Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — BROOK [ARTICLE]

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(From the Reporter) Dr. Wood and family spent Sunday with the formers parents in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton of Re'hsselaer were over on Sunday visiting their son Melvin and family. Don and Malcolm Davis came home on Saturday from Ann Arbor and will remain during the spring holidays. Charles Borkliind and wife returned the last of the week from their visit to Hot Springs, Ark. They report a very pleasant time and the weather fine. Leslie Weishaar was home from Purdue over Sunday. He has been tendered a position as one of the instructors at Purdue in the engineering course and .has accepted. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Battleday of Jasper county visited Mr. and Mrs. George Battleday on Sunday. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. John Rush, who visited relatives in town.

Mr. and Mrs. Luke McCarty are entertaining Dr. and Mrs. Cole of Camp Grant at Rockford. The Doctor holds the rank of captain and is attached to the 332 artillery and belongs to the medical reserve, W. P. Griggs and wife, who have s]>ent the past few months with their son Fred and family in Arkansas, returned on Thursday. While there Mr. Griggs traded the farm for one near Springfield, Mo, The boll weevil and frost spoiled the crop in Arkansas last year. Superintendent Longwell has been doing valiant work for his country in this Liberty loan campaign. He made a trip through White county last week and wherever he went the enthusiasm was manifest. Tuesday night he spoke in Benton county to a farming community where there were some Amish who have scruples against fighting, but when the speech was over they’ showed evidence of having no scruples against giving. Over $12,000 was subscribed at that country school house meeting. George Russell took his wife and baby to Rensselaer on Monday morning to catch the early train. It was somewhere about 4 o’clock ft&>rge started hokne and at the outskirts of town the order came for "Hands up,’’ or something similar, and two shot guns looked George in the face. A store had been robbed and every man leaving town was being stopped. While George isn't the handsomest man in Newton county, no one would take him for a burglar, and as soon as the flashlight was turned on and he told who he was, they cranked up Lizzie for him add let him go. No. George wasn't scared.