Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

DEMOTTE Corp shredding is all the go nowadays, ‘and the weather is fine for that kind of work. John Greve, William Barker and Peter Mack attended I. O. O. F. lodge at Wheatfield Tuesday eve. nlng. Oar popular milkman, Mr. Sepkema, is smoking a fine new meerschaum ipipe. It is very becoming to him- and no one has a better right to smoke it. Everybody from Demotte seemed to have attended the S- P. Chenoweth sale Wednesday. No one was to be seen on the streets but Dr. Leithty and D. B. Gleason. Fur must be wanted badly, as two game wardens were here looking after some that had been caught before the season was open, and they make a man show it whether he wants to sell it or not,

and then charge him for showing it. Henry Swart, who sold his grocery store to William Swart & Co., has moved into his newly built house on the northeast corner of his farm, north of Demotte, formerly the John Slgly farm. Our new blacksmith, D. Hixon, has moved his family into the James Russell house, recently vacated by Robert Oosten, who moved to Rensselaer. Loss is never so great but what some one is benefited thereby. We did not care to lose Oosten, but we have a good blacksmith in his place, which we needed badly. Our barber, Stephen J. True, is on a strike, too. Not because he wants to, but because he has t<y He got his arm broken last Sunday when he fell from a hay wagon. Now don’t think Mr. True was

"tanked” for he was not. It was all the blame of the mules hitched to the wagon. If you don't think so, ask Steve. He can tell yoi\ all about it. NORTHERN JASPER Rev. Abel, the new minister, was making calls around Tefft Saturday. Several of the farmers in this vicinity haVe finished husking corn. Martin Hohner and family spent Sunday with his brother at Kersey. box supper at Kniman was well attended and the girls cleared S4B. Mrs. M. Anderson returned Sunday from an extended visit in Chicago. Mrs. Wm. Myers of south of Wheatfield visited relatives In Tefft last Thursday.

Jake Pitsley is the new janitor at the Tefft school house since Mr. Belcher resigned. Hurrah for Northern Jasper- Who says we can’t have news from this end of the county? Mrs. Rachael Sands left this week for Valparaiso where she has a position In a store. A. P- Huntington and Miss Eva Lilly were married Wednesday at the home of the bride in Walker township. A salesman for the Home Comfort Stove Co- was through here last week and took several orders for new stoves. An orchestra froto Knox furnished music for the dance at the river last Sunday night. Next Sunday night will be the last dance of the season. Tefft will soon have a new merchant, Ed Lakin has bought the store building and stock from E. Treichel and expects to move it onto the lot east of where it now stands. Good luck to you, Ed.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be inourable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly Influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore "requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, imanufactured fay F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. —Advt. LEE Elmer Gilmore’s family spent Sunday at Walter Jordan’s. Ezra Eldridge, who is husking corn near Fowler, was home a few hours Sunday. Miss Nellie Overton of Monon visited here at her uncle’s, Frank Overton’s, Sunday. Miss Helen Rishling has been sick with tonsilitis and had to stay out of school a few days. Mrs. Ethel Otterberg and son Alford is here now visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A- Jacks. Jake Moore and family of near Monon spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. J. W.' Mellender, and family. Raymond Holeman and family and Mrs. Ephriam Gilmore visited Sunday at Clyde Clark’s, near Morocco. Miss Chloa Overton, who has been sick for some time, is improving now. The nurse is still at this writing. Mrs. Nancy Williamson of Westfield, Hamilton county, is here this week visiting friends.. She formerly lived here. Mrs. Estella Holeman and daughters, Mabel and Rosemary, and son Dale of Monticello were week-end guests of relatives here and at Monon. Joseph Stewart and wife, H. C. Anderson and wife and Mrs. Williamson and Mrs- C. A. Holeman took dinner at Asa Holeman’s Sunday. Mrs. C- A. Holeman, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. J. iH. Culp, Mrs. Elmer Gilmore and Mrs Hary Holeman spent Wednesday with Mrs. Ephriam Gilmore.

FAIR OAKS Bert Warne was in Chicago last week-end on business. Merven Dunn went to Crown Point Monday to put his team on the market. Teachers’ Institute was held here last Saturday with the trustee in attendance. Mr? and Mrs. Joe Winslow’S little babe has been having a pretty tough time with the whooping cough. Robert Shein of Monon came Sunday for a short visit with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Kight. Roy Brouhard, wife and mother drove down to Rensselaer Tuesday evening after school hours on business. John Thorn, who is employed in the Gary steel mills, came down and spent Saturday night and Sunday with his family. We are having fine winter weather these days. A good -many farmers have finished husking corn with generally good turnouts. Work on the Joseph Kosta gravel road is moving along slow, owing to the scarcity of teams. They are probably being used in husking corn. Pud Clifton, who had beep working in the mills at Hammond, got his hand badly burned and came home last week-end, but went back ■ Tuesday evening.

Ray Casey brought the remains of one of his twins here Friday of last'week for bdrlal. They were about three weeks old, and the other is not expected to live. of Colfax and Steve Protsman of Jackson township were Sunday callers in Fair Oaks. It Is reported that Pat has sold his farm where he lives at a very good figure. Sam Kettering, who a short time ago bought the Clevenger property, is now putting a concrete foundation .under same and a basement under the kitchen part, and otherwise overhauling it. The second number of the lyceum course was presented by a trio of lady singers Monday evening. The program was mostly music, and the audience, which was of fair size, was very much pleased with it. There were eight or ten test tractors pulled into the A. D. Washburn pasture land east of town Monday and began plowing, giving, their different tractors a genuine test. They were the product of the international Harvester Co. Leslie Warne, while driving Bert’s Ford bringing the wood chopping crew in from work the latter part of the week, bumped into a couple of stumps and did a pretty complete job of putting it out of business, which cost something over SSO for repairs-

VIRGIE Verb eta Hurley visited home folks over Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Hazel Harrington is suffer* ing from a felon on her finger. Mrs X Geesa and children visited Mrs. T. J. Mallatt Tuesday. Mr- and Mrs. Earl Williams went to South Bend Saturday evening. W. W. Zellers, T. J. Mallatt alia Patience Florence were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Anna Erwin of Fair Oaks visited the John Zellers family Saturday night. The Winamac Construction Co. is putting in a bridge over the dredge ditch' west of Kniman. The box social was largely attended Saturday evening and about $35 was cleared for the church. Mrs. John Gilmore and son Howard of Fair Oaks visited Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Harrington Sunday afternoon. Mrs. C. A. Harrington, Mrs. John Maher and daughter Doris took -dinner with Mr- and Mrs. Ernest Clemens Sunday*.

GIFFORD Mrs. Jesse Nuss was a Medaryville goer Monday. NJiss Flota Myers spent Saturday with her brother, Homer Myers. Ernie Kerns is at home again. He had been away husking corn. Wm. and James Steel have returned home from husking corn. Miss Maude Steel spent from Monday until Saturday with friends at Monon. W- E. Parker and family spent Sunday with John Parker of near Medaryville. Mr. and • Mrs. , Harry E. Reed spent Sunday with x. M- Hanlford and family. Mrs. William Berwlnger and daughter spent Monday evening with the V. M. Peer family. Miss Beulah Walker called on Opal Hankins Monday. The latter was sick Monday and Tuesday. Carl Stockwell of Rensselaer, who was so badly burned, was In our town Tuesday and was looking fine. The newly married couple were in our town Tuesday evening shopping. We all wish Edward and wife many happy years. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kerns of Wheatfield called on Mr. and Mrs. James Cavinder Tuesday and were accompanied home by Miss Lauretta Pickner. Walter Stump, who had been with the Less Htewitt dredge in Minnesota, returned home Monday. Walter says there is about 35 degrees change in the climate here.

FOUR CORNERS Shirer brothers of Kankakee attended a sale near Foresman Monday. Corn shredding is taking a part of the farmers’ time in this locality this week. H. E. Remley, the egg and poultry dealer, continues to make his two trips per week to the steel city. The Tefft high school has a new janitor, the janitor of last year, G. Belsher, resigning, and J. Pitsley being placed in his stead. D. H. Wesner and Orville Fisher and families of near Kersey visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Smith of Kankakee township. The old landmark, the eye-sore of Wheatfield, the Cass Wesner house, is gone and a new building is to occupy the lot which the old building disgraced. Dr. Fyfe, who recently moved with his family to Valparaiso, has a number of patients in and near Wheatfield which brings hiAi over to these parts three or four times each week. Mr. Stoopy, formerly. of near Wheatfield but now of Lafayette, was shaking hands with old neighbors and friends and looking after his farm interests near here the last of the week. It is reported that ihe. Miner brothers. Guy and..olan, have (purchased the Clager garage at Wheatfield. It is also reported that a new firm will start a new garage in the early spring. The Wheatfield chemical fire engine in the Hoehn fire last week, came in like the tall of a kite, a little .behind —the fire was out. Under the present management this fire engine is a joke. Wheatfield is to have a new

brass band. Alex Jensen is manager, and 18 have signed and are already in practice. Several years ago Wheatfield supported a band and there is no reason why it can’t do so again. Olan Minor and Ernest Asher arrived here from Montana last week, their families having come two or three weeks ago for a visit. They report severe weather, and stated that through October it snowed almost continuously. Since arriving Mr. Minor has gqne into business in ■ Wheatfield, and we would not be surprised if Mr. Asher would do likewise and. shake the chilly north. Ward Hamilton, the light man, has two or three prospective purchasers tor his light plant. If he makes a deal he will build an up-to-date garage on the site just west of the plant. Ward has tried faithfully to work for the Interests of the people of Wheatfield an< while his business Is a paying one, he will go the town one better and put up another business building to show that his heart Is in the upbuilding of the town and community. George Hoehn, the Wheatfield butcher, had an etdtlng Armistice week which caused ; him to discharge all of his clerks and come

near losing his place of business by fire. One fire caught from the exhaust pipe of his engine and the other by an oil stove explosion in his produce room. Both fires were extinguished with small financial loss. x , •What might have been a fatal accident happened Monday on the Fenzel farm in east Walker. While unloading at the shredder Joe Fenzel was kicked in the head by one of the horses he was working, knocking him from the wagon and against the machine belt with such force as to break the belt. Joe was badly bruised about the shoulders and quite a gash was cut in his head. But you can’t keep a good man down, and after being patched up and rubbed down, he insisted that he be allowed to con-, tlnue on the job to the end, which he did. B-ut the following day he was unable to continue with the shredding. _____