Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS Our schools opened Monday with one new teacher in place of Miss William Myres’ little boy is . quite sick with inflammation of the bowels. James Clifton and others are putting down the floor in the gymnasium this week. The unfinished stone road in Newton county for which Frank Teach had the contract, is now being completed. Gugan, who resigned. Rain did you say? Well, yes. w lots of it. The roads have gotten in very bad condition. It rained most three days straight. The influenza has somewhat Blackened up now. Those that were down are on the road to recovery. Alva Brouhard took a relapse and is now having a siege of pneumonia. The rye and wheat in these parts are looking fine and If the weather

continues as favorable there will be an abundance of it for the boys to help harvest next year after they get home. Abe Bringle, who had been delivering mail from a Ford the past six months, owing to bad roads rung off Tuesday. He put the horse and wagon into service again Wednesday, GIFFORD - Harry Reed was in Rensselaer Saturday. The. weather still continues cool and rainy. Chas. Walker is loading a car of onions, Grimm & Stanton are also loading onions at this place. The pickle men of Wheatfield loaded pickles here Tuesday for the Squire Dingee Co. of Chicago George Lambert and daughter, who have been employed in a shell plant at Kensington, Illinois, came home Monday evening. Word was received here by Guy

Zook’s that Frank Press of Shelby had died November I from influenza. He leaves a wife and six small children who will reside with her parents. Mrs. Bertha Stanton, who was taken to the Rensselaer hospital Wednesday of last week, died Thursday night. Mr. Stanton was called, but couli not get there until she bad passed away. The remains were brought to the home Friday afternoon. She leaves a husband and seven small children. She was laid to rest in the Barkley cemetery Sunday afternoon.

• ZADOC Frank Andrews is husking corn for Henry Misch. Bert Vandercar is husking corn for William Grube this week. Bud Neefce spent Sunday afternoon with William Meyers, Jr. Fred Thomas of Wheatfield is husking corn for W. D. Meyers. Misses Anna and Ella Misch made us a pleasant call Saturday afternoon. Miss Nettie 'Hewett spent Friday and Saturday with friends in Rensselaer. C. M. Dewey went to Rensselaer Saturday and brought home five fine sheep. School started again Monday and we hope nothing will happen to close it again. Misses Florence and Ruth Gorham of Rensselaer spent Sunday with the Hewett family. James Goin went to South Bend last week where he secured a position in a wagon factory. W. D. Meyers and Mrs. Mae Wilmington called on Mr. and Mrs. Bert Vandercar Sunday afternoon. Miss Freda Ferguson, the Zadoc teacher, has just recovered from an attack of the “flu,” and is again able to teach. The food administration is making a list of all the hogs and cattle kept on the farms and those used for food this year and last. Up to this writing the “flu” has not invaded this locality, for which we are thankful. There are several new cases at Wheatfield just now. There seems to be considerable dispute over what to do with the Kaiser, now that he has lost his job. Why not let him husk corn a few weeks?

DEE H. C. Anderson and wife spent Sunday at Gifford Marrs’. Ray Holeman and family visited Sunday at J. H. Culp’s. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eldridge spent Wednesday in Monon. Orval Holeman spent Sunday in Monticello at Mrs. Estella Holeman’s. Walter and Elmer Gilmore and their families did shopping in Rensselaer Wednesday. Paul Merrell- of Great Lakes training camp was a week-end caller here on Miss Etha Noland. Miss Lural Anderson and Miss Thelma Noland returned to their teaching in Jasper county this .week. O. A. Jacks and wife were entertained Sunday at his sister’s, Mrs. True Woodworth's, in Rensselaer. Arthur Stiers of Kankakee, Illinois, was here during the week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stiers. Mrs. Orval Holeman and sons visited her sister, Mrs. Harold LaMar and family, in Lafayette during the. past week. G A Jacks and wife took Sunday dinner at C. A. Lefler’s, then all took a drive to Thorston Otterberg’s in Barkley, in the afternoon. Miss Edith Overton commenced boarding at her uncle’s, Job Overton’s, this week, in Mqnon, and attending high school. She had been driving back and forth before. Mrs. W. L. Stiers and, son Hamilton, of Valparaiso, were week-end guests of her father-in-law, Fred Stiers and wife. Fred has been suffering very severely with a growth of some kind on his neck. He has been janitor of our church here for several * years, but which he had to give up.

MILROY - • Mrs. Lillie Mitchell went to McCoysburg Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lear visited Mrs. Lillie Mitchell bunday. Chas. Marchand ‘ has an attack of influenza at this writing. Carl Mitchell started to school again in Remington Monday. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mitchell in Remington Monday. Mrs. Roy Culp is suffering from an attack of influenza since last Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Fay Lear spent Stfnday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell. Mr and Mrs. J. Speace and son John went to Champaign, Illinois, last Friday to visit Mrs. Speace’s daughter and family. They returned home Monday. Clyde Clark, Joseph Clark, Chas. McCashen, Frank May, Earl Foulks and families, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Clark of Monticello and Mr. and Mrs George Foulks took dinner Sunday with Creighton Clark and family, it being his 44th birthday anniversary. t VIRGIE Paul Booth moved into the Wiseman property Tuesday. Miss Mabel Barnes visited the Wiseman family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ted McClanahan went to Rensselaer Monday. Mrs. T. J. Mallatt called on the Zellers family Friday afternoon.' Earl Williams went to Goodland one day last week on business. John Reed and family autoed

to Remington Sunday to visit Mrs. Reed’s sister. School opened here Monday after six weeks of vacation on account of the influenza. Walter Wiseman and two of his sons of Wheatfield are having their car repaired here this week. Harold Zellers visited his brother, T. R. Zellers, over Sunday at Hammond. Miss Ellen Reed, who has been working in Rensselaer, returned home Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Allen und Howard Gilmore called on Chas. 'Harrington Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James Wiseman and son Kenneth and daughter Esther, and Chas. Laeosse visited Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Zellers at Hammond Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A- Harrington and daughter, Mrs. John Maher, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Harrington spent Sunday with the Walter xlarrington family. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Perrigo of Donovan, Illinois, amd 'Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Crockett of Rensselaer, took dinner with the W. W. Zellers family Thursday.