Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — REMINGTON [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Will Puckett Wednesday, April 16, a son. Jack Brooks of Pontiac, 111., has been < circulating among friends here rately. Emmet O’Connor of Lafayette epent Sunday with his mother and other relatives. Bert Kyle had the misfortune to break his arm Tuesday evening cranking his Ford. M. A. Gray reports the sale ot better than 2,000 acres of land in the past month. This was the Law* lex land. Mrs. L. E. Greenwood entertained at a 6 o’clock dinner Miss Helen O’Dell and Miss Katharine Besse Tuesday evening. Mrs. Chauncey Dexter and little daughter of Chicago came Thursday last to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Green. John Tharp received word last wes?k that he had a “brand-new granddaughter, a black head like ter mother,” at the home of his daughter Alice, Mrs. Johanneseu, ■in Louisville, *Ky. Mr/and Mrs. J. ,T. Carr, daughter Eleanor K son John Paul and Mrs. Robert Taylor of Chalmers and Mrs. Mary C. Alkire of South Bend were Sunday guests at the John «Taylor home. A birth announcement from Monticello states that Barbara Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arion Griffin, was born to that household April 15. “Bill’s” friends here will rejoice with him over the advent cf a daughter. About 40 members of the I. O. O. F. lodge of this place went to

Wolcott Tuesday night and conferred the third degree on five members there. A big feed and a royal good time was enjoyed by all presept. Those boys who did not go missed a rare treat. A ne.w coal oil cook stove at the heme of A. Schankerman Sunday morning came near setting the house on fire. It became overheated and was blazing terrifically when Mr. Schankerman carried it • >utsid? and pitched it into the garden, completely wrecking the same. Mrs. Howard Jones, Mis. George Wood, Mrs. Fred Hicks, Mrs. Frank Howard and Miss Avanelle Geier went to Mishawaka Wednesday morning to attend a session of the district missionary society of the Presbyterian church to be held there this week. Mrs. Howard and Miss Geier are oq the program to take part.