Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

PAIR OAKS. One more case of influenza has developed since our . last report, that of William Warne. John W. Cunningham., who recently came (here from Kentucky, has moved out on the Hillis ranch. One of Frank Rush’s hoys (had his arm broken Sunday evening while attempting to crank an auto. Bnos Moffitt moved out to Karr’s sawmill a few days ago to haul saw logs the balance of the winter. Abe Bringle, wife and daughter Amy “Forded’’ to Demotte Sunday and took dinner with Elwood Davis and family. “Stub” Gundy left here Monday evening for Hammond to take- up the job he left when he enlisted in the army service. Herbert Bozell, who had been stationed at Camp Taylor, got his discharge the latter part of the week and returned home. Cal Burroughs, who had been confined to his home with pneumonia for the past four weeks, returned to his work on the C. & E. I. railroad Monday. Tom Watkins, who lived on the James Pritchett farm Colfax township, moved to Chicago Monday. Will and Collins Leek have rented the farm, the coming year. It is reported that Mrs. Eggleston has sold her farm to a Chicago > party and will give ipossession ttaxt week She has rented rooms and will move into Mr 3. Will Warne’s house. The domestic science class of the high school is . preparing a fine chicken dinner at the school building today (Wednesday). They extended invitations to all to attend. The charge was 35c. ’rtiere has been a report circulated that the trustee has made it known that there will only be six months of school this year, instead of eight, which latter the teachers claim they have a contract for. This report has caused considerable comment.

Mil, HOY Roy Culp has been having tonailitis. Henry Goble was in Monon Wednesday. True Culp’s went to Charles Beawer’s Sunday afternoon. “ The influenza patients are all Improving as far as we can learn. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fisher called on Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks Sunday evening. Mrs. Lillie Mitchell and her sister, Mrs. Thomas' Lear, and family •went to Lafayette Monday. School work at Banner has been resumed after a week’s vacation, owing to influenza epidemic. We are glad to learn that Mr. Dunn’s family has bought a farm here and will remain with us. Henry Goble of Monon is doing Earl Foulks’ chores this week while Earl is recovering from the flu. / W. B. Fisher and family spent one evening last week with J. R. May’s, listening to their new piano. Mr. and Mrs. John Sommers and son Charles and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell. '' Miss Edith Anderson of Battle Creek, Michigan, has been visiting relatives and friends here for some days. Mrs. J. English and Mrs. Albeit

Hughes and Lorin and Fern English called on Earl Foulks’ Tuesday afternoon. The funeral or Ora Clark was held last Saturday at 2 p. m. at the cemetery, with remarks at the grave by Bert Warren. Mrs. J. English, who had been staying with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Foulks* while the family was sick with influenza, returned to her home last Sunday, and went with her husband to Lafayette Monday to the hospital to have a growth removed from his eye. Mr. English remained at the hospital for a few days longer. v

VIRGIL W. W. Zellers went to Fair Oaks Monday. Philip Kerns is on the sick list this week. Lewis Harrington went to Rensselaer Sunday. Earl Williams lost a valuable mule Thursday. Elsie Zellers had a case of the mumps last week. W. A. McCurtain was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Estel Marlon are moving to Hammond this week. Miss Esther Wiseman attended institute at Lair Oaks Saturday. Miss Elsie Zellers called on Mrs. William Pott* v Thursday afternoons Mrs. Jessie Cedarwall called on the Reed family Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Hazel (Harrington lias been suffering from an attack of pleuii—isy. Esther Wiseman took supper with Mrs. W. W. Zellers Saturday evening. Mrs. Thomas Florence entertained a number of ladies at her home Wednesday. Mi|» Zelah Wiseman called on her aunt, Mrs. T. J. Mallatt, Sunday evening. The predicted blizzard has failed to reach us so far, alfnough it is colder in these parts. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers, Mrs. John Zellers and Estel Marion went to Rensselaer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wes Faylor, son Marion and daughter Gladys called on the C. A. Harrington family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Reed, daughters, Anna and Margaret, and son Tom visited Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Hcnaway Sunday. Mrs. James Wiseman received news from her son stating that he expected to sail for-home the 22d of this month. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zellers entertained the following guests at a birthday 'dinner given for their son Dean: Mr. and Mrs. John Zellers, daughters, Elsie and Jessie, and son Harold; Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt and Kenneth Wiseman.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NEWTON COUNTY By SIDNEY SCHANLAUB Spring poetry will -soon be in order. * As a weather prognosticator the groundhog is as reliable as the store box prophet, but not any more so. - , A. W. Bebout of Morocco, a veteran of the civil war, is quite sick at this writing with little or no hope of recovery. Samuel Thomas, a pioneer of this county and a soldier of - the rebellion, died at his home in" Morocco the latter part of last week. He was about 80 years old. Noah' Miller, with his new outfit, is breaking all previous records in the matter of wood sawing. Noah can saw a hundred cords a day—■ down it\, Cy Hoskins grocery store. John Frey of near North Star has bought the David Mjller homestead, consisting of 80 acres and lying just east of Pilot grove. ‘ The price, we are told, was SIBO an acre. * The Morocco Courier office has on display a few-war relics, consisting of a part of a shrapnel shell, an aeroplane bomb, helmet, rifle, hand grenades and small cannon balls. In spite of much warm weather wild geese have been conspicuous fob their absence, and the prophets say that until the honk of the wild goose is in the land we need not look for spring. Mrs. Mollie dark, whose hus-

band died about a year ago, has bought a 40-acre farm near Thayer, and will take possesaion of same this spring. She will have a public sale Ip the near future. William Perry of Kentland, died at his home In that city recently. Mr. Perry was one of Kentland's oldest and' most highly ree petted citizens and had been in business there for more than fifty years. A movement is on toot among the farmers of Lake township involving the organization of a purebred pig club for the boys and girls of that community. The scheme is a good one. Push it! The weather the last month has been bad /or wheat, and already the crop, it is feared, has been injured, especially on low ground. Up to a little more than a 'month ago wheat in this vicinity was unusually promising. A higher dog tax would mean fewer mongrel and stray dogs and, incidentally, more sheep. If a man had to pay a higher tax on his dog he would take better care of it and keep it at home where it would not get into trouble. Henry Davis of Morocco and a young son, aged about 12 year*, died of Influenza early Wednesday morning. Another young son died of the same disease earlier in the week. Other members of the family, including the mother, are reported quite sick. Notwithstanding the extreme cold weather and heavy snows of last winter there is quite a number of quails at the present time. But that doesn’t mean much for this locality. Next winter, in spite of laws and high salaried game wardens, pot hunters will kill off the quail crop, just as they always do. Among the old "chestnuts” worked off on us i* our school days was that of “Jfiguree can’t lie.” Now, there is nothing so misleading as figures can be, both in the form of false statistics and subtle problems. Indeed, a problem may be made to contradict itself, and it requires a sharp eye to detect th« cheat. A poet rises to aski "Oh, where is your wondering dog tonight, while you sweetly slumber and sleep; Is he safe at home under lock and key, or out killing a neighbor’s sheep? Do you always give him his daily bread, or must he hook shat from the hens, and forage around for his eats in the neighbors’ pastures and pens?” More than a year ago, when a little bunoh of our boys were captured by the Huns, the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger waxed funny at their expense in the following language; ‘‘Before long the American soldiers will cross the Rhine and also enter our fortresses. This is express train speed for American smartness.” All of which goes to show that even German humor is not to be trusted. We note that the Bolshevist element' in this country asserts that there is no harm in displaying the red fl&g, and to a certain extent they are right. There is no harm either in toting a gam, but statistics shotv that nine murders in ten are committed by persons who habitually go armed. Within itself the red flag is harmless. It is the spirit of disloyalty back of it to which patriotic citizens object. After all, she news contributed by country correspondents differs but little in style and interest no matter where you roam. Here pick up the Southeast Missourian and in the Eastwood items learn that “Gus Bradley is down/ with the flu,” that ‘‘The Ladies’ Ai& gave a chicken pie supper at the town hall last Tuesday night” and that ‘‘Slimi had better get busy If he doesn’t want that fellow dv.er at Pidgeon Ridge to steal his girl.”

An effort will be made, we are told, to awaken interest in fruit growing in this county. This, if true, is a movement in which all should lend a 'helping hand. We have the orchards and the climate, and Indiana fruit is as good as you will find anywhere. Why pay an enormous price each year for fruit when a little intelligent effort in the care of our orchards would result in an abundant- home supply, with the quality superior, as a rule, to "foreign” groWn fruit? The reaper, whose name is Death, has garnered an unusually large harvest in this dounty since the beginning of winter. Scarcely a day passes that one or more deaths are not reported, duet mostly to influenza, and the 1 end apparently is not yet. To make the situation peculiarly sad many young people —those wh6 had every reason to hope for a long and happy life — have been called. “Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, what dost thou?” While rumaging among some papers the other day we came across •an old autograph album and right away we were carried back to the days when everybody owned an autograph album and used it on you at the least provocation. Ts vou went to neighbor A’s to borrow the sausage grinder or a log chain you were handed the autograph album, with the request to indite something therein, and dttto at neighbor B’s and alsft ditto clear dowp the alphabet.' The ■home-made poetry contained in these albums was fearfully and wonderfully made, but always the writer of it had the satisfaction o!f knowing that the next person would, if possible, do a little bit worse, and so the good (?) work went on. Looking back through the vista of years, it seems that our entire life has been, one abject, foot-licking apology for the extemporaneous things we have written in the autograph albums of this broad land of liberty.

GIFFORD Mrs. Nate Keen is bn the sick list this week. ir f'*ZL. Charles Snow took dinner with his brother Arthur Sunday. Mrs. Ellis Spurgeon spent Mon-

day and Tuesday with relatives here. Ted Keene called on Miss Leota Obenehatn Sunday afternoon. Among the Rensselaer goera Saturday were Guy Zook and Oscar Russell. Mrs. John Hill. Sr., came to stay with her son, John Hill, Jr., and children Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Elliott called on the latter’s sister, Mrs. Guy Zook, Monday evening. Mrs. Ellen Hancock and Mrs. Lizzie Swisher took dinner with Mrs. Guy Zook Saturday. Mrs. Chess Caster, who had been visiting (relatives in Gary this winter, returned home Saturday. Her husband came Thursday. Mrs. Putts of Remipgton and Ted Keene of Kersey took Sunday dinner with their mother, Mrs. Nate Keene, and family of this burg. Charles Walker and family and D. D. Zook and son Arvel autoed to Hebron Sunday and visited Lester Hewett and family and the former’s granddaughter, Miss Clara Kimble. They report a nice time and hope they can meet again and Bpend the day together.

POSSUM RUN Jasper Cover was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Mrs. Jasper Cover called on Mrs. John Comer Tuesday afternoon. The dance at Charles Britt’s Sataiurday night was well attended. Ada IHahn called on, Orpha and Myrtle Parker Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mirs. John Comer spent Sunday with Jasper Cover and family. James Campbell and son James helped David Hahn butcher Monday. Lemuel Stockwell is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. John Price. Frank Payne and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beaver. Mr. and Mrs. Burl Blackman spent from Saturday until Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. John Price. Miss Robinson, wio had been sffek with the flu, took up her school work again Wednesday. Some fine weather we are having. Mr. <ind Mrs. David Hahn called on Mr. and Mrs. Marion Sunday afternoon. Ada and Eber Hahn and Onpha and -Myrtle Parker called on Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. David Hahn and daughter Ada, son Eber and Mrs. James Campbell were Rensselaer goers Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker and little grandson and Eber and Ada Hahn spent Sunday evening with Jasper Cover and family. Lester Campbell returned to Chicago Saturday after spending a v/vek or °e with h : s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Cj irpbell, and his brother James and wife. Those that spent Thursday evening with David Hahn and family were Jasper Cover and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Comer, Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell, Jr., and brother Lester, and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughters and little grandson.