Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — MILROY [ARTICLE]

MILROY

Mrs. John Southard was in Rensselaer Monday. Aimer Johnson attended the Griffith sale Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Snyder spent Sunday evening with Earl Foulks. Mrs. Aimer Johnson spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. Anna Chapman, and family. Fred May and family, I. J. Clark and Mrs. Alva Clark of Gardner, Kan-, took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks. Mr. and Mrs. Ltfd Clark, Mr. and Mrs- Fay 'Lear and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chapman butchered for Mt. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Aimer Johnson were helping his brother-in-law butcher Wednesday. About 9:30 o’clock neighbors saw smoke coming out of the roof of his houseA number soon arrived and took the contents out of the lowef story, but the beds and bedding, clothing, etc., upstairs was all burned. They are living in a house nearby until a new house can be built. All the canned fruit and potatoes were burned.