Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — GOOSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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James Peck of Indianapolis was home over Sunday. John Taylor and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Nancy Taylor at Chalmers. 1 ltrs. Fred Hicks attended the New Era meeting and Peace Con' «ress in Chicago this week. Pearley Dixon received his discharge from Camp McClellan and arrived home Thursday last. Charles Klouse and John Ackerman have been discharged from service and are home again. Mrs. Bert Spencer,' who has been quite ill the past three weeks is «o>mewhat better this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murphy and children of Rensselaer were Sunday guests of ' the ,formers| brother, Ed. Bellows and family. Mrs. Fred Cox of Gilman, Illinios, is spending, some time with her 'parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson. , George Besse has not been so ’well of late and was taken, Tuesday,’ to Lafayette for a few days treatment. Miss Hazel B. Gray spent the Week-end w’th Miss Lillian Gumm' at Greencastle. She reports a joyous time. Mr. and Mrs, Lee Farabee went to 'Pekin, Indiana, Wednesday of last week, where they will majce their future home. A. E. Hblman of Pontiac, Illinois, has been spending several days with his old school friend, M. A. Gray, and family. Henry Phelps returned Sunday night from camp, having been discharged. Henry is looking fine •nd is fat as though he had been

stall fed. Got to have clother made to order before he can adoipt civilian dress 'again. Mrs. H. J. Bartoo was a delegate from the Fortnightly Club to the Peace Congress held in Chicago Monday and Tuesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baxter moved the latter part of the week from Monticello, where they had lived the past ten years, to the old Baxter farm seven and onehalf miles south of Remington, recently vacated by his brother, Roy Baxter, who with his family moved to Fowler. Miss Louise Bellows entertained twenty-five of her little girl friends at a from two to five party Saturday, February 8. Games suitable to the occasion wbre played. Refreshments were served during the afternoon. Miss ' Jeanette Murphy of Rensselaer and Miss Rook Furry were out of' town guests. Word from North Dakota to the effect that Miss Lucile Harper was seriously sick came Tuesday, and her mother, Mrs. Tom Harper, left that evening to go to her bedside. It is reported that Lucile, who ■is teaching there had had the flu but had recovered sufficiently to resume teaching, and had taught two weeks since that time, when she

was taken with pneumonia, her present illness. Mrs. Clara Stryker, who has for years made her home with her mother, Mrs. Hugh Treanor of this place, passed away at St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Lafayette, Wednesday evening. Mrs. Stryker has not been well for some time, but was taken violently ill on Monday night of last week, and suffered so much that she had to be kept under the influence of opiates all the week. It was decided that an operation was the only chance she had and she was taken to Lafayette Sunday morning, where an operation was performed that afternoon. At first she seemed to rally, but Wednesday she failed so rapidly that hopes for her recovery were given up and death came to relieve hpr about nine o'clock that evening.