Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — MT. AYR [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) A fine boy arrived Wednesday at the homie of Mr. and Mirs. Noah D. Miller. (Henry Paulus and family of near Rensselaer were Sunday visitors at Jasper Wright’s. Dr. Martin and wife spent Sunday with W- V. Vanatta and wife southeast of Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins •nd Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hopkins •pent Sunday relatives at Brook. 'the families of Edwin Harris and L. E. Ponsler spent the day Bunday with Ed. May’s near Remington. A. F. Long and wife and George Long and family of Rensselaer visited at the. home of W. W. Miller Sunday. Sam Guthrie, the C. X- E. I. section foreman at Goodland, was calling on old friends here the last of the week. Jay Miller, wife and babe were over to Mrs. Miller’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parker, near RermIngton Sunday. Ernest Huffy, whose home is at Paonia, Colorado, and who was called here to see his father, Uncle John Huffy, found it imperative to return home Friday. Clarence Blankenbaker had the misfortune to lose a good mare Thursday due to foaling. This makes the second good horse that he has lost this spring. Mrs. W. A. Shindler went to Valparaiso Friday for a short visit >wit|i Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sayler. Mrs. Shindler will return home by way Of Hammond, bringing Susie home with her.

A saw imiill lias been set in the Lyons-McCray timber across from the Will Walter place on the Rensselaer road and all the available timber will be converted into lumber and the land ‘put to crops. The hew owners are certainly making a magical difference in .the old randh. Edwin Harris has completed the addition to his implement house, also his garage, and the workmen bave now begun the remodeling of his residence. Mr. Harris is having a dining room and a bath room added to his home, which, when done, will no doubt make a very convenient home. Prof. J. B. Harter, wife and babe left Mondaj' for Gentryville, •where they will take up their future residence. Mr. Harter infonmis us on going that it is his Intention to take up some sort of occupatibn this summer at that place and 1 in the fall enter Purdue for a course in agriculture, in which line <( he expects to specialize. In their going Mt. Ayr certainly loses an especially fine young couple. They were only among, us during the one school term, but thev displayed every evidence of cultured and agreeable people. It is too bad that we must lose this kind •when once gained.