Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

H. W. Kiplinger of Gary spent Saturday here with his family. Mrs. E. C. Maxwell went to Dunkirk Saturday to spend a week with her son Ernest and family. Miss Gladys Reeve was here from Chicago to spend Easter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reeve. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Traub of Chicago spent Easter here, with the former's brother, William Traub. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheetz of Chicago visited here with Mr. 'and Mrs. James Ennis Saturday and Bunday. Miss Olive Pollard of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday here with her aunt, Mrs. George W. Kennedy. Misses "'Bertha and Alice Daniels of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Korah Daniels. Harry English, who is attending a medical school in Indianapolis, spent Easter here with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English. Miss Jane Parkison, who is attending college at Jacksonville, 111., spent the week-end Ijere with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Parkison. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin and daughter Genevieve went to Logansport Saturday and spent Easter with the former’s sister, Mrs. Earl Parsons, and husband.

Dr. R. H. Robinson of Remington went to Crawfordsville Saturday afternoon to spend a few days with his wife, who is taking treatment at a sanitarium there. Five German helmets, a part of the nearly 100,000 shipped to America for use in the Victory liberty loan and a part of those talrtn from German soldiers captured by our American forces overseas, came Monday and are on exhibit $t the local Red Cross headquarters. One of these helmets was mahufactured in J. M. Sauser’s old home town in Germany, according to the inscription of -the maker printed therein.

William Sanders, a Fowler plumber, had a narrow escape from serious Injury a few days ago when gas which formed a casting which he was cleaning with acid, exploded, shattering the casting to bits, parts flying in all directions. One piece went through a window of the shop in which he was working, traveled across the street and broke a window in a jewelry store. A fragment, which missed Mr. Sanders by inches, bored a large hole. in a piece of heavy timber.

Stewart Moore went to Indianapolis on business Monday. Charles Burns went to South Bend Friday for a visit with his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. lk£ JViltshire spent Easter with relatives of the latter at Fowler. E. T. Whitehead and family of Wheatfield were visitors In the city Monday afternoon. Mrs. W. H. Beam went to Chicago Friday to see her daughte r . Mrs. Dean Merlca, who Is in pny? health. J. P. Ryan and George and Ernest Winters were among the Gillam business visitors in the city Monday. Mrs. Henry ( Paulus and son Keith, J. J. Hunt, Firman Thompson and Frank Trulley were Lafayette goers Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wartena of Indiana Harbor spent the week-end here with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Wartena.

Mrs. W. A. Fair returned to her home at Davenport, la./ Friday after a visit here with her daughtei, Mrs. Joseph Jeffries. We now have on track another car of Wheat middlings. Save money by buying them from *the car.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. , a 23 Among the Chicago goers Friday were Rev. J. B. Fleming, A. Halleck, Mrs. Hettie Nichols of this city and Charles Schultz of Gillam township. Two good things—your money and my seed corn. Let’s swap. Also a good, sound, work mare, wt. 1500, for sale cheap.—HENRY PAULUS-, plhone 938-G. Among the Chicago goers Saturday were Mrs. C. P. Hermansen of Gillam township, Mrs. Lou Robinson, Mrs. O. H. McKay and children and J. N. Bicknell of Rensselaer.

Misses Margaret Babcock and Gwendolin Kannal returned home Friday evening from a three months’ stay at St. t Petersburg, Fla., going from there to Washington, D. €., where they spent two weeks with the Rensselaer girls wljo ar ; e employed there. There were two funerals at Wheatfield Sunday and one Monday. The Sunday funerals were those of "Grandma” Collins, Who had died at Valparaiso, where she was visiting, and was brought back to her old home for burial. She was about 75 years of age. The otfhei 1 was that of Mrs. Bert Vandercar, who died Friday from complications following Influenza. She was 34 years of age and leaves a husband and three children. , The funeral Monday was that of the week-old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jensen.

Miss Helen Warner of Gary la visiting relatives and friends here. Yesterday's local prices on eggs and butterfat: Eggs, 37c; butterfat, 65c. Parker Childers is able to be out on the street a little after his recent operation. , , Ut. and Mrs. O. D. Hefner of Minneapolis, Minn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Frye. J. A. Parkhurst of Chicago spent Sunday here’with his sister, Mrs. Harvey Moore, and family. Mrs. Fred Chapman i eturned home Friday from .a several weeks visit with relatives at Hegewisch. 111. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mecklenburg of Gary spent Easter here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mecklenburg. Arthur Quinn returned to Caimp Custer, Mich., Monday after a visit here with his |>arents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Quinn.

Mr. and Mrs. Russel Sage of near Rochester spent Sunday here with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George D. McCarthy. Miss Hazel Lamson, teacher in the Indianapolis schools, spent Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lamson. Miss Edna Parker returned to her home in Chicago Monday morning after spending Easter here with Misses Grace and Fame Haas. Robert Smith, Harry Milner, Ernest Ramey and Louis Miller returned Monday from Indianapolis with four new Ford cars for the Central garage. E. L. Hollingsworth, R. D. Wangelin, Firman Thompson and Joseph Reeve, the latter to again take up his duties in\ the Monon railroad ofllces, were among the Chicago goers Monday.

Mrs. Myra Beeler went to Indianapolis Sunday evening to meet her husband, who was expected to arrive In that city Monday. Dr. Beeler had been In France soy several months with the Lily base hospital unit. Orville A. Rothrock of Monticello, a field officer of the U. B. treasury department, was in Rensselaer Saturday on official business. For a number of years Orville was Chief of detectives on the D. & H. railroad, with headquarters at Albany, N. Y. Rev. John P. Rhind, who has had charge of the Presbyterian church at Remington for the past few months, went to Chicago Monday where he will graduate from the McCormick seminary, after which he will be ordained as pastor of the Remington church. Alfred Thompson, who came so near crossing the Great Divide from complications following the “flu," is able to be out on the streets now, but is looking very frail, although he has a good color and looks well otherwise. He is gaining right along now and in a few weeks will no doubt be back to his former strength.

Mrs. Sylvester Gray received word from her brother, John Mustard, of Goodland Saturday morning that he had got a telegram Friday evening from his son William saying that he had landed from overseas Friday on the transport Zelanda at Charleston, S. C. William was a member of the 105th engineers, 30th division, in which a few other Jasper county boys are members. No word from any other local boys has been received, so far as The Democrat is able to learn.

Mrs. James Parks died at her home in Remington Saturday morning at 2 o’clock after an extended illness caused from injuries received in a fall. She was about 76 years of age and was a sister of the late Lyman Zea of this city. Her husband died a number of years ago. Several adult children are left, including George L. Parks of Milroy township; Peter Parks of Valparaiso, Mrs. Charles Brand of near Morocco and Mrs. Ed Sutherlin of Remington. Funeral services were held at Remington Monday at 2 p. m.

Mrs. Henry Eigelsbach returned Saturday from Chicago, where she had gone to see her brother, Thomas Geitl, who is in a very critical condition of health. He was able to recognize and talk with Mrs. Eigelsbadh when she first went to the city, but at the time she left he was in a semi-conscious condition and did not recognize anyone. The doctors have decided that his principal trouble is cancer of the liver, perhaps brought on by the bad fall he received about a year ago and which disarranged his internal organs. Mr. Geitl is 50 years of age.

Mrs. Harvey Wood, Jr., of Dayton, 0., came Friday evening for a week’s visit with relatives. Mrs. Edward Childers of Monticello spent Bunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Prouty, Just west of town. We have been having quite pleasant weather for the past several days, with considerably warmer yesterday. Mrs. C. M. Paxton, who has been In quite poor health for some time with a chronic ailment, remains about the same. The Rensselaer Boy Scouts will guard the war exhibits, train tonight while the force with the train is eating supper. The latest notification of the date for the army fighting tank to be In Rensselaer gives April 25, next Friday, as the date. Yesterday’stlocal markets: Corn, >1.52; oats, 66c; wheat. >2.30: rye, >1.55. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 95c; oats, 82c; wheat, >2; rye, >2.

J. P. Hamnbond, D. D. Dean, Harry Parker, A. E. Wallace, C. M. Sands and David Leatherman attended the district meeting of the Knights of Pythias at Monticello Monday. Mrs. Frank Crltser and Mrs. Ida Benjamin went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend the Eastern Star grand lodge meeting, and from there Mrs. Critser will go to Muncie to visit her brother, F. E. Mauck, and family before returning home. Rev. J. B. Fleming went to Brookston Monday to attend the funeral of Rev. Murphy, pastor of the Presbyterian church at that place. Rev. Murphy attended the Presbytery held here last Monday and Tuesday, but died quite suddenly while in South Bend the Matter part of the week. x Jacob Delaveau, aged about 80 years, a resident of this city about two years ago, died Friday In Crown Point where he was making his home with his daughter, and the body was brought here Sunday on the 10:55 train and taken Immediately to Weston cemetery where burial was made beside his wife. Short services conducted by Rev. W. H. Sayler were held at the grave. Deceased was an uncle of the Scott brothers of this city.

Mrs. W. C. ' Babcock received word the last of the week of the death of her brother-in-law, Edward J. Murray, at Fresno, Calif., last Wednesday. No particulars of his death have been received but it is supposed that he died of pneumonia, as he-had been in perfect health when Mrs. Babcock visited there last fall. The body is being shipped to Chicago, his old home, for burial, the funeral to be held tomorrow. Deceased is survived by his wife, who was formerly Miss Lulu Daugherty; two daughters and one son, the latter being in the aviation service. • Mr. and Mrs. Babcock will go to Chicago tomorrow to attend the funeral.