Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

LEE Vernon Jacks and family spent 'Sunday night and Monday here w’th l)is parents, G. A Jacks and wife. Miss Leona Jacks is hetping Mrs. G. A. Jacks clean house this week. W. L. Stiers did the papering for them also. Alvin Clark of Kankakee, 111., ipent Monday night with J. H. Culp and family and called on old friends Tuesday forenoon, then went to visit his daughter, Mrs. Charles McCashen, and family. Mrs. A. S. Parcels of Thornfield, Missouri, came on Wednesday of last week to the home of her brother, George Holeman of Monticello, to help care for him in his last sickness, which ended in death Monday morning. It had been two months since he had to give up his work. His wife took him to two specialists in Indianapolis, and also to the Mayo hospital at Rochester, Minn., but nothing could be done to cure him of the sarcoma cancer in his head and throat. Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Monticello Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. All the relatives from this place attended the funeral, besides a large number of friends. There was a very elaborate collection of beautiful flowers. Interment was made In the Odd Fellows’ cemetery east of town.

RENSSELAER. IND.