Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

How many, please? If you have poultry for sale, call C..H. LEAVEL for prices. Phone 647. u * • Mrs. John Medicos went to Indianapolis Friday for a visit with relatives. Miss Ruth Gorham went to Indianapolis Friday for a visit with Miss Myrtle Geth. H. W. Gilbert of Remington took the train here Friday for Indianapolis on business. Miss Emma Karper left Friday for her home at Canton, 0., after a visit here with Mrs. George Ulm. Parker Childers has been employed as driver of one of the new express wagons, which are expected here soon. Nehemiah Hopkins has sold his 160-acre farm near Virgie to Peter Nomenson of Dwight, 111. Consideration SIOO per acre. R. J. Long of Kokomo, who had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Williams?’ left Friday for Lafayette and thence to his home. Mrs. Elizabeth J? Richardson, the aged mother of Mrs. C. W. Postill of this city, is quite sick at the home of the latter in the north part of town. A 7-pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Anderson Nov. 5 at the home of Mrs. M. J. Anderson, 45 Stiles street, Battle Creek, Mich. The little Miss will be known as Cleo Mae. Mr. Anderson is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Anderson, who were former residents of Jasper and White counties.

About 20 friends and gathered at the home of 'Mrs. W. F. Michael in Jordan township last Thursday to an old-fashioned quilting party. A good time was enjoyed by all, and the young ladles entertained in the afternoon with music. Miss Nell Bullis of California was the honored guest.— ONE PRESENT.

How many, please? W. It Spitler of Chicago • spent the week-end here with his family. C. W. Harner was over from Remington on business Saturday. Ed Oliver of* Chicago was in Rensselaer on business Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Potts of Lafayette spent the week-end here with relatives. Mrs. Lowell Snorf and two children of Chicago caime Saturday for a visit with relatives. (Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Allen of Chicago visited here Saturday and Sunday with their son, E. B. Allen, and family. George Aldrich came down from Chicago Saturday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Aldrich. Victor Hoover returned home the last of-the week from Detroit, Mich., with another new Dodge cat for his father’s agency. E. W. Hickman and family of Lafayette spent Saturday night and Sunday here with the Aaron Hickman and William Moore families. Miss Florence Gorham went to Lafayette Saturday and visited until Sunday evening with her grandfather, William Mulhollen, who is quite sick.

Mrs. H. C. Cole of Lafayette spent Sunday here as the guest of Misses Hazel and Gladys Reeve, the latter being here from' Chicago to spend the week-end with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Gordon, Dr. Paul Miller, Mrs. Edward McDuffy and Hugh Miller of Indianapolis came the last of the week to be with their mother, Mrs k Sarah Miller, who is quite sick at tho county hospital. The Democrat 'has again been awarded the contract for printing the premium lists for the Jasper County Poultry and Corn show, which will be held Jan. 6,7, 8,9, 10, 1920. This will be the sixth annual exhibit of rhe association. A sofa pillow made by Mrs. Frank Foltz and now on display in the G. E. Murray Co. window is certainly a beautiful piece of work and is attracting much favorable attention. The pillow is an American flag, knit of red, white and blue yarn and a cord of the three colors of yarn bind the edge of the pillow. Frank Webber has sold his 33acre farm 6 miles south of town on the Rensselaer-Remington road to Mrs. Mary E. Sanders of Newton township, who recently sold her farm there to Thomas Lonergan. The consideration as given in the deed is $5,542. .. The place is now occupied by Mr. Webber’s brother John, Who will move back to Rensselaer. Mrs. Alice Dunlap and daughter May of Chicago came Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warner and other friends. They were called back to Chicago Sunday morning, however, by the sudden death of the former’s sister, Mrs. Ella . Woods, who had died following another stroke of paralysis, from 7 which she had previously suffered- Mrs. Woods was some 70 years of ag4 and had been a for many years. She leaves ho children. Burial was made yesterday at Columbus, Ind,, her old home. | \

How many, please? Samuel Scott of Barkley township went to Bluffton Saturday. Mrs. H. Weaver of Westville went to Chicago Monday after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Elsa Grow. Mrs. Cora Krego returned to her home at Leßoy, 111., Saturday after a visit here with Mrs. .Hettle Nichols. Misses Madge, Opal Mid Ruth Robinson of 'Hammond spent the week-end with relatives here and at McCoyaburg. Fred Lyons returned to his home at Edinburg Saturday after a visit with the Benton Kelly family in Newton township. Mrs. Daniel Weirlck and children left Saturday for their I home at White Pigeon, Mich., after a visit with relatives here. Mrs. Mark Hemphill has been critically ill from heart trouble for several days. She was reported a little better yesterday. C. A. Tuteur of. Indianapolis came Saturday for a few days’ visit with home folks and to attend the Armistice day celebration yesterday. In the football game at St. Joseph college Sunday afternoon between the college teaim and the Purdue Specials from Lafayette, no score was made by either team. James McCallum, the new laundry man,' and his assistant, MrLee, who with his family has just moved here from Indianapolis, made a trip to Chicago Monday. The Democrat went to press a few hours earlier than usual this issue in order to permit its employes to get off for the Armistice day doings yesterday afternoon. Our new ambulance has arrived. We are now prepared to take care of trips to or from the hospital. Our new ambulance is designed for that special service.—WOßLAND BROS. nls Miss Lucile Luers, who had been employed in a government position at Washington, D. C., for several months, came home Friday evening for a week’s visit on Monday she will take up a similar position In Chicago, to which city she has been transferred.

Uncalled for letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffice Nov. 1.0, and which will be sent to the deadletter office if not called for before Nov. 24: Pvt. John R. Gwin, Mrs. M. Miller, Walter L- Hartley, Prairie Farmer Pub. Co,, Geo. E. Schopmeyer, Geo. L. Sawyer, Arnell Stepp. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, Oge Yeoman and Mrs. John Braddock returned home Monday from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. DeVere Yeotman at Indianapolis. They were accompanied home by Worth McCarthy, who will spend a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George D. McCarthy. June, the 20-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Leech nf Hammond, died Saturday morn>s after two weeks’ suffering from burns received by falling in a pan , f hot water While her mother was v ashing. The funeral was held onday afternoon at the home in Hammond and burial made in the Concordian cemetery. Basil is a former Rensselaer boy.

Mrs. Elizabeth Griswold, a sister of Marton I. Adams of near Rensselaer, died at her home in Washburn, 111., last Saturday aged about 79 years. The funeral was, held at Washburn Monday. Mrs. Gritawold was the eldest of the family of eight children, M- I. Adams of Marlon township and Mrs. Sartth Beal of Kansas now being the only surviving members. Sunday was quite a nice balmy day and most people were out enjoying it. About midnight, however, it started raining and con-, slderable water fell during the rest of the night. Rain still fell at Intervals Monday, but, towards night it became quite a little cooler and a heavy frost fell Monday night. Yesterday morning dawned bright and clear, but it was quite cool. Mary Ann Johnson, wife of the late Thomas Johnson, died at her home in Milroy township Sunday, Nov. 2, aged 78 years, 4 months and 11 days. She had been ill a long time and death was due to a complication of diseases. She is survived by three sons, Samuel F. and Thos. A., of Milroy township and Willard A. of Monon the funeral was held at Milroy church Tuesday, Nov. 4, the service being conducted by Rev. Fred Longwell of Monon.

How many, please? Yesterday’s local prices on eggs and butterfat: Eggs, 57c; butterfat, 69c. E. B Allen, proprietor of the Star theater, made a trip to Ohieago Monday. Mrs. W. F. Burton of Manchester, Tenn., is visiting her brother, ▲. (Halleck, and family. Mrs. Alva Clark of Gardner, Kan., came Monday, for a visit with relatives here and at Lee. «. E. Weiss, Laban Wilcox and Russel Clark of Purdue spent the week-end here with home folks. Orpha Gant, who Is employed at Gary, came down Monday to attend the Armistice day celebration yesterday. • Omar Osborne of Chicago spent the week-end here with home folks. He was also here yesterday for the Armistice day celebration. Paul H. Norgor, who is employed at the Central garage, will leave tomorrow for Detroit, Mich.,* where he will enter the Ford plant to take a month’s training In general repair work of Ford cars. Henry Eiglesbach returned Friday from spending a week at Mudlavia for the treatment of his rheumatic trouble. He states that he was greatly benefited by the baths and will return for further treatment next Sunday. The report that Harry and Landy Magee had received >16,667 last week from the estate of their deceased sister at Columbus, Ind., was Incorrect, The Democrat is informed. They have not as yet received anything, and the amount they will receive is about >16,000 less than the figures first reported, according to information coming to The Democrat. Nearly 5,000 army huts of all descriptions, erected in France and Flanders, have been sold to the Belgian government by the disposal board of the ministry of munitions to house the homeless in the devastated areas. The price paid was almost >2,000,000 and the money was forthcoming from King Albert’s fund.—London .Times.

FROM AROUND ABOUT US The latest returns from Ohio indicate that state to have voted in favor of the “drys” by a close margin on all prohibition questions. Coroner Hoffman of Chicago, to put a stop to the persistent rumors that hundreds of people were killed in that city during the race riots In July and August, has issued an official statement showing that but 38 persons were killed, 15' whites and 23 negroes. The commissioners of Benton and Tippecanoe counties, in a joint session held last week, agreed to build a hard-surfased road, either brick or concrete, leading north five miles out of Otterbein, and thence seven miles farther north a 14-foot gravel road, the gravel to be 14 inches thick. The American coal mine at Bicknell, Ind., the largest producing bituminous coal mine in the world and which is closed down on account of the strike, was discovered to be on fire Friday evening. The mine was sealed as soon as possible and an effort is being made to smother out the fire, and it is believed that this can be done before any great damage results. The origin of the fire is unknown. The last of the war " brides of American soldiers left Brest, France, Monday for the United States. Nearly 3,600 have come here and only one is known to have gone back. Of this total three-fifths of the number were French, one-fifth English and the other fifth scattered among 21 nationalities. The brides ranged from 15 to 55 years of age. Some of them had three or four children by previous marriages. Four of the defendants in what is known as the Muncie fraud case, in which several men in different sections of the country are charged with complicity to swindle in connection with fraudulent land deals, fake prise fights and wrestling matches, was opened in the federal court at Indianapolis Tuesday. Marion T. Jacks of Monon is one of these defendants and has been in jail for several months awaiting trial. He, with three others of the defendants, changed his plea

from not guilty to guilty when tAA case was taken up Tuesday. Mrs. Sabina Cummings, aged 81, believed to have had a large sum of money hoarded in her home in Hoopeston, 111., twaa found dead Sunday in her home, her head having been caved in with some blunt weapon.' Robbery la supposed to have been the object of the slayers, as the house had been thoroughly ransacked. When her husband died eight years ago over >IB,OOO In cash was found secreted about the home, and rumor had it that this was only a tithe of the money hidden there. The old lady was believed to have continued to hoard money and keep it in the house, where she lived alone. iClyde ‘Horn, convicted of the murder of Peter Mataxas, a Lafayette Greek, on a lonely road out from that city in March, 1918, and sent to the state prison at Michigan City for life, has been paroled by Governor Goodrich and is now at liberty as chauffeur for the governor, driving the latter about over the country on bls visits to the various state ' institutions. The murder of Mataxas was one of the most brutal and apparently unprovoked in the history of Indiana, and the finding of guilty by the jury in the case gave almost universal satisfaction in the community. There is seemingly little use in convicting violators of the law when the governor turns them loose at the first opportunity. A doll invented by a Brooklyn woman is formed of a single narrow strip of fabric so wound and sewed upon itself as to form the body, arms, legs and dress of ths figure.