readers of The Democrat and our boys who have gone forth to fight for our flag and what it stands tor. and may the time speedily come when the world can enjoy “Peace on earth, good will toward all men."

FOUR CORNERS Shredding corn is in order and the people are busy. Brick Ballenger of east Walker !is plastering the old Hanley property at Kniman. Simon Fendig has received a card from his son Allen stating that i he had arrived safely in France. Miss Effie Fisher is chief clerk on the exemption board at Laporte and was unable to get home for Xmas. j Walter Seegrist arrived from ' Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, to spend Christmas with his people in Kankakee township. | Harry Gulbranson, who moved to Wisconsin about ’ ten months, ago. ; has returned with his family and t-gQods to Wheatfield. j Xi- and Mrs. Earl Schatzley and ■ Mr. and Mrs. John Akers went t • (Francesville on business Xmas, and ,to eat Xmas dinner with old i friends. George Ferguson and Mr. Hickuni both received letters from their boys who are in France, and they said they would soon be ready to do the Huns. F. W. Fisher received a carl from his son Warren ..t Camp Shelby, stating that all wen well there and ’ that he had the promise of a trip home January 20. A party informed us that then was to be seen’ on any day or night in the pool room, minors playing pool. Now, you people who fought the saloon, why don’t you clean up the town? The public should know that Mr. Triechel, the Tefft merchant, is do- , ing his bit in the way of hall rent, ; fuel, lights and janjtor service 'free I for the Red Cross chapter of Tefft. Who could ask more? Carl Neier oft' Camp Funstan. Kansas, came home for Xmas, reI turning to camp Thursday. His j brother Charles came with him I from Galesburg, Illinois, and re- .■ turned that far with Carl on his j way back to camp. I A Wheatfield city chap who did ■ not know all of the inward workings of the skunk, asked some of thp natives wihat the tarnal critters ate to make them smell so bad. He was told, and went at once to the Fenflig drug store and purchased a vial of camphor to take the effect out of his system. The Christmas Red Cross drive is finished in Kankakee township, and to the untiring efforts of Mrs. Duggleby, Mrs. Maloney, Mrs. DeArmond and others it was a decided success, and we believe that a greater number of members were secured to the township’s population than any township in the county.

We would suggest that in the future wheh the people are to be appealed to for money for the Y. M. C. A. or Red Cross, that more space should be used in advertising and explaining fully in the county papers. The greatest trouble that we found was that the people had not been fully informed that .the drive for membership was to be made. While Frank Slight of Kankakee township was transacting business at the Wheatfield Bank Monday ahternoon he had the misfortune to lose 180 hard-earned dollars. He endorsed a few checks and while doing so laid his pocketbook on the desk in the bank, and after depositing the checks he left for home and did not miss his bill book until he went to make change for some customers at his place of business. He telephoned to the bank at once but up to this time no trace of the book or the cash has been found. As Brother Bowie does not take The Democrat perhaps he is not aware there will be an examination for the purpose of selecting a new postmaster at Kninian. Now here i is a chance for him to get into the U. S. service. He can do this work Jin. connection with his railroad business and we are almost certain that the people of Kniritan would receive him with open arms and great .rejoicing. This is a Xmas suggestion of good will. It would also put him in closer touch with the machine that grinds out his newsless paper. Accept good wishes. George Wesner of Wheatfield township died at the home of his son Cassius southwest of Wheatfield Thutsday forenoon and was buried from the M. E. churbh of Wheatfield Sunday at 1 p. m. Rev. Emerich had charge of the funeral, but the burial service was delivered by a grandson of the deceased, Rev. Roahrig of Wingate, Indiana. Mr. Wesner, had he lived until March 1, would have reached the age of ninfety-four years. He leaves a family of seven sons and three daughters. The wife and mother died in 1907. Mr. Wesner was of German birth, but his loyalty to this country was above question. His son Elmer, who lives in Montana, did not arrive in time for the funeral, but came Xmas morning.

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) Howard Lee is spending the holiday week with his aunt, Mrs. J. W. Overton, at Monon. Mrs. Maud Elijah went to Royal Center Saturday for a Christmas visit with her . mother. . lank Cox went to Kankakee, Illinois, Friday for a Christmas visit with relatives and friends. D. J. Baxter of Bluffton spent several days the past week the guest of his daughter. Mrs. W. R. Lee. Mike Fay of Parr has been helping his brother-in-law, Frank Sigman, husk corn the past week. Arthur Baker of Coffeeville Kansas, is here spending the Christmas season with his aged father. John Baker. Scott Brenner will leave for Demopolis. Alabama. Friday, where he will work at the carpenter trade the remainder of the winter. - Clifford Barker of Julian had the misfortune to lose three nice calves and'a hog last week by a straw stack toppling over Onto them. Mrs. George Schanlaub left for Delta, Missouri. Thursday, where she will make an extended visit with her daughter. Mrs. John Shule. The Misses Jessie and Blanche Merry are home for the holidays. Miss Jessie* is teaching at .At." Charles, llinois. while Miss Blanche is in the Kentland school.

Rev. Ade is planning to hold special services at jhe United Brethren church beginning about January 13. Rev, Sickafoose of Brook is going to assist in these services. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stucker are here from Muncie spending the week with their folks. Raymond is still in the employ of the Muncie Business college and is doing nicely. Otto Bengston is staying with his daughter. Mrs. Book, this week, while Mrs. Harry Elijah is visitingin Royal Center. Lisle Elijah joined his mother at Royal Center for a Christmas visit with relatives. Miss Pearl Romine, daughter of B. F. Romine <jt Gilliam, Missouri, but who is attending school at Aurora, Illinois, is spending her Christmas vacation with relatives here. Romine’s father is editor of the Gilliam Globe.