Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — GOSSIP by OUR CORRESPONDENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Henry Waymire of Rensselaer name Wednesday evening to visit Wolcott KlaitTas. E. S. Harper of Francesville was shaking hands with hi» Wolcott friends Thursday. Harry Waymire of Rensselaer visited Wolcott relatives from Sunday -until Tuesday. Mrs. P. L. Mattox and son Frana spent Tuesday with Ernest Mattox and family near Remington. .Mrs. William Blume went to • Forrest, Illinois, Wednesday for a few days visit with her parents. Mrs. John Sell of Kentland came Wednesday evening to visit her parents., Mr. and .Mrs. Samuel T. ' Spencer. . _ , _ Mrs. Ed Miller returned Tuesday evening from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Isaac Parcels at Piper City, Illinois. Mrs. J. H. Burns of Goodland, who has been, visiting her sons Lloyd and Everett Burns, returned to Goodland Tuesday. Mr. nnd Mrs. Lou Leopold and daughter Esther of Chicago crime Thursday evening and visited V olcott friends until Sunday. Mrs. Helen Dillon and daughter, Gen ell Catharine of Evansville came Tuesday evening to visit Mr. Dillon’s mother, Mrs. Ed Hayes. About forty members of Orion Lodge I. O. O. F.. of this place, including the degree team, went to Monon Wednesday evening where thev conferred the degree on several candidates in the Monon lodge. Mrs. W. C. Kinney went to Gary Thursday to visit her sisters. Mrs. John M. Fox and Mrs. Arthur Halstead. From there she will go to Chicago. Mrs. I. W. Jenkins of Monticello and Mrs. Homer Hendrickson of Rensselaer were guests Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. McCollum and Mr. and Mrs. Ord Johnson. Mrs. William Yochem went to Goodland Thursday evening to attend a dinner party given by Mrs. Sumner McCurry, in honor of the bachelor Girls club of that place. Mr and Mrs. W. W. Griffing. until ’ recently of Cuba, who have been visiting Mr. Griffing's sister, Mrs. James Blake, left Wednesday for Los Angeles, Calif., where they * will make their future residence. The unsightly rick that Wolcott

has used for a number of year* on the corner of Market and Range streets for a band stand, has been torn down and In Its place will be erected a fine new stand. The money to build thia new stand was raised by public subscription and considerable of the labor to erect the same will be donated. The new stand will be octagonal In shape and the aixe will be sufficient to seat a good sized band.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Fred Long received word Tuesday that his son, Hugh, had just landed in Newport News and would soon be home. Emmet Hershman came down from Gary laat Saturday and «i*nt the time until Tuesday with relatives and friends. Frances Miller and Edna Hanlsle both of Lafayette, but former residents of Medaryville are In the Home hospital there recovering from operations for appendicitis. They are granddaughters of Mr, and Mrs. Maibauer. Last Saturday at Winamac occurred the marriage of Marie Waymire. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ell Waymire of this place to Howard Page of Francesville. They were ■married by Rev. C. Brink of the Christian church, Winamac, and at once went to their new home south of Medaryville. They have the best wishes of a host of friends aud relatives.

GOODLAN!) (From the Herald) Miss Laura Lattimore of Remington called on Goodland friends on Wednesday night. Miss Ott, the trained nurse of Morocco, was the guest of Goodland friends over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Braaksma went to Metlmora, Illinois, to visit friends for a few days. John Runyan of Kouts, and Ray Ward of Brook and wives, were visitors In Goodland Sunday. iFather Henneberger, who Is a patient at the St. Elizabeth hospital in Lafayette is reported not so well this week. Mrs. Patton Ford of Cheboygan, Michigan, came to attend the funeral services of Mrs. Casslday on Thursday. Mrs. R. L. Hall and two children of New York City are here the guests of her (parents, Mr. and Mrs A. G. Jakway. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Michels autoed here from North Manchester, the latter part of last week, returning home the first of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Oswald of Philadelphia. Pa., came Sunday evening for a visit with the former's

mother, Mrs. Margaret Oswald, Mrs. Alice Cummings loaded her car of household goods the first of the week and -moved to North Manchester, where she will make her future home. Miss Lulu McKinley is ill at the Dewey at Danville, Illinois, the result of her accident a number of years ago when an auto in which she was riding was struck by a C. & E. I. train. Mr. and Mrs.. Thomas Ramsay autoed to Chicago last week for a visit with relatives returning home Tuesday. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Ramsay’s sister, Mrs. Joseph Franzin and two children. Miss Sadie Henderson went to Park Ridge, Illinois, Wednesday for a visit with her niece. Mrs. Frank Perkins and family. Miss Menderson has been making her home with Mrs. Henderson during the winter. Mrs. Martha Clark will accompany her two grand children to their home near Valentine, Montana, after school is out, for an extended visit with her son, Clifford and family, who live on a farm near there. C. A. Doland drove his Cadillac to Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon to attend the “Welcome Day’’ celebration. He was accompanied by C. B Harms, Mrs. Doland, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tedford and Mrs. Frank Kennedy. W. O. Schanlaub, county superin-

tendent of school*, visited o«r schools Tuesday. The Ideas of our county superintendent on school progress is very much om the reconstruction plan and In a few years a noticeable change will be made m the county. J. L. Cooke and daughter. Pauline went to Indianapolis Tuesday to visit the former’s slater, Mrs. L. H. Jordan and family ana Incidently to welcome home Base Hospital No. 32 of which hie son Raymond la a member. Wednesday was another great day for them. .Mrs. John Casslday passed away at her late home in Fowler Thursday morning, interment at Kentland. Ruth Dunn, a grand daughter, passed away at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Patton at Wichita Falla, Texas, Sunday and the remains were brought to Dunnington, Indiana, for burial. (Robert Henderson, aged 74 years, one of our highly respected citizens, passed away at his late home on west Union street Thursday morning at 4:15 following an illness of about two months, having been bedfast for the last four weeksThe funeral services will be held from the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by the pastor, Rew. P. C. Johnston. Bernard Gerrlch and L. M. Bullla of New Haven, Conn., were mustered out of the Marine service at Paris Island, May Ist and have arrived in Goodland. Mr. Bullis will visit Bernard here for some tjme. The boys at Paris Island were not informed until two days after the armistice was signed and Bernard says they are going to have a good time now. The boys are certainly looking fine. Saturday afternoon a large wjhite faced eagle was killed on the Robert Boyles farm one mile northeast of Goodland. It measured ten feet from tip of wing to the end of the other wing, readers .naturally believing that the eagle had two wings.) Same was brought to town and placed on exhibition at Gagnon’s market. This eagle had been seen by many of our people and supposed to be a large hawk. The young -man who killed the eagle took advantage. The eagle was at the top of an old dead tree busily defending itself from four or five crows who were trying td drive it away, when the young man slipped up using a fence for a barrage. He got within fifty feet of It, took good aim with a No. 12 gauge and brought it down. The eagle is a fine specimen, being gifted with a fine plumage. It has been sent to a taxidermist Ln Chicago to be mounted, after which it Will be returned to this city and placed in the Gooc.and -museum.

The -main building of the Benton county poor asylum was practically destroyed by fire at about 4 o'clock Friday morning, entailing a loss of about |45,000. No one was injured and all the other buildings were saved. Mrs. William Mount, wife of the superintendent, was overcome by her efforts in rescuing the inmates, but her condition was not serious. The alarm was given by patients in the insane ward where the fire started, and it is thought perhaps that some of the patients may have obtained matches. Until other arrangements can be made the insane inmates have been taken to the jail in Fowler and the others are being cared for In homes nearby.

"Tot” Musgrove, son of Samuel Musgrove, formerly of Medaryville, is in the White county jail on the charge of stealing a horse and buggy recently from a hitch rack in Reynolds, the property of Robert Ruemler. Young Musgrove 'drove the rig to. Medaryville the same night and sold it there for $55 —horse, buggy, harness and robe. It is said Musgrove admitted the theft, when arrested, and turned over all the money received except two or three dollars, which he had sipent. The young man had purchased a ticket for Michigan City when arrested. The Medaryville Journal says that Musgrove had come to Medaryville some six weeks ‘previously with a young 3-year-old horse which he sold to a farmer for $33, and it is now believed that this horse was falso stolen. Covered by cheap wallpaper Jacobean oak paneling valued at over SIO,OOO has been discovered by experts in a Cambridge, England, house.