Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — FRANCESVILLE [ARTICLE]

FRANCESVILLE

(From the Tribune) Jesse Culp of Monticello was the guest of his parents northwest of town for a week. He returned Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. iH. Timmons and daughter Poyrel of Jackson, Tennessee, who have been visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Parker, returned Monday morning. Sergeant Van Buskirk of Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and Miss Flossie Timm of Medaryville were married at Hattiesburg on December 20th. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Van Buskirk. Miss Margaret Tilton of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Jack Lucas, who is now assigned to one of the big battleships cruising the Atlantic, were here last week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick. Frank Tillett of Wenatchee, Washington, shipped his parents in Gillam a nice box of “Delicious” apples for the holidays. They are quite large in size, being much larger than .the usual Indiana apple, better in , flavor and free from spots of any kind. Washington. Oregon,. Idaho and California are states which have immense orchards and the care of therm are regulated by laws passed by- the . legislatures. A tree" disease there is looked upon the same as an epi-" (femic of infectious disease here; Frank Tillett of Gillam left a couple of them at this office and they were soon “sampled.’’