Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS G. I. Thomas of Remington made a short call here Monday. J. J. Lawler shipped several car loads of cattle from here Tuesday evening. Enos Moffitt left here the latter part of the week for Montana, where he has taken up a homestead. Simon Thompson of Rensselaer came up Monday and delivered one of those “Tin Lizzies" to Ahe Bringle. A. D. Washburn and son Howard came up from Washington the first of the week and began plowing sod with their tractor. Abe Bringle, wife and daughter, spent a few hours with his brother. William, and F. L. Yeoman at the home of the former in Rensselaer Sunday. There were forty-one army trucks passed through on Che stone road four miles west of here last Sunday, which did considerable damage to the roads. Mr. Eggleston was taken to Rensselaer last week and underwent a very serious operation, and the last report was that he was getting along as well as could be expected. We are needing a good soaking rain now, as it has been very hot and dry for about a week or ten davs. Last Friday night it was quite cool and in some parts there was some frost, especially on the mqck ground. It nipped the corn in places quite badly. The new school house is nearing completion. The plasterers will be done in a few days and the carpenters are getting along very rapidl* laying floors and otherwise finishing. The got the' blackboards put in last week. The schools are beginning to prepare for the graduation exercises which they aim to hold in the new school house in the near future. LEE Roy Heltzel and family had company from Medaryville last Sunday. Mrs. G. A. Jacks still continues quite poorly with sciatic rheumatism. 0. A. Jacks and wife spent Sunday in Monticello with his brother William and wife. Most everybody from here attended the Childrens Day exercises at Monon chapel last Sunday afternoon. Korah Eldridge and family of McCoysburg spent last Sunday here with his brother Frank and family. Louis Anderson of Atlanta. Georgia, came Monday to visit his brother, H. C. Anderson, and family, for an indefinite time. Ezra Eldridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eldridge, has enlisted in the coast artillery. He went to Hammond last Monday and from there to Indianapolis. _ Mrs. Olive Stewart and two children of near Crawfordsville and her sister, Mrs’ Lena Smith and two children of Battle Ground, were here during the past week visiting relatives and friends north of to* n. A squad of Liberty Guards from Monon were here Saturday evening and gave some of their drill work. Sixteen new members joined the Guards that evening, and more have said they were going to join right away. There will be Sunday school at 9 o’clock next Sunday, June 16, then a basket dinner in the grove. The Children’s Day exercises will begin promptly at 1 o'clock. Everybody bring their dinner and spend an enjoyable day. GIFFORD News is scarce with us this week. Samuel Davis of Rensselaer spent Sunday with home folks. Charles Scott and family spent Sunday near Medaryville. Sunday school every Sunday at 10:30 a. m. Everybody come. A minister from Texas held services here the first of this week. Charley Parker of Possum Run called on his best girl here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ballard of Medaryville spent Sunday with home folks. Sylvia Lambert, who is working at Monon, and friend, Ed. Wilson, spent Sunday with her father and sisters. Word w’as received here by relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Tim Perkins of Saybrook, Illinois, that they were

i the parents of a girl, born June 1. George Steel of Montana is here : visiting his parents. He says crops look good out there, and that he has out eighty acres of flax which I looks fine but needs rain. Clarence Zook, familiarly known as -Bunk," who was mentioned in this paper recently, arrived in our burg Friday after visiting the two states that he had not visited in his previous travels. -Bunk” is I called to the colors and will go to the training camp June 24. \ He was transferrei to Rensselaer from northern California. POSSUM RUN ■' Ada Hahn spent Sunday with , Violet Cover. < Several from this vicinity spent , Sunday at Cedar Lake. 1 Golda Hurley spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. Mrs. James Davis helped Orpha and Myrtle Parker paper last week. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. ■ James Davis is, not so well this week. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder spent, Sunday with Clyde Davisson and family. Charley Parker spent Tuesday i ' evening . with • Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charley Brouhard. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker. T. J. Parker aid .son sold a few . head of cattle to Mr. Guild of Medaryville this week. J. Parker, son and daughters and Mrs- E. A. Merrily were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beaver and daughter spent Sunday afternoon ■ with James Davis and family. four corners ■ William Jeffers and family made a flying trip to Chicago Sunday. They returned the same day or night. Lee E. Noland of White county came Thursday for a few days visit with his daughter. Mrs. F. W. Fisher. Good wheal and oats weather but ardittle too coo! at this writing for corp, although' it is making fair growth. Allie Cullen./who was called home from Camp Taylor on account of the death of his sister, returned to camp Tuesday. Davis & Will are sawing out a log yard for John Cooper, who purchased the Maguire land in Kankakee township. Gilbert Seegrist has purchased a Ford tractor of the agent at Wheatfield. Gilbert says it rides as rough at a Woodman goat. John Allen ®f Kankakee, Illinois, stepped off between trains at Wheatfield Saturday to see his mother and say hello to fais many friends. j Pat Maloney, now in France, has been given his commission as pilot, ! and is now one of the U- S. sky birds with all roads leading to Berlin. i F. W. Fisher had a letter from his son Warren at Hattiesburg, which stated that they had taken ■ 1,100 more out of the camp for * France. ! Charles Whitaker and family of Hammond took dinner with F. W. Fisher and family Sunday. They drove back to Hammond in the evening. I Guy Minor and John Fenzel, who are in training at Lafayette, spent I Sunday with home folks. They expect to be called for actual war work the last" of this month. Mr. Duggleby of Kankakee township is contemplating the establishment of a free bus line to Renssel- • aer and all other points of interest, good until after the next election. ; J. W. Mannan went to Lacross Monday to help out with the harvest I work, doing his mite to help win this, his second war. He is one of i the few G. A R-’s that are left, but is full of pluck and patriotism. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig reI ceived a letter a few days ago from I France from their son Allen, written the 6th of May, in which tie states that he is now a corporal j and says, •'tell the boys to get busy ! and sign up. as they are missing the of a lifetime.’’ Frank Boes, one of the boys i from Tefft that was sent to Camp i Gordon. Georgia, and who was ‘.stricken with-.ah. attack of pneu- ! monia and measles, is not recovering as fast as his friends would like to see. A letter from the hos- ■ pital to his parents states the measles had settled in his feet and that he had been removed to another hospital for treatment. Let qs hope that the next report will tie ■ more satisfactory. News was received here a few days ago of the death of Marion Sands of Lansing, Michigan. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Sands t»f Tefft and had spent his boyhood days *o Kankakee township. Later her rented a-, farm near Rensselaer and from there moved to Michigan. He was industrious and honest, and made friends of all with whom he came in contact. The family and relatives have the sympathy of this community in their loss. A large number of relatives and sympathetic friends paid their last respects and followed to the Catho-

lic cemetery the remains of Mary Cullen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Cullen of Tefft. Miss Cullen had been employed as nurse at the Lakeside hospital, Chicago, for some time and was taken ill and lived but a few days. Her remains were brought to Tefft on the 10 a. m. train Saturday and buried Mpm the Catholic church at San Pierre, of which' she was a member, at 9 a. m. Monday. Seven nurses from the hospital were in attendance and acted as pallbearers. The offering of flowers was beautiful, but the hearts of all were sad, and few there were who did not shed tears of sympathy for the bereaved family. Obituary, Arthur Marion Sands was born at Tefft, Indiana, January 6, 1877, and died June 5, 1918, aged fortyone years, five months and twentynine days. He was united in marriage December 22, 1,909, to Mrs. Myra Culp at Rensselaer. To this union three children were born, Lydia Ellen, 'Clarence Marion and , Goldie Lorean. The last six years he has made his home on a farm’ near Lansing, Michigan, until one week before he died he moved to the city of Lansing. He was a sufferdr from cancer of the stomach the last year of his life, but was patient in j his suffering and was only waiting and praying for the end to relieve his physical pain. He was a devoted member of the Methodist church and attended services faithfully up to 'thin two weeks of his death. 'His place of worship was not. vacant. He leaves to mourn their loss a wife, thrqe children, three step sons, a mother, father, four brothers and two sisters, besides a host of friends. At his the remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Lansing at 2 p. m. June 7.

JA< 'KSON TO WNSHIP, N E WTON COUNTY

We never saw corn fields so clean at this season of the year. Wheat harvest is just over the ridge and coming on at a gallop. This will be the earliest wheat harvest in years. Noah Miller is constructing a bean huller. Noah tells us that the bean acreage in this locality is the largest ever known. What has become of the old-fash-ioned hypocrite who was first in i prayer, first in love and last to leave | the mourners’ bench so long as an attractive sister remained? In other words, the Hearst newspapers, it seems, are disloyal be-; cause they obstinately refuse to back the Colenel in his abuse of | the present administration. Frost on Friday night of last week nipped some of the corn in < the marshes, but with no worse re-' suit, it is believed, than to put the crop back perhaps a week or so. I Forty big army trucks passed through north Jackson township last Sunday. The trucks were headed ( for Morocco, but the men in charge of them got mixed up slightly as to the route, it seems, Clarence Blankenbaker and his three sons returned the fore part of of the week from a pleasant visit with relatives in the eastern part $f this state. They report good crops all along their line of travel. Kentland is preparing for a big time on the Fourth of July. Soldiers, marching, drilling, sham battles, patriotic speehes and- —well, you’ll be there so what’s the use taking up space trying to tell you about it. The writer took a ride through northern Newton county last Sunday and was agreeably surprised to see crops generally in such good condition, and especially is this true of small grain crops, which give promise of an extraordinary big yield. And then, too, the man who makes a practice of boasting that he newer splits his ticket finds the road to Tipperary long and the traveling somewhat slavish when in the course of human events he becomes a candidate and” goes outside of his party on the hunt for votes. Honest Abe, the carrier, has given us three fair and square warnings that he is liable to appear over the horizon in a brand-new Ford now most any day. Old ‘George,” no doubt, would be almost tickled to death at this change in the manner of Uncle Sam’s mail. High price of tobacco, w r e observe, is causing quite a number of users of the weed to try raising their own tobacco this year. As a result

of this effort we shall more than likely again hear such well-remem-bered old-time expressions as "gi’me a chaw of long green,” “got any kill-dad about your clothing” or “hair in the nose?” Hamlin Smith, showed us his war garden last Sunday and it is. some garden. Everything from stringbeans ‘to the lowly ground cherry and a great abundance of each and every variety. Hamlin, it was quite evident, would have liked very much to have claimed entire credit for this garden, but was prevented from doing so by the presence of his wife. While rounding a thicket the other day Albert Robinson came face to face with a fox in hot pursuit of a hen turkey. The fox seemed surprised at meeting Albert on this suspicious occasion and Showed it by turning tail and pushing on the atmosphere with an enthusiasm that was helped along somewhat by a barnage which Albert laid down in Reynard’s immediate rear. Come to think of it, now, there is lots of human nature in the reasons given by Artemus Ward for falling in loye with Nancy Ann. “You see,’’ said Artemus, “her Pap’s farm j’ined our’n, their old mare and our’n both had stars in their fore’ads, and it was a sublime sight to see Nancy’s mother and mine makin’ cider apple butter in the back yard and aboosin’ of ■the neighbors.” That singer from Indianapolis I who entertained the people of North Star last Sunday-—we are unable to I recall his name —does not possess w'hat might be termed a lithe, willowy form. On the contrary he is big, big as a hipped-roof barn and then some. As an indication of his bigness we submit the following which he tells on himself: Not long ago he went into a restaurant and asked a boy, who was standing behind the counter, if they gave meals. I “Yep,” said the boy, sizing the sing:er up, “but we’re not fillin’ silos.” Why did Bud leave the farm? Well, for several reasons. Firstly, Dad howled his head off if the boy wanted a half-day off occasionally; Secondly, Dad howled his head off I again if the lad spent ten minutes I reading the newspaper or some good book; Thirdly, Dad howled 'some more if Bud wanted a tailor- ! made suit of clothes instead of an

ill-fitting suit of hand-me-downs; the poor lad never had a dollar that he could call his own; the boy's pig became Dad's sow and the boy’e calf became Dad's, cow. There were other good and sufficient reasons why Bud left the farm, but these will answer for the present. Dr. E. R. Schanlaub, veterinarian, ought to be handled. Last Thursday, while driving through the negro settlement north of Morocco, he came across an old darkey in the road, tugging at an aged and badly dilapidated mule that seemed determined to light it out on that identical spot if it took all summer and well into nexi winter. “What's the matter, Uncle,” asked the Doc. ‘ Doctah, yo see flat mewl?’’ was the reply. “Certainly, certainly, what about it?” inquired the healer. “Doctah, I bin iieah two hours, two endurin’ hours, pullin' an’ beratin’ dat ongainly critter and I hafnt gained two feet—no, sah, not two mo’tal feet. Whoa, dar, yo’ degen’ate lim’ ob satin, fo’ I bust in yo’ face ’itti this heah fence rail.’’ “That’s a Spanish mule and he doesn't understand you,” remarked the doctor, swrreptlously slipping a vial of “freeze” from his medicine case and approaching the mule. “Look out, now.” Here the healer of equine ills reached for the mule’s left ear, into which he poured the following language: “Eplu-ribusunem, veni-vidi-vici, hiejaeet, ric, die, ban, do,” and at the same time and unobserved by the darkey, poured the contents of the vial on the mule’s back. The result was instantaneous. The next instant the old darkey was lying in the road, heels up, while the mule was steering a course for home at a rate of speed which was simply marvelous in an animal of his age—waiving the remnant of a once noble fail and leaving in his wake a cloud of dust not wholly unlike, that other cloud which guided the children of Israel in their journey through the wilderness. “Dont that beat all, now,” exclaimed the darkey, getting to his feet.' “Jess see what book Farnin’ will do. Heah I bin two hours coaxin’ and tryin’ to, ’suade dat dar mule,- and the doctah comes erlong and jess say sompin in his ear and

right off dat critter do some ob de pootiest knee work 1 evah see. Hjts won’erful, hits de mas' won’erf'ul thing, -doctah, bow yo' keep aS dem jerin ords in you’ haid.” And the doctor left the old man. communing with himself upon the superiority of the white man over the black by reason “ob dat peculia powah’’ possessed by the former as a result of book “Farnin'.”