Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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PINE GROVE The funeral of Newton Price Monday was largely attended. Miss Eva Coen of Rensselaer spent Saturday night and Sunday "with Dora Daniels. Mrs. Charles Britt and baby returned to their home Friday.. Both are doing fine. Miss Lora Bureguard of Chicago came Snuday to attend the funeral of Newton Price. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Daniels visited with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Will Taylor, Sunday. Several of the young folks _ff»m this vicinity attended the Children’s day exercises at Rosebud Sunday night. Robert Scott and sisters, Kathryn and Irene, attended the class partv at the home of Nora Vest Sundav afternoon. Robert Scott and Lowell Hayes were seen riding about in a Ford ■over about Aix Sunday night. What’s the attraction, boys? Those who spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and familv were Mr. and Mrs. John Dale and family and Mrs. Roy Torbet and family.

VIRGIE Mrs. Florence is better at this ■writing. 1 Born, .to Mr. and Mrs. John Maher, a daughter. I Miss Adah Florence is back from Ohio visiting home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Led Zellers were Rensselaer goers Thursday. Dick Gasaway and family went to Wednesday evening. f Miss Elsie Zellers visited Miss Marie King Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Miller visited Ancel Potts and family Sunday. Don't forget to come to Sunday school at Virgie at 10:30 o’clock. Miss Gladys Halleck visited Misses Elsie and Jessie Zellers this week. A hunch of young folks from this vicinity autoed to Valparaiso Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt were in Rensselaer Tuesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt autoed to Wheatfield. Sunday to visit relatives. The Farmers’ Club will meet Saturday, July ff. Everybody come. Ice cream will be sold. Also two plays are on the program. Word has been received from Leslie Zellers that he was on a ship hound for France. He says they have plenty to eat and a real good t’rre.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) ' Martin Trapp of. Chicago is visiting Ernest (Harris. J. R. Sigler was in Goodland on bu siness Thursday. Bert Johnson and Virgil Coovert were in Chicago Sunday and Monday. Rev. P. V. Roberts went to Rochester Monday where he attended the district conference of the M. E. Church. George Delaney and wife went to Lanorte Saturday to visit his parents and bid a brother goodbye, who is entering the service. Born, Monday, to Mr. and Mrs. "Walter Simpson, a fine baby boy. The Simpsons live near the Kennedy ranch northwest of town. Frank Gerard enlisted one day Cnd was called the next for service. We did not learn what division he Selected. He left for training Friday morning. Considerably daimage is reported l from the frost Saturday night. Dan •Dirst reports potatoes, sweet corn and some field corn badly damaged at his place, and word comes from the north section of ever so much damage to corn on .The muck lands. There was a wreck on the C. & E. T. Friday afternoon just north of.Foresman. in which several cars got considerably damaged and the trainmen hurt some The accident occurred just north of the river and was caused by a car leaving the track, which caused some four or five others to follow. There were only a couple of 'passengers in the passenger coach and they gut cff with only a shaking up. The three Sunday schools, Fores- ‘ man, Mt. Ayr and North Star, will hold a picnic on the banks of the Kankakee” river next Sunday at a point to be selected this week by a

committee selected from the three schools. The committe is comprised of Charles Russell, Fletcher Smith and Jay Makeever, who will no doubt find the finest spot on the grand old river. Mt. Ayr, the only place where the Sunday classes are held in the forenoon, will call their school at 9:30, after the study lesson, and will proceed to follow the others, who will not wait for them.

REMINGTON (From the Press) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roush of Onward, Ind., f spent the week-end ■ with relatives here. i Russell Hamilton went to Indianapolis Tuesday to enlist in the service for Uncle Sam. i Miss Lucile Villinski of Goodland visited over Sunday wit(h her 1 cousin, Catherine Villinski. I George Wahl, who is working in a cigar store at Danville, 111., came I home Wednesday for a visit. I John Treanor and family of Monon spent Sunday with his parents, ■Mr and Mrs. Hugh Treanor Miss Mollie Hogan of Goodland was a Sunday guest at the homes of Miss Pearl Baxter and Mrs. Jason, Bickel. Mrs. Jason Bickel and children ■went to Lafayette Sunday for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Marion O’Connor. Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Luckey re- ! turned home Tuesday from a few days spent at Crawfordsville with the Puckett twins. Mrs/ Martin Meehan a’nd son Joseph of Indianapolis are visiting her sister, Mrs. George Eek, and other relatives this week. Mrs. Ella Parks and Mrs. William G. Beal of Wolcott went to Mishawaka Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hyman. Robert Williams, who has been ■working on a farm near Forrest, 111., came home Saturday evening to spend Sunday with his mother.

Jones Bros, report the sale of Guthrie Morris’ farm to Milton Marshall, J. A. Metzger and Benjamin V. Craig. Consideration $28,000. Fred Parker surprised the folks by dropping in Saturday to spend a couple of days. He returned to camp Monday and will be sergeant from now on. I Mrs. Will Zea, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. | Col. Griffith, the past fortnight, left 1 for her home in Lawton, Okla., on Tuesday morning. The Stokes boys of this place have learned that their first cousin. Quincy Cox, of Fairmont, Ind., was among the list of those killed in France last week. Emil Bahler, who has been working at Fairbury, 111., spent part of last week visiting his parents, Mr. and. Mrs. Jacob Bahler. He left . Sunday to go into war service. Ed. Bond and family came Thursday evening for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs, Walter Gumm, while waiting for their goods to come, before returning to Oxford, Ind. I Misses Louise and Leota Munden of Momence, 111., and Mr. Joe and ; Miss Kathryn Klause of Fowler are visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klause, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Froehlich and family of Gridley, 111., visited friends in the vicinity of Remington over I Sunday. Miss Hazel Hicks accompanied them home for a few days' ' visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Fenwick, in company with Mr. and Mrs. John Sage of Goodland, autoed to Ft. Wayne Wednesday to spend a few days with the former’s son, Arthur Sage. Married, June 8, 1918, at CleveI land, Ohio, Dr. Rayland H. Lewis I and Miss Mary J. dowry. Miss | dowry was at Remington girl and ' has many friends here who will wish her much happiness. Mrs. Anna Lilley left Saturday for Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where she will make her home with her sisters. Mrs. Lilley has many friends here who regret to have her leave this community, and she will be followed by the best wishes of each of them. Gretchen Chappell came down from Chicago Friday to spend a few days before joining her pa rents in their home in the far West. From® here she will go to Wabash for a visit with friends there. She is the guest of George Hascall and family while We learn from a private letter written by Mrs. S. C. Maxwell of Los Angeles, California, that her brother, Robert Parker, suffered a very severe stroke of apoplexy a few weeks ago at his home in Santa Cruz, and is still in such condition that only his immediate family are al’owedxto see him. Mrs. Maxwell also writes that her health is very poor. It is hoped to hear better news from her next time. The first formal record in the possession of the New York Stpe* Exchange bears the date of 'May 17, 1 792; and is agreement between several brokers to trade with each other exclusively. This agreement was the foundation on which the great financial organization has been reared. For a quarter of a century New York brokers carried on their activities under this compact, holding their meetings in a Wall street coffee house and under a buttonwood tree at No. 68 Wall street. In 1817, the brokers opened the New York Stock and Exchange Board. This name was used until 1863, when it was changed to New York Stock Exchange. Whereas, in 1881 we shipped abroad nearly 150,000,000 pounds of cheese, in 1914, just before the war cut off our trade, we shipped only 2,500,000, says William' Leavitt Stoodard in the Mothers’ Magazine. We simply did not appreciate cheese, and we came to rely,.-off other nations for our supply. We relied on foreign cheesemakers to such an extent that, whereas in 1900 we bought only 13,500,090 pounds from abroad, in 1914 we bought nearly five times

as much, Or 64,000,000 pounds, much of which could and should have been produced in the United States. It is said that the native in India is extremely particular about re gw. larity in his meals; once accutomed to eating at a certain hour he must stick to it at all costs. An English engineer had an awkard experience of this when erecting- a 100-foot steel pole with the aid of * about thirty natives and the minimum of tackle. The pole was halfway up when the “headman” intimated that it was dinner time. Only the most desperate entreaties, coupled with threats, prevented the men letting the pole come down with a run, though it had taken several hours to get it into this position. cal Experimenter.