Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

GOODLAND (From the Herald) Alvia Jay of north of Remington was In Goodland over Monday night. The school commencement will be held Friday night, April 26, at the opera house. Mrs. Charles Stits of Wabash, Indiana, visited with friends and relatives’ here this week. Corporal Reese Rider has sent word to his parents here that he has arrived safely in France. Mrs. J. B. Johnson of Villa Grove, Illinois, caime Thursday afternoon for a short visit with relatives and Triends. , . . Eunice Rider has been selected to teach music, drawing and domestic science in the Morocco schools this coming winter. Mr. and Mrs. John Boothby and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Taylor have moved into the apartments over the Rider & Son salesroom. Mrs. Leslie Oswald returned to her home in Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday morning after a week’s visit with Mrs. Margaret Oswald. Mrs. M. R- Carlock and daughter, Mrs. Iva Miller of North Vernon, Indiana, came this week for a visit with her son Clifford and family. • Mise Myrtle Scott, who has been Spending a few weeks at home, left Wednesday for Alberta, Canada, where she will do evangelistic work for some time. William Frohreich, who registered at Joliet, Illinois, left that place last week for Portland, Maine, where he is now a member of the coast artillery at Ft. Williams. David Watson, wife and little daughter, Jean Elizabeth, of North Grove, Indiana, arrived Monday night for a short visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Watson. Archie Turner and Miss Grace Houk were married at the Methodist parsonage in t\is city Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. V. B. Servies officiating. They will make their home in Goodland. The home of Mr. and Mrs. George Wortley, seven and a half miles northeast of town, was the scene of a gathering of old-time friends of the Elliott Burr family, six of the Burr children being present. The evening was spent in talking over events that occurred twentyfour years ago in -this community. Chauncey Ross Kemper, son of W. Scott and Martha Kemper, was ■born August 8, 1 875, near Mansfield, Park county, Indiana, and died at Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 28, 1918, being forty-two years, six months and twenty days of age. He passed away at the University hospital two days an operation for appendicitis.