Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

VIRGIE Mrs. Bert DeMoss is on. the sick list this week. Miss Mabel Barnes spent the week end with home folks near Rockfield. Miss Margaret Shuey called on Miss Bertha Reed Monday afternoon. Miss Ellen Reed has been suffering with blood poisoning in one of her teeth. Several from here attended the Parmer Wiseman sale near Roselawn Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman and son Kenneth visited relatives in Demotte Sunday. Miss Bertha Florence returned to ■Rensselaer Saturday after a few days’ illness with measles. A. L. McCurtain and family have moved on the Faylor farm, now owned by Jack Davis, near Kniman. Charles Florence spent Sunday ■with home folks, returning to Remington, where he is husking corn, , Sunday evening. The farmers’ meeting Saturday night was well attended. Clarence Henry of Purdue university gave a splendid agricultural lecture. Mrs. James Wiseman and daughter, Miss Flossie, called on Mrs. Charles Harrington and daughter, ■Mrs. John Maher, Thursday afternoon. LEE Mrs. Edna Mars is on the sick list this week. John Clark and family visited Sunday at O. E, 'Noland’s. Morris Jacks and wife did shopping in Chicago Tuesday.

Miss Velda Heltzel spent Wednesday night with Miss Edith Overton. J. H. Culp and family went from church Sunday to J. W. Mellender's for dinner. New neighbors by the name of Cassell moved to the Jennie Rishling farm this week. Miss Agnes Stiers was able to return to her school this week after her recent sickness.

Clayton Mellender has hired to Frank Ringeisen for the summer, beginning last Monday. The Ladies’ Aid cleared $33.23 last Friday at John Clark’s sale, the last sale of the season. Asa Holeman and family and H. C. Anderson and wife ate Sunday dinner at C. A. Holeman’s. Orval HOlemam began work last Monday morning for Mr. Trout on the place where Crissenberry’s live. Thurston Otterburg and family of Rensselaer spent Saturday night and Sunday at the home of Mrs. Otterburg’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks. . POSSUM RUN O. M. Thomas is spending this week with friends. Everett Parker spent Sunday evening with Jasper Cover. Mrs. Joe Conley helped Greeley Comer’s move Tuesday. Jesse Walker helped T. J. Parker butcher on Thursday. Ores Cunningham called on T. J. Parker Friday afternoon. Mrs. John Price called on Mrs. T. J. Parker Monday afternoon. Charley Parker and Lyde Ward were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Mt - . Hahn has moved to the John Eger farm west of Gifford. Goldie Hurley went Monday to work for Mrs. Burgett of near Aix. Mrs. E. A. Merrill called on Orpha and Myrtle Parker Wednesday.

Miss Nile Britt called on Orpha and Myrtle Parker Tuesday afternoon. Jesse Walker and Lyde Ward are shucking corn for T. J. Parker this week. Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughter Myrtle spent Thursday with Mrs. Ores Cunningham. Mrs. T. J. Parker spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Monon. Mrs. Isaac Maflatt and children and Mrs. Jasper Cover called on Mrs. Galbreath Tuesday afternoon. Sunday school at Independence every Sunday at 2 p. m. Everybody welcome and bring your friends. Orpha Parker and Mary Cunningham spent from Wednesday until Friday with Mr. and ‘Mrs. James Davi s of Kersey. The telephone men were in this vicinity Wednesday fixing the lines, and also put in phones for Roy Beaver and Mr, Hahn.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Marion, Mr. and Mrs. Estel Marion and daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beaver. MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Jasper Wright was a business visitor in Morocco Monday. Miss Dora Blake of Fair Oaks spent Sunday at Charles Warren's. Claude Hickman was in Momence, Illinois, on business Thursday. Johnnie Williams moved this week from the Trennis Yoder place to the Fred Schultz farm north of Rosebud in Jasper county. John Snow spent a few days visiting his relatives north of Rensselaer last week. Mrs. Andrew' Kenney of Rensselaer is visiting her. daughter, Mrs. W. A. Shindler. John and Florence Snow visited their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Snow and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Driver, in Chicago this week.

Mrs. J. M. Witham of Demotte stopped off here a short while Friday to see her daughter, Mrs. Frank Brandt. Mrs. Witham was on her way to visit an invalid brother at Veedersburg. Ellsworth Warren delivered some horses and. mules to Rensselaer Wednesday'for Wallace & Baugh cf Lafayette. They had bought them at a sale northwest of here and had their man meet Ellsworth at Rensselaer to receive them. Mrs. Harry Elijah, Mrs. Edwin Long, Mrs. John Heims, Mrs. Alice Hopkins and Mrs. Jennie Ashby delightfully entertained the Royal Neighbors at the lodge room last Monday afternoon. Mrs. Julius Huff and Mrs. Emmet Fidler of south of Rensselaer paid a short visit to their old friends and neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Summers, last week. MrsM. Fidled advised us that they had bought the old home place two .miles east of Rensselaer and were proposing to move there at once.

REMINGTON - (From the Press) Born, Sunday, March 3, to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Parks, a son. Lacy Alter has gone to South Dakota, where he will work the coming summer. Mrs; Fred Young of Oxford came Saturday for a visit with Miss Elizabeth Barnett. Miss Irene Houston of Sheldon spent from Friday till Sunday the guest of Miss Lenore Pickering.

Mrs. Anna Banes returned this Thursday from a visit of several months with relatives in Canada. Rev. E. F. Lilley w’ent to Crawfordsville Monday to visit his son, Daniel, who is attending Wabash college. Jason Bickel went to Wabash Saturday night and spent Sunday with John O'Connor, returning Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James Hackley of Gillett, Arkansas,' are guests of his brother, S. T. Hackley, and family since Saturday. Vern Hensler has moved from the Bickel farm south of town onto the farm vacated by Chet Dexter on the north Wolcott road. Mr. and Mrs. John McCullough of Fowler were Remington visitors Sunday evening, on their way home from a visit at Monticello.

Mrs. H. W. Gilbert, son Ronald and daughter Lloyda, were guests of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Weslev Fell, at Good la nd Friday. Miss Minnie Alter of Lafayette has received orders to report at Camp Doniphon at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and left by the first train to take up the work. George Scholl of Crown Point has assumed charge of the operator’s desk at the depot this week. He will be permanent operator and will move his family here. There are several cases of measles in and about town at the present time, none very serious, however, but measles cards have' been placed on the homes to warn others away. Mrs. C. S. Foster, who has been visiting her sons in Chicago the past two weeks, returned home Sunday, acompanied by her son Adrian, who will return to the city in a few days. Word received from Fred Griffin, Jr., of Monticello, a former RemingI ton boy, says he is now “somewhere in France.” Fred is in the First Motor Mechanics Regiment, Co. K, of our army. John O’Connor loaded his car Friday last and left for his new hpme at Wabash. We are sorry indeed to have Mr. O’Connor leave our community, but we wish him al! kinds of good luck and prosperity. Miss Marie Fournier, accompanied by her room-mate, Miss Birdie Smith, returned to school at Valparaiso Monday after a few days spent with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fournier, south of town. Dan Biddle is a victim of the D. L. F. He attempted to crank up Saturday noon to come to tow r n, and the blasted thing backed up and smote him on the right arm to an extent that the bones are cracked. Dan thinks that a self starter is all right. Mr. and Mrs. David Finnesy. Misses Mollie and Katie Hogan of

Goodland were guests of their sister, Mrs. John O’Connor, Sunday at the home of Mr. O’Connor’s mother, Mrs. Ellen O’Connor. Mrs. O’Connor and children went to Goodland with her sisters Sunday evening. She has been quite sick this week, but at present is some better. Elmer Bartoo, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bartoo of northeast of Remington, passed away at his home in the McQuonn property in Remington Wednesday at 11 a. m. ? Elmer went to the Rockville sanitarium for tuberculosis about Thanksgiving time, and had remained there until his return last Sunday evening. At first his progress had seemed encouraging, but a couple of weeks ago a turn for the worse occurred, and his friends were sent for. He died from pneumonia following hemorhages His age was about twenty-eight years and he leaves a widow, one son, besides his parents, brother and sisters to mourn his untimely demise.

The long illness of Mrs. Elizabeth Coffelt ended in death Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tom Dawson, in Remington. For several weeks she had been very low and death was expected at any moment. The following obituary was read at the funeral, which was held at the Christian church on Wednesday, by Rev. Tharp, burial being made in Rem ington cemetery: Elizabeth S. Moore was born in Warren county, Indiana, July 18, 1 839. She departed this life March' 4, 1918, at the age of seventy-nine years, seven months and 17. days. She was married to George Coffelt July 27, 1862, and to this union seven children were born, three sons and four daughters, all of whom preceded her save her youngest daughter, with whom she made her home the last four months, the husband dying twenty-two years ago.

NOTES FROM COUNTY’ HOSPITAL Frances O'Donnell, a fourteen-year-old girl who makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. James Page at Wheatfield, was brought to the hospital Wednesday suffering from appendicitis and was operated on at once. The appendix was found to be ruptured and an infection set in, and at this writing she is in quite a serious condition. Mrs. George May of Carpenter township, who underwent a major operation last Sunday, is doing nicely. Mrs. David Stoner was able to go to her home in Barkley township yesterday. The new X-ray machine was in-

stalled this week. At this writing all the beds are filled except one. NO LOOKING BACK IN RENSSELAER New Evidence Constantly Reins; Published. ° Since the long succession of Rensselaer reports were first published in the local press there has been no looking back. Rensselaer evidence continues to pour in, and —better still —those whose reports were first published many years ago, yerify all they said in a most hearty and unmistakable way. Read the experience of Mr. Jacob R. Wilcox, retired farmer. He says: ”1 suffered from backaches and severe pains across my loins. I couldn’t rest day or night and was tired and worn out. The kidney secretions were highly colored and contained sediment. Nothing seemed to relieve me until I got Doan’s Kidney Pills from B. F. Fendig’s drug store. They relieved the aches and pains, I could rest better nights and the passages of the kidney secretions were regulated.” (Statement given May 31, 1907.) On February 29, 1916, Mr. Wilcox said: “I continue recommending Doan’s Kidney Pills as a reliable medicine. They have never failed to do good work.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr Wilcox has twice publicly recommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. —Advt.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Anthony C. Symmes et ux to Henry Waymire et ux, March 2, pt n % n % 10-28-6, 100 acres, e % sw 3-28-6, s % sw se 3-28-6, 100 acres, Marion, $15,500. George Besse to Frederick Pampel et al, February 28, pt out lot 13, Remington, O P, Mayhew’s survey, pt n % sw 30-27-6," $2,000. Jacob J. Ochs et ux to W. E. Johnson, March 2, s % ne ibl 4, Remington, Stratton’s add., $287. Howard B. Jones et al to John Frary, February 5, sw 27-27-7, pt nw nw • 34-27-7, 200 acres, Carpenter, $45,000. William B. Redden et ux to James S. Paxton et al, March 2, s % se 3-31-5, e % sw 3-31-5, Walker, $5,000. James Martin et al to Edward Martin et al, January 30, w % sw 9-29-7, nw 9-2917, 240 acres, Newton, sl, q. c. d.