Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

BROOK (From the Reporter) Henry Paulus was over from Rensselaer Saturday looking after some business Interests here. Miss Cora Deardurff left Monday to enter Chicago university where she will finish her educational work. Fred Lyons and Luther' Lyons sold 40 acres from the B. B. Miller farm to Louis Schriver for $275 per acre. James Little has sold his home in East Brook to Jesse Bringle and purchased the Aaron Lyons home on north Jefferson street. Possession will be given in March. A number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Gridley gave them a surprise Tuesday evening. The event was in the nature of a farewell, as Mr. and Mrs. Gridley will leave nqxt week for their new home in Chicago. » Captain and Mrs. Pruett came home from California last Saturday. They had an enjoyable trip and found a country much to their liking around Los Angeles. They are talking strongly of moving out there the coming year. A number of the children and grandchildren gathered at the home of Uncle John Foreamnn Sunday to help him celebrate his 87 th birthday. Few men of Mr. ForeSman’s years enjoy better health and very few enjoy life more. He has newer lost interest in any of his business affairs and can show the young men yet how to buy cattle and run the farm. He expects to live to the century mark and keep busy (all the time. His brother William from Yakima, Wash., 89 years of age, was a guest at the dinner party. Jay Me. Parks arrived home from Texas the last of the week. He had been in the army over 17 months and practically all of that time had been spent in Texas and along the Rio Grande. He was with the 37th infantry regiment and has listened to the whistle of Mexican bullets across the border. Most of their patrol duty was in the Big Bend country where it is wild and sparcely settled. He says they captured many “slackers’’ there who came across the river for supplies and to visit with relatives, but they captured very few “greasers.” Word came. to relatives the first of the week of the death of Jeptha V. Hess at his home in Nevada, Mo., Sept. 16, of (acute heart affection. It seems that he had traded his farm near Burwell, Neb., and with his son Charles had gone there to take charge, while his wife and other members of the family had stopped to visit relatives at Hastings, Neb. On tl\e 14th he had an attack of heart trouble and recovered, but on the 16th he had another severe attack and died on the night of the 16th, meanwhile his wife had arrived and was with him at his death. A party of friends who at one time were neighbors of Mrs. Sarah Kendall near Foresman, gathered at her home and gave her a surprise on the evening of Saturday, the 27th. It was the occasion of her 82d birthday. Mrs. Kendall belongs to the pioneers of this county,'having settled near Foresman with her husband in March, 1866. Their home was a log cabin on Mosquito creek, and it was on this fanm she spent her life until coming to to Brook about seven years ago. Such has been her life in this community that at a ripe old age she enjoys not only the love and affection of her family but the deepest feeling of respect that one can feel for one of the pioneer mothers whose teachings and life have fixed firmly our cherished ideals of home, social life and country.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Amos Yoder is moving to Fair Oaks. Mr. and Mrs. Blaze from McCoysburg are visiting their son, Herschel Blaze, of this place a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Jaoob Stutzman left Wednesday for Sugar Creek, 0., where they will visit relatives and friends. J. R. Sigler and family gave their new Essex a little trial trip to Chicago this week. They left Saturday imorning, returning Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frauenhoff of Brook came Sunday and took F. M. Coovert and wife to Attica, where Mr. Cook entered the sanitarium for treatment for his rheumatism. Lester Waling and wife moved this week to a farm near Foresman where they expect to farm for themselves the coming season.- A Mr. Randolph and wife from Tennessee have moved into the Standi ish property, vacated by the Wal- | Ings, and will work for Jocky Lydons on the farm. 7 Bert Johnson arrived home Thursday morning and is about the last of tht boys of our neighborhood now to he released from the army. Bert saw much service overseas land arrived back in the good old U. S. A. only a few weeks since. Like most all the reSt of the boys be is looking hale and hearty. , Work on the new M. E. parsonage has progressed quite rapidly during the ipast week. The house mover arrived on schedule time jmd soon took the old house which -was on the ground and which was purchased by C. H. Stucker to its

new location on the lots east of the parsonage grounds. We understand a considerable amount of work has been donated by the friends of the cause and thus the basement of the new Improvement is already completed.