Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — MT. AYR [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) Miss Sybil Watkins visited a few days in Indianapolis this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sigler dined with Captain and Mrs. Brown Sunday. W. A. Shindler and Hiram Ashby are doing some fishing in the Iroquois these days. Tom Knox of Rensselaer spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Chauncey Huntington. Dr. Merry and Miss Blanche motored over to their farm southeast of Rensselaer Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Corbin of Kentland spent Sunday with their son George and family here. Ed. Long is on the sick list. He has been troubled for a week or more with a gathering in his head. Arthur and Marvin Downey of Fair Oaks came down Saturday and spent Sunday with Kenneth and Don Lynch. J. B. Ashby, Mrs. Loma Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Everette Croxton visited Albert Witham in Rensselaer Sunday.

Mrs. Ira Sayler, formerly of (here but now of Valparaiso, is doing as nicely as possible after an operation for cancer. The editor and wife motored over to Herscher, 111., Sunday and spent some time with our old friend, Felix Parker, and family. Mrs. Frank Sigman, Who with her husband and family moved to near Parr this spring, is reported sick with threatened pneumonia. Mrs. George Hershman of Crown Point came Monday evening to attend the funeral of her step-moth-er, Mrs. Jasper Wright, Tuesday. Several from here attended the Thomas Martin funeral at Brook Friday. The deceased was an uncle to George Corbin and Harvey Goff. George Hershman of Crown Point will speak at the Community church on Sunday evening. He will give an address on patriotism. All are cordially invited. Mrs. Jasper Makeever went to Rensselaer Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Joseph V. Parkinson. Mrs. Parkinson has been removed to the county hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Marion and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark of Leesburg are here. They came to attend the funeral of the ladies’ mother, Mrs. Jasper Wright. Charley Parker’s ten-year-old twin boys and sister, Miss Martha, returned to their home in Remington > Monday after a week’s visit with their cousin, Mrs. Jay Miller.

D. L. Halstead sold his sixty head of feeding cattle this ween to Granville Mdody of north of Rensselaer. we understand he got 14c f.'r them and they <;ame to something like $l5O per head. Jack Ulyatt lost no time in starting the wrecking of the old school house, which he boivght Saturday evening. He let the contract to Tom Mitchell, who with Harvey Goff began work bright and early Monday morning. The sale held and supper given by the Ladies’ Aid last Saturday were an unqualified success. $72 was taken in and as the expenses were less than $lO, the ladies are supremely happy; Everybody cordially thanks everybody else. Mrs. Charles Battleday, who was in the Wesley hospital a week or ten days, returned home last Tuesday. Mrs. Battleday is suffering from kidney trouble, but the authorities at the hospital thought her case hardly justified an operation.

Mr. and Mrs. Leni.ma Hickman came Monday, called here by the death of Mrs. Hickman's aunt, Mrs. Jasper Wright. They had been visiting at Wright’s on Sunday and left a short w’hile before Mrs. Wright away. They left her Sunday evening feeling quite well for her. Miss Susie Wood returned here Thursday after a visit since the close of her school at her home at Jonesboro, and on Saturday she in company with Miss Lucy (Harris, went to Terre Haute where they will attend normal school the coming summer. Miss Marie Harris expects to join them as soon as her school work is finished in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, editor of the Newton County Enterprise, Mr. and Mrs. Jake White, Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Schanlaub and Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Davis, all of Kentland, were over Saturday to help bid farewell to the old school house. They arrived in time to dine with the ladies of the Aid, who served a bountiful chicken dinner at 6 o’clock.

•Quite a goodly crow*d assembled here Saturday afternoon for the selling of the old school house and the outbuildings and stoves, which the trustee, George Hopkins, by authority of his office, had advertised to sell on that date. Attorney Ted Cunningham acted as the auctioneer, selling the small out buildings first. The closet went to W. W. Miller for sl, and the coal house to C. H. Stucker for $17.50. The stoves were then sold to several bidders, ranging in price from a dollar and a half to $37.50. The stove that sold for $37.50 is a room furnace and was bought by Charles Fleming for

the U. B. church. The bidding was then directed to the building itself, and while it was by no means spirited Mr. Cunningham managed to work them along up to S3OO where it was knocked off to Jack Ulyatt. We are told that the original bill for the lumber used in the structure was $1,500.