Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1918 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

' ~ GIFFORD Fair z and warmer weather at this writing. Guy and Roscoe Zook autoed to Rensselaer Tuesday. Good wishes to everybody for a Merry Christmas and a bright and happy New Year. Chas. Walker and son John and D. D. Zook attended a sale up by .Wheatfield Tuesday. Wm. Obenchain’s, who have been having a seige of the “flu,” are able to be out again. The dance at Newland Saturday evening was well attended and there was good order. Miss Hazel Laimibert is doing housework for Mrs. Harry Reed this week, who is sick. Mr. and Mrs. James Cavinder visited their daughter at Wheatfield Sunday, who has the “flu.” Mrs. Asa Elliott and Misses Sylvia and Myrtle Elliott called

on Mrs. Guy Zook Sunday evening. David Spriggs accompanied his daughter to the Rensselaer hospital Saturday to have her adnoids removed. Several cases of “flu” here again. Chas. Walker’s are all down, also Harry Reed’s family, and many others are taking down with it. FAIR OAKS Joe Kosta of near Parr shipped a nice bunch of fat hogs Monday. Mrs. Cha-les Barker went to Yeddo Monday to attend the funeral of a relative. it is reported that F. R. Erwin went to South Dakota last week to look after a job of dredging. Miss Amy Bringle had a very severe bilious attack Monday night, but is recovering at this writing. The heavy cars passing over the stone roads since the recent rains have damaged them considerably. Mrs. Gilmore, who ia' taking

treatment of Dr. Stewart at Monon, is making very satisfactory improvement. Mrs. B. L. Craycroft of the Spang ranch, is reported to be having a seige with the mumps and influenza. Our high .school basket ball team is preparing to take a cleaning or give the Remington team a cleaning Friday nig±t. A few days ago whire Les Warne and Frank McKay were out rabbit hunting, they started up a wolf, and were successful in bagging him-, too. After a whMexweek of rainy weather we are erfjoying a few days of reasonably nice weather, but the *dirt roads are in a very nad condition. Wheat and rye are looking fine. A few days ago Harry Young received a message from his wife, who is visiting relatives in the south part of the state, that they were all down with influenza and to come at once. He left on the first train. „ The recent heavy rains checked the work of carring cordwood, on account of it being too soft to haul. If (the weather would hold favorable there would be a great many carloads shipped from here this winter. The Marbough Bros., who dug the ditch near Virgie to the Moffitt ditch, which they cleaned out down to the county line, are now loading their at Pembroke, where it has lain since completing the j ob, and xyill ship it to another place.