Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1918 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS Health still continues good in our town. s F. R. Erwjn got in a car lead of coal the first if the voik. The plasterers are getting along fine with the new school house. Mrs. Lemel of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. Eggleston, on the farm. The Monon bridge carpenters are week repairing the depot and stock pens. Crops of all kinds are growing fine, and we get a nice shower every two or three days. Bert Warne and family ‘'Forded'’ over to (Hoopeston, Illinois, Saturday, returning Monday. Sam Karr and Enos Moffitt made a business trip to Wheatfield, Demotte and Thayer Monday. The piekLe company has been having some of their pickles barreled and shipped away the past week. Paul Barker went to Chicago Monday to join the marines, but was rejected on account of being too young. Dr. J. Hansson was in our town Tuesday evening with one of his famous Overlands, .and it was some fine auto, too, Enos Moffitt, Sam Potts and Arthur Ropp are building a new wire fence for Dave Leatherman over about Blackford rthis week. There was something like 150 of borsgs shipped down from -o last week and put in the pasture on the Lawler ranch. Wayne Call and'wife of Chicago Heights came down in their new Chevrolet auto Sunday and visited Ihis brother Fred here and his parents at Roselawn. Harry Young and wife were called to New Philadelphia Saturday on account of the death of the lat-' ter’s father and the serious injury of her mother, Mr. and Mrs. Dozgell, which was caused in an automobile accident.

Mike Shein, wife and son Robert of Monon came up Sunday and 6 visited her father, Ike Kight, during the day. Ike is a good cook alright, for he has been having plenty of practice the past five or six weeks while his wife is visiting at Indianapolis, but he says it is fine to have a change once in a while. Mr. Miles of west of town got a telegram* the latter part of the week stating thatr daughter, Mrs. R. O. Wickham, was seriously ill. They had a son born to them on Sunday and on Tuesday a cyclone passed through their country (Nebraska) that swept nearly everything in its path. It blew the roof off their house, and the excitement was too great for Mrs. Wickttiam. Mrs. Miles went there Thursday, and the last report was that she was making some improvement.

Everett Parker spent Monday etvening with Mr. and Mrs. James Davis of Laura. Dick Gassaway and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Estel Marion. Pauline Gilbrdnson of Rensselaer is helping Mrs. George Davisson olean house this week. \ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McCoy and daughter spent Sunday afternoon with James" Davis and family. Everett and Orpha Parker returned home Sunday after attending grand lodge at Indianapolis, and also visiting relatives at Lebanon and Lizton. Nile Britt also returned home Saturday after visiting relatives at Attica.

GIFFORD Mrs. Ethel Xuss is 'better at this writing. Wanted —Some dry weather and sunshine. \ Ralph Timmons spent Sunday in our town. Mineck is working for John Walker* Earl Griggs of San Pierre was in town Monday. Ted&y Keen visited over Sunday with home folks,. Several from nere were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Dave Spriggs called on George Lambert Sunday afternoon. Sunday school every Sunday at .10:30 a. m. Everybody come. *' Lemuel Stockwell visited with home folks the first of the week. Miss Ida Davis of Boswell visited over Sunday and Monday with her mother here. * Tpm Parker of Possum Run was in Gifford Wednesday Shaking hands with old acquaintances. W. T. Hankins received four and one-half barrels of flour Tuesday, which sold very briskly. Mr. Barker of McCoysbery visited here over Saturday night with relatives. and felso to attend lodge. Grandma Steel is improving at this report. Her daughter, Mrs. Laura Antrim, and two children of Gary, are visiting her. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Samuelson and little daughter Dorothy of Chicago visited relatives here from Saturday until Monday. ,

John Bicknell has his store unlocked and we are glad to have it open. Mr. Bicknell visited the clerk at the store Tuesday. The heavy rains we have had have flooded the marshes, and also done much damage to onions along the dredge ditches in the'low lands. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tanner were Rensselaer goers Tuesday, they having two nephews, John Moore and Floyd Griggs, leaving for the training camp that day. Mrs. Eva Caster accompanied her mother. Mrs. Hewett, to MeCoysburg Saturday, the latter returning to her home in Francesville after a week’s visit with her daughter. Two more of our popular young men were called to the colors Tuesday, William Dunn and Carl Stockwell. They will be in training at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. We wish the boys good luck. : Walter Conn and Albert Kerns, who were mentioned in last week's items, were sent to Columbus, 0., instead of Camp Taylor, there having been some misunderstanding as to when the boys were going. Reuben Snyder and daughter Irene, who had been out in North Dakota, had returned to Clifiton a week ago, returned here Wednesday for a short visit. He is going back to Clinton, Illinois, and will visit at Summerville for a while with his cousin. He is getting along fine since returning from the West.

PARR Help win the war; buy War Savings Stamps! Everyone is busy plowing corn—between showers. The strawberries are beginning to ripen around here. Health still continues quite good in our neighborhood. Several young people froip . here went on a picnic (Sunday. /Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hammerton and family were Brook goers Sunday. Miss Lulu Rowen and brother Orval of Lafayette visited relatives here over Sunday. George H. iHammerton was a Rensselaer goer Saturday/ and came home driving a new “Tin Kizzie.” One of George Hammerton’s horses, which got out of the pasture Sunday night, was killed by the stock train. A party was given Monday evening in honor of the boys who left Tuesday for Camp Taylor. The party was given by the Lakin girls. Ross Rowen and little daughter Jeannette visited his parents in Lafayette over Sunday. Mrs. Rowen has been in quite poor health but is improving now. Elijah Cunningham and Beatrice Piatt were married Saturday, May 25. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham are making their home with the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Piatt. LEE Ou,r minister, Rev. Blom’berg, was entertained over Sunday at Ray Holeman’s. Mr. Trout shipped out three car loads of fat hogs from here Saturday evening. C. A. Lefler and wife and daughter Frances spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Estel Osborne. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lewis and their children and families met at the formers’ home last Sunday. Mrs. Ethel Otterberg and son Alford spent Tuesday here with her parents, G. A. Jacks and wife. Frank EJdridge and family were in Monon Tuesday to see his doctor. He is improving in some ways, Mrs. G. A. Jacks has been very sick during the past week with sciatic rheumatism, but is better at this writing. Mrs. Vernon Jacks and son have been visiting her husband’s parents before going to their new home at Gary. Mrs. Vernon Jacks and son Jack went from here to Lafayette Wednesday, evening to visit her mother for a few days. The Sunday guests of J. H. Culp and family were Sam Griffith and Elmer Gilmore 0 and their families and Mr. and Mr§. Roy Culp.

The ice cream social that w r as given here Saturday evening for the Red Cross was a grand success. They cleared better than s4l. Lowell Mbrtoar was called for army service Tuesday. His wife came home to live with her par-j ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Jacks. Mrs. Fred Rishling of Renssel- 1 aer and grandson came Wednesday | evening to see her sister, Mrs. Ann Rishling, and also be here for Dec- j oration day. On Thursday of last week S. M. Jacks and wife, Mrs. Q, A. Jacks, Mbs. O. E. Noland and Miss Agnes Stiers attended the Sunday school comfvention at Brookston. Quite a number of People from here attended the Memorial day services in Monon Thursday afternoon. The Momon Liberty Guards took part in the exercises. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman and daughter Dicie of Barkley and Mr. and Mrs. Charley Smith and little daughter of Gillam took Sunday dinner with Harry Rishling and wife. W. E. Jacks and wife of near Rensselaer were here Monday forenoon on relatives. They left thar afternoon 'for a month’s visit with relatives in Nebraska and Kansas. Mrs. Anna Warner and son Paul autoed from Kankakee, Illinois, Wednesday - and stayed over night at S. W. Noland’s. They brought Alvin Clark and wife with them, and the two latter stayed over night at H. C. Anderson’s. They all came to spend Decoration day at the cemetery.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune)' Alex Miller of Columbia City is here visiting relatives and old friends. Will Hough and family of near Rensselaer were Sunday visitors at IHirami Ashby’s. Merle Bringle and family of near Foresman took Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hopkins. Ernest Lamson, former county superintendent of the Jasper cbunty schools, was a caller here Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Meryy, Miss Blanche Merry and Mrs. J. R. Sigler visited in the home of Harry Wild in Goodland Thursday. \ Mrs. C. J. . Hopkins and son Pfriinmer came over from Donovan, Illinois, Saturday evening, returning Sunday evening. Dan Chupp was here from Parr Saturday to comsumate the sale of his forty.-acre farm in the Tolin neighborhood to Levi Stutzman. Mrs. Bela F. Roberts returned Tuesday from Indianapolis, where she represented the Rensselaer- Re-

bekah lodge in the grand encampment., Frank Deweese, L. E. Ponsler’s obliging clerk, was in Indianapolis a few days the past week as a delegate to the grand lodge of the I. O. O. F. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Noland of Rensselaer wpre' the Sunday guests of Arthur Anderson and wife. Mrs. Noland was formerly Miss Grace Anderson. Miss Dorothy Sigler, who spent the past two weeks in Chicago, returned home Sunday. Her grandmother, Mrs. Sigler, returned with her and will probably spend the summer here. Ira Cbnpp has been on the sick list for the past few days. It was reported that he had attack of apipendicitis, but it developed that his trouble came from the stomach and bladder- He is much better now. Claude Seward, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Ollie Seward, went to Warsaw Thursday' where they will visit Fred Seward. Claude will return in a few days, but Mrs. Seward expects to remain for a longer visit with her son. Miss Orphia Barton arrived home Wednesday evening from Valparaiso for 'her summer vacation. She was accompanied home by Mr. Emil Nelson, who spent a few days at the Barton’s before going to Rockford, Illinois, to enlist as a bookkeeper

in the quartermaster’s department of Uncle Sam’s army. Jonas Chupp, oldest son of MT. and Mrs. Eli Chupp, died very suddenly early Wednesday morning from rheumatism of the heart. The little * fellow had waded in water when it was yet cold in the spring that brought on a rheumatic condition which led to the heart trouble which caused his demise. Jonas was a, very bright little fellow and bore his differing patiently. The parents are badly broken up over their loss and find it hard to become reconciled to his being taken ko early in life.

REMINGTON (From the Press)

Peter Geib has been confined to hft bed this week'with heart trouble. Mrs. Louis Tharp of Chicago is visiting at the home of her udcle, H. H. Walker. Pro£. F. L. Wildrick went to Morocco Sunday, and from there

will go to Chicago., Mrs. Will Hallihan and little daughter Vera have been spending the past two weeks in Indianapolis with her sisters. Mr. J. Rhind of Hammond will fill the pulpit at the Presbyterian church both morning and evening •on Sunday, June 2. Dr. C. Roy Johnston and family and Mr. and Mrs. William Shorbe of Decatur, Illinois, spent Sunday and Monday with the Johnston’s. Lee Foster, wife and baby of Walton, Indiana, came Saturday for a few days’ visit with the family of Joe Denton and other.Jriends. Vernon Julian and Marion Sutherland passed the examination at Indianapolis and left for Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, Thursday night. Both boys go as bakers. John W. Taylor and daughter, Miss Stella, have returned from a two weeks visit at Warsaw. They were accompanied home by Miss Hazel Jamison, a granddaughter of Mr. Taylor. '“‘V-v M. A. Gray and family autoed, to Valparaiso Sunday, returning the same evening, accompanied by their daughter, Miss 'Hazel, who 'has been' attending school there this winter and spring. George Hascall seems to be the superintendent of the war garden industries of Remington, afid is making a special effort to see that C, 11. Peck, Dr. Robinson and W. E.

Johnston do their bit in this line. Louis and Marguerite Pepin of Harvey, Illinois, came Saturday to spend the week-end with friends here. They returned home TuesHicks, who will make a short visit! day morning, accompanied by Dori# j there. Mrs. Rudell Bates went to Louisville, Ky., Wednesday to join her husband, who has employment there. Sitoce their marriage a few weeks ago Mrs. Bates has been staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Cummons. €ar<Ls have been received here announcing the marriage August 25, 1917, at St. Joe, Mich,, of Miss Hazel Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Simons of Monticello, and Mr. Arion Griffin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Griffin, also of Monticello. Arion is a former Remington lad and has hosts of friends here ,who will join the Press in wishing the young people all manner of happiness. Argentina requires imported potatoes to be accompanied by certificates showing that they were grown in sanitary soil.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY. The oats crop Is looking fine, with wheat and rye a close second. The Thayer Oil Co. is preparing to resume the work of drilling more wells this spring, we are told. It is simply amazing how the owner of a flock of sheep bears up under the present "ruinous” price of wool. The order compelling loafers to hunt a job, among other things, will just about bust up the local Iward of strategy. Grandmother Wootin of south Colfax township is very low at the present writing, due to paralysis. She will hardly recover. If the man who eats onions as a "beverage’’ could attract fame in proportion to his ability to attract attention —but what's the use? Evidently the Colonel never heard of the “Wise old owl that sat in an oak; the more he heard the less tie spoke,” or words to that effect. The seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli (hupp, living in north Jackson township, died the fore part of last week from heart trouble. Give a saloon-keeper enough rope and he will hang himself every time. Just stand aside now and watch the owners of those Beaverville “joints" work their own destruction. Wade Makeever, one of Uncle Sam’s boys, left last Friday to begin camp life. Wade is among

Jackson township's best and most highly respected young men. The authors of much of the current home-made poetry, lambasting Dutch Bill, have disregarded the feelings of the American reader, it would seem, almost altogether. A heavy and most untimely rain fell in this locality Friday of last week. A number of farmers were on the last lap of plantings—a few planting the Second time—-and the delay caused by the rain was felt most keenly. ! recil Rafferty, aged about twen-ty-two, of Morocco, died Thursday of last week in a sahitorium at Colorado Springs, of consumption. Young Rafferty died just a day fore he was due to be called tor army service. Seed corn, as a rule, is proving fairly good, though a few farmers had to plant the second time. Foster Brunton of Mt. Ayr, probabry was the hardest bit on poor shed corn, having* been compelled to replant something like 100 acres. It is the Eskimo's creed that a man never talks about difficulties

and dangers, but overcomes them. How nice for all concerned if a certain class of men would annex themselves to the lowly Eskimo’s ideas along the above lines, for the duration of the war at least. '•The best means of ridding corn fields of cutworms is in the use of poison bran mash,” says a farm paper. Trust the average farm paper to hand out useless advice. How in the name of common- sense could a farmer feed bran mash to a hundred acres of cutworms? If you happen to be the owner of a good- w r alnut tree don’t let someone ilim-flam you out of it. Walnut trees are badly needed now for gun stocks and are so scarce that government agents are buying walnut shade trees in front of farmers’ homes. Sell your walnut timber to Uncle Sam. Acting upon the advice of six local newspapers, two dailies and seven farm journals, the,writer this spring tested his seed corn three times, branded earih ear and gave it a name and a number, and in all of his experience as a roundshouldered agriculturist he never got poorer results from seed corn. Farmers in the northern part of the county are looking’ forward hopefully to a prosperous season. The weather so far has been reasonably favorable for farm work in that locality, and if the Weather man will do his part from now pn, there is no apparent reason why northern Newton should not be able to report one of the best crops in its history. At the present writing this country could use a large number of men like the prophet Ezekial, who saw his city destroyed, his people taken captive, and still could write with full faith of the great and better city that was to come. We could find a place, too, no . doubt, for a few like old Isaiah, who re-j ports that: "They helped everyone! his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, ‘Be of good courage.’ So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoteth with the hammer him that smote the anvil.” It is strange how a little thing .will often bring up old memories. Just the other day a man called us up on the phone, and in language that was -fearfully and wonderfully made, asked when that stone road from Jack Brown’s corner north to the township line was going to he built. And right away it came to our mind that in the dim and misty past we helped to build a few rods of this road in order to bring it within the three-mile limit, and at that time we understood that the road would be built within a year at least. We told the man who .called us up to be patient. That voting the straight. Democratic ticket’ is conducive to old age there is not the slightest doubt. F’rexampe, there is. our Marcus Erastus Septaculus Bolley. Now, Marcus must be crowding seventyfive pretty Closely, but you’d never believe it to see him doing his bit in the field. Puts out a crop of forty acres of oats and as much corn, and does practically all of the wor}c himself. And then there is our own Uncle Ransom Elijah. Ransom is still older than Marcus Erastus—-is able to hark back to the time when the warwhoop of the untptored red man rent the damp night air a-nd when the wild hog rubbed its spine reflectively against the underpihnin’ of the rude log cabin —but show us the young man of thirty who is more active than Uncle Ransom. It can’t be done. Next comes Noah Shriver, who, as the darkly would say, Is almost a "centurion.” If Noah had been on the Western Front when the Huns ■began pushing our allies things would have gone differently. Cause why? Cause Noah wouldn’t have stood for any pushing. See? "And, (furthermore, we’ll waggr our hogskin saddle that Noah, singlehanded and alone, could whip any four garlic-eating Huns that ever muriered a helpless babe or tor-

tured a wounded prisoner. Quite a few people labor under the delusion, seemingly, that the only worth-while quality possessed by good old Job was patience, an idea which, by the way, does the man an. injustice. For when unaccompanied by the requisite amount of stamina to produce corn and oats, hogs, beans and alfalfa, is the very hardest in the whole catalog of human virtues to negotiate at the hank, or exchange for a pair of rattlesnake pants or for* - American groceries. Come to think of it, the ornriest man we river constantly on hand the largest supply of mixed apd assorted patience to be found in the whole community. There is one thing in particular that we like about Job. With all of his so-called patience Jot)—l’liineas T. Job, Esq., of the Uz —was a hustler, as is shown by the fact that he possessed seven thousand sheeq, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred mules, besides owning a half interest in the Slabtown grist mill and a nice little of stock in the J. D. & U. narrow guage - railroad. So th« reader will readily see that in the matter of laying up something for a cold, rough day job was a .screauv ing suePess, considering that he lived in an uncongenial climate and most of the time under Republican administrations. History contains the name of no -man who could stand the *g»ff with as little beefing about it as Mr. Job. When messengers came and informed him that the Sabeans had -stolen his oxen, when fire from heaven burned up his sheep, when the Chaldeans stampeded his camels and a Philistine sword swallower stole "Old Dan,’’ his saddle mule, did Job rave and carry on ? Not on your life. Job simply ripped his Prince Albert up the hack and fell down and worshipped. That was Job out. and out. When we come to Think of the brand of language which a free-born American citizen would have used on this occasion Job’s conduct seems most admirable. When Job’s wife ’ran away with an agent for a hair restorer Job pursued the even tenor of his way, with nary a word of complaint, t and in less than two -months Was | quietly and unobstruslvely courting I the widow Doolin, living down where ! the old Purdy road crossed Gimlet Creek and who owned as likely a hunch of Aberdeen Polled camels as could be found in all that section. Another thing about Job, and we came near forgetting it, he disliked being pitied. Therefore when Ellphaz, Bildad and Zopbar, three of his friends, came to offer their sympathy Job plainly gave them to understand that thcdr room was preferable to their company. When they made the mistake of persisting* in their efforts to comfort Job the good man, for tfie first time in his life, lost his temper, and, laying his quid of tobacco on the gate post and removing his plug hat, he proceeded to polish off those three men in a way and -manner that caused his sheep herders to roll on the • sward roar with laughter. There are people who will tell you that .Job was the author of the Statement: “Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of prunes,” but Job didn’t say it, although we believe he did say something that might possibly he warped and twisted into the above assertion. Kind and benevolent old Job! lie’s dead now, poor fellow, a piece of news that will be received with surprise arid the most poignant grief, no doubht, by those who have gone right on deluding themselves with the belief that Jab was still alive and doing w T ell.