Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS F. R. Erwin got another carload of coal in this week. Our schools were dismissed Monday on account of the grip epidemic. Born, Wednesday morning, a baby sir!, to Mr. and Mrs. F. Clifton. Mr. and Mrs. Shein and son, Robert, of Monon, visited Grandpa Kight Sunday. A. D. Washburn of Kentland was here Tuesday looking after his firm interests. Abe Bringle and wife made a business trip to the city of Virgie the first of the week. The fall sown grain is coming along fine, but a little raid would be very helpful to it. John Thorn of Hammond came down and spent a few days here with Charles Halleck. Pining silos on the Lawler ranch near here is somewhat of a drag, owing to the shortage of help. Newt McKay is putting a new roof on the Tom Mallatt store building occupied by Charles Halleck. Mrs. Elmer Arnold of North Dakota, who came to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Clay Dewees, visited relatives here a few days this week. Mrs. Will Wendal went to Camp Taylor the latter part of the week *2 visit Will, who is there in milir+iiry training. She expects to stay util he is tranferred. POSSUM RUN Clyde Davisson is the owner of a “tin Lizzie.'’ The ML Pleasant school was closed Tuesday for awhile. Miss Carrie Hahn has returned

to Rensselaer to her work. T. J. Parker and John Price were Wheatfield goers Monday. T. J. Parker called on James Campbell and father Sunday mornling. I Lena and Roy Hurley spent Sunday with Kenneth Davisson and i Lucyille Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Blauer and daughter * took Sunday dinner with i Mr, and Mrs. Mason. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilbanks 'called on Mr. and Mrs. T J. Parker Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Florence, son and daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. David Hahn and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Payne and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Davis and family. Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughter, Mrs James Diavis anld two children were Rensselaer goers Monday. ~ Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miller and Mrs. George Davisson called on Mrs. Grant Davisson Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Neese took Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Merrill to Rensselaer Friday evening to see the guard drill. Mr. and Mrs. John Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parker and son, Mrs. Frank Parker of Spokane, Washington, took dinner with T. J. Parker and family Tuesday. LEE Frank Eldridge’s parents of Monon visited him and family Tuesday. o Morris Jacks and family called on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Parker, Sunday afternoon. Hoy Rishling and family of near Rensselaer spent Wednesday Rere

with his mother, Mrs Anne Rishling. " ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morrison are both down with the grip and pneumonia. A nurse is caring for them. Most every home around here hag been or is afflicted to some extent with. lhe_ influenza. Some cases have been quite severe, but are improving at this writing, (Wednesday.) Frank Overton’s have recovered enough from influenza that the nurse went, home Tuesday evening, ttfen came We3ne§clay to take care of Miss Cora Noland, who has the same disease. (..The Sunday guests of Mrs. C. A. Holeman were Dorman Cade and family of Danville, Illinois, Asa and Orval IHloleman and their fomilies, J. W. Mellender and wife and J. H. Culp and wife and son, Gail. Mrs. C. A. *Holeman has been visiting during the past three weeks at St. Elmo and Danville, Illinois, and last Friday Dorman Cade and wife and daughter, Mabel, of Danville, drove up and brought Mrs. Holeman home and visited her and other friends here till Monday. JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY Good old October. The boys will be coming home now soon. All of the stores in Newton county now close at 6:00 o’clock And King Fonzey of Spain, the little scamp, never once*' Warned Bill. Early planted wheat is coming up, with every indication of a good stand. -=*■ “My navy,” says Bill, “is holding its own.” Bill, it seems, will have his little joke even in the darkest hour. Mrs. Jane Makeever, daughter Nellie and son Jay are recovering from rather severe attacks of Spanish influenza. And now kindly meet the “champion” corn busker You have met him before, no doubt, but there is no harm iri meeting him again. “David J. Miller, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers,” etc., reads a legal ■ notice in a local paper. Alas, poor ghost. | Albert Robinson will, eat no more highway dust. .Albert appeared over the horizon the other day in 1 a new Ford, all his own and just big enough for two. Corn husking will begin in a few days. Owing to a scarcity of huskers, Grandpap, Dad, Uucle Jerry, Bub and Sis, will have to help a little this fall. Eli Dungen, who moved from this township to the vicinity of St. Anne, Illinois, about eight months ago, died on Saturday of last week from Spanish influenza. I We are told that a certain farmer in this township-—a renter —bought liberty bonds the other day to the extent of SB,OOO. No wonder old Jackson went over the top. When Russia laid down on us Dutch Bill was tickled almost to death, but when Bulgaria yields to the allies Bill leaps much above the earth and screams, “We are betrayed!” Appjes are scarce in this vicinity

and, furthermore, they will continue to be scarce,. we very much fear, just as long as farmers persist in letting the orchard take care of itself. , “There is nothing certain in this world,” pessimistically remarks the editor of a religious newspaper. In the rush and worry of business the editor probably overlooked the price of next year’s wheat crop. Germany in all probability would show less enthusiasm in her wanton destruction of property In France and Belgium if she were made to understand that she will have to cdugh up for said damages later on. ■>. Not so very long ago one lone, old iron dollar bought a large portly turkey. Now a twenty-pound turkey is worth anywhere from five to six dollars. Ifi other words, a dozen "turkeys will buy a good three-year-old colt. The County Council of Defense has established the following prices for husking corn in Newton county: With board, where dump is provided, five cents a bushel. Without board, where dump is provided, six cents a bushel. Daniel Schanlaub is again sawing lumber in the Makeever timber. Worry over cranky saw mills, together with the fear of a Hun invasion, has caused Daniel to become so bald that he needs must tie a string around his head in order to know how far up to wash his face. Mr. Rheijns, proprietor of the Rheims restaurant in Morocco, was reported dangeronely sick from influenza the fore part of the week. His seven-year-old daughter died from this disease on Wednesday of last week, and another daughter has been quite sick, but is recovering, we are told.

Spanish influenza prevails to a considerable extent in different parts of Newton county at this time. Three or four deaths among children have occurred in Morocco in the last ten days, while in some localities entire families are. reported und£r tjhe doctor’s care from this peculiar malady. A justice of the peace in Gary, Ind., threw up his job > the other day and embarked in the millinery . business. He said that since the enactment of the state-wide proI hibition measure former “drunks” are giving their money to their wives instead of paying it out for booze i and in fines, hence the millinery business for him. Wise old scout. With that dread disease—Spanish influenza—prevailing everywhere, those who have escaped this disorder will be doing a Christian act by getting out as often as possible and investigating conditions among the sick. Where the entire family has been stricken, as is true in many instances, you will find abundant opportunity to bestow yoiir generosity. | The outlook for rabbit hunting this winter is not overly bright when one comes to consider the high price of ammunition. With shot-gun shells selling at five to , eight cents each, the hunter who i is in the habit of missing his mark four times in six will do well to leave the old gun at home this season and go after Mr. Cottontail with Growler and a large crossgrained club. I What has become of that old landmark, the citizen with the thoughtful droop to the, seat of his pants and a faculty for chewing pther people’s tobacco—who went around during national campaigns proclaiming the dire evils which were to follow in the wake of a Democratic administration? Can it be possible that he has grown tired of side-stepping prosperity and actually gone to work? “Things hev changed,’’ said an old timer to us not long ago. We admitted as much and then waited for “Uncle:” to further unbosom himself. “Now, you mayn’t b’l’eve it,” he continued, “but endurin Buckcannon’s administrash-un I bought good antichrist coal fer two dollars a ton, delivered, and what do yoa pay now?” Having no need of coal we had to admit, of course, that we were not paying anything. It looks as though the citizens of Kentland were abundantly able to take care of the coal situation. The Kentland Enterprise states that 125 men, with fifty or more teams, chopped and hauled about 100 cords of wood to that town one day last week. The wood, the paper adds, will later be sawed into stove wood lengths and delivered to those whom it may best serve. The wood was donated by Will 'H. Ade. The other day a large flock of sandhill cranes were seen in this vicinity, flying, southward. According to the different local weather prophets the presence of these birds at this time means snow and probably a hard freeze in October, winding up with a blizzard on the first of November. It also means unbroken torrid weather up to the first of January, accompanied by numerous heat prostrations and other things. The crane sign, as applied to the weather, is broad

and liberal. Wonder if Bill ever read this:. “And, behold, one. of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck a servant of the high priest’s and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place, for ithey that take the sword shall penash with the sword.’’ Or this: “In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. And this is the writing that was written: ‘Mene, Mene, , Tekel, Upharsin’— God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting. Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’’ Of all the months from May to October is the time in

which to experience the real. ■*- alloyed delights of a 'day's tmttteff with rod and line. Get up some morning along aid-Ortoker. right after a white frost, with promise of a warm snnshiay, day. Put on the oldest and ragge4e*t. clothes you have, iiK-luding your old straw hat, take year cob pipe and plenty of tobacco, together with a nice little lunch, aad hike out and enjoy yourself. Gee’ Talk about a day in June" For pleasure—for genuine unadulterated pleasure—we’ll give you the whole month of June any old tuse for just one warm bright day in October, and we’ll be ahead of the game even at that. ..Just give ns a staunch boat and Im as loose on the .bosom of a piatid stream, with rod and line, where we can sdrt of drift like, where every bend reveals new delights— —with the foliage tinged with gold and purple, and with rijened wild 1 fruits causing the air to. taste like

old wine. Oh, for another October day, the old cob pipe and a boat on the drifting ti—Huh? Ring off? Weil, have it your way, but we intended writing at some length on this subject.