Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

LEE Xalph Overton is 'flick with pneu«nia. Miss Agnes Stiers and friend Bpent Monday here with her folks. Walter Jordan’s little son Robert !• very sick with pneumonia. Rev. Bromberg was entertained &t G. A. Jacks’ home over Sunday. Mr. and Mts. E. Gilm/ore were ♦ailed to Monon on business Wednesday afternoon. Most of the young people attended the play given at McCoysburg last Saturday evening. Word was received here Wednesday that Mrs. George Holeman of Monticello had suffered another severe attack of appendicitis.

POSSUM RUN Some fine sleighing we are having. Francis Marion called on G. H. Comer Tuesday morning. Lemma iHurley called on Orpha and Myrtle Parker Saturday. Jasper Cover called on Otha Bpriggs Wednesday morning. Elmer Shroyer and Dell Ropp called on Jasper Cover Tuesday afternoon. T. J. Parker and son Everett helped Lyde Ward make a sled Wednesday. Essie and Wayne Comer spent Friday evening with the Hurley young folks. Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughter Myrtle spent Thursday night and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson and family of Monon. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Caldwell and daughter and “Grandma” Braddock and Carl Stockwell spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John Price. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox and son of near Aix spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Cover and family. John Price and E. A. Merrill butchered Monday. Those that spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Parker of near Medaryville were Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker, Everett, Orpha and Myrtle Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker and family and Elsie Haniford.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Orson Peck is suffering with neuralgia in the face. Miss Nina Nichols of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, came Monday to attend the funeral of her grandmother. Wednesday will be wood-getting day when a number of men will go to the Makeever woods and get a supply of wood for the United Brethren church. Ed. ICanne of Rensselaer was in town'Monday and reported the stores all closed in that town in accordance with the fuel saving edict that went forth recently. Mr. and Mrs. VanDeinon and baby Jack left Saturday for their home in Monticello. They will return as soon as the weather grows warmer and work is permitted to be resumed on the school building. Mrs. Alice Hopkins accompanied her son Pfrimtmer to his home at Donovan, Illinois, Friday. Saturday they were in Morocco for the purpose o»f filling out the boys’ questionaires. Mrs. Hopkins returned home Saturday. Among the other misfortunes brought on by the extreme cold weather was the loss by freezing of many lots of potatoes. Many cellars that heretofore have always been frost proof failed to protect the tuber and other content* through the recent blizzard. C. L. Nichols of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Arthur Nichols of Leßoy, Illinois; Samuel Nichols of Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Mr. and Mrs. Sluseer and two sons of Villa Grove, Illinois, and John Nichols of Morocco were all here for some time during the last sickness and death of their mother, Mrs. Nichols, who had been making her home of late with her daughter, Mrs. George Corbin.

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