Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

VIRGIE Jack Gasaway went to Rensselaer Tuesday. Threshing Is progressing -slowly around these parts. Elsie Zellers returned home from Hammond Saturday. Audi Potts and wife were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Spurgeon were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Miss Anna Erwin visited Miss Jessie Zellers Friday evening. Wm. Potts and Vera Harrington are on the sick list this week. Howard Gilmore stayed with Lewis Harrington Monday night. Miss Indus Wiseman is spending

her two weeks’ vacation with home folks. Lewis Harrington and T. J. Mallatt went to Fair Oaks Sunday morning. Miss Mabel Barnes visited the James Wiseman family a few days last week. Mrs. W. W. Zellers and son Dean and T. J. Mallatt went to Rensselaer Monday. Lewis Todd and family called on the Lewis Harrington family. Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Morton Clifton took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt Sunday. Henry Hochbaum and family called on the Lewis Harrington family Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Harrington, Mr. and Mrs. John Maher and Mrs. Lewis Harrington were Rensselaer goers Monday. T. J. Mallatt has gone for an visit to Kansas, where he will visit his sister and brother. He started Tuesday morning.

Peter Plummer and family of Goodland and Henry Hochbawm and family of Crown Point visited Thoa. Florence and family Sunday. Since horse trading has passed out of style, Ford trading is rapidly taking its place. To prove it: Charles Florence traded his Ford for another one last week.

FOUR OORNEBS Wheatfield is to have a new telephone system. A nice shower visited the north part of Jasper county Wednesday forenoon, which was thankfully received. One of the Davis & Wills machines finished its “run" Monday and is now threshing on a new run west of San Pierre. W. I. Hoover came through Wheatfleid Tuesday evening with a new Dodge' car, which he had secured at Valparaiso for a customer. Dr. Fyfe •of Wheatfield stepped off the train Tuesday evening for a few weeks’ stay wlth> his family, the same old sport. May his stay be prolonged. In the ball game Sunday at Wheatfield the Michigan team was shut out by the Tefft-Wheatfield boys. Gerald Maloney pitched for the home team and proved he had all a pitcher desired speed, curves and control. Frank Clager and the Myers brothers have rented the Barnard land for next season in Kankakee township, which had been farmed for several years by Mr. Minor, who, it is reported, will purchase a farm and live a rather retired life. Wheatfield is talking a homecoming for everyone, especially for the boys who have returned from overseas. The proposition is taking form and if perfected the old ball team, the Wheatfleid Regulars, will be seen in action and a social good time for all. The Dodge that failed to dodge is the one owned by Wm. Fitzgerald. Sr„ and drove by Will, Jr., over near Valparaiso, when the car came in contact with -an interurban car near Flint lake. No one injured but the car was decapitated, the fenders badly bent and the occupants badly frightened. Keep your foot on the brakes. The switch-plug was taken o<ut of the switchboard at Wheatfield Monday and the phones were put on the “blink.” This line has been giving such poor service that Mrs. Dunn, who had charge of central, could do nothing for the subscribers and nothing financially for her services, quit the job. Had it not been for a meddlesome mattie, It is said, a new man would have put in a new service and put north Jasper in touch with the outside world and once avnln nn the map. What do you think of a would-be booster who obstructs?