Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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GOODLAND (From the Herald) W.A. Harrington and David Colston remain about the same at their homes in the north end of town. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rich and daughter, Lois, autoed here from Indianapolis the first of the week and visitedwith relatives and friends. Mrs. Margaret Oswald left Wednesday morning for Philadelphia, Pa., to spend Thanksgiving with her Bon, Lieut. Copimander, Leslie Oswald and wife. Mrs. A. D. Babcock fell on the slick linoleum in the kitchen at iher home last Thursday afternoon and severely strained several ligaments which has been qu|te painful the past week. Z. F. Little, who has 1 spent several weeks in the northern woods of Michigan and Dr. Frank Kennedy* who spent several days there, returned home last Saturday. They shipped two fine venisons that arrived Monday. Clarence Huffman and Hugh Lowry, the boys injured in the auto wreck here two weeks are getting along fine. The former is still at the hospital In Logansport and the latter is at his home near Winamac.

Word was received from Harold Jones, Conrad Shetland and Fred Don, who are in special training for Ambulance work at Chicago, stating that they would soon be sent Overseas and would either be located in France, Italy or England. James McDermott passed away nt his late home in Chicago last Saturday. The funeral was held Tuesday morning. Those w'ho attended from here were Jerry McGraw and sons, Joseph, John and Frank and daughters, Mrs. Mary Kinney and Mrs. Wm. Bower and James and Jerry Cullnan. Mts. Chas. N. Humston was painfully injured Tuesday night when she tripped and fell at the M. E. church. The Loyal Circle ladies were serving a six o’clock dinner to the War Mothers and wives of soldiers, in the church basement. Mrs. Htamston stepped out of the northwest entrance of the basement and was going to the Bassett home to secure more coffee, when she tripped and fell straining the ligaments of her left fore arm w’hich has been quite painful.

FRANCESVILLE (Frojn the Tribune) Mrs. J. C. Sharper visited in Lafayette Monday. Mrs. Raymond Hudgens went to Lafayette Saturday to visit relatives. • Miss Edith Lineberry and Miss Belle Bryant of Beaver went to Indianapolis Saturday. The Francesville basket ball team was defeated at Medaryville last Friday night. The score was 35 to 28. Ida, tfhe nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome C. Howe, died at the hospital in Logansport, Friday morning, following an operation for acute appendicitis. She had not been in very good health since a recent attack of the measles. The funeral was held at the family residence near Thornhope, Sunday inorning. Burial was made in the Pleasant Ridge cemetery in Jefferson township Sunday afternoon. i 1 The marriage of L. M. Pletcher and Miss Goldie Thrasher occurred at Delphi last Friday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woodson -Thrasher, for many years residents of this place, but now living near Bloomington. He is a business man at Delphi, former principal of the Delphi high school, and secretarytreasurer of the Delphi Business Men’s association. Their romance Was of short duration having began ■when she came to that city to take charge of the millinery' department of the New York store.

MT. AYR. i ' (From the Tribune.) Milt Witham of Demotte was a visitor here Friday evening. J. B. Ashby was having dental ■work done in Rensselaer Thursday. C. L. Morrell of Rensselaer was a Saturday business visitor to our town. In a letter from Virgil Coovert to his father Virgil says they have been having considerable snow where he is in Dakota. Lewis Whicker reports the purchase of a 200 acre farm near Chalmers. It 'is a well improved and ■well drained farm. It, cost him $245 an acre. Mr. Whicker gets possession this spring. Atty. Geo. Hershman and wife of Crown Point were the Sunday dinner guests of Jasper Wright. Mrs. lHershman is Mr. Wright’s daughter. Jack and Otto Bengsten enjoyed the hospitality of the Wrights also. With the first little flurry of snow Scoitt Brenner has begun to show a disposition of restlessness, and to talk of the sunny South. No doubt he will start for Alabama in a week • or ten days to return with the robins next spring. Miss Mollie Johnson returned Friday evening from Baroda. Michigan, where she had been at the home of her sister, Mrs. Earl Bruner, for several weeks. Mrs. Bruner and baby True came back with her for a short visit. Mrs. Nellie Miller had as her guests Sunday, her sister Kathryn of hear Remington and the Misses Tessie Timmons, Dorothy Wolfe and Freda Malchowe of Wolcott. Miss _ Timmons also called on Mrs. Lee >hfle here, they having formed a

friendship at Fountain Park last summer. Uncle Jim Blankenbaker spent last week at the home of his son-in-law, Main Dunn, southeast of Rensselaer.' He left Monday for Wabash where he will visit a month with his son, Walter, who has a good farm near that place. In a transaction just closed James Hoon has become*’ the owner of quite a block more of local Telephone stock. He secured the stock from Dr. Merry and the doctor took in exchange a farm of 120 acres which Mr. Hoon owned near Thayer. The marriage of Miss Vera Standish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Standish, and Mr. Lester Wailing was solemnized Saturday at Kentland. We have not been made acquainted with the plans of the young, couple but join their friends in weilwishing. Mrs. Jennie Ashby left Sunday for Chicago where she will make her home for this winter at least and where she will keep house for her son. R. W. Goodspeed, who had the great misfortune to lose his wife abput three weeks ago, leaving him with two small children.

BROOK v (From the Reporter) Miss Selma Wilson is spending th« Thanksgiving holiday with relatives at Danville. Don Burley made business trip to Plymouth, Indiana, the first of the week. Mrs. Frank Turner and Mrs. Alma Burton spent Tuesday with Mrs. Orville Reams In Morocco. Miss Florence Sunderland has been quite sick during the past week with a bad case < f tonsilitis. Mrs. E. J. Davis took Sunday dinner with her cousin, Mrs. James and her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Staton of Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rich, and daughter, Lois, of Indianapolis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rich over Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Clark and the children left on Tuesday for their old home at Bardolph, Illinois. They will visit relatives for a couple of weeks. Alonzo Staton spent Sunday with his son, Glen, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, who is improving slowly. It is to be hoped that he soon will be out of danger. Word came this week from James Fitzpatrick that he is getting along fine in France. He hasn’t had time to do much but look -at the country and that looks fine to him.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Whiting received word on Saturday afternoon, that their son, Elmer, was very ill with pneumonia at his home in Hammond. They left for Hammond in the evening. ' The basket ball game between Brook and Wolcott on last Friday evening proved a onesided affair, as the Brook team wms too, fast and heavy for the lads from Wolcott, and the score at the finish was 23 to 5 in favor of Brook. Harley Deardurff is to be home Thanksgiving. He* was miustered out this week from the officers training camp at Camp Taylor. Word from Sargeants Hess and Sell from the same camp is to thb effect that they will remain for sometime at camp. Shearer Lyons, Harold Mather and Orville McCabe, who have been attending training camp at Champaign university, were home over Sunday. They don’t know for sure what they will be called upon to do but think they will remain at the university until June.

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Miss Grace Payne of Goodland is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Isaac Shannon. Isaac Shannon returned Wednesday from a business trip to Hart, Michigan. Mrs. Garfield Howell is very ill with influenza at her home northeast of Wolcott. Geo, . Scripter went to Kentland Monday to visit his daughter, Mrs. James Simmons. Mrs. W. H. Hunt of Huron, S. D., spent the day Tuesday with Mrs. Eunice Clary at Seafield. Mrs. Sam May” of Remington visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Sharkey from Monday until Wednesday. Mrs. Addie Cowgill and Mrs. Hattie Eller of Remington visited Mrs. Cowgill’s son, Bert Cowgill and wife Tuesday. Mrs. William Petrie and children of Logansport were the guests Monday of Joseph Petrie and family south of Wolcott. Mrs. Agnes Dluzak and little Miss Veronica Burke .spent the day Wednesday with Mrs. (prank Nowviski at Reynolds. Mrs. Jacob Beaver and children of north of Wolcott, went to Lake Cicott Tuesday Evening to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gallaher.

William H. Goss, Sr., who now makes his home at Buffalo, Indiana, came Monday for a few days visit with his son, George and family here. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henderson of Goodland came Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with their son, Geo. A. Henderson and wife, south of Wolcott. D. H. Geen of Lapel came Wednesday evening to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Schuyler. Mr. Geen is Mrs. Schuyler’s father. Henry Downing, Jr., who has been located at Camp Hempstead, Long Island, with the colors, has received his discharge from the army atad arrived home this week. Miss Iva Elmore, who lives wltlr her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A- Cottrell, qprth of Wolcottj went to Monticello- Tuesday

to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Elmore. Mrs. Ruth Stahley of Kokomo came Tuesday to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Owens. Her son, “Doc” Stanley, has been here the past two weeks assisting Mr. Owens with the corn shucking. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jaegars and son of Remington spent the day Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. George Crosby. Mr. Jaegars, who is now stationed at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, is home on a sevenday furlough.

REMINGTON (From the Press) John Taylor and daughter, Stella, went to Warsaw this week to stay until Monday. Charles Lilves of Wabash is spending a short time among many friends and relatives here. John Tharp went to Crawfordsville Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with Charles Beal and family. Ernest Reeves, who has been staying at Rensselaer lately, spent part of Sunday with his boy friends here. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Stonhill and children of Brook, were Sunday guests of her mother, Mrs. D. M. Forey. Mr. and Mrs. H; J. Kannal and daughters of Rensselaer ate their Thanksgiving dinner with the editor and family. Mr. and Mrs. Herschell Deardurff of Morocco came Tuesday to visit the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Armold. Miss Daisy Fisher of Kansas has been spending the past week with her many friends here. She will return home next Monday. Mrs. Mary McQuown went to Kokomo Wednesday morning to see her brother, James Little, who is still in a more or less serious condition.

Charles Alson returned to his home at Mishawaka Wednesday, taking the two older children with him. The three younger ones were left here to be cared for. Mrs. Mamie Lang Rinier, a niece of C. R. Griffith and her brother-in-law, George Umberger, came down from Logansport Sunady to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs, Griffith. Keith Spencer, who has been at the Detroit camp, was called home on account of the serious illness of his wife, who is slightly improved at this writing. He arrived home Wednesday. In the family of C. H. Peck, where there have been several cases of flu, all are getting along nicely now except Mrs. Keith Spencer who is still in a precarious condition. The young baby of Harold Bowman has been very seriously ill but is recovering nicely now.

James L. Culver, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Culver of Wabash, who has been in training at Camp McClellan, Alabama, - since the middle of August, is the first of our lads td arrive home, honorably discharged, having come Tuesday morning. Here’s hoping it won’t be many days before some more of our boys come homo. Mrs. Josie Arison was born in White county, Indiana, September 6, bein£ th§ youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Taylor. She was united in mafriage to Mr. ■Charles December 25, 1 9 06. To this union six children were born, Melvin, Ardys, Forest, Keith, and an infant child. The first seven years of married life were spent on her father’s farm in the vicinity of Black Oak, from there they moved to a farm near Remington, spending a year there, then they moved to Remington, spending a year and a lhalf there. Then moved to Mishawaka, living there until her death. She died November 19, after an illness of about three weeks, influenza and pneumonia being the cause of her death. She died in St. Joseph hospital. She leaves to mourn their loss, besides her immediate family, her mother, three half brothers,, and three half sisters. The deceased united with the Baptist church when fifteen years of age and was also a member of the Royal Neighbors. She was a good, loiving mother and wife, and a lovely Christian character.

VIRGIE (Too late for last week) Ellen Reed is home sick with the mumps. Lewis Harrington is on the sick list this week. Ray and Elvin Potts went to Goodland Wednesday. Mrs. John Maher visited the Cooper family Friday, The family of Sax Geesa is suffering with the mumps. Mrs. John Zellers visited the Wiseman family Saturday. Ed Booth moved into the James Hill property Tuesday. Mrs. John Zellers received a letter from her son, Leslie, stating that he had been at the front twiceMr. and Mrs. C. A. IHiayrington and daughter, Gladys Maher, took dinner with Lewis Harrington’s Sunday. * W. W. Zellers, and mother, Mrs. John Zellers, and Lewis Harrington went to Rensselaer Wednesday afternoon. James Wiseman received a letter from his son, Earl, stating that he had been at the front for sixteen days straight.