Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

VIRGIE (Too late for Saturday's issued Charley Wiseman spent over Sunday with home folks. Jessie and Elsie Zellers attended fc week-end house party at Roekfield. Frank Getsnaugh of Rensselaer visited last week at the Reed home. Esther Wiseman is attending school at Indianapolis for six weeks. Miss Mabel Barnes of near Delphi spent the week-end at the Wiseman home. , Mr and Mrs. William Faylor spent Sunday with Thomas Florence and family. Ben Zellers came home Wednesday. he having had his hand injured at the saw mill. Miss Gladvs Halleck of Fair Oaks Visited with' the Misses Elsie and Jessie Zellers Monday, and Tuesday. W. A. McCurtain, who was operated on some time ago for appendicitis. is not getting along so well at this writing. A large crowd attended the Sunday school convention here Sunda?. It was decided to .be held at Fa if Oaks next year. Mrs. George Cover was taken to the Wesley hospital. Chicago. Sundav to be operated on. At last reports she was getting along as ■well as could be expected. Mrs. James Wiseman and daughter Esther were in Chicago last week where they attended the commencement of Indus Wiseman, who graduated from Lakeside hospital. The little threeryear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Harrington passed away Tuesday at the Jasper county hospital. The little fellow had been in a serious condition for some time and his suffering was much. The parents and relatives have the sympathy of the entire community in this sad hour of grief.

FOUR CORNERS Sam Seegrist of Tefft is making good progress on the road to health. Our threshing men, Davis & Will, attended the meeting at the hub Saturday. William Jeffers went to Rensselaer Saturday to the mill and also attended the threshers’ meeting at the court house. Alex Minor made a trip to Valparaiso Saturday for his daughter Muriel, who is taking a course in nursing and spent Sunday at home. F. W. Fisher is visiting his home of boyhood days on the baihks of the Wabash. He goes to the Democratic convention at Indianapolis Tuesday. News was received Saturday that Frank Boes, the Tefft boy who is sick in a training camp in Georgia, was not improving, but on the contrary is losing ground. John Dunn, formerly of Kankakee township, who has been living in Kansas since ’B4, has moved back j to Jasper county and taken up his residence at Dunn's bridge. Obituary of Miss Mary Cullen. The people of this vicinity were shocked on Saturday, June 8, to learn of the sudden death of Mary E. Cullen at the Lakeside hospital, Chicago. Miss Cullen was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. 1. Cullen and had resided in this community all ot her life, with the exception of the past three years, during which time she made her, home in Chicago. Mary Elizabeth Cullen was born! June 27, 1893, and dejarted this life Friday afternoon. June 7, at 3:50 o'clock, her death being due to an acute attack of pericarditis.* She received her education in the -Ban Pierre high school. After finishing her studies there she was not contented to live an idle life and on May 3, 19'15. ° took up the studies, of a nurse at the Lakeside hospital and had faithfully fulfilled the duties of a student nurse during the three years’ training period and received her diploma and school pin on Saturday . evening. June 1. Miss Cullen was one of.the sweetest and noblest of young women, and her loving disposition and character were often taxed by the duties

she had undertaken, hilt She was always able to smile and speak a kind word to her patients. She was loved by all who knew her, and even those who were not -privileged to become intimately acquainted with her loved her. Miss Cullen had not been feeling well for a few days Pflor to her graduation, but on Friday, May 31, she seemed to feel exceptionally good until Tuesday, June 4. She was one of the happiest of her class lon Saturday night, jollying all around her and helping -make the night a success. On Tuesday she complained of feeling ill and was immediately put in the hands of the attending physicians. She apparently was holding her own , until Friday forenoon, when there was a change for the worse, her heart becoming affected. Ail that skilled and loving hands could do was done, but the bud that was opening into young womanhood closed again and our dear one had gone to eternal rest. Har father was with her most of the day Friday and was with her to the last A detailed eulogy of Mary’s life need not be made here, as she was known by every one. Besides the bereaved father and mother she leaves to mourn their loss four brothers and four sisters, namely, Samuel apd William of Hammond, I Alfred of Camp Taylor, Kentucky, i Rachel (Mrs. George Sands), MarI tha (Mrs. John Swing), of Tefft, and Catherine, Margarete and Francis at home. She also leaves one nephew and one niece besides a host of relatives and friends.

. GOODLAND (From the Herald) Miss Vera Smith of Lowell is a guest at the Methodist parsonage. George W. Gilman was a business caller in Chicago Monday and Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Henderson and children autoed to Waynetown Sunday and visited relatives. Mrs. Fred Butler and children left last Saturday for Ironton, Ohio, for a visit with her parents. Doris Kinneman, student at Butler college, came home Monday evening for the summer vacation. Miss Laura Ponton of Remington visited here with her sister, Mrs. A. C. Louette, and family. John Woods and family of Logansport visited over Sunday with his brother, James, and family, east of town. Mrs. J. A. Wickersham and Mrs. Dora Gilman and daughter, Hazel Gilman, were callers in Logansport Thursday. Mrs. John Cochrane has been quite low this week but is somewhat improved as we go to press this morning. Mrs. A. A. Tice of Marsailles, Hl., and sister, Mrs. Louis Clerimont, of Ottawa, 111., visited here this week with William Tice and family. Mrs. Lewis Tice came home Saturday evening from Union Mills, I after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Sanderson, and family. Mrs. Dazie Brown and daughter Marie returned home Sunday morning from Clarksburg, West Virginia, where the former taught in the high school last winter. Charles Babcock writes from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, that he has jumped in with both feet and is now ready for business. Sorry he did not join the service sooner. Mrs. L. W. Severn of Cuba, New York, is here, the guest of her sister, Mrs. George Ormiston. She-had been visiting relatives in Arizona and stopped off here en route home. Bernard Gerrich, who has been working at Hammond, came the first of the week, accompanied by a friend, Mr. McLeary. These boys reported the latter part of this week for the service.

Mrs. Ben P. Davidson returned Tuesday afternoon from Canada, where she visited with her daughter, Mrs. Npwt. Wickwire, and family. She enjoyed the visit very much and said the Wickwires were enjoying the best of health. Monday evening the relatives of the Cleremont Rider family gathered at his home on Jasper street, where a farewell dinner was given for Mr. Rider's son, Glenn, who left Tuesday morning for Gettysburg, Penn., where he has enlisted for the tank service. Glen Boothby, who is seeing service in France, writes home to 'his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Boothby, of this city, that he is enjoying the best of health and says the weather is hot there at the time his letter was mailed (May 21). Attorney Frank Davis of Brook boarded the train here Tuesday ■ morning for Peru, where he expects to help his son-in-law, Frank Weishaar plow corn. In Order that he might do -a good job he took his shot gun and fishing tackle along. The editor and family autoed to his home at Bloomingdale last Saturday returning the following afternoon. The crops around here are further advanced than those on the sand and clay soils. Down around

Kingman the farmers were still planting corn. A new schedule will go into effect on the Pennsylvania railroad Sunday. The only change on this' division will be in the morning west-bound passenger, which will leave one-half hour later, which would make good connection with the C. & E. I. trains at this point. Owen Yarnell and family and Grover Ferris and family autoed down from Chicago Sunday and took Sunday chicken dinner with the former’s cousin, A. J. Bullis, and family. Mr. Ferris Is superintendent of the Chicago Oakland Sales company, and Mr. Yarnell is with the same company. The Panhandle and C. & E. I. officials of this division met Thursday and went over the union station proposition for this Mr. McAdoo’s orders were that whenever a saving could be accomplished this should be done The meeting Thursday was to get estimates as to this point.? It is not known at this time whether we will or will not get the new station. The lease on the present postoffice location expires June 30 and then same will be moved into its new quarters in the Weishaar building now occupied by the Michael barber shop. Mr. Michael will vacate on or before July 1 and will move into the room to be vacated by the postoffice. A door, window and other repairs have to be made on the Weishaar room before the postoffice moves in. The Burgess room will’ 'undergo some changes to make it suitable for a tonsorial parlor. Last Saturday, Sunday and Monday army trains camped in Goodland over uight. Saturday night and Sunday night there were forty trucks but Monday night there were only eleven as the company was divided part going to Wabash and the two trains met at Springfield, Ohio. These Liberty trucks are assembled at Chicago, Detroit and Columbus, and supply companies are sent to these different cities and the trucks turneds over to them and are taken through to Baltimore, Maryland, where they are z I taken over to France. Crown Point lis the first night’s stop out of Chicago and Goodland is the second and Lebanon is the third. WOLCOTT . (From the Enterprise) Miss Lydia Kupperschmidt visited friends at Remington Thursday. Mrs. Thomas Grimes of Lafayette visited her mother, Mrs. J. T. Rader, Wednesday. Mrs. D. J. Pettit spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Lucy Pitts, at Remington. Mrs. Carl Lang of Crown Point visited her. parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Warner, Sunday. Thomas Covington went to Chicago Tuesday evening for a short visit with his brothers. Mrs. Ernest Rawlings and daughter of Remington spent Wednesday with Mrs. J. M. Biesecker. Mrs. Mel Julian of Remington was the guest of Mrs. Charles IH. Wolf Wednesday and Thursday. W. C. Shaull of Lebanon was the guest over night Wednesday of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Shaull. Miss Frances Hinchman went to Morris, Illinois, Wednesday to visit her cousin, Mrs. L. S. Holderman. Mrs. F. E. Hart returned to her home in Anderson Sunday after spending several days with Wolcott friends. Mrs. -Arthur Hawn and daughter Maxine of Logansport visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mart Snick, over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Albertson of St. Ansgar, lowa, are visiting Mrs. J. T. Rader and daughter, and other relatives here. Mrs. C. B. Besse and little nephew, Harry Francis Stokes, spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Jones at Remington.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ford of Rankin, 111., came Wednesday for a visit with Mrs. Ford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Seifert. Miss Bernice Cornwell of Rensselaer, who had been visiting Miss Bertha Cowgill, went to Remington Tuesday to visit friends. Mrs. Abe Brown and sister, Mrs. Abshire of Logansport, weijt to Remington Wednesday .to visit their brother, Jacob JLasterday. Mrs. George Eck of Remington, who has been spending a few days with her son Francis at the farm, returned to (Remington Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Crede and children of Paris, 111., are visiting at the homes of Dr. and Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gilbert. Mrs. Anna Mohr, who has, been visiting her son, Elmer Mohr, and family the past two weeks, returned to her home in ElPaso, 111., Monday.

Edwin H. (Jilbert, who has been visiting at the home of Charles J. Gilbert and wife and looking-after his farm interests for the last week, returned to Pittsburg, Penn., Monday morning. Corp. Cecil Miller of Camp Taylor, Louisville, > Kentucky, and his friend. Miss Marguerite Seeger of South Bend, came Wednesday and are spending a few days visiting Mr. Miller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. A. Miller. Misses Lydia, Lena and Lizzie Blume left Sunday for Spartanburg, South Carolina, to visit their t>fdther, Herman Blume, who is in the army camp there. (Before their return home the young ladies will also visit Washington, D. C. BROOK (From the Reporter) Ormond Pruett tv- his wife to the hospital in Chicigo Wednesday f< r an operation .Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lowe of Goodland were visiting relatives in Brook on Wednesday. Miss Jennie Gaines went to Crete. Illinois, on Monday for a two weeks’ visit w :, h relate t j. Mesdames Fred and John Lyons

were in South Bend this week attending the state Sunday school convention. Edwin Stair and wife of Franklin were here this week visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Stair. Bruce Ulrey of Andrews, Indiana, has been here this week visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Potter. i H. G- Zook of Pueblo, Colorado, was here the last of the week visiting his uncle, Ed. Zook. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zook. I William Hinchman and family and a guest from Wolcott, who had pbeen with them for several days,, visited friends in Rensselaer Tuesday. I Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hanson took i their guests, August Hanson and i family, to Watseka on Sunday evening and remained over night with them. 1 Frank Foresman, wife and son of . Tulsa, Oklahoma, are here visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. I J. B. Foresman, and other relatives. I They report a big wheat crop in Oklahoma, which is being rapidly harvested. I Lawrence Bringham, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bringham, who at one time lived in Brook, enlisted in the army. With his enlistment Mr. and Mrs. Bringhajn jiow have three sons in the army—all they have. Leonard Crudden, who graduated 1 with the highest honors from the i Chemical Engineering department 1 of Purdue, will leave next week for i Tamague, Penn., where he has a position in the chemical labratory of the Aetna Powder Co. j | A party of the younger set were entertained at the Reed home on , Wednesday evening in honor of the ■bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Reed, who are spending a ' part of their honeymoon with the groom’s mother, Mrs. Annie Reed. | ' Charles Murfitt and wife came over from Leiters Ford on Satur-1 day evening and spent Sunday with the home folks. He says the crops could not look better. The wheat is fine and the oats so heavy that the wind took them down. They have a good stand of corn. Mattie J. Whittaker, wife of Mar-! ion Whittaker, was born in Ken-' tucky, September 11, 1863, and j died at her home in Brook June 11, 1918, at the age of fifty-four years and nine months. She came to Indiana in 1910 and in 1912 was united in marriage to Marion Whit- . taker. She was a member of the Brook Christian Church and was I held in high esteem by all who knew her. | On Tuesday a family reunion was held at the home of Mrs. Annie' 1 Reed in honor of her son Glen and i his wife. Those present were the ' following, with their families: Mr. ' and Mrs. Freeman Reed of KentI land, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reed I of Goodland. Mr. and Charles Russell of Foresman, Mr. wnd Mrs. , Luther Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I Lyons 'and Miss Vesta Reed. Special calls will take the following boys to Ft. Benjamin HarrL. | son and Purdue on Saturday. Pur- | due school for mechanics: Samuel E. Molter, Kentland: Arthur White, iBrook; Alva Russell, Morocco. To' Ft. Benjamin 'Harrison, school of gunsmiths, blacksmiths and auto | mechanics: William B. Brewer,' James H. Brewer, Francis H. Farrer, Charles F. Delay, Kentland; Jasper L. Archibald, Morocco, Joseph Det- . rick, Goodland. I The big army trucks for the French front keep coming in droves , through Brook. Over forty came . through on last Saturday, as many 1 more on Sunday and eight or ten j on Monday. Everybody gives the boys a cheer, but while passing the I crossroads near Foresman some, young ladies in a machine beganto toss roses to the boys. Those coming saw the ones in front lose some of them and kept driving clos—l | er to the auto where the roses were j located. One got too close and failed to see a buggy that had driven close behind the machine I and cut a wheel from it. The i truck stopped at once and the driv-1 er not only apologized but offered to pay the damage, but while doing so the entire bunch of machines behind were brought to a standstill and the officers came up from behind. The men who caused the accident gave the officer an excuse that hardly corresponded with the facts, but was sharply ordered on, ’ while he (the officer) attempted to find out the real cause, but the I bystanders sympathized with the I men and outside of the cost of repairs the officer got very little for l his trouble.

MEDARYVILLE (From, the Journal.) Miss Mary Nicolas is visiting relatives at Kentland this week. Miss Miriam Daughetee of Remington visited home folks here over Sunday. Mrs. F. L. Hunt of Lowell visited her sister, Mrs. Sherry Simpson, from Saturday until Tuesday. Mrs. (Henry ' Miller of Michigan City came Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. August Walters and daughter. Miss Georgia Linton left last Thursday for a several days visit with friends in Star City and Pulaski. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sebring and children of Gary returned home Sunday after a few days visit with relatives here. J. R. Guild and family claim the garden record of the season. They had new peas and new potatoes from their own garden, on June 7. Mr. and Mrs. John Sebring of this place and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sebring and children of Gary, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Linton. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Tillet and daughter Mary and Miss Zora Tillet of Francesville and Miss Emma Brown spent Sunday at the John Miller home. - George Dove of the U. S. navy was here on a furlough from New York last week visiting with his

mother and other relatives of Gil- 1 lam township. Mrs. B. F. LeFevre and Mrs. Carl Toyne went to Monon last Tuesday to visit John Toyne. From there they were to go to Lafayette to visit with the Callahan family. Mr. and Mrs. John Kluth, Mr. and Mrs. George Schnaible and two children of Lafayette, and Mr. and Mrs. Don Richmond and Miss Lulu and Frank Grundrum of Wheeler, spent Sunday at the Henry Luken home. Miss Lulu Kruger of Indianapolis is spending her vacation with her sister, Mrs. E- A. White. Last Saturday the two ladies went to Fort Wayne for a few days visit with their sisters, Mrs. John Jessup and Mrs.-Claude Jessup. Mrs. Gerald Van~Buskirk returned home Tuesday after a several weeks visit with her husband at Hattiesburg, Miss. Mrs. Dan White also returned from Mississippi but stopped off to visit her sister in Monticello. Mrs. Van Buskirk reports a good time but very warm weather in Mississippi. Word has been received here by F. W. Long /stating that his son, Hugh C. Long, has recently been promoted to first flight sergeant and is* assigned with the 43rd Balloon Co., Aviation ' Section, Signal Corps for Overseas Service. He is now at an Atlantic port ready for embarkation. Prior to this Hugh finished a course of instruction at the U. S. Balloon school at San Antonio, Texas. FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) Chauncey Buckels left Tuesday for a few days visit with relatives at Lincoln, Illinois. Ernest Nelson of Atlantic, lowa, came Friday to spend the summer with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Leeson. Mr. and Mrs. Harve Buckels and children \nd Mr. and Mrs. O'Mara and’ children of Chalmers spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Coey. Clifford Payne and family of Rensselaer motored over here Tuesday evening. Clifford is one of the ’’big aces’ 1 in the First National bank .“over there.” Mr. and Mrs. John Hellman and children motored to Goodland Sunday and were accompanied home by i Mrs. Claude Wheeler, who will remain for a -brief visit * Miss Myrtle Hudgens underwent an operation in the Home hospital at Lafayette Tuesday for inflammation of the gall duct, from which she had been complaining for some time. John Saltwell, northwest of town, has one of the finest stands of yellow clover in the state. It is attracting considerable attention because of the variety and the splendid yield. Jud Osburne of near Rensselaer has been spending a few days here delivering rent corn. Jud, in personal appearance, reminds one very much of Bill Hart of motion picture fame.'