Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

LEE Roy Heltzel and wife spent Wednesday in Monon. G. A. Jacks and wife spent Wednesday in Rensselaer with their tfhildren. Raymond and Herbert Warren Bpent Sunday here with Glen and Gail Culp. Elzie Webb of Auburn, Indiana, was here Tuesday and Wednesday calling on relatives. He stayed at Frank Overton’s over night. Orval Warren, who has been working for Frank Overton, went to his home Monday to go with his people to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where they are moving. They left Tor their new home Tuesday. Edith Overton, who was very low With pneumonia last week when her temperature reached 106 degrees, is very much improved. She /has no temperature at this writing and the nurse has been dismissed. Little Robert Jordan, who was very sick with pneumonia, is much Improved, but his brother Elvin was taken down with the same disease about a week ago and has a very high temperature at this writing.

MT. AYR ' (From the Tribune) Wallace Nichols went to Laporte Saturday to arrange matters for his moving therein the spring. Foster Brunton and family spent the day Sunday with his brother Louie and family south of town. Miss Ethel Murfltt went to Chicago Wednesday, where she will visit her grandpiother and other relatives for several weeks. Miss Nellie Makeever is visiting friends in Chicago. She left Monday and will perhaps spend a couple of weeks in the windy city. We are reliably informed that John Miller and Miss Ella Yoder are to be married next Sunday. We certainly wish this young couple worlds of good luck on the sea of matrimony. E. M. Patterson and family have arrived here from Rogers, Arkansas, and will take up. trucking and mixed farming on the Billy Shaw place north of town. Mr. P’atterson and Mr. Shaw are brothers-in-law. Jesse Coovert came Friday from Mitchell, South Dakota, for a several weeks’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Coovert, and other relatives. Mr. Coovert will probably go on to Jonesboro in the eastern part of the state for a visit with his sister, before returning home. Simon Kenton, who is visiting axpmi(r4?-e4’i&.‘i«. l aer,-e*nmrSa tu rday to spend some time with his niece, Mrs. Jay Miller. Mr. Kenton’s home is in North Dakota, where the Kenton families have been quite successful at farming. Simon is a good sample of the sturdy bld Kenton stock of historical - fame, having made wonderful developments physically since we last saw him some twenty years ago.