Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

(From the Reporter} Mrs. Howard Myers has been quite sick this week with an attack of tonsilitis. Mrs. Grace Pumphrey of Columbia City, Indiana, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Wm. Weston. Frank Hawkins and Otto Mayhew were in Indianapolis this week attending the I. O. O. F. Grand Lodge. Mir. and Mrs. Ed Leggett are here from Benton Harbor, Michigan, visiting with Mr. ahd Mrs. Wm. Willetts. Mrs. Charles Denham and her sister, Miss Grace Thompson went to Remingtoon on Wednesday to visit friends for a few days. Mrs. Fanny Parks and Mrs. Chas. Harner of Remington were visiting at the Denham home on Thursday and Friday of last week. Harry Warr and the editor spent Saturday in Rensselaer. You can always meet a lot of Brook (people in Rensselaer on Saturday afternoons. Mrs. Charles Vondensmith returned from Minneapolis, where she was called, owing to the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Audre Allen. The latter is very much better. Mrs. Minnie Stone and little son arrived on Tuesday evening. Cap-

tain Stone will likely be moved from Little Rock, soon, and his •wife took advantage of this time for a visit home. On Saturday morning Thorpe Beagley received word that his brother, William, of Orland, Illinois, was quite ill and left at once to see him. A message came before he arrived that the brother had passed ■ away. On Monday Mrs. Beagley and sons, Wince and rrank, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hays and Mr. and Mrs. James Lyons went to Orland to attend the funeral. Mr. Beagley was here only last summer visiting"] his brother Thorpe and seemed -a hale and hearty man, although over 80 years of age, Russell Hamilton and Ross Turner of Remington were over on Monday. Russell is located at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and is in the artillery and Ros.s is one of the boss bakers on the IJ. S. Battleship Michigan. The latter says that he has been "nearly across’’ many times on escort duty, but was always met near the other shore by British destroyers who took their precious convoy from them to pilot ashore. He says how close they went he was never able to' learn as this information was only for the captain in commend, or other high officers.

GOODLAND (From the Herald) Attorney A. D. Babcock and Harry Rothrock went to Logansport Saturday to see Clarence Huffman, who is at the hospital in that city. Miss Hazel Gilman returned 'home Monday evening after a visit with her sister, Leona, who has a position in the I’nion station at Logansport. Mrs. Wm. McCurry, who was a patient at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, following an operation for* appendicitis is home recovering nicely. Mrs. Mary Lovett was called to Huntington, Ind:,, the latter part of last week by the illness of her son, Justine, who at that time was critical. Mary Medlock, who is attending school at Salem, Ind., came home the first of the w>eek because the schools there closed for two weeks owing to the influenza epidemic there. Ben Oneal lost a valuable cow last Saturday night. An auto hit rfame breaking its leg and same had to be killed Sunday morning. Ben had been offered $l5O for the cow a few days before. Last Thursday or Friday a Ford turned turtle near the Colston school house east of Goodland ou the south Goodland-Reraington road. No one was able to learn Who the car belonged to and same was removed some time Friday night. Mr, and Mrs. Geo. Porter and children, Mrs. Canada, 'of Georgetown, 111., C. H. Adamson and faml- - F. C. Jones and family, Mrs. C. C. Bassett and ’children and Miss Marie Fisher of Wolcott were dinner guests at the Methodlsf parsonage Tuesday evening. The Liberty Guard foot ball game did not materialize last Sunday afternoon. Rensselaer phoned Saturday morning that they were unable to come. Remingia i could not get together and Morocco did not receive word in time to come. Morocco may be here Sunday. Mrs. George Beavers and daughter, Doris, left for Chicago last Saturday after visiting here at the home of her husband’s people, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Beavers. They will go from Chicago to Michigan City to visit relatives and friends

after which they will return to their home at Rawlins, Wyo, Clarence Huffman, who was taken to the hospital in Logansport last Thursday following his accident on Wednesday evening* in Which his left foot was injured, wis operated on Sunday at 9:00 a. m“ and part of his foot removed. Hugh Lory, whose left leg was broken is getting along as well as could be expected at his home near Winamac, Ind. The bridges in this community are not wide enough even for two Fords to pass. This fact will be attested by Turdette Roush and one of the Hotler boys who tried it Sunday afternoon on the dredge ditch bridge two miles east of Kentland, and as a result each lost the wheel caps on the left, side of their car. No oher damage was done other than a good scare. Last week Pauline Cooke -was in Indianapolis and was "took” in the Christmas film that city made up for the Indianapolis boys, especially for base hospital No. 32 that are ‘"over there,’’ Now imagine what Raymond. Cooke, who is the motion picture’ machine operator for Base 32, will say when he sees Pauline’s smiling countenance on the screen. Won’t that be a dandy Christmas present? There are only a few cases of Spanish influenza in Goodland and they are under control by the local physician. The patients at this time are Mary Watt and mother, Mrs. Charles Burgess, Mrs. Martha Capes and daughter, L. A. Dickinson and family and the infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lowe and Lois Rich. The families are all under strict quarantine and the physician believes there is no cause for alarm.

FRANCESVILLE (From, the Tribune) Miss Martha Stiller is visiting relatives in Rensselaer. ' Born 'to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Werner Saturday, twins —boy and girl. Mr .and Mrs. William Culp Were over Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stansbury at Wanatah. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hooker and children of Rensselaer, were here Sunday visiting with her mother Mrs. Fred Sard. An automobile accident occurred in the west part of town Sunday afternoon, when cars driven by Lewis Lehman and Geo. Boehning collided at the intersection of the road and street opposite the J. P. A'fnlfreoht residence. Mrs. Lehman and granddaughter were thrown from their car by the compact with such force that she was badly bruised about the head and shoulders, white she little girl escaped with minor injuries. The machines were slightly damaged.

MEDARYVILLE. (From the Journal) Miss Georgia Linton v®s in Chicago visiting Mr. and Mrs. Millard Prevo from Sunday until Tuesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. \Villiam Vollmer and Mr. and Mrs. James Linton autbed to Lafayette Tuesday and spent the day. Those from a distance who attended the funeral of John F. Cassady. were James Cassady, Elis Budd and wife of Kewanna. Monroe Budd and wife and Clarence Budd and wife of Star City, Isaac and John 'L. Kime of Maryville, Missouri. Lee G. Baughman announces a “Going Out of business’’ sale in this week’s paper. When Mr. Baughman has closed out his business and moved away Medaryville will have lost one of her most progressive men. Mrs. Baughman will also be missed in the social circles of Medaryville as well as in all of the various welfare activities. Mr. Baughman has contracted for the “South Side Haberdashery” of Kokomo, Indiana, and is to take possession on January Ist.

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Mrs. I. N. Darrow went to Remington today to spend the day with Mrs. A. Jacks. Mrs. Jennie Burch went-to Remington Thursday to visit her son, Ed Burch and wife, for a few days. Mrs. Susan Jones returned the first of the week from a visit with her son. Carl and family, .at Francesville. Mrs. Charles Gilbert went to Logansport Thursday to takft treatment at the Plummer Sanitarium for Rheumatism. Mrs. (’ora Watts of Logansport was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Delmar Galbreath, from Monday evening until Thursday evening. Wm. H. Watson returned Wednesday' evening from Chicago where he had been purchasing a car load of cattle for his nephew, Chester Watson. Mfs?''Tfibinas> Conley spent Sunday at Burnettsville visiting her daughter and family before their leaving for their new home near Brookston. Mt. and Mrs. Charles Stoll of Terre Haute, and Mr§. Agnes Jagers of Remington spent the dhy Monday with .Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hinchman. Bernal Strouse of Scottsburg, Ind., who has been working for Eek Duff the past season, was called home Wednesday by the illness of his parents. Mrs. H. E. Dicks and Mrs. Storck of 'Hhmmond, who have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nevitt, returned home this Friday morning. Marion Wood of Holgate, Ohio, who has been spending several months with his daughter, Mrs. James Evans, south of Wolcott, returned to Holgate Friday. S. M. Middleton received a tele-

gram Monday saying his sister-in-law, Mts. T. H. Greenfield, died at her homie in Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday morning at four o’clock. Five new cases of influenza were reported in Princton township within a week, the five cases are confined to two houses. So far no new cases have been Reported in the town of Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Stowell of Oberline, Kansas who have been 'visiting Mrs. Stowell’s nephew, Charles Gilbert and wife the past few days, went to Champaign, 111., Monday to visit friends. Miss Golda Scripter, who has been making -lir home at Brook for the past several months, came Tuesday for a visit with her father, Geo. Scripter, and her sister, Mrs. Perfect Spencer and family. Mrs. M. Seifert, received word Thursday that her sister of near Watseka, 111., was very ill from the effects of a carbuncle on her arm. Mr. and Mrs. Seifert went to Watseka this Friday morning. E. G. McCollum went to Augusta, Ga., last week and made a short visit with his son, Lieut. Cecil McCollum: and wife. Mr. McCollum returned home last Saturday accompanied by his daughter-in-law, who will spend some time here. Charles Stitt and family of Monticello, and his brother-in-law, Bert Antrim and family of Royal Center, who had been on an auto trip to Momence, 111., stopped here Sunday afternoon for a few hours visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Watkins. Mr. Stitt is a brother of Mrs. Watkins. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boone, whe have been residents of Michigan for several years, drove through in their automobile from their home near Mt. Pleasant, Mich., arriving here Saturday afternoon, and are visiting., Mrs. Boone’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hughes and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sluyter and little son, Robert, who have been visiting Mr. Sluyter’s father, Dr. S. D. Sluyter ' the past three months, returned to Hutchinson, Kansas, Tuesday morning. Mr. Sluyter returns to take a position in a job printing office where he was employed for three years before coming east.

DEMOTTE John Conner is suffering from two carbuncles on the back of his neck. David D. Gleason of Michigan is looking after his farm interests in Keener township, John Tyler returned from Rensselaer Saturday where he had been for a week or more. Robert Mannan, wife and twins were over from Wheatfield last week to see Grandpa Greve. Mrs. John H. Greve made a trip to Harvey, Illinois' to see her daughter, Mrs. Louis Paulson and family. H. C. DeKock went to Chicago and bought a carload of yearlings. They were unloaded in Demotte last Saturday. Gabriel Mutch bought the Studebaker automobile at DeKock’s sale, paying $4 70. Mr. Mutch has a large family and needs a large car. Just so be keeps it in the middle of the road, huh? Mr. and E. Greve and two sons (returned from Florida last week, and before to Aurora, Illinois, wh re the former has a job with the E. J. & E. R. R. Co., visited tie former’s Mr. and Mrs. John Greve at Demotte. Mrs. Greve is still visiting among her relatives,, in Jasper county, among whom are the J. W. Tilton family of Rensselaeir, and will go from there to Aurora.

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