Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

PINE GROVE „ Planting corn is the order of the day. Uncle Newt Price is very poorly at this writing. Creola Torhet spent Sunday with Mae and Eliza Hurley. Mrs. Sarah McCleary’s condition remains about the same. . .Sunday sdhool at Independence at 2:30. Everybody invited. Mrs. Ida Yore is staying with

Mrs. Sarah McCleary this week. Will George has started the frame of Roy Torbet’s new house. Mrs. John Dale and children called on Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family Tuesday evening. Rev. and Mrs. Ade and children of Mt. Ayr called on Newt Price and, family Sunday afternoon.

VIRGIE

Mrs. John Zellers was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. Miss Esther Wiseman was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Lockard are the proud parents of a new baby. Mr. and Mrs. X. Geesa and family visited with Frank Hooper’s Sunday. The road men have moved into John Reed’s 'house near the railroad track. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers and family were Rensselaer goers Tuesday evening. Miss Patience Florence is helping Mrs. \R. L. Budd with house cleaning this week. Mrs. Marion Cooper took her little daughter Lucille to the Mono® doctor Monday. Misses Elsie Zellers, Flossie and Zelah Wiseman spent the week-end with home folks. George Cover and son Robert autoed to Hebron Sunday and Mrs. Cover, who had been visiting relatives there the past two weeks, returned with them. The fine little showers we have been having are sure making the crops and pasture look good. Most everyone will be finished with corn planting this week. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Zellers of Hammond came down Tuesday for a short visit with relatives here before Mr. Zellers jeaves for camp. He expects to he called away soon. Thie little son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Harrington is very ill with an attack of appendicitis. It has not been determined as yet whether or not an operation wjll he necessary. The club met with Mrs. Ogle yesterday afternoon. They worked on hospital shirts. A large number of them is in demand and the ladies are working hard to get them out. Last Sunday the attendance at Sunday school was much better than the preceding Sundays, and the crowd promises to be larger tomorrow. Come and bring your neighbor with you. Word has been received by his parents that Earl Wiseman, who has been in training at Camp Taylor, Ky. is on his way to a camp near Washington, D. C. Just what camp he will be stationed at is not yet known.

MT. AYR Mr. and Mrs. Will Donaldson were Monon visitors Thursday. Bruce Hardy was home from Aberdeen, S. D., a short while this week.

Ed. Denniston and Cecil Lee of Foresman were callers here a short while Wednesday. Mieses Ruby, 'Vera and Lera Standish were callers in Goodland Thursday evening. Wj. W. Miller got a fine well of white sulphur Water at a little under the 200-foot mark. J. B. Ashby went to Kankakee, 111., Friday, where he visited a few days, and then went on to Chicago, returning home today. The workers on razing the old school building have made good progress and will complete the job by the end of this week. Mrs. Maude Elijah went as far as Logansport with the Dirsts and from there took the train to Royal. Center to visit her mother. Rev. Ade and family visited Monday at Greenhill, Ind., with Mrs. Ade’s parents. IHer brother answered the call of our country on Tuesday. Pete White was home for a few days the past week, due to a breakdown on the dredge he helps to operate and which is at work near Parr. Little Fred Hardy is spending this week on the farm, being the guest of his uncle, Kenton Parkinson, in Barkley township, north ol Rensselaer.

. Elder McKenzie, Rev. P. V. Roberts and wife and Jay Makeever took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shriven. A bounteous chicken dinner was the report. , Relatives have received stork cards here announcing the arrival of a seven-pound boy in the home of Riley Ashby at Gary. Riley is now employed in the postoffice at Gary. Representative Logan Wood of Rensselaer will deliver the address on Memorial Sunday at the Community church. The old soldiers will be recognized. Hour of service is 8 p. m. Dink Cox came up Friday from Earl Park to bid bis brother and family good-bye before departing for the service of Uncle Sam. Link, together with thirty-iwo others, left Monday for Columbus Barracks at Columbus,Ohio. Mrs. W. A. Davis of Kniman vis T ited relatives and friends here over

Sunday. She came down Saturday, returning home Monday afternoon. Mrs. Davis says W. A is well along with his planting and his seed thus far seems to be coining fine. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burns and family motored to Thornhope Sunday and visited the family of Frank’s sister, Mrs. Solomon Hatfield, and the family of his niece, Mrs. Simon Denney. Mr. Burns’ nephew, Claude Bucks, returned with them for a week’s visit. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Dirst and son Paul motored to Marion Saturday, returning Monday. Mrs. DirstX. brother, Amos Coovert, leaves with the group of men for the training camp from Marion this week, which was the occasion of the Dirst’s visit. Virgil Coovert accompanied them to bid his brother good-bye. At the home of the bride near Brook occurred the marriage of Miss Elsie Montgomery to Mr. Noland BeLong on Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. The wedding was a quiet one, only the immediate relatives being present. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Wilson of Brook. The contracting parties are among the best young folks of the community and we bespeak for them a happy and useful life. J. K. Hord and daughter. Miss Waive, of Marion county, Ohio, are visiting the Makeever families of North Star. Mn Hord will go on to Shelbyville, 111., in a few days, where he will visit a sister, whom he has not seen in a number of years. Miss Waive will remain here for some time. Mr. Hord says the seed corn condition is about the same in. his country adhere and anticipates considerbale planting over to get a good stand.

RENSSELAER. IND.