Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

FAIR OAKS Mrs. Jake Spitzer is the latest ■victim of the flu in town. Mrs. Carl Burroughs was taken down Monday with Influenza. Bark Crawford’s family are improving from an attack of influenza. William Warne came home a few 'days ago to get up wood for his folks. Grandma Manderville is seriously ill with what seemis to be pneumonia. Mr. Campbell’s parents from New Albany are here making him a visit. The weather had been pretty good for about a week, but wound up Tuesday evening with a rain. Al Blake, William Blair and Fish Gilmore are putting up a new barn on the Otis ranch these days. Paul Baker, who is stationed at Paris Island as a marine, was home last week on a furlough.

George Brouhard and son, Larry, are cutting sawlogs on the Lawler ranch for Mat Karr’s sawmill. A. M. Bringle, carrier on route 1 out of this place, finished up his fifeenth year in the service Tuesday evening. Jake Spitzer got one of his feet severely mashed a few days ago while assisting in loading the Mar, baugh dredge. Mrs. Ella Gilmore, who had been at Monon under the care of Dr. Stewart, returned home a few days ago much Improved. Mr. and Mrs. George Tolbert’s little gifrl, who died from influenza Monday night, was buried in the Fair Oaks cemetery Tuesday. There was a freight train wreck at Roselawn Tuesday morning, which caused the milk train to side track here for several hours. J. M. Allen, the hotel man, is beginning to arrange to leave herp in th# early spring. He expects

to live with a sister in Illinois. Our schools opened up Monday morning with all teachers on hand except Mrs. Brown from Goodland. She is now taking her turn with the influenza. There were several fellows came down from Chicago Monday to give the avail, cotton-tail and prairie chicken a chase. They succeeded in bagging about 75 rabbits. The people of our town were terribly shocked Wednesday evening of last week by the news of the death of Mrs. Clarence Geary, as there were but very few knew that she had been sick at all. Joe Kosta and wife accompaned their daughter, Julia, to Celina, Ohio, last week, where she entered a convent to become a nun. Joe and wife went on to Cleveland, vlhere they will visit for a Couple or three weeks.